The robot apocalypse won’t be enforced by some super genius AI hivemind, it’ll be by our employers and their shareholders. Unfortunately saying please and thanks to their chatbots won’t earn their favor.

Not much that won’t land us in prison or dead

It’s already pretty shitty to be fair

Cool. Are they gonna act like it, or should I expect more texts asking me to donate?

I’ve gone all-in on (properly) federated social media and I’ve got to say it’s been a great experience. After what’s happened to Twitter, with Zuck’s recently stated plans for Meta, and TikTok’s immediate Trump cocksucking, I realized that all privately-owned platforms are as good as compromised, no matter the utility they otherwise provide.

Instagram was more difficult as it was how I found out about a lot of local events, and was my primary connection to a lot of old friends, but it was worth it. I actually reach out and talk to those friends who I previously just followed. It’s restored some actually connection that social media had stripped away, and I find myself avoiding the endless scroll I used to get caught in.

I’m still working on evacuating YouTube, but using RSS feeds to be more deliberate about whose uploads I’m notified about has helped a ton.

Not beyond engagement bait he doesn’t. Fuck that guy

English is the dominant language in the US, nobody argues that. But making it the official language has a lot of implications, both symbolic and bureaucratic.

Needless to say one of the “unintentional” side effects of this EO is the nationalist posturing, giving some ammunition to chuds who like to shout things like “speak English, this is America”, and general eurocentric colonial sentiments.

It also has the possibility of introducing barriers to migration, which given the administration’s expressed interest and prior action, is a guaranteed motivation. The fact of the matter is that the people coming here who are most likely to know English (thus be admitted entrance into the country and approved for citizenship following this EO) are going to be white. Having worked in higher education, this would be massively damaging to so many international students, never mind all the many other people who might be seeking entry to the country for all the myriad of reasons one might do so.

There are also significant legal ramifications for the millions of current citizens for whom English is not their primary language. The implementation of an official national language is certain to erode accessibility of bureaucratic systems to those who rely on multilingual resources, which were previously mandatory for public services to provide. Moving forward, we’re very likely to see many of these resources become unmaintained (if not be scrapped altogether), while the material published in English is kept updated. Again, this is absolutely going to disproportionately impact people of color in the US, who are more likely to not speak English as a first language, or be fluent in it at all.

And while I feel like those points speak for themselves, I’d also like to add that I grew up being preached to about how great the US is for its multiculturalism. I was taught a whitewashed and distorted history, but the benefits of multiculturalism were never overstated. We benefit from being surrounded by people with experiences vastly different than our own who we can learn from. Language is intimately tied to our capacity for understanding and developing knowledge, so any attempts to suppress the presence of languages other than English block us from any growth we might experience from them, either on an individual or societal level. For so many minority groups, particularly indigenous peoples, language is one of the most raw connections we have to our history and culture.

Tl:dr (but please do read it all); designating a national language, in the US, with its current administration, is a transparently nationalist effort to harm minority groups, both prospective migrants and current citizens.

And it helpfully installs a scareware antivirus that changes your default search engine so you don’t have to go through the trouble!

In theory that’s fair reasoning. Unfortunately the dev made it clear that his reasoning was based on politics

You’re right, words are meaningless and language has no bearing on society at large. after all, fuiebt eidiowb rhe efifo quifopim.

Fascism, just like Communism or even a Dictatorships are not inherently bad

No offense but what the fuck are you even saying

Fascism is absolutely inherently bad, there is no removal of its evil, oppressive, and authoritarian traits after which anything is left.