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Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users
#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person
They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"
@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen
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China already has many stores. And all are subject to their regulation Google is now copying.
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China is turning the screw on app distribution in the country
China announces new regulations requiring all app providers to register business detailsMatthew Zucca (Android Police)
Do you remember the first slogan of google ? The "don't be evil" ?
Google is clearly evil now.
@marcprux
I hope that Google changes its mind, but as a shareholder company, they aren't a community. So I don't hold out too much hope.
But what I do hope is that AOSP eventually forks from Google, and other Open source mobile OS's start growing their market share away from Google. Its time for these options to go mainstream. We need F-Droid to be there for this.
Eventually we need an OpenAPK standard to build around that is not reliant on Google.
Would this new policy apply to F-Droid on /e/ OS and LineageOS? Both of those are 'de-googled' so I'm curious how far that goes.
Stop Google from limiting APK file usage
Google is attempting to block the use of side loaders and APK files to download apps outside of their play store by requiring developers to submit their IDs and addresses.Brian Wahl (Change.org)
I completely agree with everything written by F-Droid, and I have signed the petition, but still this is the reminder for all developers why should prefer the only truly free platform for development of applications, which is the Internet itself, and #Webapp s . Yes, it is not fit for every application, but everywhere else you are #Sharecropper on your master’s plantation.
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Thank you, @timbray for reminding us!
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Questa azienda ha trovato un modo geniale per dire addio al polistirolo: imballaggi fatti… con i funghi! Un packaging naturale, compostabile, che protegge i prodotti come fa il polistirolo ma senza inquinare per centinaia di anni.
Meno AI e più questi tipi di innovazione che dovremmo vedere ovunque. 🌍✨
🌱 Altre innovazioni per un mondo migliore le trovi nel gruppo @ambiente@diggita.com, se ti appassionano le soluzioni concrete per un pianeta più sano, unisciti alla conversazione!
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Il link al loro sito.
magicalmushroom.com/
Home Page
Magical Mushroom Company harnesses the natural flexibility and strength of mycelium, the material structure of fungi, to grow mushroom packagingmagicalmushroom.com
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@mariosiniscalchi bello anche se resta ancora il problema del costo. Vedo che un se per mettere al sicuro una bottiglia o una candela sta a circa 1.5£ medi.
Con quel costo un'azienda ci imballa almeno 10 bottiglie con il package tradizionali.
Ben vengano comunque iniziative del genere perché presto verranno scalate per diventare più economiche ed appetibili a chi dell'ambiente se ne frega e guarda solo al profitto.
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Per essere competitivo bisogna che si, implementi il sistema e che si tenga conto del costo di smaltimento.
Poi ok, per un bene a basso costo pagare d+ imballaggio è penalizzante, ma una elettronica costosa pagare 1€ in più a fronte di un bel ritorno di immagine valga la pena.
Vedo che han servito Raymarine.
Chi ama il mare è sensibile all'argomento e sapere che il nuovo GPS o RADAR non contribuisce ad inquinare il mare se spende 1000 o 1005€ non fa differenza
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Il problema è che il cliente potrebbe spendere anche quei 5 euro di più su una certa fascia di prezzo, ma sono i produttori ad essere avidi
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Sono molto critico dell'IA generativa, sin dagli albori, ma ho sempre parlato con piacere con chi la sostiene.
Più passa il tempo, più li vedo fare atti di contorsionismo per ignorare quanto sia problematica. Sospendiamo un attimo le questioni etiche e parliamo solo di quelle pratiche:
1) è impossibile assemblarsi un PC perché non si trovano RAM, hard disk e GPU (se prima erano colpiti solo i gamer, ora sono colpitx tuttx)
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2) I prodotti consumer sono sempre più costosi e non riescono a uscire (Valve e Sony stanno rinviando le console, etc.)
3) I data center, anche ignorando i problemi ambientali, spuntano come funghi e rendono la vita un inferno a chi li ha vicini. Banalmente, consumano così tanto che aumentano a dismisura il costo della corrente, che è un bene di necessità primaria.
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Sarebbe sensato se stessimo parlando di una tecnologia in grado di risolvere i grandi problemi dell'umanità.
Un simile investimento di risorse sarebbe giustificabile a fronte di grandi salti nella medicina e nella logistica.
Invece sono macchine che non fanno nulla che prima non potessimo fare, e che nonostante le bugie di chi vuole vendercele lo fanno peggio di noi.
Sono interessanti? Sfiziose? Divertenti? Sì, volendo. Ma valgono questi incubi logistici? No. Chi ci guadagna? Non noi.
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Il sistema, sviluppato da questo mio professore, veniva usato già attivamente al San Martino di Genova, se non erro per le diagnosi di tumore alla tiroide. Lo stesso professore aveva collaborato con un altro mio professore per il sistema di riconoscimento dei Codici Postali non ricordo se in Australia o Nuova Zelanda.
E le applicazioni continuano a esserci, ma fanno meno rumore delle foto e dei video di Sora e compagnia
@ziriuz84 Non a caso ho specificato "IA generativa". Sono d'accordo, lo spiegavo un paio di giorni fa in una lezione: l'IA è un campo dell'informatica che esiste dagli Anni 60 e il machine learning è una tecnologia importantissima.
Anzi, sono proprio arrabbiato con il marketing di OpenAI e affini per aver appiattito il significato ed essersi appropriati del termine (danneggiando tra l'altro chi si occupa di IA negli altri campi).
Tra l'altro mi pare probabile che una rete neurale come quelle citate da Sirio Negri richieda per funzionare hardware molto meno potente, o almeno quantità molto minori di hardware potente, e che consumi una frazione di elettricità minima rispetto a quella consumata da un LLM "generativo" già a parità di tempo di utilizzo; e sicuramente le reti neurali usate in campo medico o altri campi specifici in cui sono utili, nel loro insieme consumano tanto meno per il semplice fatto che vengono impiegate molto meno diffusamente e molto più raramente, per compiti tanto più utili, mentre i Large Language Model "che danno risposte su tutto a tutti" e consumano tanto di più e abbisognano a monte di moli di dati enormi hanno ancora tassi di errore molto elevati.
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E pure se di per sé il tasso di errore fosse azzerabile e azzerato sul piano tecnologico, rimarrebbero necessariamente tecnologie estremamente centralizzate, perché sono pochi i soggetti che hanno i capitali necessari a svilupparle, e sono soggetti che hanno come unico o di gran lunga prevalente obiettivo il consolidamento e l'aumento dei propri profitti, del proprio privilegio e del proprio potere, che hanno dimostrato nel tempo di non farsi alcun problema a raccontare grandi falsità, e quanto più la fiducia nelle loro "IA" si consolidasse tanto più potrebbero farlo anche con quelle, introducendovi bias per loro profittevoli a questo scopo.
