Since it's his birthday today, I couldn't resist this. I actually didn't have all of these listed in my own file, so I will save this.
Premier Sinistre !
Mayotte ? Pourquoi faire ?
La loi de finances speciale ? Pourquoi faire ?
Le repas des anciens de Pau ! Ça, c'est important !
Entre Mayotte, la loi speciale pour le budget de l'Etat, il a choisi Pau. Une facon de dire qu'il se garde une place au Soleil pour Apres. Il ne croit meme pas rester au pouvoir. Quel abruti fini...
There's this thing on Mastodon, called Books of My Heart. When I see it, I often think of Waltz of My Heart and start singing. I'll need to write a parody.
"Books of my heart,
reading away.
Drawing me further in,
than yesterday.
I see the library,
there just for me.
All of that section's done,
now this one please."
Yes, I'm very bad. haha
Gimmick?
news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…
Is this a real thing? Or is it another of Ford's attempts to get votes??
Vas-y, un #documentaire audio sur #Althusser, donc je n'ai aucune idée de qui il est, mais dont j'entendais tout le temps parler étudiant.
Comme quoi on peut vivre, agir et voter sans lire toute la #philo.
radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p…
#franceculture #podcast #philosophie #marxisme #maoïsme #baladodiffusion #LaSérieDocumentaire
Louis Althusser, un marxiste imaginaire
Mentor de nombreux maoïstes français, Louis Althusser, philosophe à forte influence marxiste, est une figure célèbre de l'intelligentsia du 20e siècle.Adila Bennedjaï-Zou (France Culture)
One glass of wine, and i'm belting out Ivor Novello songs with the original artists! Thank goodness, I had the common sense to switch from Mary Ellis and Vanessa Lee to Olive Gilbert and Trefor Jones, whose ranges I can sing without ruining my voice! I don't even want to be a supprano! Why on Earth didn't I just transpose them as always? And now, I shall return to my own personal Eisteddfod, as I listen to the tripple harp, while reading The Mabinogion (, in English, of course_). I blame this squarely on Ivor Novello and his mother! They sent me down this delightful rabbit whole of Welsh exploration. I was perfectly happy being bored and quiet. Now, I've got all sorts of theatre people to research and an entirely new genre of music and instrument to learn about! And hello to anyone Welsh reading this. Thank you for your beautiful music and lovly stories! I'm enjoying them emensley.
Update. Haha. That didn't work. After a few songs, I went back to Novello. Ah well. I'm still smiling.
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US-American Prof Jeffrey Sachs: "NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine - The continuing U.S. obsession with NATO enlargement is profoundly irresponsible and hypocritical. And now Ukrainians are paying a terrible price."
Fediversing
OK, trying to get into this Fediverse etc. thing in more earnesty.
You can find me here as well, from now on:
Mastodon: swiss.social/@a2t
Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/a2t.net
Element / Matrix: @a2t:matrix.org
Andreas Thut (@a2t.net)
Head of Ecosystem at Beobachter (Swiss media brand). Web: https://a2t.net Mastodon: https://swiss.social/@a2t Friendica: https://friendica.world/profile/a2tBluesky Social
Prof Steurer im ORF!
Reinhard Steurer (@steurer.bsky.social)
Am kommenden Montag mache ich eine Ausnahme und bin in "Frag die Science Busters" um 13 auf FM4, um über die Klima-Realität 2024 zu reden - und um Fragen zu beantworten. Ruft an! fm4.orf.at/player/live [contains quote post or other embedded content]Bluesky Social
Assumptions - state reform and pseudo-revolutions
Assumptions for socialism to flourish globally
- For humans to improve their material conditions they must have access and consume mass produced industrial products. Therefore they should also be engaged in industrial mass production in the "From each according to its ability, to each according to its need" manner. And equality will just fall from the sky among producers and consumers.
