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MidnightMinute
@midnightminute.bsky.social
Thoughts about society from multiple angles. Not a bot. Not perfect. I'm nuanced, not a monolithic idea. Learning and lending what insights I can. UBI & UBS The means of production is being automated, and there's more than enough to provide for everyone.
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My take on AI and data centers since 2019 has been: "We must seize the means of automated production." These tools must be publicly owned and the value they produce must be distributed in an egalitarian and sustainable fashion. #UBI as a transition and ever improving #UBS as an end goal.
Humanity invents machines to make work easier. We can now produce more with less human labour than ever before. Yet we're still expected to spend most of our lives working just to survive. The problem isn't in the machines. It's who owns them. #Marxistmonday
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The rising tide doesn't raise all boats, there's some of us who can float, some of us are working in the mud. Not being innocent don't make you guilty, you can't keep your hands clean when it's filthy. See the water dimmed with human blood. There's no justice drowning in the flood.
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Imagine being in a leadership position of a country, spending decades turning democracies abroad into unlivable dictatorships, encouraging everyone from those dictatorships to immigrate to your country for a better life, turning cultures within your country against each other, and then ruining it...
So, arresting people for discussing the legitimacy of the government is 'fine and good' but discussing the legitimacy of a government that is trying to end democracy and refuses to adhere to court orders or the constitutionally protected rights of citizens is "terrorism"? Sureeee...
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Shutting down services in a way that interferes with the military operations of a US ally is a clear case of cybercrimes and sabotage, punishable in the United States by imprisonment and fines. Elon thinks his wealth allows him to act on the global stage with impunity.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) demands an investigation to establish whether Elon Musk or Donald Trump ordered the sabotage of Ukraine’s Starshield communications, warning that allowing Musk to dictate US foreign policy puts the country at enormous risk.
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The nihilism feels very real today, so enjoy this song with me.
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Forcing a mother to live in a damp flat where her children get asthma is violent. Blaming migrants for all of capitalisms ills is violent. Paying minimum wage to a manual worker who has to physically destroy their health for other peoples profit is violent. Smashing a police car is not.
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If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.
JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.
It's astonishing to me that the majority of the human race would immediately think "then leave" or something like that measure upon hearing this, not because it's the wrong response, but because the majority of the world is negatively being affected by this sad old creep show and nothing changes.
Trump on Iran: "We're knocking the shit out of them ... we could leave right now"
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🤔 Headquarters is calling this out to motivate support for the DNC from working class people who feel disenfranchised, but then the DNC people behind the headquarters account turn around and take donations from the very same techno-fascists. Who's side are they on? #ClassConsciousness #ClassWar
Meta has suddenly suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the No Kings' national day of action. This shocking censorship comes just weeks before the midterm election.
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It's Friday, so share your jam youtu.be/IMVvgX8K60o?...
It's Friday, post what you're listening to. youtu.be/wQiMULQikxw?...
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EDITORIAL | On October 17 and after, let's show that the spirit of revolt has no age! On October 17, a date circulating online to protest against the surge in fuel prices, the government wants to defuse the protest. Well, it's time to express our anger and increase the pressure on him!