https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gmsfr3
3 minute scene from planet earth series with seals chasing a great white shark away
get off of facebook. don’t buy tesla or use starlink. don’t buy on amazon. Don’t upgrade your iphone, and don’t buy new apple products. Don’t use CHATGPT.
The first thing you can do is not buy anything that makes the tech billionaires more money. All they care about is money: don’t give them any if you can help it.
for example:
get off of facebook (easy). don’t buy tesla or use starlink (easy). don’t buy on amazon (difficult but doable). Don’t upgrade your iphone, and don’t buy new apple products (moderate). Don’t use CHATGPT (easy).
I’d add not using Amazon Prime, Amazon Web Services and other Amazon services. Not using X, being critical of SpaceX. Also, stop advertising these things, stop telling your friends about them, maybe even stop talking about them altogether. I think for some strange reason sometimes bad press is better than no press.
My company: “we’re going all in on the cloud! Specifically AWS” proceeds to pay them millions per year.
or use starlinkI don’t know if I’d call that easy for some people in very remote areas. Easy for me, easy for you, but not necessarily easy in some cases. Here’s hoping a good competitor can get to those places.The thread is not called “Do this one thing, or give up if you can’t”
Getting off Amazon was easier than I thought. Has been years now, and I only needed to order through a friend once, when I needed a specialty item I could find nowhere else. Most small shops have comfortable checkout systems now and short delivery times. And there’s eBay, which afaik takes a smaller cut from third parties than Amazon.
Use Linux and open source software. Contribute to open source projects. Buy hardware second hand. Use non corporate social media. Buy local. Get your stuff fixed instead of throwing it away. Avoid data harvesting where possible.
Its as if the linux hardliners were right all along. Almost as if people laughing about our cautionary tales stand there holding the bag now.
I‘m not saying „we told you so“ but…
Richard Stallman is a big reason why I have the political views I have today.
I use chatgpt a lot, what is the best non-billionaire funded llm? I really need to change to one that doesn’t worsen the world…
While deepseek is billionaire funded it still should be better if run locally I don’t think Foss llms are at that level yet
Thanks, another person mentioned it, I’m trying it now, hopefully it suits my needs.
Try hosting locally DeepSync R1, for me the results are similar to ChatGPT without needing to send any into on the internet.
LM Studio is a good start.
Don’t you need a fast GPU to do so?
Any relatively new gaming PC from the last, what, 4? Years has enough power to run local LLMs. Maybe not the ginormous 70GB behemoth models, but the toned down ones are pretty damn good and if you don’t mind waiting a few seconds while it thinks, you can run it completely locally as much as you want, and whenever you want.
That may be hard, seeing as all AIs use ungodly amounts of electricity. So I’d say they all worsen the world.
But it will make me mildly uncomfortable! /s
Call Luigi?
Assuming Luigi Mangione is responsible for the murder of that CEO strips him of his presumption of innocence. Maybe refer to the gunman from the video as “The Adjuster” like people did before Mangione was accused until the trial is complete.
But if he’s not the shooter, what if the real Adjuster isn’t as hot as Luigi?
(I’m just kidding though, I totally agree with you)
Luigi did his part. One luigi per ceo not one luigi for all the ceos
While I don’t expect more of this person, going the Batman/Jesus route would be helpful.
Edit: Although, I prefer the V for Vendetta method where we all anonymously fight back and take back over.
Batman is a rich man.
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battering ram Big Bertha cannon French 75 catapult onager culverin German 88 ram Vulcan automatic cannonI refuse to recognize a trebuchet as a form of catapult. Just as you have had to separate handguns and rifles, one should also recognize a trebuchet’s superior siege ability at range
I will send a strongly worded letter to the random website from which I copied and pasted this.
Tie your letter to a rock and trebuchet it at them, or whichever cloud they live in.
Send it with a trebuchet.
Thank you kind person. May ever road rise up to meet you, and every building you siege fall hastily
Stop using and/or buying their products comes to mind.
Adblock, Firefox, don’t buy new phones, etc etc etc
Individually? Nothing. Therefore: Organise, organise, organise
Computer, who is Luigi Mangione?
People keep answering by trying to tell you to consume your way out of this.
There is only one way, organize, unionize and vote!
Voting? Really? You still think the corrupt system can be fixed using the corrupt system?
Self host
Do what you can. A little more each day if it gets easier. Understand we can’t fight all the worlds evils alone, but we aren’t alone so whatever your fight is helps all of us.
I push for opensource, self hosting, being self sufficient, unionizing (at work, and for tenets), forming coops (worker, community, housing, and even producer coops), do mutual aid, support charities through donations sure but also volunteering. I also try to buy less, if you need it you need it, but if you don’t then why support corps like Walmart or Amazon for them to take those profits to undermine us.
Again it’s not about perfection or even self actualization, it’s just every time we can empower ourselves and others we can shift the power balance.
all individual can do is find other individuals and try to do something together
Years ago people laughed at me for not having Facebook (and never having had it in the first place). Who’s laughing now? Not me, nor any other consumers. But hey, we tried…
Pirate, AdBlock/Sponsorblock and use Free/Open Source alternatives.
Shoot them
I’m not condoning violence but I’m kind of surprised no one have yet taken an RPG shot at elons jet or something. Even blowing it up empty would send a message I guess.
I mean someone actually shot at drump so it can’t be that complicated.
I mean someone actually shot at drump so it can’t be that complicated.
- Firstly it wasn’t an RPG. I don’t think you realize how complicated it is to get your hands on a functional RPG. Not to mention, if you want to blow up Musk’s aircraft, you probably want a portable surface-to-air missile like a Stinger. Good luck getting one of those too.
- Secondly the dude missed Trump, so it is a bit complicated. You need some sniper skills he obviously didn’t have, and a lot of preparation - and probably a good dose of luck - to set yourself up for a shot and not get caught.
- Thirdly, the dude was wasted. So anybody thinking about fixing America’s problems that way should feel ready to lay down his life for the cause. People usually talk the talk but rarely walk that kind of walk.
“and not get caught”
At some point some US citizens will have to choose how they plan to die exactly, because doing nothing in the face of Nazis will lead to them dying anyway.
Pull a Luigi
