#enclosure — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #enclosure, aggregated by home.social.
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Cut And Fold Your 3D Printer’s Next Cover
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/07/15/cut-and-fold-your-3d-printers-next-cover/
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Cut And Fold Your 3D Printer’s Next Cover
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/07/15/cut-and-fold-your-3d-printers-next-cover/
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Cut And Fold Your 3D Printer’s Next Cover
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/07/15/cut-and-fold-your-3d-printers-next-cover/
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FAD NEWS: Jenkin van Zyl to transform Somerset House Studios with new immersive film installation Enclosure
Somerset House Studios to present a new film and insta…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #contemporaryart #enclosure #film #FilmandVideoUmbrella #GreatBritain #HOMEManchester #immersiveart #installationart #JenkinvanZyl #london #Londonexhibitions #performance #sculpture #SomersetHouse #SomersetHouseStudios
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1089207/ FAD NEWS: Jenkin van Zyl to transform Somerset House Studios with new immersive film installation Enclosure #Britain #ContemporaryArt #enclosure #England #film #FilmAndVideoUmbrella #GreatBritain #HOMEManchester #ImmersiveArt #InstallationArt #JenkinVanZyl #london #LondonExhibitions #performance #sculpture #SomersetHouse #SomersetHouseStudios #UK #UnitedKingdom
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'in twenty-five years of asking about nuclear plants, Gallup NEVER recorded opposition as high to nuclear reactions as data centers are drawing now'
#genAI #ai #polycrisis #enclosure #technology #publicPolicy
https://nathannewman.substack.com/p/anti-ai-messaging-should-be-centerpiece
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'in twenty-five years of asking about nuclear plants, Gallup NEVER recorded opposition as high to nuclear reactions as data centers are drawing now'
#genAI #ai #polycrisis #enclosure #technology #publicPolicy
https://nathannewman.substack.com/p/anti-ai-messaging-should-be-centerpiece
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'in twenty-five years of asking about nuclear plants, Gallup NEVER recorded opposition as high to nuclear reactions as data centers are drawing now'
#genAI #ai #polycrisis #enclosure #technology #publicPolicy
https://nathannewman.substack.com/p/anti-ai-messaging-should-be-centerpiece
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'in twenty-five years of asking about nuclear plants, Gallup NEVER recorded opposition as high to nuclear reactions as data centers are drawing now'
#genAI #ai #polycrisis #enclosure #technology #publicPolicy
https://nathannewman.substack.com/p/anti-ai-messaging-should-be-centerpiece
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'in twenty-five years of asking about nuclear plants, Gallup NEVER recorded opposition as high to nuclear reactions as data centers are drawing now'
#genAI #ai #polycrisis #enclosure #technology #publicPolicy
https://nathannewman.substack.com/p/anti-ai-messaging-should-be-centerpiece
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What the Commons Built (And What's Taking It Apart)
In 1976, Bill Gates wrote an open letter to hobbyists accusing them of stealing. What they were actually doing was sharing software they had written for each other (modifications, tools, documentation), the way people had shared knowledge since the first person showed another how to do something useful. Gates reframed mutual aid as intellectual property theft. It was not a philosophical claim. It was a property claim, backed by lawyers, Congress, and eventually the World Trade Organization.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-07-14-what-the-commons-built/
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What the Commons Built (And What's Taking It Apart)
In 1976, Bill Gates wrote an open letter to hobbyists accusing them of stealing. What they were actually doing was sharing software they had written for each other (modifications, tools, documentation), the way people had shared knowledge since the first person showed another how to do something useful. Gates reframed mutual aid as intellectual property theft. It was not a philosophical claim. It was a property claim, backed by lawyers, Congress, and eventually the World Trade Organization.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-07-14-what-the-commons-built/
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What the Commons Built (And What's Taking It Apart)
In 1976, Bill Gates wrote an open letter to hobbyists accusing them of stealing. What they were actually doing was sharing software they had written for each other (modifications, tools, documentation), the way people had shared knowledge since the first person showed another how to do something useful. Gates reframed mutual aid as intellectual property theft. It was not a philosophical claim. It was a property claim, backed by lawyers, Congress, and eventually the World Trade Organization.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-07-14-what-the-commons-built/
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What the Commons Built (And What's Taking It Apart)
