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US jobs too important to risk Chinese car imports, says Ford CEO
China has enough spare capacity to swallow the entire US car market, says Ford's Jim Farley.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/us-jobs-too-important-to-risk-chinese-car-imports-says-ford-ceo/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@Ravenheart257

Yes, and free markets can't be free when the people in them operate under massive wealth inequalities.

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Ravenheart 1h ago

#Capitalism isn't a free market. Competition, one of its core mechanisms, results in winners and losers. The winners get richer, which makes winning again even easier, which snowballs into monopoly. And when they own everything, fair competition becomes impossible. There's nothing free about that.

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RE: https://techhub.social/@BrentD/116409448438804314

Reasons to dump Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp #475937

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TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨2h ago

🎩🚩 Historians explain that #17thcentury English society used hat etiquette to maintain social hierarchy and express political defiance.

Refusing to uncover one's head could be interpreted as a revolutionary act, while appearing in public without a #hat was associated with #poverty or #mentalillness.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/hat-off-early-modern-england/

#history #england #sociology #culture #fashion #anthropology #education #learning #society #hats #tradition #uk #tksst #video

Why Taking Off Your Hat Was a Matter of Life and Death in Early Modern England

Going outside without a hat in 1600s England meant you were either completely insane or totally broke.

ZME Science

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Stuff I found 1h ago

Capitalism isn't natural

#capitalism #anticapitalism #EatTheRich #FeedThePoor #activism

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Information Is Beautiful 2h ago

Every year(ish), since 2009, we’ve been gathering and visualising billions mentioned in news headlines and reports. These gargantuan numbers often make little sense unless put in context and comparison with other billions. Here’s the latest 2026 edition.

interactive version
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-billion-dollar-gram/

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Jonathan Schofield 7h ago

So far, only about 1% of the British electorate has registered an interest in having a vote on channeling water management away from dumping effluent for profit and instead into public ownership for health.

Perhaps we can bump the numbers a bit, at least to the point where how not to enshittify what we drink and cook with might be debated by MPs?

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640

Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership

Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

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RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116408431793509127

"The UK needs to follow the EU’s lead and develop a digital sovereignty strategy that builds and deploys open source software and promotes international collaboration,"

The sad reality since the US Cloud Act is that the digital sovereignty of European States is entirely dependent on migrating away from US technology companies and cloud platforms.

Unfortunately, US foreign policy dictates that sovereign tech stacks have now become the digital equivalent of refusing to host US military bases.

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jbz 8h ago

✊️ Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/small-missouri-town-ousts-half-its-city-council-after-usd6-billion-ai-data-center-approval-petition-calls-for-mayors-removal-as-frustration-and-violence-over-ai-data-centers-mounts

#ai #datacenter #uspol

Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts

A lawsuit is also seeking to undo the project's approval.

Tom's Hardware