Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

There is almost infinite hypocrisy in this letter to investors by the CEO of one of the most rapacious corporate giants on the planet.

His fundamental point -- that an aging population has almost no way of paying for longevity -- is true.

But the pious lecture from a financial engineer whose operation's holdings have plundered so much from so many to enrich so few is sickening.

https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-annual-chairmans-letter

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Farmers' anger at green rules are frequently cited as a reason for watering down the EU environmental law.

BUT
If you ask *farmers*, in France this is what they say:

"62% of farmers believe that the ecological transition is a necessity and 23% even consider that it is an opportunity : the refusal of the ecological transition is therefore today largely in the minority among farmers (15%)."

Here's the survey report:
https://www.bva-xsight.com/sondages/crise-agricole-sondage-bvaxsight-collectifnourrir/

h/t @BrabantsBurgerplatform
https://mastodon.social/@BrabantsBurgerplatform@mastodon.nl/112002388637564310

Huh. No one wants to come to my "Debate Me, Cowards!" store. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2024/03/26

When a chart gets trotted out to chasten the ungrateful plebs and prove to them that they've got it made in the shade, like this one 👇 left unmentioned will be that the real wage gains of the low-income are 1) coming after decades of stagnation, and 2) starting from unlivabley low amounts. A 10% pay increase doesn't mean much if you were only making $10/hour to start with.

I feel like this (very good) essay from @interfluidity could be subtitled "how to propagandize with statistics." If you want to get a better handle on how the narratives we get fed by most media about the economy mislead, make sure to give this one a read.

https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/03/25/why-does-wage-compression-underwhelm/index.html

A lot of it has to do with the context that is (or is not) provided for whatever number is being trotted out to assure you that things are really great, regardless of what you're experiencing.

@GuerillaOntologist Thanks for the post! Redesigning punktv.com now and adding some unknown bands from back in the day!

"too smart to not be depressed"

I mean...

privilege does play into that, right? the ability to ignore the hellscape because it doesn't impact you?

but it's also... okay? to not doomscroll all day? like you have a limited amount of spoons to give, so you prioritize

taking someone who's neutral and going:

"arg why aren't you freaking out like I am that the world is burning you aren't doing enough?!??!?!"

vs

"hey, I care about ABC, so later on me and the crew were gonna talk about XYZ steps to make the world a better place. you wanna join?"

like, yes the world is on fire, and needs action now.

motivating people to do something is a skill.

anybody with half a brain can alienate people into inaction.

if "Aaaaahhh!! on fire!" motivates you and your friend group, cool.

I'm trying to motivate a bunch of peaceful, privileged, "it doesn't affect me yet" folks.

they would instantly tune out a protest.
but they are someone who could do other stuff :)

organize to solve a smaller local problem, first.

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau for March 24, 2024 - GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/03/24

@liaizon A lot of people think that the pentacle was chosen because of its occult or satanic connotations. And while it would be in Fediverse's rebellious spirit, this was not the case.

My idea was to illustrate the structure of the network. There must be multiple nodes (multiple servers). There must be nothing in the middle (no center). The connections can cross each other, but must never follow the same path twice. No connection must be on top of each other.

It can't be done with two nodes, because it's just a line and in the middle of the line, there's line. It can be done with triangle, but it's boring. It can not be done with four nodes, because their connection cross in the middle.

So, five nodes it is. Thus, a pentacle.

Also, a pentacle is a classic symbol for a star. And I always wanted to associate the Fediverse with the stars and space in public consciousness.

What's plural of "a fedi node"? "a constellation".

@eudaimon

When it comes down to the essential corporate model, BU tells Faculty we are "managers" - the employers of grad student employees. I reject this assertion of my relationship with grad workders as an advisor, mentor, and teacher. I never signed or agreed to the term "manager". I didn't "hire" the teaching fellow, and I don't "manage" them. We work together for the undergraduate students, and learn from and advise each other, in different ways.

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Ah, how I was not looking forward to writing #C again!

(But it's fine, I'm getting paid for this inconvenience.)

#coding #unsafe

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@ct_bergstrom when my boss talks about using AI for things like writing help desk articles or training documentation, he caveats "of course it has to be reviewed." & what I don't say back (because it would hurt my credibility) is 'but we WON'T review it.'

Because I know we won't. It just won't happen. We'll create the help desk articles & they'll go up & people will get wrong info from them & we'll never know because they'll either just work around the errors or fail & never tell us.

I knew @FreeScholar had been in a punk band, but much to my shame I never bothered to look them up. Thankfully, that oversight has now been rectified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i7dlmxasyo

[The Black Punk Pioneer Boston Forgot]
https://disappearingmedia.substack.com/p/the-black-punk-pioneer-boston-forgot

The idea of human beings as rational utility-maximizing particles with insatiable hedonic desires is very much the product of an ideological project to justify capitalism as “natural” and has virtually no relationship to how actual human beings live but a lot of people have genuinely internalized it.

Trying to derive “human nature” by observing people under capitalist modernity is like looking at a bored, depressed wolf obsessively pacing a circle in a tiny zoo enclosure and concluding that this is “wolf nature.”

I'm using Google podcasts until the last possible second. Will I learn and stop using their always abandoned apps? Of course not. I'm stupid.