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Capitalism can only justify labor which profits. Structures or institutions that cannot sufficiently monetize their operations whither and die except on a volunteer basis. Scarcity-immune goods and services, such as digital media, can then only be justified with the introduction of scarcity. A great deal of labor goes into introducing and maintaining scarcity where there is none, which can only exist by taking its own share of the wealth it extracts, cementing this gatekeeping as a shared interest between the owning class and this segment of the working class. Thus ads become a form of rent, the flicker of your eyeballs a form of payment for materials which have no per-use cost, and every plea to disable your ad-blocker comes from a hostage. Because capitalism charges us for survival, we find ourselves obliged to maintain the institutions that keep us employed, for in them we see the only means of living. 

If you want a usable web, you want to end capitalism.

Toot Redux (first published 30th December 2016)

True then. Even truer now!

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@freemo

> Auto-antonyms are my new favorite thing :)

"cleave" is my long-time favorite autoantonym:

> Cleave
> 1. to adhere closely; stick; cling
> 2. to split or divide by or as if by a cutting blow

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RT @TheEconomist
There is scant evidence to suggest that academic elites push a left-wing agenda onto their impressionable young pupils econ.st/2QDRl85

Police call for ban on anonymous pay-as-you-go phones

theguardian.com/society/2020/j

We're in 'dangerous dogs' territory here!

The current fascist Tory government, apparently much beloved by Hungary's Victor Orban - New Labour provided a grotesque lead-in - will do anything in its power to erode civil liberties and tirelessly advance the surveillance state. Recently It tried pornography and failed spectacularly. Now (surprise, surprise) it's back to the easy meat - DRUGS!

A police statement independent of the Home Office is possible, but is relatively rare in my experience.

The 'County Lines' issue is both real and serious, affecting the lives of many young people. The Police are on the frontline. But there's a different way forward, namely the decriminalisation and appropriate regulation of drugs with the lead being provided by evidence-based medical research.

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Decided to resurrect my old 2014 MacBook Pro Retina 15" and get ArchLinux working on it with BTRFS filesystem. Woot!

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Toot Redux

Maybe not the 'Banks of the Nile' but maybe...

The Greatest Anti-War Song Ever

And to quote "mac man":

"The raw emotion captured in this heartbreaking paean always reduces me to tears, like being hard wired into someone's distant tragedy. It seems inappropriate not to cry, not that i have much choice such is the spellbinding delivery. Seldom has an artist had such magical powers, and the ability to discharge them within a song."

phidoc.net/misc/banks_of_the_n

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