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Tony Novak<p>Difficult to comprehend that this actually happened yesterday in the United States of America:<br>A Meta senior director blocked the account of an elected official and likely next mayor of New York City for content that he deemed “too socialist,” and judged that it goes against current national US interest.<br><a href="https://c.im/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MxVerda</span></a></span> IMHO the fact that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BuyBorrowDie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuyBorrowDie</span></a> is legal and the fact that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CapitalGains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalGains</span></a> are not <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/taxed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taxed</span></a> (and subject to fees and dues like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a>, etc.) at least as much as <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WageWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WageWork</span></a> is literal <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a>...</p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/14826/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Orwell</b></a></p><blockquote>In each great revolutionary struggle the masses are led on by vague dreams of human brotherhood, and then, when the new ruling class is well established in power, they are thrust back into servitude. This is practically the whole of political history, as Burnham sees it. […] History consists of a series of swindles, in which the masses are first lured into revolt by the promise of Utopia, and then, when they have done their job, enslaved over again by the new masters.</blockquote><p><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” <i>Polemic</i> Magazine</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/14826/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/orwell-george/14826/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>orwell</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=georgeorwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>georgeorwell</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=commonpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commonpeople</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=masses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>masses</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=rulers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rulers</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=rulingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rulingclass</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-delano/77738/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Franklin Roosevelt</b></a></p><blockquote>No people, least of all a democratic people, will be content to go without work or to accept some standard of living which obviously and woefully falls short of their capacity to produce. No people, least of all a people with our traditions of personal liberty, will endure the slow erosion of opportunity for the common man, the oppressive sense of helplessness under the domination of a few, which are overshadowing our whole economic life.</blockquote><p><b>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</b> (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)<br>Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-delano/77738/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=franklinroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>franklinroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=franklindroosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>franklindroosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bigbusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbusiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=economicinjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economicinjustice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=equalopportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>equalopportunity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=opportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opportunity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealthy</span></a></p>
Silver Arrows<p>Great site by Ripples:</p><p><a href="https://informuk.org/farages-tax-dodgers-license-for-non-doms/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">informuk.org/farages-tax-dodge</span><span class="invisible">rs-license-for-non-doms/</span></a></p><p>Weren't the <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/LibDems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibDems</span></a> meant to have a ReformWatch? Oh yes, ole Frogface Farridge is definitely on the side of the working class. Our mate Nige, always looking out for the poor! In other news, I have a bridge to sell you. </p><p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/farrightgrifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farrightgrifters</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/farage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farage</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/nigelfarage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nigelfarage</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/reformuk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reformuk</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/billionairesdontcareaboutyou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billionairesdontcareaboutyou</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/oneborneveryminute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oneborneveryminute</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Enslaved people generally came from Roman expansion and from captives being taken by the Roman army. But their ranks were also being added to by those who lived within households and had children born into slavery within a Roman domicile. We know that about 60 percent of the enslaved people within this vast empire of about seventy million people at its height were working in a rural context, with the rest working in an urban context.</p><p>Looking at those in the cities, nine out of ten would probably be manumitted in the future, but only one out of ten of the rural agricultural slaves will be manumitted. It made a big difference whether you were assigned to work in the fields or in a domestic context, as a teacher of children, for example, or as a stenographer, a librarian, or a nursemaid. All of those jobs had at least a higher possibility of manumission, which doesn’t in any way validate slavery or make it ethically correct, of course. But in an agricultural world where you were constantly working in the fields, that meant in all likelihood you would spend almost your whole life enslaved.</p><p>There was tension between enslaved workers within the world of agriculture and a lot of animosity towards enslaved people working in a domestic context. But overall, Rome was a slave society that depended heavily on enslaved labor in order to be successful. The citizens of Rome, especially in Italy and the city of Rome itself, were highly dependent both on slaves and free people to do a lot of the manual labor that they themselves did not want to do."</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/07/ancient-rome-labor-slavery-strikes" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2025/07/ancient-ro</span><span class="invisible">me-labor-slavery-strikes</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/RomanEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AncientRome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AncientRome</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marxism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassStruggle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassStruggle</span></a></p>
