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1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 14:35:56 JST Adrian Cochrane

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   • Annalee Newitz

   @annaleen I like imagining a world where I continue my work, but don't have to waste time worrying about how to fund it! Possibly even do more of it, its fun!

   Money from my vantage point is a waste of time, and therefore a waste of money...

   • Annalee Newitz (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 14:36:08 JST Annalee Newitz

     I'm sick of people saying it's easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of #capitalism. I think about the end of capitalism every day. Today I imagined what it would be like to live in a community that valued me for being present rather than "useful" or "productive." In that world, I think I would spend a lot more time taking care of plants. I would tell stories when I felt like it, instead of on deadline. What do you imagine? #imaginetheendofcapitalism

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 15:05:37 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     • Annalee Newitz
     • Francesco Orsenigo (he/him)

     @xarvh @annaleen Something I do find broadening my entertainment horizons: Works not funded by capitalists are significantly more likely to explicitly say "capitalism is wrong" as opposed to depicting it as an issue with particular cartoony individuals.

     I hear Illumination's The Lorax & its preproduction is a good illustration of this!

     But I still see, with a few exceptions, that there's a lack of imagination for alternatives...

   • Francesco Orsenigo (he/him) (xarvh@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 15:05:44 JST Francesco Orsenigo (he/him)

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     • Annalee Newitz

     @annaleen

     I would be writing videogames and accessible software.

     And I don't know if I'm missing your point, but I still agree with Le Guin: our current society suffers of a limit of the imagination, there is where we need to push the culture, we who have imagined it, must help everybody else to imagine.

   • Chip Butty (otfrom@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 17:32:07 JST Chip Butty

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     • Annalee Newitz

     @annaleen (sorry to be the FLOSS guy) the thing I like most about Free Software is having a large chunk of my life that isn't dominated by capitalism.