capitalism
the systemic and fatal mistake of modern day #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns most #money, no whoever owns #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation = will ultimately lead to less #innovation + destruction of #mankind,, #rich vs #poor #inequality growing rapidly = #collapse of #society thank you
= no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: will lose game to whoever prints #money and buys + owns the #assets (#bank, #centralbank)
the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own #INDEPENDENCE from the #financesystem is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!
whoever is interested in the details: in short: in #USA private #banks own the #FED in #Europe mostly #gov banks own the #ECB but https://generation-nachhaltigkeit.de/ein-gespraech-mit-der-aktuell-staerksten-ki-claude-sonnet-4-6-max-deine-loesungen-fuer-eine-glueckliche-und-nachhaltige-zukunft-fuer-alle-wie-nachhaltig-ist-das-fiat-schuld-geld-zentralbank-system/
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$8.71 of $375, tysm to everyone who has shared my post and contributed. Four days to go and $366 still needed. It's my birth month and I'd like to spend it knowing I can cover groceries and medication.
A $5 monthly pledge helps me the most with my disability. One-off support is equally welcome. Boosting this is support too.
Thank you, thank you.
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I think this comment sums it up.
#wealth #capitalism #eattherich
Happy Sunday, y'all.
My new YT video is up! This week's topic is ads in space, which is wild, but is becoming a possibility and may one day be a thing. Luckily for us, there's some resistance.
If you enjoy the video, let me know what you think and please take a second to hit the like button. Thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz9NSNL2NG4
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Like comptuer networks, markets are a trust technology that require well established trust boundaries. The recent DOJ egg collusion complaint shows that collusion can happen, not just when producers get together, but when they "hack" an interface the market uses to coordinate activity.
In this case, the prodcuers coordinated to spoof activity to fool a market monitor.
https://misaligned.markets/bad-eggs-market-collusion/
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The Rose Field. Philip Pullman.
(Book 3 of a trilogy)
You are a young woman whose animal familiar has left her, so she goes searching for him, as well as the doorway to another world which is also the target of religious authorities; you are trying to figure out what makes life worth living, but that is elusive.
2 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈.
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The Alibi of Capitalhttps://bookshop.org/p/books/the-alibi-of-capital-how-we-broke-the-earth-to-steal-the-future-on-the-promise-of-a-better-tomorrow-timothy-mitchell/b9d75f1021d88989
How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow
Description
Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capitalism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of climate collapse is upon us: value is created by consuming the future.
The Alibi of Capital explains how this came about through the imperial expansion of the West, encumbering today’s generations with repayments on earlier extractions. Timothy Mitchell identifies the forms of capitalisation, credit, and coercion that turn prospective assets into present income. Rejecting the common idea that claims on the future create only financial or fictitious capital, he traces the terraforming projects – the destruction of rivers, the colonising of territory, the expansion of infrastructure, and the burning of carbon – through which the future has been squandered. Terms such as finance, technology, the economy, and growth function as alibis that conceal this devastating form of extraction.
#capitalism #extractivism #colonization #tech #technology #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalDestruction #EcologicalDestruction #MortgagingTheFuture
finished watching Anniversary
A cautionary tale about the USA going full fascist (I know, I'm not downplaying Trump) over... a book? written by an intellectual? How about making the ideology delivery mechanism be... IDK, tweets from a reality show celebrity? That, I would believe.
In all seriousness, I don't know if this movie gets how fascists and fascism work, but I'll give it a 👍 for trying.
I did like that the movement is backed by a corporation, they got that partially right.
Really enjoyed this skewering of billionaires, executives, and AI. It argues that comments like “it’s just business” or “corporations exist to make money” intentionally move the discussion away from morality because there’s no moral justification for their actions.
Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.
You simply don’t need to.
You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.
Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.
The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.
And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.)
