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There is nothing natural about extreme inequality. It is the predictable result of an economic system that distributes income based on who owns the means of production, rather than according to any common-sense principle of labour contribution, human needs or justice.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The only solution is taking platforms out of the moderation game. The content-layer of the internet should be moved to neutral protocols.

*You* should be the one who decides what you can read. Not a company. Not a government.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701430387408897

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I'm beginning to think that those who have seen the abuse of Twitter by the previous owners and now by Musk, but who haven't yet joined Mastodon, would still rather have elites (whatever their politics) determine the public conversation than let the actual people do that.

A mob of red deer stags in Richmond Park, they were on the edge of the woods and unless you stopped to look from most angles they were perfectly hidden, I crouched down to take the shot, that's when I could see how many there were (shot with a long lens it looks like I was a lot closer than I actually was). #RichmondPark #RedDeer #Stags #RedStags #WildLifePhotography #Nature #Photography #AltText

The Truth About Afghanistan’s Zero Unit Night Raids
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CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable.

A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.

#CIA #Afghanistan

https://www.propublica.org/article/afghanistan-night-raids-zero-units-lynzy-billing?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

We need to either regulate or bust up corporations (like Ticketmaster) that corner markets. But to do so, we must get big money out of politics.

When monopoly power is combined with political clout, the public gets taken for a ride. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-hurt-when-monopolies-crash-and?fbclid=IwAR27eDk6eSC2ej0egKw7h0ALjkOsBcF5OUu-H_tBDQnYmHvBXla6HAeF5ok

Chicago’s skyline takes the crown

I shot this a while back on an aerial flight. The fact that the shadows were almost perfectly perpendicular to the lakefront (part of the shoreline anyway) was pure luck. But when I flipped the photo, it turned into a much more dramatic image

#Chicago #Photogrpahy #Architecture #monochromatic #skyline #lakemichigan