#publicgoods — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #publicgoods, aggregated by home.social.
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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.https://murica.website/2026/03/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/
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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.https://murica.website/2026/03/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/
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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.https://murica.website/2026/03/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/
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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.https://murica.website/2026/03/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/
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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.https://murica.website/2026/03/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/
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Hallo @dfg_public :
Gibt es bei den durch die DFG bereitgestellten Förder-Geldern * Vorgaben/Beschränkungen in Bezug auf Patente/Produkte/Wissen/... die daraus hervorgehen? Wie lauten diese?
Z.B. muss zu x Prozent gemeinnützig und frei verfügbar (#openaccess) sein. Ganz im Sinne von #publicmoney = #publicgoods.Kontext: "Darüber hinaus könnten staatlich geförderte Forschungsgruppen #Patente beantragen, um auszuschließen, dass diese in die Hände von Privaten fallen, die um der Profite willen vielen den Zugang hierzu unmöglich machen. Und schließlich sollte gerade bei genetischen und anderen Gemeingütern kein #Patentschutz vergeben werden."
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/pistor-der-kapitalismus-lasst-sich-durch-das-recht-transformieren/*
"2024 verfügte die #DFG über einen Förderungsetat von rund 3,9 Milliarden Euro, aus dem 30.940 Projekte unterstützt wurden. Bei dem Förderungsetat handelt es sich um Steuergelder, die (...) vom Bund / den Ländern getragen werden." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Forschungsgemeinschaft -
Hallo @dfg_public :
Gibt es bei den durch die DFG bereitgestellten Förder-Geldern * Vorgaben/Beschränkungen in Bezug auf Patente/Produkte/Wissen/... die daraus hervorgehen? Wie lauten diese?
Z.B. muss zu x Prozent gemeinnützig und frei verfügbar (#openaccess) sein. Ganz im Sinne von #publicmoney = #publicgoods.Kontext: "Darüber hinaus könnten staatlich geförderte Forschungsgruppen #Patente beantragen, um auszuschließen, dass diese in die Hände von Privaten fallen, die um der Profite willen vielen den Zugang hierzu unmöglich machen. Und schließlich sollte gerade bei genetischen und anderen Gemeingütern kein #Patentschutz vergeben werden."
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/pistor-der-kapitalismus-lasst-sich-durch-das-recht-transformieren/*
"2024 verfügte die #DFG über einen Förderungsetat von rund 3,9 Milliarden Euro, aus dem 30.940 Projekte unterstützt wurden. Bei dem Förderungsetat handelt es sich um Steuergelder, die (...) vom Bund / den Ländern getragen werden." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Forschungsgemeinschaft -
Hallo @dfg_public :
Gibt es bei den durch die DFG bereitgestellten Förder-Geldern * Vorgaben/Beschränkungen in Bezug auf Patente/Produkte/Wissen/... die daraus hervorgehen? Wie lauten diese?
Z.B. muss zu x Prozent gemeinnützig und frei verfügbar (#openaccess) sein. Ganz im Sinne von #publicmoney = #publicgoods.Kontext: "Darüber hinaus könnten staatlich geförderte Forschungsgruppen #Patente beantragen, um auszuschließen, dass diese in die Hände von Privaten fallen, die um der Profite willen vielen den Zugang hierzu unmöglich machen. Und schließlich sollte gerade bei genetischen und anderen Gemeingütern kein #Patentschutz vergeben werden."
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/pistor-der-kapitalismus-lasst-sich-durch-das-recht-transformieren/*
"2024 verfügte die #DFG über einen Förderungsetat von rund 3,9 Milliarden Euro, aus dem 30.940 Projekte unterstützt wurden. Bei dem Förderungsetat handelt es sich um Steuergelder, die (...) vom Bund / den Ländern getragen werden." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Forschungsgemeinschaft -
Hallo @dfg_public :
Gibt es bei den durch die DFG bereitgestellten Förder-Geldern * Vorgaben/Beschränkungen in Bezug auf Patente/Produkte/Wissen/... die daraus hervorgehen? Wie lauten diese?
