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From trees to concrete spheres, see how Vanyu Krastev transforms everyday objects in Bulgaria into hilarious characters with just googly eyes! 👀✨ #StreetArt https://streetartutopia.com/2024/12/01/googly-eye-street-art-bulgaria/

Israel's defense minister Katz: if ceasefire collapses we will no longer differentiate 'between #Lebanon and Hezbollah' - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/dec/03/middle-east-crisis-live-ceasefire-israel-lebanon-syria-gaza?page=with:block-674ee37e8f0816c0cff85f0c#block-674ee37e8f0816c0cff85f0c sounds like #israel announcing another #genocide...

Hotter take: Instead of encouraging everyone to do self-care, hows about we encourage everyone to care for each other?

On this Giving Tuesday, remember that the nonprofit sector runs on the exploitation of labor, and if nonoprofits could make meaningful change, wealthy people wouldn't fund them.

Hot take: Self-care is a neoliberal concept. Care is something you do for others (or they do for you), but our society demands that all things - including care - be made the responsibility of each individual to do for themselves. Feeling burnt out? Depressed? Run down? It's your own fault for not doing enough self-care!

Good to see Braverman getting some love in MR. Labor and Monopoly Capital was my favorite econ text for a long time. Still an essential read. Not very often you find an economist who's spent real time on an assembly line.
https://monthlyreview.org/2024/12/01/braverman-monopoly-capital-and-ai-the-collective-worker-and-the-reunification-of-labor/

"The capitalist mode of production systematically destroys all-round skills where they exist, and brings into being skills and occupations that correspond to its needs. Technical capacities are henceforth distributed on a strict “need to know” basis."

Oh great, now the UAW is union-busting 😕

https://paydayreport.com/uaw-staff-union-strikes-over-union-busting-all-german-vw-plans-strike-usps-suspends-canadian-service-amid-strikes/

#Kwin just crashed. Then it returned, and most apps did too.

Except the one I wrote :P

Do newer toolkits just reconnect on a broken #Wayland connection?

#KDE

@bruces the irony is that the senior software engineer was writing Python.

In the least surprising news of the day, we find that UN-sponsored talks aimed at producing a treaty to reduce plastic production and pollution have failed. 🙁
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Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to reach agreement, with more than 100 nations wanting to cap production while a handful of oil producers were prepared only to target plastic waste.

Delegates remained far apart on the basic scope of a treaty and could agree only to postpone key decisions and to resume talks at a later date.

Plastic production is on track to triple by 2050, and microplastics have been found in the air, in fresh produce, and in human breast milk.

China, the United States, India, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia were the top five plastic-producing nations in 2023.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/over-100-countries-back-plastic-treaty-caps-talks-reach-fierce-finish-2024-11-30/
SEE ALSO -- https://www.politico.eu/article/un-plastic-treaty-talks-end-without-a-deal/

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#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

If Substack RSS feeds are a "disaster" that is likely to be deliberate. https://www.manton.org/2024/12/01/substacks-rss-feeds.html

I roll a d20 every morning, and today I rolled two 20s in a row, so I guess I'm literally invincible for the rest of 2024.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/02/how-can-news-corp-call-its-gas-splash-exclusive-and-special-report-when-its-paid-for-by-industry Reminder that the Murdoch family's media outlets are as corrupt as the company that owns them.

Themes of resistance are coming up a lot lately, and also the simultaneous acknowledgment that we all need to prioritize self preservation, with also the duty of those of us in relative safety to stand up and speak out.

Some time ago, a friend of mine posted a meme you may have seen: "Be yourself, unless you can be a dragon.  Then be a dragon."

A few days ago, a different friend posted a link to this (heartbreaking) essay on cockroach mode: #^https://www.everywhereist.com/2024/11/it-is-time-for-our-cockroach-era/

"I simply have one request of all of you: survive."

But a lot of us have a duty to do more, actions big and small, and Saturday night I awoke in the night with the phrase "time to be awesome" already in my head, and a moment later my heart was racing.

So here a message for anyone who needs to hear it:
If you need to be a cockroach, then be a cockroach.  If you don't need to be a cockroach, be awesome.  (If you can be an awesome cockroach, that's cool too.)

Anyway, here's Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony:
#^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rgBWhNIDOE

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I hope this Apple employee wins this lawsuit against the company and brings a halt to a corporate control freak's insistence on knowing everything its employee is doing, at work and at home.

Pervasive bossware should be illegal, period. Congress, of course, is indifferent to privacy rights, and it's dangerous to rely on our increasingly right-wing courts for help.

Unions are still the best way forward for workers' rights.

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/02/2024/employee-lawsuit-accuses-apple-of-spying-on-its-workers

@AkaSci @EricFielding @michael_w_busch I have to say, if we're going to go into Kessler Syndrome, having it start via an NEO hitting a Starlink satellite is one of the more ironic ways. *Particularly* if it's an NEO that has its discovery missed because of satellite streaks in NEO survey images...

If I was Biden (I'm not) despite plenty of pressure to do otherwise I wouldn't announce ANY of my plans for final executive orders/pardons/appointments or anything of the sort. I would have everything drawn up to the point where the only thing required was my signature, then I'd sit out the rest of my term until like the final month or so, then I'd sign everything and simply not comment on it. There'd be no reason to give the Trump admin more time to figure out how to undo any of it.

I don’t know what would thrill your friends and relatives more this holiday season than unwrapping the political thriller of our era. Deranged, absurd, violent, and packed with laffs—much like life itself!

How do cooperative enterprises differ?

A small example/anecdote: When I applied for a job at a big Japanese university I had to re-submit my CV. The problem? I had included my six years of "stay-at-home parent." That had to go in order for my CV to be accepted.

In our current co-op study/organizing circle, based on @luisrazeto 's How to Create a Solidarity Enterprise, we each prepared a CV, and then a combined collective CV that recognized the importance of parenting and other care work.