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Microsoft CEO’s pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs
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↳ Eat the rich. — -
Man who lost home to coastal erosion loses court case against UK government
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↳ Naturally the bourgeois will absolve themselves from any responsibility. — - From October 25, 2024: Join mind reader’s free community of radical thinkers analysing capitalism’s contradictions and imagining better futures. Start right now.
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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
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↳ No? Really? — -
linux: Goodbye from a Linux community volunteer
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↳ The way this was done, the potential affects, and the community division already surging may very seriously challenge Linux into the future. This divide and conquer politic sees American empire (corporations) maintain software hegemony in the growing face of a FOSS alternative if we are not careful. Naturally, if maintainers have genuine ties to Putin’s war machine, they must go, but are we really doing whole nationalities? If so can we ban Israel next? — -
‘Death sentence’: Pacific nations plead for Australia to phase out fossil fuels
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↳ If we used to care about our neighbours now is the time to return to that. — -
‘Crunch time for real’: UN says time for climate delays has run out
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↳ It’s been “real” this whole time. The billionaire classes priority is to keep you busy while they make the most possible *fake* money. — - From October 24, 2024: Join mind reader’s free community of radical thinkers analysing capitalism’s contradictions and imagining better futures. Start right now.
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Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
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↳ Seriously? Blimey this is not a good look for Linux. I hate the Russian state as much as the next person, but citizens open contributions properly vetted for security... suddenly invalidated due to ethnicity? — -
On forestalled innovation
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I spent a little of my time today listening to other contemporary Marxists [1] – and then wondering about how to add to some aspects of their argument/s. In particular, in the interview I’m referencing, there’s a piece on meritocracy, capitalists, and innovation. Because interviews suck there’s too much pressure on the thinking and I think we’re robbed of Blakeley’s authentic response. So, I wanted to think about my own views on this, and how this might fit in the historical materialist but also intersectional approach we bring to mind reader together. For Marx, innovation under capitalism represents *a* manifestation of human creative capacity - what he terms “species-being” - twisted and alienated through capitalist relations of production [2]. This twisting, and subsequent alienation, is what we here when the mainstream parrot: “Musk invented the electric car”. Worker’s natural drive to creatively transform nature an...
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Myanmar residents struggle to overcome severe internet blackouts with Starlink
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↳ Billionaire’s maximising the “free market”. Yuck. — -
No Hezbollah assets found in Lebanon hospital facing Israeli bombing
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↳ Exactly how stupid are people not to understand that the genocidal Israel assert “terrorists” while destroying essential infrastructure that would slow their genocidal efforts?? Israel: the xenophobic, militaristic, and deeply fucked regime must be stopped. — -
Greta Thunberg – still making all the right enemies
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↳ “Silence is complicity”. — -
Survey says half of developers consider VR market on decline or in stagnation
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↳ Luxury gimmick for the rich doesn’t take off in the mainstream because people can’t even afford food — and other “surprises”. — -
Scientists warn of ‘societal collapse’ on Earth with worsening climate situation
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↳ I literally don’t understand why the air quotes. This is the most serious shit ever faced by humanity. And the capitalists just want more of the same 4° of warming here we fucking come. We’re all dead, even musk, if only those shit for brains capitalists cared at all. Clutching piles of cash as the world they created burns them and us alive. — -
Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics
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↳ Hegemonic complicity, etc. it’s already the next frontier of capitalism’s deliberate crisis resulting in fascist dictatorship. Again, keep the workers busy - suffering - while they profit, track, data mine, persecute, rape and pillage. — - From October 23, 2024: Want more analysis like this? Join mind reader (free) to never miss a dispatch. Start right now.
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The campaign by out-of-touch elites to ban abortion is now a federal election issue
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↳ And this is exactly how the hegemony shapes common sense — it might not be mainstream now but it’s coming. And if it’s not wholly accepted, it creates another identity division to keep the proles busy. Either way the billionaires win and we lose. Fucking sick shit — healthcare is a human right. —