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Germany: Mass protests after far-right AfD helps CDU/CSU
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↳ Fascism feeds on fear and hate. It grows in the shadows, and dies in the light. Countering radical hate with radical love isn’t enough – we need to move towards a shared literacy of collectivism. — - From January 31, 2025: Support independent radical thought. Join mind reader’s growing community of readers thinking deeply about social transformation. Start right now.
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Mark Zuckerberg starts Meta earnings call by praising Trump administration
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OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission to Create an AI That's Stealing Its Job, Which Is Blatantly Hypocritical Since That's Exactly What It Did to Human Artists
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↳ Corruption, lies and propaganda. An industry that is in real need of regulation, and global governments with a profit motive to not regulate. — - From January 30, 2025: Support independent radical thought. Join mind reader’s growing community of readers thinking deeply about social transformation. Start right now.
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Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
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↳ The privilege from that ceo drips from every word. Disappointing that a privacy company would believe that trump, co. were possibly any good for privacy. Maybe they missed the “invasion” part. — - From January 29, 2025: Be part of the conversation. Join mind reader’s free community of readers analysing capitalism, technology and social change. Start right now.
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Linux-related discussion as a cybersecurity threat
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Trump Appointees Can’t Own Crypto. That Rule Doesn’t Apply to Trump Himself.
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Filipino tech workers demand protections in AI bill after Rest of World report
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↳ Worker protection in these ‘emerging industries’ is always the last thing to be established. This, obviously, helps billionaires take all the credit for workers labour. — - From January 28, 2025: Join mind reader’s free community of radical thinkers analysing capitalism’s contradictions and imagining better futures. Start right now.
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The secret sauce of Chinese social media apps
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↳ Ads. The secret sauce is ads. — - From January 27, 2025: Join mind reader’s free community of radical thinkers analysing capitalism’s contradictions and imagining better futures. Start right now.
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Navigating plurality in non-dynamic systems (or, ‘dynamism’ and human suffering)
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We are bound in frames of colonial capitalism with systems of static purpose and design. Unless you live on the periphery, it is highly likely that at least some aspect of your existence fits within the western economic system. And unless you are centralised in a small handful of European nations (with, admittedly, high populations), you are probably contributing to those European nations prosperity, rather than your own. Naturally, with American imperialism this began to shift, and the global flows of resources and moneys are so deeply complex and intently mystified that tracing from primordial origins no longer serves meaningful purpose, but let’s do a little now anyway. Capitalism emerged through violent processes of transformation beginning in 15th century Europe, where leaders leveraged desires for wealth and power to drive colonial expansion across the globe. This involved a dual process of material and ideologica...
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Ditching Meta? Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp fundraise on Kickstarter
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Costco shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposal
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↳ There’s some vague notion of good in the capitalist reformist space. But that hasn’t stopped Costco from union busting so six in one half a dozen the other evils. — - From January 25, 2025: Like what you’re reading? Join mind reader (free) to get fresh critical analysis delivered directly to you. Start right now.
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No, the NDIS is not ‘strangling’ the economy
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↳ Seems like a no brainer to me — and also fully fund the NDIS, and stop the bullshit semi-privatised healthcare nonsense. — -
I Watched Shorts Until It Turned Me Alt-Right
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↳ I’ve commented before on the time til alt-right content on YouTube, particularly with shorts. It’s insane how much it pushes right wing views and how quickly. This guy tested it and, well, you can guess how things went. — - From January 24, 2025: Support independent radical thought. Join mind reader’s growing community of readers thinking deeply about social transformation. Start right now.
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Migration-Guide: From Windows to Fedora Linux
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↳ A move one would not regret. Getting as far away from windows at this point is basically a necessity for functional computing, let alone privacy. — -
Disasters Like the LA Fires Always Hit the Poor the Hardest. Trump Wants to Make It Worse.
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↳ Real “fighter for the common person” kinda guy, ey. —