Mastodawn

Nikkihack Sep 11, 2023

mhoye Sep 11, 2023

The real magic of "maximizing shareholder value" is that it absolutely nails the modern trifecta of memetic capitalism, which is unfortunately what most of economics boils down to: it's an easy thing to measure, it's an easy story to repeat, and it's useful to the already powerful that people keep measuring and repeating it.

How incredibly freeing it must be! A mantra that lets you escape the complexity of a modern organization, and think nothing more than "this number should go up"?

Nikkihack Sep 11, 2023

Denis Buckley Sep 11, 2023

'Over the summer, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party for the first time articulated a clear vision for government: everything will continue to be awful. Nothing will get better. Hope is for fools. And, most importantly, no one with wealth or power need worry themselves that any of either will be taken from them.'

How Labour succumbed to big business and ditched its progressive plans | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-party-big-business-keir-starmer-lobbying-donations-ditch-progressive-policies/?utm_source=oD%20Daily%20SEGMENT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=How%20Corporate%20lobbyists%20pushed%20Labour%20to%20ditch%20progressivism&_kx=u21e0qqT6J7jw__c2srKO-SI0dMizRafjc_2d6g4uiMltCkKqCY0pZm1jLnP4TV2.YjCYwm

ADAM RAMSAY: How big business took over the Labour Party

Corporate lobbyists have successfully pushed Keir Starmer’s party to ditch its progressive policies

openDemocracy

Nikkihack Dec 30, 2022

Kernow Damo Dec 30, 2022

I just published a new post on my @[email protected]!

Boris Johnson's big police recruitment drive has cost us a fortune and failed. #DamoRants #BorisJohnson
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/KernowDamo/boris-johnson-big-police-recruitment-drive-cost-us-fortune-failed

Boris Johnson's big police recruitment drive has cost us a fortune and failed. — Kernow Damo

Right so police numbers, they’re not very good and haven’t been for some time as Tory austerity under both David Cameron and The...

Buy Me a Coffee

Nikkihack Dec 11, 2022

Will Black 🍓🍄Dec 11, 2022

Nine years ago Stephen Hawking used a TV broadcast to caution the UK about right-wing plans to undermine and asset strip the NHS. What we have been seeing over the intervening years is that managed demolition..."

Professor Hawking was right!
https://willblack-53220.medium.com/choose-one-sadistic-greedy-scamming-tories-or-the-nhs-542a1360a472

Choose ONE: Sadistic, Greedy, Scamming Tories OR the NHS

Nine years ago (almost to the day) Professor Stephen Hawking, one of our finest minds, used a TV broadcast to caution the UK about right-wing plans to undermine and asset strip the National Health…

Medium

Nikkihack Dec 11, 2022

Lauren Weinstein Dec 11, 2022

It's interesting to see how many current Tesla owners are now expressing embarrassment at driving them in public, due to the now unavoidable associations with Musk's increasingly fascist behavior and statements, with many owners noting that they will never drive another one, and many prospective drivers saying they will now cancel and/or look elsewhere than Tesla.

Of course it's not fair for drivers (who bought into Teslas before Musk's true proclivities were obvious) to be faced with this, but that's what Musk has done to the brand -- single-handedly and with eyes wide open.

Nikkihack Dec 11, 2022

Louise Raw Dec 11, 2022

SHAME ON YOU @[email protected]

RT @[email protected]

The Sunday Express has now corrected their false claim about unaccompanied asylum seeking children and admitted that they misrepresented the facts, after IPSO upheld my complaint.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/clarifications-corrections/1706649/CORRECTION

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jdportes/status/1601952104943611904

Correction

Our article headlined 'Two thirds of asylum seekers who claimed to be children were found to be over 18', published on 9th July 2022, stated that, according to Home Office figures, two thirds of asylum seekers who claimed to be unaccompanied children were found to be over 18. This was incorrect and misrepresented the data published by the Home Office; and the proportion of unaccompanied child asylum seekers arriving in the UK. In fact, this claim referred only to the 2,315 cases where the Home Office suspected the claimant was in fact over 18, of whom 1,501 were found to be over 18. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

Express.co.uk

Nikkihack Dec 6, 2022

Kernow Damo Dec 6, 2022

RT @[email protected]

"I don't have a bottomless pit of taxpayers money to throw at this problem." — Mark Harper

But he does have £30m to give to rail companies for every day there's a strike.

"The most perverse and corrupt rail system we've ever had." — Mick Lynch #bbclauraK

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/woodgnomology/status/1596798421549125632

paulusthewoodgnome 🇺🇦💙 on Twitter

“"I don't have a bottomless pit of taxpayers money to throw at this problem." — Mark Harper But he does have £30m to give to rail companies for every day there's a strike. "The most perverse and corrupt rail system we've ever had." — Mick Lynch #bbclauraK https://t.co/BxuRB4m3gL”

Twitter

Nikkihack Dec 6, 2022

Thomas H.Dec 6, 2022

We need to share wealth that is created. Companies should always give dividends to employees as well as shareholders. Govt should also give out dividends - some of the corporation tax collected should be evenly distributed to every man, women and child. Everyone can benefit.

Nikkihack Dec 6, 2022

Krishnan Guru-Murthy Dec 6, 2022

RT @[email protected]

BREAKING:

Tory MPs have been told that the government *will not* try to vote down Labour's humble address on PPE contracts linked to Michelle Mone

Means that the motion - which is trying to force the publication of texts and emails - will pass unopposed

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1600085339107909632

Steven Swinford on Twitter

“BREAKING: Tory MPs have been told that the government *will not* try to vote down Labour's humble address on PPE contracts linked to Michelle Mone Means that the motion - which is trying to force the publication of texts and emails - will pass unopposed”

Twitter

Nikkihack Nov 28, 2022

Richard Littler Nov 28, 2022

In many ways, my generation (x) had a very old-fashioned upbringing. So much of children's programming was from the 1920s-50s. Harold Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy, Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, and Ray Harryhausen films, King of the Rocket Men, Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars. And when we went to the cinema to see new films (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) they were homages to serials from the 1930s! Does modern kids' TV programming still include 30-40 year old material?
#MediaHistory #television #Broadcasting