I'm moving this account over to @tomasekeli
Amazing - converting a stadium from a concert-hall to a grassed football-pitch in less than 3 days
… and now I want ramen
Funkier than my socks, and that's sayin' somth
Facebook apparently plans to short-cut end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp by having snooping software embedded into it before and after encryption.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/facebook_plans_.html
If you snoop on the message before and after - what's the point of the end-to-end encryption?
this is the PRIMARY LIE of capitalism
if scarcity didn’t exist, if everyone could have all their basic needs fulfilled, then capitalism would have no ground to stand on.
the only reason capitalism stands on the ground it does is because it tricks you into believing that there is not enough for everyone.
if this is so true, why are the grocery stores filled with items that regularly go unsold? why do we have sectors of the economy dedicated to selling you transportation or housing?
if there were truly no scarcity, if it were eliminated outright, it wouldn’t happen under a capitalist system, because the capitalist system has a vested interest in keeping its power over you by holding the threat of scarcity over your head. for everything.
This is really cool! A guy built a small copy of those info-signs from the train-stations for his desk (programming, soldering and 3d printing): https://www.balena.io/blog/build-a-raspberry-pi-powered-train-station-oled-sign-for-your-desk/
Agency is no more than a "quick and dirty way of contextualizing the temporal activities of entropy climbers"
- St. Rev
https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/07/25/metaphors-we-believe-by/
Gods turned out to be metaphors - supremely useful ones for making sense of the world and for imposing a power-structure.
This article postulates some new ones for our time, and is very good: https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/07/25/metaphors-we-believe-by/
@renatolond why is mstdn.io blocked on @crossposter
Developer in Norway. Father, brother, son and husband. I like the openness, honesty and beer. Not as smart as you think I am.