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@pluralistic already showed how those layoffs meant to scare the rest into quietly accepting the enshittification of their jobs.
In the long run, these companies will hurt themselves, but at the expense of those who lost their jobs and those who will be forced to pick up the workload they left behind.
This seems topical (via @lexLohr): @pluralistic argues that the top-level management of big tech companies was never on the side of their employees: âThe point of AI isn't to make workers more productive, it's to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses.â pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/somâŠ
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On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh, kicking off his visit to the Middle East amid calls for Washington to play a role
An exasperated Dr Chris Shoemaker breaks down why the Nakahara study should have been the final nail in the coffin. The study surprisingly showed nearly all of the vaccinated hearts working 46% harder for at least 6 months after the shot. âAs a cardiologist you would be apoplectic if a heart was working 15% harderâ. So itâs no surprise the recent Ladapo study yields a conservative 470000 deaths in the US from this bioweapon.
Read this story in English here. Cuando se prueba un aviĂłn de Ășltima generaciĂłn de la NASA, se necesitan herramientas especializadas para realizar pruebas y capturar datos, pero si esas herramientas necesitan mantenimiento, hay que esperar hasta que se reparen. A menos que tengas un respaldo. Por eso, recientemente la NASA ha calibrĂł una nueva [âŠ]
Colonel Douglas Macgregor.. To me, this is the only man that actually says what and why, regarding things going on in the world (Military Speaking) minds.com/newsfeed/17691416354âŠ
@MountainJay @Clambino this is the second credit union that has burned me so i should have known better.
i could probably live without a bank account if i didn't have checks to cash. the paper statements fee still comes under what i'd have to pay to cash checks for a year.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei described the widespread and unprecedented violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories as a blatant breach of fundamental principles of international law.
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New York (Quds News Network)- More than 350 film industry figures, including Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon, have denounced Israelâs âgenocideâ in Gaza in an open letter released by pro-Palestinian a
I just learned that the Citigroup building had to have all these repairs because it was structurally unsound under high winds (in part due to contractors using bolts rather than welding, but also just design oversight on a very unconventional design) so they had a **secret evacuation plan for midtown Manhattan** and didn't really tell anyone until AFTER they mostly fixed it.
Obsessed with the concept of "secret evacuation plan" in a major city. That's so creepy and bonkers!
I also found out that it is possible for some skyscrapers to fall over, like a tree and hit other skyscrapers maybe knocking them over too... which I thought was very silly in a disaster movie once ... but now I apologize for scoffing.
I saw a documentary about it, some years ago. It's a completely bonkers story.
Apparently they didn't even tell the people in the offices what they were doing -- just went in at night, moved furniture around to get at the beams, welded them properly, and then rebuilt the fascia around them so nobody would know.
William Blum: No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine. wordsmith.social/protestation/âŠ
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Boston â A federal judge in Massachusetts allowed the Trump administration's bid to offer "deferred resignations" to federal workers who voluntarily leave government service to continue and lifted a previous court order pausing the program's deadline.
A federal judge lifted a previous order pausing the program Wednesday. Soon afterward, the Office of Personnel Management announced the program was closed.
Brazilian President Lula da Silva will hold bilateral discussions with President Xi Jinping on May 13, after both attend the 10th Anniversary CELAC-China Forum in Beijing.
Cassowary banishment from tropical forests Urban sprawl and wildlife translocation
"Only around 4,000 southern cassowaries are thought to remain in Australia, and the species is threatened by habitat destruction, vehicle strikes, dog attacks and climate change."
I'm sorry, but the absolute last thing I want is a #Pinterest clone done by #Google. They only want to launch a clone so they can destroy Pinterest and then cancel the website leaving users hanging.
Just like they've done with every other fucking thing Google has launched... other than Gmail and Google Docs.
I'm listening to @pluralistic 's podcast "understood" about the enshittification of the internet. He got to the point where he's talking about Dimitry Skiyarov's arrest at defcon in 2001 for making a tool that converted adobe's propietary format into normal PDFs. Adobe sicked the FBI on him.
Now, I don't know the details of the case, at all. I literally learned of the existence of this case right now. But is it not weird that a conference on hacking and cyber security did not think beforehand that it would be dangerous for Dimitry to visit the US? Why did they not foresee that he could get arrested, and take precautions to keep him safe? I'm not really dunking on defcon, it's been 25 years since then. I'm more trying to make a lesson for us who are naive enough about government bullying now: make a threat model for the people in your conference, stay alert, the government is not your friend, and they are not passive
Another lesson might be to "keep an eye on your enemies, and intervene everywhere they try to push their agenda, and maybe act preemptively in new spaces".
If someone had followed Lehman into Geneva and just intervened in everything he did, he probably could not have been able to make his DMCA part of the UN treaties. I don't know enough to know if that is a reasonable proposal, but it seems like an ok thing to do.
