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  • They didn’t attain the power to do what they are doing. When a part of the state takes powers belonging to other parts, that’s still a coup. While American Presidentialism is the closest thing to a monarchy there is without having a king, what’s happening is already wildly unconstitutional and a frontal assault at democratic structures.





  • After the USAID thing I called it this morning: Before the end of march the U.S. is a dictatorship in all but name.

    You’re optimistic. Yarvinists are openly advocating for dictatorship.

    USAID was a probing attack, gauge the reactions, develop plans, figure out how to do it better with the next department. You don’t start with Homeland Security, the CIA, or the FBI - that’s the final part.

    Well, debatable. Purging the secret services first is always a great idea when you’re doing a coup.





  • You cannot escape social norms. The act of rejecting them doesn’t free you from them. You will be judged for rejecting them and others will adapt to it, either by rejecting them too and creating a new social norm, or shunning you and attaching a certain rejection to a specific social signal. There’s nothing artificial on it. The logic you describe is very oblivious to how social norms and social actors work.

    Also here we are talking about webcams not really as technological artifacts, but as social tools. Obviously it’s not a technical requirement to be presentable, but a social requirement, that’s implicit in the discussion.





















  • Hello. What kind of content do you plan to produce? Is there a budget or is it fully volunteer work? What’s the purpose and goal beyond informing people? Is there a target audience and a specific outcome you’re seeking? Is there a body of knowledge to turn into this wiki or will you start from scratch?

    That said, there is r/collapse on reddit that I think it’s the biggest community surrounding collapse. You might want to ask newsletters on similar topics like Ok, Doomer or Last Week in Collapse. There are also plenty of Deep Adaptation communities on every social network, including a big group on Facebook.

    Most likely, these spaces will also be able to point you to other similar and more mature efforts in the same vein. I doubt that, given that the people studying these topics or doing activism around it are so many, there’s not already several wikis with similar material.

    Also, talking about UX/UI, one great such thing is this: https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/







  • Most people are not free from the need to work and might have plenty of personal factors pushing them into compliance. Working for a company that gives good conditions and good salary should never be shamed. First because it alienates the people in question, reinforcing their disregard for any ethical or political discussion. Then because it sow division among the workers. The choice of the word “guilty” makes it worse.

    Working for an evil company is not intrinsically an evil act: you might be trying to unionize it, you might sabotage it from within, for your own interest (taking naps) or political reasons, you might be salting it.

    If you really want to run a purity test on people, you should try at least to assess the space of action they have to fight against the company evil practices, their knowledge of it, the risks they are taking if they went for action. If a person has a chance to act against the evil impact of the company, risks pretty much nothing, has all the knowledge and psychological strength to act, and then doesn’t act, then we can start talking about unethical behavior.