#cooptation — Public Fediverse posts

(2/n) Because in the past 20 years even these small and medium changes have been brushed away purposefully and ill-meaning, we are now seemingly only left with the large, less stable, likely painful steps. Screaming for panic and radical action is not out of joy, but out of care in a desperate situation. That's the moment for the Delayers to say: I get it now or I was wrong or I'm sorry or Let me make it up to you. Instead they continue their strategy of smoke and mirrors to evade any responsibility while squeezing out every last penny of possible profit.

#DelayofClimateAction #cooptation #greed #radicalization #errorculture #authoritarianism

#AI #GenerativeAI #Cooptation: "Reading Karl's reflections on the antilibrary crystallized something for me that I've been thinking about for a quarter-century, since I interviewed Gibson at the Penguin offices in north Toronto. It snapped something into place that I've trying to fit since encountering Henry's thoughts on the "eeriness" of AI work and the intent without an intender.

It made me realize why I dislike AI art so much, on a deep, aesthetic level. The point of an image generator is to buffer the intention of the prompter (which might be genuinely creative and bursting with personality) in layers of automated decision-making that flense the final product of any hint of the mind that caused its creation.

The most febrile, deeply weird and authentic prompts of the most excluded outsiders produce images that feel the same as the corporate AI illustrations that project the illusion of personality from the immortal, transhuman colony organism that is the limited liability corporation.

AI art is born coopted. Even the 4chan equivalent of AI – the deeply transgressive and immoral nonconsensual pornography – feels no different from the "official" AI porn churned out by "real" pornographers. "Shrimp Jesus" and other SEO-optimized Facebook slop is so uncanny because it is simultaneously "weird" ("that which does not belong") and yet it belongs in the same aesthetic bucket of the most anodyne Corporate Memphis ephemera:"
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/20/ransom-note-force-field/

Solarpunk and the Deceptive Power of Imagery
Let’s dig beyond the aesthetics of sustainability
https://medium.com/predict/solarpunk-and-the-deceptive-power-of-imagery-44aa86acc61d
#SolarPunk #sustainability #cooptation #corporations

The 25th Anniversary of ‘#TheMatrix’:
#Liberation and #Cooptation

https://observer.com/2024/03/the-25th-anniversary-of-the-matrix-liberation-and-co-optation/

A quarter century after its release, the #film is not just an #inspiration. It’s also a cautionary tale about how even the most #liberatory dreams can be adopted by the #mainstream—and the #Opposition

"but how could sheeeeee be a government spook when her appppp helps people block potential harassers? Howwwwww"

If the birdsite never gave an alleged progressive hero any trouble, but they're having a hard time here: SUS. Not saying it's always that way, but it could well be. Lots of #Infiltration and #cooptation out there. #Ops

Infrequent reminder that just about everyone loved Kim Philby. Real gentleman of the old school. If you don't know who he was, you can find him on the web.

https://archive.org/details/whofundsriseup

Riseup Networks / Riseup Labs financial backers

Topics
#riseup, #TheRiseupCollective, #riseupnet, #RiseupNetworks, #RiseupLabs, #TidesFoundation, #Liberate, #riseuplabsorg, #taxfilings, #corporatefilings, #NPIC, #nonprofitindustrialcomplex, #governmentcontractor, #counterinsurgency, #controlledopposition, #DigitalDefendersPartnership, #Hivos, #unitedstatesofamerika, #netherlands, #estonia, #unitedkingdom, #sweden, #latvia, #czechrepublic, #statedepartment, #departmentofstate, #dutchministryofforeignaffairs, #foreigncommonwealthoffice, #republicofestonia, #republicoflatvia, #Sida, #SwedishInternationalDevelopmentCooperationAgency, #RIPENCC, #stateofwashington, #universityofwashington, #washingtonstate, #RIPENetworkCoordinationCentre, #cooptation

this item includes IRS Forms 990 for the following organizations:

Riseup Networks (2005-2018)
Riseup Labs (2008-2018)
Tides Foundation (2016), which funded Riseup Labs that year.

there are also state of washington Corporations & Charities Division filings for the following legal entities:

Riseup Networks / riseup.net (FEIN 200394008), 2009-2021
Liberate / riseuplabs.org / Riseup Labs (FEIN 204204809), 2009-2021

https://archive.org/details/whofundsriseup

Riseup Networks / Riseup Labs financial backers

Topics
#riseup, #TheRiseupCollective, #riseupnet, #RiseupNetworks, #RiseupLabs, #TidesFoundation, #Liberate, #riseuplabsorg, #taxfilings, #corporatefilings, #NPIC, #nonprofitindustrialcomplex, #governmentcontractor, #counterinsurgency, #controlledopposition, #DigitalDefendersPartnership, #Hivos, #unitedstatesofamerika, #netherlands, #estonia, #unitedkingdom, #sweden, #latvia, #czechrepublic, #statedepartment, #departmentofstate, #dutchministryofforeignaffairs, #foreigncommonwealthoffice, #republicofestonia, #republicoflatvia, #Sida, #SwedishInternationalDevelopmentCooperationAgency, #RIPENCC, #stateofwashington, #universityofwashington, #washingtonstate, #RIPENetworkCoordinationCentre, #cooptation

this item includes IRS Forms 990 for the following organizations:

Riseup Networks (2005-2018)
Riseup Labs (2008-2018)
Tides Foundation (2016), which funded Riseup Labs that year.

there are also state of washington Corporations & Charities Division filings for the following legal entities:

Riseup Networks / riseup.net (FEIN 200394008), 2009-2021
Liberate / riseuplabs.org / Riseup Labs (FEIN 204204809), 2009-2021

https://archive.org/details/whofundsriseup

Riseup Networks / Riseup Labs financial backers

Topics
#riseup, #TheRiseupCollective, #riseupnet, #RiseupNetworks, #RiseupLabs, #TidesFoundation, #Liberate, #riseuplabsorg, #taxfilings, #corporatefilings, #NPIC, #nonprofitindustrialcomplex, #governmentcontractor, #counterinsurgency, #controlledopposition, #DigitalDefendersPartnership, #Hivos, #unitedstatesofamerika, #netherlands, #estonia, #unitedkingdom, #sweden, #latvia, #czechrepublic, #statedepartment, #departmentofstate, #dutchministryofforeignaffairs, #foreigncommonwealthoffice, #republicofestonia, #republicoflatvia, #Sida, #SwedishInternationalDevelopmentCooperationAgency, #RIPENCC, #stateofwashington, #universityofwashington, #washingtonstate, #RIPENetworkCoordinationCentre, #cooptation

this item includes IRS Forms 990 for the following organizations:

Riseup Networks (2005-2018)
Riseup Labs (2008-2018)
Tides Foundation (2016), which funded Riseup Labs that year.

there are also state of washington Corporations & Charities Division filings for the following legal entities:

Riseup Networks / riseup.net (FEIN 200394008), 2009-2021
Liberate / riseuplabs.org / Riseup Labs (FEIN 204204809), 2009-2021

https://archive.org/details/whofundsriseup

Riseup Networks / Riseup Labs financial backers

Topics
#riseup, #TheRiseupCollective, #riseupnet, #RiseupNetworks, #RiseupLabs, #TidesFoundation, #Liberate, #riseuplabsorg, #taxfilings, #corporatefilings, #NPIC, #nonprofitindustrialcomplex, #governmentcontractor, #counterinsurgency, #controlledopposition, #DigitalDefendersPartnership, #Hivos, #unitedstatesofamerika, #netherlands, #estonia, #unitedkingdom, #sweden, #latvia, #czechrepublic, #statedepartment, #departmentofstate, #dutchministryofforeignaffairs, #foreigncommonwealthoffice, #republicofestonia, #republicoflatvia, #Sida, #SwedishInternationalDevelopmentCooperationAgency, #RIPENCC, #stateofwashington, #universityofwashington, #washingtonstate, #RIPENetworkCoordinationCentre, #cooptation

this item includes IRS Forms 990 for the following organizations:

Riseup Networks (2005-2018)
Riseup Labs (2008-2018)
Tides Foundation (2016), which funded Riseup Labs that year.

there are also state of washington Corporations & Charities Division filings for the following legal entities:

Riseup Networks / riseup.net (FEIN 200394008), 2009-2021
Liberate / riseuplabs.org / Riseup Labs (FEIN 204204809), 2009-2021

https://archive.org/details/whofundsriseup

Riseup Networks / Riseup Labs financial backers

Topics
#riseup, #TheRiseupCollective, #riseupnet, #RiseupNetworks, #RiseupLabs, #TidesFoundation, #Liberate, #riseuplabsorg, #taxfilings, #corporatefilings, #NPIC, #nonprofitindustrialcomplex, #governmentcontractor, #counterinsurgency, #controlledopposition, #DigitalDefendersPartnership, #Hivos, #unitedstatesofamerika, #netherlands, #estonia, #unitedkingdom, #sweden, #latvia, #czechrepublic, #statedepartment, #departmentofstate, #dutchministryofforeignaffairs, #foreigncommonwealthoffice, #republicofestonia, #republicoflatvia, #Sida, #SwedishInternationalDevelopmentCooperationAgency, #RIPENCC, #stateofwashington, #universityofwashington, #washingtonstate, #RIPENetworkCoordinationCentre, #cooptation

this item includes IRS Forms 990 for the following organizations:

Riseup Networks (2005-2018)
Riseup Labs (2008-2018)
Tides Foundation (2016), which funded Riseup Labs that year.

there are also state of washington Corporations & Charities Division filings for the following legal entities:

Riseup Networks / riseup.net (FEIN 200394008), 2009-2021
Liberate / riseuplabs.org / Riseup Labs (FEIN 204204809), 2009-2021