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già.
Ho sempre trovato angosciante il fatto che si siano “appropriati” di un campo così delicato come quello della creatività, della generazione di testi, immagini, suoni, automatozzandoli.
Da un lato credo permettono a tutti di avere accesso a un'esperienza di “creazione” che altrimenti sarebbe preclusa, richiedendo anni di tentativi e fallimenti. Dall'altro, velocizzano questi “processi” e li mettono chiavi in mano a chiunque con la scusa della democratizzazione.
Un aspetto è che forse certe richieste verso le ai sono determinate dall'individualismo sempre maggiore, l'incapacità dell'essere umano di stare in società (senza guerre o predare sul prossimo)
E porterà a un sempre maggiore individualismo, in cui un essere umano sarà accompagnato da n ai e robot e sempre meno umani, e gli umani saranno al massimo avversari
Vivo questo problema quotidianamente e non ho la soluzione, letterlamente c'è chi è costretto.
Io certi tipi di modelli li utilizzo per sviluppare farmaci.
Un po' di mesi fa ci siamo aggiudicati un po' di soldi ed abbiamo deciso di cominciare a montarci un nostro piccolo cluster di calcolo in modo da non dover dipendere sempre dai centri di super computazione.
Credo che ad oggi abbiamo un 150,000€ da spendere a questo proposito.
Per iniziare abbiamo fatto un ordine piccolino: un rack con un server e un paio di GPU, saranno un 25-30 mila euro o giù di lì.
Già sono passati un po' di mesi e qualche settimana fa è arrivato il rack. Di lì a poco ci ha chiamato l'azienda che dice che li hanno contattati quelli di Lenovo che dato che sono aumentati i prezzi dei componenti (tutto già pagato, s'intende) non assicuravano inviarci il server.
Nulla, al momento brancoliamo nel buio: a quanto pare nessuno ha schede grafiche. Stiamo seriamente pensando di metterci a comprare schede usate, perché i soldi li dobbiamo spendere.
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C'è chi ci ha provato ma i risultati sono abbastanza scarsi.
Certe architetture sviluppate per gli LLM però si usano in altri modelli, ad esempio AlphaFold utilizza meccanismi di attenzione.
Poi non è solo machine learning, molto del calcolo è semplicemente risoluzione di equazioni.
@elettrona Qui il link all'audiolibro: podcast.kenobit.it/@assaltoall…
Capisco cosa intendi. Penso che l'IA generativa abbia applicazioni utili, soprattutto nell'accessibilità. La mia amica Greta Carrara, che con il suo collettivo Giochiamoci si occupa di accessibilità ai videogiochi per non vedenti (e non solo) dice giustamente che in certi ambiti l'IA è stata una svolta.
QUELLO è un uso interessante. La buona notizia è che le cose più utili si possono fare con modelli in locale, meno "spreconi".
@elettrona Sì, il fatto che la macchina non sia in grado di sapere se sta dicendo il vero oppure no è un problema insormontabile di questa tecnologia. E anche il fatto che, per questo, ti dica sempre di sì.
Per questo servirebbe parlarne in maniera concreta, fuori dall'hype, ma è veramente difficile farlo con il chiasso del marketing.
meno male che non c'erano i cellulari!
Tra irc e i mud via telnet, praticamente campeggiavo nei laboratori dell'università !
@elettrona bene, così inizio ad ascoltarlo. Spero che ci sia la possibilità di scaricare gli episodi e ascoltarli offline, se no va bene anche così.
Cavolo, sono ancora triste per la cosa del drm...
c'e' il feed rss, lo aggiungi a un client per podcast tipo antennapod, e te lo scarica tutto
@luca
Avrei preferito un pulsante "scarica" sulla piattaforma web.
Comunque, con "downloadHelper" già da tempo nel browser, non ho faticato a scaricare i file per poi ascoltarmeli a zonzo non connesso.
Soprattutto mi sarebbe piaciuto incontrare @kenobit quando è venuto a presentare il libro gancio.cisti.org/event/present… ; purtroppo quel giorno son rimasto incastrato in altri impegni 😕
Libro prezioso e ottimo ascolto, comunque.
Da seguire: @assaltoallepiattaforme
Presentazione del libro “Assalto alle piattaforme” di e con KenobitInizia: Mercoledì Febbraio 11, 2026 @ 6:00 PM GMT+01:00 (Europe/Rome)Finisce: Mercoledì Febbraio 11, 2026 @ 9:00 PM GMT+01:00 (Europe/Rome)MERCOLEDì 11 FEBBRAIO Dalle ore 18
Alla Blackout House in Via Cecchi 21/A Presentazione del libro “Assalto alle piattaforme” di e con Kenobit
Le piattaforme digitali si nutrono del nostro tempo e ironicamente siamo proprio noi a darglielo. Facendo scorrere sui nostri smartphone la cascata infinita di contenuti selezionati dagli algoritmi diventiamo meri target pubblicitari, siamo complici dei nostri sfruttatori, anzi, peggio: lavoriamo gratis per loro. I danni cognitivi e sociali che ci stanno infliggendo questi meccanismi sono così radicati nella normalità che non riusciamo a metterli in dubbio. L’obiettivo di “Assalto alle piattaforme” di Kenobit è di smontare questi meccanismi, analizzarli e capire come possiamo scendere da questa giostra, e perché no, sabotarla.
Alla presentazione del libro, dopo la chiacchiera, ci sarà un momento di mutuo aiuto digitale, dove chi vorrà potrà installare dei software alternativi sui propri telefoni, ricevere spiegazioni sul fediverso e tutte cose!
@Pare
Ti ha dato l'indirizzo del suo server castopod, che e' proprio una di queste piattaforme di cui parla nel libro.
L'audiolibro e' distribuito come un podcast standard, e non ha ancora finito di leggerlo.
Il feed rss ha il vantaggio di permettere di iscriversi, cosi' ti accorgi dell'uscita dei nuovi capitoli e li puoi anche scaricare automaticamente.
Castopod permette anche di ricevere notifiche in timeline, tramite il fediverso
Poi certo, alla fin fine sono solo file mp3.
sono d'accordo su quello che dici sull'AI-gen. In questo caso però vorrei sottoporre il mio punto di vista da studente universitario.
