#apathy — Public Fediverse posts

In polls, people easily agree that food is a human right and that poverty needs solving rather than endless debate.

Yet in real life, seeking basic mutual aid is constantly met with gatekeeping, dismissive advice, and apathy.

Read the lived reality here:
https://the.kalvin.click/apathy/

#mutualaid #poverty #solidarity #humanrights #community #empathy #livedexperience #apathy #reflections #society #dignity #justice #truth #advocacy #life #support

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So in summary: using #AI for #coding led to #depression, #apathy, #existential #dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative #environmental, #community, and #economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change.
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https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/
A brilliant write-up by @brettcodes

Most people literally won't even lift a finger to protect their own privacy, but will go through great leaps of logic and excuses to protect corpo fascists and their platforms.

#bigtech #privacy #apathy #advocacy

#Development #Experiences
I’m done using AI · ”It made me lazy. It made me stop caring.” https://ilo.im/16f9hs

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#Business #Skills #Apathy #Depression #Programming #Coding #CodeReviews #AI #Software #WebDev

#politics #avoidingpolitics #politicsatthetable #apathy #centrism_kills

On The Curious Incident of the Festival That Prevented Sleep

Europe is in the middle of a heatwave where the afternoon temperatures reach 33°c or higher, but where night time temperatures are just 20°c or even less. Local governments are saying “Avoid strenuous activities in the sun” and “make sure to keep cool”. They also offer going to churches or museums because they’re nice and cool.

On the flip-side music festivals such as Crapibana (intentional spelling) choose to have loud banging music from around 1900 last night right up until 0300 this morning. Now, in the best of times this is a nuisance but during a canicule this should be treated as criminal.

It should be treated as criminal because for several nights, people in warm apartments and warm houses are unable to open windows to get fresh air and recover during the heat wave. They have to choose between sweltering heat, or noise pollution.

It strikes me as absurd that music festivals have such a reputation for heal the world mentality, environmentalism and more when the reality is horrifying. Imagine parking thousands of cars on fields for days at a time, where crops are grown. Imagine the carbon pollution that makes its way into the food chain.

The second pollution is from people littering all night long, several days in a row. Teams of people have to clean up after the litter bugs. It’s horrifying to see how dirty festival fields are, especially when you consider the “We want the world not to be polluted” refrain they keep chanting.

The final problem, and this is the most serious, and the one that gets to me, is that the notion that a festival with less than 30,000 people can make noise for five nights in a row without repercussions, especially during a heat wave.

Friday morning I woke at 04:30 to run at 6am to take advantage of the morning freshness. The next night there was a very high wind, and stormy conditions so the noise pollution from the music festival was silenced. Last night the apathetic sociopaths made noise from 1900 or so until 3am. I had planned to wake by 5 or 6 this morning but I was exhausted to the point that I slept in all the way to 9am.

The point is that music festivals are seen as boosting the local economy, and helping local businesses. In my vécu the opposite is true.

The same country that bans ULM for being too noisy, that tells people they can’t mow their lawns on a Sunday, that has strict rules about indoor plumbing and noise thinks nothing of a festival making noise all night long.

This meshes nicely with my Whatsapp conversation from a few weeks ago. A social network that promotes events through Whatsapp, especially events for alcoholics, locks the chat between recurrent events, and discourages sober online conversation, whilst encouraging giant piss-ups to use an English term.

The Crapibana is part of the same problem. Friday I went for a 6am run, despite not getting a full night of sleep. Stormy weather made it possible for me to sleep before yesterday’s 73km ride, but the restorative sleep that I would normally have, was impossible due to the Crapibana event making noise from around 1900-0300 am. In theory I was meant to wake at 5 to drive for another bike ride, and to be social.

I was so exhausted from getting zero sleep that I ended up sleeping in until 9am. This is rare. This occurs once every few years. The restorative sleep that would have made me feel fresh, that would have encouraged me to go out and do things that required spending money was mothballed, because of my very deep exhaustion.

That sleep deprivation also has a deeper social cost. How many of us, around the region of the festival are now stuck with either not doing any sports, or doing them right at the hottest time of the year.

5am would have been perfect for a morning run this morning, with air at 18°c. Now it is 26°c and we’re in heat stress and heat stroke running territory, all because 30,000 people needed loud music and alcohol for virtual fun.

“But wait, alcohol and concerts are real” to which I respond, if you’re drinking, your fun is as virtual as if you were sitting in front of a computer having a whatsapp chat. 😉 Imagine if social media had arrived before alcohol. Imagine if we saw alcohol as virtual reality, and social media as reality.

And now for a call for change. When a music festival takes place during a heatwave, at 2200 it should go into silent disco, to allow sports people to sleep, recover and be fresh for their hikes, walks, runs and bike rides.

Why should the alcoholic portion of society dictate their desires onto the rest of society? I’ve been to events that go into silent disco mode at 2200. Including the IFSC World Cup in Villars-sur-Ollon and the World VR7XR forum in Crans-Montana, several years ago.

During a heatwave measures should help people get enough sleep at night. This morning I saw that French festivals are banning alcohol during the heatwave from festivals.

In the end, I’m asking for empathy from music festivals. I am asking for common sense and decency. Sleep is important, and silence, for sleep is key.

Let’s Have Some Fun in The Sun

https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/lets-have-some-fun-in-the-sun

"You can’t live your life, let alone enjoy it for that matter, if you are constantly thinking about the #ClimateApocalypse.” This is how the average human on the street today justifies their #apathy, whenever as a food scientist and plant biologist I sound the alarm about why food will disappear and what their children will experience in the near future: war, starvation, and death. This is the same type of human who would consider the #Gaza #genocide a total “mood killer”, and #fascism the type of “shit” that just happened to take place outside the toilet. Nothing they can do about it other than watch their step, in case they accidentally walk straight into their own fresh turd.

