Just assume any digital platform you’re using isn’t safe at this point.

It’s true.

People need to be bringing their own guns to every peaceful protest. The front line needs to be all visibly armed people, preferably with large, scary looking rifles. Mutually-assured destruction is the only thing that is going to slow down this bunch of rampant bullies.

You don’t necessarily have to use the word ‘socialism’ to support socialist policies, so that could work.

And yes, while there are smaller platforms like Peertube, they’re just not widely used.

The ones that come to my mind are:

• Donate to socialist groups and causes, especially ones based in your local community. (Food banks, libraries, arts organizations, community legal funds, or individual mutual aid requests.)
• You can phone bank for socialist politicians in order to help them get elected. You don’t have to be a local to do this. I recommend Kat Abughazaleh.
• If you have a skill that can be used remotely from within the home, consider volunteering it to socialist organizations.
• You can create socialist content, but understand that your stuff is going to be algorithmically-repressed to some degree on any corporate-owned social media.

On the plus side, we have so, so many billionaires. Like a few thousand.

So, worth it?

/s

Also I’m making it a point to help small accounts where I can this year, so if you reply to this with your channel, I’ll go throw you some likes.

The conventional wisdom says that mid-day on weekdays is the best time to upload.

VPN 100%

I don’t leave home without it. :)

This is true.

I had to re-learn how to pirate music when I decided to quit Spotify. (FYI, by using tools that rip audio from Youtube videos.)

if you have a car, lift up the windshield wipers before it starts snowing/freezing rain

I’d say spend the $10-$20 and get a windshield cover. It will change your life, never having to scrape again.

Speed up before going up an incline, getting stuck and sliding back down is not fun

Do not stop on an incline either. If there’s a red light, run it. (safely of course.)

I don’t use LLMs for anything creative for the express purpose of avoiding generic tone, haha.

“Social permission” is one term for it.

Most people don’t realize this is happening until it hits their electric bills. Microslop isn’t permitted to steal from us. They’re just literal thieves and it takes time for the law to catch up.

As if we weren’t going to figure out how shitty LLM’s are organically.

Do people not just hold down the power button anymore?

You can uninstall Copilot yourself with O&O ShutUp.

Fuck yeah.

The current American admin isn’t doing jack shit about X, despite this being obviously criminal. In fact, the US military just gave Musk a contract to license Grok, even though Grok describes itself as ‘Mecha-Hitler’.

A test they’ll have to pass.

This makes me chuckle, as they invented euphemisms like ‘hallucinations’ because their LLM models can’t do what they promise. Fabulous marketing, but clearly they didn’t do enough testing.

Great, now go pay some taxes.

Not much to say here other than… FUCK YEAH!