@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-13 17:25:51
And "free" also implies that the worker is supposedly completely free. He is free in the sense that he can sell for as high a price as he can manage.
Himself?
Yes, for as much money as possible. - Now, in this market, the computer replaces the best thing the worker has to offer: knowledge and skill. The machine takes over both, and he himself is degraded to a mere machine operator. His actual abilities have been coaxed out of him and incorporated into the device. Consequently, he has less to sell than before, and what he can still sell is worth less.
He himself loses value?
Yes, because he is not only robbed of the ability to provide bread for his family, but also of one of the signs that prove to him that he is human. Now he is simplified and transformed into an operator. (Almost like in Kafka, where a man is transformed into a beetle; Kafka is a prophet in that regard.)"
Joseph Weizenbaum, Kurs auf den Eisberg, Serie Piper, Munich, 1987
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-03-07 21:35:59
This is pretty much why I hate the two party system. You can talk to someone and they're CLEARLY a republican, and then they're like "and yes I'm a Democrat!"
I didn't vote for Eric Adams because HE WAS A FUCKING REPUBLICAN. It's not "vote blue no matter who", because "blue" is meaningless if republicans can wear that color.
@beoz@det.social2026-01-27 16:24:30
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-02-07 17:54:08
Working more efficiently than maize, which has been bred for efficient production of carbs over thousands of years. @… https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/116027004460342629
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-23 14:11:38
Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, raised $35M for his new global exchange AX, which offers perpetual futures, a source says at a $187M valuation (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/former-ftx-head-raises-…
@adamhotep@infosec.exchange2026-03-10 19:49:53
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (chief of staff to Colin Powell under George W Bush):
This administration has committed more war crimes in the last few days than I think any country since Adolf Hitler committed. And that is an incredible condemnation of this entire process.
He later says we can't win this war—and Israel might drop a nuke.
Full interview at 17:45:
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net2025-12-28 22:17:27
@… @… Yes, or if the coyote has put out "Free Bird Seed" signs or painted a tunnel on a rock.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-02-17 04:58:57
Same, but for bikes. (build some fucking PBLs in central queens already) https://bird.makeup/users/streetsblognyc/statuses/2023092954827456522
@scott@carfree.city2026-01-24 06:24:56
With YIMBYs like this, who needs NIMBYs?
*yes, SF YIMBY endorsed the two sponsors of this ordinance, Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-soma-store-ban-drug-crime-deterrence/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-21 07:19:19
The real reason people move to red states
The “U-Haul index” does not prove a point -- or at least the point the WaPo Editorial Board makes.
Yes, people are moving from more expensive to less expensive areas,
but why are those areas more expensive?
Many factors play into the calculation, but one is obvious and significant:
Real estate is more expensive where people want to live.
Tax rates by themselves don’t make real estate expensive;
ultimate…
