bergstromm466

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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> the success of AirBnB has had huge negative consequences for many people. And it's hard to see how the former can outweigh the latter. 'Capitalist realism' has us trapped. Many seem to believe no alternatives are possibl
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Banking is the most
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Have you checked out https://developer.holochain.org ?
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Why is this news when: 'US government is intercepting worldwide internet traffic through Silicon Valley and NSA cooperation (again, everyday)'
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Banking is the lucrative and powerful form of rentier capitalism. Combined with the ability to mine user data for 'insights' and you’ve got the greatest panopticon. Hello corporate dystopia.
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> I was on heroin for a few years and I live in the UK. I had managed to keep it hidden for maybe 18 months but eventually it become obvious and my mother started organising help. I think it's incredibly brave for you to share this,
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Noone in the elite wants to examine the exploitative capitalist relationships that support fast fashion The True Cost (2015) documentary trailer: https://youtu.be/OaGp5_Sfbss?t=31
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> Uber drivers themselves overwhelmingly wanted to keep their contractor status. Only after the ride shares corps spent over two hundred million dollars misrepresenting Prop 22. That's one fifth of a billion dollars... to write them
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> Can you guess which race were those teenagers? Do you come on Hackernews every 2 years to write racist things? Your last comment is from 2018 and has the same white supremacist talking point.
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Thanks for this!
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> We need a way to manufacture our own hardware. Just like we can already write our own software. > Currently manufacturing processors costs billions of dollars. > What if we had technology that would let individual users fabricate
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Systemic fuckery (as well as capitalist alienation in general) cannot be overcome by individual will. Not by 'meditating' or whatever else. We do not choose to get cancer from living close to a place of industrial production (and
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> we can easily imagine suddenly going from 1 human-like AI program to a hundred billion instances of it, and then humanity becomes an insignificant minority from the point of view of democracy. What do you mean?
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Not only that, but he is paying for documentaries that attack the public school system, yet paint him and other pro-charter 'thought leaders' in a positive light: "'Waiting for Superman' is a new documentary film t
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
If you re-lived your life could you get by on only learning from Wikipedia? And reach the same level you're at now? Can you stare a Global South kid in the face and tell them they have not been disinherited by the Global North + South
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> The web is also access to almost all knowledge ever acquired by humanity This is such a lie. Can you point me to a sustainable website with useful knowledge? Almost all knowledge has been artificially fenced off in order to allow the e
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> Humans are terrible at assessing reality. They are bad at prioritising. They are lousy learners. I think this is missing the bigger picture. I wrote this a few days ago: “I think what we’re seeing has more to do with unaccountable inv
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
"False consciousness is a term used—primarily by Marxist sociologists—to describe ways in which material, ideological, and institutional processes are said to mislead members of the proletariat and other class actors within capitalist
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I think what we’re seeing has more to do with unaccountable invisible architectures (law/governance systems, IP and money) that obscure production processes, than that it’s anything to do with human nature or social media, or us being
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I wouldn’t be surprised if the American military is heavily involved in the development of the stories/narrative in these games, just like they’ve been recruiting young people in propagandized Hollywood films: https://en.wik
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> We can only speculate as to GPT-3's internal states. Perhaps it knows the question perfectly well, but considers humans as too immature and spoiled to tell: In its opinion, we shouldn’t even bother to find questions to answers we
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> There is also the possibility we could create organizations set up for other kinds of people to succeed. “My exciting insight came in 2001 when I read Bernard Lietaer’s book, The Future of Money. It helped me see the ways our monetary
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> Most of us are just herds who secretly want to be led by a strong, charismatic leader. Why do ‘most of us’ want this?
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> it's the reason many people update their phones. Not being able to install new fonts and being forced to ‘upgrade’ (in a non-modular fashion, being forced into a whole bunch of new ‘features‘ that push older devices to early death
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> yes; a forum for computer enthusiasts filled with people enthusiastic about computers.... what has this place come to indeed Oh sure, there's 0 difference between proprietary black box software and free/libre open source... g
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> The point of school is to teach discipline and grit Have you heard of neoliberal magical voluntarism?
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> How is it not hypocritical to argue for equality and wealth redistribution and at the same time hoard wealth for yourself ? Systems change over personal change. Engels was born into a rich capitalist family. Him giving it all away does
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> Companies that use only Macs with gatekeeper on have automatic protection against a whole class of cyber security problems. So would everyone else if Apple shared their blacklists, or we had collaborative and open lists. Using this as
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It’s scary how few people know and understand all this, and, proportional to the amount of tech we use in our daily lives, how little we learn to use and program our own technology. I think we’ve got nothing to blame but the digital enclosu
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> I've recently started designing a really cheap atomic force microscope, which I plan to open-source, so I think that may be a valuable addition to the bio and nanotech diy community. I hope you do

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