Tootfinder

If I had to summarise capitalism in one word it would be “enclosure”.
That’s literally everything these bastards are about. Taking something that belongs to us all, building a fence around it, and calling it “mine.” (And if you don’t like it, “say hello to my little friend…”)
That’s literally the whole of their bullshit philosophy.

"The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments."
#ClimateEmergency

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

There are no free kicks in capitalism
#worldcup

#Socialism #Capitalism

"For the left, it’s an obvious example of public ownership and access. Italy’s large rump of former socialists and communists say that the perversity of capitalism is revealed by even shade being commercialised. For the activists of Mare Libero, freeing beaches isn’t a frivolous campaign, but a civil rights one informed by ecology and inclusion."

‘Liberate the lidos!’ Who will win the war over Italy’s private beaches?
Almost all of the sandy stretches on the country’s 8,000km of coastline are run for profit. Now ‘free beach’ campaigners are fighting back against the mafia, the military and those profiteering from sun loungers and cocktails

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116946142636186759
So very much this: Even if you think AI is net-positive, we have a duty to expand well, not on top of the most marginalized as always.
The way we do it now is the way of paving natural beauty, discarding entire communities, and taking what is often limited resources from those who need them to live.
It is possible to build data centers that do not have these problems. It is possible to power with solar, to cool with a refrigeration cycle instead of evaporating water.
It just costs more energy. And therefore is only viable if we invest in solar, heavily, and require it.
One of the fundamental tenets embedded in capitalism is that if you can't represent it in the market, it doesn't have to be taken into account. Community and ways of life are those things.

We've reached the "your contribution wasn't significant enough to earn the additional characters required to spell out your name" stage of capitalism.
#ScottHumor #Videogames #FamilyLifeVideogame

RE: https://c.im/@shonin/116946624001335654
You are a sacrifice capitalism is willing to make.

#capitalism already in need of a museum?

The Democrats' 'Capitalism vs. Socialism' Debate Is Beyond Useless (E.J. Dionne Jr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/opinion/democrats-capitalism-socialism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260719/p10#a260719p10

The idea that autonomous, thinking machines may one day destroy property, hierarchy and inequality
is as old as western political thought.
In Aristotle’s Politics, the philosopher cites a fantasy from the Iliad, in which machines begin to act independently of human direction, concluding:
“If every tool could perform its own work when ordered, or by seeing what to do in advance …
if thus shuttles wove and quills played harps of themselves,
master-craftsmen wou…

AI will transform capitalism – but how?
Technology is going to drastically reshape the economy, and it’s within our power to decide what that looks like

I really recommend this interview full of insights into the role of petroleum in modern capitalism, the war in the Middle East, and strategy for ecosocialists.
In Spanish but worth a machine translation.
https://www.eldiario.es/…

Adam Hanieh, investigador: "La preparación permanente para la guerra deja un mundo atado al petróleo"
El profesor de la Escuela de Estudios Orientales y Africanos de Londres (SOAS) aborda la historia del desarrollo capitalista mundial escrita desde el petróleo como elemento nuclear

I have no intention of signing up for W currently, but I might consider it if we can get it to replace LinkedIn.

Either way I am planning to stay here..
#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239

iPhone Duo: Because capitalism has officially run out of ideas.

If you are imagining a future more than 1000 years from now and it involves capitalism, you aren't imagining a realistic future.
It's like imagining the future of a nuclear reactor that's melting down without either an explosion or any control measures happening.

Sometimes I get frustrated with the conversations around communism/socialism/capitalism. Did communism in the USSR work? No, because it concentrated all the resources with a privileged group that became corrupt. Did socialism work as practiced in many countries? Not if it concentrated all the resources with a privileged group.
Does capitalism work? Sometimes. If it's counterbalanced with regulation and social safety nets. Otherwise, capitalism runs into the same problems as socialism/communism. Market forces concentrate wealth with a privileged class that becomes corrupted. Because power corrupts. Even if that power belongs to a privileged group rather than one despotic ruler. (Forgive the amateur art, doing my best)

Everything I know about #Omarchy I've learned against my will.
Whatever the story in the end will be: it sure looks like Platform Capitalism is gearing up to try and capture parts of the #FOSS ecosystem with their default weapon: flooding morally flexible people with money.