L'AI-gen, sempre se usata con criterio, aiuta molti studenti a sbobinare il materiale preso durante la lezione, crea dei quiz/flashcard per aiutare a memorizzare le nozioni e organizza il lavoro in maniera eccellente. Come hai detto tu è tutta roba che sapevamo fare anche prima dell'AI, ma impiegando una quantità di tempo decisamente maggiore.
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Penso che il "tutto o niente" sia una trappola concettuale che conduce inevitabilmente alla sensazione di inutilità.
Esistono certamente scale organizzative intermedie, per capirci da piccoli o medi gruppi di persone, che seppure non cambieranno il mondo domani possono influire sulla vita di chi vi partecipa.
Ma ciò implica attivarsi e accettare i limiti del reale, compreso che per la maggior parte del tempo non ci si sentirà supereroi (contro la municipale).
Risolvere il mondo è un problema che non è alla portata di nessuno, neanche di chi il potere ce l'ha visto che si basa su inguistizie strutturali, ma migliorare la propria esistenza e l'impatto che ha sulla realtà è possibile nella misura in cui riusciamo a organizzarci in modo definito per obiettivi specifici. E a furia di obiettivi specifici, e se vuoi in sé limitati, non è detto che non si arrivi a qualcosa di più comprensivo.
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Temperatures Rising: NASA Confirms 2024 Warmest Year on Record - NASA
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí.NASA
Ma non è tanto l'attaccamento alla specie, è che noi in prima persona, o i nostri figghioli quando ne abbiamo, vivremo robe sempre più pesanti, vite sempre più pesanti, stentate, cheppalle.
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I'd rather pay tax any day!
I don't understand people not wanting to pay their share of tax; we ALL benefit.
Yes, there's a lot of that thinking but I'm hopeful that gradual growth of Green Party membership worldwide proves otherwise.
Not sure about glasses outside of the US, is that a separate charge?
Right. My glasses broke six years ago, I cannot afford an exam, nor have the funds to get one.
If taxes go towards medical expenses, it should extend to the nearly blind as well. The longer we go without glasses the worse our eyes get. I know that is impossible in the US. However, for the countries that do have a universal health care, maybe petitioning the government departments that run these programmes and asking them to extend the medical benefits?
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True, although it is not every day. We still have lots of work to do!
All told we're probably paying about as much. Especially with the mad king randomly taxing stuff now.
We just get nothing for it. Absolutely nothing. Every penny goes into corporate pockets now.
Oh god I wish I knew the answer...
All I can say is the biggest thing is people have to care. Most don't until it actually affects them. And then it's too late.
We need unity first . Where both who are affected and those who are not join hands against the common cause. How can these people be joined together?
@nuwagaba2 You're asking me to answer a question that a lot of much smarter people than me have been pondering for some time.
I can only say that I wish I knew.
That's okay. I just wanted to see whether we have the same idea. Education can be a better way out. If we cab educate the people and the children the importance of togetherness, we can address such a challenge. Because they want us divided, that's why the children even at school are not allowed to help each other during tests and exams. Can i share with you about my project?
Thanks for everything . Are there some ideas , knowledge and connections that you can share with us to help us move forward ?
That's right. The best way of preventing a prisoner from escaping is by not letting him know that he's a slave. Are the people aware that their freedom is slowly being taken away?
Who will establish those schools and implement that kind of education?
@TheComfortableSpotPodcast @nuwagaba2 @nazokiyoubinbou
That should be Denmarks/the EU's answer to sending a hospital ship to where nobody needs one because the health system is much better than in the states.
Lets fund US schools and universities to teach Americans how people can actually live in a democracy, how "we, the people" actually works when the "we" is not the oligarchs. How their riches can actually benefit PEOPLE, those who have been exploited to accumulate that wealth for the very few.
And I've always been for creating a fund that would finance European student exchange years for American teenagers so that they can see through all that nationalist propaganda. That would easily finance itself by saving hundreds of millions or even billions wasted through silly trade wars because those people would oppose to electing another crazy isolationist. 100,000 students a year. That would have an effect.
It's not America which helps spreading democracy. It's America which needs help building real democracy at home. One that can't be bought so easily.
I really appreciate such a great work. If had the ability, I would have also funded it. But now, we need to focus on spreading the gospel of democracy amongst people in order to join efforts towards a common cause.
Don't use that term for the RIGHTS Europeans have fought for, and which are only possible because we have democracies where the common good is not an empty phrase. That's the difference between having parliamentary representation of citizens and an oligarchy where people are hoping for "benefits" from their master, err..., employer.
Democracy is slowly vanishing which makes people not to enjoy the rights they once fought and are now paying for. What can bring power back in the hands of the people?
I disagree with the vanishing. Democracies worldwide are under attack from antidemocrats. The US oligarchs. The Russofascists. The Chinese capitalist communists. To name only the biggest fish here.
They all see democracies as an obstacle in their power games. They are funding and supporting especially right wing parties with propaganda and fake news aiming at dividing the EU, to weaken it and to destroy it, the largest entity of western democracy in this world. BUT, democracy is not receding. It's bending like a tree in a storm. The more it is under pressure, the more do people realize how important it is. Strong civil societies can withstand such attacks. But it's not an easy task, no question.
But ironically, here in the EU, and seemingly in Canada and other places, the orange attacks kind of make it easier. Dump is the best helper to revive the silent majority, so to speak. By being so immorally disgusting, by being a vulgar, corrupt idiot, big-mouthed, and empty of moral values, and completely free of empathy, he shows everybody what we HAVE and don't want to lose.
When it comes to the global south, I don't know enough to have an educated opinion. Probably, it all has to start with grassroot campaigning and convincing people that these strongmen I listed are not the solution but the problem.
It would be easy for people to join together and fight for themselves if they knew that they're being deceived , blinded and brainwashed to an extent of being unable to know that they're being enslaved indirectly within the system. Won't people find out when it's too late to make a change?
Isn't education the best weapon against propaganda? You can only brainwash people who are not aware of the facts, and are unable to differentiate between facts and fiction. The problem is when people have not learned critical thinking and self-reflection.
And I don't mean conspiracy theorists who probably think they were the best critical thinkers available. In a complicated world, simple answers are usually wrong. But understanding the complicated ones is often tiresome and hard. That's why conspiracy theories from UFO nonsense to antivaxxer lies are so en vogue in some circles. In the best case, they are simply misled into believing nonsense. In the worst case, they are purposely led away from more important issues.
