Modern Dependency Problems (with apologies and thanks to XKCD)

[flesh@transfem.social]

@citadel9@cyberplace.social @JdeBP@mastodon.me.uk @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk I mean, everyone developing software is involved in politics by default.

[decapitae@mastodon.social]

@Floppy yeah, review thier code closely -

[ditol@freiburg.social]

@Floppy
Did the xz utils guy turn out to be fascist? Did I miss something? If not, then sorry, but that one random person in Nebraska still remains among all the assholes building upon his/her work to enslave all of us.

[gavinisdie@masto.ai]

@vvilhelmus @Floppy what

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@janvenetor @kfdm @Floppy no, it has to do with desirable (for the extremists) practical skills like blowing things up. Blowing hot air isn’t anywhere as valuable as humanities types believe.

[toriver@mas.to]

@hjvt @citadel9 @JdeBP @Floppy … despite some selfish politician back in the day saying there is no such thing as society.

[janvenetor@mastodontti.fi]

@fazalmajid @kfdm @Floppy see the linked book, skills do not factor in it per the research.

"We find that engineers are no more likely than other graduates to cover technical roles, such as bomb making [...] What engineers learn at university is unlikely to make them more practically proficient at bomb making than former military or car mechanics. [...] many non-Islamist extremist groups have been skillful at bomb making without engineers in their ranks."

#politics

[hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com]

@citadel9 @JdeBP @Floppy Everybody is involved in politics in the first place. It mostly boils down to which side of the coin you're falling on. Some people delude themselves thinking they can stand on the side of the coin.

[_r@donotsta.re]

@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk I feel like this needlessly inflates how many fascists there actually are. every time someone is revealed to be a fascist, it’s a whole news story - because it’s relatively rare.

But because you hear about every fascist who happens to maintain or lead something, they seems a lot more than the thousands of people who aren’t fascist, who are just quietly maintaining something without fanfare or big red alerts.

[gustavommg@mastodon.social]

@Floppy Fascism attracts people, because of deceptive beauty, order, and masculinity.

If only demonized, we won’t take away its power to destroy.

I believe label Fascism was created first by outside press in response to Mussolini, not him nor his predecessors.

Fasces is the key to understand Mussolini.

He saw Roman militarism as the socialist unifier, which was influenced in part due to his exclusion from internationalist privileged circles & ironically British financiers.

[normjess@tech.lgbt]

@fluidlogic @JdeBP @Floppy at least the fascist doesn't try to hawk you some crypto, right?

[gustavommg@mastodon.social]

@Floppy To be clear, fascism is deceptive. It destroys beauty, order, and masculinity.

It places war and other forms of violence as its highest ideal, because of poorly informed history.

With this as its main attribute, it destroys itself or destroyed by its copies. That’s not how the world works, because it exists, creates, and sustains.

[fluidlogic@oldbytes.space]

@normjess @JdeBP @Floppy oh God, you joke, and yet...

https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517901806/the-politics-of-bitcoin/

[normjess@tech.lgbt]

@fluidlogic @JdeBP @Floppy
cryptofascists!
crypto cryptofascists!
cryptocrypto cryptofascists!

nooo!!

[fluidlogic@oldbytes.space]

@normjess @JdeBP @Floppy it's fascists all the way down, you see.

[normjess@tech.lgbt]

@fluidlogic @JdeBP @Floppy
away with your fascist earth theory 🫷

I mean, its probably true, but get it away from me!

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@_r @Floppy that they all know each other and work together on this is important however

[fluidlogic@oldbytes.space]

@normjess @JdeBP @Floppy I appall myself at the thought of it!

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@vvilhelmus @Floppy I'm not saying it's *always* mastodon.social,

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@citadel9 @JdeBP @Floppy if you think you have the option not to be, lucky you