@alberto_cottica I quite enjoyed this multi-part series about the labor dynamics of medieval peasants:
https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-peasant/
Technically it's a blog series, but it was written by an academic historian and goes quite in depth (as far as I can see from my non-historian perspective). I'm sure your answer is in there, maybe even with a citation.

@catsalad terrifying. How am I supposed to get to sleep now?

My birthday today. How has it been another year? I just looked in the mirror & I can confirm that I am officially old af. I’m going to celebrate the day by drawing fun art & signing all those Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen books you've been ordering. https://helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4311530238

Breaking News: Daily Beast | Trump’s $1.8B Slush Fund Hit By Bombshell Leak

"A bombshell leak has revealed that the Justice Dept was advised to shut down Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS before settling with the president by creating a $1.8 billion fund for MAGA loyalists. IRS lawyers intended to contest Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the agency and advised the DOJ to move to dismiss it..."

"...a corrupt giveaway of taxpayer money to the president’s allies."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-18b-slush-fund-hit-by-bombshell-leak-showing-irs-lawyers-urged-doj-to-shut-down-lawsuit/

Evropská unie (EU) v noci na středu dosáhla předběžné dohody o legislativě, která má zrušit dovozní cla na průmyslové zboží z USA.
👉 Jde o klíčovou součást obchodní dohody s Washingtonem, která by měla zabránit zavedení vyšších amerických cel na výrobky z EU. Informovaly o tom agentury Reuters a DPA s odvoláním na kyperské předsednictví EU a europoslankyni Željanu Zovkovou, hlavní vyjednavačku pro obchodní dohodu.
🔗 Více v článku: https://czch.tv/94anQY

@jpm
“You can’t park there.” 😐

@lowqualityfacts

Fun (true) fact: he actually asked for Disney not to do any Genie merchandising. They accepted, then merchandised it to death anyway. They feuded for years after that.

Félix, le "Maghrébin" de #Ruffin, donne sa version, bien différente de celle de la BD

David Graeber attempted an answer in his 2015 book The Utopia of Rules. Particularly in an essay first published in 2012, entitled Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit;

"Given a choice between a course of action that would make capitalism seem the only possible economic system, and one that would transform capitalism into a viable, long-term economic system, neoliberalism chooses the former every time."

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit

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#DavidGraeber #neoliberalism

@evacide

The fossil fuel interests behind Google's product development decisions aren't benign.

#PrinceBonesaw has his own agenda.

Information pollution to match his climate pollution & public corruption.

https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/07/28/mbs-despot-in-the-desert
https://archive.is/qddWQ

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/29/saudi-crown-prince-socially-acceptable-war-criminal-enjoys-us-tour-hosted-americas

Koch Network has powerful allies in its ongoing anti-democracy propaganda efforts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2019/03/13/who-bankrolls-tucker-carlsons-hateful-propaganda-why-the-kochs-of-course/

The leader of the team behind the #AmazonLeo satellite broadband network reveals how Jeff Bezos got the ball rolling in the connectivity competition with SpaceX's #Starlink. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-leo-leaders-inside-look-satellite-past-future/ #Space #Tech #TechAlliance #Amazon

@mrcippy I'm not anti AI. Though I do have moral quandries in that I'm not for all the data centers it is creating. I don't love virtually any of the AI companies nor their leadership.

But AI itself has a purpose and a use as a tool. Listening to podcasts like AI Inside by Jason Howell or Life With Machines by Baratunde Thurston give me some hope.

#OtD 20 May 1969 19-year-old Black Panther Alex Rackley was murdered in New Haven, CT by fellow activists after wrongly being accused of being a police informant, amidst a campaign of infiltration and badjacketing by the FBI and police. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7836/alex-rackley-murdered

Ohh! A little important btw:

Currently the website of #Trump Mobile is leaking all customer data except for Credit Card..

On top of being scammed your data is now also freely available

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

@heidilifeldman
BRAVO!

@evcricket I’d enthusiastically support it with one minor change - that the CEOs get all their shit stolen and then kicked out of where they’re sleeping by the venue’s security guards.

I cannot express how much I love this 🥲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MhS9uEv2M