In 1976, Bill Gates wrote an open letter to hobbyists accusing them of stealing. What they were actually doing was sharing software they had written for each other (modifications, tools, documentation), the way people had shared knowledge since the first person showed another how to do something useful. Gates reframed mutual aid as intellectual property theft. It was not a philosophical claim. It was a property claim, backed by lawyers, Congress, and eventually the World Trade Organization.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-07-14-what-the-commons-built/
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What the Commons Built (And What's Taking It Apart)
In 1976, Bill Gates wrote an open letter to hobbyists accusing them of stealing. What they were actually doing was sharing software they had written for each other (modifications, tools, documentation), the way people had shared knowledge since the first person showed another how to do something useful. Gates reframed mutual aid as intellectual property theft. It was not a philosophical claim. It was a property claim, backed by lawyers, Congress, and eventually the World Trade Organization.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-07-14-what-the-commons-built/
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“It’s the economy, stupid”*…
Source and backgroundMany Americans take pride in having the largest economy in the world… which, per the chart above, by one measure we do.
But then, if we adjust for population– calculate per capita– the picture changes…
Source and backgroundAnd we note both that, on a PP basis, the U.S. would be lower and, more fundamentally, that the standing of the U.S. is slipping over time.
If we dive more deeply still, the picture complicates further…
Source and backgroundThis last chart illustrates the wealth inequality in the U.S., which drops from 2nd to 28th when wealth is measured by the median instead of the average… a wealth gap that has been growing since 1985 (and that is combined with an income gap that has been growing since 1980). For more, see World Inequality Database.
* James Carville
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As we search for the source of that smell, we might recall that it was on this date in 1549 that Robert Kett agreed to head a group of rebels in the English county of Norfolk during the reign of Tudor king Edward VI. The rebels were incensed by enclosure (the fencing off of common lands by wealthy landlords, as a product of which many peasants lost access to grazing, fuel, and small plots they had long used), along with rising rents, inflation, unemployment, and declining wages; as a response, they began destroying fences. One of their early targets was yeoman Robert Kett who, instead of resisting the rebels, agreed to their demands and offered to lead them.
Kett and his forces, joined by recruits from the city of Norwich and the surrounding countryside and numbering some 16,000, stormed Norwich and took the city at the end of July. They were besieged by, then routed, a Royal Army detachment led by the Marquess of Northampton who had been sent by the government to suppress the uprising.
But what became known as “Kett’s Rebellion” ended on August 27, when the rebels were defeated by an army under the leadership of the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Dussindale. Kett was captured, held in the Tower of London, tried for treason, and hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle on December 7.
Robert Kett and his followers under the Oak of Reformation on Mousehold Heath. from Kett’s Rebellion in Norfolk (1859) source #culture #economicInequality #economics #enclosure #history #income #inequality #KettSRebellion #politics #RobertKett #USEconomy #wealth -
“It’s the economy, stupid”*…
Source and backgroundMany Americans take pride in having the largest economy in the world… which, per the chart above, by one measure we do.
But then, if we adjust for population– calculate per capita– the picture changes…
Source and backgroundAnd we note both that, on a PP basis, the U.S. would be lower and, more fundamentally, that the standing of the U.S. is slipping over time.
If we dive more deeply still, the picture complicates further…
Source and backgroundThis last chart illustrates the wealth inequality in the U.S., which drops from 2nd to 28th when wealth is measured by the median instead of the average… a wealth gap that has been growing since 1985 (and that is combined with an income gap that has been growing since 1980). For more, see World Inequality Database.
* James Carville
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As we search for the source of that smell, we might recall that it was on this date in 1549 that Robert Kett agreed to head a group of rebels in the English county of Norfolk during the reign of Tudor king Edward VI. The rebels were incensed by enclosure (the fencing off of common lands by wealthy landlords, as a product of which many peasants lost access to grazing, fuel, and small plots they had long used), along with rising rents, inflation, unemployment, and declining wages; as a response, they began destroying fences. One of their early targets was yeoman Robert Kett who, instead of resisting the rebels, agreed to their demands and offered to lead them.
