My wife calls out from the across our italian monolocale and asks me "hey why did you giggle minute ago?" I said "The queen of england is dead" She yelled back "I KNEW IT!"
She knows me well and/or i have a discernable laugh specifically for dead oligarchs #QueenElizabeth
Tech worship is just the thoughts and prayers option for nonchristians; just replace revelation with singularity.
Tech promises easy outs.
We could increase gravity/hydro energy storage TOMORROW and it would work. We could switch back from monoculture and our soil would recover.
Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Elon Musk owns Twitter.
When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
@StatistSmacker the treatment of ethiopian yemeni and other black jews is notoriously horrid though. Third rate citizenship and constant racism from the old russian jews. Is your stuff targeted only at people that have never asked someone about it or met on in real life?
Elon musk is a tinypeckered chump skating through life on blood emerald aparthied money. We could fix Climate change entirely on 0.01% of his net wealth
This weekend in Florence I learned that most of DaVinci's mechanisms were likely stolen from earlier Arabic texts by Al Jaziri and Banu Musa. Google his grandpa.
It's going to be hard to ever feel safe as a leftist or activist in the U.S. again. Never expected justice but I expect roving rightwing militias now that they know they won't go to jail, ever. #RittenhouseVerdict
I'm confused: Is this an advanced Marxist critique to expose how competition for money and attention pits activists against each other + undermines deep change?
Or just the end of the world?
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