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Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?
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#BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI
We know — and our rulers certainly know — that if we are to have any hope of preserving even a limited version of today’s complex modern society, greenhouse gas emissions MUST go down, swiftly and urgently.
But instead, emissions continue going up and up and up. It is literally suicidal.
So, WHY haven't we stopped burning fossil fuels?
Because there are profits to be made. Huge, massive, irresistibly tempting profits.
In a sane world, these actions would be seen as criminal.
Perpetrators like fossil fuel executives, their financiers, and the politicians who enable them, would be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted, with assets forfeited to pay for mitigation and reparations.
But we do not live in a sane world.
#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Degrowth
According to news media: today, a billionaire is being taken into space, where the crew will open the rocket door and put him outside.
This seems like a great start, and I hope that the remaining 1,780+ billionaires left here on earth will be following suit soon.
#note #space #capitalism
Via: 🔗 danq.me/2024/09/10/private-spa…
What they didn't tell you when you joined the federal public service:
Your job is really to shore up the failed business models of downtown companies and their landlords ... and to keep generating more greenhouse gasses in the process.
Literally the *only* story I'm going to share about the goddamn Olympics:
U.S. Rugby player Ariana Ramsey found out athletes get free healthcare in the Olympic Village and immediately booked a bunch of appointments for routine services many Americans living under our dystopian private healthcare regime simply can't afford:
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"Like, what?” she said in a post on TikTok describing her new discovery: The Olympic Village offers free healthcare.
The United States, of course, does not. So in the days following her victory, Ramsey made appointments with the Village gynecologist, dentist and ophthalmologist. According to the Paris 2024 organizing committee, the Village also offers cardiology, orthopedics, physiotherapy, psychology, podiatry and, of course, sports medicine—all at no cost to the athletes. (Paralympic athletes will also have access to dermatology.)"
The best part of the story is that Ramsey not only convinced a bunch of other U.S. Athletes to take advantage of the program, but after realizing how beneficial having access to free healthcare is, she's decided to become an advocate for Universal Healthcare in America.
On a personal level and as someone who has spent time in multiple countries that offer free healthcare to their citizens, I honestly cannot stress how much it improves not only health outcomes, but also quality of life for labor class people; from increasing your lifespan, to freeing workers from dependence on bad employers just to keep their health insurance, this is one social policy that has ripples throughout almost every aspect of the lives of everyday people. And it says a LOT about the priorities of the American ruling class that they'd do almost anything to keep you from having access to universal healthcare.
#UniversalHealthcare #USPol #Capitalism #Olympics
U.S. Athletes Are Taking Full Advantage of Free Healthcare in Olympic Village
Women’s rugby player Ariana Ramsey’s videos showcasing her appointments have gone viral, and now many others are making good use of the medical services offered in Paris.Stephanie Apstein (Sports Illustrated)
Today I learned that #Communism and #Capitalism actually agree on something... that landlording is bad
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Scooby-Doo and the Case of the Missing Landlords
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokesexistentialcomics.com
Today we're excited to join #NYM and talk about why #privacy matters and how we fight #surveillance #capitalism. 💪 🔒
Join us here: youtube.com/watch?v=PPyrioLe0G…
Why would you want a private, encrypted emailing service? — Community Call
OG community calls are back this week and a new guest making waves in the privacy world is joining us!Tuta.io is a secure email service that is private by de...YouTube
Things that are not the problem:
"Inflation"
Unions
Minimum wage
Immigrants
Public spending
Social Services
Welfare
Homeless people
Gay people
Carbon Tax
Bike lanes
Mass transit
Trans healthcare
Women's healthcare
Genderqueer people
Indigenous land rights
Urban greenscaping
Public education
Public healthcare
Public libraries
Vaccines
The absolute gall of this question. A required question, mind you.
I will likely not be getting called in for an interview, but it was totally worth it.
#jobsearch #jobhunt #capitalism
When self-described capitalists don’t actually seem to know what capitalism actually is.