#Centrists #centristsaretherealdanger #apathy #apathywillkilldemocracy #selfaggrandizement #selfaggrandizing #america #americans #americanpolitics #americanstyle

"B-but I didn't even vote!?!? Why is this affecting ME???"

https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2056506/b-but-i-didn-t-even-vote-why-is-this-affecting-me

Stevie Wonder
You haven’t done nothin’

This song still resonates and is amazing.

https://youtu.be/0SEGHvLElxc
(Edited to put official version) and paraphrase this comment on his page saying that Stevie wrote this in response to Nixon, Watergate & Vietnam, it became a huge hit, & 2 days later Nixon resigned.

#apathy #ignorance #justice #humanrights #music #Steviewonder #funk

https://theconversation.com/what-working-class-boys-need-to-succeed-at-school-respect-and-open-conversations-277912; https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/16/2/bhs160207.xml (abstract only). "There are entrenched gaps between working-class #boys & their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of #education. Often, however, the #solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in #assumptions & #stereotypes. These tend towards positioning working-class boys as somehow suffering from... #apathy, #laziness or a lack of #ambition... The #evidence does not back these stereotypes up."

Ah, a brave band of keyboard warriors has taken up the Sisyphean task of breathing life into #GTK2 with... highly visible apathy! 😆 No stars, no forks, but hey, at least it has a catchy name that's as memorable as a sneeze. 🤦‍♂️
https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng #Revival #Apathy #KeyboardWarriors #OpenSource #Humor #TechCommunity #HackerNews #ngated

Way ahead of you, #NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opinion/trump-protest-ai-phones-social-media.html My take here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/
& here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/ #genz #protests #apathy #tech #ai #cognition #nokings #trump #fascism #donaldtrump #chatbots #learning #academia

Where was #GenZ at the latest #NoKings #protest? My #YouTube #video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7E8JNSSI8&t=6s For further thoughts, see my article here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/ #politics #protests #trump #youth #apathy #pastry #donuts #smartphone

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility

#Politics #ukpol #ukpolitics #uspol #usPolitics #apathy #Pericles #selfinterest #selfinvolved #selfish #selfcentred #selfcentered #selfintererested #quote #quotes

There Is Reason For Hope. Here's The Proof - Barry's Economics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66wen6C4UNw

#NeuroScience #Apathy #Change #SystemicOppression #Default #Community #Resistance #SocialContract #HumanRights #Empathy #Hope

A quotation from Henry Commager

We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom

Understanding the difference between apathy and depression can be lifesaving for people with brain disorders
#Health #BrainHealth #MentalHealth #Apathy #Depression #Dementia #Alzheimers #Parkinsons #Neurology #Caregivers #AgingPopulation #CognitiveHealth
https://the-14.com/understanding-the-difference-between-apathy-and-depression-can-be-lifesaving-for-people-with-brain-disorders/

On Noise Pollution and a Skipped Bike Ride

I know, without a doubt that if I ride with one group, especially if there are only 25 people, that it will be hard. It's because of how hard I know the ride will be that I am not keen to join that group. despite this I still considered going for a bike ride this morning, until noisy neighbours made it impossible for me to have an early night.

There is a bad habit among alcoholics that they need to make noise at night without considering that others may want to sleep. I use the label noot because the people are alcoholics but rather because, in my experience people who behave in a toxic, selfish manner, are usually fuelled by alcohol. They only made noise until midnight but that still scuppered any chance of me going for that ride.

The Morning Fitness Tracker Visible Consequence

Both my Garmin Watch and Suunto watch told me that I was at a medium level of fitness this morning. If I had been able to go to sleep when I had planned to I could have been bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning, rather than fatigued.

Cold and Grey

Another factor for my motivation to cycle being low is that it's cold and grey, and that it's a Saturday. When it's cold and grey the roads are still wet and we can feel the cold during the bike ride. I don't need to ride in the morning. I can wait until the afternoon has warmed things up again.

I also have the freedom to ride tomorrow, rather than today. I can wait for the nice weather. On thursday the weather was the best it has been in weeks so I ran. If it had stayed good then I would have been tempted to ride.

Bad weather encourages me to run and walk, rather than cycle.

Tires inflated, Lights Charged and Kit Ready

Last night I had prepared absolutely everything, so I really expected that I would go for a bike ride today. If I had had a good night of sleep, and if I had been well rested then I am almost certain that I would have gone for my bike ride.

Silver Lining

Despite skipping the bike ride I behaved as if I intended to go on the bike ride. I believe that if I had been able to sleep, as desired. I would have gone on the group ride. Since I did not, I am fresh to go for a solo Sunday ride tomorrow, when I feel that roads are safer.

The auto-correct SNAFUs, the text-selection struggles, and the AirDrop randomness affect me far too often 😒:

“Bugs Apple Loves” (https://www.bugsappleloves.com/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727587

#Apple #Apathy #Bugs #iOS #MacOS #iPhone #iPad #MacBook

>#KamalaHarris Destroys Trump In 1st Speech Of 2026...<

#PoliticalCommunication

#Authoritarianism

>Sick And Tired<

"A long broken system has fueled #cynicism and yes #apathy and people are rightly #angry and profoundly frustrated.
Far too many have resigned themselves that well I guess it's just going to be this way.
All while those in power attempt to #divide the American people, attempt to make us #distrust each other, to turn on each other..."

#RebuildDemocracy

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ljYDZKqJHm8&si=g_wft0hTwPNlGQaE