Post #1101017

2026-04-12 16:14 UTC

@pluralistic Don&#39;t Be Evil (11 Apr 2026) Cory is addressing the #Internet in this piece. But the message is increasingly urgent in all aspects of our lives: we need to come together to build, maintain, and defend our communities. Too many evil fuckers are counting on us to buy the company line that we&#39;re all just self-interested, rugged-individualists, and that we won&#39;t notice that *their* self-interests are burning the world down. https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/11/obvious-terrible-ideas/

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@plantarum@ottawa.place 2026-04-12 16:22

@pluralistic Cory also argues, in other posts, that an open internet isn't the single defining issue of our time. But if we lose it, we lose our ability to fight the many other problems we face. Which I think is entirely consistent with Naomi Klein's (I think, and doubtless others) position that all struggle for justice is rooted in climate action. (or maybe it was the other way around). The oligarchs are counting on us acting as individuals whose only agency is choosing what to buy. And failing that, that they can partition our resistance into silos of limited scope (and ideally opposing goals): surveillance capitalism, racial equity, gender equity, climate action.

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@jjviii@mastodon.social 2026-04-12 16:55

@plantarum @pluralistic This reminds me of #themaintainers (https://themaintainers.org/) which I have no personal connection to, but is an organization that is doing some cool work and I just love the underlying idea of centering maintenance as an organizing principle.

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