Serbia: harsh repression as protests mount https://www.anarchistfederation.net/serbia-harsh-repression-as-protests-mount/
Some dangerous but frequently expressed myths spotted in the media:
Wealth trickles down from the rich.... (it doesn't);
The state is like a household & must therefore 'balance the books'.... (it isn't & doesn't);
The poor have only themselves to blame...(no, poverty is often due to external factors);
The rich got there through hard work.... (no, mostly the rich have either benefitted form inheritance or have, unacknowledged, good luck)....
Just sayin'
plutocracy, plutarchy, plutonomy + documentary clip mentioning it...
@freemo Hey hope you're doing well...
Subject: plutocracy, plutarchy, plutonomy + documentary clip
mentioning it (Capitalism A Love Story)...
I'd really like to hear what you think of documentary as a whole
just the clip watch for yourself
(links at the end)...
🔴 Why I send this: I remembered one of these three words we
agreed was fairly accurate to describe some of today's
situation...
🔴 Since then I also realise the other words very similar:
plutocracy, plutarchy, plutonomy
- meaning generally:
= a political system or economy significantly influenced by or
governed by the very wealthy
🔴 All 3 words are quite different sounding in their own way -
e,g... plut"archy" ending sounding like anarchy)
🔴 Somehow this film doc was uplifting - I'd REALLY like to hear
what you think of it of the film if you don't mind - I really
REALLY like it's level of depth and line-for-line considerations
while being nicely loose and comedic...
The main reason for clip is the word plutonomy mentioned...
Either link is the same and starts itself from exact time
plutonomy is mentioned (at 54.50mins) ⬇️
📼 Capitalism A Love Story [Documentary]
1 🎞️ https://nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=_JAjuthV2N4&t=54.55
(no adverts / invidious filtering advert rather than youtube
adverts and tracking)
or 2 (same video with google adverts / tracking)
Exasperated and disturbed the new IP license in the Mastodon TOS has no termination clause.
https://mastodon.social/terms-of-service/2025-07-01
Facebook and YouTube have terms saying you can intentionally remove your IP grant by deleting the content. Twitter lets you remove your IP grant by deleting your *accounts*, which is punitive, but possible to exercise (I did). It's very good Mastodon's grant is limited-use—but so was Tumblr, and it eventually abused its. I want Mastodon to be as pro-user as *Facebook and Google*.
@mcc what, if any, instances are out there that have better TOS? I'm with you on deleting my account if there is no way to delete our content
📖 #Morality + #AnimalRights #HumanRights
#Book by #OlgaTokarchuk
#Film #Spoor
🇵🇱 #PL #Poland #English #Translation
Title "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: An Extraordinary Moral Tale"
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=jltMaRD1rTk
#Books #Human + #Animal #Rights
#Morality #Women #Writers
by Olga Tokarchuk
The YouTube Channel is also interesting part of #Vegan #Restaurants called #LovingHut #Worldwide which has TV"
#SupremeMaster #SupremeMasterTV
❓ Best #Etherpad / #Cryptpad / #Notes Online ❓
Is it https://privnote.com/ ❓
I know all have different uses but:
🔴 I'm looking for most temporary / self-destruct options / encrypted in browser
Best so far is:
Urgent call to all people of humanity
From inside Al-Shifa Hospital, I am Dr. Abdullah Awad, sending an urgent appeal for help. The internet has been cut off in northern Gaza, where we are. There is no food, no water, and no medicine.
Large numbers of injuries no any enough medical aids, beside starvation
I'm seeking help, even if only a little, my family calls me need to anything to eat what I should to do leave my duty to find food to them
Please donate to my family
https://gofund.me/d01c555b
Surveillance ➡️ Centralisation / Fascism ? ➡️ Less Democracy ?
What’s the problem jack?
🔴 Surveillance capitalism
🔴 Democratic drift
🔴 Closure to a single vision of society (#fascism)
🔴 Centralization of data and attention
#Framasoft / #DeGoogle
@FramasoftStatus
⭐ Support Problem solvers:
https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/?f=nav (most of this post taken from this site)
These dominations pose many problems for our freedoms.
The web giants are so powerful that they exercise technical, economic, cultural and political domination over our societies.
#Surveillance #Capitalism #Society #Centralization
#Centralisation #Problems #Domination
When #Framasoft reached the first stretchgoal for #PeerTube I thought "Very nice, those are some much needed features!"
Now, trough the power of our great community, they're almost at 100% funding; way beyond what I thought would be the case 👀 🎊
If you're interested in #FOSS, and in helping out creating a truly decentralized federated #Alternative to #YouTube, consider donating within the remaining 12 hours of their campaign!
Why #Support #Framasoft ? (Text and Picture info)...
#Framasoft / #DeGoogle
@Framasoft
Because...
