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@withoutpity.bsky.social

Keep your mind in hell and despair not | mutual aid | cyborg ecology | communism | he/him/his

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Without Pity@withoutpity.bsky.social · 4d ago

Really enjoyed Fear Factory at the Garage last night, we missed the first band, but Hate and Crystal Lake were fun. I think the levels were really off for Crystal Lake, needed more vocals and guitar, but they had a lot of energy.

Metal grandpa Dino Cazares. Blue and yellow lighting, silhouetted devil horns from the audience. New singer Milo Silvestro crouching on stage surrounded by beams of white light Milo and Static-X bassist Tony Campos on stage in blue and white light.Japanese metalcore band Crystal Lake opening for Fear Factory
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective@crimethinc.com · 4d ago

In Lochiel, Arizona, where people have been resisting the construction of the border wall, one brave activist locked down to construction machinery—and Border Patrol drove it away with them locked to it. "We're taking you to the middle of nowhere where no one can hear you scream."

Max Granger@maxgranger.info · 4d ago

🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.

Without Pity@withoutpity.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm not sure the motion was brilliantly written, and accepting a couple of amendments to get more consensus seems like it would have been sensible, but this sort of nitpicking doesn't seem at all good faith. It's fine to say zionism inevitably leads to racism, but not to say it is racism. what?

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · last wk.

It is also perfectly possible to make the case that Zionism inevitably leads to the kind of behaviour from the Israeli government which we see today. Those positions are valid and respectable.

Without Pity@withoutpity.bsky.social · 6d ago

Looking up various socialist education international groups I could get my local Woodcraft Folk group to write to, and they're all we want to empower young people, help them learn skills, there's nice statements about sustainability and peace and racism. And then there's the German group..

Gender Liberation Movement@genderlib.com · last wk.

As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.

Elizabeth Sandifer@eruditorumpress.com · 4w ago

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 4w ago

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing @realizingerin I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone. Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down. My experience was the exact opposite. The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong. Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom. I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise. At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position. I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well. That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have. But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · last mo.

Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · last mo.

Daniel Thomas sent his Patriot Platform militia to the Daily Mail today because they published this exposé on him archive.ph/LlO4H

Glen Peters@glenpeters.bsky.social · last mo.

If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness@tangledwilderness.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey I'm not actually done talking about Dolly Parton. 🧵 Specifically I want to talk about her album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, released in 1980 (not the soundtrack to the film 9 to 5, that's a different thing). The whole album is about work, with most of the songs focused on a different type of worker.