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Cornelius-Bell, Aidan

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From October 19, 2024:
Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave ↗︎
↳ And leaving is what we should be doing. Alongside forming unions and pushing for fairer conditions. We all saw how much work can be done remote — and that should always be a choice the worker makes, not the capitalist. — added 6:26am on 19/10/24 ❧
From October 18, 2024:
Labour just oversaw a £1.3 BILLION SELL-OFF of NHS services to a private equity firm ↗︎
↳ Labour there Labor here, terrible neoliberal shitbags the lot of them. — added 8:59pm on 18/10/24 ❧
Big Tech is Trying to Burn Privacy to the Ground–And They’re Using Big Tobacco’s Strategy to Do It ↗︎
↳ The reason, naturally, is money and hegemonic enforcement. We need this to be stopped - write to your politicians. — added 12:07am on 18/10/24 ❧
Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun ↗︎
↳ If you’re a Chrome user, do yourself a favour and become a Firefox (or Zen Browser, librewolf, etc) user instead. Not only does Chrome now stop you from blocking ads to make the internet tolerable, it has for a long time told Google everything you’re doing online - even in private browsing. Yeah, that’s why the haemorrhoid ads are following you (lol idk, but you get the idea). — added 12:04am on 18/10/24 ❧
From October 17, 2024:
Quantitative susceptibility mapping at 7 T in COVID-19: brainstem effects and outcome associations ↗︎
↳ So, yeah, it causes brain damage (in some cases). But you know, “get back to work proles”. — added 11:58pm on 17/10/24 ❧
Global water crisis leaves half of world food production at risk in next 25 years ↗︎
↳ Not surprising but still terrifying. We need action *now* not tomorrow, not “by 2030”. Now. — added 3:15pm on 17/10/24 ❧
Age Verification Threatens Everyone’s Speech and Privacy ↗︎
↳ Same for the Australian verification bs. Won’t stop kids going on social media, will ensure everything done online is intimately traceable to a real human (rather than just a relatively concrete idea of a human, I guess). — added 9:17am on 17/10/24 ❧
Asmongold’s Twitch Channel Banned Following Racist Rant About Palestinians ↗︎
↳ This makes me even more worried about the normalisation of overt white supremacy through platforms like Twitch and YouTube. In particular for live streamed content, yes he’s banned now, but how much racist inciting has he been doing? How many others do the same? And how many under-supervised kids and teens watch this kind of messaging? — added 7:02am on 17/10/24 ❧
You should be using an RSS reader ↗︎
↳ Firmly agree — RSS is a technology we do not want to disappear. And cut-down and exceprt feeds are the worst. — added 6:46am on 17/10/24 ❧
Putin amasses North Koreans to fight Ukraine, Kyiv says ↗︎
↳ There’s some kind of warped reality where this was a good move politically, and that warped reality lives only in putin’s insane head, I guess. — added 6:31am on 17/10/24 ❧
Trump – running for president at 78 – says ‘only stupid people put old’ people in top federal roles ↗︎
↳ Horseshoe political theory? This might be the one thing he says that people should listen to. — added 6:07am on 17/10/24 ❧
From October 16, 2024:
Jordan Peterson’s Online Class Compares Climate Activists to Mass Shooters ↗︎
↳ Pinnacle of the worst of capitalist privilege spews hegemonic bullshit to rouse sensationalists into not unionising and organising (and instead fighting other liberals online). — added 8:25pm on 16/10/24 ❧
Scientists Alarmed by Signs of Collapse in Earth’s Natural Carbon Sinks ↗︎
↳ Alarm is basically as loud a warning as we get. We should be striking against anything that brings climate destruction. — added 8:14pm on 16/10/24 ❧
Assimilation and rebellion ↙︎ — posted 16/10/24, tagged as assimilation, hegemony, counter-hegemony, activism, the future.
An attendee at a presentation I gave once said to me “it seems you just truly wish to belong in the academy”...
Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers ↗︎
↳ We are fucked. — added 4:02pm on 16/10/24 ❧