minorkeys

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh look, another company that knows it’s harming people and society, hides it and keeps on chasing profit and power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re stealing the power of information for themselves and kicking us back to manual labour jobs, until they steal that with robots too and we have zero means of engaging with the economy that controls all the world resources, so we just end up dying off, leaving them with the whole fucking planet to themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you have to fight for it.

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  Ewe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And they only got there by striking and work actions because the nature of their positions gave them the leverage needed to be effective. The NYPD can’t ship the factory to another country or bring in immigrant labour to do policing. If they aren’t policing, property rights won’t be enforced for businesses. Leverage. The police are the mechanism that break labour strikes and protests on behalf of capital. There is no such mechanism to break a police strike or protest, except the feds or the military which won’t be used.

  Most labour jobs do not have this kind of leverage because technology shrank the world and business has negotiated trade deal that give them the freedom to undermine worker leverage. Workers have no leverage to force capitulation. Labour has long lost any control they had to influence business practices and fight for themselves. Labour actions would have to be across the entire company to effectively force capitulation and that is next to impossible because labour ain’t a community anymore thanks to anti-commie fear mongering. Every union is isolated, every location is separated, every company the corporate owns is independent from each other. Labour is too divided to stand united and united is the only way it effectively works. A group can’t fight individual power with individual power, it must fight with collective power and for that, it needs to be united first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure we’re focused on the same thing here or I simply don’t understand your point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, I don’t really understand how this relates to the conversation. Was this meant for another thread?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In what system place or time is force (violence) not a necessary part of ensuring property rights when conflicts arises?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Violence is always needed for property rights, even outside feudalism and capitalism, though. Violence is a consistent presence across system types. Violence a a means to property control exists outside of civilization itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So long as private industry owns the resources necessary to sustain life, there will be no ubi. Ambitious men and women do not willingly give up their wealth and power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Consolidating control of everything is the motive and goal, but the mechanism for it being possible is the use of force to maintain physical control of things, even in feudalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But that has been happening since unions first started, when they burned strikers and their families alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But why? And why now? Why do they even care about vpns and ages l *all of a sudden *? What are they up to!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is. Capitalism requires a significantly capable system of violence to enforce physical property rights or capitalism can’t exist, violence is a foundation for capitalism. We don’t see it much because the legal system has been so effective we rarely encounter it, except for violent offenses, but laws and rules are backed by threat of force. Financial and business crimes are rarely prosecuted, so the violence of the law doesn’t get used much in that sphere. That privelege has been intentionally lobbied for over decades in an attempt to disempower the state from effectively governing business through it use of violence. But the person with the gun who can take your buildings and your machines and your data centers and your gold, ultimately determines who controls the things of value that wealth consists of. Capital requires violence used on its behalf to gain and maintain wealth. Violence is the basis of it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They were captured decade ago, first by organized crime and then by the industries. Unions have never modernized for the digital age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people eat this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only people who survived medieval England were those who could psychologically tolerate bland food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The government is run by incompetent but power hungry cretens who have been convinced by the techbros that LLMs can make them competent at wielding power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its still unclear to me why all these countries are attempting this legislation at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Power, not just money, power in too few hands. Getting there also tends to require extreme selfishness, which only makes it worse for everyone else when the most selfish acquire said power. Democracy was supposed to disperse power across the community to explicitly prevent concentrations of power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should always assume that if a way to lie to you exists, politicians and marketing with use it to lie to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like the psychopath he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Policymakers Should Stop Going After VPNs to Enforce Internet Age Restrictions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But they have been paid off to kill vpns so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So techbros can seize control over the last strongholds of independence and anonymity on the net. Then we have no choice but to use it how they want or not at all. The immense power of computing and the internet ripped out of the hands of the public, sold access and restricted to corproate approved uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have to know, they just have to trade favours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Decades passed and its not even remotely true anymore? Never really was tbh. Anonymity on the net is on its last legs thanks to adoption by the masse show need training wheels and rubber corners and a fence to not hurt themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YSK how to not get killed, maimed or identified while protesting ICE actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So Amazon can buy the data, know what we’re printing, steal the designs and make a product for it, capturing the market they only know existed by spying on us. Knowledge is power and I’d rather not further empower the psychopaths who are primarily responsible for the widespread reduction of our qol. But the idiot masses won’t give a fuck because they’re foolish and never think anything they want to do is bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s exactly what monopolies and oligopolies end up doing, whatever is in their interest to do. If anti-trust laws were actually used to enforce competition, we wouldn’t be here. But since we can’t compete with the campaign donations of the companies those laws should be regulating, we get no regulation at all and end up here. Selfish people, being selfish, making everything worse for everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Bunny betrayal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This what corporate America and politicians do to us daily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And when we don’t he’ll just use AWS to make our PCs worse on the net than his cloud services?