The more I learn about the world of money moving around, the more I think most of what people do with it should be banned. From hyper-rapid proposing and retracting trades to saddling companies with the debt incurred to buy them: no, no, no, and hell no.
This is of course a useless thought. Capitalism loves running itself into disasters with games like these.
The USA doesn't have an immigration problem..
we have a xenophobic, white nationalist racism problem...
What "Russki Mir" means:
The idea of the Russian world is the belief that completely different people living in different and in no way connected countries must obey other people living in the Kremlin and fulfill all their demands and orders.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin
Ok now I definitely need to get a network cable, just to see if something's still living on the far side of these wires.
I mean, there's no chance. None, there is just no way.
But now I have to know.
When life hands you rabbit holes, make hasenpfeffer
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#Curmudgeonry
AI is \*not\* just a tool. It is a pea and thimble game in which a few, very rich people steal our entire cultural and intellectual history, and use it in a way that forever depletes it. It is a way of enclosing the commons. And it's taking us all, the demos, too long to get our collective heads around it because, like the climate, it is so strange to think of it being steal-able that the idea doesn't stick, it doesn't have language to describe and discuss it. 1/3 #AI
Trump has mobilized his violent cult to muzzle people who once would have challenged his contempt for law and basic decency.
Big Journalism, for whatever reason, doesn't think this is much of a story.
That's why we need outlets like Talking Points Memo.
How the 'politicization of the courts' is used to 'erode democracy': analysis https://www.alternet.org/autocracy-courts-applebaum/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
My beliefs are simple, and hardly radical: Libraries are critical infrastructure. Access to information is a human right. When you buy a book you should truly own it. When a library buys a book, they should be able to lend it. Readers should be able to read without any third parties spying over their shoulders, or preventing them from accessing the materials they have legally obtained.