Really good #Linux O’Reilly book bundle (DRM-free) available on Humble Bundle just now. Worth checking out:
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-all-things-oreilly-books
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The Alibi of Capital
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
Hello friends in fediverse,
I'm looking to connect with people who talk and share interesting topics about technology, data science, data analysis, research and open source.
#fediverse #fedi #introduction #DataScience #data #privacy #DataSecurity #research #tech
Wait, dead mic?
Alright, it is in fact Sunday-morning-in-Europe but I am elbow-deep in setting up some machine over the world's slowest network connection, so if you're into that this is that. #lispyGopherClimate #emacs #ssh #actuallySshX Just building #acl2 and #lambdaMOO . ( #lisp, #logic and #mud ) (and #i2p but there's no accounting for taste).
https://toobnix.org/w/gXLXQqxf5MYg1NDF2Ua6oA
Every week since 2022 ! #peertube #podcast #tech #live every 8am Sunday UTC.
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LARB Radio Hour welcomes #KimPhillipsFein, author of #CountryOfLords: Neo-Aristocrats, #SocialDarwinists, #Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America
"Phillips-Fein examines a powerful countertradition that has challenged our well-mythologized national ideal of equality from the United States's founding to today."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/kim-phillips-fein-country-lords-podcast-interview/
#USpol #USpolitics #inequality #UShistory #socialTheorists #SiliconValleyRight #AmericanRight #racism #books @bookstodon
#Meta faces biggest #court fight yet over #socialmedia’s impact on #children
Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California #FederalCourt trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered #Facebook & #Instagram to be #addictive to children, a case that could expose the company to massive damages & force it to make sweeping changes to its platforms.
#law #tech #MentalHealth #business
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-29-states-head-court-biggest-test-yet-youth-social-media-litigation-2026-08-12/
After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire?
As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
https://disconnect.blog/elon-musks-tired-schtick/
#tech #elonmusk #artificialintelligence #politics #media #journalism
" We are starving 💔😭
We are starving 💔😭
We are dying of hunger. My family has no food, and donations have stopped
We urgently need $50 to buy food. Any help could save my family 🙏
Please don't ignore us, we have nothing left to live 💔🙏"Please post this for me—please share it on your page. ❤️
https://chuffed.org/project/164090-help-omar-and-his-family
#Gaza #Palestine #Design #Tech #introduction #policy #CreativeToots #MastoArt #WebDev #SoftwareEngineering #softwaredesign #SoftwareDesign #Programming #OpenSource #CreativeToots #DigitalArt #MastoArt #Fediverse #Introductions #Photography #FF #FollowFriday #Fediverse #CatsOfMastodon #News #AmReading #Books #DigitalDesign
Options: (choose one)
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honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/
FlockHopper: A Free Tool That Finds the Fastest Route and a Second One That Dodges Flock Cameras
FlockHopper exists to show you two things: how many of those cameras already line your daily route, and an alternative path that tries to dodge them.
#FlockHopper #dlocksafety #alpr #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech
https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/flockhopper-free-tool-finds-fastest-152511835.html
In the 2010s, we were told new tech would revolutionize transportation.
As BMW faces backlash for sticking a Spider-Man ad on its center console, we can see what it really amounted to: cars that collect vast quantities of data on us and which automakers are desperate to use to push ads on us too.
https://disconnect.blog/bmws-in-car-spider-man-ad-is-a-warning-sign/
#tech #bmw #transportation #transport #cars #driving #spiderman
My proposal "Every breath you take - Why real name registration is not for a 'better web' but a better surveillance" will be on the FediDay AND on the Datenspuren 
So - once in English, once in German
So happy to see you all!
https://berlinfedi.day/ https://datenspuren.de/
#Berlin #Dresden #Fediday #Datenspuren #Conference #FOSS #talk #realnameregistration #tech #surveillance #techfascism #ccc #c3d2 #wsocial
My new video is up!
