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2024-09-19 23:37:59

Specifically mentions housing co-ops, community land trusts, and ending the status of land as a commodity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/opinion/aoc-tina-smith-housing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L04.KMDZ.4IMxmclCUx1S&smid=url-share

2024-09-13 16:25:22

I wrote a paper on workplace positivity cults -- Who Moved My Cheese?, Fish!, etc. -- and one of the three sections addresses Studerism: https://drive.google.com/file/d/180SvRMf9SAh8bVybMLv4D3U2OU1WAV9E/view?usp=sharing

2024-08-29 23:02:40

@npub1hyk…3p33 One for your reverse centaur file:
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/047/801/423/452/694/original/dd304c8b3c209582.jpg

2024-08-26 19:40:11

As James Scott pointed out, Taylorism was invented to minimize worker discretion and reliance on the worker's distributed knowledge -- even at the cost of reduced efficiency.
The reason is that discretion cannot be safely entrusted in someone who knows their interests are directly opposed to yours.
https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2024/08/the-unaccountability-machine-a-review.html

2024-08-26 18:52:01

"They even pulled off a daring work-to-rule action the week before bargaining kicked off, to start from a position of strength."
Direct action by workers will make the BOSSES beg for a conventional union.
https://www.labornotes.org/2024/08/work-rule-and-open-bargaining-back-down-kroger-warehouse-bosses

2024-08-26 15:04:23

Fuck You Baltimore - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBs455jwb8w

2024-08-16 20:54:45

Brain genius Jacob Hornberger demolishes the myth that retirees get back the money they paid into Social Security.
Wait till he finds out that the bank doesn't actually mark the specific dollars you deposited and put them into a lock box -- you just get paid out from the credits you accumulated, exactly like with SS.
Worse yet, as monetary historian A. Mitchell-Innes showed, money has never been anything but a system of credits and debits.
https://www.fff.org/2024/08/16/the-crown-jewell-of-american-socialism/

2024-08-15 23:12:17

#Municipalism
https://www.shareable.net/the-regeneration-handbook-system-changing-strategies/

2024-08-14 21:06:25

Center for a Stateless Society » AI and the Real Hard Pill to Swallow
https://c4ss.org/content/59820

2024-08-13 19:09:49

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2024-08-13 19:04:29

Center for a Stateless Society » On Captive Clienteles and Enshittification
https://c4ss.org/content/59818

2024-08-12 22:25:32

Moreover, this lack of competition is why the Google Search experience has become so utterly awful. While monopolies can feel a little monolithic..., understanding the damage they do is fairly simple: if you’re not worried about the competition, why would you worry about losing customers?
Monopolies are a big part of why everything feels like it stopped working.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/monopoly-money/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

2024-08-10 21:02:32

#Municipalism
https://nicenews.com/culture/library-of-things-helping-borrowers-save-money-reduce-waste/

2024-08-10 17:12:15

The official new name for Hillbilly Elegy is "Stolen Squalor"
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/jd-vance-never-was-and-never-will-be-the-voice-of-appalachia

2024-08-09 02:58:47

Rose: Any form of business enterprise connected with the state isn't really capitalism.
Also Rose: The tech industry and Internet -- developed almost entirely through state-funded R&D -- are an example of the achievements of capitalism.
Apparently this man is incapable of speaking two consecutive sentences that don't directly contradict each another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZLp8bh_RI

2024-08-09 02:50:41

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@npub1v73…373h Oh JFC. What an original thinker! So capitalism has never existed. But I'm sure he forgets himself and points to this or that "achievement of capitalism."

2024-08-08 20:07:06

A National Tenants Union Has Arrived - In These Times
https://inthesetimes.com/article/national-tenants-union-federation

2024-08-08 16:11:30

“Google conducted a quality degradation study, which showed that it would not lose search revenue if [it] were to significantly reduce the quality of its search product." A company that makes its product worse “without concern of losing consumers is proof of monopoly power”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-the-google-search-monopoly-ruling-means/

2024-08-05 21:19:00

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@npub1c25…rgre I think a lot of Old Right types hated him in the 30s.

