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Beyond economic woes, the West faces a profound collapse. Material decay triggers ideological erosion, fueling atomization and nihilism.
External defeats act as psychological blows, while political opportunism prevents vital course corrections.
This creates a self-reinforcing spiral of decline, fracturing society and plunging it into an anxiety-ridden void. The US leads this unraveling of the dying world order.
Dr Neal Curtis argues that we should avoid the neoliberal-inspired phrase of โtaxing the richโ and instead use โreclaim the wealthโ. He points out the many social inequalities which exist in New Zealand.
"... the tax giveaway to landlords is estimated to cost the country $2.9 billion. To put this in perspective, that is more than the amount paid in Treaty settlements since 1985, which is about $2.7b. In other words, in one year, the current Government awarded landlords more money than has been paid out to Mฤori in 40 years as compensation for historical wrongs."
Opinion from the University of Auckland: As society groans under the weight of wealth inequality, Dr Neal Curtis calls for a different slogan to โtax the richโ.
Hey y'all, I don't do this often, but I applied for a full time position at my store and if I got it it would change my life for the positive immensely. I showed my managers my application and everything before sending it in and I'm feeling good, but any extra reassurance is needed. I'm shaking, tearing and choking up. This would help me get further in this industry I actually like at a job I'm respected and valued at. If anyone could send any extra energy or thoughts or whatever I'd heavily appreciate it ๐
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Do not let anyone get away with calling ICE โlaw enforcement.โ That term is wrong. They are operating outside the law. They arenโt law โขenforcementโข; theyโre law โขcircumventionโข. Their purpose is to grant a would-be authoritarian military power against his own country, unconstrained by either law or democracy. med-mastodon.com/@gregggonsalvโฆ
These are masked men, with weapons, no warrants and this is extrajudicial abduction, and with local police aiding and abetting this thuggery. It is illegal under international human rights law. nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/la-iโฆ
Say what you will about the police who supposedly maintain the rule of law (and Iโm from Minneapolis, hoo boy could I say a lot), but keep this in mind:
The Trump administration is pumping up ICE to massive proportions and trying to give it absolute free reign because they find even the police โ even the police! โ too legally constrained for their purposes.
The party that subjected Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Michael Byrd, Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, Ashley Thomas and countless other public servants to death threats demand that you to stop posting the names of the ICE agents who are snatching innocent people off the street and disappearing them. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6m7rbโฆ
What I think should make me happy, and what makes me happy, are not the same.
What makes me happy is accepting whatever bullshit Life dishes out (including accepting hating it).
What I think should make me happy is Life dishing out different bullshit. This doesn't make me happy because it doesn't happen. Life dishes out what She dishes out.
These are masked men, with weapons, no warrants and this is extrajudicial abduction, and with local police aiding and abetting this thuggery. It is illegal under international human rights law. nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/la-iโฆ
I'll never forget this one time I was organizing with a music workers' group against YouTube, and we met with another music union to see if they'd sign on to our demands.
One guy says, "No, YouTube is like a Creative Commons."
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Really? Google owns a creative commons, huh? You're just gonna let them be cultural landlords?
He says, "Where else will I get to see Miles Davis perform at such-and-such back in the day?"
Dude, if you'd rather let Google continue to be evil than risk your favorite videos being taken away from you, idk what to tell you. Maybe you shouldn't let your favorite videos just exist on a corporate server then?
This kind of pernicious entitlement that comes from some "leftists" is why we need to talk more about #degrowth, but that's a rant for another day lol.
Lemme tell you something about YouTube, as a music streamer. Google is making bucks off pirated music. Whatever you think about piracy, doesn't matter: the question is, why is Google making money off of Joe Schmo's file-share of his favorite deep cut album? They have the technology to content ID music, right? So why aren't they sending that money where it belongs: into the hands of artists?
Now, when we brought this to the attention of the other union, they fixated on the piracy part and essentially defended people's right to piracy, as Gen X/Millennial leftist dudes are wont to do lol. Now I'm not saying that they're wrong. But hearing it from a bunch of cis white guys is not convincing, if you know what I mean. It was me, a Black woman, a Black dude, and another GNC white person on the call with them.
I don't mean to be reductionist about their concerns with our campaign. That's why they're to remain nameless. They had some legitimate concerns. But I believe their hang-ups were ultimately not in music workers' best interests and did not serve our immediate needs.
They said they couldn't sign on, which was a disappointment since they had had some repute, and then they said, "but we are still your allies in the fight for streaming justice."
Maybe that's why we need comrades, not just allies.
i like that ending quite a bit. comrades not allies. make coalitions where we can on specific issues. i was chatting with my friend @resl a week or so ago about a similar situation. there's a huge disconnect between the general left and the tech-left. where the former often feels that the latter is barking up inconsequential trees no one cares about. maybe most people don't care, but inconsequential i do not think. tech is the primary economic driver in today's world. if our tech isn't left, the activism isn't (effectively) left. not to devalue the work they do, but i must ask... if your activism is really threatening the power structure, don't you think they would pull the plug?
