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dredmorbius@diaspora.glasswings.com
Doc Morbius

Cory Doctorow: The Swerve

People are already getting really badly hurt, and it’s only going to get worse. We’re poised to break through key planetary boundaries – loss of biosphere diversity, ocean acidification, land poisoning – whose damage will be global, profound and sustained. Once we rupture these boundaries, we have no idea how to repair them. None of our current technologies will suffice, nor will any of the technologies we think we know how to make or might know how to make.

These boundaries are the point of no return, the point at which it won’t mat­ter if we yank the wheel, because the bus is going over the cliff, swerve or no.

Focus on the swerve. ...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31992218

https://locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #BusinessAsUsual #TheSwerve #CoryDoctorow #LetsRoll #MassCivilResistance

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florida_ted@diasp.org
Ted

Until we remove the corruption, corporate crimes will continue.

Though corporations in America routinely break the law, often with fatal consequences, it's fair to say America has no corporate criminals, because to have criminals, you need a criminal system that identifies criminal conduct and holds it to account. America does not have that.

When American corporations break the law, the individuals in the corporation are generally insulated from criminal liability because it's considered unfair to hold anyone – even the millionaire top execs paid to be the person with whom the buck stops – criminally liable for institutional crimes.

#CoryDoctorow #corporation #crime #justice #law #criminal #liability

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/12/with-a-fountain-pen/#recidivism

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

LWN: Tackling the Monopoly Problem

There was a time when people who were exploring computational technology saw it as the path toward decentralization and freedom worldwide. What we have ended up with, instead, is a world that is increasingly centralized, subject to surveillance, and unfree. How did that come to be? In a keynote at the online 2021 linux.conf.au event, Cory Doctorow gave his view of this problem and named its source: monopoly.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/844102/a23d1543b5a55cae/

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#CoryDoctorow #Pluralistic #Monopoly #Decentralisation #Centralisation #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillanceState #LinuxConfAU #LWN

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

Volcano Gods Demand Workers

"Re-opening" isn't about saving ordinary workers and earners. You can't save someone by infecting them with a deadly disease. In a world without contact-tracing, therapeutics, tests, PPE, santizing products, etc, more contact means more risk of illness and death.

"Re-opening" is about saving investors: the 1% who constitute the major shareholders in large firms whose calculus goes like this: "30% unemployment means that for every worker who dies on the job, ten more will apply to take their place."

These people are willing to risk workers' lives and shoppers' lives because they believe they do not have a shared microbial destiny with the rest of us. ...

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/08/volcano-gods/#reopening

#covid19 #CoryDoctorow #Plutonomy #inequality #moloch #unemployment #quarantine #commonweal #deathcult #capitalism

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