2024-08-05 21:16:21

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@npub1lmx…uaqy I just found it in somebody's Bluesky post.

2024-08-05 19:36:22

"If the rich shouldn’t be directly taxed by the state to support the poor, why should the poor be indirectly taxed through rent, interest, and stolen surplus value to support the rich? All of those indirect taxes on the poor are made possible by the same coercive state apparatus that makes direct taxation possible."
https://c4ss.org/content/59806

2024-08-05 19:21:48

My latest at C4SS
https://c4ss.org/content/59803

2024-08-05 16:31:47

Russell Vought--Trump's former OMB director who helped spark a moral panic over federal agencies supposedly indoctrinating employees in critical race theory--has been drafting a secret "180-Day Transition Playbook” to speed the implementation of Project 2025.
So much for Trump's attempts to distance himself from Project 2025 and claims it's been shut down.
https://apnews.com/article/project-2025-russell-vought-trump-federal-government-38fc446832062e40fc2ccad6f3348dfd

2024-08-01 17:25:34

“Viral videos showed customers ending up with absurd orders as a result of the McDonald’s AI drive-thru technology, like the woman who didn’t really want nine sweet teas or the girl shouting “stop” at the screen as it tallies up more than two dozen orders of chicken nuggets.” #Enshittification
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/31/tech/taco-bell-expanding-ai-ordering-drive-thrus/index.html

2024-08-01 14:52:34

Tech CEO says people will enjoy paying a monthly fee to use a mouse. ‘You’re going to really love that’ | Fortune #Enshittification
https://fortune.com/2024/07/31/logitech-ceo-forever-mouse-hanneke-faber-ai-hardware/

2024-07-31 01:09:17

Georgia has an official online snitch form for reporting "voter fraud":
https://sos.ga.gov/form/stop-voter-fraud
You know what to do.

2024-07-30 22:16:11

Update from Alda West: Emergency need for $500 today to pay room balance. Out of time. https://www.spotfund.com/story/7afd6398-b77f-4b15-8d8b-b545b64e8420?referral_id=8a256b6d-82c2-4c87-a386-d01d689bcf1d
Cash App: $Wearywidow
Venmo: @Alda-West
PayPal:@AldaWest

2024-07-30 19:01:11

These Swing State Election Officials Are Pro-Trump Election Deniers
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/

2024-07-30 18:50:29

Ziklag is pouring money into AI software that makes it easier to challenge the eligibility of voters en masse.
https://truthout.org/video/this-christian-nationalist-network-aims-to-purge-voters-in-battleground-states/

2024-07-28 21:47:28

There's no better indicator of the authoritarian cesspool the readership of "libertarian" magazine Reason has become than the comments when a writer makes the mistake of mildly criticizing a Trump dictatorship.
https://reason.com/2024/07/28/trump-promises-police-immunity-from-prosecution/?comments=true#comments
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/866/296/777/672/118/original/370f0efddb0b455f.png

2024-07-27 00:56:24

AI CAN'T do your job, but an AI salesman CAN convince your boss to fire you and replace you with AI.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/25/accountability-sinks/

2024-07-26 15:12:37

I love to see pictures of Elon like that, when somebody's made him so mad the smoke's coming out his ears, rather than with his usual troll-smirk.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-transgender-daughter-vivian-wilson-interview-rcna163665

2024-07-25 23:44:52

The NPR link they sent me was to a story on Netanyahu getting a standing ovation from Congress.
I guess the over 100 Democrats who boycotted his appearance -- so their seats had to be occupied by fillers to hide their absence -- didn't get the memo from the (((octopus))).
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/849/776/284/096/131/original/e0b3f37b57a4eed7.png

2024-07-25 23:36:50

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@npub1x9e…ce6k Go jack off to Jimmy Dore and Grayzone, you fucking piece of shit.