Voting is Your POWER<p>IT WAS OUR PITCHFORKS👇</p><p>ROBBER BARON BEFF JEZOS was forced to relocate his Venice wedding reception due to protesters! <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EatTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EatTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0vjr07570o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cd0vjr07</span><span class="invisible">570o</span></a></p>
Nando161<p><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s 'Big Beautiful <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/Bill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bill</span></a>' Is Outright <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a><br><a href="https://zeteo.com/p/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-is-outright" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zeteo.com/p/trumps-big-beautif</span><span class="invisible">ul-bill-is-outright</span></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Collapse doesn’t always arrive as spectacle. Sometimes it arrives as stagnation, repeated so often it becomes tradition. Institutions persist in form but erode in function. Capacity degrades incrementally, unnoticed, until dysfunction is mistaken for normalcy - until people begin to believe this is just how things work.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.theindex.media/p/america-is-a-failed-state-with-good-branding" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theindex.media/p/america-is-a-</span><span class="invisible">failed-state-with-good-branding</span></a></p><p><a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/elonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/markZuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markZuckerberg</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/jeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jeffBezos</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/spectacle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spectacle</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/decline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decline</span></a></p>
Tjb51<p>Governments that let energy companies reap huge profits at the expense of the poor should be ashamed of themselves. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electricity</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/albanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>albanese</span></a> Australia news live: Anglicare calls for urgent action on energy debt; banks predict rate cuts in July <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jun/26/defence-spending-nsw-queensland-parliament-banks-predict-rate-cuts-in-july-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-685bd0b98f080b94c5e62d79#block-685bd0b98f080b94c5e62d79" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/live/2025/jun/26/defence-spending-nsw-queensland-parliament-banks-predict-rate-cuts-in-july-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-685bd0b98f080b94c5e62d79#block-685bd0b98f080b94c5e62d79</span></a> The profiteering from the sale of the electricity providers was just obscene. Demand tariffs are a form of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a></p>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>Boys and girls are actin' real strange<br>Pretendin' they're welders and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cowboys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cowboys</span></a> and such<br>Buyin' old work gear from the exchange<br>You can tell their hands don't do very much<br>Sayin', "Me, me, me, me, me more <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cowboy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cowboy</span></a> than you<br>I swear that I'm <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingClass</span></a> through and through"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheBrudiBrothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheBrudiBrothers</span></a> - Me More Cowboy Than You</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAsq8vyKRs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=FaAsq8vyKRs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/country" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>country</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/countryMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>countryMusic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/americana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>americana</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a></p>
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)<p>The article asks an interesting &amp; legitimate question, but I think I have a better one: How do the working class pay their bills once AI takes our jobs? 🤔</p><p>“If every company in the world does what Amazon plans to do—replace workers with AI—and that does lead to a potential billion or so white-collar workers seeing their jobs evaporate, who exactly is Amazon going to sell to?” 🤷🏻‍♂️</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jobs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Emloyment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emloyment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConsumerEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConsumerEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorkingClassPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkingClassPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://apple.news/A5YLa35DgRTyc-c8Z1t66Kw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apple.news/A5YLa35DgRTyc-c8Z1t</span><span class="invisible">66Kw</span></a></p>