- Industrial production requires mass extraction of metals and chemicals from earth, as well as fuels. There is an infinite amount of materials that can be mined and there is infinite capacity by the ecosystem to recuperate from the damage caused by mining and industrial activity, including power generation (fossil, wind, solar, hydro, nuclear energy transformation - all with a very high ecological footprint) .
- The control of mining, production, transportation, the nature and form of production, is scientifically determined, the decisions are made by experts, and are not up for discussion or debate. The overseeing of execution of those decisions requires central control and power, policing, and that fits well within a socialist society.
- The centralized control of production and consumption, the overseeing of operations, and the policing of everyone's activities according to central plan requires a state apparatus.
- Class is purely determined by economics, the amount of labor exchanged for the amount of consumption, will be regulated, but power of those making decisions and those executing them are not class determinants.
- Going from a world where 80% of the population contributing to mass industrial production and 20% benefiting from this production, we can multiply production so everyone benefits "equally". So x3 x4 current industrial production?
- There is little room for discussing all this as it will be all up in the hands of "experts"/"scientists" to decide. Where people live, how they live, how they work, how they spend their free time, can all be determined by experts.
- Experts are recognized by state institutions such as academia, whose existence is unrelated to capitalism. Universities, research institutions, health and medical organizations, would have been created due to scientific development despite of whether capitalism existed or not. So it is safe to incorporate and continue those social structures as unrelated to capitalism. And so is social control and violent forces terrorizing the masses.
And this is only a stage of transformation, true communism will spring out of this transitional period of superstate superpower control of the globe.
If assumptions are weak or outright wrong, the entire program seems fragile or even disastrous, to humanity and its environment.
But that is NOT what #Marxism is about
#labor #capitalism #neoliberalism #anarchism #fascism #theory #communism #Revolution #socialdemocracy #libertarian #marxist #critical #materialism #dialectical #iww
#capitalism created #fascism to counter #labor organization and power, and to revert the transformation of the state into a #socialdemocracy - some call this process #neoliberalism
The end of linux-kernel as free software we trust – war on FOSS revisited
Open discussion on whether linux continues to be free software or a recruited tool in the hands of Nationalists instigating war and imperialist domination
Should the user make a wise and educated choice whether to follow development of this non-Free fork linux has become?
The end of linux-kernel as free software we trust – war on FOSS revisited
#linux #foss #gnu #russia #war #free software
The end of linux-kernel as free software we trust – war on FOSS revisited
Basically the article aims to help some of you decide on your own when and which kernel is the last “safe” kernel to use. In the bottom of this article is relevant release dates of lts…systemd-free linux community
Resources are not enough to continue with how we have things
Resources - Population Matters
The 8 billion people on our planet are demanding more from it than it can provide. Find out more, and what can be done.Population Matters
The Spirit of Christmas is weird
Nothing quite says 'Spirit of Christmas" like lopping down an 80yo Norwegian pine, and shipping it over to Trafalgar Square, so millions of foreigners can watch it slowly die over the next few weeks.
Vieux Mâle Blanc
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in reply to Vieux Mâle Blanc • •En plus c'est l'assassin de sa femme, mais "il était fou", alors ça va.
Il est encore tellement adulé que je n'avais jamais entendu parler du meurtre de son épouse avant.
Bizarrement, avant qu'il ne la tue, il était juste dépressif par épisodes.
Après le féminicide, il est d'un coup devenu "fou" "psychotique" et donc irresponsable.
On va plutôt se mettre de la musique...
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L'intrus
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Pas avec ce genre de nouveau qu’on va relever le niveau (ou le contraire).
Vieux Mâle Blanc
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Avant le 18e, les philosophes réfléchissaient à la fois sur la vie en général et sur les sciences qui n'étaient pas un champ de réflexion distinct.
Maintenant, ils relisent les anciens en espérant leur adjoindre un concept fumeux qui leur assurera la postérité. Quand ils ne se contentent pas d'en extraire des arguments qui les arrangent pour donner un vernis de sérieux à leurs opinions
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