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  • Oops — yeah, Kavanaugh

  • James Kanenaugh poem:

    There are people too gentle to live among wolves

    Who prey upon them with corporate eyes

    And sell their hearts and guts for martinis at noon.

    There are people too gentle for a savage world

    Who dream instead of snow and children and Halloween

    And wonder if the leaves will change their color soon.

    There are people too gentle to live among wolves

    Who mark them for burial with greedy claws

    And sacrifice them for a merchant’s profit and gain.

    There are people too gentle for a corporate world

    Who dream instead of Easter eggs and fragrant grass

    And pause to hear the distant whistle of a train.

    There are people too gentle to live among wolves

    Who devour them with appetite and search

    For others to prey upon and drain their childhood dry.

    There are people too gentle for an accountant’s world

    Who dream instead of Easter eggs and fragrant grass

    And search for beauty in the mystery of the sky.

    There are people too gentle to live among wolves

    Who toss them aside like a wounded dove.

    Such gentle souls are lonely in a merchant’s world

    Unless they have another gentle soul to love.

  • So… I long for this as well. But I haven’t even set aside one day a week… call it COLD TURKEY no tech day. I haven’t even done this.

  • Such communities would benefit from grant fund seeding.

    As you know, intentional communities were very popular in the 70s and likely align themselves to your values already.

    You might visit these and see if they might not provide a foundation for the work your hope to engage in.

    I’m all for your vision.

    I wouldn’t be reading stop tech if I weren’t.

    But as you know… my goals are more humble: get everyone reading paper books and using flip phones and mp3 players and meeting in parks to play frisbee and kick hacky sacks

  • Here we’re are on a distributed network talking about tech. And agreeing.

    I like my records and MP3s.

    I like my camera and word processor.

    But I agree with you that the Amish live a more healthy life style.

    I have a family but if I didn’t… i might show up with my two hands and throw my lot in to that lifestyle. Do they allow books? That’s the one thing I could not live without.

  • Well… yes, embrace nature. But if we push your line of thinking… the sweet spot comes before the locomotive, the pen, the compass.

    I’ll venture that individually, groups of people, like the Amish, can and do take the good parts of tech without the bad.

    I’m not so keen to go Amish, but I like to communicate with people who understand how instances work. How donations and service work.

    I’m just not so quick to give up on 1999.

    I’m willing to let others be distracted to death by their toys while they pour out money to the tech bros— I just won’t be one of those.

  • So… this is really THE conversation. How do we roll the Internet back to around 1999? Obviously we include Wikipedia But pretty much every other so called innovation would ultimately infringe the rights of users or manipulate them.

    We all sing the same song here.

    We love our MP3s played on private devices.

    We love our anonymity.

    But we also love access to like minds and information.

    Yes — nature is a great solution and we need to have it in our lives every day, but it shouldn’t be an either or situation.

    For a brief and shining moment - right around 1999, we had the ability to opt in only where we wanted and to protect ourselves completely when we did not. Corporations had not figured out total surveillance.

    This is the sweet spot. And Lemmy is a part of this — I consider all of the Fediverse prime time 1999.

  • Yes — even under the radar will do.

    Thanks for the clarifying.

    Have you seen Anniversary — this is a scathing anti MAGA big star vehicle that was marginalized because it’s controversial. A great watch if you have time.

  • Details from the Wikipedia article:

    A number of critics connected the film's reception to its unusual distribution and minimal promotion, which several reviews treated as part of the story of how it reached audiences.[d] Empire'sreviewer detailed Fox's decision not to screen the film for critics and its sparse theatrical rollout, portraying this handling as a major reason the film was not widely seen at the time.[31]The Slate writer framed the release pattern as a form of institutional discomfort with the film's targets, presenting the quiet rollout as consistent with a satire that attacks corporate and media power.[30] Film Threat's reviewer likewise emphasized the limited release and lack of advertising, contrasting that treatment with what the review described as a genuinely funny film and interpreting the mismatch as evidence of tension between the filmmaker and the studio.[37] The Los Angeles Times and the Austin Chronicle both described the film as effectively dumped, with the latter suggesting that this kind of dismissive handling resembled the institutional stupidity that the film itself lampoons.[28][33]

  • The article talks about how even the actors were afraid to promote the film. Read it?

  • I’m gonna watch it for cast alone.

  • Watch ANNIVERSAY (2025)

  • Movies @lemmy.world

    I'm interested in movies that disappear immediately...

  • Movies @lemmy.world

    Have you heard of this movie? No? There’s a very good reason: It’s a stunning, anti-MAGA tour de force so powerful it had to be made outside of the United States: ANNIVERSARY (2025) Starring Diane La

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Nervous?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    World's first MAGA

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world

    It is polite to hold the door for people coming up behind you.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    Is there a "buy nothing" community on Lemmy? Or an anti-consumerism comm?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Just browsing Lemmy and then this sequence...

  • Memes @lemmy.ml

    It's always about dat math

  • Memes @lemmy.ml

    A new insult each and every day

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world

    It's exhausting.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Some fellow suggested /c/slopornot as a place where links to convincing AI dog shit could be shared and people with a keen eye could explain why it's the devil.

    vger.to /lemmy.world/c/slopornot
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Hail Fuck AI... I'm skeptical of all of it and looking for a community where experts want to identify slop...

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world

    Topic or Community focused as a place where people can link to suspected AI video content and have folks more expert at spotting slip help?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Your lips to god's ears...

  • Videos @lemmy.world

    Dead Like Me: Men are scum moment

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    You can't make this shit up

  • Videos @lemmy.world

    Watching DEAD LIKE ME and in Season 2 Ep 4 they line Donald Trump up in a perp walk with KNOWN DICTATORS! Unreal!

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    No words

  • Videos @lemmy.world

    Sorry about the source but please let me know what's going on here!

    www.instagram.com /reel/DOcjGIskYLA/
  • Single Purpose Devices @lemmy.world

    Hoping a typewriter fits in well here.