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My report from FediForum. The products I mentioned are all fediverse ones, but I see the same promise in the AT Protocol apps I’ve seen. It’s all “open social web” and the key is to enbrace developers on both platforms. thenewstack.io/everything-b...

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Everything Big Starts Small: Building Open Social Web Apps - The New Stack

There's a small but growing app movement on the open social web. At the latest FediForum virtual event, developers showed their wares.
Richard MacManus (The New Stack)

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BNB Price Prediction: Trader Turns $3,000 Into $2 Million – Is the Next 650x Gem on BNB Chain? - A trader just turned $3,000 into $2 million in days by sniping a meme coin on BNB ... - cryptonews.com/news/bnb-price-… #priceprediction #priceanalysis #memecoins #bnbchain #bnb

BNB Price Prediction: Trader Turns $3,000 Into $2 Million  – Is the Next 650x Gem on BNB Chain?

A trader just turned $3K into $2M on BNB Chain – BNB price prediction now targets $3,000 as meme mania takes off.
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Best Crypto to Buy Now 9 October – XRP, Solana, Dogecoin - Bitcoin soared to a new all-time high (ATH) of $126,080 this week, propelling the ... - cryptonews.com/news/googles-ge… #industrytalk #dogecoin #solana #xrp

Best Crypto to Buy Now 9 October – XRP, Solana, Dogecoin

As crypto takes a brief pause from Uptober rallying, find out why XRP, Solana and Dogecoin are the best tokens to buy ahead of the next surge.
Tim Hakki (Cryptonews)

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Google’s Gemini AI Predicts the Price of XRP, Cardano and Pepe by the End of 2025 - Gemini, Google’s advanced AI assistant and rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has issued a... - cryptonews.com/news/googles-ge… #priceanalysis #cardano #pepe #xrp

Best Crypto to Buy Now 9 October – XRP, Solana, Dogecoin

As crypto takes a brief pause from Uptober rallying, find out why XRP, Solana and Dogecoin are the best tokens to buy ahead of the next surge.
Tim Hakki (Cryptonews)

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Ethereum Price Prediction: Major ‘Fusaka Upgrade’ Just Weeks Away – $10,000 ETH is Coming - The upcoming Fusaka upgrade could be the spark Ethereum needs to reach $10,000, fu... - cryptonews.com/news/ethereum-p… #ethereumdeveloper #priceprediction #priceanalysis #ethprice

Ethereum Price Prediction: Major 'Fusaka Upgrade' Just Weeks Away – $10,000 ETH is Coming

Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade is coming – Ethereum price prediction now targets $10,000 as gas fees plunge again.
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Solana Made Millionaires, but MoonBull Is Seen as the Best Crypto to Buy and Hold for Long-Term Growth This Year - Best cryptos to buy and hold for long-term growth have been the question echoing across t... - blockonomi.com/solana-made-mil… #pr

Solana Made Millionaires, but MoonBull Is Seen as the Best Crypto to Buy and Hold for Long-Term Growth This Year

Solana’s ICO was a missed chance for many. MoonBull ($MOBU) now steps up as the best crypto to buy and hold for long-term growth with strong 2025 momentum.
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NY Attorney General Letitia James indicted on fraud charges: Reports
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NY Attorney General Letitia James indicted on fraud charges: Reports

James had been a target of US President Trump since successfully suing him for overstating his wealth to dupe lenders.
Al Jazeera

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House GOP committees have issued new subpoenas to ActBlue,
intensifying their probe of the Democratic fundraising platform.

The subpoenas are an attempt to force cooperation as ActBlue has pushed back on the congressional investigation,
questioning its intentions and constitutionality after the White House launched a similar probe.

Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.), Bryan Steil (R-Wisc.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who lead the committees investigating ActBlue, issued the subpoenas Wednesday
to compel a current and a former employee to testify about the platform’s fraud prevention policies.

The employees being subpoenaed had previously pushed back against voluntarily appearing before the committee,
citing the White House’s investigation,
and ActBlue sent the committee a defiant letter earlier this month criticizing the investigation as partisan.

ActBlue had slammed the congressional investigations in a letter this month as a
“partisan effort directed at harming political opponents rather than gathering facts to assist in lawmaking efforts.”

The platform and its Democratic defenders have argued that any probe into foreign donations and online fundraising should also include WinRed, the largest Republican fundraising platform.