@… (I think we agree on this but) if we view capitalism and the market economy as inherently toxic (as I do), is work to make it less unequal not counter productive? We need to be building the new structures, not trying to shore up the wanton excess of the old.
Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast: Podcasters Unite! Thinking about systemic change with Tim Log…

Nothing is a .org under capitalism; everything is a .com.
(Fuck capitalism.) @… https://mstdn.social/@HopelessDemigod/117093565704523588

It is a terrible icon of capitalism's self-corruption that Elon Musk was the first trillionaire.
It is a fitting coda to capitalism's gross failures that Elon Musk will be the last trillionaire.

What would it look like to cancel Thanksgiving...
No Black Friday sales where people are obsessed with Capitalism and Consumerism? Good!
No celebrating the colonization of Indigenous People? Good!
You can still gather with friends and family and have a meal. Call it whatever you want! Thanksgiving, Fall Harvest, whatever.
Don't fall for the bullshit the establishment is pushing.

On interest rates:
Central bankers "believe that they can guide the economy to low inflation economic growth, without upsetting the existing social and institutional arrangements....
"But ...we should reject the sedative doctrine that all will be well when interest rates come down and capitalism can solve all our problems at a lower cost of credit. Interest rates are not the obstacles to prosperity, social welfare, and a green and sustainable future: capitalism is."…

Monetary Policy and Capitalism - Monthly Review
Jan Toporowski explains our contemporary age of “monetary policy dominance”: the era in which the setting of short-term interest rates by the central banks is seen as the key instrument... READ MORE

The Climate and Capitalism Can Be Fixed, Say These Brilliant Economists
Thomas Piketty and colleagues lay out a road map to reversing current dire trends.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/06/29/Climate-Capitalism-Can-Be-Fixed-Say-Economists

I am against capitalism due to its inefficiency when trying to maximize quality of and time for living. People working to make a product that breaks due to planned obsolescence on one side, and people working to afford the constantly breaking things on the other. Meaningless busy work ridding people of purpose.
I see the fight against capitalism not just as one for humane conditions, but also as a fight for allowing purpose and people to coexist instead of clash.

@… THIS CUSTOM ELEMENT REGISTRY IS SPONSORED BY :SCOPE, WE AREN’T JUST A MOUTHWASH ANY MORE, LATE STAGE CAPITALISM EDITION

“There is no ethical consumption under capitalism “ I say, buying fentanyl for the children

OK, here's a revolutionary idea:
> #Stability is a #Revolutionary idea
#Capitalism cannot permit stability, because capitalism requires constant growth, which requires constant c…

Nah, a quick look at my bank account and I'm not thinking of buying tools anymore.
#capitalism

Americans are neither as hostile to socialism as they once were
nor as positive toward capitalism as they have been in the past.
More important than polling, however, is the fact that for many Americans the “communist threat” is a total abstraction.
There are tens of millions of voters (
who were young children when the Soviet Union fell.
There are millions more who weren’t yet born.
For these Americans, communism is as much a concern as the missile gap …

Image of Capitalism Slips to 54% in U.S.
Fifty-four percent of Americans, down from 60% in 2021, have a positive opinion of capitalism, while a steady 39% view socialism positively.

So a phone for the price of a high-end laptop?
Capitalism, you’re doing amazing, sweetie.
#apple #iphoneDuo #capitalism

Inside Americans' views on socialism and capitalism (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/inside-americans-views-on-socialism-via-cbs-news-polling/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260817/p129#a260817p129

"Capitalism" is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, but "promote the general welfare" is right there in the mission statement.

Some business advertising told me I should have a “growth mindset”. I don't like that at all. I want to be interested and interesting, caring, curious, loving, engaged, learning, teaching, kind, strong, weak, and open minded.
A “growth mindset” is what burns our planet.
It somehow is a condensed description of what is wrong with capitalism.
#pol

The "Terminator" scenario is just the military industrial complex trying to maximize their profits. The "AI apocalypse" is just capitalism with extra steps. Capitalism is already doing it. Capitalism is already the AI apocalypse, and it isn't theoretical. It's been documented for 200 years.

