#ukhousing manager, interested in environmental issues, music, films, systems thinking etc. Any views expressed here may not be shared by my employer.
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Alex Morrish retweeted
Ursula K. Le Guin in 2014:
“Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting voices who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being…We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable—but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”
During the feudal era, the greed and power of kings ruled society until the people fought back.
Now, in the capitalist era, the greed and power of billionaires rule society. Like the kings, they think their reign will last forever, but it will only last until the people rise up and change it.
Different eras, similar struggle. The struggle of the people to liberate ourselves from the greed of the ruling class and the power and wealth imbalances of top-down hierarchical societies.
As powerful and inescapable as capitalism feels, it has no power without the people and the workers who make it run! Once the people figure this out en masse the world is ours to collectively share together!
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New article! False flags, Unabomber, Joe McCarthy, Trump, and more. If you like it, please share! Thanks
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p…
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Free book excerpt! How paywalls killed the public sphere:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p…
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"In 2016, Trump's goal was to control the media. In 2026, it is to destroy the media. He recognizes it as a depreciated asset. Trump is a corporate raider doing what corporate raiders do. He seeks to destroy the media much as he seeks to destroy the US itself."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p…
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"End Times Fascism," the new book by Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein, describes how a "fractious alliance" of religious extremists, tech accelerationists and ethnonationalists is pushing the world toward disaster.
"They're both building their arks and they're causing the floods," @astradisastra says.
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In the UK we suffer from a lower pension, later retirement age and lower life expectancy than most European countries. This means the amount of state pension we actually receive is much lower than in other countries
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A huge shout-out to Rethinking Economics Denmark for this brilliant satire! 🎓
We know there are countless students out there who remember a moment in economics class that made them pull this exact face. 😕 😖 😠
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ALT A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Yesterday morning I took my mum to the GP feeling unwell and they found a satsuma-sized lump.
She was given a referral for suspected gynaecological cancer and sent for an urgent blood test.
What happened next shocked me. This is what NHS privatisation means in practice👇1/🧵
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Stop complaining. Once you survive schools with crumbling concrete roofs and £60k of student debt, you can look forward to a gig economy job and rent that takes half your salary until you get to claim the worst pension in Europe at an ever-increasing retirement age.
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Neoliberalism does not mean the reduction of the state. Instead, the state is reorganized by controlling elites to protect monopoly power and capital accumulation, often producing greater inequality and insecurity. As economist Luigi Zingales says "the greatest threat to free markets is not the working class or government regulation, but powerful business incumbents who use political influence to suppress competition."
Video credit: @INETeconomics @J_K_Galbraith
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Whitney Webb just said the quiet part out loud.
Flock cameras are only one part of a “constellation” of surveillance tech.
“They can really spy on you … now from space.”
“You can’t cut those down.”
“This is getting extremely dire.”
“The surveillance state has expanded so much.”
“Flock cameras are bad.”
“But they are one of a constellation … of companies.”
“They are private companies.”
“But they are totally in bed with the national security apparatus.”
And that national security apparatus is quickly moving into something worse than just surveillance.
They’re using surveillance tech to build an AI-powered “predictive” crime apparatus.
“That type of power is weaponized to curb and target dissent.”
“If you’re moving to a paradigm where you can target dissent before it happens, that’s terrible.”
“What we’re talking about here with the Merlin constellation and Satellogic and Palantir is literally what you’re worried about with Flock in space.”
Mark Goodwin: “In April 2022, the first Edge AI-enabled satellite in space was launched by Satellogic and Palantir with assistance from SpaceX.”
Webb: “This is about predictive stuff.”
“It’s about what an algorithm thinks you may do in the future.”
“Or, like, you were at this place where a crime happened … so the algorithm is like, people associated with this hotspot could also be criminals.”
“It’s totally insane.”
@_whitneywebb @markgoodw_in
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The smartest companies study complaints. The really smart ones study the complaints customers never bothered making.
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New article! This one is loaded with controversial topics: Epstein, Israel, midterm election corruption, Maggie Haberman’s Trump-mafia ties, Zelensky’s relationship with Netanyahu, AI data centers, and more. Have fun! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p…
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I’ve been stewing all day about a thread I saw this morning from an academic criminologist suggesting that part of the problem in Teesside this week, including the fatal crash, was that we don’t lock up as many kids in YOI prisons as we used to.
Here’s the thing. 🧵
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Geraakt door ‘Ghost Stories’, diepgaand memoir van Siri Hustvedt.
Een boek van herinneringen.
Een rouwboek.
Een monument voor de liefste, Paul Auster (1947-2024).
‘Nu schrijf ik verhalen over jou, over ons. Ik schrijf om je vast te houden. Hold on.’
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Bertrand Russell:
'Since the running of a big newspaper requires a large capital, the proprietors of important organs necessarily belong to the capitalist class, and it will be a rare and exceptional event if they do not sympathise with their own class in opinion and outlook. They are able to decide what news the great mass of newspaper readers shall be allowed to have. They can actually falsify the news, or, without going so far as that, they can carefully select it, giving such items as will stimulate the passions which they desire to stimulate, and suppressing such items as would provide the antidote. In this way the picture of the world in the mind of the average newspaper reader is made to be not a true picture, but in the main that which suits the interests of capitalists.'
'Roads to Freedom' (1918)
