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cleminan @cleminan.uk · Jan 11

Two things:

1. AI is NOT a search engine.

2. BlueSky is public by design, everything is accessible, it has been this way since it was launched.

With a bit of searching you can find the hosepipe broadcasting everything for fediverse peers to connect with.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 2h

no, i'd disagree.

there's still trade & independent organisations and competing, co-operating.

having controls & rules doesn't make it not capitalism. many rules were put in place after the crash of '29, capitalism didn't stop. taxes were much higher in the post war period & capitalism continued.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 4h

by the people that went on to make Friends... no?

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 5h

its capitalism without constraints that heads there.

a properly and heavily regulated market with strong and enforced monopoly rules along with a tax policy that combats wealth hoarding & feeds into a range of state run institutions like schools, libraries, museums & galleries likely wouldn't.

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 1d

if you'd like to take issue with my characterisation of your parties, it comes from an international perspective.

the dems may have more left wing members, but their collective stance is centre-right - they've seldom seen a corporate lobby they couldn't accommodate.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 1d

the reps are so tied to capital they're ripping up the country & talking up wars to support a broken global economic model.

taxes can't go much lower, prices can't sustain at higher levels and protections against monopolists & price fixing are pretty much dead.

without a war 'growth' will stall.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 1d

is there anyone in the us political establishment, hard-right republicans or centre-right democrats, not beholden to capital? your governments really only care about commerce.

the population are at best incidental, at worst they're in the way of business making larger profits.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 1d

i've not taken the plunge with macos yet, but on ios i switched on the Reduce Transparency option under Accessibility. it sped up my SE3 nicely, some of the effects do look quite ugly though.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 1d

Additionally, you can't claim that your culture is under attack if you don't close all the council run libraries, galleries, museums, cinemas, theatres, dance schools & youth clubs in an effort to knock another 50p off a tax somewhere.

Culture, both worthless & crucial to the right, apparently.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 1d

probably need to go back to something a little earlier than neanderthals, they did cave paintings. As far back as Homo Erectus is thought to have created things purely for aesthetic value. Present day we see apes playing & making things, so we're probably looking more at our rodent-like forebears.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 2d

Some things I've learned in my first few weeks:

1) There is a grey market candy swapping racket between janitors, TSA agents, CSRs, and everyone else who has to stand someplace all day at the airport.

Hi-chews, sour candies, and gummy anything are in highest demand.

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 4d

- the algorithms - think we like plus the views or beliefs they want to push.

we're seldom given downtime and we won't give ourselves the luxury of downtime if the opportunity arises.

we're willingly trapped in addictive arenas engineered for our own satisfaction.

it all suppresses curiosity.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 4d

there are many aspects to what is being described as incuriosity

being knowledgeable was always treated with contempt by the cool kids at school, that persists
later in life you need the time for curiosity & our primary communication media now feed us endless content tailored to what their machines

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 4d

looks like they need to widen their horizons, maybe track down a talented Stephanie?

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 5d

I think the key word here is 'say' not 'think'.

There is much said about the ECHR but little of substance, we're in a climate of feelings being the primary driver of opinion. They were always in the mix, but have become much more prominent as social media became the platform societal of discourse.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 6d

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 6d

maybe HTG would be a better abbrv

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 8d

oh great, i was hoping - naively - that it was a rhetorical question.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 9d

this sums up silicon valley & the wider business environment's contempt for their customers perfectly.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 9d

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 9d

two men in suits and ties are talking in front of a fire hose sign

ALT: two men in suits and ties are talking in front of a fire hose sign

media.tenor.com

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 9d

i wonder which trained solicitor, barrister or judge would come out & say killing civilians with no legal process, outside of the perpetrators' national borders is a legal act?

JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 11d

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 11d

Its the same people sewing the narrative in the UK, they have friends in the media & money to buy enough of the rest.

can we refer to the heritage foundation as a terrorist organisation yet? their desire for a wholesale dismantling of anything centre-right & beyond is as dogmatic as it is dangerous

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 11d

Happy kitty logo, much more positive than Woore's miserable T-T Pumps.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 11d

the platforms encourage people to come to an opinion quickly, then they & current social consensus discourage or actively suppress thinking about it any further, let alone admitting, god forbid, you may have been wrong or misled.

there's no mystery to the current state of things.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Jun 9

Dear USA

Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.

Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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