2024-07-25 23:35:01

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@npub1sug…tg5v Hunting's manifesto is by far the best thing I've read on solarpunk. It's certainly an important antidote to the usual aesthetic of totalitarian architecture with vines growing on the outside.

2024-07-24 01:42:31

Trump's own erstwhile technofascist Silicon Valley supporters now smell blood in the water.
https://fortune.com/2024/07/23/elon-musk-backs-down-from-45-million-a-month-pledge-to-trump-says-he-doesnt-subscribe-to-cult-of-personality/

2024-07-24 01:26:35

"You Are Not A Loan!" Introducing the Nation's First Debtors' Union - In These Times
https://inthesetimes.com/article/debt-collective-takeover-debtors-union

2024-07-24 01:12:20

The Future of Housing Organizing: Tenant Unions - In These Times
https://inthesetimes.com/article/housing-crisis-tenant-unions-debt-collective

2024-07-23 21:49:36

From Jesse Walker, the one righteous man at Reason.
https://reason.com/2024/07/23/what-james-c-scott-taught-us-about-liberty-authority-surveillance-and-resistance/

2024-07-23 21:06:39

“Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court."
https://tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-statement-on-war-criminal-netanyahus-address-to-congress

2024-07-22 23:28:14

Largest Study on Guaranteed Basic Income Proves Transformative for Participants | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/largest-study-on-guaranteed-basic-income-proves-transformative-for-participants/

2024-07-22 21:41:07

J.D. Vance is deeply influenced by a San Francisco man who once suggested turning "unproductive people" into "biodiesel."
https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

2024-07-22 17:38:48

Oh, no. James C. Scott, RIP.
Author (AOT) of
Seeing Like a State
The Art of Not Being Governed
Weapons of the Weak
Against the Grain
https://artreview.com/james-c-scott-much-referenced-anarchist-thinker-1936-2024/

2024-07-22 17:07:06

Update from Alda West:
Trying to get this running balance paid off from July 3, when it was last paid off. Had it paid down to $140. But it's back up to $560. It will be $640 after 11 am today. I can't go over $500! Yikes! It's still going to be about 30 more days until I get a check from SSA. 😭 Help 🙏🏼 It's almost over.Cash App: $Wearywidow
Venmo: @Alda-West
PayPal:@AldaWest
https://www.spotfund.com/story/7afd6398-b77f-4b15-8d8b-b545b64e8420

2024-07-20 16:04:40

Center for a Stateless Society » Walter Block: Once Again Defending the Undefendable — Part II
https://c4ss.org/content/59776

2024-07-20 14:40:58

JD Vance is the link between the trad and tech parts of the emerging GOP, and both sides have radical plans for strongman presidency
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-zeal-of-a-convert

2024-07-19 21:47:19

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@npub1k7q…3lrw Exceptions eternally? ABSOLUTE NONE!

2024-07-19 20:06:06

#Municipalism
https://geo.coop/gleanings/countercultural-ecovillages-mainstream-green-neighbourhoods

2024-07-18 21:06:18

Possibly the most disingenuous thing Robby Soave has ever written -- and that's saying a HELL of a lot. Yeah, right -- the things in Robby's cherry-picked quotes are what media liberals hate most about Vance.
https://reason.com/2024/07/18/what-the-media-hate-about-j-d-vance/

2024-07-16 15:57:47

J.D. Vance is a Manchurian candidate backed by money from Peter Thiel, Musk and other techlords, and adheres to a neoreactionary/Dark Enlightenment ideology cooked up by Mencius Moldbug (aka Curtis Yarvin) that caters to their desire to be a new technofeudalist aristocracy.
Musk and Thiel pushed Trump to nominate him, and now Musk is bankrolling the Trump campaign. They want Vance to inherit the dynasty after Trump turns elections into a formality.
This guy is seriously scary.
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-meaning-of-jd-vance

