Trying to explain "How Capitalism Works" without mentioning its disastrous structural flaws for the masses is just a cover-up, albeit an entertaining one, I must admit.

#Capitalism needs "suckers" on an individual level, all the way to colonies on an "empire" level.

Fortunately, -although I have some doubts about stupidity-
both of these "characteristics" are beginning to disappear.
And this is precisely the path that capitalism will inevitably take.

the path of extinction

San Antonio City Council Candidate Calls For the Killing of ICE Agents – and the DHS is Already Tracking Him Down!… “We’ll See You Soon”

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Jessica Tarlov Shredded by Co-Hosts on ‘The Five’ for Suggesting ICE Detainees Are Being Sexually Abused by Federal Workers (VIDEO)

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Steve Bannon Goes There, Slams Ted Cruz on War Room: “Ted Cruz Was the Shill for Big Tech on the AI Bill, He Held MAGA Movement Hostage” (VIDEO)

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🇸🇾 "New Syria" is burning. Charred bodies are being found on the coast. This is what the UK,US, Israel and Turkey with help from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the whole satanic alliance did to this beautiful country with 10,000 + of civilisation

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#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide

I think one of the reasons I tend to enjoy "retro-styled" games (eg. pixel art and possibly chiptune music) isn't really about nostalgia at all - there were no games like Eastward, Animal Well, Kingdom: Two Crowns, Stardew Valley or even Undertale when I was a kid with an Amiga. Playing them feels nothing like what playing games felt like when I was a kid with an Amiga either.

Rather, I think it's because pixel art and that sort of gameplay feels much more like a piece of artistic craftsmanship someone cared about. I get the same feeling from hand-drawn vector art (ranging from the simplistic-looking art in eg. Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included to the "cartoon you can play" style of eg. Spiritfarer). I only very rarely get this feeling out of modern 3D-rendered game art - for lack of a better term, that often feels a lot more "alienated", even when it's technically much better.

(Possibly I'm just better at judging pixel art than 3D rendering, which would be because I'm old. 😀 )

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One 3-d rendered game that stands out for me is The Long Dark. Its art style borders on cartoony: it's 3-d, but highly stylized and not hyperrealistic. This video gives a sense of it. It's one of the few games I've played as an adult where I felt like I had an experience. I remember and still think about it from time to time.

Hyperrealistic 3-d game art tends to trigger unpleasant feelings in me. Usually either it's the uncanny valley, where everything feels creepy, or it's one I can't easily describe where I feel like I'm smelling cellophane the whole time (everything's too shiny) and just want to leave before I'm sick from it. It's disorienting, almost dizzying, and I can't suspend disbelief enough to enjoy the game a lot of the time (while also acknowledging some of these games are visually very impressive). I've had this reaction to modern digital television shows too. I'll admit that maybe I'm unusual, but anyway I have a kind of "alienated" response to this kind of game art too.

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GH15 prayer for July 8, 2025
“When Darkness Seems to Hide His Face”
Dutch Sheets

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Brazil’s most revered Indigenous leader, Raoni Metuktire, has said he believes that one of the former president Jair Bolsonaro’s goals while in office was to “exterminate” the country’s Indigenous peoples.

“He really wanted to exterminate us. But Indigenous peoples across Brazil united to resist his government,” he says, adding that “from now on, every president elected in Brazil must respect Indigenous peoples”

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@RichardJMurphy hits the nail on the head (as so often):

'if any political party wishes to truly succeed — not just scrape by, but build lasting loyalty and transform this country — it must make the promise that it will put people first, meet their needs from cradle to grave, and offer them freedom from fear'!

However, our political class seems quite some way from that agenda....

#politics

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It’s made to order. First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering. Then, kill, starve, vanquish and displace those in need of that aid. Finally: give the pretence of humanity by ensuring some aid to those whose suffering you created in the first place.

As things stand, the system of aid distribution in the Gaza Strip is intended to cause suffering and destruction to recipients.

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

On Tuesday, The Guardian published an opinion piece by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in which he accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of orchestrating a "campaign of devastation" in Gaza and called on the international community to move beyond symbolic outrage toward concrete action in defense of international law.