Now my youtube feed is full of videos about how capitalism is dying, the only way further is abolishing it and that billionaires is a big policy failure.
I don't think any of it would happen any time soon, but now I'm full of useless cope

"Social Media" as such might be truly over, but it has less to do with tribal filter bubbles and vibe shifts due to hostile takeovers, and decisions about content moderation.
What is happening online might be very similar to what is happening offline: the disappearance of third spaces due to (platform) capitalism. The dead internet theory is only an offshoot of what we should call *systemic digital vandalism*, *hostile digital infrastructure*, and *dark pattern megastructure…

The same pedestal fan that we bought a month ago has gone from £27 to £118 on Amazon. Disaster capitalism, la la la.

"#Capitalism slightly better distributed" is not a #left wing vision, @…. It is an explicitly right wing vision, and any political party which advances that vision — whether it's #UKLabour

Just finished "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge. A fascinating and epic science fiction novel with fascinating ideas about technology and also future societies. As I'm delving into a lot of sci fi looking for social imagination it's a good find in some ways but disappointing in others. The Qeng Ho culture is interesting, but their society is uninspiring; Vinge's rosy view of "trade" is not one I completely share, and their hierarchies and wealth accumulation are less compatible with their freedoms in my imagination than in Vinge's. That said, his perspective on the possibilities of galactic-scale civilization and the idea of the "age of failed dreams" are fascinating, especially right now, and his detailed ideas about programming, AI, automaton, and "Focus" are extremely relevant right now. Ultimately I didn't love some parts of the dénouement, and there's a lot of "great man theory of history" going on, including (only somewhat ameliorated) a focus on men over women. Vinge's damsels in distress have a lot more agency than usual for the role, but with the exception of Victory Sr. and Jr., the damsels are very much in distress, and Victory Sr. gets overshadowed a lot by Underhill.
It definitely helps one expand their imagination of what long-term and large-scale human existence could look like, which is great and no easy feat, and both the technologies that are written in and those written out are extremely convincing. The only thing I didn't find compelling was the transposition of capitalism onto such space and time scales. It's a very standard feature of sci fi from the last few decades, and I'm sure most readers don't question it, but I've become someone who can no longer imagine "capitalism across the stars" without questioning how realistic it is that its self-destructive tendencies could possibly last even a few more centuries, let alone succeed at interstellar travel.
One last extremely fascinating thing: how closely the strengths and weaknesses of Focus track with the strengths and weaknesses of modern generative AI. That, and the way that the "age of failed dreams" idea can help people imagine beyond generative AI in a positive way.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Michael Roberts on why 'Rentier Capitalism' is a misleading understanding.
EU companies: a ‘capitalism of rent’? – Michael Roberts Blog
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/eu-companies-a-capitalism-of-rent/

EU companies: a ‘capitalism of rent’?
Why is Europe falling behind in investment and growth compared with the US, let alone China and India?  In a new report, Labour Squeezed, Investment Stalled – the renowned economist Mariana Mazzuca…

I was doing so well, mentally, I really don't know why capitalism felt the need to fuck my sanity, yet again.

Imagine:
The bottom half of the world’s population has increased its wealth to 30 per cent from two per cent — a 15-fold increase.
The wealth share of the billionaire class has fallen from six per cent to 0.05 per cent
Instead of living in a culture where status depends on endless consumption, people are content with enough.
The idea sounds like science fiction.
But it is a very serious proposalput forward by French economist
Thomas Piketty and his colleague…

The Climate and Capitalism Can Be Fixed, Say These Brilliant Economists | The Tyee
Thomas Piketty and colleagues lay out a road map to reversing current dire trends.

