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"The revival of fascism in this century has been scarily ...

2026-05-12T08:08:50Z

"The revival of fascism in this century has been scarily effective, and at times it can feel unstoppable. Meadows' work on systems thinking provides an explanation for that efficacy – and suggests a theory of change for dispatching fascism back to the graveyard of history."
"the real fight we have is over that paradigm: we have to convince our neighbors that they are smart enough to rule themselves, and so are we, and so is everyone else."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/12/donella-meadows/
HT Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)

Ich fände ja ein "Klimageld" super. Da hätte ich auch ...

2026-04-13T09:25:27Z

Ich fände ja ein "Klimageld" super. Da hätte ich auch endlich mal was von.
Ich habe seit fast 30 Jahren kein Auto. Damit das geht, wohne ich zentral und bezahle ein recht hohe Miete. Dafür, dass ich so das Klima schone, gibt mir (bisher?) niemand was.
Während Autofahren bis zum Abwinken gefördert wird. Ich vermute weil es der "Wirtschaft", sprich gewissen großen Firmen, nützt. Die nichts davon haben, wenn ich alles zu Fuß erledige oder den ÖPNV nutze.
Aber ob das Klimageld wirklich kommt?

RE: https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/116132196238785720 "the ...

2026-03-01T09:58:05Z

RE: https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/116132196238785720

"the websites and accounts that are cloned at breakneck speed not only render genuine human knowledge and human work invisible. The AI companies steal human work, human-made creative content. And worse: if people find more slop than facts, they won’t believe the facts anymore. Hard times for science!"
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"Given the stupefyingly overt corruption of the Trump ...

2026-02-28T17:28:48Z

"Given the stupefyingly overt corruption of the Trump administration, one must ask whether the United States armed forces are now being used on a per-hire basis.
Gulf Arab states who oppose Iranian power have generated extremely generous packages of compensation for companies associated with Trump personally and with members of his family...And now — we are using military force to take the side of precisely the countries who have enriched Trump and his family."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack-iran

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2026-02-08T08:44:05Z

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"Governments can buy into the zero-sum thinking of the far-right and retreat into isolation, scarcity, selfishness and decline. Or they can harness the very same forces that, not without difficulties, have allowed our societies to thrive for centuries.
For me, the choice is clear. And for the sake of our prosperity and human dignity, I hope many others will follow suit."
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"AI is a bubble and it will burst...we will have the ...

2026-01-18T15:40:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…qhs8
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"AI is a bubble and it will burst...we will have the open-source models that run on commodity hardware, AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images; summarizing documents; and automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing – such as removing backgrounds or airbrushing passersby out of photos. These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of."

"The fact that every AI-created work is in the public domain ...

2026-01-18T15:36:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…ugda
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"The fact that every AI-created work is in the public domain means that if Getty or Disney...or Hearst newspapers use AI to generate works – then anyone else can take those works, copy them, sell them or give them away for nothing. And the only thing those companies hate more than paying creative workers, is having other people take their stuff without permission.
The US Copyright Office’s position means that the only way these companies can get a copyright is to pay humans to do creative work."

"In a creative market dominated by five publishers, four ...

2026-01-18T15:33:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…6uhv
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"In a creative market dominated by five publishers, four studios, three labels, two mobile app stores, and a single company that controls all the ebooks and audiobooks, giving a creative worker extra rights to bargain with is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money...Creative workers who cheer on lawsuits by the big studios and labels need to remember the first rule of class warfare: things that are good for your boss are rarely what’s good for you.

"We have monotonically expanded copyright since 1976, so that ...

2026-01-18T15:33:01Z

"We have monotonically expanded copyright since 1976, so that today, copyright covers more kinds of works, grants exclusive rights over more uses, and lasts longer.
And today, the media industry is larger and more profitable than it has ever been, and also – the share of media industry income that goes to creative workers is lower than it has ever been"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

"This is the key to understanding the AI hype bubble: when ...

2025-10-23T20:37:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…kwz6
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"This is the key to understanding the AI hype bubble: when ghouls from multinational banks predict 13 trillion dollar markets for "AI," what they mean is that digital tools will speed up the twiddling and other wage-suppression techniques to transfer $13T in value from workers and consumers to shareholders."

