Milei’s regime legalizes 12 hour workdays in Argentina. This is coming soon to every capitalst shithole near you.
Michael Graaf
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Spotify are a pack of hypocrites. They started 'their' catalogue by downloading music from The Pirate Bay. What fucking gall to treat musicians and songwriters as slaves and then attack Anna's Archive.
https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files-some-from-pirate-bay-170509/
#spotify #BrokenRecord #UMAW #WorkerRights #hypocrisy #capitalism
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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RE: https://toot.cat/@EveHasWords/116041692410497298
There’s a lot of shit that persists in the west primarily because our governments refuse to hold companies fully liable for their actions. A company with as many serious data breaches as #TMobile has had should be out of business and, in a world where we still have prisons and money, the executives’ money should have been seized and they should be imprisoned.
At least ten people died and many others sickened because of #BoarsHead but, as far as I know, there have only been lawsuits and “oversight.” No charges of murder or negligent homicide.
I doubt we’ll ever know the full scope of #ThreeM ‘s (3M, hashtags starting with numbers don’t work on Mastodon) environmental crimes. It’s reasonable to assume their evils vastly outweigh my other examples combined.
#Discord should have felt like they were shitting their own shorts when the breach was unveiled. Instead, they’ve been emboldened to take bigger risks with more peoples’ data.
We can’t boycott our way out of these problems. We can work for a world where the wealthy and powerful either don’t exist or have meaningful consequences for their actions.
Hey #discord . Why the hell would we give you our ID when you've already exposed the ID of the folks who have already given you their ID?
"We're now using a different vendor who haven't yet leaked everyone's IDs and we keep your data for the smallest possible period of time!"
Every organization will have a data breach eventually. The question is when affected users will find out and what data you had in the first place.
The fact that your new vendor has not yet had a known breach doesn't mean that they're safe. It doesn't even mean they haven't had a breach yet! It just means any breaches are, as yet, unknown.
A fundamental principle of PII is that you should not gather data unless you have a sufficient justification for doing so that cannot be handled without having that data.
Your justification is nonexistent for you ever having this information. Therefore ever having it is not justifiable. If our legal systems allowed the full consequences of that inappropriate data collection to fall on your shoulders where it belongs, no insurance company would ever agree to insure you while you are gathering this data. No matter how little a period of time you purport to have it.
Spotify are a pack of hypocrites. They started 'their' catalogue by downloading music from The Pirate Bay. What fucking gall to treat musicians and songwriters as slaves and then attack Anna's Archive.
https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files-some-from-pirate-bay-170509/
#spotify #BrokenRecord #UMAW #WorkerRights #hypocrisy #capitalism
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The 1% has sapped $79T in wealth from the bottom 90% since 1975. In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was sapped from the bottom 90 percent which is enough to give every worker a $32,000 raise.
RE: https://toot.cat/@EveHasWords/116041692410497298
There’s a lot of shit that persists in the west primarily because our governments refuse to hold companies fully liable for their actions. A company with as many serious data breaches as #TMobile has had should be out of business and, in a world where we still have prisons and money, the executives’ money should have been seized and they should be imprisoned.
At least ten people died and many others sickened because of #BoarsHead but, as far as I know, there have only been lawsuits and “oversight.” No charges of murder or negligent homicide.
I doubt we’ll ever know the full scope of #ThreeM ‘s (3M, hashtags starting with numbers don’t work on Mastodon) environmental crimes. It’s reasonable to assume their evils vastly outweigh my other examples combined.
#Discord should have felt like they were shitting their own shorts when the breach was unveiled. Instead, they’ve been emboldened to take bigger risks with more peoples’ data.
We can’t boycott our way out of these problems. We can work for a world where the wealthy and powerful either don’t exist or have meaningful consequences for their actions.
Hey #discord . Why the hell would we give you our ID when you've already exposed the ID of the folks who have already given you their ID?
"We're now using a different vendor who haven't yet leaked everyone's IDs and we keep your data for the smallest possible period of time!"
Every organization will have a data breach eventually. The question is when affected users will find out and what data you had in the first place.
The fact that your new vendor has not yet had a known breach doesn't mean that they're safe. It doesn't even mean they haven't had a breach yet! It just means any breaches are, as yet, unknown.
A fundamental principle of PII is that you should not gather data unless you have a sufficient justification for doing so that cannot be handled without having that data.
Your justification is nonexistent for you ever having this information. Therefore ever having it is not justifiable. If our legal systems allowed the full consequences of that inappropriate data collection to fall on your shoulders where it belongs, no insurance company would ever agree to insure you while you are gathering this data. No matter how little a period of time you purport to have it.
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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RE: https://mastodon.world/@bermaninstitute/116042102578384740
this ia bullshit propaganda. #AIslop is never going to be a substitute to a good doctor; but the #EpsteinClass investing in the #AI #ponzi want to create an air of eugenics inevitability.
don't believe the fascist hype.
AI Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For? Many physicians find chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine. | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/ai-chatbots-doctors-medicine.html
RE: https://mastodon.world/@bermaninstitute/116042102578384740
this ia bullshit propaganda. #AIslop is never going to be a substitute to a good doctor; but the #EpsteinClass investing in the #AI #ponzi want to create an air of eugenics inevitability.
don't believe the fascist hype.
AI Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For? Many physicians find chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine. | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/ai-chatbots-doctors-medicine.html
Cory Doctorow
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116040136897752985
I've said this before: Those dickhead business types in "Resident Evil", who destroy the world through greed & negligence & then just keep having board meetings in their bunkers & discuss their next insane projects?
