Thanks! She’s been doing it mostly on her ereader, I didn’t realize it should hook up to a computer but that makes sense!

The punchline was right in the drawing.

There are no good white basketball players, my friend.

Hell yes! Its easier to get a new job when you have a job so if its not right, fuck em

DAMION: Security via obsolescence

I mean, sure, I could have had a more specific search. I just assumed that DDG was privacy focused and more or less gave the same search results to everyone.

My states midterms happened months ago, and weren’t particularly newsworthy then. Let alone now.

Given the newsworthiness of Michigan, especially, and 4 other states last night, I would have expected to see results skew towards the trending news story as opposed to old, largely irrelevant, results that skew towards knowing who is performing the search.

It’s backwards of my expectations with the product. And based on my understanding of how search engines operate, youvare more likely to catch search engine bias with broad sweeping searches, than you would with hyper specific searches. As an example, this search was able to identify that DDG biases location over relevance/newsworthiness. Which is why I asked about it in the community I did.

I wasn’t complaining about the effectiveness of the search, rather the privacy concerns.

This makes sense, thanks! How precisely does an IP address give me away? State level, metropolitan area, city, street?

I actually saw some praise on Flock today on Facebook. Youre probably right

Shit article. Doesn’t even explain what data collectives and cooperatives look like.

But sure theyll save the world.

I’d understand your argument more if it was an American company.

How? The opinion portion of the comment youre replying to is perfectly valid. It’s why any time there’s looting (BLM protests, Katrina, etc) the foil to the argument about lawlessness/looting is that the looting is almost always necessities (food, bedding, etc)

If you think the commenter is wrong for having stated that it wasn’t a mistake by Trump to pocket the tariff money, then youre wrong.

To make us enter a digital dark ages that is way more than just a digital one!

He’ll probably get a couple bucks per day he was in jail.

What’s Ecosia and noai.ddg?

The article talks a lot about how the modern movement isn’t an outright rejection of tech. Rather, it’s a rejection of Big Tech. Which is a really nuanced approach.

The fediverse is equally a rejection of Big Tech, but not a rejection of tech.

The Fediverse, as far as I’ve seen does not have any localized communities, and whatever it does have, its not like reddit where every town over 50,000 people has a sub reddit that gets posted to at least monthly.

The article talks about the Luddite club in NYC, and it mentions one of the goals of the movement as creating a channel for people to be able to find in-person events, without needing to go on [Big Tech owned] social media. In NYC, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, it absolutely makes sense that traditional marketing materials will go further than trying to get people to join non-Big Tech social media, and then also want them to show up in person.

The author highlights the good of early social media, as well. One of the examples they specifically cited was that it connected queer kids living in rural, conservative areas to other queer kids living in similarly dangerous areas. It allowed movements to happen. It is quite apparent that the Luddite Club of NYC is not serving this group of people (nor am I arguing that they should be). They are primarily focused on improving commonality within their community (which is NYC).

After making my initial comment, I did find the Luddite club website, and found that branches exist outside of NYC, but they are primarily found on college campuses. Which makes sense - college campuses are micro-cities with high levels of walk ability and public transit access, and they’re communities that most exemplify the spirit of the Luddite club of NYC. They are full of social clubs that have weekly newsletters (via email), they have lots of networking events, in-person connections, and flyers are everywhere on a college campus. The reason I no longer do medical studies isn’t because I wanted to stop doing them, its because since college, I have not encountered a flyer with the tabs that you pull off to get a phone number.

A more difficult place to start a Luddite club is in a shithole small town in bumblefuck USA. Why? Well, first things are more spread out, there aren’t as many 3rd spaces, and then there’s the small town everyone knows everyone bullshit rumor mills. Townies don’t like different or new groups of weird groups or whatever. I believe it’d cause a stir on a Shithole Midwest Town People in the Know Facebook page if 20 people showed up to a park wearing gnome hats. And it might grow in popularity. But very quickly it would devolve into some Christian cult lady shouting about how gnome hats are actually a sign of the Antichrist, and they’d start showing up to city council looking to ban it. If you lived in that town, every time you went on social media, you’d hear about the devil worshipping gnome hatters. Eventually, the Luddite club would get the reputation of being a group that antagonizes the fragile Christian community, and they’d start to lose support from the centrists that truly don’t care about gnome hats, but they’re just sick of the complaining. The centrists, being the cancer they are on society would see the easy solution as wanting the Luddite club to not exist, not because they think its morally wrong, but because they want to be able to enjoy their town without having a holier than thou Christian fucker bitch about gnome hats.

There are of course the places in between God’s country and NYC. But there are still challenges. In smaller cities and suburbs, the lack of walkability leads to less effective means of communication. And a whole slew of other issues that anyone with have a brain can come up with on their own for why starting a local Luddite chapter would be more difficult than doing so in NYC. Of course, there might be some points where its easier to start a Luddite Club in smaller towns/cities too. I’d be surprised if it was easier to create a Luddite club in a smaller town or city than NYC though.

The Luddite movement would do more for more people with an online presence. A queer kid being able to find Luddism online, is a good thing. And you can reject Big Tech online. That’s why we’re here.

From an organizational standpoint, its also easier to locally organize when you have feedback from communities trying similar things. That’s why trade shows exist - get people in the same industry in the same room to talk and your industry will improve. Using social media to talk about how you organized in a Luddite manner can improve the Luddite cause. From reading the article, I gather that it would be possible to find the Luddite club organizers online, just maybe not on Facebook or Reddit. I don’t see their mission as saying people/businesses shouldn’t use the internet. I see their mission as people/businesses should have the autonomy to be able to not use Big Tech. Further, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d be supportive of a coffee shop that exclusively advertises their events on their own website. I think their biggest complaint for that would be that individuals would be tied to a Big Tech device to even access the website in the first place.

The Fediverse is, in my opinion, part of the Luddite movement, even if the connection isn’t explicit.

But, I can see why you’d be confused, and make the comment you did, if you didn’t read the article…

??? Care to explain?

Oh dip. I’m sold on Luddism. Is there a Luddite community on the fediverse or to I need to start one locally?

Congrats on therapy! I have a new baby daughter too and I’m on a schedule every 2 or 3 weeks with my therapist. She keeps me sane and I hope yours does too.

Are you missing your hobbies and free time more or socialization?

Fellow American here. Do you strongly dislike Trump enough to stop funding his funders?

It’s a good sign you’re on the fediverse. But where are you shopping? Walmart? Amazon?

Unfortunately, it is nearly unavoidable to boycott Trump’s funders entirely. But there alsovneeds to be a level of accountability for how we got here.

We got here because we continued to support companies that dismantled our Democracy (Citizen’s United). Those companies got the power because we chased the shiny things. We went for the lower price, ignoring the local businesses that charged a bit more but supported the local economy.

We sat back while Democrats earned a reputation of not standing for anyone or anything (except Israel). Maybe we voted for the lesser of 2 evils, but we never demanded better.

We’re here, in our 2nd Trump presidency, with maybe the start of an answer in the DSA. But let’s be real, civilized countries consider DSA policies as centrist. The DSA is our far left with any power, and it has shockingly little power considering how bad our politicians have been for years. I’m glad that Bernie ran in 2016, I’m glad that the movement built, and I’m glad that now we’re finally starting to see DSAs make a name for themselves and get elected into real positions, but let’s be real: if we were fucking sorry about Trump then the DSA would have had the power it currently has in 2018.

Some Honda lines are made in Canada. Shares production with US and Mexico though.