After patiently proposing to Benjamin Netanyahu that he negotiate with the Palestinian resistance and meeting only a stubborn determination to massacre the Palestinians, annex Gaza, southern Lebanon and Syria, and launch a war against Iran, the TrumpâŠ
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In this intense scene from Masters of the Air, Lieutenant Harry Crosby leads the 100th Bomb Group on a daring mission over Norway. Their objective: a heavily fortified German naval facility. Despite brutal flak & hostile skies, Crosby's navigation skills are put to the test as the group presses forward with pinpoint coordination. This moment captures the ...
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We just learned yesterday that the majority on the House Ways and Means Committee added language to the reconciliation bill that would give the administration unchecked power to revoke nonprofit tax status for organizations.
Section 112209 raises profound constitutional concerns, as it opens the door to restrictions on free speech and could be weaponized against organizations that promote civil rights and liberties and racial justice.
They paused that nonprofit EO because the sector immediately mobilized and was prepared.
These sneaky shits hope we don't notice this time around.
Have a favorite nonprofit? Speak up on their behalf.
Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. States are the only ones who can even try to regulate AI in the US, since Congress has been captured by Big Tech.
And suddenly, it felt like everyone disappeared, lost in the magic of Queen's sound. The music enveloped us, creating a moment where nothing else mattered. It was just Freddie's voice and the powerful melodies, transporting us to a place where we could all feel connected, regardless of time or distance. Thatâs the beauty of Queenâs music - it has the power to unite us, even in silence.
Queen Live Aid 1985 Wembley Stadium London (Full Concert)
Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, as well as a music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983â1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
Queen's setlist during their Live Aid performance. The full setlist for Queen at Live Aid is: - 0:00:00 (Intro) - 0:00:24 Bohemian Rhapsody - 0:02:45 Radio Ga Ga - 0:06:45 Ay-Oh - 0:07:30 Hammer to Fall - 0:11:32 Crazy Little Thing Called Love - 0:15:35 We Will Rock You - 0:16:38 We Are The Champions - 0:20:15 Is This the World We Created...?
A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Tuesday became the first to say President Trump can invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua gang members.
      A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Tuesday became the first to say President Trump can invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua gang members.
@Java The Constitution provides for the executive branch to declare an invasion and deport people. Sadly, liberal judges are interested in ideology rather than the letter of the law. However this ruling forces them to abide by the law.
Enver Hoxha: While adhering unwaveringly to the teachings of Marxism-Leninism on the violent revolution as a universal law, the revolutionary party of the working class is resolutely opposed to adventurism and never plays with armed insurrection. In all conditions and circumstances, it carries out an unceasing revolutionary struggle and activity in various forms, in order to prepare itself and the masses for the decisive battles in the revolution, for the overthrow of the rule of the bourgeoisie with revolutionary violence. But only when the revolutionary situation has fully matured does it put armed insurrection directly on the order of the day and take all the political, ideological, organizational and military measures to carry it through to victory. wordsmith.social/protestation/âŠ
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, as well as a music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983â1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
Queen's setlist during their Live Aid performance. The full setlist for Queen at Live Aid is: - 0:00:00 (Intro) - 0:00:24 Bohemian Rhapsody - 0:02:45 Radio Ga Ga - 0:06:45 Ay-Oh - 0:07:30 Hammer to Fall - 0:11:32 Crazy Little Thing Called Love - 0:15:35 We Will Rock You - 0:16:38 We Are The Champions - 0:20:15 Is This the World We Created...?
Is it just me, or does anyone else get chills listening to Queen's legendary performance at the Live Aid concert on July 13, 1985, around 6:45 PM (BST)? It's one of those rare moments where the music is so powerful that you canât help but turn it up to the max! I mean, itâs the only time my neighbors never complain about the noise - when my stereo amplifier hits 200W and the doors and windows are wide open! The energy and emotion in Freddie's voice are just unmatched. How does that performance make you feel? Do you have any favorite moments from that set?
The latest reports emerge during an ongoing Independent Inquiry into Afghanistan, initiated in 2022, which aims to investigate allegations of war crimes by British Special Forces.
NASA completed another step to ready its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the Artemis III mission as crews at the agencyâs Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans recently applied a thermal protection system to the core stageâs liquid hydrogen tank. Building on the crewed Artemis II flight test, Artemis III will add new capabilities [âŠ]
All expenses related to the organization of the forum will be covered from the budget of the Eurasian Economic Union, funds provided in the national budget for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to finance other issues related to international activitieâŠ
Alex Lohr (RIP Natenom)
in reply to Axel Rauschmayer • • •@pluralistic already showed how those layoffs meant to scare the rest into quietly accepting the enshittification of their jobs.
In the long run, these companies will hurt themselves, but at the expense of those who lost their jobs and those who will be forced to pick up the workload they left behind.
Axel Rauschmayer
in reply to Axel Rauschmayer • • •pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/somâŠ
Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025) â Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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