Scott Bennett<p>This entire drift into authoritarianism is caused by fear. Fear of us. Fear of the majority. Fear of workers. We have power. Now is the time to commit.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opposition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eattherich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eattherich</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a></p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/letsmakethempay/p/commit-to-resistance?r=2brusa&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/letsmake</span><span class="invisible">thempay/p/commit-to-resistance?r=2brusa&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/banksy/77042/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Banksy</b></a></p><blockquote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The human race is an unfair and stupid competition. A lot of the runners don’t even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It’s not surprising a lot of people have given up competing altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk food and shout abuse.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What we need in this race is a lot more streakers.</blockquote><p><b>Banksy</b> (b. 1974?) England-based pseudonymous street artist, political activist, film director<br><i>Wall and Piece</i>, “Rats” (2005)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/banksy/77042/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/banksy/77042/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=banksy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>banksy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>system</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=statusquo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statusquo</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=apathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apathy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>competition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=defiance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defiance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=disrespect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disrespect</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=givingup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>givingup</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humancondition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humancondition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>injustice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ratrace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ratrace</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=unfairness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unfairness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@Edelruth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Edelruth</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@ApostateEnglishman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ApostateEnglishman</span></a></span> <br>Keep telling <a href="https://mastodon.online/@Edelruth/114662730492322469" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">that lie</a> to yourself often enough and you may actually believe it.</p><ul><li>Makes it way easier to ignore any criticism...</li></ul><p>I'm not telling <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nu/@gretathunberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gretathunberg</span></a></span> what she can do or not.</p><ul><li>All I'm saying is that the entire <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Madleen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Madleen</span></a> tour thingy was an extremely naive <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckAroundAndFindOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckAroundAndFindOut</span></a>!"</em> - kinda way to get some media attention.</li></ul><p>Alas thins entire thing helped exactly 0 Gazans as they didn't even try to launch an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine#Torpedo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>"Aid Torpedo"</em></a>, so precisely 0g of aid reached <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. </p><ul><li>For someone so <em>"concerned about the envoirment"</em> that must've been a hard-to-swallow truth.</li></ul><p>Alas, maybe she'll actually come to the right conclusions, that all things - <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Neocolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neocolonialism</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SocialInjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialInjustice</span></a> - are intrinsically connected and can be attributed to few key people that make huge sums of money off the misery of others.</p><ul><li>I'll set <a href="https://mastodon.online/@Edelruth" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">you</a> on a timeout.</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/thxbye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thxbye</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/next" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>next</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EOD</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@Jgbird" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Jgbird</span></a></span> no, it was always about <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SuperRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SuperRich</span></a> vs. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Poor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poor</span></a>, of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaires</span></a> vs. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Workers</span></a>.</p><ul><li>Even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WarrenBuffet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarrenBuffet</span></a> admitted to that in public!</li></ul>
Mark Patterson, MD, PhD<p>Great new anthem by the <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/DropkickMurphys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DropkickMurphys</span></a>. <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <br><a href="https://dropkickmurphys.com/2025/06/03/music-video-wholl-stand-with-us/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dropkickmurphys.com/2025/06/03</span><span class="invisible">/music-video-wholl-stand-with-us/</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Across twenty meticulous chapters, Braverman explored the process by which capitalists siphoned value out of their workers. This extraction splintered the human being. Body was torn from mind; motions became mechanical; knowledge was locked away in business suites. Here was “the degradation of work in the twentieth century,” as Braverman’s subtitle had it. But alongside degradation ran a second process. As workers were automated out of industrial production, capital furrowed its way into other realms of life. Factories gave way to offices, the coppersmith to the clerk, and then to sprawling postindustrial economies of services and care. The genius of Labor and Monopoly Capital was to narrate these two developments together. Capital reconstituted itself over and over in an endless cycle. But in so doing it created new worlds of labor, a molten working class.