2024-07-15 22:46:04

JD Vance has talked about emulating authoritarian Orban's gutting of academic freedom in Hungary
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/make-america-hungary-again

2024-07-15 19:58:34

As Radley Balko points out, this is half again the highest estimates of the number of undocumented immigrants in the US. At this point, he's just planning to deport anyone he doesn't like -- brown people who "look like" immigrants, protesters, political enemies, whoever... In fact, he's previously threatened to deport pro-Palestine demonstrators.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/inside-trumps-plan-to-deport-nearly-20-million-migrants-from-the-us/

2024-07-14 20:49:01

"A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to... purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states..."
These people are as knowingly evil as the ones who put Hitler in power.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election

2024-07-14 18:19:46

Video Shows Trump Endorsing Plan for Project 2025 in April 2022 | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/video-shows-trump-endorsing-plan-for-project-2025-in-april-2022/

2024-07-14 15:29:18

“When Donald Trump claims he doesn’t know something, or that it has nothing to do with him — especially something sinister— he means the exact opposite: he does know, and he is involved.”
And when it's a close associate he decides to cut loose -- even if it's someone he was publicly praising up to five minutes before -- suddenly he never knew them, never liked them, and they're "failing." Or if he's accused of raping them, they're "not his type."
https://americasvoice.org/press_releases/on-immigration-project-2025-reflects-trumps-essence/

2024-07-13 16:14:36

He absolutely had the Goolag t-shirts on order and the "Cancelled By the Woke Mob For My Opinions" interviews with Robby Soave and Quillette scheduled before he even printed out the tests.
Being a right-wing culture war grifter is a lot more lucrative than teaching high school.
https://www.boredpanda.com/california-teachers-racist-biology-exam-sparks-outrage/

2024-07-13 01:27:47

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@npub1jsl…2f2j Apparently it has to be done retail

2024-07-12 23:31:41

Yesterday #TrumpPedoFiles was trending on Twitter.
Elon got upset and Twitter started mass-deleting over 100k tweets with that hashtag.
Today people are posting to it faster than Elon can delete them, and #ElonPedoFiles is ALSO trending.
Elon's too fucking dumb to understand the #StreisandEffect

2024-07-12 15:05:19

"Hopefully, some states will consider criminal prosecution," Musk wrote, suggesting he wants it to be illegal for brands to refuse to advertise on X.
My Free Speech Absolutist t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my Free Speech Absolutist t-shirt.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/elon-musk-calls-for-criminal-prosecution-of-x-ad-boycott-perpetrators/

2024-07-12 14:25:02

AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-effectively-useless-created-fake-194008129.html

2024-07-12 14:14:01

Her name was Elizabeth Magie and it was called the Landlord’s Game, and had two different games/sets of rules — one to show how anti-monopolist frameworks were beneficial and one to show how horrible monopolies are.
https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/monopolys-lost-female-inventor

2024-07-11 16:07:09

In Atlanta, Police Violence Ties Together Protests for Gaza, Stop Cop City - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/07/09/atlanta-police-student-gaza-emory

2024-07-11 14:32:35

Aside from everything else, meritocracy is bullshit because it presupposes that the dominant institutional framework and its standards of "merit" are legitimate.
In fact, people are graded on "merit" according to their effectiveness in serving a system of power whose primary purpose is wealth extraction.
https://www.amazon.com/Schooling-Capitalist-America-Educational-Contradictions/dp/0465097189

2024-07-11 13:57:55

SpaceX deceived officials for approval of Starship plans in Texas
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/spacex-park-service-plans-texas-19565637.php

2024-07-10 19:04:26

Josh Blackman needs to stop taking a deep breath of Federalist Society farts.
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/07/10/everyone-needs-to-take-a-deep-breath-about-trump-v-united-states/

