I found a #youtube video that was 47 minutes long and titled "Why Everything Feels Like a Scam Now" and I thought -
Well it is, cuz that's what poorly regulated #capitalism does after a while, and I just saved myself 47 minutes.
capitalism
Guy next to me at the cafe I’m working out of this morning gets a call:
“… no we don’t live there anymore… no… no, we don’t live there anymore… are you serious?! [my ears perk up] Is this AI?… It is?!”
Spoke to him afterwards. Apparently “some energy company.” And it was an LLM on the other side. He said it sounded so real (a woman who gave him her name and sounded perfectly normal) until he asked it if it was AI when it responded “yes” and then restarted the script.
*smdh*
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Toxic masculinity is the gateway drug to fascism. Capitalism greases the rails.
🇺🇲 I’m a Trans Teen. The U.S. Government Is Attacking My Community
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/07/17/im-a-trans-teen-the-u-s-government-is-attacking-my-community
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #transgenocide
🇨🇦 #Trumpism
🇮🇱 #genocide
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
🇨🇦 Values
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T8eCeeVbYmsEzvvyUmoDC0KeKvjB9E57YG4AvU97RZo
Collaborate/advocate/educate/resist
#socialism #justice
https://misaligned.markets/tension-market-capitalism/
Capitalists don't like competition and often win by avoiding it all together. Why? Separating #markets from #capitalism explains this.
Read my newest #blog post on all the ways markets and capitalism are in tension and reinforce the worst tendencies in each other.
Trump, Charlie Kirk, and Jesse Jackson - Jesse Jackson’s legacy isn’t enough for Capitol honor
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/21/jacksons-legacy-isnt-enough-for-capitol-honor/
The Capitol’s rejection of a Rev. Jesse Jackson tribute honor highlights the limits of institutional recognition
Claude Sonnet 4.6 chat
https://claude.ai/share/f74bf41f-e3c7-4948-a8d7-32f00847641f
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #AmericanReich #whiteSupremacism #misogyny #theocracy
🇨🇦 #Trumpism
#transgenocide 🏳️⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
The Atlantic just sent out this article, speculating why the stock market is behaving the way it is. I may be wrong, but it seems like NOW is the time for a General Strike. Perhaps hand in hand with a mass withdrawal from "passive investors" like Vanguard, the American people can reign in this runaway machine.
https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/08/stock-market-theories/683780/
#GeneralStrike #Resist #USPOL #capitalism #nokings #50501movement
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Americans aren’t facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2026/mar/08/trump-democracy-oligarchy-policy
"As long as we imagine democratic collapse as something still to be prevented, we will remain politically paralyzed, clinging to norms, leaders and procedures whose authority has evaporated. We will fight to restore a pre-Trump order that provided the fertile ground out of which far-right politics continues to grow."
Folks to me a decade ago: Aral, what’s all this tinfoil-hat stuff about Silicon Valley? You’re being alarmist! What’s the worst that could happen? Etc., etc.
Meanwhile, a Silicon Valley billionaire:
> Some people are like “oh, but isn’t it terrible to celebrate the power of weapons?” and I say, you know what, societies have always needed a warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims. I think that it’s reasonable for philosophers to degrade those people and whine about how they’re sick in the head. But society needs them. Even if I’m sick in the head. We need people who are willing to fight for our country—and I’m not doing that directly, my life’s not on the line. But you need people like me who are sick in that way and don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence
#SiliconValley #deathCult #BigTech #capitalism #fascism #PalmerLuckey
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I actually have to take this back now. I do expect I will have to go back to #calorie restriction through #CalorieCycling in order to get all the way to my goal of being under 30% body fat, but currently I am loosing without calorie restriction.
How? I stopped eating #sugar and focused on eating enough #vegetables. I don’t mean I stopped eating refined sugar or added sugar, but foods that are more than 10% sugar with exceptions for #fruit and small amounts of sauce etc. I did and will continue to eat small amounts of artificially sweetened foods as treats, but I didn’t replace my sugar consumption with artificial sweetener, I adjusted my taste buds and now I can taste what fruit and vegetables were meant to taste like.
