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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

That's part of what makes a capital strike non-obvious, if you don't already know what it looks like. It's not just sitting on the money and refusing to spend it. Because that's the one thing you literally can't do with capital. If you leave those resources idle, especially labor, it just goes and does its own thing. You lose control over it. If you just fire everyone, they eventually start working for themselves.

So, to conduct a capital strike, you have to direct the capital toward useless things. Or actually destructive things, if you can manage it.

And thus, AI had "basically zero" effect on the GDP. Because it's economically worthless activity for the purpose of keeping all the resources occupied so they can't be put to any other use.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116127090589590254

which is why there is no hoarding of all the computers and RAM for data centers that don’t even exist. what we are witnessing is a mafia-type collusion to remove from commercial circulation all the computational power people need to continue about their daily digital lives without paying rents to IP-thieving techbro clouds.

THERE IS NO RAM SHORTAGE.

THERE IS A BIG TECH COLLUSION TO CREATE A PC TECH SHORTAGE

memory is just the beginning. techbros are out to kill the PC market

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

Listen, I don’t like the tech industry — I never have. This _industry_ is extractive, at its core; the vine that doesn’t care about the life of the tree it climbs and strangles. Nowhere is that more clear than with LLMs, burning the web and world for the illusion of competence and drop-shipped code.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
skiles@carhenge.club ("John Skiles Skinner") wrote:

"500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives"

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

Wow, gem.coop just launched a namespaces preview. They’re on a *tear* launching new features! https://gem.coop/updates/5/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@jargon_bot ping

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:

Also how I get bees off of me

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• gifv: A hummingbird at a feeder does a barrel roll to get a bee off of it.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
upstreamism@theatl.social wrote:

A bunch of the Stop Cop City RICO defendants got together and started a tech makerspace in Atlanta's Little Five Points district: https://atlpresscollective.com/2026/02/24/sandbox-atlantas-tech-makerspace-collective/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

No time to explain. Follow me.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

I completely forgot about this parody that CNN did in 2015. https://youtu.be/D6AlQiWatD4

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Wen@mastodon.scot wrote:

A Welshman walks into a ‘Spoons.

Tells the barman he's got a great joke about Reform voters.

The barman tells him that he's a Reform voter, so are the 3 big guys at the end of the bar and the 2 woman sat next to him.

'So do you still want to tell it', the barman taunts him.

The man says. 'No. Not if I'm going to have to explain it 6 times"...

#Joke #UKPol

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If you've ever wondered why every brand in the world makes you download 50+ MB of gunk just to interact with them on your phone, give this brilliantly clear explanation by Alex Moore of @owa and @kateholterhoff of @redmonk a listen:

https://youtu.be/EOT0w7EwkVI?si=%5FfNa1Scqzdq-1qaK

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Saja the kitten when I asked him if he was going to watch the State of the Union address

Boosted by jwz:
marcoarment ("Marco Arment") wrote:

"Updating", huh? What a word choice. I wonder in which direction it's updating!

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

I'm sure there's a perfectly plausible and mundane explanation for these traffic cameras in Oakland CA having two lenses. #ScorpionStare #MaginotBlueStars Cc: @cstross

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Y’all ever play The Publix Game?

You try to maximize the number of BoGo items you can buy, while still sticking to a grocery list that complements your current inventory.

But, you have to do it while pretending you’re a contestant on Supermarket Sweep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket%5FSweep

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Chaser:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion/trump-1-percent-elites-taxes.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.OlA.ouu6.LbafkxMf5RqC&smid=url-share

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

The back is also charming.#Iceland #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #grass #rust #trees

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w27jf74rgozykuyl63ji7wbv/post/3mfknp34zgc22

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Working with DNA and protein alignments from the terminal! 🔥

🧬 **salti** — A TUI viewer for multiple sequence alignments

💯 Smooth scrolling, minimap navigation, translation support & remote/SSH loading

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/Sam-Sims/salti

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #bioinformatics #cli #devtools #terminal

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• video: a0cf150311cbc043.mp4

Boosted by fribbledom ("muesli"):
fdroidorg@floss.social ("F-Droid") wrote:

Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users

#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person

They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"

@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen

Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

got a chunk of work done on the codebase for my seekrit project today

https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/backstory.html
https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/architecture.html

Boosted by jwz:
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

To folks upset about 1Password increasing their prices: 3M has got you covered

Boosted by jwz:
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

Notes on Setting up Forgejo on Coolify with SSH https://rknight.me/blog/notes-on-setting-up-forgejo-on-coolify-with-ssh/

I had a knightmare getting SSH push/pull working with this and it turned out "do less" was the answer. Also includes some other miscelanea on setting up Forgejo to start moving away from GitHub.

Thanks to @cory @zicklepop @adam and @daniel for their help with this.

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

"Director of Safety and Alignment at Meta Supeintelligence" is just the absolute perfect title to epitomize the current moment. it should be carved on a slab that many generations of children will wonder at and giggle over.

Boosted by jwz:
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

On Saturday, March 28, we'll gather once again to say NO KINGS.

Join us at Embarcadero Plaza to march to Civic Center. We'll have a rally and an informational fair where you can get plugged in with friendly people who will have a use for your skills.

Also: We're raising money to help pay for the permits, printing, and pumping out sound that it'll take to make this event better than any No Kings before. Please donate here: https://indivisiblesf.org/no-kings-3/donate

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Primaries are for your hopes and dreams, and general elections are for beating the fucking fascists.

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• video: 5b115a5e2c0f8a96.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

Transmission #632 from NROL-129 (CONFIDENTIAL)

1. Lemurian Tornados
2. Hellmouth of White Noise
3. Hidden Sewage Barracks

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb,

I have two YouTube accounts, jwz and dnalounge, and I'm using the oauth API with both of them to automate uploads and stuff. With the DNA account, I am getting a refresh_token that lasts forever. But with the jwz one, I am getting a refresh_token that can only refresh the access_token for a week, and then I have to log in again. Any ideas what fuckery is afoot?

The DNA token does this...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3r