@resl oh its arend's newsletter! about their music but also sometimes political, spiritual, etc. sign up on their site: arendleejessurun.com/newsletteโฆ
@benda Yep. If it begins to look genuinely powerful, it can be policed and suppressed on those platforms easily. That is just one of many reasons to boycott those things as much as we can, and if someone can't or doesn't, at least they can be aware of the limits and risks of popular participation.
@benda That's well said. I've been disturbed about that disconnect you describe, but it has been hard for me to articulate.
Seems more of us have started to get wise to it since we've become aware that Big Tech has their hands in Palestine. But I'm continually surprised by organizers (and friends and comrades) who still primarily use Meta for their organizing. Seems to me like it's shooting yourself in the foot, at best.
Anyone who was following politics in 2007 and 2008 knows exactly what role the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) played in supporting candidate Barack Obama.
Cranes are indispensable in the construction, shipping, and industrial sectors, performing heavy lifting with precision and power. However, when crane brakes fail, the potential for disaster is significant. Such failures can disrupt projects, increase costs, and, most critically, endanger lives. Understanding the reasons behind brake failures and implementing preventive measures is crucial to ensure safety and operational efficiency.
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The whole chud vs woke nonsense is just a tired re-tread of the same boring ass culture war elites push year after year so you dont start down the road to class war. This ones got post boomer memes though so it caters to an impressionable youth.
Just eliminated another part of my digital guitar recording chain: amp modeling. As someone who's really into tube amps I could never get friends with modeling. Sure there are great sounding plug-ins or products but for me the digital domain is more usable in the realm of effects. For amps, not so much.
The elimination consists of a fairly small box that sits between my amp speaker output and audio interface input.
which attenuator is this? you recommend? and got sound bites? i amassed a collection of small tube amps over my life in order to accomplish driven tube tones, but a) 5 watts is still pretty loud, and b) an entire corner of my room is amps lol.
@benda It's a Two Notes Torpedo Captor 8: two-notes.com/en/torpedo-serieโฆ Haven't got any soundbites yet, just got the unit for a few days. So I'm also hesitant to recommend it, need to play around with it some more. But I got it myself after my buddy from perimeteraudio.com/ recommended it to me.
I still have to rely on IRs for cab simulation though so ultimately I'll probably end up with something like an iso cab. But that would take quite some space and this device just saves a lot of space. And so far I'm pleased with how the device sounds like together with IRs loaded into the Linux Studio Plugins Impulse Responses plug-in.
The device, a Two Notes Torpedo Captor 8, can also function as a power soak/attenuator.
Two Notes is a French company. One plus. And their customer service is fast. Had some questions about the device which were promptly answered by a real human. That's another big plus.
The Two Notes sits on top of a London City DEA100, a Dutch amp from the beginning of the 1970s. This very early specimen has plexi front and back plates. It's almost a real plexi besides some oddities and slight changes. But I had this one modded to Marshall specs and modded the input resistors to Marshall specs myself. I also added an extra tonestack switch so I can switch between the stock "vintage" setting and a more modern setting.
A continued stream of contradictory news stories on the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal negotiations have been flying back and forth for days. #Iran hasn't yet abandoned the deal, despite what headlines say, but #Trump's waffling could prove disastrous.
A continued a stream of contradictory news stories on the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal negotiations have been flying back and forth for days. Iran hasnโt yet abandoned the deal, despite what headlines say, but Trumpโs waffling could prove disastrous.
Great premise, acting, storytelling. Tons of nudity and violence. More violence and gore than I care for. It does cover novel ideas on being able to record people's memories and consciousness and tanner them. Like grandma who passed away, brought back for family gatherings in other people's bodies. She laughed at being able to pee standing up (in a large tattooed man's body).
I'm having difficulties getting through the second episode. Took me three attempts getting through the first one. I sense it's probably worth getting into it, and then I get the feeling that all that nudity might be intended as a distraction.
Thinking about the chance of a return to democracy in the US, I have stopped thinking in terms of Republicans vs Democrats. The Trump-Musk brawl and the beginning of โinvestigationsโ into Biden has crystallised two thoughts for me 1/3
The US Presidency is now a source of essentially unlimited wealth for its holder. Conversely, being a domestic enemy of the US President (in particular, a hostile ex-president) now risks financial ruin and possibly much worse. 2/3
Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails.
Musk has deleted his tweet accusing Trump of being in the Epstein files: x.com/elonmusk/sta... He also deleted a follow-up that said "Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out."
You're probably wondering if there was a proud Dalek at Portsmouth Pride and I'm here to let you know that yes, there was a proud Dalek at Portsmouth Pride.
sitting with the AI apologist take of "you may like the craft of traditional japanese hand woodworking but it's not what will make a profit anymore, so save that for your hobby"โฆ the thing is, old-school joinery produces higher-quality products and uses less (& more sustainable) materials. The reason it's "not profitable" is that the labor is more specialized and expensive. So what they're saying is "I want to get paid less to make worse software".
watching this happen, this religion of capitalism building its latest god, the bizarre justifications and rationalizations for AI, is like watching an ant mill.
