#capitalism

#capitalism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115802007577550828

➡️ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet#t=720 by @pluralistic ( @eff)

Seen via @_elena

#FOSS #Internet #AI #Europe #Sovereignty #Security #Copyright #Anticircumvention #Capitalism #Tech #Enshittification #Resistance #Future #Activism #EFF

I've often wondered why atheists seem to better exemplify the values and ethics that the Christian churches espouse, supposedly in the name of some dude that may or may not have lived 2,000 years ago. And I can't help but think that for many of them it's all just an act, that they don't actually believe a word of it.

#religion #atheism #cruelty #fascism #jesus #christianity #church #capitalism #poverty #socialism #anarchism #community #resist

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXsstYACss

2025 End of year personal computing check-in

I've written quite a bit over the past 11 months about flipping the table on my personal computing. All very unexpected but what a relief to have done it. And also very satisfying to know that my computing now fits my personal ethics in a way that it did not before.

#Permacomputing #GNU #Linux #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Apple #Computing #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Resist #Capitalism #Fascism

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-12-26.html

34 years ago today, the #SovietUnion officially ceased to exist. December 26, 1991

Apologies to #tankies (not really) but it was a very good thing

Not liking the #Soviet Union has nothing to do with loving #capitalism or loving the #West, it's about despising #imperialism

Anyone who has a problem with my sentiment:

Talk to someone who lived in #EasternEurope or under the Soviet umbrella

We must defeat #plutocracy in the West

The Soviet way is not the way

Happy #SovietUnionCollapseDay

34 years ago today, the #SovietUnion officially ceased to exist. December 26, 1991

Apologies to #tankies (not really) but it was a very good thing

Not liking the #Soviet Union has nothing to do with loving #capitalism or loving the #West, it's about despising #imperialism

Anyone who has a problem with my sentiment:

Talk to someone who lived in #EasternEurope or under the Soviet umbrella

We must defeat #plutocracy in the West

The Soviet way is not the way

Happy #SovietUnionCollapseDay

2025 End of year personal computing check-in

I've written quite a bit over the past 11 months about flipping the table on my personal computing. All very unexpected but what a relief to have done it. And also very satisfying to know that my computing now fits my personal ethics in a way that it did not before.

#Permacomputing #GNU #Linux #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Apple #Computing #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Resist #Capitalism #Fascism

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-12-26.html

How do you handle gifts in a relationship?

My place is small, and honestly, I already have what I need. My partner and I agreed to skip random Amazon knick-knacks.

I’d rather get a gift on a random day: tickets to theatre, cinema, dance, invitation to a party, a book I actually want, or something handmade.

Less stuff. More meaning.

#Christmas #Capitalism #Art #BoycottAmazon

The intersection of puritanism & #capitalism creates an incredibly insidious, toxic form of #ableism.

Push through the pain. Work through your illness. Keep going through your burnout.

Puritanism tells you that this is virtuous, and makes you a good person. Capitalism requires overwork for your survival.

Pair this with a pandemic, and you've got a nasty escalation of eugenics.

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Your anarchist auntie needs to give into the loquaciousness.

We have reached a point in capitalism where the overlords have ✌🏾"figured out"✌🏾 that they don't need you anymore, but they need you to keep buying into the system.

And people need to start thinking about what that means and what it looks like in practicality.

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Canada’s Big Banks are a ‘culprit’ driving housing prices out of control
Mortgage debt in Canada has ballooned to more than $2 trillion. According to a new study, the banks are largely to blame
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https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-big-banks-are-a-culprit-driving-housing-prices-out-of-control/

I am, alas, by training a value theorist.
Value Theory is the branch of philosophy that is an umbrella covering Economics and Ethics.

Pretty much we are a tiny bit LESS popular than Moral Philosophers.

First:
Everything I say below this point does not apply to people living at subsistence levels. You're already out of the system, you just don't know it yet.
Or more likely: you do.

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I see a headline like this one and my brain goes off in five different directions. But I think the most important one is for us to start consciously appreciating how we participate in the system, because every purchase, every hour spent working, every item coveted for anything other than its utility or beauty, is propping up this society.

So the first question is, what can you do to reduce your participation by 10%?

And the second question is how fragile do you think the system is? How many people withdrawing 10% of their energy and attention will cause a dent?

Most people think the system is robust: It's something that you can't fix or alter. I maintain that it is a lot more fragile than people are allowed to consider.

And I say "allowed to consider" because the point is to keep people too distracted and too busy to mull any of this over.

We're supposedly in the age of disruption.
But the disruptions are entirely superficial.

The disruptions are designed to leave everything the same, except funnel the money into somebody else's pocket.

But what if we actually disrupted shit?
What if we took a step toward not requiring currency, AND not requiring a digital version instead.

But that's another conversation for another day.
For now let's leave it at 10% less participation in this immensely problematic system.

#philosophy #capitalism #alternatives

It's kind of easy to see how broken and morally bankrupt the #MusicStreaming business model by #Spotify and Co is if you consider that none of the major streaming services simply bans #AI generated #music. They just want to keep you streaming. They don't give a flying fuck about art, artists and music.

#AIMusic #Streaming #capitalism #Aicrap

The intersection of puritanism & #capitalism creates an incredibly insidious, toxic form of #ableism.

Push through the pain. Work through your illness. Keep going through your burnout.

Puritanism tells you that this is virtuous, and makes you a good person. Capitalism requires overwork for your survival.

Pair this with a pandemic, and you've got a nasty escalation of eugenics.

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@glsbank

#FreedomOfSpeech

"German banks are systematically terminating accounts belonging to journalists and media outlets without explanation..."

"Approximately 40 independent media organizations have lost banking access since 2020."

"This is financial infrastructure weaponized for political control."
https://youtu.be/vcg9eMh1Uuw

Invidious link 👇
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=vcg9eMh1Uuw

#Zeitenwende #Germany #fascism
#debanking #journalism

#capitalism #banking #crypto