Notices by Antanicus (antanicus@social.coop)

@datatitian poor capitalists trying to push their agenda in the fediverse LOL

"This was a group of so-called alt-right protesters who decided that a socialist bookshop, which stocks radical literature and working-class history titles and provides stalls for national trade union conferences, was a legitimate target for violence."

If this kind of shit doesn't wake up people, then nothing will. Fascists attacking books is the last step before fascists attacking people.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/06/far-right-target-books-alarm-bells-bookmarks-donald-trump

Local federated nodes could be set up in every village, town, city borough, ideally cooperatively owned by all those who use the service (either as hosts or guests) to ensure no wealth extraction takes place

Do you think a house-based social network (for sharing/co-dwelling and maybe even renting at a fair price) based on activity pub could work?

I am seeing lots of people in dire need of either a place where to sleep or of a few bucks to make it through a rough month... Would it make sense to connect the two?

Yesterday the Italian minister of foreign affairs Matteo Salvini (who's also the leader of the xenophobic Lega Nord party) shared a short, but significant tweet: "Tanti nemici, tanto onore" (EN: "The more enemies, the more honor"). To witness a minister of the Republic tweeting a fascist slogan on the anniversary of Mussolini's birth marks a new low in the recent history of Italy: it means the neo-fascists feel powerful enough to drop their masks and roam the streets in broad daylight.

@FuckOffGoogle "Every civilization was built off the back of a disposable workforce"
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Blade Runner 2049

(replace "civilization" with "corporation" and you get capitalism)

"Europe’s responsibility comes not only from the fact that it’s one of the wealthiest parts of the world(...) It is also that, to this day, Europe’s foreign and economic policies continue to fuel conflict and war, unfair trading relationships and enforced austerity on developing country after developing country. What people are fleeing, is precisely what our governments have created."

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-eu-migrant-deal-brings-trump-style-policies-to-the-uk/

"Tesla’s battery factory brought high-paid tech jobs to Nevada – but is soaking up huge tax breaks that critics say have seriously depleted public services"

Did you just say neoliberalism?

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/03/all-humanity-has-left-the-area-the-cities-paying-for-tesla-gigafactory

"Amazon staff have called on CEO Jeff Bezos to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement and government agencies, due to the potential that the tech is used to "harm the most marginalized." This follows similar demands from Microsoft employees and Google workers over those companies' contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Defense, respectively."

Working people are the last bastion of ethics under capitalism.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/amazon-workers-tell-bezos-to-stop-selling-facial-recognition-to-police/

https://social.coop/media/rVPUKd-EVR-xRwoY4W8

The kind of drama happening now (ie. devs ignoring specific requests put forth by some users) is the natural outcome of the benevolent dictatorship model and proves that, no matter how decent, good and caring a person is when starting a massive FOSS project, they are ALL bound to reach the "I make the rules" stage, because that's the nature of human beings when exposed to massive stress.

Let's stop #ForkOff and make #Mastodon a #Cooperative NOW!

The drama around #ForkOff only reinforces my theory that the only healthy way to handle FOSS projects is via multi-stakeholder cooperatives where both devs and users have their say. The amount of bitterness I'm seeing right now is the most eminent byproduct of the "benevolent dictatorship" model which has been the scourge of the open source world since the beginning of times.

Turn Mastodon into a cooperative NOW!

#FOSS #Cooperative #ICA #OneHeadOneVote

#CapitalismKills

https://social.coop/media/PRf9-O2WfUERpAJks5I

A quick reminder of how efficient the free market is.

https://social.coop/media/7L-oqrI_yAWo0QYP2zk

"We are spending tens or maybe hundreds of megawatts on producing something that has no tangible existence and no real use for humans outside the realm of financial speculation," Smári McCarthy, and Icelandic member of parliament told the AP. "That can't be good."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/in-iceland-bitcoin-mining-will-soon-use-more-energy-than-its-residents/

@distelfliege

#Relevant

https://social.coop/media/-TO-_VH1k1bODqfX1T4

Petrolheads: "LOL batteries are poisonous and polluting, the electric car is a fad"

Also petrolheads: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/08/explosion-fears-fire-iranian-oil-tanker-sanchi-china-coast

@jd
What remains after deference is gone? Anarchy!

Equality, your majesty...

"Commons-based solutions are often criminalized or marginalized because they implicitly challenge the prevailing terms of national sovereignity and western legal norms, not to mention neoliberal capitalism as a system of power."

David Bollier - State Power and Commoning

"Ryanair announced that it would recognise pilot unions for the first time in its 32-year history in a bid to stop pilot strike on Friday. Chief executive Michael O’Leary’s refusal to recognise unions was at the heart of the ultra low-cost model he developed to turn a small Irish regional airline into Europe’s largest carrier by passenger numbers."

Long story short: hit the pigs where it hurts the most (ie. their wallet) if you want your rights to be respected.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/15/ryanair-to-recognise-unions-in-historic-shift-to-stop-christmas-strike-by-pilots