Big tech relies on the victims of economic collapse.
https://restofworld.org/2021/refugees-machine-learning-big-tech/
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Labour under Keir Starmer sucks. File under digital gated communities…
"Labour’s proposed solution, however, was even more baffling. It proposed creating a “next-generation neighbourhood watch” by placing police hubs around the country and tapping technology like video doorbells and Whatsapp groups to help surveil communities."
— https://mailchi.mp/techwontsave.us/amazon-is-always-watching
Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution is fantastic. Over a hundred inspiring posters celebrating moments of resistance and revolution.
The posters: https://justseeds.org/project/cph/
The book:
https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/celebrate-peoples-history-second-edition
(Christmas 2020 present from my bro that I finally just received.)
Protect public spaces
"when public spaces are eliminated, so ultimately is the public; the individual has ceased to be a citizen capable of experiencing and acting in common with fellow citizens" — Rebecca Solnit
The government is playing chicken with GPs. Ultimately to undermine the NHS. Part of a narrative that Sajid Javid wants to push that it is to blame for any shortcomings. A narrative aided and abetted by papers like the Daily Mail.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/oct/21/face-off-the-government-versus-gps
Heh, Truth Social is an (uncredited) fork of Mastodon.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump
Crikey mikey. It’s like a Javanese Mind Flayer
Robot dogs with guns. What could possibly go wrong.
> If money, according to Augier, ‘comes into the world with a congenital bloodstain on one cheek,’ capital comes dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt.
― Marx, Capital, Vol. 1
True fact: the Thinkpad nipple mouse thingy was designed to allow you to carry on working when your cat has rocked up and sat on you and most of the trackpad.