“Stranded assets” names the prime fear of financialised capitalism. The contrast: high utilisation rates. New troubles arise. Or, as phrased by the FT,
"US oil refineries run at breakneck speeds as wars choke fuel supplies."
Archive:
https://archive.is…

"71-year-old man crashes in Wauwatosa Qdoba Tuesday afternoon"
Say what you want about cyclists not stopping at stop signs at least we are not crashing into buildings and closing businesses.
(Although if the crash was railing against Capitalism/Consumerism I'll allow it. 😂 )

I personally hate the handwringing around free software licenses. Folks, adding (often non-enforceable!) restrictions your software license, despite the good intentions, is not going to move the needle on fascism and capitalism. Withholding or redirecting your labor will. Remember, software licenses are a tool of intellectual property, which is wholly an invention of those same courts that are captured by capitalists.

24 (The Growing Pains of Capitalism) by Eevie Echoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbL58jiIELc&list=OLAK5uy_kcvJx8pMqwqXVcxxggd0Btj32WHlsk43s&index=1

"The choices that the American public assumed were at stake — the so-called political “right” versus “left,” Republican versus Democrat, free market versus government, socialism or capitalism — distracted us from the more fundamental questions about power: Who is gaining it? Who is losing it? For what purpose? Are we satisfied with the results?"
https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/825026228502347777/the-enshittification-of-everything-part-3?source=share

We have been trained and trained ourselves to lose touch with the magical, life-giving force of stories.
And our life-sustaining love for stories has been beaten out of us by AI slop, by a shitty, commercialized culture industry, by living under capitalism and end-times fascism, etc.
I get why we feel that way, and I feel it, too. But there’s something really, really wrong there.
Like our air and water and soil and atmosphere, I think we have been trained and trained oursel…

Why the stories working people tell ourselves about ourselves matter
“We are not the only ones to face hard times. Our ancestors who faced such times left us their stories so that we would know what to do now. Don't let those stories go to waste! There is power in them. We have power in them.”

Discussion of how evolution, under #capitalism, systematically selects for #psychopathy. Which is obvious, when you think about it, but it's interesting to hear it argued explicitly.
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: The Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis: The Rules of the Game …

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here

Immersing myself for the last 10 days in the ecological economics of waste.
I can only conclude that the enormous, enormous, enormous problem can't be solved while matetial growth and capitalism persist.
That's difficult as I'm writing a book about practical policies!

I had a weird dream where I was talking to someone at some kind of ceremony, I think a funeral, where I had timidly painted my face with clay as part of some ritual. This person was talking about how far society has come while our brains have not caught up.
Imagine if your ancient cave dwelling ancestors were dropped into this world of cars, office hours, budgets, climate change, and AI. They would be absolutely freaking out and struggling to understand things all the time... Just like you are now.
Society teaches us to suppress these emotions. You're supposed to be OK with giant metal boxes flying around you in rumbling stampedes, but you feel it in unexplained anxiety. You're supposed to just fit your life into tight little bounds that ignore weather and season, but you feel it in more unexplained anxiety and depression. We are all part of something so big and complicated we can't make sense of it, we cannot possibly comprehend it all, it is simply too much to fully grasp the implications of our individual actions within global capitalism. Should we be surprised by our urge to simply destroy it, by the anger and desire to simply "smash" something far more complex than can be met with simple violence?
Some part of my brain was trying to remind me to be compassionate to myself. Perhaps that reminder can be useful to you as well.

Capitalism is cancer and corporations and billionaires are its tumours.
And the most successful among us are those gainfully employed to tend to the largest tumours.
Unless we fundamentally change this system, we can’t fix any of the existential threats facing us.
Humanity has cancer and we’re celebrating tumour growth instead of taking immediate and decisive action to rid ourselves of the disease.

I wonder when capitalism will reach the stage that we need to pay for the air we breathe.

Amazon Workers @ DCH1 U...
@Dch1United
Not-so-fun fact of the day:
Amazon has A/C at facilities
that have robots
because the robots overheat in this
temperature.
We don't have robots at DCH1,
so we don't have A/C.
Amazon cares more about
their robots overheating than their
workers overheating!
Posted in r/TechnologyPulse
reddit

DB 🌱💦 (@dbattistella@mstdn.ca)
Attached: 1 image #Amazon #jeffbezos #capitalism #humanrights

Memo to Those Who Fear Socialism: Why Don't You Try Fix Capitalism? (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/214122/fear-socialism-try-fix-capitalism
http://www.memeorandum.com/260810/p33#a260810p33