What I mean is that the ability to reflect on information and weigh different sources against each other and come to an educated conclusion based on PLAUSIBILITY and KNOWLEDGE is the best antidote against brainwashing. Education!
Take the antivaxxer movement. Their ideas are backed by NO scientific evidence. RFK's agitation against measle vaccination, for instance, has led to an epidemic in the US. Children have died from a disease that was practically eradicated. Even more have permanent damage. But those numbers are CONCENTRATED within those who won't vaccinate their children. QED
You're right and am so impressed by your critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, in placeslike my own country, the government feeds people with the information it wants them to hear. The illiteracy levels are so high where a very big number of people can't be deceived and besides that, people are distracted through entertainment, sports and social media which makes them unable to pay attention to the reasons behind and policy. Can I share with you about my project?
Sure! I'm always curious to hear from other places. Although I'm not so sure that I myself are so impressed with my own skills. 😉
That's the crux not only in your country. People seem to forget what's important, and with the advent of social media, the ways to get yourself lost in meaningless entertainment have exploded. Not that the mechanisms had changed. Even back 2 millennia ago, the Romans knew that "Bread and Games" will keep the poeple from rioting.
Only the media have changed, and maybe the attention span. Hence, a government that has the media in its hand can do bad things with them. Literacy rates are probably only one factor in this.
But I'm curious, what's the primary source of information for those people you are referring to? TV/Radio? Or their mobiles? And if so, how do they use the phones when they are illiterate?
It's about fighting hunger in my community, I work with 12 young volunteer farmers to make this a reality by growing food for the needy, educating local farmers with advanced agricultural skills to help them improve on their production as well as equipping beginner farmers with required tools like seeds , fertilisers and organic pestcides to help them produce the best out of their gardens as well combat climate change through tree planting. Do you have such initiatives there?
That sounds a lot like this:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiffeis…
(translate the German page into English, the English page is only about the banks)
During the industrialization, there were many initiatives like this for cooperative associations in Germany, along with social reforms and worker associations, aka unions. Germany is the land of cooperatives anyway. 😉 Which the Americans would call "socialist" (which it is not) because they are conditioned that you have to be "better than everybody else and fight alone" and not collaborate to make it better FOR everybody. But what happens there is that the individual is weak and is exploited by corporations who tell them that "SOSHALISM" is bad. Talk about propaganda by the ruling class...
For Germany (and, in similar ways, the rest of Europe), this is exactly what brought prosperity to the communities of farmers and also workers. Cooperate, bundle resources, knowledge, and money.
I think it's a great thing you are doing because poverty is best fought together.
@HarryMutt
If people we're not affected by the capitalistic mindsets, the world would be better. Our initiative is currently under a crisis where we have been forced away from the land we have rented for two years to do our activities. We're doing our best tj raise funds and purchase pur own land which would be a big step towards making our dream a reality. Your support via our gofund.me page would make a significant impact towards that goal.
We all would like to form such initiatives and unions to make our countries better places but since people are so divided, it makes it hard for them to join efforts towards a common cause. We have many different tribes, ideologies and the worst of all, we have democratic dictators and oppressors who keep people divided intentionally in order to stay in power. Within such a divided nation, what can make people united?
If I knew the answer to that, I'd earn a Nobel prize.
I can only look back at our own history, and I have to tell you, it took a long time, and also many wars and conflicts. My country alone is the best example. Divided into up to 300 states, from small city states to large ones like Prussia, it was often the place of proxy wars between the big powers. Most notably the war of 30 years where they all fought on German soil, in volatile coalitions, and pretending it was about religion, which, of course, was an excuse to gain power. England, France, Austria, Sweden, and a few others who sent their armies. And as if this hadn't been bad enough, after that war, some of them just took a piece out of the cake and kept it. If that sounds familiar for you, well, I guess, there is a reason for it. Then, the first, nationalist, unification of Germany was a reaction to the Napoleonic occupation which led to nationalism all over Europe, which also fired up the wish for a strong and united Germany. And it was not a peaceful unification. Where this all led to in the 20th century can be read in history books.
Tribalism still exists in Germany, and in the whole of the EU, of course. But at least the latter is not a forced unification, although it was a reaction to the terrible wars before. Sometimes, reason does work.
I read about the European history and studied how the Italy and Germany fought to unify themselves despite the hindrance of Austria, Vienna settlement, Metternich system and other factor. I also learnt how Otto Von Bismarck, Hamilton Cavour, Kaiser William 1 , Victor Emmanuel among others fought hard to create the countries we admire now. This shows that our countries are backwards over 150 years back and we still have a huge battle to fight.
We can't just sit and see our countries drown in disunity that has kept our countries backwards in all aspects of life . We can't wait to see what the government will do for us bug instead work hard to do something for our people and the government. We believe that change starts with us doing something we can no matter how small it is.
Better don't admire so much what they created. By today's standards, they were war criminals. And what they created was the foundation for colonialism, two world wars, and more than one genocide, also on the African continent.
Today's Germany has not much in common with what they imagined. Democratic, inklusive, pluralistic, not nationalistic like theirs. Not "we against them", or worse, the out-of-context misinterpretation of "Deutschland über alles" (which meant "a united Germany over the fragmented entity that was not a real nation like everybody else had one". Instead a country that is built on human rights, equality, not submission, cooperation, not confrontation. Flawed, and full of people who want back to the old ways of nationalism, racism, and imperialism. But they are a loud minority. The majority has long realized that real prosperity comes from cooperation, not wars. The people you listed would feel very displaced in this country which has values so far from theirs.
But those were the lessons from the unimaginable crimes that were committed in this nation's name.
Don't admire countries or historical people. Stay with being a human being with empathy for others and take from our history what suits your situation best. At least, we can serve as bad example, sometimes even as a good one.😀
That's right, we can copy the good from them amd shape our country into something better. World wars were meant to happen but it's unfortunate that it was these unified countries that made them happen. These individuals saw a better world amd countries than what we see now. They hoped and worked for something better . I know Otto Von Bismarck was the foundation for African colonialism through the Berlin conference which is making our countries to suffer up to now.
Anyway, I think what you are doing is the right way. Convincing people to work together, that they have common interest to come together and put their stuff together. That the whole is more than the sum of its parts. All too often, this only happens with a negative narrative, "we against the others". But if it happens out of positive sentiments, "we, the people, together", it is a much more stable foundation to build on.
Your support matters alot towards us and our community. Sharing and donating to our page makes us motivated and inspired to keep keep going with a strong belief that we're not alone.
