EatPotatoes [none/use name]

Don’t think it’s a problem that gets fixed until there is a DoTP. Don’t think it’s an essential tool for getting there either.

People react to the tangible benefits over ideas. We can say religion is the opiate of the masses, but it’s the institution that dominates mutual aid, addiction services, bereavement and prisons. Finding people at their most desperate and rewiring their brains with hopeful experiences that lead to fanatical devotion.

Tech companies can only come so close with their multi-billion dollar algorithms. FOSS and decentralised efforts have entirely missed the mark by assuming that the lack of this sophistication is “a feature, not a bug”. This doesn’t appeal to most people. They want that dopamine fix from the algorithm. They want simple, intuitive tech, and TikTok reinvented the TV for them in a way Western tech pathetically couldn’t replicate, so they had to buy them out.

Let it happen. The “seed” is the social infrastructure we must build to deal with more important things like food, medicine and housing.

Remember when people used to freak out about fema camps?

It’s the singularity cult, capital is long dead and robot feudalism is the only way out for them.

The dead eyes capture how everyday people feel about this. Like performative empathy for the Ukrainians, but let’s keep putting them through the meat grinder to weaken Russia.

I love Ben Nortan’s monotone screaming.