OH! I forgot the whole "out of band" thing. Let me get into that.
When you put all this together you have a business owned by a church (or, in the Dutch case, an FFI) to interface with capitalism and then a community that's collectively controlled via the legal entity of a "church." (Again, I like the word "coven," but I'm trying to use the legal definition here.)
This gives you a community that exists partially outside of the dominant system. If this seems like a new idea, it is absolutely not. There are very insular religious communities all over. Many are really oppressive cults (go watch Wild Wild Country), others are insular religious communities (for which there is a lot of legitimate criticism, but I'm only talking about decipherability here) such as Haredim or Mennonites. In some ways Tribes match this also, with various tribal governments organizing things for members.
In all of these cases, there exists an element that is outside of the dominant system. This becomes somewhat "invisible." How well do you understand the inner workings of an Amish community? How much do you think a CEO cares or thinks about them?
There are many hidden worlds that only become revealed when they become a problem (such as when a cult leader tries to take over a county by spraying e. coli on a bunch of salad bars.) This can be good if you're trying to build a new society without attracting the attention, but insular communities can also permit abusive dynamics that could otherwise be identified by the larger society. So keep the risks in mind, and be active about preventing them. Hierarchy is dangerous, but hierarchy in hidden groups can be especially dangerous.

Just finished Kameron Hurley's "The Light Brigade". At first, I didn't think it was really what I was looking for (positive examples of future post-capitalist societies) and it want quite that, but it was gripping, well-written, and inspiring in its own way.
Even though it doesn't necessarily have any hope to offer for the future, it has a nice and convincing portrait of the inescapable despair that capitalism leads to.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Frequent readers know that I often think about LLM-“AI”,
and that I think, um, poorly of it.
Most of my objections are systemic in nature, relating to climate, resources, extractive capitalism, job displacement, tool of the oppressor
-- you know what I mean.
But I can see how one could get a similar kind of joy to successfully guiding a deeply flawed program with a conversational interface, until it produced a program sort of like what one had in mind...
So I see …

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

RE: https://esq.social/@annmlipton/116879942963900746
Off-the-cuff thesis: regulatory capture will always tend to create opaque market conditions that favor increasingly large bubbles and catastrophic collapses.
This is true regardless of the surrounding economic political system. The pattern can manifest under capitalism, communism, monarchy, various forms of totalitarianism….

Capitalism: I want you all dead.
Centrists: I can fix him 😍

Full text of Burnham's speech.
A lot to like, after the 2 lost years under Starmer and all those before, but all predicated on economic growth which a) would be very hard to achieve given eco-geo-political constraints and the structural long crisis of capitalism, and b) is inherently damaging, in the aggregate, for the ecosystem on which we all depend.
Every word Andy Burnham said in first speech since becoming Makerfield MP - Liverpool Echo

Every word Andy Burnham said in first speech since becoming Makerfield MP
It is the first speech the Makerfield MP has given since Sir Keir Starmer announced his departure as Prime Minister

Trump Has His Own Communist Manifesto (Keith Johnson/Foreign Policy)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/11/trump-communism-state-capitalism-tariffs-semiconductor-chips/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260811/p101#a260811p101

There are many parallels between the first McCarthy era, roughly 1946 to 1956,
and Trump’s campaign of political repression, his own updated McCarthyism.
Both regimes crafted a monster of quasi-facts and innuendo and fed it with fear:
an enemy within, well-organized and financed, secretive and violent, allied with evil foreigners and bent on overthrowing capitalism, democracy and Christian morality.
Both used flagrantly unconstitutional means to cleanse the nation of …

McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous
Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools

RE: https://flipboard.com/@huffingtonpost/news-politics-g39bhflcz/-/a-8fHQB8J0RmKrL2boHiuJWA:a:52948404-/0
Elon Musk: capitalism in human form.

RE: https://effinbirds.social/2026/06/26/alt.html
When capitalism is history.
(Well, I can’t guarantee it but let’s give it a shot anyway, what’ve we got to lose?)

