My little goblin. #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfInfoSec #Nibbler #clingasaur #SideQuest #ZoomIn
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.
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).
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
US military veterans posting anonymously about their visceral regrets seems like probably a whole genre worthy of study
RE: https://pdx.social/users/portlandmercury/statuses/112225458845270603
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semite_and_Jew
Posobiec later said his statements were partly satire,
In another video, Sánchez can be seen in the lobby of the conference hotel giving a Nazi salute.
In one of the most viral moments from this year’s conference, conservative personality Jack Posobiec called for the end of democracy and a more explicitly Christian-focused government. While Posobiec later said his statements were partly satire, many CPAC attendees embraced his and others’ invocations of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Remarks like these should be unequivocally disqualifying!
RE: https://infosec.place/objects/499ec286-627a-4bb1-a59c-6a01f427a3f1
this person is a fucking judge
“How about some of the reporting I’ve seen on my decision? Can I get those people arrested? Just because I disagree with how they characterize what I say and do?” Carney asked.
If you do get an interview with the fascist propagandist, they’re likely to use it to troll you and to claim to their supporters, once you publish your story, that they were taken out of context and that you failed to publish all the clever things they said.
Toxic #farright media ecosystem (with credulous liberal assistance) #uspol
RE: https://mstdn.social/users/OregonLive/statuses/112010578023662100