Learn to Garden.
No seriously.
AI represents the pinnacle of consumerism.
The culmination of a system where Humans produce nothing for their own consumption.
Fractured communities of isolated and desperate consumer-workers who cannot survive outside the system they were born into.
To undermine this system requires not just attacking it's foundation, but digging beneath to the fundament, usurping it through a grass roots refusal to participate.
Beneath the foundations of consumerism, capitalism, and every society we can remember is agriculture.
Stop participating in the high price of groceries.
Start producing your own food, feeding, and growing your community.
You don't have to make everything from scratch to reject the Door Dash Fast Food Overnight Delivery system that exists entirely to extract profit from the human need to eat.
Use capitalism to your advantage. Buy hydroponics and lights to grow indoors year round. Buy hoop houses to extend outdoor seasons. Buy seeds. Grow seedlings and give them away.
Learn to harvest seeds from the plants you grow.
Cook and preserve food. Fill a pantry/freezer and EAT what's in it!
Work together with your friends/neighbours to support local farmers and grocers.
Learn about plant Hardiness and what crops will remain/become viable in your region.
Then take this concept and apply it to every other aspect of human existence that's been coopted to fund a system that ultimately results in AI slop.
I don't know who the people around you are. I won't tell you you're wrong to be afraid of interacting with them.
But I do know that social media is designed to make you feel that way.
Social media algorithms find the angriest, the most hateful, the most radical, content on all sides and feed it to you. So you're going to see people on your side saying the other side wants to kill you, and you're going to see people on the other side saying they want to kill you, and you're not going to see the vast majority of people who don't actually want to kill you.
Because the more afraid you are of your actual human neighbors, the more time you'll spend on social media watching ads and being force-fed algorithmic slop. And that slop makes you even more afraid of your neighbors, so you spend even more time online, and so on and so forth.
So I'd ask you to ask yourself: if you believe people in your community want to kill trans people and enslave blacks, how much of that belief comes from what people in your community have actually said and done, and how much of that belief comes from stuff you've heard online?
Sound advice. We should be mindful of how social media polarizes us. but I must push back a little on one aspect.
The difference between wanting to kill people and remaining silent among the calls for violence is negligible.
Still working on that. I'll DM you.
That position mostly comes from looking at what politicians say and do, and looking at who supports them.