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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
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You know all that stuff about how AI will replace us all, and there will be no jobs? How there's some Paul Masonite tech utopia where everything is automated?
It's a load of crap.
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I've just been listening to the Guerrilla History podcast about Workers Movements in the Global South
https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/ness
It's an interview with Professor Immanuel Ness about his book
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745.../organizing-insurgency/
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Over a billion people work in factories, more than ever have, some for as little as 10 cents an hour. The working class in the global South are effectively subsidising the one in the North. They are subject to the most vicious exploitation. It's not to say there isn't horrible poverty in the North, but the whole story these AI/Automation freaks use is based on a parochial view from the global North and taking the world has a whole it's junk.
I've just been listening to the Guerrilla History podcast about Workers Movements in the Global South
https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/ness
It's an interview with Professor Immanuel Ness about his book https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745.../organizing-insurgency/
You know all that stuff about how AI will replace us all, and there will be no jobs? How there's some Paul Masonite tech utopia where everything is automated?
It's a load of crap.
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Listen to Barack Obama’s Chilling Description of U.S. Involvement in the Gigantic 1965 Indonesia Massacre https://theintercept.com/2023/01/13/barack-obama-1965-indonesia-coup/
RT @theseandiamond
No one sane will be voting Labour after watching this. https://twitter.com/itvpeston/status/1613292102754131970
RT @Lance63
‘Playing the Blame Game: The Conservatives Love a Good Culprit’
It’s always someone else’s fault – according to the party that has been in power for 13 years (although not according to its cheerleaders)
– Byline Times https://bylinetimes.com/2023/01/13/playing-the-blame-game-the-conservatives-love-a-good-culprit/
RT @BylineTimes
🔴 'Playing the Blame Game: The Conservatives Love a Good Culprit'
It's always someone else's fault – according to the party that has been in power for 13 years (although not according to its cheerleaders), writes @iainoverton
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/01/13/playing-the-blame-game-the-conservatives-love-a-good-culprit/
10 Reasons to Oppose the Anti-Strike Laws from @tribunemagazine
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/01/10-reasons-to-oppose-the-anti-strike-laws
RT @docrussjackson
🚨YOU are HERE👇🇬🇧 https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1569649158939901952
RT @horton_official
Piece here. There is now no legal right to wild camp anywhere in England or Wales https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/13/dartmoor-estate-landowner-alexander-darwall-court-case-right-to-camp
RT @revpaulwhite
My car broke down last year - the clutch gave out.
I tried passing a law making it illegal for my car to stop working, tried suing it, tried arresting it and tried sacking it.
Turned out that I needed to spend money maintaining and fixing it.
Who knew...
RT @mdf200
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Even on strike, they'll do more work than you....
RT @unionlib
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg You should be sacked for this comment
RT @medialens
Benjamin Abelow's 'How the West Brought War to Ukraine' is a vital corrective to 'mainstream' misreporting of the Ukraine war. The e-book version is just 59 pages long - a must-read.
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People don't understand how hope works. It doesn't come from downplaying scary truths or from false optimism. Everyone sees through that. Instead, it comes from hard work, from solidarity, from courage. Hope comes from joining together and doing something. Hope comes from action.
RT @CleallPeter
Starmer has broken yet another promise – maintaining his perfect betrayal record – by abandoning his pledge to scrap the hateful & cruel Universal Credit system through which the Tories have inflicted years of misery https://bit.ly/3CxvmXZ
RT @JJHTweets
The British Pound lost 20.9% of its value globally as a result of the Brexit Frauderendum result. Currently €1.13 per £.
Half our food is imported.
So what you used to be able to buy for £1 now costs £1.21
That's why UK has worse inflation than others.
Prices have already gone up and corporate profits are the highest they've ever been
Wage price spiral my arse
Price wage spiral
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
