I'm mostly familiar with him from his series on why all marxist revolutions were dictatorships, where he's quite scathing towards Marxism and all of its offshoots, and instead points out how Anarchist thinkers predicted all those poor outcomes, and how superior their solutions and methods were.
Overall from what I've seen of him, his opinions remind me of Bookchin's more than anything (though I'm basing that on old interviews and the few things I've read of Bookchin's).
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Infocom.
It's an old text adventure from the 80's with a particularly cool and oddly relevant concept: You take the role of an AI that's been meticulously raised in a simulation to truly become a general intelligence. The reason this project was undertaken was to eventually send you, the AI, into other simulations based in the near future to test the outcomes of various political policies of the new republican government, record your interactions, and report back to the engineers who created you.
The game's designer said that he created the game in response to the despair he felt from Ronald Reagan being elected.
I haven't gotten super far in it, but it has an incredibly well written short story in the manual that details all the events leading up to the start of the game, and so far the game itself is unlike anything else I've ever played.
You can get GIMP surprisingly far with addons such as PhotoGIMP (adds Photoshop shortcuts and improveS GUI), Resynthesizer (Adds content aware fill), and G'mic (adds hundreds of powerful filters and tools, such as an assisted cropping tool. Also works with Krita).
Superb video Tymon, extremely well edited and paced. Thank you for creating it and contributing to this movement, I'll be spreading it around. :)
I have a funny story about a Sony Mavica.
My family bought one when it was becoming obsolete on deep discount, I forget from where. We used the crap outta that thing, and when we became internet savvy, used it as a way to upload pictures to the computer for eBay listings. Eventually, around 2006 or so, we replaced it with a digital camera that used an SD card, and in its little protective case the mavica went, to rest.
2 decades later, I rediscovered it while cleaning out old boxes, found that it still worked perfectly (thanks to using standard AA's), and decided to sell it on eBay.
It sits up there for a while at $20, until one day I get a message about it, asking if the screen was okay or sum such. I tell them it is and shortly after, they buy it.
Out of mild curiosity, I click on the buyer's profile, and see that he sells stuff as well, and it's a very old account, about as old as mine. The pictures for the items he currently had for sale are pretty grainy, and I thought... Surely not...
I download a picture of one of his items, and sure enough; it's the same resolution as the mavica takes, 640 by something.
That crazy bastard had been steadily using his Sony Mavica floppy disk camera for over 20 years for his little eBay business.
I suspected that his camera must've finally given up the ghost, and he spotted my prime example and bought it so he could continue his well worn routine.
He left me positive feedback for the Mavica, and I suppose he's still using it to this day, keeping that old equipment alive and useful.
As a fan of the brave little toaster, it nearly brings a tear to the eye... I just really hope he switched to rechargeable batteries at some point, the little floppy drive on it chewed through AA's quicker than a terrier on a kilo of cocaine.
There's definitely something going on. Whenever I add a Lemmy instance URL that isn't obfuscated somehow, like replacing the periods with commas or (dot), then my comment gets no likes or responses, whereas a very similar comment in the same thread without a link does.
It seems to down rank it in the algorithim, if not outright shadow remove them.
Semi-related: if you haven't tried it, you may want to consider coffee from the Zapatistas, which is probably some of the most ethical coffee you can get.
Adding onto his recommendation to join or create unions:
Unionizing your workplace brings almost immediate benefits to you and your co-workers (a living wage, benefits, more time off), it also lets us fight back against the regime with an effective general strike, just as it worked in 1886 (they wouldn't have fought us so hard back then if it didn't).
Below are some resources to Unions from around the world who can help train you to become an organizer and form a grassroots union with your co-workers:
Both are excellent :)
The real location the image is based on.
All I remember of that show was catching it on a VHS after I left it recording to grab squidbillies one night, and there was a scene of a shark trying to start a car for a really, really long time, which was pretty damn funny.