Cooperation Denton (TX)
mastodon 4.7.3Building neighbor democracy in Denton, TX.
We're solar pilled
We're veggie maxxing
We're ebike uuhhh mogging
We're soil...posting?
#content #soilpunk #solarpunk #socialecology #anarchy #dosomething
"But no federal terrorism case against them existed yet. The federal indictments for terrorism didn't come until October and November, after the executive order and the national security memorandum. The government drew the category knowing they already had people to put inside it.
And so a fiction that once lived in a right-wing conspiracist's Twitter reply now lives in a federal sentencing memorandum. It is why people I know, and care about, may grow old in prison."
"It won't work because the enemy always responds strongly to it."
"The enemy always responds strongly to it because it's what works."
The difference between these two statements is emphasis and personal commitment, not a different set of facts.
Demands that would empower children.
1. Algorithm transparency so we can stop companies from presenting vulnerable groups to their existential adversaries just to make number go up.
2. More time for parents to spend with kids (higher minimum wage, social safety net, shorter workday, etc.) because there is no internet that is safe enough to leave a kid unattended.
3. Livable cities so Roblox doesn't feel more free/attainable than going to the park, the library, the city center, or the creek.
"The consensus from above is clear. There is no Green New Deal. There is no Build Back Better. It's Drill Baby Drill and 3C of warming. The future is already canceled. We have no choice but to invent one of our own. What does that look like, and more importantly, how can we get there? For starters, we need to look more closely at where we actually are."
New post: Exit Strategies: Why We Say, "Build And Fight"
https://cooperationdenton.org/exit-strategies-why-we-say-build-and-fight/
On the left, the entire fossil fuel contribution to the UK grid at 8:50AM on a Saturday. 3.7GW.
On the right, a single contract between Chevron and Microsoft, for 2.7GW of methane-based electrical generation, for a single data center in Texas.
This heat wave has a lot of people talking about fighting climate change. One important thing you can do is push back on LLMs. Resist them at your job. Kindly educate your friends. Fight the construction of data centers.
A complete list of surveillance tactics that are only used on the bad guys:
FBI Raided Texas Activist’s House — Then Offered Her $200,000 to Become Antifa Informant
IF A DATA CENTER IS INEVITABLE AND A FUNCTIONING BUS SYSTEM IS IMPOSSIBLE, THEN IT'S NOT YOUR TOWN - IT'S THEIRS! YOU JUST LIVE THERE!
They tell you that your way is idealistic while theirs literally destroys the world for the sake of bad ideas.
Capitalism will destroy everything if we do not stop it.
An invasive species overtaking habitat is not "nature healing itself" any more than melanoma is skin's natural healing response to ultraviolet radiation. Maladaptation exists at every level. By doing enough bad things, you can actually get nature to do bad things in the process because there is no teleology to it.
RE: @dfwsupportcommittee@mas.to
If you needed a clearer indication of the real function of this trial, look no further than this man. If you have ever seen his name before, it is likely because he penned this godforsaken document conflating mutual aid with terrorism.
https://nextcloud.manyworlds.fit/s/qYjyo63Ssomx4ic
This trial is the culmination of years of demonizing any form of of bottom-up movement building on the left. What is being decided is nothing short of whether we have any right to resist at all.
Why is housing scarcity inevitable because of NIMBY, but not data center scarcity? Why is popular sentiment such a larger factor in our residential zoning than our industrial zoning? What's the wind in the sails? Could it be that authority rests not in the hands of the people or their representatives, but instead in a cartel of firms? Could it be that the city council, state, and federal legislatures are aligned in the interests of capital formation at the expense of all else?
A study was just published
The purpose of inevitability is to naturalize what has not even occurred yet, and to rebrand acceleration as a form of harm reduction. It is always a con.
RE: @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social
"Industrial facilities now account for 50 to 60 percent of the city’s total water consumption. Individual facilities can consume several billion gallons annually—reflecting the scale at which industrial demand now operates within a system that was never sized for prolonged drought at this level of consumption."
