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Avid Amoeba

@ avidamoeba @lemmy.ca

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2w ago

Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store
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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago
No politic here!

2w ago

Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Too few places. There's a cluster in Italy as well.

2w ago

Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Added a bit on that. 😊

2w ago

Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

The availability of capital for this type of organization, the capital concentration on the opposing side and its market power is what's holding us back.

To elaborate:

Coops are fundamentally anti-capitalist, they're socialist. Why? Because they threaten to change the capitalist model where only people who hold significant capital get to decide how to profit from most workers' labour, to a model where most workers decide that democratically and equally own their workplaces. If coops are to become the dominant firm structure, it means no more Zuckerbergs or Thiels wielding unimaginable power over hundreds of thousands of employees directly* and the rest of the economy indirectly. This means that the people in this position of power today would do everything they can to stop coops from taking significant root. Since they are the VCs that dole out capital for startups, that means no capital for coop startups from them. It also means applying every market and non-market leverage they have to kill any coops that threaten to become viable competitors.

This doesn't mean we can't start coops and make them successful. It does however means it's much more difficult than starting a normal capitalist-funded startup. People who are in a position to attempt it probably should. I think a lot of capable, professional tech comrades would join and work a lot harder than they would at your typical startup. But it would still be an uphill battle without gov't support which already goes to capitalist tech corpos. This is why this battle has to go on multiple fronts. One is creating coops where and when possible. The other is unionizing existing corpos to gain labour power that can be leveraged to curb the oligarch's power. The third is fighting at the political level for state funding for coops and labour rights. Those three reinforce each other in increasing the economic power of employees (workers) both at coops and traditional corpos relative to the power of the oligarch (capitalist) class.

For example forcing their employees to develop software for digital addiction instead of working to eliminate misinformation on the biggest social network in the world at the threat of termination.

2w ago

AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Interesting. I han't thought about this aspect, where the toaster is capable to do more human activities to harass the person. This is actually a problem if there isn't a way to stop it wholesale. And there isn't and probably won't be. For a while if it ever changes. If this thing grows in occurrence, it might force people into private communities and systems to escape. That particular effect being arguably positive.

2w ago

Rubio calls for U.S. and Europe to "revitalize an old friendship" in speech to allies

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

🫨 Something must have shifted for the worse if the US admin is taking a step back.

2w ago

China Is Leaving America in the Dust on Clean Energy

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Some of them are winning. At this point the game is shifting to an internal fight between domestic oligarchs for power and therefore profit.

2w ago

Ukraine: Growing Support for Britain and Canada Among Ukrainians, Russia Still Most Hated Country, survey finds

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Except for their immediate interest - their wage, rent / mortgage, gas, no?

Which.. makes sense.. in the current system which also promotes the everyone-for-themselves independent market-participant (false) narrative.

2w ago

This won't end well

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

As soon as they lose connection to the braincell, it's over.

2w ago

DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Better yet, use an off-shore instance outside of US control with third-country VPN. The DHS could only get the IP of the foreign instance. If somehow the foreign instance cooperates and gives them your IP, that would be the VPN IP. Then the foreign VPN provider would have to cooperate for DHS to get your IP. Your ISP would probly give you up.

2w ago

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Talk to your your colleagues to form a club that coordinates all of you taking actions together. Like asking for more money, or stopping work. Talk to other such clubs at other workplaces so all those clubs can coordinate taking actions together by all the club members. Like stopping work. Once that bigger club operates, stop work and ask to get off this timeline, demand a specific different timeline. This is how we get off this timeline. The method has been proven to work.

2w ago

New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

bovine serum albumin-templated synthetic strategy

2w ago

Exclusive: US military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

If Iran still has a functional missile program, might hit an oil target in Saudi Arabia to restart peace negotiations.

2w ago

Did you see how high the Dow Jones Industrial Average is?

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

This is the US AG talking about people ignoring the stock market during a hearing on Epstein - https://youtu.be/a7yv4fpfDbs. Some of Epstein's victims are sitting behind her while she's doing this.

2w ago

Did you see how high the Dow Jones Industrial Average is?

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 2w ago

Savage.

3w ago

China biotech licensing boom to hit record in 2026 as pipeline swells

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 3w ago

If you thought R&D can't or won't be outsourced...

3w ago

The Steam Deck is out of stock as the RAM crunch hits gaming hardware

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 3w ago

You might be right. It's hard to say how things are gonna be over the next few years tho. We may be in a severe recession if component prices have normalized.

3w ago

Netanyahu again flies through Canadian airspace en route to Washington

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 3w ago

Seems like Bibi isn't as worried as he used to be. Not entirely unexpected.

3w ago

Ukraine: Growing Support for Britain and Canada Among Ukrainians, Russia Still Most Hated Country, survey finds

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 3w ago

Nope, it's over 60% positive.

3w ago

Zohran Mamdani appoints liberal Zionist to lead Office to Combat Antisemitism

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Avid Amoeba @lemmy.ca 3w ago

Yeah, a single person/office would be better. That said I don't think he should ignore the material reality that he's mayor of a huge and very influential Jewish minority. Anti-zionism is growing, including in the Jewish community. His move would help that growth continue by shielding his admin a bit from fake antisemitism attacks. If he executes well on his other material agendas, there may not be a need for such shield by the next election.