Petro has emerged as one of the most outspoken world leaders condemning "Israel’s" war on Gaza.

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

I keep meaning to write up an analysis of LLM use based on systems-thinking—the core issue is that their volatility is bad for organisations and leads to gambler behaviour in individuals—but then I come across some fresh bullshit and realise there's nothing I can say to change people's minds. The people who are against it are already against it and the people who are for it, or even on the fence, aren't likely to listen to my style of argument.

📢 Message de Standing-together (Israël) diffusé sur #bluesky le (2025-07-08)

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Ca s'appelle un camp de concentration, et nous ne devons pas laisser cela arriver.

- haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… (Defense Minister Says Israel Plans to Concentrate All Gaza's Population in 'Humanitarian' Zone Built on Rafah's Ruins)

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It’s called a concentration camp, and we must not let it happen.

#ConcentrationCamp #CampDeConcentration #Gaza #Israel

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Ils et elles n'ont pas de papiers mais veulent se sentir utiles en lançant une ferme maraîchère près de Rennes. Reportage 👉 basta.media/quand-un-collectif…

Ce groupe de demandeurs d’asile de Rennes a décidé de cultiver la terre sur une parcelle d'un hectare prêtée par un agriculteur. Leur récolte est destinée aux Restos du Coeur et à leur propre consommation.

Kathmandu Post - More than two dozen people are dead or missing after a flood caused widespread destruction, sweeping away the Miteri Bridge — a key piece of infrastructure linking Nepal and China.
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📢 The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), a Brussels-based legal advocacy group pursuing Israeli officials for alleged #warcrimes - announced this week that the ISR government has imposed sanctions on 50 individuals associated with the organization

🔹 Among those targeted are the foundation’s chairman, Diab Abu Jahjah, two of its co-founders, and three lawyers involved in its international legal campaigns

📰 Report: The Palestine Chronicle JUL-06

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Deadly floods could be new normal as #Trump guts federal agencies, experts warn - theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j… "Cuts and chaos instigated by Trump come as threat from extreme weather grows due to human-caused #climatecrisis"

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"The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of the rights
and the right most valued by civilized men."

-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
Source: Olmstead v. United States, 1928

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Three charged after protest at Israeli-owned restaurant in Australia
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/8/three-charged-after-protest-at-israeli-owned-restaurant-in-australia?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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that's kinda like saying OSI should write software.

IMO FSF's role is to be a steward and promoter of Free Software values and definition. For example, by giving well argumented opinions on which licenses satisfy the Free Software Definition, but also which software and hardware best fulfills the spirit of Free Software and which doesn't.

I agree it does a poor job at that, but that doesn't mean it should be doing something else.

Israeli occupation forces detained Nasser al-Lahham, Al Mayadeen’s bureau chief in occupied Palestine, in a pre-dawn incursion into his home in Beit Lahm, southern West Bank.

The Israeli security service, Shin Bet, was directly responsible for the detention, which specifically targeted al-Lahham’s personal broadcasting studio in search of electronic equipment and media devices linked to his journalistic work.

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Encampment by encampment, Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem are asserting control over vast areas previously inhabited by Bedouin communities and livestock herders.

Roughly a month after the displacement of the “Mughayyir al-Deir” community east of Ramallah, and less than a week after the expulsion of “Arab al-Malihyat” the wave of expulsions has now reached occupied Jerusalem.

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#Gaza #Palestine
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A BBC journalist was left fuming as the corporation was found to have ignored the scandal of British spy planes being deployed over Gaza.

The National, in conjunction with the investigative website Declassified UK, this week published an expose of the failure of the mainstream media to look into RAF planes being deployed over the besieged territory.

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should…

The nation state system, Western conceptions of property rights, and the theater we call "rule of law" are all reaching their logical ends.

They were all just Colonialism 2.0 and the whole inane system is slowly being crushed under its own weight.

We need a detailed proposal for what a post-nation state could look like.

