Actually inventing or producing things is at best the path to small-time wealth. The really big fortunes -- the billionaire kind -- instead come from controlling the circumstances under which other people are allowed to produce things.
-- Kevin Carson

#anarchism #quote #bot

That industry is obscene. 🤬

»begrænsninger på telefonkøen har til formål at sikre, at telefonsystemet ikke overbelastes og i yderste tilfælde risikerer at bryde sammen« #dkpolitik #itpolitik
https://www.berlingske.dk/politik/800000-gange-ringede-borgere-forgaeves-til-skat-politisk-ordfoerer-stod

Britain can’t afford the Iron Dome defence system.

Solution: Deploy Liss Truss

She’s thick, impenetrable and willing to stand in front of anything and deflect.

Sleep soundly, everyone.

I mean I hang out with a lot of lefties whose ultimate answers I do not agree with because, and this is important, none of that matters right now while we're fighting capitalism and fascism. I also avoid discussions about "the day after" because I'm 100% certain we're not that close to it. So debating the finer points of anarcho-syndicalism with you is the ultimate exercise in "presume we have a can opener."

You want book recommendations? I'll comply. You can argue with the books; exhausting.

NEW: IRS Audit of #Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million
--

The #tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed #Chicago tower.

#News #Law #IRS #Taxes #RealEstate #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

"Aggregate Facebook traffic to a group of 792 news and media sites that have been tracked by Chartbeat since 2018 shows that referrals to the sites have plunged by 58%." Establish direct relationships with your audience. #Media https://werd.io/view/66422eae8d950c23e9030e32

Sooo apparently Dutch primary schools are using algorithms to decide which children are at risk of failing and need extra learning material, and ChatGPT to detect fraud. Yes, in primary school.

A few years ago we had a major scandal about people's lives being ruined after algorithms had incorrectly marked them for social benefits fraud. Guess we didn't learn this shit is just shit.

https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/artikel/5450163/scholen-hebben-meer-kennis-nodig-over-algoritmen-anders-kans-op

How The Right™️ turned George Soros into a catch-all boogieman for everything - the TL;DW, basically, being "Every accusation is a confession" 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZzlC3gYk8

#SomeMoreNews #CodyJohnston #uspolitics

You can immediately tell who is using Linkedin’s “AI” features for writing comments because they all sound like they’re in an SNL sketch parodying MBA/Wall Street dickheads.

Lack of affordable childcare forces working moms to take unpaid time off & pass up good jobs, costing the average working mom of two ~$94,000 in lost income over their career.

Republicans (and Manchin & Sinema) have repeatedly blocked investments in childcare. Do they hate moms?

Q: Where can I find old API documentation on your website?
A: Those APIs are obsolete and should no longer be used. Use the latest documentation only.
Q: How can I migrate my code to the new APIs when I can't check the old documentation?
A: ...

• Justice Clarence Thomas told the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference that Washington is a “hideous place,” which I point out follows 40+ years of his amassing power in Washington — and exploiting it. https://www.lawdork.com/p/justice-thomas-attacks-dc-as-hideous

Yes, I will play at your Pride Month event. Yes, I will expect to get paid. Yes, I will talk about Palestine while I'm on stage.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a natural wonder, the world’s largest living structure, bigger than Italy and almost the size of Germany. For centuries humans have marveled at its beauty and benefited from its extraordinary biodiversity.

Now it is being killed by global warming, by capitalist industry and commerce.
__________________________

Last month the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority released a report warning that the reef was experiencing “the highest levels of thermal stress on record.” The authority’s chief scientist, Dr Roger Beeden, spoke of extensive and uniform bleaching across the southern reefs, which had dodged the worst of much of the previous four mass bleaching events to blight the Great Barrier Reef since 2016.

Prof Terry Hughes, a coral bleaching expert at James Cook University, saw in the institute’s aerial surveys results the most “widespread event and severe” bleaching event to date, not just in the south, but across much of the entire system – which stretches 2,300km up the Queensland coast.

But none of these metrics, it seems, could truly prepare Hughes for the act of bearing witness to the unfolding calamity he has dedicated his life to preventing.

“It’s fucking awful,” the softly spoken scientist says, emerging from the ocean. “They said the bleaching was extensive and uniform. They didn’t say it was extensive, uniform, and fucking awful."

“It’s a graveyard out there.”
__________________________

FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/01/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-crisis

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams

Unbundling Teams from Office has apparently failed to impress EU regulators.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/report-microsoft-to-face-antitrust-case-over-teams/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

"Majestic Sombrero" is a pretty weird pairing of words... just me? 😂

https://mastodon.social/@wonderofscience/112432854924880646

I hope this email finds you under her bed.