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I mean yeah that makes sense - but I've personally not seen examples of prefigurative building that have rejected funding and resources from the old system on ideological "purity" grounds - quite often the reason is that established systems just refuse to funnel resources into alternative systems that don't generate a profit.

As an example - I was involved in a waste reduction/swap shop (food, clothing, furniture, etc) cooperative that due to it's well established social value was getting council and some governmental finding for over 10 years - everyone involved in it would see it as a prefigurative example of the future of society of fulfilled low carbon living. However, due to austerity cuts and a profit seeking landlord, who was asking for 10 grand a month in rent (which was over a third of how much the coop was making) once the council could no longer funnel money into the landowners pocket - the project was no longer viable and folded.

Now do you think the people that were involved didn't do everything in their power to keep the project running? Not in the slightest - it's just that the system is so hostile to such endeavors that they're constantly fighting an uphill battle where one slip is enough to send you all the way down.

So while I do agree that ideally we'd funnel resources from the old to the new - time and time again it's been proven that relying on the existing precarious system only results in building on weak foundations that will take you down with them when they inevitable collapse.

And I'm not saying this to dissuade you from pursuing a dual system theory - I'm genuinely trying to figure out a way where we can build the sorely needed infrastructure of the future in any way possible - in a climate that takes 15 years to approve a 50 square feet low traffic street to pedestrian area conversion in a time where we're 25 years away from unprecedented climate catastrophy.

Is your proposal then to reform the existing system into a new one? To use the existing levers of power to attempt to rip that power away from those that are currently pulling them?

Which I wouldn't mind if it worked - but the original reason for prefigurative action was because this approach didn't seem to achieve anything. But I guess you're arguing that maybe the environment is different now and therefore more susceptible to change?

How do you see everyday people participating in this political movement - voting? canvassing? running for office?

I guess you see Mamdani as such an example? Tho I doubt anarchists would reject him just on the grounds of him being a reformist and therefore not valuable to the cause, in my experience any push towards a more socialist society is generally embraced and not rejected no matter where it comes from.

So what is your proposed alternative?

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If you want to expand your political environment, teach activists or organizers how to cook. Teach them how to talk about relationship problems. Organize tea parties, raves, and mending clubs. Create spaces to unwind after work. Infiltrate churches, sports clubs, gyms, games clubs, online forums. Turn street protests into a space for networking: nobody is listening to your chants anyway.

This is like prefigurative social building 101 - and sure there's always going to be the "if you want to report abuse you should call the cops" type "anarchists" - but this whole post reads like terminally-online schizo-posting and not useful advice for people that are already out in the world as they say "touching grass"

This is not a wishy-washy hippie approach to politics. It’s not the vapid appeal to community building of a New York artivist. It’s not about feeling good and projecting a vague sense of emotional intelligence onto the politics we do. It’s a sad, but necessary act. Sad because it adds to relationships an element of political motivation, and politics is always dirty. It is necessary because without a global-spanning web of social affordances, History won’t get back into motion.

Also in terms of practical advice this article sounds exactly like the "vapid" community building they're mocking. And while the hyper-violent "rivers of blood" framing may be useful for some - I thoroughly refuse the "sad" positioning as I'd much rather build toward happiness in the ideal of "If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution"

Idk it's an overall emotive text with imo like little substance that reads like "you believe in prefigurative action? that pales in comparison to my strategy - firebombing a Walmart" and then not firebombing a Walmart.

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And don't pretend like master doesn't mean what it means.

Claiming that master on github stems from master recordings is not only disingenuous but also incorrect.

As a FOSS alternative to BitKeeper, Git naturally reimplemented it's naming conventions as well - and because of the power of version control - we can actually check what the original meaning was derived from:

We are then going to modify the file on both the master and slave repository and then merge the work.

And yes I agree that GitHub just changing the name of the default branch while keeping their ICE contracts is performative as fuck - which imo means we should both boycott GitHub and use naming conventions that don't have a history related to one of the worst atrocities the global north has brought upon the world...

Wait this is actually real? I thought it was a hilarious sbubby but instead it's just a depressing slap in the face...

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This was a gift for my dad who is an avid collector. His generation is so judgemental of us so this was perfect. So perfect in fact that my step sister gave it to him for Christmas too, which meant we got to open and play one of them. It was very satisfying to watch that old man come in last place at being a millennial! I asked him if a participation trophy would make him feel better. 🤣

ha ha ha - you sure showed him 🥲

Like many kids, mine love to ask a million questions at bedtime. I'll answer the first three or four "but why?" questions, then I hand it over to AI. The computer system has relentless energy to answer questions from even the most persistent kid, and my children usually get tired out after a few minutes.

Nothing says paternal love more than handing a phone to your kids at bedtime so you don't have to interact with them

I'm sure the only thing his kids care about is amassing knawledge and not actually wanting to spend time with their non-AI (cringe) dad...

Genetically modified cat girls exist right now??? Where????

What about Gemini Space (aka Ambient Data) that's tied to Android System Intelligence - which is a system app enabled by default that can be disabled (if you know how to disable system apps) but of course cannot be uninstalled.

Also google is planning to replace Assistant with Gemini in the near future so all phones that have assistant (which is again enabled by default on most if not all android phones) will get Gemini sooner or later.