Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I increasingly resent the term 'social media', because what people call social media now is rarely social media in any meaningful sense.

Like, the Fediverse and to a lesser extent Bluesky still IS social media. You follow people you want to follow, and you interact with them, and a lot of the time they interact back. You make online friends. You forge community..

Everything else is just an automated firehose of digital slurry from people you don't know and will never interact with, or, worse still, Brands(tm).

Re-reading Virgil Dupras' two intro essays for his Collapse OS project hits quite a bit harder in 2026 than it already did in back in 2021 when I first encountered the project, also because so many developments and political vision failures over these last 5 years have only been accelerating us towards the precipice:

https://collapseos.org/why.html
https://collapseos.org/civ.html

"Collapsniks are often portrayed as alarmists by people who point out that our civilization can easily absorb short term effects of climate changes and that the real tricky effects of it will only show themselves in 50 years."

"What I'm more interested in is that regardless of its timeline, we're going to get there, we're going to reach the threshold where civilization collapses. So, you can make the point that civilization still stands at 3C. When does it fall? 4C? 6C? 8C? We're going to reach it because we've already failed. 1.5C was the limit, we busted it. The goalpost has moved to 2C, but we're going to bust it too. The feedback loops have begun and are out of our control now.

So what if "business as usual" only takes us to 4C in 2100. What do you think happens next? Nothing? Good job Johnny, we've made it? No, the feedback loops continue to make our lives increasingly miserable, continue to divert our energy from de-carbonisation and into dikes, masks, water desalinators, mechanical replacements to bees, replacing infrastructure degrading prematurely, power generators to cope with increasing grid failures."

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