Interview: "How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies”

"Democracy’s failure to address wealth inequality is by design." While voters have a say on some issues, oligarchs maintain "economic inequality by fighting against wealth redistribution."

Today's democracies "are among the most unequal societies ever to have existed in human history."

In Imperial Rome, the wealth gap was ~16,000 to one. In today's US, 140,000 to one

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/27/the_blind_spot

#USPol #EUPol #oligarchy #inequality #democracy .

Trump Loses More Control Over AI Regulation As Illinois Passes Landmark Law https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/28/186254/trump-loses-more-control-over-ai-regulation-as-illinois-passes-landmark-law?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

@thomasfuchs

LOL. That's a BIG bus!

(Yes, I've seen Airplane!.)

@looopTools Is there a comprehensive GNOME keybindings cheatsheet? I have been looking for it for a looooong time, but I could never find it.

Also, how do you use keyboard-only navigation in a multi-monitor setup? It makes me so confused that I usually prefer to work only with my laptop’s monitor most of the time.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@rfceditor/116653935307843868

Seeing the SSH protocols formalized and standardized is nice, but I also note that after 57 years of Internet RFC, we're closing in on needing a fifth digit for numbering them.

Hopefully this epoch will require less preparation than Y2K did.

Found Hermes in a bedside table drawer today. He had made my wife take it out for him.
#catsofmastodon #dork

@len i saw on the tiky toky app that the singer of circle jerks had to tell someone in the audience 'you came here for the music???? not politics?? DO YOU LISTEN TO WHAT WE SING ABOUT?" and i thought baout you

@_elena @davidgerard and it is moving!

@nilsbaty

@andypiper It may not be appropriate for you in this case but maybe something for the future - I have found that if there is a telecare device registered on the line BT tends to give better support (IIRC I got transferred to a specialist telecare team).

Of course this has been complicated by the move to digital phone lines (which older telecare devices can't work with) and also that some of the telecare devices use the mobile network (but using old 3G/2G/international/roaming sims /smh/); YMMV

@paninid Ah, no apparently it's not on their roadmap. As long as this means manually updating the software, I won't do that.
But, we also host sharkey.world for example , where you can post over 5000 characters

@alice @diplocarpon I am also interested in this.

they dont tell you about these

@WizardOfDocs @MakersHour it's wasted energy and truthfully, it makes me sad

"US law enforcement warns of 'anti-tech extremism' as AI hatred grows"

So I am critical of a lot of tech and of capitalism which makes me an extremist in the US now. Cool and very normal.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism-as-ai-hatred-grows/

remember, unless someone can sign a commit with the same key as the genesis commits of the linux kernel, they’re probably another scammer trying to gain control over the repo

Three or four is ideal.

“Can I just say f**k AI, f**k AI, f**k AI?” the comedian, actor, and rotating host of The Daily Show asked in his keynote speech during the Class Day celebration on Wednesday. The crowd at Tercentenary Theatre, made up of the graduating Class of 2026 and their friends and families, answered him with a roar of approval. https://www.harvardmagazine.com/commencement/class-day-ronny-chieng-harvard

PlayStation 2 Online in 2002 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ahEJj1rxfo

#ps2 #retro #retrogaming