#BCNDP has pulled the plug on #drugs #decriminalization. People suffering from drug addiction are going to be criminalized again. This won't help any community. It doesn't reduce addiction issues. #Neoliberalism policies harm people who need medical help.
#BCNDP has pulled the plug on #drugs #decriminalization. People suffering from drug addiction are going to be criminalized again. This won't help any community. It doesn't reduce addiction issues. #Neoliberalism policies harm people who need medical help.
Social Media Trains Us to Do Nothing
Social media is one of the key ways we interact with each other. I get to talk to my friend Chris regularly about life and code. I never would have met him without the connections that Twitter let me make years ago. Twitter helped me build a business by allowing me to get my name out in the WordPress ecosystem which let
https://curtismchale.ca/2026/01/11/social-media-trains-us-to-do-nothing/
#BookClub #activism #neoliberalism #slacktivism #SocialMedia
We need to stop worshipping a #deathcult
A path to do this is to step away from the #mainstreming mess. In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. The prize recognised their work on how institutions shape prosperity, most famously through their book Why Nations Fail. The timing matters, it matters a lot.
This award lands at exactly the moment we should be asking why Institutional Economics - the respectable face of #mainstreaming - has spent the last fifteen years […]
We need to stop worshipping a #deathcult
A path to do this is to step away from the #mainstreming mess. In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. The prize recognised their work on how institutions shape prosperity, most famously through their book Why Nations Fail. The timing matters, it matters a lot.
This award lands at exactly the moment we should be asking why Institutional Economics - the respectable face of #mainstreaming - has spent the last fifteen years […]
We fucked up… and that matters because we still have agency
Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: we fucked up the last 20 years of #openweb tech. Not “they” fucked it up. Not only #BigTech, not only venture capital, not only governments and surveillance states. We did, especially those of us who were closest to the tools, the protocols, the decisions - the geeks, developers, architects, and maintainers who shaped how this stuff actually worked in practice.
That matters, because it means we still have direct power over what happens next. […]
We fucked up… and that matters because we still have agency
Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: we fucked up the last 20 years of #openweb tech. Not “they” fucked it up. Not only #BigTech, not only venture capital, not only governments and surveillance states. We did, especially those of us who were closest to the tools, the protocols, the decisions - the geeks, developers, architects, and maintainers who shaped how this stuff actually worked in practice.
That matters, because it means we still have direct power over what happens next. […]
I love Keir Starmer. He wasn't told, doesn't know how it came to pass, can't offer a reason for why it should be happening now. He doesn't know who's been killed, or how Venezuela is gonna be run now. But he's definitely in favor. Because of international law. Priceless. #starmer #uk #neoliberalism
I love Keir Starmer. He wasn't told, doesn't know how it came to pass, can't offer a reason for why it should be happening now. He doesn't know who's been killed, or how Venezuela is gonna be run now. But he's definitely in favor. Because of international law. Priceless. #starmer #uk #neoliberalism
So, with #Firefox becoming a slop browser, I think I can see where we're going. We are going to have 2 internets;
1 internet that is corporate, AI-filled, without privacy, browseable only with Chrome and Firefox;
1 internet that exists of stuff like the Fediverse, personal websites, and is usable with FF forks and older browsers.
These worlds will grow apart over time, and with the second category of browser, we will not be able to visit the corporate sphere anymore; the big platforms, online stores, maybe also things like WordPress sites, and notably, this will also include governmental sites and banking sites.
In the corporate browsers, we are always identified, logged, tracked. VPN and ad blockers will be banned. In short, government and corporations (which is becoming the same thing in the west, yay #neoliberalism ) will have full control here.
Most people will fall in line and reluctantly keep using the corporate browsers, while a smaller group will move to the "alternative internet" altogether, on which #enshittification and #ensloppification doesn't take place. (we're already here! yay!)
We end up being forced to use the corporate browser for some stuff that you can hardly get around - government, banking, contact with normies - not unlike how living without smartphone feels today.
So, just like it is living without a smartphone, I see us non-compliant people using some second device with the corporate browser, to manage that kind of stuff, while steering clear from it in daily life. (at most workplaces though, people will have no choice.)
