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as might seem curious but in such a way that your learned cynicism deprives you of surprise, the rich are remarkably inept at managing wealth:

> The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits; it’s that the people posing as the experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.

why is it that so many workplaces work the very same way?

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584

schumpeter said the capitalists would eat capitalism and shit corporatism, which seems to be about where we are: any semblance of the creative destruction required to make competition healthy has long been replaced by blueblooded hoarders snapping up and then destroying sources of rent because they don’t understand why the thing generated rent in the first place. those apologizing for corporatism with capitalist dogma find themselves in the odd position of defending not their beloved philosophy but only the thing that wears its face.

i really enjoyed this article because it reflects an experience had across the workforce, at virtually every kind of white- and blue-collar job, where corporatism vests power with people who have no conception of how to apply it in context, who have been protected from such knowledge by their position and status, who will fail on to greener pastures even when their actions bring on that failure. their only role is to collect rent and to “look busy” which, when combined with a great deal of power over people’s livelihoods, becomes extremely dangerous.

i cherish that the article points out who the “real leaders” are: the people doing the work. in this case, artists, writers, etc. in another case, it’s the folks on the production line, or the folks delving the mine. they really run the show because only they know how, but at gunpoint they are forced to allow the rich to play pretend.

The new #kdenlive 19.08 is looking phenomenal!

I never wanted to stop using it in the first place, back when it was still unstable prior to the massive code refactor, and from what I can see so far it looks like I might be able to come back to my favourite #NLE!

The new features and workflows are outstanding. My next video will undoubtedly be edited on here.

Thank you for the amazing work Kdenlive devs. Absolutely fantastic.

#KDE #libre #FOSS #FLOSS #videoediting

this toot travels near the speed of light to bring you big news:

Pixelfed actually federates now. We did it folks.

#ad #pixelfed

Superior form of Pikachu.
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it's pretty #cyberpunk how normal people talk about "The Algorithm" in conversation

if you unionize at work, they fire you.
if your whole team unionizes, they liquidate the company.
so how do you unionize?

tech multiplies the power of labor,
which multiplies the power of the scab.
while the boss fires unionists,
only the bossless can unionize.

organize contractors!

The NSA is running summer camps to recruit kids into their operation.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/a-summer-camp-for-the-next-generation-of-nsa-agents

https://twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/status/1162857686230192128

neon-plasma vs. voronoid (seed: 17958)

<< The average person tends to have either less than eight tabs open, or to add tabs without organization until declaring “tab bankruptcy” and starting fresh. >>

yeah, I'm the... second one

(checks browser; it reports 'new mathematical research needed in order to determine if your number of open tabs is even theoretically countably infinite')

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/lossless-web-navigation-spatial-model-37f83438201d/

Speaking of ✨ lamps ✨ and electronics, I have a question: if I'm trying to drive a 24V LED strip with MOSFETs or similar hanging off a computer running at 5V, do I need to have a source at like 25.6V rather than 24V in order to counter voltage drop in the driver transistors?

@graydon that said, my constant concern is that people bolt that weak left critique of free speech onto valid concerns regarding weaponisation, and -- together with the fact that the far right uses free speech as an empty rallying cry -- abandon free expression as a value to centralised control once again. even though it was the early assymetric advantage of cheap speech to silenced and disenfranchised groups that drove IMHO much of the new renaissance of the left in the last decade

@graydon no, I hear you: I disagree with the assessment that the far right have some sort of structural advantage in an era of cheap speech. I don’t think it’s surprising that they would take advantage of it (the primary surprise for me was that it took so long), but I don’t think I could convince you of that in a few short toots. I can only encourage you to investigate how your peers reached the political conclusions they did, and also observe what tools succeed best.