Vesna Manojlovic @becha@v.st

Might make a couple final tweaks, but I'm pretty happy with this.

I present you: "This is fine", a diorama built from a single piece of paper.

Otter

Billionaires should not set climate policy.
Billionaires should not set water policy.
Billionaires should not be setting any policy.
Billionaires should not be platformed to give opinion on crises & injustices they helped create & have financial stakes in monopolizing policies on.
Billionaires should not exist.

Dear journalists, sign up as a regular person on a regular instance and see what normal human society and its standards are like. You might like it.

Journalism organisations, set up your own fucking servers and then get judged on your own merits (or lack thereof) instead of those of the dickheads you sign up alongside.

You may quote me on this.

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@jacklerner I would remind students: Whenever you read a productivity tip or lessons from someone's process, ask yourself: Who's taking care of the house and kids? Who manages their finances? Who's booking their flights and tracking their expenses and picking up their laundry? Do they have any disabilities, health issues, other challenges?

Do not beat yourself up if you're not able to be as productive as someone with significantly more privileges re: time. We don't all have the same 24 hours.

Is there a fancy science term for the process by which capitalism ruins everything? Like how somebody comes up with something cool and makes it happen and it's good, and then it turns into a company, and then the company is incentivized to gradually ruin the thing and find the worst version of the product that consumers will still tolerate so as to maximize investor profit?

In music we call this process "selling out" but is there a more general term?

#capitalism #economics

Just wanna say I called it. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/06/30/the-metaverse-will-not-fully-emerge-in-the-way-todays-advocates-hope/

Ursula K. Le Guin, who returned her borrowed stardust to the universe four years ago today, on the consolation for suffering and getting to the other side of pain https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/11/29/ursula-k-le-guin-the-dispossessed-suffering/

Battery drain

While actual wilderness camping is becoming hugely popular in China, the fastest growth is in what I would consider not quite BBQ- more sort of very well-equipped picnicking. Since we don't really do cold food, and are massive foodies, what are effectively field kitchens follow.

Happy Caturday!

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