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you know it, felix.
#meme #cat #cartoon #capitalism
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It is probably about car dependency, car-centered areas. Like in the US where in many towns without a car one would struggle to do anything: getting to the grocery store, getting back from the store, reaching the other river bank as many bridges are motor vehicles only.
People can’t live without cars in such places. Even food banks have huge lines of cars, four "lanes". Some homeless people drive cars as well. Imagine the closest grocery store being 1 hour walking distance away, and the weather may be extremely hot/cold.
Many such areas don’t even have sidewalks or anything for walking at all. At the same time so called "jay-walking" is prohibited by law. The term "jaywalking" actually was invented by the cars lobby in the early 20th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalki…
Moving around by walking is extremely inconvenient, dangerous, taking ridiculous amounts of time, basically incompatible with everyday activities.
Also the parking lots, roads, intersections take up huge chunks of the city. Consider how much longer it takes to walk somewhere compared to what it could be without all these. Urban areas could look very different if they were human-centered and Points Of Interest were packed tightly.
And the bigger the city, the more space car infrastructure takes up. More lanes, wider intersections, parking lots can have up to many thousands spots, highways, freeways, interchanges of ridiculous sizes and shapes.
The topic is huge, what I mentioned is just the tip. Think of what you see around every day. Also all the noise. And danger it brings to everyone, not just drivers. The number of so called "accidents", another convenient term for the horrible things that happen everyday.
The areas which are pedestrian-friendly, bicycle friendly, have public transportation tend to have happier residents, more attraction points, more small businesses, more street life, way better air quality, less noise among other benefits.
Also social connections and interaction happen there and not on a 4-lane highway.
#Cars #Car #City #Urban #Streets
#Cities #CarFree #Roads #CarDependancy #StreetLife #Safety #Bycicles #Walking #UrbanSprawl #OneMoreLane #InducedTraffic #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #Access #PublicTransportation #Accessibility #Accessible #PublicSpaces #Socialization #Capitalism #Subsidies #Lobbying #WordsMatter #History #CarsAreDangerous #FuckCars
Bodily autonomy clashes with capitalism in The Complex Whole So Formed
#BodilyAutonomy #PostTheatrical #Capitalism #Theater #ArtAndPolitics
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Bodily autonomy clashes with capitalism in The Complex Whole So Formed - Chicago Reader
Ryn Hardiman's show for the Neo-Futurists explores what it's like to be "a girl with an asterisk" in a capitalist healthcare hellscape.Amanda Finn (Chicago Reader)
How Flock Is Building America's Private Surveillance Infrastructure
#Capitalism #PrivateSurveillance #BigTech #SocialControl #SurveillanceTechnology
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How Flock Is Building America’s Private Surveillance Infrastructure - Left Voice
Flock is building one of America’s largest surveillance networks. It represents a new tool for preserving capital’s power and wealth.AT (Left Voice)
Aaron's "crime" was to oppose enclosure and socialise knowledge, where #Meta aims to enclose knowledge in order to enrich billionaires.
Aaron died because he was anti capitalist, and America kills people who oppose #capitalism.
America opposes freedom.
Quinn #Slobodian foresaw this.
You can read it here:
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Crack-Up Capitalism
Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides.www.penguin.co.uk
Instead we do NOT have even remotely adequate coverage, of the wealthiest wresting more and more control of vital infrastructure, taking away basic essentials of those that paid the most taxes, for that very infrastructure.
#Capitalism is now approaching 'Total Loss' category, and should be graduated in every way possible - NOT just root infrastructure. And the leaders should be removed asap.
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Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.
You simply don’t need to.
You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.
Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.
The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.
And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.)
#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena mastodon.social/@_elena/116770…
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
@ilumium@eupolicy.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al the setup process is SO CONVOLUTED: https://www.youtube.Elena Rossini 🌈 (Mastodon)
“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”
– Yours truly, in @_elena’s excellent exposé on W Social.
blog.elenarossini.com/w-social…
Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs).
#WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse
W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-so…Elena Rossini
New modeling from The Lancet suggests the USAID funding cuts will kill 14 million people.
