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iie [none/use name]

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a handful of decades before my body just does that

  • Hexbear exclusive effortpost: A Primary Account on How Zohran Won

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  • We need a show like The Pitt but for social workers

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  • It's afraid

  • Caption this.

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  • the next object that Frank Reynolds will crawl out of naked.

  • Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom's press conference.

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  • Are they helping him? I think this stunt actually improves Newsom's optics. Feels very controlled opposition.

  • Lolbertarians think they know trains better than communists

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  • I haven't read it, but The People's Republic of Walmart is all about corporate central planning.

  • Price, Value, and Exploitation using Input-Output Tables - Part 3: A Worker-Only Economy with Means of Production

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  • It’s funny you suggest 3B1B, that video series was priceless for me in undergrad.

    I’m a few years out from having used linear algebra extensively so little things like “which index comes first, row or column?” sometimes trip me up. But I still have the visual picture from 3B1B clear as day.

  • Price, Value, and Exploitation using Input-Output Tables - Part 3: A Worker-Only Economy with Means of Production

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  • I can’t thank you enough for this post series. It’s textbook-level writing but tailored for a novice audience, I don’t know if I could find something like this anywhere else. Thank you so much for taking the time

    One small note, something that might trip up the novices like me (or just me): while the meaning of the notation “A = [ai,j]i,j” is pretty simple and readily deduced from context clues, you might still want to comment a few words on the notation (mainly to reassure the reader that, yes, that means what you think it means), and if this notation has a name you may want to mention the name.

  • Staying informed & staying sane?

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  • No one benefits if you destroy your mental health obsessing over the news. There's only so much you can do, right now, as an individual, and most of it is local. You don't have to follow all the horrors of the world to do that. You already get the gist of it. If there's a sudden escalation, you'll hear one way or another. I think we all need to look after ourselves and each other so we're ready for what the future brings.

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    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz - Novo General Megathread for the 11th-17th of August 2025

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    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz - Novo General Megathread for the 11th-17th of August 2025

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  • Anyone know if welib .org is affiliated with annas-archive, and more generally, if it's trustworthy? Annas-archive is down.

  • Price, Value, and Exploitation using Input-Output Tables - Part 2: A Pure-Labor Economy

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  • I'm working my way through. This is all extremely clear and well-written. Thanks! Also, I really appreciate the background links you gave in Part 1.

  • WWYD?

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  • Shinji get in the robot

  • Price, Value, and Exploitation using Input-Output Tables - Part 1: Introduction

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  • Hell yeah dude! I've been excited to read this for a while now. Thanks for writing this up

  • Crab Museum are going off again

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  • I have maybe a dumb question, are the bosses supposed to know about the slow-down? Is the idea to pressure them to do something, or is sabotage the whole point?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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  • (June 18) Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Apple — Alan Macleod's new report surveys their roles in the company, which include software and hardware engineering, and their prior crimes as spies

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  • Unit 8200 is Israel’s most elite—and most controversial—military intelligence unit. It serves as the backbone of both Israel’s burgeoning tech sector and its repressive surveillance apparatus. The unit has developed cutting-edge technology like facial recognition and voice-to-text software to surveil, repress, and target Palestinians.

    The vast amounts of data gathered on the Palestinian population, including their medical history, sex lives, and search histories, have been used for coercion and extortion. If a certain individual needed to travel across checkpoints for crucial medical treatment, permission could be suspended until they complied. Information about extramarital affairs or sexual orientation, especially homosexuality, is exploited as blackmail material. One former Unit 8200 agent recalled that he was instructed during his training to memorize different Arabic words for “gay” so that he could listen out for them in intercepted conversations.

    Internationally, Unit 8200 may be best known for its “former” agents who created the notorious Pegasus software, used by repressive governments around the world to spy on tens of thousands of prominent figures, including royals, heads of state, activists, and journalists.

    Among them was Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was assassinated by Saudi operatives in Türkiye in 2018.

    While military service is mandatory for Jewish Israelis, few end up in Unit 8200 by accident. Described as “Israel’s Harvard,” parents spend fortunes on STEM-based extracurricular lessons for their children in the hopes that they will be selected to join the IDF’s most elite and selective unit. Those chosen are rewarded with lucrative careers in the tech industry upon completion of their service.

    Given Unit 8200’s documented history of violence, espionage, and surveillance, both domestically and internationally, it is worth asking whether tech giants should be hiring its alumni in such large numbers.

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    (June 18) Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Apple — Alan Macleod's new report surveys their roles in the company, which include software and hardware engineering, and their prior crimes as spies

    www.mintpressnews.com /apple-israel-unit-8200-hiring/290226/

  • Mr. Smile's Last Laugh: How The Communist Resistance Took Out One of Denmark's Most Dangerous Nazi Snitches

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  • Thanks for this engrossing writeup and for the links in the comments!

