Google’s book and art scanning.
Musk’s space and colonization.
Uber’s assault on the taxi industry.
Air BNB’s attack on the rental market.
Facebook’s promiscuity with our data.
Silicon Valley routinely calls theft “disruption”.
And now they’re upping the ante with AI.
they asked if I wanted hors deouvres, and I said I don't eat horse, also you misspelled horse, also I don't even know what part of the horse the ouvres come from
Using this word is a way to put the Israeli settler riots into context: they are not ad-hoc attacks but organized, deliberate, and intentional acts to destroy Palestinian homes and displace Palestinian families. 3/9
The people in power and those they have platformed who actually believe that COVID-19 isn't serious are few and far between (or have already died).
The majority of them publicly minimize COVID-19 but do everything they can to insulate themselves from the risk of catching it.
GOP leaders are working to ban Chinese citizens from buying property—a trend that reflects how orientalism upholds the logics of capitalism.
By making "foreign" capital hypervisible, they distract from the roots of the housing crisis while posing as allies to the working class.
"COVID no longer controls our lives" is a promise of eugenicist social murder and abandonment, not a cause for celebration or true assessment of the risks currently posed by COVID.
"COVID no longer controls our lives" because now eugenicist politics are doing the controlling.
A new Iowa bill would roll back child labor laws, allowing 14 to 17-year-olds to work in mining, meatpacking, demolition, operating guillotine shears, and other dangerous jobs. Under the business-backed bill, employers wouldn't be civilly liable if kids are injured or killed.