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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 3d

In case the mods decide to permaban me based on some old shitpost, should you care to find me again, bookmark my linktree. I've been through being permabanned elsewhere before & learned to be better prepared in advance for losing access to my network for speaking truth to power.

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Obey the Technofash, or else | TanzPunk

On living as an unemployed pariah after being permanently banned from LinkedIn and why this should concern everyone By JD Goulet Summer 2023 (original publication date unknown) Until March 2023, I’...

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 7h

They know what they are doing and know exactly who Machado is. Can't say I agree, but their priorities aren't likely the same as mine. The Nobel Peace Prize committee members are chosen by the Norwegian parliament. The current committee members are listed here:

The Norwegian Nobel Committee

www.nobelprize.org

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 8h

"Machado has voiced support for U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and other efforts to topple the government; she aims to privatize the country’s state oil industry and has praised right-wing Latin American leaders, including Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele."

TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 8h

Original interview in English.

2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...

www.democracynow.org

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 8h

Original interview in English.

2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin

www.democracynow.org

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 2d

Political power ultimately rests with those who control the men (and women) with guns. It's not about judges, journalists or civil servants. When push comes to shove, everything depends on soldiers, policemen and spies. Going forward, Democrats should keep that in mind

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 10h

THE USE OF AGENT
PROVOCATEURS TO REPRESS
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS WAS
"PRETTY ROUTINE"
THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
Chomsky concluded his answer to Steele by saying, "But that's so routine there's not even any point giving examples" (quoted in Steele 2012). As a long-time activist, I think Chomsky is only half right here. Routine, yes; but the problem of agent provocateurs is still not very well-known by many activists and organizers. Given that this lack of awareness increases a movement's vulnerability to
agent provocateurs, I want to share some historical examples of agent provocateur activity around the world, including an in-depth case study from the Black Liberation Movement in the United States.
My hope is that this examination will encourage civil resistance organizers to think more deeply about what can be done to minimize the negative impact of agent provocateurs and agent provoca-teur-like behavior on movements for peace, justice, human rights, and sustainability. I then close the essay by sharing some useful first steps toward achieving this goal.

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 10h

"So they didn't give it to Donald Trump, but they seem to [have] the next best thing... [if] Marco Rubio needs justification to intensify military operations against Venezuela. It's truly a degradation of the Nobel Peace Prize."

"This will bring the opposite of peace."

Esquerda.Net @esquerdanet.bsky.social · 12h

Nobel para Corina Machado “trará o contrário da Paz"

Em entrevista ao Democracy Now!, o historiador e vencedor do Prémio Pulitzer Greg Grandin defende que a atribuição deste ano do Nobel da Paz abre terreno à escalada militar e vem fortalecer Nicolás Maduro, ao confirmar “a sua narrativa de que a oposição está aliada ao governo Trump”.

dlvr.it

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 17h

"Money can buy many things, but health is not one of them. If advanced economies are serious about tackling their frighteningly high rates of psychopathology, their governments must focus on reducing inequality, not chasing GDP growth that only makes the rich richer."

Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 20h

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, read @deschuttero.bsky.social and @profkepickett.bsky.social’s commentary examining the link between income inequality and mental-health outcomes.
bit.ly/48NOhyv

Inequality Is Destroying Mental Health

Olivier De Schutter & Kate Pickett propose raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy to improve well-being in unequal countries.

www.project-syndicate.org

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 17h

Filing for Social Security disability benefits is also ableist & for that matter, so is just about every other interaction with U.S. federal or state agencies... applying for Medicaid, unemployment benefits, etc. Hell, even voting in many states is ableist.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17h

taxes are ableist atp. Not paying them. DOING THEM

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 17h

Agree. Wealth hoarding is disgusting.

TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 18h

As I was saying...

TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 18h

“In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer,” he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry’s approach to AI.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 19h

Thiel "argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings."

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 18h

Oh no, billionaire Peter Thiel is worried about how hard it has become to hide the money he uses to harm humanity and that he might be *gasp* held accountable by governments?

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 19h

All these anxious billionaires....

“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.”

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 18h

Keep watching to the end. @nojusticemtg.bsky.social speaks starting around the halfway mark and it's worth listening to her discuss how consulting firms like Deloitte use AI to strip away state capacity.

The IMF Warns AI Bubble Could Burst

YouTube video by Novara Media

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vonunten.bsky.social @vonunten.bsky.social · 20h

NEW HORROR UNLOCKED

riesige, nutzlose Satellitenspiegel

TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 20h

We really need better ways to keep a small handful of incompetent and/or malicious people from threatening all life on Earth.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21h

They're going to put an enormous lawsuit magnet in the sky.
mastodon.social/@sundogplane...

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 20h

Good article on it 👇

Michael Brown @mjibrown.bsky.social · 21h

@mattkenworthy.bsky.social and I have a Conversation article on this today.

Light for one Solar farm would require about 3000 mirror satellites. If accidentally viewed with a telescope, the mirrors would be similar in brightness to Sun’s surface (not good).

theconversation.com/a-us-startup...

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks for this. Good article!

TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 20h

We really need better ways to keep a small handful of incompetent and/or malicious people from threatening all life on Earth.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21h

They're going to put an enormous lawsuit magnet in the sky.
mastodon.social/@sundogplane...

Prof. Sam Lawler (@[email protected])

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disas...

mastodon.social

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 1d

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for taking the time to read it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
― Hannah Arendt,

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I have a beaded saying on my wall (made by an adorable trans kid): "I hope for a world with more trans elders."

Manifest in the world. Persist. These are the keys to change.
6/n

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d

I'm convinced there are two powerful ways of having impact in the world, only one* of which gets recognized as such:

1 - WRITE STUFF DOWN
2 - PERSIST*

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah, totally bogus. Everyone wants to "do things." It's pretty much how we became what we are. I am disabled now & surplus to capital, but I still do things for my community & my friends & loved ones that are valuable.

TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 1d

It's really so good

TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Ireland's UBI isn't for doing "nothing," but to support artists, who are so important. Not that it should matter, of course. Everyone deserves to have enough. I do think many here would like artists to be supported.

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