🔴 #Donation page I actually like! Visually responsive...
https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/?f=nav
🔴 METRICS / FACTS (below)
21 years of existence
35 members and 10 employees
44 projects (26 ethical online services)
700 contributors
8,025 patrons
4,700,000 visits per month
1,115 free resources in our directory
3,025 blog posts
75 events each year to talk and reach different audiences
Here's a timelapse of an illustration I made for the series of AMA Framasoft do around the current Peertube crowdfunding.
Today, a big one on Reddit r/opensource at 17h00 CEST: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1l31dhy/were_framasoft_we_develop_peertube_ask_us_anything/
With #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc developments we aim to instigate a new modern foundation for secure E-Mail and a resilient Web without platforms. We are building a kind of #minecraft system for modern decentralized messaging.
But who are we building it for?
For all who need reliable trustable means of modern private communication.
While our work needs hackers and experts it's not designed for them. @tante raises interesting and important related thoughts https://tante.cc/2025/03/03/who-is-free-software-for/
"We are confusing talking with thinking." #Quotes
#Quote from myrmepropagandist
@futurebird
Post quote from: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/114704187198665372
Greta Thunberg @gretathunberg has been kidnapped by the IDF on international waters! They do not own the Gaza strip by any legal standard, they are not allowed to decide who gets to dock or what they can or cannot bring. They are not the legal representation of Gaza, unless it is run as an open air prison.
The fact that a ship full of humanitarian aid is making the Israeli government go haywire exposes the exact problem. Thank you, Greta and all the other activists ❤️
Systems built upon #exploitation and #oppression of people...
#Systems seem to be built upon #exploitation and #oppression of people.
(taken from quote below - https://ni.hil.ist/@mu/114626116042263903)
GRETA THUNBERG: My message is that right now international law is failing us. International institutions, our governments are failing us. Media, our companies are all failing us. Or “failing us” is a diplomatic way of saying that our system seems to be designed in a way that is built upon exploitation and oppression of people. And so, there’s no one to turn to. There’s no one we can turn to to rescue the situation, but it falls on us to step up, to continue flooding the streets, to continue organizing, boycotting, to speak up on all platforms to try to send a clear message that we will not stand for what is happening right now.
Your happiness makes me happy...
Your happiness makes me happy.
Joy from the success and good #fortune of others...
= #Culture #Cultivation #Creation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudita
May our good fortune continue and increase.
May I learn to appreciate joy and happiness.
May our joy persist and grow.
May their happiness continue.
May I be filled with joy and gratitude.
Your happiness makes me happy.
Audio conversations about anything welcome.
Only 3 clicks - using just browser, no install, no account, instant! [#Jitsi = opensource]
#FreeSchool is an ongoing personal collection of gems in form of one-liner short titles and longer forms of:
#Notes #Quotes #Books #Videos #Talks
#Websites #Fediverse people etc
#FreeSchool towards ➡ Working Together 🔁
➡ Incrementing Peace ☮ & Trust even "slowly but surely"...
Someone who #Cares for people and planet, developing them into better #habits and practices.
WHERE DO WE GO NOW TO WORK TOGETHER?
FEDIVERSE?
Intelligence for me now is measured now by those who can work together and communicate / chat versus those much less. Those that can help people individually develop and grow like me. Else we fail everyone. Ironically bad people do this better than the good, so we almost just have to copy them and self-check we're not bad along the way.
If not using others mutually then we are leaving them to the Capitalist system to eat up which is a LOSE:LOSE:LOSE (ME:YOU:EVERYONE).
RIGHT NOW... Helping Others using Fediverse could be MUCH easier if people were a bit more DEDICATED.
I'm defined today by my dreams. I try do RIGHT NOW or tomorrow for the children / adults as imagining it were for me.
Together we can measurably do things and talk towards solutions (I see as improving "communications" right now AS the actual solution)
We can solve individually the same-ish problems, and eventually more as a crowd like a crowd-funder (only less money involved, more intelligence). Snowballing the right things 🌨️ =☃️+ 🏂 / 🏦 🚫 = 📊 #FreeSchool
Audio conversations welcome, feel free to ask for chat link - just 3 clicks and in!.
I use simple chat for browsers using Jitsi (any device - no software install. A basic zoom-style clone, opensource. No google account etc. )
Privacy and Non-corporate minded.
#FreeSchool hashtag for my collected gems and alignments.
Let's chat soon. We need to care about we do daily and others to also care else we are isolated. No other way around it but talk...
Inspired by "Free School" movement in the 60's & 70's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_school
More in this post : https://qoto.org/@freeschool/115174074841758906
#FreeSchool ➡ Working Together 🔁
➡ Incrementing Peace ☮ & Trust "slowly but surely"...