https://jacobin.com/2020/10/david-harvey-the-anti-capitalist-chronicles-socialism-freedom

Marx also pointed out that freedom is a double-edged sword. Laborers in a capitalist society, he says, are free in a double sense. They can freely offer their labor power to whomsoever they want in the labor market. They can offer it on whatever conditions of contract they can freely negotiate.

But they are at the same time un-free, because they have been “freed” from any control over or access to the means of production. They have, therefore, to surrender their labor power to the capitalist in order to live.

#doublefreedom #freedom #marx #marxism #davidharvey

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#frog

Pretty neat! If you're on mastodon.social (or another server running the latest in-development version of Mastodon), you can go to the Explore page eg. https://mastodon.social/explore/links and view posts that discuss trending news articles (see the "X posts" below the headline link).

via https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112729592397936855

#mastodon #SocialMedia #news #design #UXUI

maybe I’m being unnecessarily pessimistic, but this framing seems like cope! https://www.rawstory.com/trump-project-2025-2668691343/

The Italian Renaissance style former Wylie Department Store on Buchanan Street in Glasgow. Built in 1889, it was designed by John Hutchison, with details drawn by his assistants Andrew Black and Charles Rennie MacKintosh. MacKintosh may have been responsible for some of the ornate internal plaster column capitals on the ground and first floors. These were still present until at least 2012, and may still be in place.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #charlesrenniemackintosh

thursday 6/20 @ Swan Dive in PDX - Dubais (UK), Dragging an Ox thru Water, West Valley Wolfpack Band, DJs Allison & Molly Wolfe, + visuals by Weird Fiction https://gath.io/CJ25eGDgmieFTGngxoSLO
@CJ25eGDgmieFTGngxoSLO

#pdx #portland #pdxmusic #swandive #dubais #dragginganox #westvalleywolfpackband #allisonwolfe #mollywolfe #weirdfiction

Adobe is facing backlash after the company's updated terms of use allow its machine learning tools to view and use customers' content to develop future Adobe products. https://www.pcmag.com/news/adobe-sparks-backlash-over-ai-terms-that-let-it-access-view-your-content

@OregonLive tho maybe not how you’d think https://www.opb.org/article/2024/04/15/multnomah-county-district-attorney-schmidt-vasquez-ethics-complaint-voters-guide/

RE: https://mstdn.social/users/OregonLive/statuses/112281249170794643

Trump didn’t cause these people to be fascist bigots. He gave them permission to be open about it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335

Hello everyone. I know that these are tough times for many people. If you derive value from the fediverse and have the means to do so, please consider donating to support your instance. Most instances rely on donations to pay the bills (infosec.exchange and friends cost over $3000/month to host).

Instructions on how to donate are generally available on your instance's "about" page (for example: https://infosec.exchange/about)

Also, I firmly believe that access to the fediverse should not be tied to one's ability to pay, and I think it's even more important for those in difficult situations to maintain the social connections that the fediverse provides, so (at least in my view) donations are welcome, but not required in any way.

And for those people who already donate, my hats off to you. You make the fediverse possible. ​

Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie

#silentSunday

I am on a crab drawing binge and want to point out that this is an amazing resource and a place of astonishing beauty: https://www.crabdatabase.info/vedecka-galerie

babe, you good? you haven't touched your lorem ipsum dolor & cheddar wrap

#DailyBird 🤖
Yellow-eyed Junco, 11st November 2022
Coronado National Forest, Madera Canyon, Arizona
Hohokam, O'odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri & Tohono O'odham traditional territory
Canon EOS Rebel T8i, Canon 70-300mm @ 278mm, 45% crop, 1/320s, f/6.3, ISO 2500
#YellowEyedJunco #Birds #BirdPhotography #DescribeYourImages

Today I’m walking off the job with hundreds of my Washington Post colleagues for 24 hours to demand a fair contract. It's the postguild's first strike in 48 years.

To support us, avoid all Washington Post journalism today, Dec. 7.

You can read more here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/workers-at-the-washington-post-deserve-a-living-wage

Firefox is officially and directly fucking with Google and I am here for it!

X has taken its stance. Nazis on the platform are allowed. Pro-Hitler posts are allowed. Holocaust denial is allowed.

If you stay on a platform like that, you can't escape this creeping normalization. Even if you think you can.

"Oh, there goes another Holocaust denier. Just part of being online, I guess."

"Oh, another transphobe calling people dehumanizing slurs. Well that's the Internet for you."

Creeping normalization is like advertising. Even if you think it won't influence you, it will.

“It is just over,” journalist @caseynewton told The Post.

“If you wouldn’t join Gab, or Parler, or Truth Social, there’s no reason you should be on X. I think it’s time for journalists and publishers, in particular, to acknowledge the new reality and to get the heck off that website.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/19/antisemiticism-interent-elon-musk-israwl-war/

Summer dance

#birds #nature #wildlife #photography