#capitalism #capitalists #workers #unions #labor #markets #scarcity #shortage #WorkersShortage #economics
![Screenshot of a post by Gritty is the Way @Gritty20202:
capitalists: "There's a worker shortage!"
workers: "Scarcity increases value."
capitalists:
[animated gif of Alan Cumming saying, “Wait, wait, what?!” In the tv show Instinct]
3:17 PM • 9/16/21 from Earth](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/496685 "Screenshot of a post by Gritty is the Way @Gritty20202:
capitalists: \"There's a worker shortage!\"
workers: \"Scarcity increases value.\"
capitalists:
[animated gif of Alan Cumming saying, “Wait, wait, what?!” In the tv show Instinct]
3:17 PM • 9/16/21 from Earth")
"This isn't just happening with diapers. It's happening across our entire economy. Inflation rose 14% between July 2020 and July 2022. But corporate profits rose by 75% over those two years — five times as fast as inflation. Remember when the media said “greedflation” was a fringe theory? Now looking back, it's undeniable."
-Robert Reich @RBReich
For those who haven’t seen it before, here is my review of The Climate Book, by Greta Thunberg…
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I've read dozens of books about climate change, and this one is easily the best. It's packed with information, written to be accessible for anyone from high school (or a bright middle school student) on up, and most importantly it does NOT shy away from the true severity of our situation and the imperative need not only for individual action but for system change.
It's stunning to me that a young woman who just turned twenty years old was able to pull together such a massive project — coordinating the submissions of more than a hundred scientists, activists, and educators — while also writing a large part of the content herself. A truly amazing accomplishment.
This essential work should be in every school library and in every home. It will remain relevant for years to come, I believe, because although there certainly is plenty of data, mostly it's about *ideas* which will never age.
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#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
Just finished reading a recent (2023) article on organizing #GigWork #GigWorkers by Rafael Grohmann, Mateus Mendonça, and Jamie Woodcock. It investigated how digital communication platforms play a more central role in organizing delivery platform drivers/riders, (1) due to the preconditions of having a smartphone to engage in the work at all, and (2) due to the affordances/circumstances of both the gig work platforms themselves and the various social media platforms that the workers flock to.
It investigated (1) the lack of direct communication with bosses and its replacement with algorithmic management, (2) the migration of gig workers to social media in search of solidarity (typically into cohorts along territorial and personal lines), and (3) how both (1) and (2) ultimately led to meaningful in-person labour struggle in the form of successful pickets of local vendors and public shaming protests of their working conditions.
Social media organizing took the place of the traditional shop floor and break room chats; group admins took the place of traditional union stewards; public shaming campaigns took the place of traditional strikes.
Ultimately, the "public shaming" approach, organized over social media and branching out into social media and traditional media relations, while ultimately not bringing immediate, material *wins* to the *workers*, *did* nevertheless take *off* 2 billion dollars of the #Deliveroo IPO in #london
Their conclusion notes that social media conglomerates were not built with worker activism in mind, and that any successes built upon their backs are thus contingent. I strongly agree there, and also agree with their suggestion of building alternatives. I think community-owned and co-operated delivery platforms could be such a viable alternative, especially if mandated, preferred, or at least permitted by local statutes.
The methodology of embedding within the struggles, personal interviews, and systemic monitoring of social media I think lends credence to their analysis.
Journal URL: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/articl…
PDF URL: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/articl…
#socialism #communism #marxism #capitalism #TradeUnionism #TradeUnions #LaborUnions #LabourUnions #union #unions
Worker Resistance in Digital Capitalism| Communication and Work From Below: The Role of Communication in Organizing Delivery Platform Workers
This article analyzes the role of communication with delivery platform workers, drawing on research in the United Kingdom and Brazil.ijoc.org
We can have one of two things — but not both.
We can either have a society that tolerates millionaires and billionaires polluting the planet and destroying the biosphere. Or we can have a planet with a healthy biosphere but with fewer millionaires and no billionaires at all.
This is from a recently published peer-reviewed scientific paper titled “Millionaire Spending Incompatible with 1.5 C Ambitions”...
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Much evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionately to climate change. Here we study the implications of a continued growth in the number of millionaires for emissions, and its impact on the depletion of the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
Our findings suggest that the share of millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050, and cause accumulated emissions equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget. This significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5°C.