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    Elizabeth Gurley Flynn - Novo General Megathread for the 4th-6th of August 2025

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  • He's sea life of some sort. There's probably some way in which carrots are sea life too, if we really think about it.

  • news @hexbear.net
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    The real reason the West is warmongering against China — China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and dwindled Western corporate profits.

    www.aljazeera.com /opinions/2025/8/3/the-real-reason-the-west-is-warmongering-against-china
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    Elizabeth Gurley Flynn - Novo General Megathread for the 4th-6th of August 2025

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  • oh? What's going on?

  • How to explain why supporting war is bad, for libs/budding leftists?

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  • Most of the world—the Global South—is poor, because they are colonized by the Global North. That is the sole purpose of the North's wars.

    Wealth flows from the Global South to the Global North to the tune of trillions of dollars a year, and the wealth gap between the North and South continues to grow despite liberal cheerleading to the contrary. Most progress against poverty has occurred in China, while elsewhere progress stagnates. Maybe send him the yellow Parenti lecture—"poor countries are not underdeveloped, they are over-exploited."

    Then tie it back to Russia and China:

    Tell him about Niger, one of the world's poorest nations despite a wealth of material resources. In 2023 they finally overthrew their west-aligned government, rejected US and French military presence, and pivoted to Russia as a security partner. Niger now plans to nationalize their uranium production, retaining those profits to provide for their own people. Russia and China threaten the dominance of the US and Europe, which threatens the profits they can extract from nations like Niger.

    Tell him about China's Belt and Road Initiative, which threatens the West's imperial project on a global scale. Wars against Russia and Iran—and Iran's axis of resistance throughout the Middle East—are part of a broader effort to not only prop up the petrodollar but also isolate China, stop China's Belt and Road Initiative, and arrest China's rising dominance. The genocide in Palestine serves this purpose. Israel functions as a US military outpost to dominate the region, and Palestinian resistance threatens that role.

    As others here have mentioned, Russia views the war in Ukraine as a defensive war against NATO encroachment. And America knows this. US analysts have predicted for decades that Ukraine joining NATO would be a red line for Russia. Biden himself, earlier in his career, said as much (sorry, I can't find my source for this). They're doing it anyway, because they want to bankrupt and overextend Russia in order to weaken China, in order to protect their dominance over the poor nations of the world.

    Russia has neither the desire nor the ability to conquer Europe. More generally, the west's wars are never, ever defensive. Your friend needs to understand this.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    iie [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Who the fuck actually is George Soros, and how can I learn about him and his role in history?

  • theory @hexbear.net
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    What do Marxist economists say about the role of supply and demand?

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    How Microsoft became a hub for Israeli intelligence

    thegrayzone.com /2025/05/23/microsoft-hub-israeli-intel/
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    Grayzone: before Mossad assassinated Iranian professor Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, they forged elaborate documents to frame him as "Iran's top nuclear scientist" when in reality he was not involved at all

    thegrayzone.com /2020/12/02/israel-intelligence-deception-killing-mohsen-fakhrizadeh/
  • theory @hexbear.net
    iie [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    If I want to learn Marxist economics kinda seriously (but not PhD seriously), do I need to slog through Marx or is there something more readable?

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net
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    What are some of your favorite shows? I'm looking for recs

  • food @hexbear.net
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    Pressure cooker? Crock pot? Instant pot? Rice cooker? If I have room for only one thing, what should I get?

  • news @hexbear.net
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    Trump official, speaking to The Grayzone: the Mossad is using CIA Director John Ratcliffe and US CENTCOM's Gen. Michael Kurilla to influence Trump with cooked intelligence on Iran's nuclear program

    thegrayzone.substack.com /p/trump-official-to-the-grayzone-cias
  • neurodiverse @hexbear.net
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    Meditation? Any A(u)DHD folks get far with it?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    Have there been any studies on the youtube comment filter to profile how it works and what it filters? Specifically, to separate out signal from noise: what is randomly vs consistently censored

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net
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    What is your current preferred way to pirate movies, shows, and other media?

  • gardening @hexbear.net
    iie [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Hey Hexbear, help me name my cactus

  • technology @hexbear.net
    iie [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    What password manager should I use?

  • news @hexbear.net
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    Venezuela election: twitter thread debunks some of the anti-Venezuela fake news circulating on social media

    x.com /AlanRMacLeod/status/1818050593468072023
  • videos @hexbear.net
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    Annual repost of Boy Boy's outstanding Ukraine video.

  • politics @hexbear.net
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    Paul Cockshott responds to Sabine Hossenfelder's "Capitalism is Good" video

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    iie [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    China is gonna be the wedge issue on lemmy as reddit libs join. We should really get out in front and address Uighur and Tiananmen stuff with effortposts now.