Jamie Klinger

YouTube video by Glass Beams Glass Beams - 'Mahal EP' (Full Live Performance)

Enjoy my musical discovery of the day. The vibes are so good.
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YouTube video by Vlad Bunea The Most Effective Way to Tax Wealth: the IN-KIND Method

Here is a reasonable and considered way to tax the ultra-wealthy. I'm a big fan of this @bunea.bsky.social economic takes.

Is it just a pure coincidence that YouTube has been sharing pro-Trump stuff and Google News pro Jordan Peterson stuff with me completely out of left field?!?

My algorithm WAS heavily curated. I never got this crap and all of a sudden it's coming in heavy.

Russian state disinfo bots are active on BlueSky for over 2 weeks now.
They are posting fake videos using AI-generated voice to promote talking points of Russian state.

Please help us to reduce its visibility: follow this labeler, choose Warn or Hide; spread the word:
@ab4n-labeler.bsky.social

Kizuna and Kitsune2 are unrelated, correct?

We are not immune. The disinformation campaigns are coming, be wary and be smart. Think about who benefits from you sharing their posts before you do it.

A For Profit company designing police protocols across the country is a horrifying prospect. I don't know why this surprised me to learn, but it did.

This feels obvious when you say it aloud. I'm curious how this works in practice.

There was a breadtube video that came out called John Stewart is lying to you, I didn't click it, cause it felt like clickbait, but maybe it's about this.

Quebec's recycling is now in the hands of producers. Can they fix a broken system? | CBC News Recycling is changing in Quebec, starting with what you can put in the blue bin — and a new high-tech sorting centre in Montreal's east end. But hurdles remain in getting more of the province's recycl...

Given how shoddy things were beforehand, I can only be optimistic after having read this article. I'm glad to hear the producers are now directly involved. This is as it should be. Hopefully tighter restrictions on wasteful production are also in place or will be eventually.

The coopérators are at least a coop.

I want to use bsky more positively and towards the world I want to see. So here's an adorable news segment following an adorable dog being fed all around town.

Those are some worthwhile and important stepping stones. While it adds complexity, it also adds nuance and clarity when we're forced to say, "at this stage of the unwraveling of late-stage-capitalism where u,v,w we should make use of x,y,zand at this stage where a,b,c, we should integrate d,e,f."

What a lovely road to fall onto

By design, it is. Can it change? Yes. But the Fediverse is a massive step in the right direction. It means that our posts here work more like email does, and that Bluesky is an email client like Gmail, but if you wanted to connect with people who use Hotmail, that works too.

Is this with the assumption that all else stays the same? If we weren't competing in a capitalist society, would you envision doing away with copyright altogether and simply have things either with attribution or public domain?

It has to be better than where we were.