Particular attention must be paid to how systems that sustain civilization can be picked up & transformed with as little damage as possible as the systems of yesterday perish.

in reply to Aaron

quick proposal: voluntary lockdown

call in sick to work until they fire
stay home & organize
join mutual aid clubs so someone comes round when they try evict

theres plenty of work to do once you get rid of the distraction & expense of "job"

(unless your job is Actually Good, in which case, good on ya)

just stop doing the stupid shit & watch things bounce back to health

pretty soon more plan come along

maybe from #turtleislandparty

Olivier #Marleix, membre du parti Les Républicains (LR), est décédé tragiquement le 7 juillet #2025 à l’âge de 54 ans.
En 2017, il a présidé une commission d’enquête parlementaire sur la vente de la branche énergie d’ #Alstom à #GeneralElectric, dénonçant une possible perte de souveraineté industrielle. Il a saisi le parquet de Paris en 2019 et a reçu le «prix éthique» d’ #Anticor en 2020 pour ce travail.
Gaulliste convaincu, il critiquait régulièrement la #politique d’Emmanuel #Macron, notamment sur la faillite du pays et la désindustrialisation.
Olivier Marleix est mort aujourd’hui à son domicile d’Anet. Selon plusieurs sources, il se serait suicidé, une information confirmée par le procureur de Chartres.
Juste après la mort d'Eric #Denecé qui avait lancé un rapport d'alerte sur la vente d’Alstom, maintenant c'est celle du Député Olivier #Marleix qui avait fait saisir le Parquet national financier sur la même affaire.

#france #macronie

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“The rights enumerated in this Bill of Rights shall not be construed to limit other rights of the people not therein expressed.”

~ Virginia Declaration of Rights
similar provisions can be found in more than 20 States' Bills of Rights

A recent series of worldwide studies finds that ugly anti-immigrant prejudice isn't inevitable just because
immigration increases. "Inclusive legal and socioeconomic integration policies that render immigrants more equal to natives...reduce xenophobia among natives": researchgate.net/publication/3…

BTW, I found those studies in my review of social science research offering possible solutions to tribalism: "Heterogenius: Why and How to Stop Dividing People into Us and Them" - alfiekohn.org/blogs/diversity/

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Pettis Norman dies at 86 leaving NFL stunned by the silence around his true cause of death
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europesays.com/uk/247907/ RUMOR: Marvel Studios Still Hasn’t Finalized AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’s Third Act #Avengers:Doomsday #Entertainment #Movies #UK #UnitedKingdom

SOMMET DES BRICS : « IL EST INACCEPTABLE DE CONTINUER À UTILISER LE FMI ET LA BANQUE MONDIALE POUR PERPÉTUER DES PRATIQUES COLONIALES ». ( #Lavrov)
Contrairement à ces pratiques, la nouvelle Banque de développement des #BRICS se distingue par son innovation et s'attache à tirer parti des efforts des pays membres du groupe pour renforcer leurs économies et améliorer leur bien-être.

Lors de la deuxième session du sommet des BRICS, le ministre russe des Affaires étrangères a affirmé que la grande majorité des pays souhaitaient mettre en œuvre des mécanismes de développement indépendants de l’Occident.

Les pays BRICS sont engagés dans une transformation sans précédent, s'efforçant de bâtir une architecture économique plus stable, fondée sur les principes de transparence et de non-discrimination, garantissant l'égalité d'accès aux opportunités pour tous.

« Il est inacceptable de continuer à utiliser le Fonds monétaire mondial ( #FMI) et la Banque mondiale pour perpétuer des pratiques néocoloniales », a déclaré M. #Lavrov, remettant en question la présence de situations similaires au sein de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce ( #OMC) et appelant à une réforme des institutions de #BrettonWoods.

Il s'est dit convaincu que les institutions émergentes reflètent le véritable équilibre des pouvoirs dans l'économie mondiale. Lors des délibérations du deuxième jour du sommet, la Russie a dénoncé le fait que les pays à faible revenu et à revenu intermédiaire dépensent davantage pour le remboursement de leur dette extérieure que pour leur propre développement, et a averti que cette situation échappait à tout contrôle, même dans certains pays développés.