In Gänze lesenswert: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

HT Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)

"The difference between a centaur and a reverse centaur is ...

2025-10-23T20:33:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…ca7y
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"The difference between a centaur and a reverse centaur is the difference between a machine that makes your life better and a machine that makes your life worse so that your boss gets richer. Reverse centaurism is the 21st Century's answer to Taylorism, the pseudoscience that saw white-coated "experts" subject workers to humiliating choreography down to the smallest movement of your fingertip"
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

"Enshittification relies on unlimited twiddling (by ...

2025-10-23T20:30:07Z

"Enshittification relies on unlimited twiddling (by platforms), and a general prohibition on countertwiddling (by platform users)...As with every question of technology, the issue isn't twiddling per se – it's who does the twiddling and who gets twiddled. A worker armed with digital tools can play gig work employers off each other and force them to bid up the price of their labor"
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

"Plan for a future where you can buy GPUs for ten cents on ...

2025-09-27T16:33:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…0fe9
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"Plan for a future where you can buy GPUs for ten cents on the dollar, where there's a buyer's market for hiring skilled applied statisticians, and where there's a ton of extremely promising open source models that have barely been optimized and have vast potential for improvement...
AI is...a grab-bag of useful (sometimes very useful) tools that can sometimes make workers' lives better, when workers get to decide how and when they're used."
HT Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)

""So, you're saying a third of the stock market is ...

2025-09-27T16:31:06Z

""So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"
I said, "Yes, that's right...
The WSJ writers compare the AI bubble to other bubbles...and conclude that the AI bubble is vastly larger than any other bubble in recent history.""
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence

That"s worrying.

"Wer nur zur Miete, mitten in den Beton- und Asphaltwüsten ...

2025-07-07T09:54:20Z

"Wer nur zur Miete, mitten in den Beton- und Asphaltwüsten wohnt, auf öffentliche Krankenhäuser und anderes angewiesen ist, muss weiter schwitzen...Das Fehlen einer durchgetakteten Klima- Energie- und Wärme- beziehungsweise Kältepolitik trifft vor allem die Alten, die Kranken, die Schüler, die Kinder und andere, die in volatilen Verhältnissen leben."
https://taz.de/!vn6098602/
Duh. Wir haben keine Lobby, können keine Posten bieten, spenden Parteien nichts, sind also uninteressant.

"The book makes a compelling case that misogyny and ...

2025-04-18T20:37:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…4t67
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"The book makes a compelling case that misogyny and imperialism are linked. At the same time as killing Ukrainians, Putin has rolled up women’s rights within Russia. In 2017 the pro-Kremlin Duma effectively legalised domestic abuse. Russia’s patriarch argued that criminal sanctions for men who hit women amounted to foreign interference...With communism gone, Russia uses misogyny masked as “traditional values” to find like-minded communities in the west."

"Same River, Twice is thoughtful, instructive and deeply ...

2025-04-18T20:34:16Z

"Same River, Twice is thoughtful, instructive and deeply harrowing. Today’s anti-Kyiv Kremlin rhetoric has deep historical roots, she points out. Stalin demonised the Estonians and other rebellious ethnic groups as “fascists” – an enemy within. The state film industry in Moscow cast actors from the Baltic Soviet republics in the role of Nazis or American spies. Under communism, “fascist” became a synonym for non-Russians."\https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/same-river-twice-sofi-oksanen-review-putin-war-on-women

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2025-04-02T14:23:10Z

https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Greenwashing-Deutsche-Bank-Tochter-bestraft-article25674165.html
Was mir bei solcher Berichterstattung immer fehlt: ein Vergleich von Geldstrafe und erzieltem Gewinn.
D. h.: Sind die 25 Mill. wirklich eine Strafe*? Oder nur eine Gebühr, die ein Unternehmen nachträglich dafür zahlt, dass es sich zu entsprechenden Einnahmen verhelfen konnte?
*Was mir außerdem fehlt, ist die Überlegung: Ist es überhaupt eine Strafe, die irgendeinen der Verantwortlichen, also einen Menschen, trifft? (Ich ahne die Antort.)

