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I’ve always argued that that the desire to be a billionaire is a sign of malfunction. The desire to hoard more resources than you can consume in a single lifetime is a sign that something is broken in someone’s wiring.

we've written about this in the past firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Poor Americans, too poor to buy their own government

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

I don't think people appreciate the extent to which coral reefs are screwed. Even if ocean acidification doesn't get them, increasing ocean temperatures will. How screwed they are is up to us.

I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it: Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted

The myth of good vs bad people keeps luring so many of us into supporting violence (coercion) as a solution, when the most determining factor for people's behavior is their social standing – and the most unhinged ones tend to be those who ended up on top :/

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

This isn’t a dry run. ICE goons are being encouraged to aggressively push until they get a response. Trump is hoping an ICE goon gets shot. He wants bloodshed. Trump is trying to provoke a civil war, so he can send in the army, and suspend the Constitution. More than he already has.

Board of Peace - Season 1

America has two major parties: One party exists to serve the demented whims of our Nazi Pedophile Mad King. One party isn’t sure whether to fund his lawless goons who are shooting legal observers in the face. We need to end the two party system.

Yeah, the economic accounting system is fundamentally flawed as it undervalues or outright ignores externalities. That practically forces the system to wrong directions. And the farther along the wrong path we go, the harder it is to fix the issues. At least without a crisis.

Gramsci was close. But the old world isn't dying. It's being murdered. But this is the time of monsters.

Opsec is important but a lot of it can be solved by simply using common sense, assuming what you say is public, and not talking about anything sensitive in a public chat

Dr Abeba Birhane runs the coolest AI research I know: critical analysis of its biases &c including its effects on society. Please help her out if you know how to mitigate esp. # 2 below.

A wake-up call, a look forward, a party advertisement all in one. Drop taxes instead of boosting equality for national unity? Would this "just" finally include South and indigenous peoples? But standing up by networking is paramount.

Why is it that we only get honesty like this when it's too late to fix what's been wrong for decades? Acquiescence is complicity. Most of the world's major problems persist, not because of those who cause them; but because so many accept them.

Firefighting as Social Praxis. A good next project. Happy MLK Day.

Spend many hours assisting less experienced developer: often not rewarded or prioritized by leadership, seen as wasting time, not getting code shipped. Grappling with unreliable LLM based tools that you have to watch like a hawk and tediously guide to the right answers: mandated by management.

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers:

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Technosolutionism and fascism rhyme with each other.

I've written some of those when inside my own head.

A message for you all to carry through the year

Itse asiassa juuri noin pitää ruikutuksiin vastata! Ja tässä lisää: "Ei voi mitään, julkiset menot kasvavat kun väestö ikääntyy ja jatkuvasti kehitetään uusia, tehokkaita ja hemmetin kalliita hoitoja. Siksi meidän täytyy leikata sinunkin käyttövarojasi 10%:lla. Harkitsepa muuttamista soluasuntoon!"

Lapsi totesi: "Keskiyöllä, kun on keskiaika, silloin se on loppu". Todellakin toivon niin. Tää keskiaika on tänä vuonna ollut aika raskasta.

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Onko meillä varaa rikkaisiin? Onko maapallolla?

Joku oli löytänyt nykyaikanakin kurantin kuvan. Historia toistaa itseään.

i'm hiring a postdoc to map the age-verification space and do some audits if you’ve worked in this area, pls apply: aial.ie/hiring/postd... pls share widely

Me walking into 2026

Proprietary battery designs are annoying. I just discovered that you can get adapters to use the same battery across different power tools, even with different voltages (they have built-in DC-to-DC converters) and different brands. Game changer!

Since it is Finland’s Independence Day today, here’s probably the most famous Finnish patriotic painting ever. My favourite too! Because note the book the two-headed eagle is attacking. “Lex” - Law. The rule of law. “The Attack,” Edvard (Eetu) Isto, 1899.

"Asserting democratic control over corporate investment decisions is key to an anti-capitalist climate agenda…Imagine if we had collectively decided to build wind turbines and flood gates instead of data centers. Imagine that we could." 👀

Jokin tämmöinen, de facto tai de jure, on väistämätön pakko. Ei ole muuten mahdollista elää rauhallisesti ja kestävästi äärellisessä tilassa. Voidaan tehdä suoraan tai kiertotietä, mutta tehtävä on.

I'm anxious about being in Hawaiʻi and I just realized why. In Honolulu, where a car is needed to get around, I often agonize about when to go out so I'm not stuck in traffic. In London or Paris, I just go because I cycle everywhere and cars on the road don't impact my travel times. #CarsRuinCities

David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011) is witty and eye-opening. Sounds like a simple concept, but debt is actually not 'debt' as we think of it in everyday language - especially when we take a birds-eye and look at colonialism, states, and the origin of monetary systems. What a mess!

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

"No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption" (Paulo Freire)

One day “never again” means what it says on the tin. Sadly it is not today.

"If you sleep in a democracy, you wake-up in a dictatorship."

Hits hard.