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  • Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Call For Abolition Of All Intellectual Property Laws, Arguing There Are 'Much Greater Models To Pay Creators'

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  • I find this surprising, because frankly I agree.

    I don't know much about Dorsey, but in Musk's case, I think this is another case of him espousing a good idea he'd never actually honor.

    I think that anyone should be able to make movies with Mickey Mouse and no one should need to license code. But I suspect that like with free expression, these are values most proponents only like when it's benefiting them.

    Also, as for the alternatives to support creatives, I would say start with universal services. Universal housing, universal healthcare, universal education, universal food. We would have so much more art if we recognized that no one should have to "earn" their survival. Once that's guaranteed -- and abolish billionaires and extreme wealth inequality too -- I think discussions over how to support creatives would take place from a much more favorable starting point.

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  • Wow!

    That's good world building.

  • What We Know About the Case of Gaza Aid Workers Killed by Israeli Gunfire

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  • There is so much about the reporting on this story that is driving me bananas.

    If we take the IDF narrative at face value, they're asserting that they caught half a dozen militants who were unarmed and embedded with 9 medics. They then ambushed and killed some number and detained all the remaining unarmed personnel. They identified 6 as captured prisoners of war and 9 as non combatants and summarily executed all survivors and defiled their bodies.

    And the coverage is like... 'Israel was caught lying about how many medics they executed. Chat are we cooked 🤪?'

    The framing of the coverage should be that as Israel's genocide in Gaza moves into a new era in which the US president is no longer subtle in their embrace of extermination of innocent civilians, the army begins to experiment with open defiance of internationally recognized laws against war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.

    That's the story. This is like Elon's sieg heil. The mainstream news is trained to find bullet casings and hold the poor accountable. But they have no idea how to react when the most powerful people in the world start spree-shooting in Times Square cackling.

    There's no mystery to solve! The story you're covering is how other people with power are reacting and responding to naked attrocities, but the NYTimes is staffed by fucking Westworld robots! It's maddening!

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  • This is essentially what I was going to say (though more poetic).

    I'm of two minds. I admit that i cringe a bit that he would even call this "good trouble". John Lewis' "good trouble" was nearly getting beaten to death. How Booker can apply such a label to an act of protest that didn't even meaningfully delay any noteworthy business is frankly amazing to me.

    But also, he did fucking do something. He specifically articulated that we should all be alarmed, and he declared that he intends to not cooperate with or normalize what is happening. Low bar? Yes. But we all have to start somewhere.

    I actually like Cory Booker. He was my third or fourth pick among the 20-something candidates that ran in 2020.

    I'll say this: this act is not enough to convince me that elected Democrats are going to do anything meaningful in the next two years. But the absence of it would've made me far less likely to expect it. Good for him.

  • The evisceration of the desk paved the way for the tonal shift from dispassionate observer to propagandist

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  • This is a pretty deep take. I didn't know what a lot of these positions were it did before I read this, but it all checks out. It makes perfect sense to me. Pretty sad.

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    Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention

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  • Fuckkk this is horrible.

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  • Ulgh it hurts so much to read this shit. Wtf.

  • How power imbalance, misread signs and strategic blunders clouded Hamas’ judgment over Gaza ceasefire

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  • I didn't really understand the premise of the article. What concrete actions should Hamas have taken according to this author?

  • What’s the Matter with Abundance? | Malcolm Harris

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  • Oh, that sounds good. Where are you located? I live in Oakland and work for Agilent.

  • What’s the Matter with Abundance? | Malcolm Harris

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  • This is a great review. I am disappointed that Klien and his co-author appear to be about 10 years behind the curve, but I appreciate that the conversation is being had, and that books like this lead to reviews like this.

    I'd never heard the term "Solar communism". I appreciate being introduced to that and to the work of David and Peter Schwartzman.

    A great read! Thanks for sharing!

  • Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sell

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  • Geez ... easy, bro.

    We're not saying you can't enjoy it, alright! But if you start perving on the violence, don't think we're not gonna take notice, okay?

  • Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first success

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  • That's fuckin' nuts.

    Also, this headline is bad. I thought he died. No. He just got a transplant after 100 days (whew).

  • Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits [404 Media]

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  • This is really cool. I love how things like Wikipedia just show how weirdly f'd up our whole society is by doing something without extracting maximum compensation and breaking systems.

  • The revolution will not be nominated for an academy award.

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  • both are good

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  • The statement in the meme is "I'm glad electric cars are becoming more popular".

    That's not an endorsement of car culture. I think it's obvious to everyone here that fewer cars would be good. That's not in conflict with the central statement.

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    I looked it up and this is real

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  • For those wondering why it did fly that way, it was a whole thing on Twitter: weather, fly zones, mostly.

    https://www.thepoke.com/2025/02/26/elon-musk-said-planes-fly-straight-line-owned-into-economy-class/

    Obviously the permanent main character on Twitter popped up to assert that planes must go straight despite flying in a private jet constantly that doesn't do that, and after a few hours the original guy said he asked the pilot when they landed (20 min ahead of schedule) and the pilot told him it was to avoid turbulence, which is likely what they say when a full answer seems like it'll just go over folks heads.

  • I had a thought about the popularization of solarpunk today

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  • Hey, don't threaten me with a good time ;)

    I think that would honestly be great. One of the biggest problems I've seen with Democratic messaging in the last 5 years is that they repeat terms and insist that we should champion them - such as democracy - or revile them - such as authoritarianism - without recognizing an obligation to communicate what those words mean to our everyday lives. I want christian nationalists to be put in that situation:

    *'You don't understand! Solarpunk is communism!!!'*

    'Well... I heard they want to give everyone food and shelter and education and healthcare for free. And build parks.'

    'Okay, yeah, but didn't you hear me? It's COMMUNISM!!'

    'Wait... is that what communism is? Giving me food and shelter for free?'

    'No! I mean, supposedly! But it isn't! Look, you need to stop saying that you'd like food and shelter to be free and just agree to fear this word because I told you to! Just stop thinking fondly about living outside of capitalism! I mean it!'

  • I had a thought about the popularization of solarpunk today

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  • I remember that. It was during a Q&A session in the fall of 2023.

    I think we're seeing an idea -- or set of ideas or facet of an idea -- spreading as a meme in the classical sense. For those unaware, Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" to describe a transmissible unit of culture: an idea that takes root and gets received, repeated, imitated, and spread.

    Solarpunk is a big bucket (a genre of fiction, aesthetic, style of personal fashion, lifestyle, philosophy, etc.) but I think it really is a meme spreading quickly. Fundamentally, it's a collection of beliefs that we can live in a radically different, less commodified world of respect for nature and community. And I think people are desperate to discover that such a concept exists and has a descriptor.

    What's also interesting, for those who don't follow him, is that Ezra Klein self describes as an obsessively self-aware overthinker. He is meticulous in the construction of his thoughts and in the precision of his language. I would go so far as to say that he probably realized with full awareness that his use of that word was likely going to introduce thousands of people to a new word, and/or unconsciously inform people who'd heard the word that it was a respectable term to use in political discussion. I think that bodes well for the direction of our culture as a whole.

  • I had a thought about the popularization of solarpunk today

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  • I think so too. I am seeing a similar effect in a lot of places.