"Trump's a plunderer. He was elected by the plunderer ...

2025-02-08T23:56:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…xept
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"Trump's a plunderer. He was elected by the plunderer class – like the crypto bros who want to run wild, transforming workers' carefully shepherded retirement savings into useless shitcoins, while the crypto bros run off with their perfectly cromulent "fiat" money. Musk is the apotheosis of this mindset, a guy who claims credit for other peoples' productive and useful businesses, replacing real engineering with financial engineering."
Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/#shameless

"This is the DOGE playbook. It's all about plunder: take ...

2025-02-08T23:55:24Z

"This is the DOGE playbook. It's all about plunder: take something that was patiently, carefully built up over generations and burn it to the ground, warming yourself in the pyre, leaving nothing behind but ash. This is what private equity plunderers have been doing to the world's "advanced" economies since the Reagan years. They did it to airlines, family restaurants, funeral homes, dog groomers, toy stores, pharma, palliative care, dialysis, hospital beds, groceries, cars, and the internet."

Thank you for all your work and especially for working on quote ...

2024-12-01T18:08:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…jxz8
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Thank you for all your work and especially for working on quote posts!

"But the vulnerability to conspiratorialism that algorithms ...

2024-10-13T11:05:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…lhzw
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"But the vulnerability to conspiratorialism that algorithms identify and target people based on isn’t a function of Big Data. It’s a function of corruption — of life in a world in which real conspiracies (to steal your wages, or let rich people escape the consequences of their crimes, or sacrifice your safety to protect large firms’ profits) are everywhere."
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-03-25-black-boxes-when-you-know-you-know-4e5360f60032
Und damit schließt sich der Kreis:
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/gesundheitssystem-medikamente-pharmaunternehmen-104.html

Die Crux laut @npub1fdr…lvhs : "I struggled through papers ...

2024-10-13T10:57:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…57y8
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Die Crux laut Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) :
"I struggled through papers and read commentary and came to the conclusion that opioids weren’t safe at all. Rather, corrupt billionaire pharma owners like the Sackler family had colluded with their regulators to risk the lives of millions by pushing falsified research that was finding publication in some of the most respected, peer-reviewed journals in the world.
I became an opioid denier, in other words."
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-03-25-black-boxes-when-you-know-you-know-4e5360f60032

Dabei musste ich an dies denken: "Take vaccine denial (or ...

2024-10-13T10:54:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…ttv8
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Dabei musste ich an dies denken: "Take vaccine denial (or “hesitancy”). Many people greeted the advent of an extremely rapid, high-tech covid vaccine with dread and mistrust. They argued that the pharma industry was dominated by corrupt, greedy corporations that routinely put their profits ahead of the public’s safety, and that regulators, in Big Pharma’s pocket, let them get away with mass murder.
The thing is, all that is true."
Lesenswert:
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-03-25-black-boxes-when-you-know-you-know-4e5360f60032

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2024-10-13T10:44:23Z

https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/gesundheitssystem-medikamente-pharmaunternehmen-104.html

Da stimme ich dir zu. Wobei ich glaube, dass es manche ...

2024-09-03T09:31:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…rkr0
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Da stimme ich dir zu. Wobei ich glaube, dass es manche Themen/Haltungen in der Politik und bei "den" Medien leichter haben als andere. Wenn du gegen fossile Brennstoffe oder Konsum allgemein etwas sagst, bläst dir ein heftiger Gegenwind von den Konzernen entgegen und denen, die sie bezahl..., äh, lobbyieren.

Ich mache das Radio an -- und habe schon wieder die Schnauze ...

2024-09-03T06:53:38Z

Ich mache das Radio an -- und habe schon wieder die Schnauze voll. Migration, Migration, Migration.
Irgendein Politiker geifert, was "die Leute" wollen.
Menschen wie ich zählen nicht. Ich bin nicht "die Leute".
Warum arbeiten sich Politik und Medien so an dem Thema ab?
Weil sie besorgte Bürger nur wahrnehmen, wenn sie rechts sind?
Weil man leichter vorgaukeln kann, dass man Lösungen sucht und findet, als bei der Klimakatastrophe oder auch Covid, die viel mehr Menschenleben fordern?
Radio aus.