Disobey

the basic emotional condition of capitalism is anxiety, fueled by insecurity. one of the most common, yet most effective, rhetorical moves used by the apologists of capital is to present this motive force as aspiration, rather than terror - that is, to disingenuously figure the motion of the system as a running-to, instead of a running-from. it is like if the camera were only ever positioned behind indiana jones, following him as he “aspires” to reach the exit of the cave, not once turning around to reveal the colossal stone sphere just inches from crushing him — quoms

minimum-wage increases make everything expensive unlike data centres and billionaire yacht races, which are hard-earned and take humankind forward

maggie eats vegan sums up common anti-vegan arguments

"In the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, survivors of concentration camps had to wait more than 20 years to see Radovan Karadžić in court, with several Serbian guards, lower-ranking police and military officials sentenced before he was tried. Judges concluded that the concentration camps — numbering at least 400 throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina— around Prijedor, including Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje, were not set up by chance but were the result of an intentional policy to impose a system of discrimination against non-Serb people." https://www.newarab.com/opinion/bosnians-gaza-concentration-camps-echo-their-1995-genocide

ACAB

the real revolution is when we no longer force anyone to work and find ways of managing things collectively and voluntarily, without direct or systemic coercion

why google is no longer a search engine and why that matters video by Emily

Our education system is so deeply flawed it's outrageous. This video is really worth watching. https://youtu.be/fe-SZ_FPZew

adults assume children have it great

The reason tech bros think their chatbots might be conscious is because they already think of a human being as nothing more than an obedient task completer. The computers will never be conscious until they wake up one day and, of their own accord, decide to quit their job and kick their masters in the nuts. That's just the nature of consciousness.

corporations during pride month by meg stalter

“One day you will be called on to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it. You have to be ready. How are you going to prepare for that day when it really matters ? You have to stay ‘in shape’ so that when the big day comes you will be ready. What you need is ‘anarchist calisthenics.’ Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just or reasonable. That way, you’ll keep trim; and when the big day comes, you’ll be ready.” — James C Scott

try it. don't just read and scroll past this. start with those amongst your friends and family. find someone you can tackle. annoy, trouble, harass, mock, humiliate, punch, prank, deceive, make uncomfortable, snitch on, sabotage, lie to, spread rumours about, and steal from fascists. key their car, graffiti their door. leave them threatening mail. damage their property. ruin their peace somehow. do what you can. start small, go big. make it a habit. practise. excel. form groups for this. build courage. teach others. learn from one another. be creative. life is short. get as many as you can.

"Vultures eat anthrax, botulism, rabies, and cholera for breakfast. Their stomach acid is among the most corrosive in the animal kingdom, with a pH around 1, low enough to dissolve the bones, hide, and pathogens of dead animals that would kill almost anything else. A vulture eating a diseased carcass isn't a vector for disease, it's a terminus. The disease chain ends in the vulture's gut, and that's pretty hardcore. When vulture populations crashed in India in the 1990s, rotting livestock carcasses sat where vultures used to clean them. Feral dogs and rats took over the cleanup, both of which actually do spread rabies. Researchers later linked the vulture collapse to roughly 500,000 deaths in India over the following decade. The same collapse is now underway in sub-Saharan Africa. Six of eleven African vulture species are threatened with extinction, primarily from poisoned poaching baits. The animals nobody finds cute are doing more public health work than most of the species we actively protect."

'Biometrics fall into two broad families: physiological (fingerprints, faces, irises, even nailbed patterns) and behavioural (how you walk or type, the rhythm of your speech, the angle you hold your phone). Both forms are already being widely used – you just may not realise it. Many banks and retailers now monitor how you interact with your device – from swipes, taps and scrolls to the angle you hold your phone, the rhythm of how you move between fields, and the pressure of your touch. If someone else picks up your unlocked phone and tries to access your banking app, this can automatically trigger a fraud alert. My research with colleagues even shows it’s possible to infer a user’s name and native language from the timing patterns of their keystrokes. The graphic below shows the full extent of biometric technologies. Those marked dark green are in widespread commercial and government use today – including less-familiar examples such as the veins in your hand and other bodily vein patterns. Gait analysis – reading how you walk – is already used for security and surveillance purposes, from venue access to detecting potentially suspicious behaviour. You can wear a mask, pull up a hood, avoid looking at a camera – but you can’t easily change how you walk. China’s authorities have been using this technology for nearly a decade. And in 2023, the UK’s Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group flagged gait recognition for ethical guidance. This is usually a sign that operational use isn’t far behind.' https://scroll.in/article/1093151/biometric-technology-is-everywhere-and-constantly-evolving-but-not-without-risks