Yeah, real-life billionaires are exactly like that, except way stupider. You can't even shame them by pointing it out - they think it's cool & wish they were sunglasses-inside-guy at the head of the table.
It's hard to talk about the Epstein class without thinking about "The Economy" - "The Economy" in the sense of a kind of mystical, free-floating entity whose health or sickness determines the outcomes for all the rest of us, whom we must make sacrifices to if we are to prosper.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/09/sloppy-steve/#mckinley-fanfic-panic
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116040136897752985
I've said this before: Those dickhead business types in "Resident Evil", who destroy the world through greed & negligence & then just keep having board meetings in their bunkers & discuss their next insane projects?
Yeah, real-life billionaires are exactly like that, except way stupider. You can't even shame them by pointing it out - they think it's cool & wish they were sunglasses-inside-guy at the head of the table.
It's hard to talk about the Epstein class without thinking about "The Economy" - "The Economy" in the sense of a kind of mystical, free-floating entity whose health or sickness determines the outcomes for all the rest of us, whom we must make sacrifices to if we are to prosper.
--
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/09/sloppy-steve/#mckinley-fanfic-panic
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Michael Graaf
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V insightful (and scary) article!
“The Endgame of Fiat Money”
by Fabio Vighi in Savage Minds on Substack
“This point bears stating as plainly as possible: markets, states & societies are no longer governed toward an ideal of equilibrium; they are governed by being kept permanently and pervasively off kilter. Why? Because balance would expose insolvency”
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/the-endgame-of-fiat-money
#Press #SocialMedia #Capitalism #UltraFinancialisation #Collapse #Chaos #Disorder #AI #Trump
V insightful (and scary) article!
“The Endgame of Fiat Money”
by Fabio Vighi in Savage Minds on Substack
“This point bears stating as plainly as possible: markets, states & societies are no longer governed toward an ideal of equilibrium; they are governed by being kept permanently and pervasively off kilter. Why? Because balance would expose insolvency”
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/the-endgame-of-fiat-money
#Press #SocialMedia #Capitalism #UltraFinancialisation #Collapse #Chaos #Disorder #AI #Trump
Chip Butty
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One point against capitalism that I don't hear frequently is that rich people deliberately waste money and destroy wealth. For example, ten thousand dollar bottles of wine. The point of the flagrant waste is it provides an opportunity to display their financial power - I can burn money and I don't care. I don't need three yachts, that's why I've got six.
Whenever I see rich people blowing cash on clothes, cars and other luxuries, I think of the weeks, months, years and decades of productive labor they have stolen and are deliberately destroying in order to perform their wealth.
It's not a "trickle down" system, it's a "trickle up and poof it's gone" system.
Michael Graaf
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Marx: '“The English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. He regards himself as a part of the ruling nation & becomes a tool of the English capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself".
"The English worker cherishes religious and social prejudices against the Irish worker. His attitude is the same as that of the poor whites to the blacks in the USA. This antagonism is artificially intensified by the press & all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes".
"The Irishman does the same and sees in the English worker only the accomplice of the English rulers. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the working class. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power". The alternative is class solidarity.'
https://x.com/i/status/2020165660056129817
#marx #socialism #communism #anarchism #left #capitalism #ukpol #irlpol
Marx: '“The English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. He regards himself as a part of the ruling nation & becomes a tool of the English capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself".
"The English worker cherishes religious and social prejudices against the Irish worker. His attitude is the same as that of the poor whites to the blacks in the USA. This antagonism is artificially intensified by the press & all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes".
"The Irishman does the same and sees in the English worker only the accomplice of the English rulers. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the working class. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power". The alternative is class solidarity.'
https://x.com/i/status/2020165660056129817
#marx #socialism #communism #anarchism #left #capitalism #ukpol #irlpol
One point against capitalism that I don't hear frequently is that rich people deliberately waste money and destroy wealth. For example, ten thousand dollar bottles of wine. The point of the flagrant waste is it provides an opportunity to display their financial power - I can burn money and I don't care. I don't need three yachts, that's why I've got six.
Whenever I see rich people blowing cash on clothes, cars and other luxuries, I think of the weeks, months, years and decades of productive labor they have stolen and are deliberately destroying in order to perform their wealth.
It's not a "trickle down" system, it's a "trickle up and poof it's gone" system.
"The most radical act you can perform in a capitalist society is non-participation."
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704402/boycott-tech-ice-scott-galloway
#news #USNews #USPol #BigTech #ICE #ResistAndUnsubscribe #capitalism
" I have not gotten the impression that outrage among the citizenry is a problem for this administration," Shannon said. "I think money is a problem for this administration, so I'm leaning in on that front."
#news #USNews #USPol #BigTech #ICE #ResistAndUnsubscribe #capitalism
"The most radical act you can perform in a capitalist society is non-participation."
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704402/boycott-tech-ice-scott-galloway
#news #USNews #USPol #BigTech #ICE #ResistAndUnsubscribe #capitalism
Jürgen Hubert
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mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 from tw/x: 'genuinely is wild seeing every single left wing political theory being proven absolutely right over the space of a few days.'
https://x.com/__mike91/status/2019697380036313532
#Capitalism #ConspiracyTheories #Left #Socialism #Anarchism #USpol #EUpol #Europe #JD20260207