Learning how to use a phone doesn't require someone to be educated . There are hundreds and thousands of people in my community who who use smart phones although they're not educated. Here we have the UCC which regulates the kind of information showed on TVs, radios and some medias. It becomes easy for them to decide the kind of information to be shown by people more especially the youths and the children. This also plays a big part in keeping people divided and reluctant.
Many of our European sovereign wealth or pension funds are probably invested in the US system and extracting 'value' too. We have outsourced labour exploitation to China and financial exploitation to the US.
“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There are many other benefit to Norwegian taxes.
Lots of people have really good govt jobs here. Good conditions with good pay. This places pressure on corporations to offer good conditions as well. Everyone benefits even if they don't work for the govt.
They also have a wealth tax, which has the net effect of keeping housing affordable. Instead of investors buying lots of houses to rent out and driving up the cost of home ownership, people have a real shot at buying a home to live in.
The third benefit I should mention is everyone in Norway gets to bitch and moan about how much tax they pay, because they have so much time off work to gather and talk to one another!
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La nostra intervista al magistrato Luigi Marini
Separazione delle carriere e democrazia a rischio: perché questa riforma della magistratura va fermata nelle urne
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Milano-Cortina, la famigerata Ice arriva in Italia per la sicurezza delle Olimpiadi
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As a holiday treat, we bring you a new conversation with author and Organized Money alum Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. Recorded earlier this year at a live book event,...Buzzsprout
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I love this succinct definer: "classical social democratic politics—the era of generous redistribution and worker protections"
From the Ganz "Politics and Capitalist Stagnation" article linked in your post.
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oh nice analogy! Coincidentally I just spammed out a thread about the category mistake and how it leads us (or at least, AI researchers and some AI "critics") to worry about something that will never happen, instead of the thing that has already been happening forever
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Great speech, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves:
> The AI Safety people say they are worried that AI is going to end the world
I’m just going to stop you right there and point you to some of Robert Miles’s essays: youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI
because it’s not about that, and he (much better than I could) will give you several reasons to care about AI Safety before AGI is even plausible.
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Videos about Artificial Intelligence Safety Research, for everyone. AI is leaping forward right now, it's only a matter of time before we develop true Artificial General Intelligence, and there are a lot of different ways that this could go badly wr…YouTube
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Thanks for sharing this and I will take a look.
I will say I think what is important and that Cory raises quite well is understanding the power dynamics of this, which is we need more unions and more negotiation on this from the workers side that is the true safety to the workers no matter the industry.
Paused to say, AI doing imaging evaluations has worried me since I first heard of it, and now you have given a whole other ($ milking) shape to the concern, and I don't know how to finish this thought.
Nightmares ahead.
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2. "Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market ...""
My jaw just hit the floor. This pop! is going to hurt.
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When does "alternative money" just become the equivalent of worthless coal town company scrip?
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Coal barons **hated** FDR for outlawing company scrip in 1938.
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Now company scrip is back again. With all its pernicious uses.
When a company can fire you just before you vest your stock options, were you really paid for all that under-the-table overtime?
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Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage
By Jonathan Grossman When he felt the time was ripe, President Roosevelt asked Secretary of Labor Perkins, 'What happened to that nice unconstitutional bill you had tucked away?'DOL
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The saddest part about losing sectoral bargaining is that the only way we're going to successfully campaign to get it back is a full general strike, where *every* sector shuts down with the specific demand to repeal Taft-Hartley.
It ties back into how in a world of perfect law enforcement, social progress becomes impossible. The optimal amount of crime in society is not 0.
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"It's because in a creative market dominated by five publishers, four studios, three labels, two mobile app stores, and a single company that controls all the ebooks and audiobooks, giving a creative worker extra rights to bargain with is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money."
I gotta work that into a conversation sometime soon.
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Plus:
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok."
Evocative enough to make me cough.
I need to think more about it
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Una volta si parlava di cattura del regolatore o #regulatorycapture (andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit…). Ora invece il motto è: Don't capture the regulator: become the regulator!
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La notizia è rimbalzata in tutta #Europa come un boomerang di indignazione: l’#Irlanda ha nominato #NiamhSweeney, ex #dirigente e #lobbista di #Meta (#Facebook), come nuova #vicecommissaria per la #protezionedeidati personali. In altri tempi sarebbe stata una curiosità burocratica; oggi, nel cuore dell’era #digitale e sotto l’ombrello del #GDPR, è una bomba politica.
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An Italian journalist's car was destroyed by an explosive device.
An explosive device detonated under the vehicle of prominent Italian investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci overnight, as it was parked outside his home, without causing casualties, his investigative television news show announced on Friday
Italian leader Giorgia Meloni denounced it as a 'serious act of intimidation.'
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#SigfridoRanucci #Italy #Journalism #Ranucci #Media #Reporting #GiorgiaMeloni
An Italian journalist's car was destroyed by an explosive device.
An explosive device detonated under the vehicle of prominent Italian investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci overnight, as it was parked outside his home, without causing casualties, his investigative television news show …Le Monde
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L'attivista italiano Lorenzo Agostino, compagno di flottiglia, ha descritto come Greta sia stata umiliata in modo sistematico: bendata, ammanettata con ferri troppo stretti che le segavano i polsi, lasciata al gelo per ore senza un sorso d'acqua, in un trattamento che evoca le tattiche di un gruppo terroristico – ironia amara, considerando che Israele si autoproclama vittima.
Testimoni oculari confermano che l'hanno colpita ripetutamente, tirandole i capelli e costringendola a gesti contro la sua volontà, in celle infestate da cimici dove è stata buttata come spazzatura, obbligata a sedere su superfici dure per periodi interminabili, un'arma psicologica per annientare la resistenza. Queste non sono "perquisizioni necessarie": sono torture severe, paragonate apertamente ai crimini nazisti da Çelik stesso, un'eco orrenda che rivela l'ipocrisia di un regime che piange l'Olocausto mentre lo replica contro innocenti.
Greta, "solo una bambina" come l'ha definita un testimone, è stata picchiata, umiliata e violata in modi che gridano vendetta – un monito velenoso a chiunque osi portare aiuti a Gaza. Questo orrore su una giovane donna disarmata non è difesa: è barbarie pura, un crimine contro l'umanità che macchia per sempre l'anima di Israele e dei suoi complici silenziosi». poliversity.it/@emama/11532215…
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Folks, Salem needs a tent.
Thanks to your help, we were able to help him evacuate to the South last week during our Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal but we could not get him enough to also get a tent.
He’s now sharing a tent with another family and things are difficult.
