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From September 26, 2024:
LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers ↗︎
↳ Airgapping the tv from the internet continues to be good practice. But this is just shit. — added 3:27pm on 26/09/24 ❧
“Lebanese Civilians Are Paying the Price”: Israeli Strikes Kill Nearly 600, Displace Tens of Thousands ↗︎
↳ I’m basically out of words about how fucked Israel is at this point. — added 3:23pm on 26/09/24 ❧
NSW public housing official allegedly told woman she would get a home faster if she had sex with him ↗︎
↳ Despicable. Not to mention the ongoing depiction of “renters” (a false construct made to distract from the exploitation of capitalism) as subhuman, which contributes strongly to this. — added 7:55am on 26/09/24 ❧
Israeli strikes kill 492 in heaviest daily toll in Lebanon since 1975-90 civil war ↗︎
↳ These genocidal maniacs will stop when exactly? Australia has very “stern words” for this kind of action you know. — added 6:31am on 26/09/24 ❧
From September 25, 2024:
First woman dies in ‘suicide capsule’ in Switzerland ↗︎
↳ Every day we step closer to Futurama — but seriously this is a good news story. — added 6:17pm on 25/09/24 ❧
Top Chinese economist disappears after criticising Xi Jinping ↗︎
↳ The Chinese economy, like all world economies, is vehemently anti worker. — added 5:54pm on 25/09/24 ❧
People who don’t want Labor to control RBA have ‘neoliberal brain worms’ ↗︎
↳ Correct take from McKim as usual. — added 5:51pm on 25/09/24 ❧
Thai king signs same-sex marriage bill into law ↗︎
↳ Some good news — added 5:25pm on 25/09/24 ❧
Tanya Plibersek approves three coalmine expansions in move criticised as ‘the opposite of climate action’ ↗︎
↳ A party that campaigned on “climate action now” is comprised of bourgeois conservatives to no one’s surprise. The only party who cares about the climate is the Greens. — added 3:23pm on 25/09/24 ❧
Justice Department accuses Visa of debit network monopoly that affects price of ‘nearly everything’ ↗︎
↳ At best a duopoly, not to mention the infrastructure for payments globally… — added 12:43pm on 25/09/24 ❧
YouTube is raising subscription prices globally ↗︎
↳ Manufacture a market, secure a monopoly, tighten the screws. Maybe the motto should’ve been “do profitable evil”. — added 6:42am on 25/09/24 ❧
‘Global Oligarchy’ Reigns as Top 1% Controls More Wealth Than Bottom 95% of Humanity ↗︎
↳ These vampiric and abysmal humans are our enemy, not anyone else in the 99%. — added 6:26am on 25/09/24 ❧
From September 24, 2024:
From News Corp to Nine, journalism is compromised by real estate. Time to let it go. ↗︎
↳ Corrupt organisations loving on corrupt organisations to maintain the hegemony. — added 6:41am on 24/09/24 ❧
Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead ↗︎
↳ Capitalism… perpetually 5 minutes from slavery. — added 6:36am on 24/09/24 ❧
From September 23, 2024:
(im)possibility politics ↙︎ — posted 23/09/24, tagged as identity politics, division, class warfare, war of position, gramsci.
I’ve been continuing to ponder the nature of identity politics, the flexibility of superstructural systems, and the ever more obvious role of hegemony in enforcement of ideology...