The concentration of wealth at the top means that a significant share of the remaining carbon budget to 1.5°C is depleted by a very small share of humanity. This comparably small group is also likely to invest its wealth in ways that further increase emissions.
Continued growth in emissions at the top makes a low-carbon transition less likely, as the acceleration of energy consumption by the wealthiest is likely beyond the system's capacity to decarbonize. To this end, we question whether policy designs such as progressive taxes targeting the high emitters will be sufficient.
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Like I said, we can have one thing or the other — but not both.
READ THE PAPER --sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
#Politics #Capitalism #Inequality #CO2 #Emissions #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
Capitalism has not really raised people from extreme poverty. Most probably it has just pushed more and more people into extreme poverty over hundreds of years, in addition to making life miserable in general for so many.
The only time things have gotten better for regular people within capitalism is when workers organize and when people participate in anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist action.
New study on the topic: sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
Also, now that I’m back at my computer, here’s a non-YouTube link to Greta Thunberg’s “The Climate Event” talk on an Invidious instance:
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#climateChange #extinction #capitalism #gretaThunberg
Greta Thunberg: The Climate Event
Greta Thunberg: The Climate Event Presented by Southbank Centre in partnership with Penguin Available on demand for 30 days Subscribe for the latest videos from Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room + more: h…Southbank Centre | Invidious
Greta Thunberg: The Climate Event
I’d highly recommend making time in your calendar to watch this speech.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ropBOwPv…
(Apologies for the YouTube link.)
#climateChange #extinction #capitalism #gretaThunberg
Greta Thunberg: The Climate Event
Greta Thunberg: The Climate EventPresented by Southbank Centre in partnership with Penguin Available on demand for 30 daysSubscribe for the latest videos fro...YouTube
Wow, Microsoft is apparently harvesting links in Outlook emails and indexing them on Bing.
scribe.rip/@ryanbadger/magic-l…
#surveillance #capitalism #microsoft #privacy #gdpr #email #bing
I spoke with a company who preach diversity and inclusivity.
When discussing the possibility of working together, they asked me what salary I would accept. I asked about progression frameworks and budget, and provided examples of market rates. The recruiter wouldn’t budge and forced me to pick a number.
Don’t be that company. Be honest, be fair, and put your money where your mouth is.
Dictators are bad. Unless they’re corporate dictators. In which case, they’re our billionaire heroes who will save us all.
Go capitalism!
#elonMusk #billionaire #douchebag #capitalism
Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla Execs: Return to the Office or Get Out
The world’s richest man has had it with this whole working-from-home business.inkl
HP to release laptop running Pop!_OS. Could System76 be an acquisition target?
(Here’s hoping this doesn’t go down the webOS route.)
betanews.com/2022/05/20/hp-pop…
Via @tuxmachines
#system76 #hp #bigTech #linux #capitalism
HP chooses Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux for its upcoming Dev One laptop -- could System76 be an acquisition target?
Rumors have been swirling lately that HP was planning to release a laptop running the Pop!_OS operating system. Today, System76’s CEO Carl Richell shared on Twitter that this is absolutely ha…BetaNews
Handing control of our biometric identities to a handful of trillion-dollar American gatekeeper corporations isn’t the good news you might think it is.
(Don’t forget, the W3C is the standards body of surveillance capitalism.)
In a non-corporate world, your “password” could be so much more… It could be, for example, a mnemonic for the key to a facet of your self that you (and you alone) own and control.
#w3c #fido #passwords #identity #access #surveillance #capitalism
Apple, Microsoft, and Google are teaming up to eliminate passwords
Good news for the people still using "Password123!"inkl
I never did an #introduction!
Hi, I'm Max. I live in #NYC and do #journalism at PCMag where I cover #infosec, #security, and #privacy. I also write reviews of #VPN and professionally complain about #capitalism. I'm the Unit Chair of the ZDCG #union and moonlight as a #labor organizer. If you want to learn about how to unionize your workplace, plz DM me. I play #banjo badly and think about #medieval literature. I'm spending too much money on #fountainpens.