In this one I talk about the deluge of bad news that Elon Musk has endured this past week. Feels like there's been a calamitous story for him every single day, so I had to do a video.
If you enjoy the video, please hit the like button. This helps us tiny creators out a ton. Thank you!
#YouTube #Tesla #SpaceX #ElonMusk #Grok #Cybertruck #Investing #Technology #Tech
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/117027856876620194
This sounds bad. 😬
"In the past five weeks, the market has collapsed, shedding almost 40 per cent, and threatening the livelihood of millions of South Koreans...
More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything, and then some.
They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal.
Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country's two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic, primarily because the debt that fuelled the stock market boom is now accentuating the crash."
Uh-oh!
A debt-fuelled boom
"More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything..."
"They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal."
"Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country's two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic..."
Via: @SrRochardBunson
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/korean-markets-threatening-upset-tech-boom/106981956
RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117038237202752606
REMINDER
#Uber’s largest investor is #KSA, thanks to the “techbro of the desert”.
MBS not only had #JeffreyEpstein in his inner-circle, but killed a journalist & gave Trump’s SIL a $2 billion bribe to get nuclear w̶e̶a̶p̶o̶n̶s̶ #tech.
❝ The investment, part of Uber’s Series G fundraising round, is one of PIF’s single largest international transactions to date and the first since the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced Vision 2030…❞
https://www.pif.gov.sa/en/news-and-insights/press-releases/2016/saudi-arabian-pif/
"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice." – Nelson Mandela
https://the.kalvin.click/support-my-journey-studies/
#education #studies #student #justice #solidarity #community #support #tech #learning #life #advocacy #future #action #equality #humanity #change #aid
My new video is up!
This week I talk about Kansas' new school cell phone ban, the rise of these policies nationwide, and the dangers of social media for kids.
If you enjoy the video, please tap the like button. It helps us smaller creators immensely. Thank you!
#SocialMedia #MentalHealth #Tech #Technology #Video #Education
A time-warp to my room around late 1992, where I show how exhilarating it was to be a game developer. 😆
#TeamHoi #PixelArt #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #commodore #amiga #computing #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #designer #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon #hoi #MoonChild
🚨 BOOK BUNDLE DEAL
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📰 Little Bits: Issue #39 For July 2026
A new issue is here of curated discoveries sourced from the fediverse and beyond with loads of little bits to explore all organized into categories.
My new video is up!
It's about the practice of surveillance pricing, emerging regulation against it, and steps you can take to limit its impact on you personally. (And hopefully save all those little bits of cash getting stolen by the algorithm.)
If you like the video, please take a sec to hit the like button, as that helps us small creators a ton. Thank you!
#YouTube #Privacy #SurveillancePricing #Video #Technology #Tech
Extract and Review Web Page Links Using a Bookmarklet
Learn how to combat poor web design by extracting and reviewing all web page links found on page with the use of a bookmarklet.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/extract-review-web-page-links/
So, not a surprise that Apple is renaming Lake Ontario to appease the child rapist that occupies the White House.
If you're stuck using an iPhone or other Apple device you don't have to use Apple Maps or their services. For maps download a privacy respecting, open source map app like Organic Maps.
Pull your data out of iCloud and use a service like Proton which offers a package that includes email, cloud storage, documents, Password manager, VPN, etc.
Boycott #Apple #Google #Meta #Amazon #Microsoft and any other #US #Tech that supports fascism.
No one forces you to use or pay for their services. Move your data. Boycott them.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/organic-maps-offline-maps-gps/id1567437057
What if I were to tell you that Trump could knock any (or all) of over 20 million¹ European web sites off the Web tomorrow by picking up the phone to one US organisation: Let’s Encrypt.
We desperately need an independent, not-for-profit ACME provider in the EU paid for by our taxes.
¹ This is just based on one firm’s analytics (https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/LetsEncrypt/EUROPE). Others put LE use at 50-60% of all web sites.
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