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Trump pressure key for Gaza deal to be more than ‘another one-phase’ truce
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Trump pressure key for Gaza deal to be more than ‘another one-phase’ truce

Analysts stress Trump pressure essential to prevent Netanyahu from disrupting the Gaza ceasefire for political survival.
Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)

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MAJOR UPDATE: Chinese Communist Party Responds to U.S. Diplomat’s Firing Resulting From O’Keefe Media Group Undercover Report. - O'Keefe Media Group

China’s Foreign Ministry reacts to OMG’s undercover report exposing U.S. diplomat Daniel Choi’s relationship with a CCP official’s daughter.
Zane Mitchell (Okeefe Media Group)

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Persona 5: The Phantom X Ver. 2.2 Brings Seaside Tomoko, Swimsuits, and Summer Events

Sega and Perfect World Games have launched the Ver. 2.2 update for Persona 5: The Phantom X, implementing “Summer! Swimsuits! Sea Time! Part Two.” The event is now live and runs through October 22, 2025, at 6:59 PM PT. The second half of the event concludes its special story scenario set during a beachside school [...]

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#Alt4You

Kath Barbadoro posted on Bluesky,

Saying someone is a "member of antifa" is like saying someone is a "member of socialism" or something. it makes zero sense. But they can't use the ideological form of the word because it makes it too clear what the ideology actually is and it would include our grandpas.

Posted October 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM

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Skate Story Release Date Revealed for Switch 2, PS5, and PC; New Demo and Trailer Out Now

Devolver Digital and developer Sam Eng have announced that the skateboarding adventure Skate Story will release on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam on December 8, 2025. A new trailer was posted alongside this news, with a new Steam demo also available. Players control a demon made of glass and pain, tasked by [...]

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Skate Story Release Date Revealed for Switch 2, PS5, and PC; New Demo and Trailer Out Now

Devolver Digital and developer Sam Eng have announced that the skateboarding adventure Skate Story will release on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam on December 8, 2025.
Orpheus Joshua (Noisy Pixel)

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#Abolition #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #RuthWilsonGilmore #BarbaraRansby Ransby offered some words of realistic caution to activists and specifically commented on two chants we use: “When we fight, we win.” and “We keep us safe.” She said we should continue to chant but in our minds we should be remembering we don’t always win and sometimes we can’t keep us safe. She stated it didn’t mean the slogans were wrong, but the conditions that allow them to be true are not always present. 6/8

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Just because the courts with certain judges eventually overturn bullshit arrests based on misinformation or lies doesn't mean it's a victory. Stop celebrating that shit, especially my fellow "white" settler people. People being grabbed up by the carceral system is traumatic. Being in custody, jail, detention centers, prison, etc. disappears people. Their time, their well-being, their health, their connections to their family/friends, their connectedness to the natural world. When will we get off the teat of performativity and lies that the state is saving us from the violence of the state? The settler and colonial (if you want to say imperial I guess) state governments are functioning exactly as intended, exactly as they always have. And when we (whites) let out a sigh of relief and post about it, it really doesn't seem like we're relieved at anything but the dissonant false "hope" that the state isn't what it is, for us at least, for now.

#Abolition

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Okay, I'm occasionally dipping into the senate coverage today, and it's worth it to see Cory Booker chew this scenery even while exhausted. Booker is now on hour 20 or something of this "non-filibuster."

a) We just heard Senator Hirono from Hawaii say, "wtf comes to mind!" Priceless.
b) Today I learned that Cory Booker has a "favorite federalist paper." What a lovely nerd.
#TIL #USPol #USPolitics #CoryBooker

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Today I learned a bit more about "housing migration chains" -- kinda like playing musical chairs with people relocating to new housing and making room for others who move into their old housing, etc. This essay on Strong Towns is a pretty approachable read on it.

strongtowns.org/journal/2024/1…

#TIL #Housing #urbanplanning


The Best Evidence Yet for the “Housing Musical Chairs” Theory

And why a lot of people will remain unimpressed by it.
Daniel Herriges (Strong Towns Archive)
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Today I learned that the bird known as a woodcock has a *really ridiculous way of walking* and it's so great.