These are my thoughts on which direction the internet seems to be going. At one hand, I wouldn't mind the internet splitting into two, so I can evade the corporate part.
But my problem lies with the part where we kinda can't get around having to go into the corporate sphere regularly, forced by majority culture as well as governments, which will be all too happy to have everyone nicely identifiable and compliant.
It can get really bad if the good part of the internet becomes outlawed, and that might well happen if we keep living under corporate/neolib/authoritarian governments. (talking about "the west" in general, not just the US)
Why & how this fascist takeover?
US oligarchs had always existed, but, until the 1970s, they tolerated some democracy.
The four simultaneous uprisings of the 60s gave them nightmares involving guillotines, so they launched this now culminating fascist project.
The Powell memo of 1971 was the launch pad. Rockefeller founded TriCom to dismantle the "excess of democracy" of the 1960s.
#PowellMemo #Neoliberalism #USPol #Europol #TrilateralCommission #USFascism .
Why & how this fascist takeover?
US oligarchs had always existed, but, until the 1970s, they tolerated some democracy.
The four simultaneous uprisings of the 60s gave them nightmares involving guillotines, so they launched this now culminating fascist project.
The Powell memo of 1971 was the launch pad. Rockefeller founded TriCom to dismantle the "excess of democracy" of the 1960s.
#PowellMemo #Neoliberalism #USPol #Europol #TrilateralCommission #USFascism .
What does it say about a healthcare system when millions struggle with ADHD, yet even in the capital of the 4th largest economy, getting a basic assessment feels like an obstacle course?
Not to mention how much easier everything becomes if you simply pay privately - while we’re already paying plenty into public insurance.
Why & how this fascist takeover?
US oligarchs had always existed, but, until the 1970s, they tolerated some democracy.
The four simultaneous uprisings of the 60s gave them nightmares involving guillotines, so they launched this now culminating fascist project.
The Powell memo of 1971 was the launch pad. Rockefeller founded TriCom to dismantle the "excess of democracy" of the 1960s.
#PowellMemo #Neoliberalism #USPol #Europol #TrilateralCommission #USFascism .
Why & how this fascist takeover?
US oligarchs had always existed, but, until the 1970s, they tolerated some democracy.
The four simultaneous uprisings of the 60s gave them nightmares involving guillotines, so they launched this now culminating fascist project.
The Powell memo of 1971 was the launch pad. Rockefeller founded TriCom to dismantle the "excess of democracy" of the 1960s.
#PowellMemo #Neoliberalism #USPol #Europol #TrilateralCommission #USFascism .
Normal is the mess of walking around in a toxic story and calling this common sense
Forty years of hard indoctrination doesn’t just fade away. It has to be dug up, held in our hands, recognised for what it is, and composted. If we don’t do this, we have no hope - none - of moving away from the accelerating mess that’s already killing millions and is on track to kill billions. Hobbes’ “nasty, brutish and short” isn’t a warning anymore; it’s a weather report.
Mainstream thinking feels normal because we’ve lived inside it for a generation and a half. But […]
"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever-and still, things can go spectacularly wrong."
https://sidneydekker.com/compliance-capitalism
#HatTip to @dtauvdiodr for the reference.
#FreeTrade #FreeMarkets #neoliberalism #corporatism #SidneyDekker
Normal is the mess of walking around in a toxic story and calling this common sense
Forty years of hard indoctrination doesn’t just fade away. It has to be dug up, held in our hands, recognised for what it is, and composted. If we don’t do this, we have no hope - none - of moving away from the accelerating mess that’s already killing millions and is on track to kill billions. Hobbes’ “nasty, brutish and short” isn’t a warning anymore; it’s a weather report.
Mainstream thinking feels normal because we’ve lived inside it for a generation and a half. But […]
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"The Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism — Paulina Borsook Was Right"
"These techno-libertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect."
Paulini Borsook, Cyberselfish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZdkiOA
Borsook wrote Cyberselfish in 2001. And their personality defect? Narcissistic psychopathy.
#PaulinaBorsook #TechFascism #USPol #Neoliberalism #Sexism #press #fascism #racism #ToxicMasculinity .