2024-07-09 16:26:23

Trump Claims Ignorance on Project 2025 But Can’t Run From His Agenda 47 Plan | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-claims-ignorance-on-project-2025-but-cant-run-from-his-agenda-47-plan/

2024-07-09 16:23:53

“Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation Over Project 2025 - The Intercept
https://theintercept.com/2024/07/09/gay-furry-hackers-claim-credit-for-hacking-heritage-foundation-over-project-2025/

2024-07-09 15:48:33

Weird how these people are able to recognize that demand inelasticity is a thing when they're justifying higher fast food prices on behalf of the industry, but immediately forget it when they claim higher wages would result in unemployment.
It's almost like they're a bunch of hacks who tailor their understanding of "economics" to suit their donors' interest.
https://fee.org/articles/why-are-fast-food-prices-so-high/

2024-07-04 22:38:19

With that "in valuing given conditions and alternatives," Rothbard gives the whole game away. Marginalist economics is predicated on ignoring the institutional structures and initial property rules that DETERMINE the conditions and alternatives, and then treating the outcomes of those structures as spontaneous and voluntary.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/730/607/027/945/421/original/be99acea48c63d0b.png

2024-07-04 15:16:14

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@npub15xl…dj0q Already done yesterday.

2024-07-04 15:15:41

This really started kicking in with the expansion of the security state immediately after 9/11. It just took 20 years of right-wing cultural creep with the Tea Party and MAGA, before an outright fascist presidential candidate showed up openly promising to exploit the ready-made legal tools at his disposal.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/728/872/976/255/598/original/1bd840c35f5791c7.jpg

2024-07-03 15:47:00

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"
https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/heritage-foundation-president-celebrates-supreme-court-immunity-decision-we-are

2024-07-02 16:48:52

“Plans are already in motion to use this new, historic court decision as a legal shield to help a potential second Trump administration implement his extreme policy agenda with less concern for rules and laws, sources with knowledge of the matter say.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-team-stunned-supreme-court-immunity-christmas-1235051244/

2024-07-01 18:23:05

Reminds me of the way the Catholic Church punishes child molesters by transferring them to another parish.
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/officer-who-shot-killed-tamir-rice-hired-at-west-virginia-police-department

2024-06-30 22:35:15

If Clifton wants to avoid embarrassment, maybe he should take a look at the city's association with Gerald L. K. Smith.
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/06/28/uproar-in-eureka-city-official-resigns-following-erasure-of-drag-queen-from-promotional-reel

2024-06-29 17:50:40

This seems to assume that "property rights" are simply recognized by government -- as opposed to being defined or created by it.
In fact, the customary rights that predated the state were mostly communal, and modern "private property" -- in the sense of land as a marketable commodity that could be controlled by absentee owners -- was a creation of the state.
https://fee.org/articles/responding-to-reich-part-2-yes-the-government-obstructs-the-market/

2024-06-27 20:01:37

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@npub1d7j…u8xc That's why it irritates me when people say "Our standard of living was built on fossil fuels." No, the 80% level of waste in producing our standard of living was built on cheap fossil fuels.

2024-06-27 19:58:32

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@npub179g…9k5n Thank you :)

2024-06-27 19:54:20

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@npub1d7j…u8xc Hell, even running an air intake pipe 8" underground would add next to nothing to the cost of a new house, and eliminate most of the heating/cooling cost.

2024-06-27 19:53:03

Welcome aboard the "Cancelled For My Opinions(TM)" gravy train! Be sure to pick up your Goolag t-shirt on the way in
https://www.pinkerite.com/2024/06/a-grifter-is-born-uri-berliner-joins.html
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/690/328/266/908/996/original/7be19e3a3dca4324.png

2024-06-27 19:33:37

This self-proclaimed free speech absolutist is aggressively deploying government power to kill the 'woke mind virus'
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/elon-musks-statist-road-to-free-speech

2024-06-27 19:21:46

Center for a Stateless Society » Walter Block: Once Again Defending the Undefendable — Part I
https://c4ss.org/content/59744