#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239
people who complained about #MidsomerMurders lack of diversity didn't get that it’s a show about dispelling the myth of white supremacist solidarity.
so much of the white-on-white violence is by nepobaby manchildren pissed they can keep riding on their families’ names & fortunes.
the show is not only a master class on the consequences of late-stage #capitalism. it’s brilliant at showing the decline of English hegemony & the villainy of British class #warfare.
Lost food assistance today.
Lost physical therapy (and other medical) coverage today.
Federal government has cut BILLIONS of dollars as well as actual food items aid across the country. (US.)
I'd been scraping by not even making the few ends we had meet and I am once again at a loss as to where to turn, or how possible resources actually translate FOR ME AND MINE.
Starting to fill out frilling surveys in hopes of getting a few bucks to pay for necessary lifelong medications. Will try and get in at food banks but they're low and overwhelmed due to the influx caused by the gov cuts.
To everyone who is also facing uncertain times, difficulties in surviving, especially the ND, the traumatised, the unhoused = I hope you make it to better times.
❤️🩹🌻🦋❤️🔥
#GovFundingCuts #Struggling #capitalism #NotAnotherTerm #WheresYourCompassion #TooTiredForRebellionButWillJoinTheRevolution
#dumpsterrummager #UntilMyLastBreath
It’s Disability Pride Month and I’m mourning one of our elders…. Alice Wong.
Every year on July 1st she would talk about disabled rage.
She would remind us that it’s ok to be angry at the eugenicist, capitalist, patriarchal system we’re trapped in.
She would encourage us to embrace our disabilities AND our anger.
She would give us permission to be our true selves… to refuse to hide for the comfort of others.
She passed away last November but left an indelible mark on our community.
I want to honour her this month by continuing the tradition she started and inviting all my disabled peers to be proud, unapologetically themselves and angry if that’s what they feel.
Don’t hide.
Don’t smile and say “I’m fine” when you’re in pain.
Don’t settle for being treated as “less than”.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
#disability #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness #patriarchy #capitalism
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's all true!
It's now basically inevitable that we'll have AGI superintelligence by the end of 2024.
And there's a 10% chance this AGI superintelligence, which will basically be LLM software running on physical hardware that fills a massive data centre with the energy and water use of a small European country, will cause humans to go extinct by 2030.
And by extinct, I don't mean as a result of climate change from the fossil fuel air pollution we're using to fuel it. Please don't think about that stuff!
No, I mean by, erm... Things like hacking the power grid and such... Which would also presumably cause it to cease existing... Which wouldn't exactly be superintelligent.
But... y'know... details!
How will we ever stop it?!
I mean, it's not like we live in a world where less intelligent creatures and even inanimate objects kill off more intelligent creatures every day.
It's not like we live in a world where virii and microbes and bricks can kill off more intelligent creatures.
Brains beat brawn every time!
Put a statistician in a fight with an MMA champion and clearly the maths professor is going to win, right?
And if that doesn't sound true when it's phrased like that, then you need to just shush for a moment and pretend that it does.
And if one of our LLMs in a massive hyperscale AI data centre somehow magically became sentient, it's not like we could just shut off the water. Or the electricity. Or stop delivering massive quantities of gas and oil to the onsite gas turbines.
Or just find the nearest Telstra pit and put a bloody shovel through the fibre optic cables that connect it to the outside world.
So we need to immediately figure out ways to stop this happening!
What's that?
You say we could prevent this happening by just not building the massive AI data centres?
You say we could tax the rich so they don't have the money to build massive AI data centres?
No! We absolutely must not do that under any circumstances!
See, our position is really quite straightforward.
We're claiming our product poses an existential risk to humanity that justifies urgent action to mitigate the risk, but also simultaneously we don't want you to think it /genuinely/ poses an existential risk to humanity that /actually/ justifies urgent action that would be guaranteed mitigate the risk, such as not building massive AI data centres, or by not providing access to the ginormous quantities of water and land and energy and capital that our product which is causing this supposed threat depends on.
