Obviously doesn’t get rid of the other ethical problems with AI, but it’s maybe more of a harm reduction approach than just total abstention?

I made the switch to Proton a year or two ago and I’ve never looked back! Have you heard of Ecosia? I’ve been using Ecosia for forever but I mainly switch between that and StartPage for search now. ecosia.org

Soup dumplings* jfc autocorrect will be the death of me

This is why it’s essentially illegal to be homeless in America. Not because someone wrote a law that says, “Being homeless is illegal,” but because the conditions created by capitalism essentially make it a baked-in legal precedent.

You reach a certain level of poverty that is, for all intents and purposes, illegal under the kind of state we have in the West that protects the interests of corporations over everyday people.

In other words, capitalism maintains the fallout from the consequences of its exploitation by making criminals of its biggest victims, i.e., the poor.

It might have been @naomiaklein.bsky.social who said something like this first (sorry, my memory escapes me), but capitalism functions by ignoring the externalities and criminalizing the side effects.

Ah good tip! I was wondering why it doesn’t seem to recognize URLs and hashtags. I’ll try that.