Yogthos
Brian Eno, a renowned artist, producer, and DJ, warns about the concentration of power in the hands of a few people who own AI tech. The negative effects he sees are a result of its profit-driven nature and the lack of a not-for-profit regime.
Eno remains fascinated by the creative potential of AI and sees it as part of a long tradition of musicians repurposing technology in unexpected ways.
GryphonSK
#Capitalism #capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult #NoMoreBillionaires #TaxTheRich #livingwage #RaiseTheWage #NoMoreCEOs
nathans :ms_weed: :donor:
Jesus christ
Yogthos
late stage #capitalism be like
https://www.wsj.com/finance/human-kidney-organs-selling-ae22a73d
⭐Spartacus
#Florida lawmakers to consider weakening century-old child labor laws.
#Capitalism needs cheap labor, even if they are kids.
Wuzzy
#Google is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% #proprietary, Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.
Contribute to #OpenStreetMap instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.
Simbionte
No sabia que algunos estados de USA han explícitamente sacado leyes o "bills" para prohibir políticas públicas relacionadas con la sustentabilidad, porque entienden que eso lesiona el derecho a la propiedad privada y al libre mercado (hacer negocios). Alabama, Tenessee, Oklahoma, Kansas... Sabía que eran retrógradas, pero no al punto de sacar leyes en contra de la sustentabilidad #sustentabilidad #sustainability #usa #us #capitalism
Dave Johnson
Propaganda from the wealthy has not JUST promoted neoliberal "markets" over humanity and democracy.
It has also misinformed the public about what government itself is.
Futuro Vegetal
🙅🏼♀️Contra el negacionismo climático... Datos 📊
👉🏽Nuestro compa Bilbo en El Horizonte
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateemergency #ecocide #drought #actnow #capitalism #globalwarming #eattherich #vegan #climaterefugees #weather #cambioclimatico #animalrights #humanrights #globalboiling #science
Futuro Vegetal
2/3 "El precio del litio es la MUERTE de nuestro TERRITORIO y de nuestro PUEBLO". Jujuy, 2023
El litio es un mineral clave para la transición energética y se utiliza también en dispositivos electrónicos como los móviles. Sí, necesitamos una transición energética y social, pero una que no destroce comunidades, pueblos ni territorios.
#jujuy #repression #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateemergency #ecocide #drought #actnow #capitalism #globalwarming #humanrights #globalboiling #acab
Futuro Vegetal
1/3 "El precio del litio es la MUERTE de nuestro TERRITORIO y de nuestro PUEBLO". Jujuy, 2023
El litio es un mineral clave para la transición energética y se utiliza también en dispositivos electrónicos como los móviles. Sí, necesitamos una transición energética y social, pero una que no destroce comunidades, pueblos ni territorios.
#jujuy #repression #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateemergency #ecocide #drought #actnow #capitalism #globalwarming #humanrights #globalboiling #acab
Futuro Vegetal
3/3 "El precio del litio es la MUERTE de nuestro TERRITORIO y de nuestro PUEBLO". Jujuy, 2023
El litio es un mineral clave para la transición energética y se utiliza también en dispositivos electrónicos como los móviles. Sí, necesitamos una transición energética y social, pero una que no destroce comunidades, pueblos ni territorios.
#jujuy #repression #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateemergency #ecocide #drought #actnow #capitalism #globalwarming #humanrights #globalboiling #acab
Bread and Circuses
Billionaires should not exist.
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It is impossible to *earn* a billion dollars. Take any exorbitant salary you like — let’s say $500,000 per year — and calculate how many years you would have to work, spending nothing, to earn your first billion. At $500k/year, it would take 2,000 years. Or, if you simply steal $3 from every single American, you can make a billion in a single year.
Billionaires’ wealth comes only from wage theft from workers. It is never earned. It is estimated that ~5% of deaths in the US are attributable to poverty, making every billionaire a de-facto mass murderer. No one becomes a billionaire because they are intelligent or talented; people become billionaires because they are able to rob millions of other people into poverty, destitution, and early death — and still sleep soundly at night.
These are the people determining our future. They are brain-damaged by power. [See https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/] Billionaires are, by definition, psychopaths. They believe they are chosen by the universe to live as gods. If you are counting on billionaires to save the planet because “it’s in their best interest,” you misunderstand their interests.
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That's an excerpt from a long and very informative piece by Sam Hall (@SamYourEyes).
FULL ARTICLE -- https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Capitalism
Futuro Vegetal
¿Sabes lo que nos depara el futuro a medida que aumenta la temperatura?
🍂 Perdida de ecosistemas y especies
👣 Migración masiva forzosa
🌊 Subida del nivel del mar
🌾Disminución de cultivos
😷Enfermedades
Etc...
¿Vamos a permitir que nos lleven a esto?