I realised something. Fruit and vegetables are the sweet foods in nature. Humans have an instinct to eat sweet foods right away, and keep eating them while they are available. That’s probably because fruit and vegetables have a short shelf life, and cause little harm.
If you stop eating sugar, you will also stop eating most processed foods because they have sugar in them.
I thought I was fat because I had no self control. I realise now I was fat because of #capitalism.
We stripped sugar away from the fibre and nutrients that we’re supposed to be with it and encased it in starch and fat and salt so we then applied an instinct that was supposed to apply to fruit and vegetables to starch and fat. And we keep selling it because it was the way to ‘add value’ and make more profit from cheap ingredients.
Of course some people live in our capitalist society surrounded by sugar and processed food and don’t get fat. There are lots of reasons, genes, psychology, food culture, lifestyle, but that doesn’t negate the reality that our society sets many people up to fail.
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Capitalism is an evil system marked by luck, unpredictability, irrationality, inefficiency, frequent market crashes, economic inequality, corruption, and ultimately, the consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of the ultra-rich.
#Capitalism #EatTheRich #DirtyPoliticians #Greed #Corruption
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War on Iran exposes US campaign to contain China | Al Mayadeen English
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/the-war-on-iran-is-a-war-on-china
"The US-led war on Iran extends beyond Tehran, using blockades and sanctions to disrupt energy flows, target China-linked networks, and exert systemic pressure on Beijing’s economic foundations."
RE: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/116393808098727911
The thing people don't tell you about living through the peak of an empire is the horror of watching it unravel around you.
Don't get me wrong, the #EpsteinEmpire must fall, so that the world may live.
It's just a constant hypernormalization mindfuck. So, go easy on yourself & have that extra treat.
Then let's get to building a better alternative future.
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When can we bully CEOs? But also, fantastic reporting! 'We've Been A Little Bit Too Romantic About The Idea That We Should Have Employees And Give People Long-term Job Security' Is An Extraordinary Thing For A Video Games CEO To Say On Record https://aftermath.site/video-game-job-security/ #Capitalism
Hey... are you on your lunch break? Feeling a little frustrated? Aren't we all these days.
Enjoy a little catharsis.
Get a little satisfaction.
DICK PUNCH EVERY SUIT
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(1/8) As always @pluralistic writes about exactly what's on my mind a thread 🧵:
My political economy begins by taking F.A. Hayek seriously. I kid you not.
Hayek saw markets as a form of decentralized processing a logical “spontaneous order” that aggregates knowledge. He saw this pattern everywhere, including within the human mind (I'm sure like Dawkins he'd have been one-shotted by Claude).
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Without control of your food, you have no leverage. Period.
You can't strike if you can't feed your family.
You can't protest if you're spending all your waking hours finding enough to eat.
You can't build an alternative economy if you're dependent on the existing one for the most basic requirement of biological existence.
BOOK TO READ
"A Merry Life and A Short One" is my collection of writings about pirates as examples of anarchists. It consequently sets out to discuss and describe both pirates and anarchy for the general reader in order to make relevant connections between them. I think its the best thing I have ever written but that's probably up to the reader to decide. Recommended for anyone who wants to think about pirates or anarchy and their consequences or how to fight back against oppressive politics.
https://archive.org/details/a-merry-life
#politics #pirates #anarchy #capitalism #justice #liberty #freedom #autonomy #resist
Overheard the end of somebody else's lecture yesterday. The class is called "Public Relations." On the screen was a poll. "Would you refuse a client's request due to ethical reasons?" Yes or No. A minority chose no, and the lecturer asked them to justify their answers.
A young male volunteered immediately that "You might need the business." The lecturer agreed. End of discussion.
Training an industry of whores.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116648399449400170
every European needs to download this graph and send it to their MPs tell them no, Europe should never become like the USA. it should be the other way around.
this isn’t inequality. this is the political economy version of a mafia state.