#Threads is testing federation for a few selected profiles. I'm now following @mosseri! It's one-way for now, but it's exciting. It's a step towards the interoperable social web that we've been advocating for 🙂

@germanlandis I wish I knew. lol

@abeltramo@mastodon.social Why not‽ 😄

@abeltramo@mastodon.social Why not‽ 😄

I read a lot of posts on here from what might be called capitalist reformers. They admit that actually existing capitalism has serious problems but propose to solve them by modifying various aspects. Maybe we need more regulation, or a better social safety net, or some such things. I saw one recently who thinks corporate shareholders are the root of all capitalist evil and wants to reinvent corporations to eliminate them.

Setting aside the serious issue that none of these theorists seem to understand what capitalism actually is, two other things they have in common are an unbelievable naivete about the mechanics of political change and a complete inability to see the unspeakable violence required on a daily basis to maintain capitalism.

Listen to this brilliant idea! Everyone's been thinking about things wrong since capitalism started! We all want to do the right thing but powerful people are just confused about what it is! All we have to do is convince enough people of the right way to do capitalism and blammo! Utopia!

For the sake of argument assume that all these capitalist reform ideas are actually reasonable. It doesn't matter. If you have any practical experience with the American legislative process at any level you'll know that good ideas have fuck-all to do with which laws are enacted. Legislators legislate to promote the needs of the powerful people whose interests they represent. There are people in every jurisdiction who can get custom-made laws written and enacted within weeks. For these oligarchs, and I don't use the word metaphorically, bespoke legislation is a frictionless part of their daily business. The quality of the ideas behind it are less than irrelevant. There are no ideas behind it. This is how laws are made in America.

Now think about the laws these oligarchs enact. They don't sit around thinking about what ordinary people want or need. They don't worry about implementing abstractly beneficial reforms of capitalism or anything else for that matter. They increase police powers. They make police weaponry more deadly. They continually ramp up oppression and exploitation. They build more prisons and criminalize more and more normal human activities to keep them full. Think about the laws they could very easily enact but they don't. Universal health care, free housing, free food, free education, public transportation, environmental protection. The list of non-existent good laws is endless. Legislators do whatever the hell oligarchs tell them to do and this is what gets done.

And oligarchs have to use their power this way. They aren't fooling around trying to improve anyone's lives but their own. Without violent control of everyone else, without police to implement it, capitalism would collapse immediately. Why would anyone pay landlords or let bosses keep most of the money they earn without police violence forcing them to do it? With public housing, free food, free medical care, why would anyone choose to work for a boss? How would the bosses make money if people had the realistic choice not to work for them?

So, dear capitalist reformers, even if your brilliant ideas would really do what you think they'd do, so what? Look at the people you're asking to implement them, look at the violence they choose every day, the violence they must to choose if their entire way of life isn't to collapse. These vampires are the people you hope to convince to change everything just because it's a good idea. Maybe your theories really are the right thing to do, maybe your ideas really are good, but it doesn't matter. No one with the power to do things within the system wants to do the right thing. They want to drink your blood and have the cops kill you if you fight back. Until your brilliant ideas take that evident fact into account I for one don't see any reason to take them seriously

#Capitalism #Anarchism #Anarchy

Google is shuttering google podcasts in favor of a youtube thing.

I don't want my podcasts on youtube.

Leave it to google to attempt to encapsulate podcasts.

#Poll time! Favorite nested #virtualization style?

Not an exhaustive list but common ones I have seen/heard of. How turtley are you? 🐢

#VirtualMachine #LinuxContainers #Docker #LXC #KVM #TurtlesAllTheWayDown #Linux #Windows #computing #technology #InformationTechnology

Every year, I listen to friends and co-workers saying some variation of "I can't afford Christmas, what am I going to do", and every year I'm like "you don't HAVE to play the game as it's laid out," and every year, they put themselves into debt for no good reason.

Tradition + corporations sure do have us trained.

#Christmas

Orange Pi AIpro single-board computer features a Hauwei Ascend AI chip and up to 16GB RAM #Aipro, #HuaweiAscend, #OrangePi, #OrangePiAipro, #SingleBoardPc

https://liliputing.com/orange-pi-aipro-single-board-computer-features-a-hauwei-ascend-ai-chip-and-up-to-16gb-ram/

I think I'm going to get a second #Fediverse account on #hometownmastodon. While I love #Firefish, there are too many issues with it. Broken search, poor network performance, and being unable to follow #PeerTube and some #WriteFreely accounts makes it hard to use it 100% of the time. Hometown should have most of what I want on top of a stable #Mastodon build. I especially like that you can read full blog posts in it since that's something I've always wanted to do.

My wife made a Mastodon bauble!

#Felting #Christmas #Mastodon

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#pixelfed #psa

The capitalist healthcare system's pursuit of profit prevents healthcare for all. The profit motive makes healthcare a commodity rather than a basic human right, prioritizing those who can afford it. Under capitalism, the wealthy secure the best medical care, leaving the poor with subpar or no medical care. We need an alternative healthcare system, one that is collectively owned and given to all based on need rather than financial capacity, where the pursuit of profit is removed from healthcare.

I recently learned about #Proxmox and I really want to try it out sometime. I really want to run my #Docker server in a #LXC container so my #Chromebooks aren't the only ones nesting #containers! 🐢

#SelfHosted #virtualization #pve

It's time! Time for our yearly debate on whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/30e
This is where I unironically defend Die Hard as not JUST a movie that takes place during Christmas, it absolutely NAILS the themes we should expect to see in a Holiday film!

#holiday #movie #movies #film #films #cinema #diehard #christmas #geek #review #video #youtube #happyholidays #debate

Hey #mastodon people! Does anyone here work in #wordpress #design? In other words, can you design a #website for an online #magazine about #religion and #philosophy? I'm fully capable of maintaining it afterward and adding content, but I'm not a great designer. If you're interested in helping out, please let me know.

★SHADOW :3★

So I decided to stop using my #SelfHosted #Firefish server due to server costs and things not working right. So I'm back here! Hopefully when the bugs are fixed and I get a little richer I will #SelfHost again.

#Fedi is this place with the #anticapitalist weirdos. Can't not love it.