Kett and his forces, joined by recruits from the city of Norwich and the surrounding countryside and numbering some 16,000, stormed Norwich and took the city at the end of July. They were besieged by, then routed, a Royal Army detachment led by the Marquess of Northampton who had been sent by the government to suppress the uprising.
But what became known as “Kett’s Rebellion” ended on August 27, when the rebels were defeated by an army under the leadership of the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Dussindale. Kett was captured, held in the Tower of London, tried for treason, and hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle on December 7.
Robert Kett and his followers under the Oak of Reformation on Mousehold Heath. from Kett’s Rebellion in Norfolk (1859) source #culture #economicInequality #economics #enclosure #history #income #inequality #KettSRebellion #politics #RobertKett #USEconomy #wealth -
“It’s the economy, stupid”*…
Source and backgroundMany Americans take pride in having the largest economy in the world… which, per the chart above, by one measure we do.
But then, if we adjust for population– calculate per capita– the picture changes…
Source and backgroundAnd we note both that, on a PP basis, the U.S. would be lower and, more fundamentally, that the standing of the U.S. is slipping over time.
If we dive more deeply still, the picture complicates further…
Source and backgroundThis last chart illustrates the wealth inequality in the U.S., which drops from 2nd to 28th when wealth is measured by the median instead of the average… a wealth gap that has been growing since 1985 (and that is combined with an income gap that has been growing since 1980). For more, see World Inequality Database.
* James Carville
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As we search for the source of that smell, we might recall that it was on this date in 1549 that Robert Kett agreed to head a group of rebels in the English county of Norfolk during the reign of Tudor king Edward VI. The rebels were incensed by enclosure (the fencing off of common lands by wealthy landlords, as a product of which many peasants lost access to grazing, fuel, and small plots they had long used), along with rising rents, inflation, unemployment, and declining wages; as a response, they began destroying fences. One of their early targets was yeoman Robert Kett who, instead of resisting the rebels, agreed to their demands and offered to lead them.
Kett and his forces, joined by recruits from the city of Norwich and the surrounding countryside and numbering some 16,000, stormed Norwich and took the city at the end of July. They were besieged by, then routed, a Royal Army detachment led by the Marquess of Northampton who had been sent by the government to suppress the uprising.
But what became known as “Kett’s Rebellion” ended on August 27, when the rebels were defeated by an army under the leadership of the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Dussindale. Kett was captured, held in the Tower of London, tried for treason, and hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle on December 7.
Robert Kett and his followers under the Oak of Reformation on Mousehold Heath. from Kett’s Rebellion in Norfolk (1859) source #culture #economicInequality #economics #enclosure #history #income #inequality #KettSRebellion #politics #RobertKett #USEconomy #wealth -
“It’s the economy, stupid”*…
Source and backgroundMany Americans take pride in having the largest economy in the world… which, per the chart above, by one measure we do.
But then, if we adjust for population– calculate per capita– the picture changes…
Source and backgroundAnd we note both that, on a PP basis, the U.S. would be lower and, more fundamentally, that the standing of the U.S. is slipping over time.
If we dive more deeply still, the picture complicates further…
Source and backgroundThis last chart illustrates the wealth inequality in the U.S., which drops from 2nd to 28th when wealth is measured by the median instead of the average… a wealth gap that has been growing since 1985 (and that is combined with an income gap that has been growing since 1980). For more, see World Inequality Database.
* James Carville
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As we search for the source of that smell, we might recall that it was on this date in 1549 that Robert Kett agreed to head a group of rebels in the English county of Norfolk during the reign of Tudor king Edward VI. The rebels were incensed by enclosure (the fencing off of common lands by wealthy landlords, as a product of which many peasants lost access to grazing, fuel, and small plots they had long used), along with rising rents, inflation, unemployment, and declining wages; as a response, they began destroying fences. One of their early targets was yeoman Robert Kett who, instead of resisting the rebels, agreed to their demands and offered to lead them.