Z.B. muss zu x Prozent gemeinnützig und frei verfügbar (#openaccess) sein. Ganz im Sinne von #publicmoney = #publicgoods.Kontext: "Darüber hinaus könnten staatlich geförderte Forschungsgruppen #Patente beantragen, um auszuschließen, dass diese in die Hände von Privaten fallen, die um der Profite willen vielen den Zugang hierzu unmöglich machen. Und schließlich sollte gerade bei genetischen und anderen Gemeingütern kein #Patentschutz vergeben werden."
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/pistor-der-kapitalismus-lasst-sich-durch-das-recht-transformieren/*
"2024 verfügte die #DFG über einen Förderungsetat von rund 3,9 Milliarden Euro, aus dem 30.940 Projekte unterstützt wurden. Bei dem Förderungsetat handelt es sich um Steuergelder, die (...) vom Bund / den Ländern getragen werden." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Forschungsgemeinschaft -
Hallo @dfg_public :
Gibt es bei den durch die DFG bereitgestellten Förder-Geldern * Vorgaben/Beschränkungen in Bezug auf Patente/Produkte/Wissen/... die daraus hervorgehen? Wie lauten diese?
Z.B. muss zu x Prozent gemeinnützig und frei verfügbar (#openaccess) sein. Ganz im Sinne von #publicmoney = #publicgoods.Kontext: "Darüber hinaus könnten staatlich geförderte Forschungsgruppen #Patente beantragen, um auszuschließen, dass diese in die Hände von Privaten fallen, die um der Profite willen vielen den Zugang hierzu unmöglich machen. Und schließlich sollte gerade bei genetischen und anderen Gemeingütern kein #Patentschutz vergeben werden."
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/pistor-der-kapitalismus-lasst-sich-durch-das-recht-transformieren/*
"2024 verfügte die #DFG über einen Förderungsetat von rund 3,9 Milliarden Euro, aus dem 30.940 Projekte unterstützt wurden. Bei dem Förderungsetat handelt es sich um Steuergelder, die (...) vom Bund / den Ländern getragen werden." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Forschungsgemeinschaft -
Pl help. Where's the social/economic history on this?
Ok. Like, when #JosephBazalgette famously built public sewers in London. Great public network. But where's the story of all the private connections into that?? Retrofitting backyard pits can't have been a small thing. How did everyone afford it, or not? What secured compliance?
Book recommendations etc all welcome. It's not about London. It's about compliance with public health.
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"...[F]or those of us who have the luxury of not being in the trenches, it’s a good time to start talking about what a specifically socialist approach to municipal government might look like, especially when it comes to technology.
Fortunately, we have a historical precedent to help us think through this question. As Eric Blanc has argued, the experience of Milwaukee’s “sewer socialists” in the early twentieth century holds lessons for our current moment. Significantly, sewer socialism is a tradition that Mamdani himself has cited as inspiration. “Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery,” he said in an interview earlier this year.
The basic insight of sewer socialism is bringing people into your politics by improving their lives in obvious ways. “You win someone’s trust through an outcome” is how Mamdani puts it. The sewer socialists of Milwaukee made the case that municipal ownership of systems like sanitation, water, and power could deliver services more efficiently and more equitably than private ownership. They solved practical problems for their constituents while constructing working examples of a postcapitalist political economy in miniature.
The same method can be applied to the internet. Call it “digital sewer socialism.” Socialist elected officials in New York, Seattle, and beyond can craft policy interventions that increase the quality of life for residents by addressing the difficulties that arise in their relationship with technology. These interventions can be carried out in such a way that, by modeling socialist principles, they win wider support for socialist ideas."
