check out https://riotmedicine.net/ and stay safe âYou cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere" - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
It doesnât have to be the way it is. -Ursula K. Le Guin
âIt doesnât have to be the way it its. That is what fantasy says. It doesnât say, âAnything goesâ -thatâs irresponsibility... Fantasy doesnât say, âNothing isâ -thatâs nihilism. And it doesnât say, âIt ought to be this wayâ- thatâs utopianism, a different enterprise. Fantasy isnât meliorative. The happy ending, however enjoyable to the reader, applies to the characters only; this is fiction, not prediction and not prescription
It doesnât have to be the way it is is a playful statement, made in the context of fiction, with no claim to âbeing real.â Yet it is a subversive statement.
Subversion doesnât suit people who, feeling their adjustment to life has been successful, want things to go on just as they are, or people who need support from authority assuring them that things are as they have to be. Fantasy not only asks âwhat if things didnât go on just as they do?â but demonstrates what they might be like if they went otherwise- thus gnawing at the very foundation of the belief that things have to be the way they are.
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"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."
Think about what you can do at your job or in your daily life to resist fascism when the opportunity presents itself!
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âHow does one hate a country, or love one?⌠I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love for oneâs country; is it hate for oneâs uncountry? Then itâs not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? Thatâs a good thing, but one mustnât make a virtue of it, or a profession.â
â Ursula K. Le Guin, from The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
things that would exist if intellectual property wasn't a thing
so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.
fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip
plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.
library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.
an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question
freedom from the hell that is DRM software
everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd
so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.
so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet
preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them
just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing
a world without ip lawyers. im getting chills just imagining it.
#there cant simply be no more IP we need acrive anti-IP enforcement #or else companies will still enforce various paywalls and implement DRM a bit differently on their own #same w medical formulas and tech we need active anti-patent anti-privatization enforcement or theyll find a way to withhold it for profit #IP laws are one of the tools of capitalism and colonialism #when increasing capital is the way the entire system works and benefits them #they will always find a way even if you get rid of IP #this isnt to say its useless this IS to say be more anti-IP now and then keep aiming higher
this is true, but right now to break DRM is super mega illegal and setting up shadow libraries sends you to jail, for life. people who hack video games get sent to jail. reverse engineering is illegal as fuck.
if we enforced anti privatisation that would look like forced licensing by nation states, like you discovered a drug? now make the formula and its manufacture public. its much more complicated. simply abolishing the threat of IP litigation protects the people who make the ongoing IP regime bearable and encourage more people to be involved in efforts to liberate intellectual property secrets.
You could literally have all of this if IP were just severely limited instead of being abolished.
Because I want to point out that the total abolition of IP would also mean that major corporate publishers of every kind of media can start distributing work from any small artist or author that gets popular, stealing their work and their audience and their money and making big budget films or merchandise from their ideas without paying them.
That is the kind of thing that IP is supposed to prevent.
You can fix a very large number of the problems with IP just by:
A) follow the actual constitution of the United states to the letter when it says you can't patent any natural process. Reproduction of living organisms is a natural process. Also abolish drug patents.
B) place software under patent instead of copyright, where it belongs. (This fixes right to repair stuff.)
C) severely limit copyright duration.
D) Nerf the ability of a corporation (as opposed to an individual) to hold any sort of copyright, although I'm not 100% sure what that would look like.
E) Pass laws encoding the nature of fair use in such a manner that it makes it extremely difficult to prosecute derivative works.
me: imagine library of the world, it would free so much knowledge and revolutionise science and scientific literacy, free universities from paying predatory journal access prices, make art and literature from other countries so much easer to access.
you: well idc about that why don't we return to india in the 1970s (india didn't respect global drug patents till usa threatened sanctions)
look i barely respect the legitimacy of private property, much less property that you don't lose access to when you share or reproduce it. genuinely a fake category of property made up by a class of psychological landlords, terrorising our lives and pretending that their ideas solely belong to them when all ideas only really exist in the context of a society and its various artistic/scientific/intellectual influences. artists can continue to be commissioned to create work, they just can't profit from it post facto. same for corporations in this universe tbc.
tell me why the text of a novel deserves special protection to be licensed and deserve a potential share of the profits of a corporation selling a book long after their work was done but not the labour of a worker who cleans the printing press?
Critical Mass is a map-drawing game inspired by Avery Alderâs The Quiet Year, Ben Auden Roswellâs War in the Year 3000, and the anonymous rebels who change the world every day. In the game, players take turns drawing cards, answering questions, and adding to a shared map as they speculate what will happen during and after a night of rioting.
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ultimately the best way to prevent abuse is to organize society in such a way that everyone's needs are met wothout having to rely on a parent or employer or boyfriend or any one individual. obviously wont stop, like, manipulation or so on, but the ability to dangle basic needs over someone's head is one of the most powerful and consistant tools of abuse out there. if someone is able to just leave, and know that they will have access to food and shelter and clean water and education, that will enable so, so mamy victims of abuse to do just that.
really funny how like 10% of the comments are people going "nuh uh" and the remaining 90% are people going "this is literally whats happening to me/my mom/etc Right Now"
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it's crazy 2 me that every time i'm like "the existence of bugs is vital to the very fabric of reality as we know it. if we do not prioritize protect & value bugs, if we lose bugs, the entire world goes with them"
people in the comments will be like "okay but we could at least get rid of ticks and mosquitos because those spread disease."