</p><p>Half a century after its publication, Labor and Monopoly Capital remains a classic. It has sold over one hundred thousand copies and continues to inform studies of capital, labor, and class. But it has also been subject to partial or plainly incorrect assessments. Many have reduced Braverman to the “deskilling thesis” — the idea that capitalism linearly forces workers to perform ever-simpler and more menial labor — when in fact he insisted that this was too simple a claim. Others have accused him of a wistful nostalgia for artisanal labor, when in fact Braverman countered that objection in his introduction (although this is a point to which we will return). Worst of all, despite its impressive reach in radical circles, Labor and Monopoly Capital has been ignored by mainstream historians of capitalism and dismissed by many sociologists of labor. (With some important exceptions: for instance, the labor historian David Montgomery and many of his students.) The feeling was mutual, though."</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/06/braverman-labor-monopoly-capital-legacy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2025/06/braverman-</span><span class="invisible">labor-monopoly-capital-legacy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marxism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WageSlavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WageSlavery</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monopolies</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Competition</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In line with its ‘timeful’ approach, the book starts working towards its end once we arrive at financialization in the form to which we are accustomed. By this point, Bicocca is almost completely stripped of its old working-class identity. Though the authors do not write in a melodramatic tone here, it’s sad to see that, after a century of struggle, the area is now known as a ‘no-man’s-land’. It was not always planned like this; in the 1980s, Pirelli’s plan was to turn Bicocca into a leading centre of high-tech industrial development named ‘Technocity’. But already by the 1990s, company management realized that basing the neighbourhood’s development entirely on real-estate speculation was much more profitable. In stark contrast, then, with the supposedly ‘dynamic’ financial markets determining the rhythm of its development, Bicocca is now best described by the authors as ‘decaffeinated urbanity’.</p><p>In that sense, Class Meets Land reminds more of the financial markets it takes issue with than of present-day Bicocca: it’s a fast-paced book, in the best sense of the word, and nowhere do the authors trip into excessive theoretical reflection. Yet, its biggest strength lies in Kaika and Ruggiero’s methodological insistence: the struggle between class and capital is never lost sight of, and each historical event is neatly related to what preceded and followed it. As such, they make a convincing case for approaching financialization in its specific historical context and from the perspective of local class struggles."</p><p><a href="https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/22135_class-meets-land-the-embodied-history-of-land-financialization-by-maria-kaika-and-luca-ruggiero-reviewed-by-victor-stout/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">marxandphilosophy.org.uk/revie</span><span class="invisible">ws/22135_class-meets-land-the-embodied-history-of-land-financialization-by-maria-kaika-and-luca-ruggiero-reviewed-by-victor-stout/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Milan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Milan</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Operaismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Operaismo</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manufacturing</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Financialization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Financialization</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marxism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Bicocca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bicocca</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The robots generally haven’t displaced humans; Amazon said it has hired hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers since their introduction, while creating many new skilled roles. But the robots have increased the number of items each worker can pick to hundreds from dozens an hour. <br>(...)<br>The Amazon engineers said this transition was on their minds as the company urged them to rely more on A.I. They said that, while doing so was technically optional, they had little choice if they wanted to keep up with their output goals, which affect their performance reviews.</p><p>The expectations have sped up rapidly. One engineer said that building a feature for the website used to take a few weeks; now it must frequently be done within a few days. He said this is possible only by using A.I. to help automate the coding and by cutting down on meetings with colleagues to solicit feedback and explore alternative ideas. (A second engineer said her efficiency gains from using A.I. were more modest; Amazon has more than 10,000 software engineers and different teams use the tools more or less intensively.)</p><p>The new approach to coding at many companies has, in effect, eliminated much of the time the developer spends reflecting on his or her work. “It used to be that you had a lot of slack because you were doing a complicated project — it would maybe take a month, maybe take two months, and no one could monitor it,” Dr. Katz said. “Now, you have the whole thing monitored, and it can be done quickly.”</p><p>As at Microsoft, many Amazon engineers use an A.I. assistant that suggests lines of code. But the company has more recently rolled out A.I. tools that can generate large portions of a program on its own. One engineer called the tools “scarily good.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/25/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/amazon-ai-coders.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> AICoding <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIAssistants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAssistants</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Automation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Automation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SoftwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Alienation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alienation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WageSlavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WageSlavery</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a></p>