Kett and his forces, joined by recruits from the city of Norwich and the surrounding countryside and numbering some 16,000, stormed Norwich and took the city at the end of July. They were besieged by, then routed, a Royal Army detachment led by the Marquess of Northampton who had been sent by the government to suppress the uprising.
But what became known as “Kett’s Rebellion” ended on August 27, when the rebels were defeated by an army under the leadership of the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Dussindale. Kett was captured, held in the Tower of London, tried for treason, and hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle on December 7.
Robert Kett and his followers under the Oak of Reformation on Mousehold Heath. from Kett’s Rebellion in Norfolk (1859) source #culture #economicInequality #economics #enclosure #history #income #inequality #KettSRebellion #politics #RobertKett #USEconomy #wealth -
“It’s the economy, stupid”*…
Source and backgroundMany Americans take pride in having the largest economy in the world… which, per the chart above, by one measure we do.
But then, if we adjust for population– calculate per capita– the picture changes…
Source and backgroundAnd we note both that, on a PP basis, the U.S. would be lower and, more fundamentally, that the standing of the U.S. is slipping over time.
If we dive more deeply still, the picture complicates further…
Source and backgroundThis last chart illustrates the wealth inequality in the U.S., which drops from 2nd to 28th when wealth is measured by the median instead of the average… a wealth gap that has been growing since 1985 (and that is combined with an income gap that has been growing since 1980). For more, see World Inequality Database.
* James Carville
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As we search for the source of that smell, we might recall that it was on this date in 1549 that Robert Kett agreed to head a group of rebels in the English county of Norfolk during the reign of Tudor king Edward VI. The rebels were incensed by enclosure (the fencing off of common lands by wealthy landlords, as a product of which many peasants lost access to grazing, fuel, and small plots they had long used), along with rising rents, inflation, unemployment, and declining wages; as a response, they began destroying fences. One of their early targets was yeoman Robert Kett who, instead of resisting the rebels, agreed to their demands and offered to lead them.
Kett and his forces, joined by recruits from the city of Norwich and the surrounding countryside and numbering some 16,000, stormed Norwich and took the city at the end of July. They were besieged by, then routed, a Royal Army detachment led by the Marquess of Northampton who had been sent by the government to suppress the uprising.
But what became known as “Kett’s Rebellion” ended on August 27, when the rebels were defeated by an army under the leadership of the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Dussindale. Kett was captured, held in the Tower of London, tried for treason, and hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle on December 7.
Robert Kett and his followers under the Oak of Reformation on Mousehold Heath. from Kett’s Rebellion in Norfolk (1859) source #culture #economicInequality #economics #enclosure #history #income #inequality #KettSRebellion #politics #RobertKett #USEconomy #wealth -
https://www.europesays.com/videos/46013/ Toddler in critical condition after crocodile enclosure incident – what we know so far #arrested #AttemptedMurder #boy #Cambridgeshire #Crime #crocodile #enclosure #Huntingdon #news #police #sky #SkyNews #TODDLER #uk #zoo
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IKEA Storage Box Just Happens To Make Great Printer Cover
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IKEA Storage Box Just Happens To Make Great Printer Cover
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The non-action bloc: resignation, cynicism, and the culture that keeps people powerless
"#Oxfordboaters - Some of the people have to lie to themselves as they blindly believe in private property and rule of law but squat on private property and brack the law by not moving. They try and pretend this is not true, if they do this pretending to strongly they will make us all homeless." A lot of people are up shit creek without a paddle, yet keep looking in the same places that got them there. On this apathy and laissez-faire "common sense", we have a real problem, decades of […] -
The non-action bloc: resignation, cynicism, and the culture that keeps people powerless
"#Oxfordboaters - Some of the people have to lie to themselves as they blindly believe in private property and rule of law but squat on private property and brack the law by not moving. They try and pretend this is not true, if they do this pretending to strongly they will make us all homeless." A lot of people are up shit creek without a paddle, yet keep looking in the same places that got them there. On this apathy and laissez-faire "common sense", we have a real problem, decades of […] -
