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Black Friday. Cartoon for Trouw.
Black Friday. Cartoon for Trouw.
"$100,000 Is the New Poor" – "We are measuring starvation". In the US today, you will need 150k per year at least to avoid poverty.
But their measures for poverty still use the numbers from the 60ies. A dying country, a failed state. So sad to see this.
Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:
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happyborg
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Still, #LLM are voiding the #GPL (and #AGPL) reciprocity.
That's why years ago I wrote the #HackingLicense https://encrypted.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt
It was designed with automated corporate #exploitation of #FreeSoftware in mind: it's goal is to balance #freedom and #communion, and it share with those that accept it much more than permissions, while being a stromger #copyleft and an explicit shrink-wrap contract.
Unfortunately, it's not compatible with GPL, because GPL is much weaker.
The fundamental issue of Free Software, the one that let people create the #OpenSource narrative and permessive licenses to exploit programmer ideals and #freelabor, was that #RMS, as an American grown up during #ColdWar, was too fond of the freedom-vs-communism propaganda to understand how lack of rules means the rule of the rich.
The problem is not commercial use of free software but commercial exploitation of free labour, as @doctormo@floss.social correctly stated.
The Hacking License does not prohibit commercial use, but requires recipient to share their own #copyright with the users of any derivative or dependant work they create as a contractual binding.
It's modelled after the research of #ElinorOstrom about Commons governance and the #Hacker ethics based on the value of #curiosity.
Still, #LLM are voiding the #GPL (and #AGPL) reciprocity.
That's why years ago I wrote the #HackingLicense https://encrypted.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt
It was designed with automated corporate #exploitation of #FreeSoftware in mind: it's goal is to balance #freedom and #communion, and it share with those that accept it much more than permissions, while being a stromger #copyleft and an explicit shrink-wrap contract.
Unfortunately, it's not compatible with GPL, because GPL is much weaker.
The fundamental issue of Free Software, the one that let people create the #OpenSource narrative and permessive licenses to exploit programmer ideals and #freelabor, was that #RMS, as an American grown up during #ColdWar, was too fond of the freedom-vs-communism propaganda to understand how lack of rules means the rule of the rich.
The problem is not commercial use of free software but commercial exploitation of free labour, as @doctormo@floss.social correctly stated.
The Hacking License does not prohibit commercial use, but requires recipient to share their own #copyright with the users of any derivative or dependant work they create as a contractual binding.
It's modelled after the research of #ElinorOstrom about Commons governance and the #Hacker ethics based on the value of #curiosity.
Even those states often praised as moral examples, such as the #Scandinavian countries, rely on vast transfers of value from the #globalSouth through unequal exchange. Their #social stability is built on the hidden #exploitation of others.
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
This #imperial outlet is not available to nations on the periphery. When #workers & #environmental movements in the #South demand #justice, their ruling classes cannot offset those demands through external #exploitation.
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
It manages the contradiction not by overcoming it but by exporting its #costs. Through #imperialism, social #democratic states extract cheap #labor & natural #resources from the #globalSouth, allowing them to sustain prosperity, high #wages, & #welfare systems at home while keeping #capital #accumulation intact.
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #Trump #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist
Even those states often praised as moral examples, such as the #Scandinavian countries, rely on vast transfers of value from the #globalSouth through unequal exchange. Their #social stability is built on the hidden #exploitation of others.
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
Aderenti Escapes su mastodon
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Profits increase NINEFOLD for a company providing accommodation for #asylum seekers
A damning new report by CorpWatchUK
has found that 'slum landlords' are using public money to make a killing from asylum seekers. A must-read:
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/10/31/asylum-seekers-housing-company/
#uk #immigration #refugees @immigration #london #manchester #bristol #exploitation #humanrights
Cory Doctorow
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Meanwhile, in the #BadEconomy
> The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world by @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/vertical-blinds/#invest-dont-acquire
#enshittification #assholes #corruption #exploitation #economics #fuckery
Profits increase NINEFOLD for a company providing accommodation for #asylum seekers
A damning new report by CorpWatchUK
has found that 'slum landlords' are using public money to make a killing from asylum seekers. A must-read:
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/10/31/asylum-seekers-housing-company/
#uk #immigration #refugees @immigration #london #manchester #bristol #exploitation #humanrights
Meanwhile, in the #BadEconomy
> The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world by @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/vertical-blinds/#invest-dont-acquire
#enshittification #assholes #corruption #exploitation #economics #fuckery
Luc, en campagne
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💬 NOUVELLE BD : « Ép 32. La valeur travail »
Jean-Cro et Magnon découvrent petit à petit les joies de la propriété privée, et il n'y a évidemment pas beaucoup d'options pour ces deux-là…
▶️ https://grisebouille.net/ep32-la-valeur-travail
#BD #GriseBouille #LaChaîneMétéore #LCM #humour #travail #exploitation #capitalisme
IMAGE 5. Magnon et Jean-Cro se regardent avec incertitude.
