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david potocnik retweeted
Here's a weird consequence of our shift from capitalism (where riches come from profits) to feudalism (where riches come from rents): increasingly, your rights to your property (physical stuff you own) are trumped by corporations' metaphorical "intellectual property" claims.
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ALT A galactic-scale Pac-Man is eating a row of 'big blue marble' Earths. The Pac-Man has a copyright circle-c in his center. The starry sky behind the scene is intermingled with a 'code rain' effect from the credits of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
david potocnik retweeted
Roughly 50% of all labour that is consumed in the North is net-appropriated from the South.
This means that without unequal exchange, Northern economies would have to reduce their consumption by half, or double their working hours.
david potocnik retweeted
In this new paper we calculate the unequal exchange of labour between the global North and global South. The results are quite staggering. You'll want to look at this... 🧵
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
david potocnik retweeted
On the 11th anniversary of the death of the UK’s former conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, watch these two Scottish women’s legendary reaction to her passing.
david potocnik retweeted
A bipartisan delegation of agriculture commissioners from seven U.S. states, three Democratic and four Republican, traveled to Cuba to meet Cuban farmers and explore business opportunities.
But they say their hands are tied due to U.S. sanctions, which make trade and investment extremely difficult if not impossible. @ISDADirector : “We're close neighbors and there ought to be opportunities for us to trade.”
david potocnik retweeted
President of Cuba @DiazCanelB: "The Revolution is very solid (..) we are very serene, calm, and no one will stop us in the advancement of our project."
david potocnik retweeted
Watch the Guyanese President Irfaan Ali school a UK TV Host as he desperately defended the royal family's palaces against reparations claims. "We're not asking for a palace, we're asking for justice...[for] the greatest injustice that has ever been done to human beings."
david potocnik retweeted
Can anyone tell me about the situation in Niger? Are these guys good because this rocks
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david potocnik retweeted
The NYT must have realized they simply couldn't ignore the massive amounts of Nazi imagery used by Ukraine's armed forces, so they finally attempted to address it in an absolutely ridiculous article this morning. Let's break it down. 🧵👇
david potocnik retweeted
Nuestro sabio Comandante #FidelCastro c on su visión de futuro...
#FidelPorSiempre
#MejorEsPosible #Cuba
david potocnik retweeted
“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many.”
-Michael Parenti
david potocnik retweeted
Bad news — the project was robbed — the van, storing the equipment, was broken into about a month ago, and emptied out thoroughly.
Here is the full list: totalism.org/robbed2022
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