So why say it?
Mostly, because if we say things like: "We can make a product that could make massive monopolistic short-term profits in a few years, but there's a 10% chance it kills everyone alive, give us money to build it," then the Silicon Valley VCs and Wall Street bankers will throw literal billions our way.
Whereas if we were to say: "We can make a product that solves a genuine problem and we have a sustainable business model for it that will deliver stable long-term returns," then they won't.
Because under American capitalism, "a chance it kills every person" is seen to be a worthwhile risk to take in exchange for short-term profits.
I really hope that clarifies our argument.
#AI #LLM #DataCenter #DataCentre #GenAI #tech #Anthropic #OpenAI #Google #Microsoft #Gemini #Copilot #Claude #AGI #capitalism #aimarketing #BigTech #tech
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After white supremacist Stefan Molyneux was banned from YouTube in 2020, he moved to the extremely right video platform Rumble.
Rumble is the "YouTube for Nazis". The company behind it, the Rum Group, is aligned with Trump.
And now Anthropic made a nearly 14 billion USD deal with them.
Perplexity similarly made a deal with Trump's "Truth" Social.
Every "AI" company is directly collaborating with Nazis. And every employer in my industry is changing their entire business model to become "AI-first" while you have to argue with clueless, ignorant centrists about the alleged usefulness of "AI". It's so fucking tiring.
You cannot use LLMs without empowering Nazis. It's obvious that the CEOs of said employers don't care, but it would be great if at least the workers didn't brush this fact aside.
Rated Squid Game - Season 1 8/10
Rated The Reluctant Fundamentalist 6/10
A moving film about allegiances at the social, national, and personal levels, The Reluctant Fundamentalist has high aims but fails to fully render its many messages. Because of this, a beautiful film about the origins of culture clash and the role patriotism and fear play in producing these inevitabilities, comes across heavy-handed. This is a bit of a disappointment as the casting is spot-on--Riz Ahmed, Kiefer Sutherland, and Om Puri give some incredibly magnetic performances--and there is no dearth of technical skill.Typically I'm a fan of overambitious films, but this manages to somehow telegraph a variety of positions while never quite putting its foot down. It is perhaps too comfortable with ambiguity, certainly more comfortable than its audience is. At the film's opening this makes for compelling and interesting material, but the fact that few concrete answers or explanations are offered on the ontologies of its characters' motivations ensures that the congealed product is unrewarding. It comes as no surprise, then, that many of the supporting cast exist solely to add context and are themselves underdeveloped.All said, the film IS vibrant. When not dominated by the rich sounds and visuals of Pakistan, ethereal vocalizations and sheer and embroidered textiles, the film is arguably at its most uninteresting. One of the things I loved, in particular, was how the soundtrack was used to inspire feeling or to accompany the feelings being created and shown on screen. The sound profile of the film is itself incredibly diverse and enjoyable; the soundtrack contains oral chants, hip hop beats, and melodious instrumentations, all of which are creatively and effectively woven into the narrative.Through this film we come to realize that militancy is rarely a mask of our making or choosing, that sometimes it is chosen for us. This is the kind of film that brings cerebrality and moral philosophy to characters we often hear about but never see. While a smaller scale might have provided for more powerful meditations on the social constraints of identity, this remains a film to be seen because it manages to be both race and class-conscious, all while subverting the popular characterizations of peoples and groups in the middle east. It doesn't do it well, but it does it. And that is saying something.
Mural seen in San Francisco, California.
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AS AN ASIDE: kinda proves the point of some marxists that whatever the soviets, and bolsheviks before them, had was not true #communism; but corruptocratic state capitalism.
it explains why Trump was notoriously infatuated with the soviets: he loved their unbridled #corruption.
#MAGA *is* #soviet #capitalism; where a select few enrich themselves as “portfolio managers” of the country’s assets while the rest of us exist to absorb their “externalities” under the guise of government policies.