I read that blog post and when I got to that sentence the first thing I thought of was how those old crafts turned out to be the only sustainable ways to make things.
Mass manufacturing? Only works if it uses slavery. Plastics? Planetary cancer. Poultry and pig farms? Pandemic incubators. Greenhouse farms? Thousands of liters of posions to get veggies that taste bland. And so on and so forth for every industry.
I would really like if AI turned out to be as good as they sell it, it would be an insanely powerful tool, but the reality is that it's being sold by the same kind of people that sold us tech equivalents of forever chemicals over and over and this isn't just resentment against "big corpo", the number of CVEs, flubs, leaks and failures that AI has introduced into projects old and new in its very short lifespan are an objective way to measure whether they lied to us and this is yet another new software PFAS or not.
Thereโs a pretty simple reason this every elected Republican has had to kneel before Don. And very few of them had over a trillion dollars in assets that Trump could make virtually worthless in a day. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rogqxโฆ
My souring take is Elon ends up having to be Trumpโs most subservient simp and attack dog as he realizes that all his power is in a few balloons Trump could just pop. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yobyqโฆ
Thereโs a pretty simple reason this every elected Republican has had to kneel before Don. And very few of them had over a trillion dollars in assets that Trump could make virtually worthless in a day. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rogqxโฆ
This is why Democrats should seize this moment to aim everything we got at Elon, who hates Democrats more than heโll ever hate Don. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yobyqโฆ
My souring take is Elon ends up having to be Trumpโs most subservient simp and attack dog as he realizes that all his power is in a few balloons Trump could just pop. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yobyqโฆ
Thereโs a pretty simple reason this every elected Republican has had to kneel before Don. And very few of them had over a trillion dollars in assets that Trump could make virtually worthless in a day. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rogqxโฆ
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LAPD coming out en masse to protect ICE from the people of LAโinstead of the other way aroundโsays a lot about the morality of the LAPD and of city government. It says a lot about what non-cooperation with federal law enforcement actually means in practice.
Mayor Bass Has a strongly worded statement condemning the ICE raid, as if the city could not possibly have done anything to prevent it from happening. There is no such thing as non-cooperation with ICE as long as local police can be called out to fight the federal government's battles for them.
The bare minimum of non-cooperation would be just letting it happen, hands off, which clearly is not what went down yesterday. This was active facilitation. What would it look like for local governments to actively interfere with ICE raids? It's hard to imagine.
okay so someone explain me this. if my webpage has php code, the visitor cant see it, bc (from my understanding) php is executed server side so the code does not need to be sent to the visitor's machine, only whatever return value(s), if any.
but javascript is executed in a visitor's browser. so i feel like, all the code should be readily attainable, just like the html or css markup. but if i try to pull up some corpo.com/feedmeyourdata.js i get like some js code and then a lot of unicode gibberish which i assume is binary.
why can one not see the js code that is being executed on their own machine?
@bedlamsteps def minified, thank you for teaching me a new word ๐ could you explain "base64 encoded"? i would understand that in the context of numerical representation but not code/syntax.
It's a method of encoding binary data as text, commonly used to send attachments in email or text based messaging systems. I thought Javascript could be encoded but then i remembered it can't as the client side interpreter only interprets javascript as text.
"Israel has announced plans to intercept the Freedom Flotilla and suggested that if Greta's vessel tries to deliver aid to Gaza it will come under attack...I mean it's not like Greta is gonna pull out an assault rifle and go all Rambo, is it?" "Israel has a right to defend itself from baby food and medicine, and if that means killing the people delivering aid, so be it" "Greta is everything that Israel hates"
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Someone came to me and said that their phone said that a phone call they were on was recorded. They're an immigrant and was talking to their sibling who is also an immigrant. They were on cell (old android), sibling was on a land line.
It's possible they touched the wrong icon in their phone app that did the recording.
Has anyone heard of this being done by the guvmint? It makes no sense they would inform you they recorded but I have to ask.
I probably have no useful advice, but I'm trying to clarify... They got a notification on their phone that this phonecall was recorded?
I know some versions of IOS and certain android phones have call recording capabilities. There are probably apps one can get, and I believe Samsung included something at one point (no idea of they do currently). So, it's entirely *possible* that this person did it themselves. For peace of mind, I'd be going through every app on my phone trying to figure out what app or setting was involved and I would do away with it.
I suspect that you'd never know if the Good Ol Boy Gestapo did it.
@TheGreatLlama yeah comrade, can you more specific? i know androids have a little icon that will pop up indicating than one or more apps is using the camera and/or mic. we're here to guide and help in any way necessary.
speaking of odiously evil #palantir, their ceo is featured in this messy, noisy, 'song'
the context is him gleefully, and ecstatically, bragging on a shareholder call about doing evil for profit
i hesitated to post this because it feels weird to use such a despicable situation to promote my music, but otoh, i wrote this as a protest song, so of course, i hope some people will listen to it
This is very, very big: Those are some of the most significant people that have put WordPress where it is right now. And this is a huge step towards breaking the Monopoly held by one of the project cofounders.
And I still don't know how and what does it means, but the Linux foundation backing it up feels huge.
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