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#TIL #birds


Woodcocks dancing across the road

I don't know why the Woodcock crossed the road, but they sure do it with panache!The song "Limbo Rock" immediately popped into my head as I watched these ado...
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Worth pulling out a few notes from my end-of-semester assessment:

I didn't just learn about the statistics of housing factors on Cape Cod, although I did learn a lot of those -- 36% non-winterization of housing in the region, 47% seasonal employment for many municipalities, some towns only inhabiting half the houses for year-round use because that's more economically incentivized (more rent $ from renting in summer than renting year-round)...

#MAPoli #CapeCod #TIL

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Crystal Huff (they/them)

... I also learned many ppl's stories which might not show up in our final report but are burned in my heart. The doc in Ptown who can't retire b/c there already aren't enough medical providers. The town staffer choosing betw septic tank replacement or sewer line but worries she'll have to sell the house to not drown in debt. The EMT ashamed of failure to get patients to hospital in time but knows town can't afford a 5th emergency responder even if cross-trained as EMT+paramedic+fire fighter.
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Today I learned a bunch about map projection stuff for my GIS course.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_proj…

DID YOU KNOW that Florida uses two different map projection systems for different parts of the state??? This kinda blows my mind. (See image description for more details.)
#TIL #Florida #maps

A map of the continental United States that demonstrates the TYPE of map projection used in each state (or section of state) when mapping it. The map is in green and red segments, so far as I can tell, although the legend also says there's a yellow portion. Most states, even if there are lines to show different portions of the state, are all in one color. A few, however, are mixed colors. For example, Florida uses Lambert Conformal Conic Projection (in red) for the western part of the state (as that's better for distances that are wider in the east-west directions), but uses Transverse Mercator Projection (in green) for the southern and east-most parts of the state (because that's better for distances that are lengthy in the north-south directions). I'm still learning all this stuff, so I'm not sure how better to describe this in order to be accessible, but I hope that helps.

representation of the surface of a sphere or ellipsoid onto a plane map

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Today I learned about the "vanilla ice cream-hating Pontiac car" story, which is apparently actually a real story! It's on Snopes! And it says things about approaching a problem with an engineering mindset! Fascinating!

snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-…
#TIL #car #icecream #data #engineer

Ice Cream Cone Car

The flavor of ice cream being transported affect a car's performance.
Barbara Mikkelson (Snopes.com)
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Today I learned that "local gravity" is actually a real thing and NOT just a scifi term!! O.o

Like, I legit thought that local gravity was something about when people live on different planets and need to calculate what difference would be helpful for their scifi gravity suits so they can make friends on a new planet. 😅

ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/grav_pdx.…

#TIL #SFF #scifi #physics

NGS SURFACE GRAVITY PREDICTION

www.ngs.noaa.gov
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Crystal Huff (they/them)

This week, I also learned about Charles Steinmetz, a genius who had over 200 patents to his name as well as many electrical theories and stuff named after him.

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Snopes says that the "$1 for the screw, $999 for knowing where to screw" tale is an urban legend, but I prefer this recount of the story (including a 1965 letter to LIFE magazine)...

quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/…

#TIL #electronics #science #legend


mathematician, electrical engineer

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TODAY I LEARNED that the US is updating our maps for use in Esri (ArcGIS computer software). New maps! New system!

alpha.ngs.noaa.gov/SPCS/

Next year we will go from having 125 zones in the US mapping system to having 45 zones JUST IN ALASKA ITSELF. I shit you not. This is amazing. Maps change every day! O.o This blows my mind.

alpha.ngs.noaa.gov/SPCS/
#TIL #maps #Alaska #GIS

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Crystal Huff (they/them)

Today I learned about Color Brewer, which can generate color palettes (like for maps) that are colorblind-legible and printer-prepped. Pretty cool! (I'm trying to make a chloropleth map, which needs multiple colors to distinguish between ranges.)

#TIL #art #colors

colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequent…

ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps

colorbrewer2.org
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Crystal Huff (they/them)

Wow. Today I learned that "durian harvester" is the most terrifying job I can personally imagine -- spiky hard thing rushes down at you from very high in the tree and you have to catch it without damaging it. O.o

tiktok.com/@panida_koy43/video…

#TIl #fruit #asia #durian #work

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Idk who this geek is, but I love this analysis of freezer spacer pieces as set pieces on Star Trek. *chef kiss* (Prior to this post, I didn't even know what a freezer spacer was.)

ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsi…

#TIL #StarTrek #tv #geek #nerd


Ex Astris Scientia - Re-Uses of Freezer Spacers

Freezer spacers as universal ceiling, wall and floor elements in Star Trek
www.ex-astris-scientia.org
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Crystal Huff (they/them)

So @hakamadare already knew this, but today I learned that "gerrymander" is actually a portmanteau of "Gerry" and "Salamander." This word came about because Eldbridge Gerry signed off on redistricting the MA voting precincts to prioritize democrats in 1812, making one of them look kinda like a salamander.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerryman…

The political cartoon of it is striking: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerryman…

#TIL #USPol #gerrymander

manipulation of electoral borders to favor certain electoral outcomes

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Crystal Huff (they/them)

Today I learned that there have been entire studies on the dance moves of cockatoo birds.

In particular, Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo has got *skills*. Science is *awesome*.

youtu.be/_N-EMumuHhI?si=w1ViSC…

#TIL #birds #dance #music #science


Snowball the dancing cockatoo (part 2)

A compilation of the 14 dance moves found in Jao Keehn et al. Please note that the music in this video is merely indicative, as the movements come from diffe...
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Crystal Huff (they/them)

Today I learned about the Roman history of public strike, aka "secession of the plebs."

Like, the "commoners" withdrew from Rome and let the patrician class fend for itself, for months and sometimes years. FIVE separate times that we know of. #TIL #history #politics #Rome #strike

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessio…

exercise of power by Rome's plebeian citizens

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Today I learned that ICE (the agency in the US) was only established in 2003. Like, 22 years ago. I just did not realize it hadn't existed since the beginning of policing in the US.

(This is a note about societal norms, too, and expectations shifted.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S…
#TIL #police #ice #USpol


United States federal law enforcement agency

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Today I learned about Maria Ressa's work to combat misinformation and attacks on journalism in the Philippines under Duterte. She's a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and Jon Stewart had a great interview with her tonight on The Daily Show.

youtu.be/Tsb1I7hqaJ4?si=7c1amI…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Re…

#TIL #USPol #politics


Maria Ressa - Fighting Back Against Trump’s Authoritarian Algorithm With Truth | The Daily Show

“It’s both deja vu and PTSD.” Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist and author of the book “How to Stand Up to a Dictator,” sits down with Jon St...
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Crystal Huff (they/them)

Reading The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander for class, I was honestly shocked to realize that people are not only disenfranchised when in jail (disturbing once I think about it, but I hadn't thought about it before) ... but in many states, people can't vote ever again if they've been convicted of a crime.

Approx 30% of Black American men have served time in jail. Many are coerced into accepting plea deals for which they get jail time.

britannica.com/procon/felon-vo…
#TIL #vote #racism


Felon Voting | Pros, Cons, Debate, Arguments, Voting Rights, Conviction, & Penalty

Should Felons Regain the Right to Vote? Learn the pros and cons of the debate.
The Editors of ProCon (Encyclopedia Britannica)
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Crystal Huff (they/them)

Today I learned that glaciers used to advance and retreat, not just seasonally, but sometimes over the course of years or decades. (I hadn't previously known about the Little Ice Age.)

The glaciers don't advance lately, though. Just retreat.

bbc.com/news/articles/ce32ezzq…

(I'm glad the BBC is reporting on it, though.)
#TIL #globalwarming #climatechange #glaciers #bbc


Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes

They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.
Mark Poynting (BBC News)
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Mx Arjuna

I remember when the bi-partisan establishment consensus ushered in the era of the Department of Homeland Security, bringing all the agencies under one and creating some new horrors as well - we all called out the dystopian terror of it at the time, as part of the broader anti-war movement. But the country was very caught up in the post-9/11 jingoism, and going ahead at full speed into increased presidential powers, more wars, building the migrant detention camp system, etc.
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rednikki

Nope, that’s not how it’s done. Nets are set up under the trees that catch falling durian during the ripe season; workers go around gathering them from the nets twice a day.

