When you think about it, there were a lot of populist movements growing through Twitter. It probably pissed a lot of wealthy, powerful people off.
Then Musk and Zuckerberg were called to private meetings with the president, weren't they? And Twitter was taken over and shut down. Then Threads, owned by Facebook who is known to help out law enforcement quite happily as well as track everything, takes off as an alternative.
Mass death will also slow down global climate change.
Keep in mind that the "them" that gets more resources includes most of the western world, traditionally.
Reduce, reuse, recycle is an order of operations. Reusing is better than recycling, but reduction of consumption is best.
They tend to shut up when you ask them to actually help in any meaningful, concrete way. They'll sure protest though.
I was using chatGPT to design up a human/computer interface to allow stoners to control a lightshow. The goal was to collect data to train an AI to make the light show "trippier".
It started complaining about using untested technology to alter people's mental state, and how experimentation on people wasn't ethical.
I suspect that as things get worse, more people will be focused on personal survival vs stopping the rate of change. Sometimes these will be the same actions, sometimes they won't.
I've started doing it all the time now as well, as it's valid ASL and we have two hard of hearing children, one of which communicates primarily with sign.
Me, with 20 years experience making software: yes, totally happy about this. (This makes it much easier to keep up with the latest newfangled bullshit.)
Laser cutter control software is windows only, just haven't had the time/energy to rip out the entire control system and rework it to be open source.
The Democrats are playing politics, the Republicans are fighting a war of extermination.
I am burning down private schools in the dead of night.
Be the change you want to see in the world, don't let your dreams stay dreams.
Bought concert tickets for October. Total cost for tickets was $195.20. It's not a local show (ie: the bands have recognition beyond our town), so we have to travel to the city - 4 hours plus a $75 ferry. Plus overnight stay and food in the city. And we need a sitter to watch the kids, overnight.
So we're pushing $600-$700 for a concert. That's a "once every few years" thing, when we've saved enough and the band is one we really want to see.
Local shows are rock cover bands on a Sunday evening, usually, but I work Monday at 6am.