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Just another satanic Monday
@urlyman I'm trying to lighten-up. Acc to the Graun front page layout, sport is now more important than climate change - or is that the G trying to lighten up? Or its readers? #firstDogOnTheMoon has it about right today. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/nov/17/another-cop-already-surely-youve-all-worked-this-out-by-now
Bye bye The Guardian, It wasn't the demand for "money or personal data", I already donated (stopped now); it was the totally cack handed and incompetent way you asked for "money or personal data".
I only now found the time to properly read this:
"The rise of end times fascism by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor"
Critical reading to know what we're up against.
(It would be good to explore how these narratives connect with the narratives that are embraced and pushed by Baudet and his FvD constituency).
#NaomiKlein #Fascism #EndTimesFascism #Guardian #TheGuardian
I only now found the time to properly read this:
"The rise of end times fascism by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor"
Critical reading to know what we're up against.
(It would be good to explore how these narratives connect with the narratives that are embraced and pushed by Baudet and his FvD constituency).
#NaomiKlein #Fascism #EndTimesFascism #Guardian #TheGuardian
I’m feeling deeply hopeless for not receiving any donations💔
We wake up every morning to drops of dew falling through the torn roof of our tent...
Winter hasn’t even begun, yet we’re already shivering from the cold.
Please, stand with me🙏💔😭
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https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
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#JimmyWales #wikipedia #theGuardian #bookPromotion #capitalism #ElonMusk #adTech #zeroRating #Facebook #Meta #surveillanceCapitalism #regulation
I’m feeling deeply hopeless for not receiving any donations💔
We wake up every morning to drops of dew falling through the torn roof of our tent...
Winter hasn’t even begun, yet we’re already shivering from the cold.
Please, stand with me🙏💔😭
⬇️⬇️
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115445244962527420
#JimmyWales #wikipedia #theGuardian #bookPromotion #capitalism #ElonMusk #adTech #zeroRating #Facebook #Meta #surveillanceCapitalism #regulation
So there’s a new Guardian interview with Jimmy Wales out (to promote his new book, with an affiliate link for the Guardian in it) titled “‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?”* that’s making the rounds here.
For those who only read the headlines, here’s a TL;DR: No. There is no such thing as decent tech baron, that’s an oxymoron.
From the article itself:
“‘I’m actually quite in favour of business and capitalism and all that.’ (He’s currently president of Fandom, an ad-funded entertainment site that hosts user-edited pages, owned by private equity firm TPG Capital).”
And:
“Does he still regard Musk, the world’s richest man, as a friend? ‘Friends is probably a little strong. I mean, not, not that –‘ he sputters, editing himself in real time. ‘I want to be careful how I say that, only because I’ve met him maybe five or six times, so that I would be overstating to say friends. We’ve been friendly, and even now he’s much nicer to me in private than you might think. I mean, he’s got a big public persona, and that’s a little bit different from the private Elon, who I think is more thoughtful.’”
Also, some more background:
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115445244962527420
#JimmyWales #wikipedia #theGuardian #bookPromotion #capitalism #ElonMusk #adTech #zeroRating #Facebook #Meta #surveillanceCapitalism #regulation
#TheGuardian: "Could the #internet go #offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together"
"If the internet were ever fully shut down, it is unclear if it could be started up again"
But… "in the UK, there is a non-virtual #contingency plan, or at least there was… People who know how it works will meet up in a pub outside London and decide what to do. “I don’t know if this is still the case. [And,] I was never told which #pub it was.”"
Biggest US labor unions fuel No Kings protests against #Trump: ‘You need a voice to have freedom’
With more than 2,700 events planned across the US, one organizer, James Phipps, 75, says: ‘Protest is all I’ve done all my life’
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Michael Sainato
Sat 18 Oct 2025 05.00 EDT
Some of the largest #LaborUnions in the #US are involved in organizing the #NoKings protests, with more than 2,700 demonstrations planned across all 50 states, with the #ServiceEmployeesInternationalUnion ( #SEIU) and #AmericanFederationOfTeachers ( #AFT) anchoring events.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/no-kings-protests-labor-unions?CMP=share_btn_url
#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #TradeUnions #USA #USpol
#news #politics
Biggest US labor unions fuel No Kings protests against #Trump: ‘You need a voice to have freedom’
With more than 2,700 events planned across the US, one organizer, James Phipps, 75, says: ‘Protest is all I’ve done all my life’
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Michael Sainato
Sat 18 Oct 2025 05.00 EDT
Some of the largest #LaborUnions in the #US are involved in organizing the #NoKings protests, with more than 2,700 demonstrations planned across all 50 states, with the #ServiceEmployeesInternationalUnion ( #SEIU) and #AmericanFederationOfTeachers ( #AFT) anchoring events.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/no-kings-protests-labor-unions?CMP=share_btn_url
#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #TradeUnions #USA #USpol
#news #politics
Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
Just 2 days after reporting that "Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds," #TheGuardian has "How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon," which never mentions that most soya is grown as livestock feed not for direct consumption by humans.
It's NOT the world's taste for soya that is the problem, it's the world's appetite for beef and pork.
If only they had editors who read their own paper.
Just 2 days after reporting that "Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds," #TheGuardian has "How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon," which never mentions that most soya is grown as livestock feed not for direct consumption by humans.
It's NOT the world's taste for soya that is the problem, it's the world's appetite for beef and pork.
If only they had editors who read their own paper.
Apple, accustomed to a captured #US legislation by #technofascism, also want's to be the one writing the laws of the #EU.
No, no, no, for God's sake, not for monopolistic profit, but because they care about locked-in "user experience". Of course.
And, #TheGuardian, it's not "allegedly", but an already decided case that got a €500m fine by the #EU for not allowing developers to sell apps outside its own app store, that is appealed.
Former #LabourParty leader opposing #Starmer's ban on #PalestineAction is not newsworthy in the UK's corrupt #MSM. 😮
#MiddleEastEye #MEE reports that "Neil Kinnock says Palestine Action are not terrorists in split with Starmer. Former Labour leader tells MEE people have a right to be appalled at situation in Gaza and proscription 'blunting' terror laws'". https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-neil-kinnock-says-palestine-action-are-not-terrorists-split-starmer
That's a big development. Kinnock hasn't criticised Starmer before. But no mention in the #BBC or #TheGuardian. 😡
Former #LabourParty leader opposing #Starmer's ban on #PalestineAction is not newsworthy in the UK's corrupt #MSM. 😮
#MiddleEastEye #MEE reports that "Neil Kinnock says Palestine Action are not terrorists in split with Starmer. Former Labour leader tells MEE people have a right to be appalled at situation in Gaza and proscription 'blunting' terror laws'". https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-neil-kinnock-says-palestine-action-are-not-terrorists-split-starmer
That's a big development. Kinnock hasn't criticised Starmer before. But no mention in the #BBC or #TheGuardian. 😡
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