Via Kara Kamarado

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Anarchist from the Midlands, UK

Cyberneticist & Esperantisto (Komencato)

Kolektivigu cxion!

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So glad that that lass in Clacton has made my profile pic relevant again. Fuck Farage!

Uber says it finally made an annual profit after 15 years, but who paid the price to get it there?

The company fired 6,700 workers, hiked fares for customers, and squeezed drivers even harder. Now the stock is up and investors will get a $7 billion share buyback. It turns your stomach.

https://disconnect.blog/the-high-cost-of-ubers-small-profit/

#tech #uber #gigeconomy #workers #labor

The high cost of Uber’s small profit

Workers and customers get squeezed so investors can make off like bandits

Disconnect

Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. It has imposed a middle management, not only in our politics and in our finances, but in our spirituality as well.
-- Alan Moore

#anarchism #quote #bot

The European settlement of North America is where we get our modern romanticised version of Pioneer. The origin of the word, however, gives us insight into the use of Pioneers in settlement: Pioneers are disposable settlers intended to take the brunt of indigenous resistance to prepare the way for Imperialist Capital
The etymology of 'Pioneer' is from the French for footsoldier. The same root gives us the word peon and pawn.
Pioneers were those troops, often disposable, sent out ahead of the main army to scout 🧵
Maybe a bongrip take, but I believe our definition of a person is based on whether we believe we can be indebted to that entity and vice versa.

"#Unity isn't a game engine. It's a advertising and malware network that merged with a popular game engine as a delivery channel and now wears its corpse as its skin"

-#RobBeschizza

https://boingboing.net/2023/09/17/game-developers-flee-unity-after-exorbitan-price-plan-announced-but-not-everyone-can-get-out.html

Game developers flee Unity after exorbitant price plan announced, but not everyone can get out | Boing Boing

Game-making platform Unity has “destroyed its goodwill with developers”, Bloomberg News reports, after rolling out a shocking new price plan that specifies price hikes, per-install paym…

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@sjolsen To be fair, anything that gets economists to eat shit is a net gain for society