It just occurred to me that thereโs another way to think of what the โlabor theory of valueโ means, which is that capitalism really has no way of valuing things that arenโt man-made.
Capitalists canโt make a profit selling what nature freely provides, so they have to seize control of it, make it scarce, and force people to buy it.
Itโs not just the labor involved in creating a product that gives the product value; itโs also the labor involved in depriving people of the product.
HEY FURRIES check out this AWESOME animator reanimating some classic scenes from Columbo, Seinfeld, and other media, with their own furry interpretation of the actor/tresses!!
Hello!!! I'm Kosmo! I have spent the last 20+ years of my life dedicated to drawing...my lifelong passion! I am a character designer/character artist, illustrator, storyboard/animatic-maker, and occasional animator.
Hard to tell from the photo - I didn't want to disturb the bat and only approached until the ears started to react - but I think this is a big brown bat, spending the afternoon on a porch overhang.
Wir Maschinenschlosser sind die Zauberer von heute. (รbrigens: aus genau diesem Grund kann man in Gretna Green beim Schmied heiraten. Der gilt als Druide.) @Qazm
I don't know if it's still here, but when I was installing new front end load balancers for the Guardian's website, I set them to add the following header to every page served.
X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett"
I also added this header to every email processed by the commercial junk mail filtering service I ran for nearly 20 years.
@RevK :verified_r: @Martin A. Brooks :verified: The web servers I look after for a furry convention serve the x-clacks-overhead header too. It just seemed the right thing to do at the time I set the first of them up, which must have been shortly after Pterry died.
Itโs #TerryPratchettDay - his birthdayโs a great day to celebrate the #Discworld book series. terrypratchett.com have downloadable pictures to show your favourite character. If youโve not picked one up before, pick up any of them and enjoy. My favourite character and book jumps around as there are so many fantastic ones. I love Vimes, Death and Granny Weatherwax. But the older I get the more I respect Nanny Oggโs attitude to life and ability to read people. #GNUTerryPratchettt
Seems pretty much anything new or updated coming out of tech or finance these days, no matter what benefit they promise, should be read as โHow can we exploit creators more and/or make their lives more miserableโ ๐
โHome Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation. Operation comes weeks earlier than expected and is thought to have been timed to coincide with local elections.โ UK goes full fascist to win a few racist votes. Be warned it may be you they come for next. #tories #fascism
In the realm of bizarre things happening to unfortunate people I don't know on the other side of the world for whom I can do precisely nothing, it's hard to get my attention. But what's this I hear about the Brits rounding up international asylum seekers and mailing them to concentration camps in, of all places, bloody Rwanda? How? What? Who thought that was a good idea? I can't even. I don't even. Just what? Never mind, I can't afford to think about this. My brain hurts now.
Heads up! #CashApp probably had a big security breach they're about to announce, because they just released new terms of service with a draconian binding arbitration clause, and the only way to opt out is to fill out a specific form on paper and pay to send it to them via postal mail. Personally, I'm just going to delete my account. Ref: https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/tos #privacy #infosec #cybersecurity #arbitration #BindingArbitration #ConsumerRights
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@revk Obviously the enforceability of those terms is jurisdiction-specific. It would be unsurprising if different places saw such machinations differently. No one will know until someone tests it.
@grumpybozo @revk These are specifically the U.S. terms and they're probably enforceable in the U.S. based on current law and precedent, because our Congress is too chickenshit to ban binding arbitration clauses.
@revk I'm 100% certain that the previous version of the terms said they could amend them whenever they wanted, and that continuing to use the service after being notified about the change in terms indicates acceptance of the new terms. What they're doing here is slimy but not likely to be illegal. They have an army of lawyers that made sure of that. People who don't like the new terms can delete their accounts like I did. The company doesn't care if that's inconvenient.
yeh I mean were you notified of the change to require a posted opt out? In advance of that coming in. I mean if that was there terms why even allow and opt out?
@revk I don't recall exactly why but at some point in the last few years something happened that convinced everybody that they have to offer a way to opt out of arbitration clauses or they're not enforceable. May have been a court decision, may have been an FTC ruling, I'm not certain. So they offer a way to opt out, but the slimy ones make it as hard as they can get away with.
Oh god, that last one. If you're issuing a bill to me and expecting me to pay it, you need to be easily contactable for me to discuss or dispute that bill if there's something wrong with it. If it takes an hour on hold before I can talk to you, I should be able to bill you for that hour. Same for cancelling whatever's causing a recurring bill - cancelling needs to be easy.
Repeat after me: Canonical is a company. Their purpose is to make money and in the process serve the majority of their paying customers.
That means that their interests may not align with yours and mine. Most #linux afficianados and techno-tinkerers are statistical deviations on the fringe. It's REALLY hard to internalize that because we all want to feel important, but that's just not the way the Capitalism game is played.
Do what you like and use what you like, but continuing to ride the #Ubuntu train when Canonical has made it clear for YEARS that it is bound for Snaps station and then raging against the dying of the light feels like wasted energy to me.
Why not redirect the rage and instead embrace a distro that actually matches your preferences? Debian for example has always been and continues to be free as in beer and its guiding precepts are decidedly not governed by any private owner or board of shareholders.
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikesย and people in cars and on foot, a new studyย of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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humans don't depend on references this is totally my original art no I didn't derive it from anything nooo shut up help someone stole my art that I still have right here!
More than one person has chosen to respond to this by focusing on the art, apparently in favor of the text, and I think all I have to say to that is that I believe those people are, perhaps selectively, missing the forest for the trees. Removing the art from the post doesn't change the message.
We have new KSK for the root! Today a mega ceremony was held where new HSMs were introduced and a new root key was generated in them. This key will be pre-publicated at the end of this year, and the rollover will be at the end of 2026. It'll be the third in the history of the DNS. The first was in 2010 and the second in 2017. #dns #dnssec
i never understood the argument against wind energy in which people complain that they look bad. i think they look badass and sound even better. i used to go sit under one to meditate. it's the sound equivalent of a color field painting like something by barnett newman, or looking at an azure ocean. stuff that can't be displayed in a screen color space. the sound of air being cut with a massive blade also can't be conveyed with a speaker system
Capitalists canโt make a profit selling what nature freely provides, so they have to seize control of it, make it scarce, and force people to buy it.
Itโs not just the labor involved in creating a product that gives the product value; itโs also the labor involved in depriving people of the product.