- The open secret of open washing – why companies pretend to be open source ↗︎ « Propaganda from megacorps? Say it ain’t so! —
- Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books ↗︎ « Of course the capitalist cannot make money when the thing is not owned by a publisher - “go and buy a modern game, peasant”. —
- Australia rejects visa application by rightwing US pundit Candace Owens ↗︎ « Ha. A good decision from our government for once. —
- Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn, counting on new technologies to cool down the planet comes at a cost ↗︎ « Mmm. Not technology. Revolution. —
- James Robinson, Nobel laureate in Economics: ‘You cannot achieve an inclusive economy with an authoritarian regime’ ↗︎ « The economists (a fake science) are so close to being right, but have to keep justifying their own existence. The authoritarian regime *is* the economy. Capitalism is the virus, not Chinese communism or American democracy. Capitalism. —
- A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse ↗︎ « I am quietly hopeful that things like this succeed. Pixelfed is great, no ads, no bullshit. Hopefully loops captures *some* attention from TikTok/Insta Reels. Anything to get people off Meta. —
- Millennials and Gen X Are Figuring Out What to Do With Boomers' Stuff ↗︎ « Tell us more about your bourgeois friends and family. /s —
- Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care much more about battery life ↗︎ « Almost like the privacy invasion was disproportionately hyped beyond belief. —
- David Crisafulli claims LNP victory in Queensland election ending Labor’s decade ↗︎ « Spectacularly terrible outcome. Fuck. —
- Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza ↗︎ « FAANG’s incessant and radically inhumane backing of genocide, ceaseless support for imperialism, and absolute bullshit stance on *saving the planet* is literally the end of us all. This company, by the way, is practically a nuclear power. —
- Netflix Wiped Most of Its “Palestinian Stories” Collection — and Erased the Whole Thing in Israel. ↗︎ « Digital epistemicide. —
- Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports ↗︎ « You might think the billionaires have an agenda. —
- “This Is Just Terrorism”: Israel Bombs World Heritage Site in Lebanon, Threatens Major Hospital ↗︎ « The grab quote is dead on. Israel is a genocidal terrorist. And with deep and encouraging vitriol western racists see it as an easy way to exterminate non-whites while washing their hands of responsibility (while funding and supplying the whole fucked operation). —
- Pro-Palestine Students Face Expulsion for Using a Bullhorn ↗︎ « I remain honestly gobsmacked at how long they think they can enforce hegemony on this — the state is resorting to violence. I think cracks are showing. Shame so many Americans are just straight up on the Zionist train (have you read the proliferation of violent forum comments straight out of the USA? As sick as the entire Israeli regime). —
- Gen Z workers are less trusting than past generations, says one CEO: ‘They aren’t afraid to push back’ ↗︎ « Good — maybe the resistive approach could be broadened to a resistance to capitalism altogether? —