It’s not computing that is evil necessarily. It’s the corporate privatization of compute that is going to be the issue in the coming years and decades. Like so many things in the modern world, they want you renting it, not owning it.
Keep working to own it yourself, and use it to help fight the battles that need to be fought.
Been summoned once, but I no longer lived in the state / county of summoning at the time it happened. Luckily a family member gave me a heads up regarding the summons and I was able to call and explain before I got to whatever penalty you get for being MIA for a jury duty summon.
we couldn’t reach a verdict because some people couldn’t believe a guard would just do bad things.
That’s wild.
Was the guard human? Yes? Then they are capable. Look at the evidence!
We need a true populist party in the US, but every mechanism that’s currently anchored in place would always work as hard as possible to destroy it. Ngl, it feels kind of bleak.