Please help if you can and please share it so others can help also.
This is a link to his fundraiser: gofund.me/03d81d6e
And he is on Gaza Verified: gaza-verified.org
Thank you!
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@aral @joy I have evacuated to the south and am currently staying in my friend’s tent, but he is starting to feel uncomfortable because of the limited space. I beg you from the bottom of my heart to help me buy a tent for myself and my children.Salem Dawoud (Mastodon)
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Friends, today I face a challenge. My sister urgently needs her treatment — $160 covers her medicine for one week. Who will step up and help us make it happen today? Every dollar counts, and together we can give her the care she desperately needs. I believe in the power of community, and I know someone out there will be the first to answer this call. Please, if you can, be the reason she gets her treatment this week.
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My name is Eslam Mohammad, I’m 24 years old, and I’m from Gaza. Over the past year, I’ve lived through unimaginable horror. I lost my home, my work as a photographer and artist, my friends, and the sense of stability that once grounded me.Chuffed
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Folks, Eslam is one of our new members.
She is, herself, in Egypt but her family are based in Gaza.
Please help if you can and share.
This is her fundraiser: chuffed.org/project/128261-pho…
And she is on Gaza Verified: gaza-verified.org
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#Gaza #GazaVerified #mutualAid #fediAid
No One Should Starve for Being Born Here
My name is Eslam Mohammad, I’m 24 years old, and I’m from Gaza. Over the past year, I’ve lived through unimaginable horror. I lost my home, my work as a photographer and artist, my friends, and the sense of stability that once grounded me.Chuffed
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❗️❗️Purtroppo non potrò partecipare: per questo metto a disposizione il mio #PassStampa a chi fosse interessato. Se ti/vi serve, scrivimi e lo giro io.
Mercoledì e giovedì prossimi (10–11 settembre) #Berlino si trasformerà nel centro dell’#IntelligenzaArtificiale: sono attesi oltre 8.000 ospiti al #BIGBANGKIFESTIVAL presso la #AlteMünze (Molkenmarkt 31, 10179 Berlino) – il più grande evento #B2B d’#Europa dedicato all’#IA.
Il festival non è un convegno specialistico per pochi esperti, ma 1/n
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rende l’IA accessibile a un vasto pubblico: #imprenditori, #politica, #cultura, #media e #sport si incontrano per mostrare come l’#IntelligenzaArtificiale stia cambiando la nostra vita quotidiana, l’#economia e la #società.
Sul palco si alterneranno #figure di primo piano di #OpenAI, #Google, #SAP, #NVIDIA e molti altri #protagonisti della #tecnologia – insieme a voci note e #decisoripolitici, tra cui:
📍Karsten Wildberger (#MinistroperilDigitale)
📍Verona Pooth
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📍Jan Josef Liefers
📍Richard David Precht
📍Felix Kroos
📍Prof. Karl Lauterbach
📍Carsten Schneider (#MinistrodellAmbiente)
📍Christian Dürr (leader FDP)
📍Gregor Gysi
Il portale di prenotazione sarà attivo solo fino a lunedì alle ore 12.00!
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O meglio, vuoi aprire una attività di ricezione? Apri la partita iva tesoro e rispetta le norme di sicurezza. E poi ti fai vedere, non lasci le chiavi dentro quelle dannate minicassaforti che ti esimono dal presentarti ad aprire e mostrare la casa. Non è che dobbiamo diventare amici, è una compravendita vacanziera, ma almeno lo sbattimento di muovere il culo puoi anche farlo.
Non ti garba quanto sopra?
Tieni gli appartamenti sfitti apposta?
Te li tasso come la morte, vediamo quanta voglia hai di continuare a fare lo stronzo.
Il b&b non esiste più. Forse forse in paesini sperduti trovi ancora chi ti affitta una stanza di casa sua e ti siedi con lui a fare colazione, pane burro e marmellata (o cipolle e formaggio di capra, a seconda di quanto a est ci si sposta in Europa).
Tutto il resto è falsità
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Il sito #fightchatcontrol è stato tradotto in italiano da @pietro395 e ora non avete più scuse
L'UE vuole (ancora) scansionare
i tuoi messaggi e le tue foto private con #chatcontrol!
Siamo di fronte al più vasto programma di spionaggio dell'Unione Europea. Se volete far sentire la vostra voce, visitate questo sito:
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.fightchatcontrol.eu
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Ma questa è una cosa bellissima!!!! 🤩✨💫
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#riuso #riparazione #faidate #ambiente #EconomiaCircolare #chebello
"Riprendiamoci il diritto di riparare!
Aiutarci a far arrivare questo manifesto in ogni laboratorio, hackerspace e garage di tutto il mondo!"
(#IFIXIT)Manifesto Autoriparazione
Riprendiamoci il nostro diritto di riparazione! Aiutaci a far pubblicare questo manifesto in ogni workshop, hacker space e garage nel mondo!iFixit
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La #mastofficina è a disposizione di chiunque voglia ripararsi qualcosa, ci sono materiali di consumo a disposizione gratuitamente e c'è pure della birra in frigo, oltre allo know-how che ci metto io.
Secondo te quante persone arrivano ogni giorno?
Mi tocca controllare la data di scadenza della birra!
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Tempo libero.
Ma ogni tanto qualche persona si mette una mano sulla coscienza, come il tipo che mi portò 12 cavoli in cambio di 4 fori su una piastra per la motozappa.
@GustavinoBevilacqua che bellezza, vorrei tanto vivere nella tua zona per venire a trovarti.
Comunque stampo il manifesto e vedo se qualche realtà "schierata" della zona è interessata a mettere in piedi una cosa simile (o magari ce l'ha già e io non lo so), è davvero un'idea splendida.
Io ho armadietti pieni di roba che non voglio buttare perché "un giorno la riuserò". Potrebbe essere la volta buona.
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Risultati SORPRENDENTI da un nuovo studio su Nature Neuroscience: la sola vista di un malato attiva il sistema immunitario prima del contatto fisico. Immergiamoci in questa ricerca che ci offre un punto di vista veramente particolare. 🧪 1/7www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neural anticipation of virtual...