The non-action bloc: resignation, cynicism, and the culture that keeps people powerless
We can't do much about the hardened #fluffy crowd - so committed to comfort and respectability that no amount of evidence will shift them toward meaningful action. That is a real limit, and it's worth being honest about it rather than wasting energy trying to convert the unconvertible. But the hardened fluffy crowd is not the main problem. The more urgent challenge is the vast non-action bloc: the enormous number of people who are not hostile to change, not ideologically committed to the […] -
The non-action bloc: resignation, cynicism, and the culture that keeps people powerless
We can't do much about the hardened #fluffy crowd - so committed to comfort and respectability that no amount of evidence will shift them toward meaningful action. That is a real limit, and it's worth being honest about it rather than wasting energy trying to convert the unconvertible. But the hardened fluffy crowd is not the main problem. The more urgent challenge is the vast non-action bloc: the enormous number of people who are not hostile to change, not ideologically committed to the […] -
The non-action bloc: resignation, cynicism, and the culture that keeps people powerless
We can't do much about the hardened #fluffy crowd - so committed to comfort and respectability that no amount of evidence will shift them toward meaningful action. That is a real limit, and it's worth being honest about it rather than wasting energy trying to convert the unconvertible. But the hardened fluffy crowd is not the main problem. The more urgent challenge is the vast non-action bloc: the enormous number of people who are not hostile to change, not ideologically committed to the […] -
The everyday con: How the #deathcult turns crisis into extraction
The story is simple once you stop looking at the green branding and start looking at social power. A powerless tenant farmer in the Cairngorms watches land his family has worked for generations sell for ten times what it was worth only a few years ago. Not because farming suddenly became more valuable, but because carbon became a speculative asset. A corporation somewhere needs a green badge, farm land becomes the badge, our agriculture disappearing becomes the cost. This is not a "mistake", […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-everyday-con-how-the-deathcult-turns-crisis-into-extraction/
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The everyday con: How the #deathcult turns crisis into extraction
The story is simple once you stop looking at the green branding and start looking at social power. A powerless tenant farmer in the Cairngorms watches land his family has worked for generations sell for ten times what it was worth only a few years ago. Not because farming suddenly became more valuable, but because carbon became a speculative asset. A corporation somewhere needs a green badge, farm land becomes the badge, our agriculture disappearing becomes the cost. This is not a "mistake", […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-everyday-con-how-the-deathcult-turns-crisis-into-extraction/
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The everyday con: How the #deathcult turns crisis into extraction
The story is simple once you stop looking at the green branding and start looking at power. A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms watches land his family has worked for generations sell for ten times what it was worth only a few years ago. Not because farming suddenly became more valuable, because carbon became a speculative asset. A corporation somewhere needs a green badge, farm land becomes the badge, our agriculture disapering becomes the cost. This is not a mistake, its normal, this is the […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-everyday-con-how-the-deathcult-turns-crisis-into-extraction/
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The everyday con: How the #deathcult turns crisis into extraction
The story is simple once you stop looking at the green branding and start looking at social power. A powerless tenant farmer in the Cairngorms watches land his family has worked for generations sell for ten times what it was worth only a few years ago. Not because farming suddenly became more valuable, but because carbon became a speculative asset. A corporation somewhere needs a green badge, farm land becomes the badge, our agriculture disappearing becomes the cost. This is not a "mistake", […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-everyday-con-how-the-deathcult-turns-crisis-into-extraction/
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A Fume-Control Cabinet for Resin 3D Printing
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/05/29/a-fume-control-cabinet-for-resin-3d-printing/
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The #Religious Function of #Whiteness and Mass Criminalization in the US with Andrew Krinks