Únete a Futuro Vegetal 👉 www.futurovegetal.org/participa
#climate #climatecrisis #climatechange #vegan #weather #climateemergency #globalwarming #ecocide #drought #ipcc #co2 #cop28 #capitalism #oil #gas #actnow #climaterefugees #government #un
Ariadne
‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans decry Google’s plan to exploit water supply - Country suffering its worst #drought in 74 years, with government even mixing saltwater into drinking supply.
A plan to build a Google data centre that will use millions of litres of water a day has sparked anger in #Uruguay, which is suffering its worst drought in 74 years.
Water shortages are so severe in the country that a state of emergency has been declared in #Montevideo and the authorities have added salty water to the public drinking water supplies, prompting widespread protests.
Critics claim that the government is prioritising water for transnationals and agribusiness at the expense of its own citizens. Daniel Pena, a researcher at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, said: “Only a tiny proportion of water in Uruguay is used for human consumption. The majority is used for big agro industries, such as soya, rice and wood pulping. Now we have #Google planning to use enormous quantities of water.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/uruguay-drought-water-google-data-center
#Water #WaterRights #SouthAmerica #LatinAmerica #Capitalism #CapitalismKills
Alberto Chimal
What's the difference between #Mastodon and #Threads? Next time someone tells you they're both not-#Twitter and that's it, #recommend them to read this #article by @pluralistic. It's about #capitalism, #monopolies and the way #corporate #SocialMedia has locked us in their #VirtualSpaces, without right to appeal.
https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980
#AbolishFacebook #AbolishMeta #AbolishZuckerberg #AbolishMusk
Bread and Circuses
For those who haven’t seen it before, here is my review of The Climate Book, by Greta Thunberg…
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I've read dozens of books about climate change, and this one is easily the best. It's packed with information, written to be accessible for anyone from high school (or a bright middle school student) on up, and most importantly it does NOT shy away from the true severity of our situation and the imperative need not only for individual action but for system change.
It's stunning to me that a young woman who just turned twenty years old was able to pull together such a massive project — coordinating the submissions of more than a hundred scientists, activists, and educators — while also writing a large part of the content herself. A truly amazing accomplishment.
This essential work should be in every school library and in every home. It will remain relevant for years to come, I believe, because although there certainly is plenty of data, mostly it's about *ideas* which will never age.
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https://bookwyrm.social/user/BreadAndCircuses/review/1196642/s/essential-reading#anchor-1196642
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
Futuro Vegetal
🔥Más acción y menos blablabla.
🎶PIB - Excusas.
#antispeciesism #speciesism #vegan #freedom #capitalism #anticapitalism #murder #burgerking #actnow #climatechange #climatecrisis #climate #spain #drought #animalrights #humanrights #ecologist #globalwarming #activism #rebellion #animals #ecocide #massacre
Bread and Circuses
Rebecca Solnit (@RebeccaSolnit) suggests we need a large-scale change in perspective...
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"What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance?"
Much of the reluctance to do what climate change requires comes from the assumption that it means trading abundance for austerity, and trading all our stuff and conveniences for less stuff, less convenience.
But what if it meant giving up things that we are well rid of, from deadly emissions to nagging feelings of doom, and complicity in destruction? What if the austerity is how we live NOW — and the abundance could be what is to come?
Look closely, and you can see that by measures other than goods and money, we are impoverished. Even the affluent live in a world where confidence in the future, and in the society and institutions around us, is fading — and where a sense of security, social connectedness, mental and physical health, and other measures of well-being are often dismal.
This is the world we live in *with* fossil fuels — the burning of which makes us poorer in many ways. We know that the fossil fuel industry corrodes our politics. We know that worldwide, breathing air contaminated by fossil fuel kills more than 8 million people a year and damages many more, particularly babies and children. And we know that as fossil fuel fills the upper atmosphere with carbon dioxide that destabilizes temperature and weather, it increases despair and anxiety.
What if we imagined “wealth” consisting not of the money we stuff into banks or the fossil-fuel-derived goods we pile up, but of joy, beauty, friendship, community, closeness to flourishing nature, to good food produced without abuse of labor? What if we were to think of wealth as security in our environments and societies, and as confidence in a viable future?
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FULL ESSAY -- https://archive.is/XUUg7#selection-259.0-259.54
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Futuro Vegetal
👊 Mientras la clase política se dedique a polarizar a la población para abusar de sus preocupaciones y utilizarla con fines electoralistas, no pensamos callarnos.
¡Amor y Furia! ❤️🔥
Cancionaza de Lova Lois - Grita Shout
Vídeo de Miguel Ángel Bauset
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #actnow #globalwarming #activism #ecologist #antifascism #lgbt #feminism #vegan #capitalism #spain #rebellion #politics #fascism #cambioclimatico #drought #repression #police #freedom #mutualaid #humanrights
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