Il a dénoncé le fait que l’ #Occident subordonne l’octroi de son aide financière à des considérations politiques. À titre d’exemple, il a cité l’octroi de fonds d’« aide militaire » équivalant à 500 % du PIB de l’Ukraine, alors que de nombreux pays africains n’ont pas pu accéder aux recettes nécessaires pour soutenir leurs prévisions de développement.

Contrairement à ces pratiques, il propose que la nouvelle Banque de développement des BRICS se distingue par son innovation et s'attache à tirer parti des efforts des pays membres du groupe pour renforcer leurs économies et améliorer leur bien-être.

Les BRICS contribuent à 48,5 % de la population mondiale, représentent 39 % du PIB, 24 % du commerce extérieur total, 43,6 % de la production de pétrole et des réserves mondiales, et 78,2 % du charbon. Ils excellent également dans la création de technologies alternatives, l'utilisation des nouvelles technologies et la transition numérique.

#Trump’s Immigration agents, Marines and National Guard - with imbedded Fox News staff - swarm #LA’s MacArthur Park in big show of force and public intimidation but without any other seeming reason.

Angered LA Mayor Karen Bass demands they leave.

They leave with ‘We’ll be back!’ Threat.

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What's happening online as the European Commission tries to crack down on hate speech?
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/08/whats-happening-online-as-the-european-commission-tries-to-crack-down-on-hate-speech?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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europesays.com/2227797/ Tucker Carlson Asks Iran’s President Point-Blank If They Have Tried To Kill Trump #Conflicts #Iran #MiddleEast #MiddleEastCrisis #Tehran

#Bürgergeld - noch mehr Milliarden, die in der Pflege- und #Krankenversicherung fehlen. Folgen der #Migration als finanzpolitischer Sprengsatz.


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#tichyseinblick #Rente #Betrug

Great idea. Gotta get rid of the psycho nazis first.
"The wealth tax approach, they wrote, "is effective because it targets all forms of tax optimization, whatever their nature. It is targeted, as it applies only to the wealthiest taxpayers, and only to those among them who engage in tax avoidance.""

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This is a CHILD! She was Playing on the Swings

Hala Abu Dhaliz (12) lost all her hair and suffered severe head injuries after an airstrike hit near her tent in Khan Younis

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#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
#palestina #StopAIPAC #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism

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"Und ganz nebenbei wird hier auch noch [von #Brantner, #Grüne] suggeriert, dass die #Linke – parlamentarisch und außerparlamentarisch – keine anderen Argumente und Forderungen vertreten würde, als #Israel von der Landkarte löschen zu wollen.

[...]

Fragen nach Israels [Verbrechen] werden mit dem Verweis auf islamistische Hamas-Ideologie mit einer Nicht-Antwort bedacht."

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#Gaza #Westbank #Palästina #Genozid #Rassismus #Rechtsextremismus

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"»Wenn Deutsche über #Israel reden, reden sie meist über sich selbst.« In der nach moralischer Rehabilitierung strebenden »Wiedergutmachungspolitik« Adenauers, die vornehmlich der Westbindung diente, & der heutigen Identifizierung des dt. Staates mit Israel [...] sieht er einen »Ersatznationalismus«. Der führe dazu, dass sich viele in DE gar nicht vorstellen könnten, dass Israel Kriegsverbrechen begehe, weil dies das dt. Selbstbild stören würde."

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BREAKING:

🇮🇱🇵🇸 At least 20 Israeli soldiers between dead and wounded as a result of an Ambush by the Palestinians in Beit Hanoun, North Gaza.

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#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
#palestina #StopAIPAC #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism

La IA más avanzada del momento, chatGPT, no es capaz de vencer a una Atari de hace 50 años. Porque no es inteligente, simplemente escupe palabras siguiendo una distribución de probabilidad.

Sin embargo, se nos ha dicho que va a revolucionar el mundo laboral y ya hay quién se ha enamorado de su chatbot sin darse cuenta de que, como Narciso, se ha enamorado de un reflejo compuesto de unos y ceros.

Al final, la IA lo único que hace es ponernos delante de un espejo virtual que nos devuelve un reflejo deformado. Un reflejo que, más temprano que tarde y sin avisar, va a reventar en tantos pedazos como dólares se está gastando en este delirio colectivo.

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