Let's actually talk about the "AI destroying the world" thing. One specific apocalypse scenario is the "paperclip maximizer" problem. The scenario goes that a super intelligence is tasked with maximizing the number of paperclips produced by a company. Because of a thing called "instrumental convergence," the AI kills all humans to prevent them from shutting it down, then it destroys everything else strip mining the Earth, etc.
Basically, the intelligence doesn't understand the actual goal of helping people hold paper together and therefore calculates intermediate goals that violate the *implicit* goal in order to fulfill the *explicit* goal.
The thing is, that's just capitalism. The whole AI scam is an example of this, where maximization of quarterly profit is an explicit goal and "destroying human civilization and most life on Earth through climate change" is a side effect of the "build as many datacenters as possible" subgoal.
Capitalism has been an apocalypse manifesting malicious intelligence since we figured out that burning fossil fuels changes the climate, back in 1824.

"Proposed mechanisms for delivering action like citizens’ assemblies are a response to the sluggishness of existing institutions, but do not address its cause — the power of the capitalist class.
"Agreeing what we ought to do doesn’t guarantee that it will happen: the climate movement needs to ... recognise that this is fundamentally a class struggle and a battle against capitalism itself.

Obviously space _has_ been corrupted by capitalism, I just like that GIF because he’s trying so hard not to laugh

A friend's in-law just bought some magnetic underpants. He saw on Facebook that the product would help with his prostate problems, so he bought them on Temu.
The guy was never a dummy, but he's getting old while glued to his phone.
I don't know if the health disinformation business is the most vile of them all, there are many competitors for that crown, but I'd sure like to burn it to the ground.
#pseudoscience #health #capitalism

Dem James Talarico called capitalism 'oppressive system' that should be dismantled in 2020 forum (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/09/01/us-news/democrat-james-talarico-called-capitalism-oppressive-system-that-should-be-dismantled-in-2020-forum/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260902/p65#a260902p65

The historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s new book "Country of Lords" is a history of Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America.
Phillips-Fein studies conservatism and “questions about capitalism and democracy”.
Her first book "Invisible Hands", was a study of businessmen who fought the New Deal of the 1930s.
Her second, "Fear City", about the New York economic crisis of the 1970s, was a finalis…

Social Darwinists to tech bros: tracing the long fight against equality in US
Historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s book Country of Lords looks back at the many men who have tried to fight against egalitarianism, from John Adams to Peter Thiel

Is America Losing Faith in Capitalism? Plus. . . (The Free Press)
https://www.thefp.com/p/is-america-losing-faith-in-capitalism-plus
http://www.memeorandum.com/260827/p36#a260827p36

There is a conversation to be had here about "comprehensibility." Big tech understands money. Huge capitalist organizations have spent years adapting to markets that dominate everything. They have learned how to ruthlessly destroy competition. They have learned how to take the massive amounts of money they can siphon from society and use it to manipulate political systems. They bent the world to their will, until there was nothing to stop them from destroying it.
But here we are, our lives now threatened by their continued existence. At a certain point, it doesn't matter how much money they can pay you if your house will burn down, your water will dry up, your food won't grow, and your children will cook. At a certain point, free isn't cheap enough to make their continued extraction of our data worth it.
At a certain point we need to do things that are *incomprehensible* to those still operating within capitalism and the captured political systems.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hex_m_hell/117211634788671050
I'm gonna bump this one on my main since I've got a lot more followers here. This is all stuff I've said in different ways before.
"Replacing humans" is always the dream of capitalists. But you can't. Even if *all* of this was solved, even if we could somehow do so many impossible things, we're still left with *a system made of people.*
You can't remove people from a system made of people. It's meat and bones all the way down. Capitalism only works on paper. Its assumptions fall apart the second it faces the real world, and we're left with the reality of authoritarianism under another name. But it's not just awful and oppressive, it's flailing and foolish.

Alien Clay: fascinating xenobiosphere fascism
Shroud: fascinating xenobiosphere capitalism
Is there any book by Tchaikovsky where our future society isn't a nightmare?
Not a rhetorical question, I very much liked those two books, that's why I'm curious about how he'd write a livable future.
#books #adrianTchaikovsky #sciFi #scienceFiction