"The problem of renewables isn't that it's too late – it's that they don't 'generate above-average returns for our shareholders'"

@pluralistic nails the #FossilFuel barons' #Genocidal lies in a succinct & shareable way. I wish HE were running for president 🙄

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/06/exxonknew/#%F0%9F%94%A5

jeez.

reading the transcript of @pluralistic McLuhan lecture at Transmediale.

fuck the gig economy, and tech giant monopolies

We went for a walk a few days ago, and saw dozens of European peacock butterflies on this shrub.

#photography #nature #wildlife #insects #butterflies
(photos: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

You may say I’m a dreamer, but just imagine…

#Imagine #Peace #AntiWar
See -- https://worldbeyondwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/3militaryspending.pdf [PDF]
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“AR Gov Sanders suggests course on Black history spreads ‘hate’ against U.S.”

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: Some white people were enslavers. Other white people were abolitionists. If you think teaching that accurate history “spreads hate”—then you’ll have to first explain why you associate more with enslavers than with abolitionists?🤔
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/sarah-huckabee-sanders-ap-african-american-history-hate-comments-rcna100657

BREAKING: Hunter Biden made $640 million while “working” in daddy’s administration, and received $2 billion from the people behind 9/11.

Now that I got Republicans’ attention. That was actually Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

When we talk about the abuses of #GigWork, there's some obvious targets, like #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination, where two workers are paid different rates for the same job, in order to trick occasional gig-workers to give up their other sources of income and become dependent on the app:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

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