Many of them are children.
600,000 have already died.
The man who gutted the program?
Elon Musk. The world’s first trillionaire.
He has a trillionaire dollars and is murdering the poorest people on earth.
He should be in jail.
Billionaires and trillionaires should not exist in a world where millions die from poverty every year.
thelancet.com/journals/langlo/…
#usaid #disability #ableism #eugenics #musk #capitalism #poverty #publichealth #uspol
The Guardian: It was Britain’s most expensive house. Why is its only resident a homeless man who lives on the porch?
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It was Britain’s most expensive house. Why is its only resident a homeless man who lives on the porch?
2-8A Rutland Gate had jewel-encrusted bathroom suites and gold wastepaper bins in its 45 rooms, but has lain empty for years. With many people desperate for secure housing, what does the abandonment of this palace tell us about the UK?Sam Wollaston (the Guardian)
Texas:
"A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead."
#ai #datacenters #climatechange #environment #capitalism #tech
i'm sidestepping pro- / anti- capitalist arguments
i'm saying #capitalism is dead
there is the fantasy foundational belief of " #freeMarkets"
they have always been manipulated
(especially with #regulations removed, which #capitalists always seem excited to do, resulting in the biggest players controlling it)
#plutocracy replaced capitalism
idiots didn't notice
they merely adopted a lie:
"this is capitalism!"
behavior: not capitalism, just licking plutocrat boots
it's rigged
#capitalists have been screaming " #COMMUNISM! #SOCIALISM! WHARGARBBBL..." as a fearmongered threat since forever. communism died in 1989
the truth is #capitalism *is* being killed
by #plutocracy
and because they don't care, don't notice, or are paid enough to not care, "capitalist" idiots have turned into plutocrat and #oligarch bootlickers without awareness or concern
it's a complete farce
and it's going to meet a reckoning
truth vs delusion is playing out
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Source:
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#Ai #Art #Capitalism #Cartoons #DataCenters #JoeDator #educationworkers #KevinMaher #students
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For #fridayreads today, a return to @pluralistic , this time non-fiction.
While reading this 2022 book, several times I got the impression that "this could have been written 20 years before" (or, more to the point, lament that we did not learn the lesson back then), but at the same time the book is still as relevant (if not more) today than it was when it was published.
Inside the billion-dollar business of getting a visa | The Take
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Inside the billion-dollar business of getting a visa | The Take
Getting a visa can be expensive, frustrating, and for many people, unsuccessful. So what happens when governments outsource that process to private companies...Al Jazeera English (YouTube)
Kind of get the impression that #capitalism often needs public money to get itself off the ground and, as we have seen quite a lot, it requires even more public money to keep itself afloat. Is capitalism #socialism for the rich?!
For all its reputation as a country of rampant free market capitalism, the USA's corporate profitability may be in part (by some reckoning 50%) dependent on the deficit funding of the state;
which is to say that the US is actually a massive corporate welfare machine, pumping public money raised on international bond markets (through sales & holding of so-called T-bills across the world) into the private sector.
If so, US capitalism *does* look rather different!
#capitalism #USA
h/t FT
Great line by @pluralistic on page 228, to describe the rollback of antitrust laws and increased monopolisation of the economy:
"It's as though we used to put down rat poison, and we didn't have a rat problem. Then the millionaire economists convinced us to stop putting down the poison, and the rats are gnawing our faces off and the economists are all saying: 'Now, now, don't get hysterical, dears. There's no way to know if these rats have anything to do with our pro-rat policy prescriptions. Perhaps the great forces of history bore down on this moment to produce a surge in rat fecundity. Maybe this is just the Time of the Rat.'"
#enshittification #business #capitalism #socialism #neoliberalism #politics #economics #auspol #uspol
Typical abusive #Capitalism, in skewing profits toward the wealthiest.
Worse than Communism, at its opposite.
Replace #FossilFuels #TechBros #Broligarchy with #RootInfrastructure #scientists
Does anybody know what happened to Resonate (resonate.coop/)? I'm reading Rebecca Giblin and @pluralistic 's Chokepoint Capitalism and it seemed to have a very interesting business model. Really curious to know why it got dissolved.
