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RT @hilliatfields
Less expensive than the Monarchy!
More truthful than @BorisJohnson !
More useful than @MattHancock !
Not as thick as @NadineDorries !
IT'S....
mybook.to/SFOTW

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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.

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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. ...

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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

guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/ne

It's an interview with Professor Immanuel Ness about his book
plutobooks.com/9780745.../orga

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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.

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I've just been listening to the Guerrilla History podcast about Workers Movements in the Global South
guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/ne

It's an interview with Professor Immanuel Ness about his book plutobooks.com/9780745.../orga

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 theintercept.com/2023/01/13/ba

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 bylinetimes.com/2023/01/13/pla

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

bylinetimes.com/2023/01/13/pla

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 @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.

medium.com/@benjamin.abelow/we

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