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From September 25, 2024:
YouTube is raising subscription prices globally ↗︎
↳ Manufacture a market, secure a monopoly, tighten the screws. Maybe the motto should’ve been “do profitable evil”. — added 6:42am on 25/09/24 ❧
‘Global Oligarchy’ Reigns as Top 1% Controls More Wealth Than Bottom 95% of Humanity ↗︎
↳ These vampiric and abysmal humans are our enemy, not anyone else in the 99%. — added 6:26am on 25/09/24 ❧
From September 24, 2024:
From News Corp to Nine, journalism is compromised by real estate. Time to let it go. ↗︎
↳ Corrupt organisations loving on corrupt organisations to maintain the hegemony. — added 6:41am on 24/09/24 ❧
Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead ↗︎
↳ Capitalism… perpetually 5 minutes from slavery. — added 6:36am on 24/09/24 ❧
From September 23, 2024:
(im)possibility politics ↙︎ — posted 23/09/24, tagged as identity politics, division, class warfare, war of position, gramsci.
I’ve been continuing to ponder the nature of identity politics, the flexibility of superstructural systems, and the ever more obvious role of hegemony in enforcement of ideology...
Macron unveils new right-wing French government: The long-awaited new line up marks a decisive shift to the right, even though a left-wing alliance won most parliamentary seats. ↗︎
↳ “Democracy”. — added 6:29am on 23/09/24 ❧
From September 22, 2024:
Lucy’s job should be more secure – but at Australian universities, labour laws are having the opposite effect ↗︎
↳ Let’s be clear, this system is designed specifically to ensure that precarious people stay that way — and the bosses revel in it. — added 8:00am on 22/09/24 ❧
Twenty years of microplastics pollution research—what have we learned? ↗︎
↳ Structurally? Nothing — capitalists gonna capitalist. Individually? Be scared of things you can’t control. Scientifically? Much like the climate crisis, oh shit. — added 6:28am on 22/09/24 ❧
FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users ↗︎
↳ Did they forget it’s state sponsored? Of course the place the state requests the data from is the place doing the surveillance. — added 6:24am on 22/09/24 ❧
From September 21, 2024:
Pregnancy deaths rose by 56% in Texas after 2021 abortion ban, analysis finds ↗︎
↳ The disproportional affect of this on women at the interstices shows this truly as a tool of bourgeois hegemony - capitofascism (or, capitalism) at its finest. — added 1:54pm on 21/09/24 ❧
‘Stop doing dumb stuff,’ economist warns as housing affordability in Australia slips ↗︎
↳ Perhaps we could abolish ‘the economy’ and instead distribute resources according to need. — added 8:03am on 21/09/24 ❧
Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower ↗︎
↳ How dare you have a life while also meeting your job spec! — added 5:58am on 21/09/24 ❧
Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal ↗︎
↳ Does this feel to anyone else as though it’s the dawn of skynet? Or is that just the feeling of the climate collapsing. — added 5:55am on 21/09/24 ❧
From September 20, 2024:
CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% ↗︎
↳ Yeah so they got a raise and we still get a pay cut, because buying power and “inflation”. — added 9:14am on 20/09/24 ❧
Orbit by Mozilla ↗︎
↳ From their TOS: “When you submit your own content through the Services, you continue to own the rights to that content. You grant Mozilla a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, sub-license, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display the Inputs for the purpose of operating the Services.” — added 6:17am on 20/09/24 ❧