we actually CANNOT get rid of ticks and mosquitos. not only do we plain lack the technology to lead a pointed extermination effort against them specifically without taking a score of other species down with them, but if we developed that technology and did eradicate mosquitos and ticks, it would be the catalyst of utter ecological collapse the likes of which i think people are not quite comprehending.
the problem is not the existence of bugs. the problem is that our current global systems ensure that specific Peoples in specific places are disproportionately impacted by zoonoses (illness spread between animals and humans).
those same populations also disproportionately lack access to preventative tools & PPE (down to things many of us take for granted so simply as effective bug spray), and crucially access to medical treatment.
the goal should not be an eradicating effort against bugs which would quite literally collapse entire ecosystems, but equitable access to healthcare, investment in medical research to improve preventative and acute treatment for zoonoses, and the destruction of systems which are currently rapidly increasing the threat of zoonoses worldwide (climate change!)
i am not defending the existence of bugs because i think they're cute and because i don't care about the devastating suffering zoonoses cause millions and millions of people.
the point is that the eradication of these species would likewise cause devastation and suffering, and the tools, the money, the minds, the research, the science ALL exist to actually change the world for the better through global public health systems, but it's all being strangulated by imperial fucking systems which have been and continue to destroy everything!
If a foreign army invaded this land, cut down the trees, poisoned the rivers, and forced children to grow up pledging allegiance to them, who wouldnât take up arms against them? But when local executives and politicians do the same, patriots readily render their obedience, tax dollars, and children. They will even die to do to others what they would never let anyone do to them.
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As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, it is worth asking: who gets to control the celebration? The government, the President, or the corporations that fund them both?
In my latest, I discuss President Trump's takeover of the 250 celebrations, the corporations and military contractors who have sponsored them, and the corruption that emerges when corporate power collaborates with unaccountable state power.
The private-private partnership behind the semiquincentennial celebrations.
There are currently two different organizations organizing Americaâs 250th anniversary, and they are in direct competition with one another. America250 is a bipartisan organization created by Congress with the goal of organizing an anniversary that could be celebrated by all Americans. Freedom 250, on the other hand, is a company created by the White House shortly after President Trump was sworn back into office; though it is technically part of the National Park Foundation, it is controlled by the president and his appointees.
Trumpâs initiative has gradually absorbed many of the responsibilities that were supposed to be overseen by America250 over the last year, a power grab that mirrors the presidentâs other efforts to remake the federal government in his own image. Massive posters with Freedom 250 branding now adorn several government agency headquarters across downtown D.C. Freedom 250 has sponsored ads in the cityâs Metro system to announce that the CIA is hiring new recruits, and its logo will even be placed on the Social Security cards of all newborn babies for the rest of the year.
Both anniversary initiatives are funded by massive corporations that are simultaneously lobbying Congress, donating to politicians, and running advertising campaigns to influence the government. The large pool of money dedicated to the anniversary celebrationsâincluding funds from both the government and the private sectorâhelped to encourage the presidentâs takeover: The more events Freedom 250 controls, the more of these funds it can absorb. The result has been a three-way tug-of-war between the public, the president, and corporate boardrooms over who gets to define American culture on this historic occasion. Right now, the public is losing.
Can unfortunately confirm this is 100% real. Sources and more info below.
EFF's Threat Lab used static code analysis to confirm Meta deployed facial recognition to millions of Ray-Ban smart glasses. The "Name Tag"
TL;DR: On June 4, 2026, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published âMove Fast, Surveil Things,â confirming through static code analysis that Meta has already deployed facial recognition code to millions of Ray-Ban smart glasses. The internal âName Tagâ feature converts every face in view into a 2,048-number faceprint array and matches it against a stored database. An EFF researcher activated the feature in debug mode and watched the glasses detect a known face in real time. Metaâs spokesperson says this is just âevidence of exploration.â Exploration doesnât ship to millions of devices. This is staging for launch, and internal documents show Meta planned to flip the switch while privacy groups were too busy to fight back.
...You donât need a central database when every user builds their own local faceprint collection. The faces still get scanned. The biometric data still gets created. Meta just outsources the storage to your phone, and the legal liability to you.
-via State of Surveillance, June 7, 2026. Emphasis mine.
But good news! There are things you can do to protect yourself and your community. As quoted from the article:
What You Can Do
Assume Youâre Being Scanned
If someone near you is wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses, treat it like a running camera, because it is. The small LED indicator thatâs supposed to signal recording can be covered with tape, and Metaâs âalways enabledâ mode processes video without activating it [6]. The Nearby Glasses app can detect Meta Ray-Bans via Bluetooth.
Lock Down Your Meta Profiles
Name Tag matches faces against Meta platform data. If you have Facebook or Instagram accounts, set your profile photo to something that isnât your face. Make your accounts private. Better yet, consider whether you need them at all. Every photo of your face on Metaâs platforms is training data for identifying you later.
Support the Legal Pushback
The EFF, ACLU, and EPIC are fighting this on legal, legislative, and technical fronts. Texasâs investigation proves state-level enforcement works: Meta paid $1.4 billion last time Texas came knocking over biometrics. Push for biometric privacy laws in your state. Illinois and Texas showed the way.
Donât Buy the Glasses
Every pair sold expands the surveillance network. Meta has shipped millions already. Each one is a camera pointed at everyone else. If you own a pair, understand that the facial recognition code is on your device right now, and Meta can activate it with a software update whenever they decide the political moment is right.
-via State of Surveillance, June 7, 2026. Emphasis mine. And remember that for an undocumented person in the US right now, facial recognition spyware identifying them could be the difference between life and death.