IMAGE 6. Les deux sont en train de labourer le champ. Magnon : « C'est toujours pareil : avec Mammouth, on finit aux champs. » Jean-Cro : « Ouais. Et c'est une sacrée grande surface ! On aura jamais fini… » Magnon : « Roh, mais si, ça va super-marcher ! »
Note : BD sous licence CC BY SA (grisebouille.net), dessinée le 3 octobre 2025 par Gee.
IMAGE 3. Mammouth : « Si vous voulez loger là, faut payer un loyer, point. » Jean-Cro : « Mais on n'a plus une thune ! Comment on est censés en gagner ? »
IMAGE 4. Mammouth, montre un champ : « Eh bien, vous pouvez labourer le terrain d'à côté et vendre vos récoltes. »
BD en 6 images.
IMAGE 1. Jean-Cro et Magnon sont devant Mammouth qui garde toujours l'entrée de la grotte. Magnon : « Allez, Mammouth, sois chic, quoi ! Laisse-nous entrer ! » Jean-Cro : « Il est quasiment jamais là, le proprio ! »
IMAGE 2. Mammouth, inflexible : « Nan ! J'vous aime plus depuis que vous m'avez tondu. » Jean-Cro et Magnon ont un air gêné.
💬 NOUVELLE BD : « Ép 32. La valeur travail »
Jean-Cro et Magnon découvrent petit à petit les joies de la propriété privée, et il n'y a évidemment pas beaucoup d'options pour ces deux-là…
▶️ https://grisebouille.net/ep32-la-valeur-travail
#BD #GriseBouille #LaChaîneMétéore #LCM #humour #travail #exploitation #capitalisme
IMAGE 5. Magnon et Jean-Cro se regardent avec incertitude.
IMAGE 6. Les deux sont en train de labourer le champ. Magnon : « C'est toujours pareil : avec Mammouth, on finit aux champs. » Jean-Cro : « Ouais. Et c'est une sacrée grande surface ! On aura jamais fini… » Magnon : « Roh, mais si, ça va super-marcher ! »
Note : BD sous licence CC BY SA (grisebouille.net), dessinée le 3 octobre 2025 par Gee.
IMAGE 3. Mammouth : « Si vous voulez loger là, faut payer un loyer, point. » Jean-Cro : « Mais on n'a plus une thune ! Comment on est censés en gagner ? »
IMAGE 4. Mammouth, montre un champ : « Eh bien, vous pouvez labourer le terrain d'à côté et vendre vos récoltes. »
BD en 6 images.
IMAGE 1. Jean-Cro et Magnon sont devant Mammouth qui garde toujours l'entrée de la grotte. Magnon : « Allez, Mammouth, sois chic, quoi ! Laisse-nous entrer ! » Jean-Cro : « Il est quasiment jamais là, le proprio ! »
IMAGE 2. Mammouth, inflexible : « Nan ! J'vous aime plus depuis que vous m'avez tondu. » Jean-Cro et Magnon ont un air gêné.
Melissa Fehr
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"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."
-- Nick Clegg
"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."
-- Nick Clegg
... to provide the ideological scaffolding necessary to justify #apocalyptic levels of #exploitation & bloodshed in the periphery.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#DNC#RepublicanParty#RNC#GOP#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#Vance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#Harris#TimWalz#Walz#Democracy#US#USA#ElonMusk#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#Sanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive#Progressives