Neural anticipation of virtual infection triggers an immune response - Nature Neuroscience
Serino et al. show that seeing an infectious avatar approach the body in virtual reality triggers an immune response, indicating that the brain prepares the body to fight infections even for perceived, but not real, threats.Nature
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I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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Oh sure, you can tinker in the margins, and you should! Get a repairable laptop, like the Framework, which is the greatest computer I've ever owned, and run Linux on it (I use Ubuntu, which is easy to install). You'll spend two weeks looking around the UI for the thing you need to click on and then you'll stop noticing it altogether, forever:
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Access the internet via RSS, and avoid all the algorithmic twiddling and surveillance that subjects you and yours to the depredations of the worst people on earth and their feral algorithms:
citationneeded.news/curate-wit…
Give preference to high-security, private, open messaging tools like Signal. Open an account on a federated social media service, like Mastodon, and make it a first-class home for your online social life:
pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fir…
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Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already readMolly White (Citation Needed)
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Do all this! Do more! You'll make your life somewhat better, and in some cases, *much* better. But you're not going to fight enshittification this way. Enshittification is not the result of people making bad choices: it's the result of bad *policies* that produce bad *systems*.
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Enshittification makes for a neat *descriptive* account, talking about how platforms go bad:
> Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
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But the most important part of enshittification is its *causal* hypothesis: the answer it proposes to *why* this degradation is happening *everywhere*, right *now*:
pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/urs…
Here's why you're getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws. As a result, companies formed monopolies and cartels. This means that they don't have to worry about losing your business or labor to a competitor, because they don't compete.
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It means that they can handily capture their regulators, because they can easily agree on a set of policy priorities and use the billions they've amassed by not competing to capture their regulators. They can hold a whip hand over their formerly powerful tech workers, mass-firing them and terrorizing them out of any Tron-inspired conceits about "fighting for the user." Finally, they can use IP law to shut down anyone who makes technology that *disenshittifies* their offerings.
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You can take care to avoid enshittification, you can even make a fetish out of it, but without addressing these *systemic* failings, your individual actions will only get you so far. Sure, use privacy-enhancing tools like Signal to communicate with other people, but if the only way to get your kid to their little league game is to join the carpool group on Facebook, you're going to *hemorrhage* data about *everything* you do to Meta.
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Likewise, you can use privacy-preserving adblockers in your browser, but the instant you've got to do business with a monopoly that requires you to use their app, you will be totally helpless before them, because anti-circumvention law felonizes modifying an app so it preserves your privacy. An app is just a webpage skinned with the right kind of IP law to make it a jailable offense to install an ad-blocker:
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When all your friends are going to a festival, are you really going to opt out because the event requires you to use the Ticketmaster app (because Ticketmaster has a monopoly over event ticketing)? If so, you're not gonna have a lot of friends, which is a pretty shitty way to live.
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If you turn your personal campaign to live an enshittification-free life into a set of rigid practices that isolate you from your community, you will be miserable - and *you will undermine your ability to address the systemic roots of enshittification*.
That's because systemic problems have *systemic* solutions. They are addressed through mass movements, impact litigation, political action, street uprisings, mutual aid, and other forms of solidarity and community.
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The monsters who benefit from the status quo don't want you to know this. They want to brainwash you with Margaret Thatcher's mantra, "There is no such thing as society." They want you to think that you are a pathetic, atomized individual. They want you to die in a heatwave while gasping out your profound regret for not recycling more diligently and taking more care with your "carbon footprint."
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They want you to drive around for hours looking for an independent cardboard seller to make your protest sign with, convinced that it's more important to avoid shopping on Amazon than it is to actually show up at the protest outside the Amazon warehouse. They want you to curse yourself for failing to cycle and take the bus in your city where there are no bike lanes and the buses run every 45 minutes and stop at 8PM.
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If you wanted a livable city, you should have made better consumption choices! Perhaps you could dig your own subway, ever think of that, hmmm?
You, me and everyone we know have all been subjected to a 40-year blitz of anti-solidaristic propaganda, aimed at convincing us that we are only allowed to fight the system as individuals. Don't like your health care? Shop around! Don't like your boss? Quit your job!
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Under no circumstances should you advocate for either a union or socialized health-care. You're an individual, there is no such thing as society.
"There's no such thing as society" is what you say if you benefit from society (which absolutely exists) and don't want it to change.
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To make changes, you have to exist in society. Yes, the Democratic Party is a weak and pathetic failed gerontocracy, but the Democratic Socialists, the Sunrise Movement, and other political groups that are independent of the Dems but still drag them into doing something good, sometimes, all deserve your support.
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Yes, the union movement squandered the Biden years, refusing to spend its record-setting cash reserves on organizing, despite the millions of workers *begging* to join unions. But workplace democracy remains the only way that we ever have - or ever will - defeat capital, so join a union, form a union, support a union:
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Yes, plastic recycling is a scam cooked up by the petrochemical industry and all the plastic you stick in your blue bin either goes to an incinerator or a landfill, but if you don't support (and join up with) real environmental activists, you're going to roast alive:
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Where does the climate movement go from here?
In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.heated.world
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Yes, Israel is committing a genocide and Brown, Columbia, and other elite universities are capitulating to Trump, whose evangelical base believes that war in Israel will hasten the Second Coming, when all Jews will be cast into eternal damnation. But that doesn't relieve you of your responsibility to act to defend our Palestinian brothers and sisters from the death rained down on them with the weapons our governments send to Israel.
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That goes double for us Jews, in whose name the slaughter is being committed:
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My book on *Enshittification* is coming out in a couple of months, and the early reviews are already coming in, and they are gratifyingly glowing. But there's a trend in these reviews, a caveat that reviewer after reviewer has raised: my book is "short on individual solutions."
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Miriam Margolyes now the target of a smear campaign over Israel
As the Zionist lobby comes for Miriam Margolyes, it exposes itself as the cynical, colonialist operation it really is. Disgraceful.Ed Sykes (The Canary)
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You're goddamned right it is. Because this isn't an individual problem, it's a systemic one.
Sure, live the best life you can, making the best choices you can. But don't kid yourself that this is fighting enshittification.
The reason corporations spy on you isn't because you're too cheap to pay for media, so they must resort to surveillance advertising. Whether or not you pay a tech company, they will absolutely spy on you:
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The reason they can spy on you is that the US hasn't had a new consumer privacy law since 1988, when the Video Privacy Protection Act banned video store clerks from disclosing which VHS cassettes you took home. This is the last technological threat to our privacy that Congress has addressed. The reason you are spied upon is because there are no systemic consequences for this surveillance:
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The reason gig companies misclassify their workers as contractors in order to abuse them, steal their wages, and deny workplace protections is *because they can* - not because workers are insufficiently choosy about their employment.
To fight systemic problems you need to be part of a systemic solution.