#US #BlackFedi #AmericanApartheid #Capitalism #RacialCaptialism #JimCrow #SurveillanceCapitalism #Neoliberalism #Enclosure #Ethnostate #ColonialViolence #WhiteNationalism #EuroChristian #ChristianNationalism #Christofascism
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The #Religious Function of #Whiteness and Mass Criminalization in the US with Andrew Krinks
#US #BlackFedi #AmericanApartheid #Capitalism #RacialCaptialism #JimCrow #SurveillanceCapitalism #Neoliberalism #Enclosure #Ethnostate #ColonialViolence #WhiteNationalism #EuroChristian #ChristianNationalism #Christofascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwuskHtC4Js&t=629s -
The #Religious Function of #Whiteness and Mass Criminalization in the US with Andrew Krinks
#US #BlackFedi #AmericanApartheid #Capitalism #RacialCaptialism #JimCrow #SurveillanceCapitalism #Neoliberalism #Enclosure #Ethnostate #ColonialViolence #WhiteNationalism #EuroChristian #ChristianNationalism #Christofascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwuskHtC4Js&t=629s -
The #Religious Function of #Whiteness and Mass Criminalization in the US with Andrew Krinks
#US #BlackFedi #AmericanApartheid #Capitalism #RacialCaptialism #JimCrow #SurveillanceCapitalism #Neoliberalism #Enclosure #Ethnostate #ColonialViolence #WhiteNationalism #EuroChristian #ChristianNationalism #Christofascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwuskHtC4Js&t=629s -
Watch: Pregnant cheetah escapes zoo enclosure in Netherlands https://www.byteseu.com/2019398/ #enclosure #Netherlands #SafariparkBeekseBergen
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#capitalism is fundamentally a game over asymmetric enforcement of property rights. Nowhere is that clearer than with digital goods, where rights holders control what counts as “access” to the digital products and services we buy.
This isn't unlike the brutal fights over land and personhood fought earlier in capitalism's history. This keeps happening because capitalism is a political governance system.
https://misaligned.markets/21st-century-property-rights-conflicts/
#righttorepair #DRM #enclosure #enshittification #tech #bigtech
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#capitalism is fundamentally a game over asymmetric enforcement of property rights. Nowhere is that clearer than with digital goods, where rights holders control what counts as “access” to the digital products and services we buy.
This isn't unlike the brutal fights over land and personhood fought earlier in capitalism's history. This keeps happening because capitalism is a political governance system.
https://misaligned.markets/21st-century-property-rights-conflicts/
#righttorepair #DRM #enclosure #enshittification #tech #bigtech
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#capitalism is fundamentally a game over asymmetric enforcement of property rights. Nowhere is that clearer than with digital goods, where rights holders control what counts as “access” to the digital products and services we buy.
This isn't unlike the brutal fights over land and personhood fought earlier in capitalism's history. This keeps happening because capitalism is a political governance system.
https://misaligned.markets/21st-century-property-rights-conflicts/
#righttorepair #DRM #enclosure #enshittification #tech #bigtech
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#capitalism is fundamentally a game over asymmetric enforcement of property rights. Nowhere is that clearer than with digital goods, where rights holders control what counts as “access” to the digital products and services we buy.
This isn't unlike the brutal fights over land and personhood fought earlier in capitalism's history. This keeps happening because capitalism is a political governance system.
https://misaligned.markets/21st-century-property-rights-conflicts/
#righttorepair #DRM #enclosure #enshittification #tech #bigtech
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#capitalism is fundamentally a game over asymmetric enforcement of property rights. Nowhere is that clearer than with digital goods, where rights holders control what counts as “access” to the digital products and services we buy.
This isn't unlike the brutal fights over land and personhood fought earlier in capitalism's history. This keeps happening because capitalism is a political governance system.
https://misaligned.markets/21st-century-property-rights-conflicts/
#righttorepair #DRM #enclosure #enshittification #tech #bigtech
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Our new geomagnetic study of the early Eneolithic fortified site in Bronocice, S PL is available. The whole vol. 53 of Documenta Praehistorica journal seems to be interesting!
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Our new geomagnetic study of the early Eneolithic fortified site in Bronocice, S PL is available. The whole vol. 53 of Documenta Praehistorica journal seems to be interesting!
