coming back here because i feel obligated to post a warning about this:
the person carrying the "property rights are human rights" sign is @annie.bsky.social. annie has abused several of my friends and made a death threat about me as a method of frightening one such friend. (1/2)

This trend is incredibly depressing. In the 2010s, large parts of the left were optimistically talking about automation. But then everyone got degrowth, anti-tech brainworms.

You gotta pitch a bright vision for the future to win, not just condemn everything.

a consequence of open protocols is anyone can scrape. a consequence of a closed protocol is that only the regime approved people can scrape your data. maybe that's better if you trust the regime, but a closed system with bad actors you disagree with running the show seems uniformly worse to me.

every day is black friday if you’re goth enough

sometimes