Edited to add: found an article! topfruits.com.my/durian-harves…

Edited to add again! So this is Thai durian harvesting, which is apparently done differently. Someone CLIMBS THE DANG TREE and plucks the durian, tossing them to the person below. Madness.
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Thai durian operators in a prickly spot as the authorities urge industry to grow

Workers have been busy harvesting the king of fruits in Chanthaburi as the durian season reaches its peak in May and June. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Tan Tam Mei (ST)
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“...Slavery finds its origins in war. But everywhere we encounter it slavery is also, at first, a domestic institution. Hierarch and property my derive from notion of the sacred, but the most brutal forms of exploitation have their origins in the intimate of social relations: as perversions of nurture, love and caring. Certainly, those origins are not to be found in government...”
― David #Graeber and David #Wengrow, in "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" #slavery #family
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Estelle Platini

“What makes the Roman Law conception of property - the basis of almost all legal systems today - unique is that the responsibility to care and share is reduced to a minimum, or even eliminated entirely. In Roman Law there are three basic rights related to possession: usus (the right to use), fructus (the right to enjoy the products of a property, for instance the fruit of a tree), and abusus (the right to damage or destroy). If one has only the first two rights, this is referred to as usufruct, and is not considered true possession under the law. The defining feature of true legal #property then, is that one has the option not taking care of it, or even destroying it at will.”
― David #Graeber and David #Wengrow, in "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" #slavery #family #familia #sociology #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honor
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Estelle Platini

“Public torture, in seventeenth-century Europe, created searing, unforgettable spectacles of pain and suffering in order to convey the message that a system in which husbands could brutalize wives, and parents beat children, was ultimately a form of love… It seems to us that this connection – or better perhaps confusion – between #care and #domination is utterly critical to the larger questions of how we lost the ability freely to recreate ourselves by recreating our relationships with one another. It is critical, that is, to understanding how we got stuck, and why these days we can hardly envisage our own past or future as anything other than a transition from smaller to larger cages.”
― David #Graeber and David #Wengrow, in "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" #history #learning #learn #property #family #sociology #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honour
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Estelle Platini

"The #law is the most powerful engine through which ideologies can become self-replicating engines. John Locke’s theory of property as the endowed right of white men to use and to produce worked like witchcraft—the natural world, which had sustained societies for thousands of years, could suddenly be taken by force, enclosed, and tilled for the sole profit of one man, with trespassers punished. The conversion of land into one person’s permanent property was not permissible under the indigenous populations who had long occupied it, nor was such a thing permissible anywhere in the world except Europe—and even there, only after the enclosure movements of the 1600s."

Mehrsa #Baradaran in her book: "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America"

@economics 🧶

#memes #economics #property #enclosures #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #sociology #anthropology #patriarchy #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #honour #domination

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Estelle Platini

"Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
[…]
• Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
• The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
• In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."

Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

@histodons 🧶

#progress #appropriation #enclosures #landGrab #economics #property #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #anthropology #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #domination #beliefs #manufacturingConsent #whiteSupremacy #India #colonialism #BritishRule #BritishIndia #BritishEmpire #UK #Britain

incomes are just below extreme poverty between 1750 and 1900. India daily income per person for a family of four, with one family member working 12 months a year as an unskilled urban labourer, decadal averages (1 = extreme poverty line).
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Estelle Platini

About #consent:
"The Gortyn law code (6th century BCE) stipulates that in cases of "he said, she said" involving slaves, the female slave is believed over whoever rapes her. This is, of course, intended to protect her owner's property (her)."

rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2017/… by Rebecca Futo Kennedy @kataplexis

#household #property #rape #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #slavery #reputation #honour #honor #family


CONSENT AND RAPE: IS IT A MODERN THING? NO.

I was involved recently in a Facebook blowout, one of those “Someone Was Wrong on the  Internet” moments where I had to take a deep breath ...
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British Tech Guru

Slavery is alive and well.
It survives through minimum wages where the recipient cannot survive from the wages (which is akin not to having wages). The recipient has to use Welfare to get food and housing. There is zero chance of enhancement and escape from minimum wage positions. The only right is the right to change owner.

Slavery has merely changed its form and name.

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Caleb James DeLisle

> The question is how to create a political movement within a system that is designed to choke out any movement that threatens the system itself.

1. Without being too loud about it
2. By bringing together a lot of relatively powerful stakeholders who want this for their kids as well

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Caleb James DeLisle

There's a very good reason to think that will not happen, and where it has already happened it will begin to revert.

USD is not long for this world, there won't be another world empire after the US. Post-empire, every country is gonna have to pull it's weight, they won't be able to afford to oppress their most productive segment of their population.

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De-Arrest Primer Zine

Anarchist zine distro with PDF zines and pamphlets on anarchism, direct action, tactics, etc.
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Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan has become the youngest self-made billionaire at 27, Bloomberg reports.
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