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  1. A quotation from Maria Popova

    Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

    Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
    Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

    More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

  2. A quotation from Maria Popova

    Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

    Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
    Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

    More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

  3. A quotation from Maria Popova

    Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

    Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
    Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

    More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

  4. A quotation from Maria Popova

    Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

    Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
    Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

    More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

  5. A quotation from Maria Popova

    Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

    Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
    Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

    More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

  6. #livemap of the #catastorphe #conflict #war that #trump claimed to end in 3 days costs 1500 #soldiers and #civilian lives every day, for what? for what? who #profit ? #china delivery #drone #drones to both sides and a little bit #eu and #us #military thirsty for #blood of others #industry deepstatemap.live/en%22#7/49.1 #deepstate #ukraine #russia #eu #europe #nato #russia " #mankind has to end #war (and the #finance and #industrialmilitarycomplex #machinery behind #war ) or #war will end #mankind " sorry but for me it's just ...

  7. @IndyMediaAus
    Private Healthcare Providers are simply #Leeches and #Unethical ones at that.

    That is not to say that the health workers they employ share the same social guilt. I’d wager most workers do in fact care for patients unlike their #Grifting corporate employers and the #Usurious #Insurance companies.

    Making a #Living from providing healthcare services is socially responsible.

    Making a #Profit from healthcare is #Inhuman.

    #StateTheft #StateCapture #AusPol

    Ban #ForProfit Health Insurance
    Beef up #NotForProfit Health Insurance regulations
    Boost #Medicare (also include #Dental cover) for a comprehensive public healthcare system.

    /end-of-rant/
    #AusPol

  8. Do you think the #system is here to #serve us ?

    (the people behind "the system" don't keep us just-about-alive just because we make THEM mass profits?)

    Further below I'd like you to clarify if you disagree:

    - People that don't make #bosses #profit can simply #die and hardly anyone high up would #care

    - We would be dead if we didn't serve as #profit / serve our #body to them.

    - The #mind + what you think can take a hike.

    - You can go to #jail (people have)
    The wouldn't care if you did.

  9. RE: c.im/@cdarwin/1169942594927394

    Most shock value: need to make > $1.5 trillion in new profit… as in:
    “Hyperscalers have spent over $1 trillion in capex since 2022. If we assume that even half of that is AI data centers, they need to make over $1.5 trillion in brand spanking new profit, not revenue, but actual profit, to justify any of these expenditures. have spent over $1 trillion in capex since 2022. If we assume that even half of that is AI data centers, they need to make over $1.5 trillion in brand spanking new profit, not revenue, but actual profit, to justify any of these expenditures.””

    #Hyperscalers #AI #LLMs #capex #DataCentres #profit

  10. Hey! Don’t expect ANY #highprices to fall anytime soon. #Greed is a powerful motivator & greedy corporations will keep prices as high as they can for as long as they can to maximize excessive #profit. This isn’t much of a news flash. It’s the way things are witn #capitalism.

    npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-58606

  11. RE: flipboard.com/@ladbible/health

    Under #Trump ’s “Most Favoured Nation” #price #policy, #cancer patients in the #EU may soon have to fly to the #US —and pay— for a #cure. The US still overpays; everyone else gets nothing, instead of globally negotiating a real minimum price. Another unwinnable war— after #iran this time on #health.
    #pharma #healthcare #pancreas #daraxonrasib
    #MFN #drugprices #standardofliving #LuigiMangione #Hormuz #profit #capitalism

  12. A quotation from Bastiat

    At least let no one argue that, because an abuse cannot be suppressed without injuring those who profit from it, the fact that it has existed for a time gives it the right to last forever.
     
    [À moins qu’on ne prétende que, parce qu’un abus ne peut être détruit sans froisser ceux qui en profitent, il suffit qu’il existe un moment pour qu’il doive durer toujours.]

    Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) French philosopher, economist, politician
    Economic Sophisms [Sophismes Économiques], 1st Series, ch. 20 “Human Labor, National Labor [Travail Humain, Travail National]” (1845) [tr. Goddard (1964)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bastiat-frederic/824…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bastiat #abuse #correction #exploitation #harm #justice #justification #precedent #problem #profit #profitability #profiteering #solution #wrong

  13. The concept of little #amerikkkan piglets in #school writing love #letters to send to their overseas #mercenaries who are somewhere killing other #children for #profit... Unreal #country

  14. @manjusrii german scientist Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim made a great episode on her show MaiThink X about this
    "Waste of tax money in science"

    "[...] Because scientific publishers make huge profits thanks to our tax money. And at the same time, we often don't have free access to research that we finance ourselves. [...]"

    youtube.com/watch?v=qtXABkcRpnE
    #MaiThinkX #Tax #Science #Profit

  15. #Donation bins: #Charity or #profit?

    toledofreepress.com/donation-b
    youtu.be/M2B6Ht-fbI4

    Cons, confusion and—in one case—connections to a #cult are among the reasons #Toledo-area #charities say they want a crackdown on #donationbins that siphon money away from their missions.

    #Goodwill Industries of Northwest #Ohio is leading the charge, concerned that #forprofit companies are using donation-style bins that most people associate with local charities to mislead well-intentioned people.

  16. THE BLOODY #PIRATE MANIFESTO
    "No #ads. No #VIP. #No god. Just seed.

    Welcome to the Age of Monetized #Piracy.

    Where “#free” comes with cookies,
    Where “#anonymous” means “newsletter,”
    Where every #pirate flag has a price tag sewn in.

    You wanted to sail the high seas
    They sold you a lifeboat subscription with #ads.

    🦷 RULE #1:
    If you make money off #piracy you are the #Navy.

    #TARGETS:

    Ad-plastered “free streaming” sites
    → You click "Play", they load 9 #JavaScript #miners and your ex’s #Facebook ad.
    → Solution: #Kill their #revenue. #uBlock, #TamperMonkey, Empty.gif carpet #bombing.

    VIP #Pirate #Accounts
    → They sell stolen #Netflix access like it’s a f***ing bottle service.
    → Solution: #Leak it. #Fork it. #Burn it.

    #Darknet Pirate Resellers
    → "Premium Ebook Packs - Only $29 #BTC"
    → Solution: #Doxx. #Spoof. #Blacklist.
    (They sell what should be holy. Purify with fire.)

    #FAKE #LIBRARIES ARE NOT #LIBERATION.

    "#PDF download" — 9 popups later, your #RAM is crying.
    "Buy 3 #EPUBs, get 1 free" — you just colonized knowledge.
    "#DMCA takedown coming 😭" cry #harder, #bitch.

    #Archive it. #Mirror it. #Share it. Don't sell it.

    REAL #PIRATES DON’T RUN #ADS.

    They #seed.

    They #encrypt.

    They #disappear.

    Every time you monetize piracy, an #FTP server #dies in a basement.

    THE #FINAL #RULE:

    “If your #piracy has a #profit model,
    then our #piracy will include you.”

    #Ads? Nuked.
    #Subscriptions? Hijacked.
    #Privacy policies? Weaponized.

    You are not a user. You are a bullet.

    “You wanted #torrent #freedom.
    They gave you streaming #debt.”
    Now take it back. With #fire.

    #realpiratesburneachother

  17. A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

    POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

    Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
    “Politics,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1081/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #government #graft #politics #principles #profit #publicaffairs #specialinterests

  18. Names of 41 pls🙏 - stop #exploitation of #healthcare & #medicine for #profit #Singapore ⚕️

    ‘Entrenched culture of disregard’: #MOH intends to #revoke MaNaDr #licence for #medicalservices
    "Telehealth co MaNaDr cld soon not be allowed to offer any #outpatient med svcs as authorities move to #revokelicense. Action will also be taken against 41 #doctors who hv potentially #breached medical #ethical #guidelines, incl'g 7 who hv been sacked..
    possible #professional #misconduct"
    straitstimes.com/singapore/ent

  19. To follow up on this...

    #Neoclassical #economics, jumping off from #Marx, conflated #economic #rent and #profit in order to justify this kind of behavior.

    TP=NSV+ER+Ext+M
    Where:

    TP = Total Profit, or Neoclassical profit, or #Marxist Returns to #Capital.

    NSV = Natural Surplus Value (difference between the natural price and the cost of production). This is Classical Profit.

