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.

  • stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net
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    12 days ago

    AI is a parasite. It can’t come up with anything a human didn’t create first. It eats our thoughts and regurgitates them.

    We kill AI by limiting our use of the Internet, renouncing social media in particular (and yes, I recognize the hypocrisy), and communicating with actual human beings through encrypted messenger apps that AI can’t scrape for new training material.

    Think of AI like an online troll. Don’t feed it, don’t engage with it, and it will be irrelevant to you until it finally gives up and dies.

    But the social media machine wants you not to talk to actual human beings, it wants you to be lonely and isolated, so you’ll consume its product - and AI is just a part of that machine, making you lonely and then providing you with the illusion of a real person to talk to.

    Gardening is a great way to fight that, especially community gardening, because you literally have to be out there in person with your hands in the dirt talking to other gardeners.

    So I agree with this post and strongly recommend anybody who doesn’t have space to garden go looking for a community garden, or volunteer at a food bank (which often have ties to community gardens and can point you at opportunities), or help at a Food Not Bombs event, or otherwise get yourself involved in the real live in-person work of feeding human beings, and reclaim your brain from the social media algorithm feeding you AI slop.