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"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
Why doesn't a year begin at the winter or summer solstice? Would seem to make more sense as a basis for a solar calendar.
Civilization is the product of greed. Civilization requires a tame workforce to construct edifices to it's greed and pathways for it's greed to continue. This is clearly laid out in large cities where the tame workforce and it's byproducts aren't allowed to mix with the holders of wealth except in a subservient manner. Even the faux progressives talk about good (i.e., wealthy) schools and neighborhoods and try to live there.
Being called civilized means you know your assigned place in society.
"Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph." - Robert E. Howard
After McConnell blocks k House bill, Sanders, Markey, and Brown commit to filibustering defense bill to force vote in Senate https://basicincometoday.com/after-mcconnell-blocks-2k-house-bill-sanders-markey-and-brown-commit-to-filibustering-defense-bill-to-force-vote-in-senate/
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When does the infotainment media not call a politically motivated suicide bomber who takes out a critical emergency telecommunications facility a terrorist? When do the police with specific foreknowledge of his bomb making and intentions do nothing to stop him?
When it is a white male conservative QAnon fanatic.
"Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago, report shows"
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Seed saving movement calls for #seeds to be publicly owned | #UK news | The Guardian
#PublicOwnership #Agriculture #Horticulture #Food #Vegetables #Fruit #Patents #GeneticModification #GMO
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Michigan police solved a murder with recordings of the suspect's voice stored on the victim's truck infotainment system. Michigan police pull data from cars "sometimes two to three times a week." #privacy https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/snitches-wheels-police-turn-car-data-destroy-suspects-alibis-n1251939
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@pluralistic
"Market power monopoly" + "author monopoly" = "scientific publishing"
The publisher Elsevier makes 30 to 50% profits year after year.
The market power of the scientific publishers stems from the influence on scientific careers. So I am building a system to independently determine what are good scientific articles. It will not give me the monopoly profits, but better science. @GrassrootsReview
Are there ways communities could break other monopolies? "We have people." #rC3Two
Powerful Mobile Phone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity Across the Country https://theintercept.com/2020/12/23/police-phone-surveillance-dragnet-cellhawk/
Investigator: DNC Was “Directly Involved” in Iowa Caucus App Development, Countering DNC Denial https://theintercept.com/2020/12/23/dnc-iowa-caucus-app-shadow/
A nation of moochers. https://thenib.com/nation-of-moochers/
I can't recommend Duck Duck Go as a search engine, because it uses Bing as it's primary, which means it returns Microsoft weighted results. I've been liking metaGer as an alternative.
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Hollywood gets presents, the rest of us get coal, in today’s disastrous copyright proposal https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/disastrous-copyright-proposal-goes-straight-our-naughty-list
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[Full-time] Staff Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10313/staff-software-engineer-at-wikimedia-foundation/ #jobs
@dynamic @LeoSammallahti Broad exposure is always good for broadening the mind. IME, segregation equals ignorance in racism, classism, etc.
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@mattcropp and @Steve talk about EOCs (employee ownership centers):
@dynamic @LeoSammallahti I think it's easier to visualise the limit of natural resources outside of an urban environment, but that's just me. It certainly isn't tied to density. I live near a city of ~70,000 that isn't very dense, and urbanites can be just as isolated from the rural.
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I found this indigenous development concept interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/03/the-bold-new-plan-for-an-indigenous-led-development-in-vancouver.
Whether the development will live up to the vision is a different question, but it's an interesting example motivated by the desire to both increase density and allow people to engage with "nature."
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Milwaukee used to be ruled by socialists in the early 20th century. One reason for their success was organising a network of cooperative enterprises, a method their modern successors have not utilised enough.
"How socialists created a co-operative commonwealth in the American midwest" on Mutual Interest, a free online media #coop owned by readers & writers.
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"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