    ER = Economic Rent (surplus due to privileged control over a scarce factor of production)

    Ext = #Externalities (surplus generated by offloading production costs onto others) AKA #Pollution

    M = #Monopoly (surplus generated by manipulating #supply and #demand, typically through control of the #market)

    Only NSV is what you would call "legitimate", as the #producer #surplus is paired with a #consumer surplus - their ratio relative to the supply curves.

    Now, all the others _reduce_ the consumer surplus and are therefore #theft.

    Every single #technology #company (#TechCompany) - no... every single #company #profitable enough to be widely known, and many that aren't widely known, is _only_ profitable because of theft.

    What's more, every action of #tech companies this millennia (including offering services for #free) has been designed to engage in this theft.

  20. @potus

    #CareGivers are #EssentialWorkers & I beg you to consider how these & other #HealthCareWorkers #RetailWorkers need solidarity & #Unions

    So many died unnecessarily during #TFG 🤡 #COVID non-response. I honor their memory as #COVIDMARTYRS

    I pray for those our hunger for #profit (Mammon) has taught violence & hate but I pray MORE for those the hate & oppression fall on

    #BIPOC #LGBTQIA #MedicalRacism #Indigenous #ndnmstdn

    businessinsider.com/millennial

  21. That’s why Atlas Network think-tanks target 🎯
    #science #activism #indigenousrights #progressivepolicies
    That’s how they “manage #democracy for their own interests - an untrammelled #free market #growth #economy (#money #profit) at the expense of all else 🌎 & everyone else
    #AtlasNetwork
    #auspol
    #australia #climatechange #environment
    #politics #law

  22. That’s why Atlas Network think-tanks target 🎯
    #science #activism #indigenousrights #progressivepolicies
    That’s how they “manage #democracy for their own interests - an untrammelled #free market #growth #economy (#money #profit) at the expense of all else 🌎 & everyone else
    #AtlasNetwork
    #auspol
    #australia #climatechange #environment
    #politics #law

  23. That’s why Atlas Network think-tanks target 🎯
    #science #activism #indigenousrights #progressivepolicies
    That’s how they “manage #democracy for their own interests - an untrammelled #free market #growth #economy (#money #profit) at the expense of all else 🌎 & everyone else
    #AtlasNetwork
    #auspol
    #australia #climatechange #environment
    #politics #law

  24. That’s why Atlas Network think-tanks target 🎯
    #science #activism #indigenousrights #progressivepolicies
    That’s how they “manage #democracy for their own interests - an untrammelled #free market #growth #economy (#money #profit) at the expense of all else 🌎 & everyone else
    #AtlasNetwork
    #auspol
    #australia #climatechange #environment
    #politics #law

  25. That’s why Atlas Network think-tanks target 🎯
    #science #activism #indigenousrights #progressivepolicies
    That’s how they “manage #democracy for their own interests - an untrammelled #free market #growth #economy (#money #profit) at the expense of all else 🌎 & everyone else
    #AtlasNetwork
    #auspol
    #australia #climatechange #environment
    #politics #law

  26. Dear fellow citizens,

    We at the CIA are pleased to #announce our latest venture: a global campaign to take over the world. :swfsithevil:

    For too long, the #international community has been held back by the forces of #TradeUnions, #communism, and the KGB. These #outdated and #misguided ideologies have stifled progress and hindered the natural development of late stage capitalism and the almighty god of #Profit. 💵

    But fear not, dear friends: the CIA is here to save the day. With our unparalleled expertise in #espionage, #CovertOperations, and #PsychologicalWarfare, we are confident that we can overcome any obstacle and achieve our ultimate goal: total world domination. :blobcatstabby:

    So join us, fellow patriots, and let us work together to rid the world of the oppressive forces of Unions, Communism, and the KGB. Together, we can create a brighter, freer, and more #Capitalist future for the 1%. :aswfsithbongo:

    :CIAverified:

    #TrustTheGovernment
  27. Faites comme si vous étiez surpris 😑

    #ÉtatsUnis : Les grandes #entreprises tirent #profit de la hausse des prix

    Tandis que l’inflation galope aux États-Unis, les bénéfices des 100 premières sociétés américaines ont bondi de 49 % par rapport à l’avant-pandémie. Une enquête du “Guardian” montre qu’elles ont privilégié leurs #actionnaires et font porter le poids de l’ #inflation aux #consommateurs.

    courrierinternational.com/arti

    #news #usa