2024-06-27 18:54:27

The secret to decarbonizing buildings might be right under your feet | Grist
https://grist.org/climate-energy/decarbonizing-buildings-geothermal-network-solutions/

2024-06-27 14:37:28

Paramount+ out-Zaslavs Zaslav #Enshittification
https://www.indiewire.com/news/analysis/paramount-plus-content-cuts-movies-1234927985/

2024-06-25 17:00:57

The IDF deliberately targets journalists with drones and snipers.
Nothing a few hundred more repetitions of "Most Moral Army in the World(TM)!" and "Blood libel!" from hasbara bots won't fix.
https://theintercept.com/2024/06/25/israel-gaza-journalism-afp-office-bombing/

2024-06-25 16:56:02

Center for a Stateless Society » What’s In A Slogan? “KYLR” and Militant Anarcha-feminism
https://c4ss.org/content/59691

2024-06-25 16:27:35

Work. - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo

2024-06-25 14:54:42

This is why we need sites like Internet Archive to jailbreak and liberate content from its corporate copyright "owners," so they can't disappear our culture.
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/

2024-06-24 19:39:08

Center for a Stateless Society » Therapy for Radicals
https://c4ss.org/content/59685

2024-06-24 19:12:28

'There weren’t even that many ovens': Trump co-defendant's stunning comments on Holocaust - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trevian-kutti-2668593950/

2024-06-24 16:32:03

Remember when Trump tried to turn CBP/ICE into his personal Gestapo that would ignore court orders and legality? Multiply that x 10:
"Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homeland Security."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-president-project-2025-33d3fc2999a74f4aa424f1128dca2d16

2024-06-24 15:39:20

Dell gave employees an ultimatum to return to office some of the week or accept they were never eligible for a promotion ever again. Half the employees shrugged and stayed remote.
This is especially funny because middle management drove the policy with their obsession over control and status -- and then got publicly humiliated.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/nearly-half-of-dells-workforce-refused-to-return-to-the-office/

2024-06-24 15:33:47

Guy waited five years and paid $102k for a Cybertruck, crashed it after four hours of driving, only for Tesla to tell him that "the accelerator may or may not disengage when the brake is depressed" and that it will take $30k and one year to repair.
“Depressing the brake may not disengage the accelerator” - Tesla blames a four hour old Cybertruck customer for expecting the brakes to stop acceleration. : r/RealTesla
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1dlr7v8/depressing_the_brake_may_not_disengage_the/

2024-06-21 21:24:40

French Socialisms: From ‘Utopian Socialism’ to ‘Industrial Democracy’ | Cayce Jamil - Academia.edu
https://www.academia.edu/121289140/French_Socialisms_From_Utopian_Socialism_to_Industrial_Democracy_?email_work_card=title

2024-06-21 18:32:12

Copyright Nazis strike again:
If you found out that 500,000 books had been removed from your local public library, at the demands of big publishers who refused to let them buy and lend new copies, and were further suing the library for damages, wouldn’t you think that would be a major news story? Wouldn’t you think many people would be up in arms about it?
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-deleted-from-the-internet-archives-lending-library/

2024-06-21 15:52:13

John Oliver did a deep dive on Project 2025 tonight that should be required viewing. Frightening shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s

2024-06-21 15:08:24

"when a photo of armed police accompanies a report of a protest, respondents are more likely to describe the protest as violent...these results are the strongest among white respondents"
How Police Behavior Shapes Perceptions of Protests: Evidence from Black Lives Matter
https://arwhite.mit.edu/sites/default/files/images/protestpolicing_spring2024resub.pdf

2024-06-20 18:07:37

My latest at C4SS: https://c4ss.org/content/59688

2024-06-20 16:19:32

https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/649/850/855/430/525/original/30063ddcee75f473.jpg

2024-06-19 17:49:12

40 Acres and a Lie – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/40-acres-and-a-lie/