#feudalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #feudalism, aggregated by home.social.
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The #OMN takes a deliberately different path, not building around “nobody gets the power” pretending governance doesn't exist. It is grown from the harder principle that no individual gets to own power.
Not me. not you, not the cleverest developer,
not the loudest activist or the person who got there first. Not the person with the biggest server, or the person with the biggest following, not a little committee that slowly becomes an unelected aristocracy.This matters because “decentralisation” defaults to easily to a form of #stupidindividualism. Everyone is supposedly free, supposedly has their own power. But in practice power accumulates around whoever has the time, money, technical knowledge, social connections or biggest platform.
That isn't a commons, it is just #feudalism with better branding. The #OMN idea is closer to shared infrastructure with distributed responsibility. Power comes from participation, trust comes from doing.
Governance is visible, processes are open, decisions can be challenged, mistakes can be corrected, people can leave. And nobody gets to quietly turn the commons into their personal kingdom.
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"WeLib describes itself as an “endless library” founded on the principle that “education and literature belong to everyone.” The publishers, however, clearly don’t agree with the library framing, noting libraries can be trusted; pirate sites not.
“Libraries are trusted institutions that serve the communities that fund them by lending books and other publications they have lawfully acquired. Using this label for WeLib explicitly misleads the public and allows WeLib to hijack the goodwill that libraries enjoy and have legitimately earned.”
“WeLib is no more than a pirate website that reproduces and distributes works of authorship owned by others to users for a profit, without authorization from or compensation to the copyright owners,” the complaint adds.
The complaint notes that WeLib’s operators made efforts to keep their identities hidden. However, the site itself quickly became a go-to portal for many book pirates.
The complaint notes that, by WeLib’s own account, its collection includes 43 million books and 98 million articles. The site reportedly has over 80,000 active monthly users who accessed more than 51.7 million books and downloaded 14.5 million files last month."
https://torrentfreak.com/major-publishers-sue-welib-a-pirate-site-built-on-annas-archive-code/
#AnnasArchive #Copyright #IP #Piracy #Monopolies #Rentism #Feudalism
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a true victim of #weaponization
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kilmar-abrego-garcia
> "The government isn’t targeting Abrego Garcia for punishment because they think he's some sort of master criminal. They want to punish him *because* he’s an everyday guy who somehow managed to force the regime to bring him home."
#criminalization #institutionalization #delegitimization #disenfranchisement #dehumanization #whiteNationalism #feudalism #plutocracy all in support of fascist plunder
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GOD WILL PROVIDE THE CRUSADE'S LOGISTICS
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2053026/god-will-provide-the-crusade-s-logistics
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Disciplined curiosity beats IQ, Oxford
There is a persistent myth pushed in our culture that intelligence - high IQ, academic credentials, elitist education - leads naturally to clear thinking. My organic experience suggests the opposite, what matters is disciplined, skeptical, freethinking curiosity. Without that, intelligence simply becomes a tool for defending whatever assumptions people already hold. This is one of the reasons many academic environments produce people who are, bluntly, credulous. Not because they lack […]https://hamishcampbell.com/disciplined-curiosity-beats-iq-oxford/