Posts by sifr@anticapitalist.party
(DIR) Post #A5FF6RS6N2Ar7laHlg by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-15T16:17:43Z
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"Justice is the antidote to the growth imperative – and key to solving the climate crisis.This means fundamentally reversing the economic policies that have dominated for the past forty years. Guided by the dogmas of neoliberalism, governments have privatised public services, slashed social spending, cut wages and labour protections, handed tax cuts to the richest and sent inequality soaring. In an age of climate breakdown, we need to be doing exactly the opposite."
(DIR) Post #A5GbVMDTModYH4zHAO by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-16T11:59:53Z
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"it is estimated that 30–50% (or 1.2–2 billion tonnes) of all food produced on the planet is lost before reaching a human stomach"(source https://catalogue.unccd.int/1482_IME-Global-Food-Report.pdf, 2013)
(DIR) Post #A5IXUKumi1l6RqQKVU by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-16T17:32:38Z
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"[Debt cancellation] would be salutary not just because it would relieve so much genuine human suffering, but also because it would be our way of reminding ourselves that money is not ineffable, that paying one’s debts is not the essence of morality, that all these things are human arrangements and that if democracy is going to mean anything, it is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way."David Graeber
(DIR) Post #A5IXULH7MzchZ6sAJk by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-16T18:39:20Z
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"We have long been told that capitalism and democracy are part of the same package. But in reality the two may well be incompatible. Capital’s obsession with perpetual growth at the expense of the living world runs against the values of sustainability that most of us hold."
(DIR) Post #A5IXULacCVDeXZzjhw by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-16T18:39:29Z
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"When people are given a say in the matter, they end up choosing to manage the economy according to steady-state principles that run counter to the growth imperative. In other words, capitalism has a tendency to be anti-democratic, and democracy has a tendency to be anti-capitalist."
(DIR) Post #A5IXULvAy3fLZLc9ku by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-17T06:51:35Z
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"degrowth is, ultimately, a process of decolonisation"
(DIR) Post #A5NAkqmieuWQljM9XU by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-19T16:00:03Z
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found a tool that allows backup/export from signal desktophttps://github.com/carderne/signal-exportworked for me at least
(DIR) Post #A5lj1BbyZcoNkUu8a8 by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-31T11:25:23Z
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"This paper quantifies drain from the global South through unequal exchange since 1960. According to our primary method, which relies on exchange-rate differentials, we find that in the most recent year of data the global North (‘advanced economies’) appropriated from the South commodities worth $2.2 trillion in Northern prices — enough to end extreme poverty 15 times over."https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2021.1899153 https://www.are.na/block/11398902
(DIR) Post #A6AlQ3YN5dsMaVOzmy by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-04-12T14:15:09Z
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Co-Opting AI: Ideologyhttps://ipk.nyu.edu/events/co-opting-ai-ideology/
(DIR) Post #A6KyJS10gFbDqpseyO by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-04-17T11:06:39Z
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“Climate Action and the Role of Engineers” Speech at the Engineers Ireland annual conferencehttps://president.ie/en/media-library/speeches/climate-action-and-the-role-of-engineers
(DIR) Post #A6KyJSPTDJAJ4hKC6C by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-04-17T12:26:35Z
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"However, we cannot continue with the mere placing of a green lens on economic policies any longer, policies that have failed manifestly and are continuing to cause damaging ecological impacts."
(DIR) Post #A6KyJSmVpdb4EA6b0y by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-04-17T12:26:49Z
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"A post-capitalist, eco-social future that I, and others like Professors Peadar Kirby and Ian Gough advocate, will entail difficult choices and pursuing policies of, potentially, de-globalisation, de-commodification, even de-growth should the required resource decoupling not be achieved, if we are serious about achieving the carbon mitigation that is required for a sustainable, equitable life on the planet."
(DIR) Post #A6VezcXmH2kYdJJ332 by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-04-22T15:46:14Z
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"having a lot of data centers has no correlation with spreading misinformation or enabling hate speech and online harassment beyond allowing such activities to scale. But a monopoly on the means of computation adds to the inertia that makes leaving said platforms challenging."https://thereboot.com/the-infrastructural-power-beneath-the-internet-as-we-know-it/
(DIR) Post #A6Vl95c8A0F57kEyum by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-04-22T17:20:39Z
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"Tesla is the number- one lithium- ion battery consumer in the world, purchasing them in high volumes from Panasonic and Samsung and repackaging them in its cars and home chargers. Tesla is estimated to use more than twenty-eight thousand tons of lithium hydroxide annually—half of the planet’s total consumption."(from Atlas of AI)
(DIR) Post #A7JwzPg5cdhboCF0wi by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-05-16T19:34:30Z
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scholars for Palestinian freedomhttps://palestineandpraxis.weebly.com/
(DIR) Post #A7NFC77iIe4qg1FPgO by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-04-16T05:57:31Z
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anyone has an example of a University which deploys a self-hosted stack to handle online meetings and other interactions? avoiding things like Zoom and Teams
(DIR) Post #A7NhWODhF5nkD0VE5g by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-05-18T14:32:36Z
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Venmo is halting some payments referring to Palestinehttps://restofworld.org/2021/venmo-palestinian-relief/
(DIR) Post #A7OqGZINOEJgffBM2K by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-05-18T17:13:54Z
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Data Capitalism https://datacapitalism.d4bl.org/
(DIR) Post #A7iC9ATgEDzebytb6G by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-05-20T07:02:26Z
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"ExxonMobil is the greatest single-use plastic waste polluter in the world, contributing 5.9m tonnes to the global waste mountain"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/18/twenty-firms-produce-55-of-worlds-plastic-waste-report-revealsPlastic Waste Makers Indexhttps://www.minderoo.org/plastic-waste-makers-index/findings/executive-summary/
(DIR) Post #A7sUOs9UL0VFAGsxW4 by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-06-02T14:22:09Z
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The Access Doctrine'Casting poverty as a technological problem has shaped decades of US policy and upended public institutions.'https://logicmag.io/distribution/the-access-doctrine/