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HailSeitan

@ HailSeitan @lemmy.world

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  • Trump would 'eviscerate' Fed independence with Lisa Cook firing, lawyers tell Supreme Court

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  • Good, it should be under democratic control, like it was in the New Deal era. The problem isn’t the loss of Wall Street’s power over the Fed, it’s that Trump is in power.

  • Those were the days

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  • Zuck promised flat out that there wouldn’t be any spying or surveillance, ever. That turned out to be a massive lie, of course (just as when Page & Brin told us in 1998 that they believed advertising was incompatible with search), but it was a big part of the draw of the early Facebook that you (seemingly) didn't have to choose between your friends and getting spied on by Rupert Murdoch & Co over at Myspace.

  • Those were the days

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  • Revisionist bullshit. Despite what came later, Facebook was the privacy-respecting alternative to MySpace at the time.

  • Good audiobooks

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  • Their audiobooks are also DRM-free!

  • ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops

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  • That’s not what being a Luddite means

  • Internet Archive: An Update on the Great 78s Lawsuit

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  • Any rumors/thoughts on what the settlement involved?

  • Is there any doubt that the vast majority of Israeli Zionists deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison?

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  • Decolonization and prison abolition aren’t mutually exclusive. Carceral instincts for large populations are especially unhelpful here, as they’re the root of the problem.

  • From a Marxist perspective, why would the US Republican Party aim to deport undocumented immigrants?

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  • Why are you dismissing the scapegoat explanation as “cultural”? The capitalist project is essentially to convince the turkeys (the public, or voters in a democracy) to support Thanksgiving dinner (their own exploitation). To do so, they have to convince the public that someone else, and not the capitalist class, is to blame. Immigrants are a favorite target to play this role, with cost of living, low wages, high housing prices, taxes to fund social services, and more being attributed in whole or in part to foreigners or “invaders” whom the capitalist promises to remove in order to supposedly benefit the public economically.

  • The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

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  • What kind of a fucked up world are we living in where IOF snipers are so psychopathic that journalists have to contextualize their statements by explaining how “The need for a dignified funeral for loved ones is a core human instinct, protected in law and explored in art for millennia.”

  • Reverse Sponsorship

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  • Benn Jordan did exactly this in his recent video on AI police cameras (at the 31:00 mark)

  • Why is it so hard to get friends to leave Discord, WhatsApp, Instagram, and others? Anyone else feel this?

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  • Paywalls

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  • Another word for paywalls is chokepoints

  • Weird fungi

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  • Can Digital ID be private?

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  • First tranche of Epstein docs released by House Oversight Committee

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  • This is basically all previously released and public domain stuff. They dumped these so that they can point to this and claim they’ve already released them whenever anyone demands they do so in the future.

  • How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?

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  • Matt Stoller had a nice writeup recently in his monopoly newsletter BIG about how we got into the current mess. TL;DR: basically financialization (prioritizing stock price over innovation, like at Boeing) and a lack of antitrust enforcement as a previously competitive market got monopolized (see chart below)

  • How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?

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  • Never root for a monopoly over at least some semblance of competition

  • Things like this show why Land Back is important.

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  • Removal of fencing for tribal access was part of the ruling, true, but Friends of the Everglades was the lead plaintiff, and as the linked article makes clear this was an environmental law ruling. Why can’t we just count this a win all around without distorting the facts?

  • Things like this show why Land Back is important.

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  • What are you talking about? The ruling was based on environmental damage to the Everglades, which is why the other groups were involved.

  • THE POLICE PROBLEM @lemmy.world
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    Body-camera video released of beating preceding New York prisoner’s death

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2024/dec/27/robert-brooks-body-camera-video-released
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Top Senator Warns Sweeping New Surveillance Powers Will “Inevitably Be Misused” by Trump

    theintercept.com /2024/12/18/trump-fisa-surveillance-spying/
  • Enshittification @lemmy.world
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    Never Forgive Them

    www.wheresyoured.at /never-forgive-them/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Internet Archive Was Exposing User Email Addresses for Years Before Recent Breach

    theintercept.com /2024/10/10/internet-archive-hack-breach-email-addresses/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Giuliani’s attempts to overturn 2020 election partly thwarted by wrong number

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2024/oct/03/rudy-giuliani-michigan-fake-electors-text
  • unions @lemmy.ml
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    University of Illinois dining and custodial workers go on strike

    ipmnewsroom.org /university-of-illinois-dining-and-custodial-workers-go-on-strike/
  • unions @lemmy.ml
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    UAW 2300 Workers Secure Landmark Contract After Successful Strike Against Cornell University

    higheredlaborunited.org /2024/09/24/uaw-2300-workers-secure-landmark-contract-after-successful-strike-against-cornell-university/
  • unions @lemmy.ml
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    Strike looms at busiest US ports as 45,000 workers prepare to walk off job

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2024/sep/26/port-worker-strike-longshoremen
  • Anti-Trust @lemmy.ml
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    Google accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations over Azure cloud platform

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/09/google-accuses-microsoft-of-antitrust-violations-over-azure-cloud-platform/
  • Anti-Trust @lemmy.ml
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    Justice Department accuses Visa of debit network monopoly that affects price of 'nearly everything’

    www.cnbc.com /2024/09/24/doj-accuses-visa-of-debit-network-monopoly-that-impacts-price-of-nearly-everything.html
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Comedian John Mulaney brutally roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

    sfstandard.com /2024/09/19/comedian-john-mulaney-brutally-roasts-sf-techies-and-ai-at-dreamforce/
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Imagining car-free streets: Sunday will bring Boise’s first-ever ‘Open Streets’ event

    www.idahostatesman.com /news/local/community/boise/article292626599.html
  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    Another reminder that your digital library isn't forever: Oxenfree will be completely removed from Itch.io next month

    www.pcgamer.com /games/adventure/another-reminder-that-your-digital-library-isn-t-forever-oxenfree-will-be-completely-removed-from-itch-io-next-month/
  • Anti-Trust @lemmy.ml
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    Everett True scorns Big Business Politicians (September 7, 1914)

  • US Authoritarianism @lemmy.world
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    We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism | Gabor Maté

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/authoritarianism-roots-origin
  • US Authoritarianism @lemmy.world
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    Why fascists hate universities | Jason Stanley

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/article/2024/sep/05/why-fascists-hate-universities-us-bangladesh-india
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad

    www.hamiltonnolan.com /p/cars-have-fucked-up-this-country
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    The NFL wants to use facial recognition at games. Police say it's a bad idea

    www.npr.org /2024/08/31/nx-s1-5094859/the-nfl-wants-to-use-facial-recognition-at-games-police-say-its-a-bad-idea
  • Enshittification @lemmy.world
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    Peloton is adding a $95 activation fee for secondhand machines

    www.theverge.com /2024/8/22/24225988/peloton-used-equipment-activation-fee-fitness
  • Anti-Trust @lemmy.ml
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    Ticketmaster’s nontransferable ‘SafeTix’ are anticompetitive, DOJ suit claims

    www.theverge.com /2024/8/19/24223774/ticketmaster-safetix-doj-antitrust-lawsuit-10-states-join