Boosts appreciated!
#enshittification #capitalism #streaming
Play fair.
Resonate is the world’s first co-operative music streaming service — a multi-stakeholder platform co-operative, democratically governed by its members: artists, listeners and workers.Resonate
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Re-reading "#UtopianSocialism - Its History Since 1800" by #LeoLoubere (published in 1974). In particular, chapter 6, which deals with "experimental communities" and why they fail -- citing #Capitalism, lack of practical knowledge, and how cooperation and #MutualAid were needed for communities to survive. And also how defense (against others, protecting crops, etc.), and leaders who aren't forceful are also necessary.
Ahhhh. And some truly lighter reading. The last printed issue of the Farmer's Almanac (in print since 1818). I will miss their tips and tricks as well as topics like natural pest control, #Hygge, herbs of the month, how to make #Switchel, and #Gardening tips. I noticed they also acknowledged #ClimateChange and #WeatherExtremes, and highlighted #EmergencyPreparedness.
#Bookstodon #AmReading
#SustainableLiving #BuildingCommunity #PowerStructures #MoonPhases #SpendTimeInNature #HistoryOfSocialism #Histodon #History #SolarPunkSunday
Mitigating the hate~love divide, instead of eloquently navigating mid-values...
This is why it's an increasing crime to teach single solve mindsets, like most Western #Capitalism countries do.
@ChrisMayLA6 I don't want to live in a #political #economy where "bond vigilantes" dictate #policy - insist on #austerity, low #taxation of the #wealthy, minimum #regulation of #business, & restrictive #monetary policy to combat #inflation. I'll only get my way when #Capitalism is replaced by #socialism, or (rather more likely) the whole of #industrial #civilisation collapses. The latter will bring its own problems!
(1/8) As always @pluralistic writes about exactly what's on my mind a thread 🧵:
My political economy begins by taking F.A. Hayek seriously. I kid you not.
Hayek saw markets as a form of decentralized processing a logical “spontaneous order” that aggregates knowledge. He saw this pattern everywhere, including within the human mind (I'm sure like Dawkins he'd have been one-shotted by Claude).
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#capitalism #economics #markets #oligarchy
The theory of capitalism holds that markets are a kind of distributed computer that aggregates trillions of decisions from billions of market participants in order to optimize production and distribution of goods and services, creating a "Pareto-optimal" world where no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off.2/
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Today's dose of Doctorow's De-programming:
"This is the kind of doctrine you can only fully embrace after sustaining the kind of highly specific neurological injury that is induced by taking an economics degree, an injury that makes you incapable of perceiving or reasoning about power. Under the doctrine of revealed preferences, someone who sells their kidney to make the rent has a revealed preference for only having one kidney"
#capitalism #economics #NeoclassicalEconNonsense
One of my bedrock beliefs is that capitalists *really* hate capitalism. They may name their beloved institutes after the likes of Adam Smith, but they ignore everything Smith had to say about the necessity of competition to keep markets from turning into monopolies:pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/com…
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2026/05/06/cha…
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Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
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#Capitalism #Healthcare #energy #environment #War #weapons #oil #BigOil #FreeLuigi #HealthInsurance #NoBillionaires #GuillotinesWork
Just finished #NaomiKlein 's 1999 (classic?) book No Logo. Just about to start @pluralistic 's Enshittification. I get the feeling this is going to feel a bit like a sequel.
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#latestagecapitalism
#mentalhealth
#capitalism
Gaining a lot less coverage than the World Economic Foundation's annual shindig in Davos, next week in Oxford the annual Skoll World Forum focusses on the idea of social entrepreneurship (not least the B-Corp movement) to look at how capitalism might be done differently.
While this will be of little interest to those of you who think capitalism is the problem, for reformists who see a range of capitalist models, this might be something to look at?
Skoll | Skoll World Forum
Skoll World Forum Update The next Skoll World Forum will take place April 21–24, 2026. Explore details related to attendance, the schedule, program and travel, or register for virtual participation […]Padmaja Sathyamoorthy (Skoll.org)