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Productively “slow,” or just bourgeois?
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I am fortunate to hold a role which affords me the ability to take leave...
- Australia’s PM warns against pro-Palestinian rally as police seek ban ↗︎ « Between protest bans, tone policing, and the rampant hegemonic propaganda the choice at our next election is: fascism now, or fascism really soon. Fuck this government and their racist genocidal bullshit. —
- Calls grow in Germany to ban far-right AfD ↗︎ « Someone will listen to these calls, right? Right? —
- I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age ↗︎ « The volume of junk generated by these farms, which simultaneously destroys the planet through propaganda and power use, is breathtaking — and all it does is platform fascism in the mainstream over and over. To the point the mainstream media parrot it back. —
- Tennessee plastics factory staff killed in Hurricane Helene reportedly told not to evacuate ↗︎ « “Die for your work” — capitalists, literally. —
- Albanese stood beside antisemitism envoy. Journalists weren’t even invited to Islamophobia envoy launch. ↗︎ « Albanese and his entire government are comprised of racist, sexist, fascist, landlords — and it’s leaking. —
- Iran begins attack on Israel ↗︎ « I wonder how mainstream media will depict this in a desperate attempt to defend israhell. —
- Another year, another mountain of cash for the Murdochs and their friends ↗︎ « Oligarchs who dictate the public agenda. Sick fucks. —
- Pro-Palestinian protesters call NSW police attempt to block rally on 7 October ‘an attack on fundamental democratic rights’ ↗︎ « Some more evidence of us slipping into a fascist state. —
- Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home ↗︎ « Think what the capitalists could achieve, positively in the world, if they focussed their energies on *not* being sociopathic pieces of shit… —
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen ↗︎ « Colonialism and capitalism. —
- Critics stunned as Trump caught ‘endorsing The Purge’ as a real policy at his rally ↗︎ « This is, legitimately, terrifying because it’s not one of those “weirdly contextual” situations — he just straight up wants open unadulterated murder (“for a few hours”). —
- US cops get gun stuck to MRI machine in bungled cannabis raid ↗︎ « It’d be almost funny, but these morons are capitalism’s endorsed murders and oppressors. —
- ‘This Maniac Must Be Stopped’: Netanyahu Condemned Over Massive Beirut Bombing ↗︎ « The headline says it all. —
- Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants ↗︎ « Interesting! Anecdotally developing this website I ran into some model (validation) issues with Ruby on Rails, my best known language and framework, and the first suggestion from Claude was helpful, but got further deluded and hallucinogenic as we debugged further - suggesting the same thing over and over with different broken code. —