endnotes century

seeking emancipation

[endnotes century @ruthlesskritik]

This is very, very sad. He had a huge impact on how I understand capitalism. I hope he rests in peace.

[e. ahmet tonak/ekonomist değilim/non-economist @eatonak]

ANWAR SHAIKH DIED...

I am devastated to share that Anu died tonight. I can't say anything more at the moment

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

From an Israeli intel official in NAZA:

“I hack into the phone of a 12 year old girl. If a girl calls her mom, ‘Mummy,’ she says, ‘when are you returning home? Daddy just came back.’ That’s a message that would alert the system bc it contains the words ‘return’ and ‘daddy.’”

This builds on @yuval_abraham’s previous reporting on the (incomprehensibly evil) “Where’s Daddy” program the IDF built to learn when fathers were at home with their children so they could kill then all at once (along with anyone else killed in the building during the attack).

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.

At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.

It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.

Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

https://t.co/6zcGDYIzCC

Please share this story with as many people as you can.

[endnotes century @ruthlesskritik]

@CapenerSean @Boomer_Talk @kvltmaoist ha fair. I will have to read more about this. Besides Voltmer, what do you suggest?

[endnotes century @ruthlesskritik]

@CapenerSean @Boomer_Talk @kvltmaoist Again I'm not that familiar with the witch trial scholarship. My point is just that the bottom-up nature of the trials does not exclude a close relationship between them and feudal crisis or capitalist emergence

[endnotes century @ruthlesskritik]

@CapenerSean @Boomer_Talk @kvltmaoist Fair enough, but the bottom-up nature of the trials could reflect *new* anxieties among men in a context of rising agricultural productivity and therefore less available work. Men wanted to defend their incomes and so imposed patriarchy in new ways

[endnotes century @ruthlesskritik]

@CapenerSean Yes, he's more focused on critiquing Federici's conception of capitalism. But I'm wondering if/how you think the witch trial scholarship, which I don't know well (though I'll read Voltmer), might fit into Blank's resulting framework

[endnotes century @ruthlesskritik]

@CapenerSean sorry ignore the page #, was originally linking the whole issue

[endnotes century @ruthlesskritik]

@CapenerSean Gary Blank's very modest essay on this is a useful starting point I think (p. 161)
https://t.co/v84b947Nah

[Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth]

haven't seen news on here - they're saying HM NYC was cancelled by CUNY after the NY Post article drew attention. new red scare is in full force, I guess. hope they find another venue.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

This is why I find the discourse how AI might start killing us a bit puzzling. AI is already being used to kill people on a mass scale -- that's a problem that deserves the immediate response beyond any hypothetical threat

[arne ness @arne__ness]

'categorically impossible' they said

[The Intercept @theintercept]

Flying United? Your checked bags may have an unwelcome neighbor in the cargo hold.

United has made thousands of shipments of war materiel to Israel, including parts for fighter jets and tanks — all onboard civilian passenger flights, according to a new report.

https://t.co/TOlBWORQWO

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

"Interviewees describe hacking little girls’ phones to see when their fathers came home and then bombing their houses, listening while the people on the line screamed and pleaded for help, while mothers cried over their burning daughters."

Please read this.

[drumm colin (NYC) @drumm_colin]

community note is so funny "emancipation produced large gains 4-35% of GDP"

yes, when your enslaved maid gets emancipated and re-hired as a free worker this increases GDP. which just goes to show how limited the usefulness of GDP is as a concept

[endnotes century @ruthlesskritik]

@NewLeftEViews Firms are compelled to cut costs. Labor-saving technology is one channel through which they can do this. Cheapening labor is the other major channel. Weak labor since the 80s makes the second option less risky than the first. Wood misses part of the story but isn't wrong outright

[endnotes century @ruthlesskritik]

@me_no_sit_still @arne__ness https://t.co/kekVIbH27I

[endnotes century @ruthlesskritik]

@arne__ness American farmers*

[endnotes century @ruthlesskritik]

@arne__ness And what farmers hated wasn't subsistence farming, it was the fact that market dependence was being imposed on their farms. Anne Mayhew's article on this is very good