For 23 and a half years, I've worked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the most enshittification-fighting organization in the world:
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending your rights in the digital worldElectronic Frontier Foundation
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EFF is a member-supported nonprofit. We rely on donors like you, and squeeze our budget hard. For as long as I've been with EFF, I've heard smears about how we're shills for Big Tech and dependent on them for our funding (hilariously I once heard that EFF's reps to a meeting were transported to it in a stretch limo paid for by Intel - except *I* was the rep at that meeting, and I took the bus). Here's all of our financial disclosures, see for yourself:
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Annual Reports and Financial Information
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a donor-funded, US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our tax ID number is 04-3091431. For an in-depth look, please see our most recent annual report, Form 990, and Donor Policy.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Donating to EFF is one way to fund the systemic rejection of enshittification. But if you want to *join* the fight - if you want to be part of a community that fights back - then you need to know about the Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA):
EFA is a network of independent community groups that EFF helps coordinate and advise. When one group is in trouble, we connect it with other groups that have overcome the same troubles.
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When one group scores a victory, held other groups replicate its successes in their towns. Our organizers also help people in communities that *don't* have EFA affiliates start groups and join the network.
I get it: this is harder work than changing your consumption habits. But it's infinitely more rewarding. You're more than a consumer. You can aspire to more dignity than is afforded to an ambulatory wallet:
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No one is coming to save us *except* us. There is such a thing as society, and you're a part of it, and so am I, and so are the rest of us:
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You can't fight enshittification. But together, *we* can.
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They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them
The government is going to destroy unions if we don't fight now.Hamilton Nolan (How Things Work)
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Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
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Can EFA help me start a group?
To join the EFA we ask groups have at least three active members, and have been active for at least three months. If you are just getting started, you are welcome to reach out to current EFA groups or the EFF organizing tem at organizing@eff.org for guidance. We also provide a number of useful EFA toolkits geared towards new organizers
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#Enshittification is enclosure by a new name. Capitalists have always used the structure of capitalism to avoid market competition because capitalism and markets are sometimes at odds.
I've created four "paradoxes" to describe how market capitalism undermines itself:
1. Property rights limit competition
2. Property rights enforcement invites exploitation
3. Markets reward secrecy but need transparency to function well
4. Market success undermines market competition
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@MidniteMikeWrites I'm familiar with enclosure obviously, but Enshittification isn't "enclosure by another name."
It describes the forces that historically prevented enclosure; it describes the policies that led to enclosure, and it specifies a sui generis mechanism, unique to digital tools, for extraction after enclosure.
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That’s fair. I said this because the use of property rights to create inescapable sites of extraction is the most salient part of enshittification for me. It’s also an easy (perhaps lazy) shorthand for pointing to how companies abuse political power.
But you’re right. There are specific whys and hows that make naive comparisons to enclosure unable to grapple with modern power. More reason to read your book!
Is there a way to make an analogy that works?
My grandmother used to say: „Do good and tell people. This way they will be encouraged to do good, too.
"To make changes, you have to exist in society. Yes, the Democratic Party is a weak and pathetic failed gerontocracy, but the Democratic Socialists, the Sunrise Movement, and other political groups that are independent of the Dems but still drag them into doing something good, sometimes, all deserve your support."
I agree. The DSA is trying to fill that gap. We've even started trying to fill the media gap in the SF Bay Area with our own worker-focused online newspaper, called the Bay Area Current - just launched in April. bayareacurrent.com/
Everyone is welcome.
Bay Area Current
Bay Area Current covers the news unabashedly from the left and highlights working-class issues too often ignored by the media.Bay Area Current
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Kinda unrelated, but that shelf supporting both the keyboard and stuff AND the monitor gives me anxiety.
I really hope it's well-anchored.
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In ritardo, ma non troppo, scopro che #TheCure hanno dato in pasto il loro "Songs of a Lost World" a 24 artisti e remixer da #FourTet passando passando per #Mogwai arrivando agli #Orbital per citare solo quelli che ricordo al volo ma ogni pezzo non è solo reinterpretazione ma una vera e prorpia espansione del lavoro originale.
Mixes of a Lost World
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Mixes Of A Lost World by The Cure
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Nuovo album di Werto: XAOC
Christ On A Crutch: Chaos.
This album rejects sacrifice.
It chooses to save the innocent sacrifical lamb,
while the guilty humanity falls into chaos.
Reveals the ritual of repudiation, war, ritual sacrifice, denied redemption, fragile freedom, and the final descent into XAOC.
Composed and performed on Game Boy DMG. Recorded live direct to Tascam; no mastering applied.
Tracklist:
[1.]
الرفض RIPUDIO
[2.]
كل حرب OGNI GUERRA (777)
[3.]
كل تضحية طقسية OGNI SACRIFICIO RITUALE. (prine 2025)
[4.]
البريء L'INNOCENTE (Star of Betlehem)
[5.]
لا يُكَفِّر NON ESPIA.
[6.]
أنا أُنقِذ الحمل SALVO L'AGNELLO.
[7.]
لا أُخَلِّص NON REDIMO
[8.]
نفسي ME STESSO
[9.]
الدَّم COL SANGUE.
[10.]
الحمل يَمْضِي L'AGNELLO VA VIA (vitela)
[11.]
حُرًّا، على عُكَّاز LIBERO, SULLA STAMPELLA (berehit 2025)
[12.]
فقط العالَم المُذنِب SOLO IL MONDO COLPEVOLE (p 2025)
[13.]
يَسقُط في الفَوضى CADE NEL XAOC.
released May 31, 2025
Pixelart illustration by biiterat www.instagram.com/biiterat/
No AI used in any part of this album.
AlphaEvolve di DeepMind non è solo un altro modello AI. È il primo a migliorare sé stesso mentre lavora, risolvendo problemi vecchi 300 anni e liberando potenza di calcolo senza costruire un singolo server. Sta iniziando la fase in cui smettiamo di capire cosa stia succedendo.
#futuroprossimo #AI #AlphaEvolve
futuroprossimo.it/2025/06/alph…
AlphaEvolve: l’AI che migliora sé stessa (e forse tutto il resto)
AlphaEvolve: il sistema innovativo di Google che elimina colli di bottiglia nell'intelligenza artificiale con risultati sorprendenti.Gianluca Riccio (FuturoProssimo)
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- iOS: divested.dev/misc/ios.txt
- GrapheneOS: divested.dev/misc/gos.txt
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@lucasmz it only shows up if the modem/hal advertises the function because it is supposed to cover cipher restrictions too iirc
setting LTE/WCDMA should only allow LTE+3G, but may not persist well
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