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/digital-sewer-socialism-public-ownership
#USA #Socialism #SewerSocialism #DigitalSewerSocialism #PublicGoods #PublicInfrastructure
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PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube
#HackerNews #PeerTube #DigitalPublicGood #PublicGoods #Alliance #OpenSource #VideoSharing
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PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube
#HackerNews #PeerTube #DigitalPublicGood #PublicGoods #Alliance #OpenSource #VideoSharing
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PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube
#HackerNews #PeerTube #DigitalPublicGood #PublicGoods #Alliance #OpenSource #VideoSharing
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PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube
#HackerNews #PeerTube #DigitalPublicGood #PublicGoods #Alliance #OpenSource #VideoSharing
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PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube
#HackerNews #PeerTube #DigitalPublicGood #PublicGoods #Alliance #OpenSource #VideoSharing
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"If politics is the art of negotiating differences–and, ideally, supporting and multiplying them–under a common rule, then the work before us is to renovate the “common”: the infrastructures through which we meet, rely on, and matter to one another. This political labor prioritizes building over branding, reciprocity over performance, and the ethical experience of reciprocally caring for one another over the satisfactions of solipsistic online expression, newspaper columns, or podcasts.
To beat Trumpism, we must name the breakdown of democracy that has already transpired over decades of neoliberal disinvestment from the commons and from care it supports. And for those in positions of power who oversaw the breakdown and whose careers and bank accounts benefited from it, they should take responsibility for the reality they’ve wrought.
Then let us treat politics not as civility training but as the work of caring for democracy: the deliberate construction of public, participatory systems of care that give our talk of community actual substance. That means Medicare for All–and a national community care worker system that keeps people from needing doctors and hospitals in the first place. It means universal childcare–and the well-paid neighborhood jobs and safe spaces to enable it. It means housing as a fundamental right–and the support teams that get and keep people stably housed.
It means regarding racial, gender, and religious differences not as inconveniences to be tolerated but as the very lifeblood of democracy and the wellspring of its essential creativity. It means moving resources from punishment to care and proving, block by block, that safety is a function of belonging and caregiving, not of policing or surveillance."
https://www.newglobalpolitics.org/neither-culture-wars-nor-big-tents-will-save-american-democracy/
#USA #Democracy #Democrats #DemocraticParty #PublicGoods #Universalism
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UK pharma giants are pulling out of long-term research initiatives — which, surprise, could gut scientific infrastructure.
But wait… I thought capitalism was supposed to be innovative?
Funny how the “free market” loves science — right up until it stops being instantly profitable.
Public science built the world. Capital privatizes the parts it can sell.
#Capitalism #Science #UK #Pharma #Research #PublicGoods #Degrowth #SystemicFailure
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"For the conservative argument to hold any water, there needs to be a reason that free stuff from the government is bad but free stuff from individuals is not. Why would that be? When people like Senator Paul rage against free stuff, the concern seems to be the effect it will have on the recipient — that handing out free stuff promotes laziness. Why would a free bus ride turn working-class people into freeloaders but a trust fund make rich kids into innovative entrepreneurs? This makes sense only if you have already decided that poor people are lazy and rich people are inherently better.
Any capitalist who doesn’t want to abolish inheritance rejects the first premise of the first version of the Anti-Socialism Argument. Unless you have either simply presupposed that capitalism is the better system or have assumed that rich people are genetically superior, you have no reason to believe premise one of the revised Anti-Socialism Argument 2.0.
So let’s be clear: The “free stuff” line isn’t an argument. It’s a smoke screen. It’s a way to sneer at programs that help ordinary people while keeping quiet about the much larger freebies that flow to the wealthy every day. Mamdani’s win shows that more and more New Yorkers see through the hypocrisy."
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/mamdani-socialism-capitalism-free-stuff/
#Socialism #PublicWelfare #Conservatism #PublicGoods #Capitalism #Ideology
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Essential Reading ->
"One could argue that by repurposing creative works, AI has expanded the art multiplier: each dollar spent on the arts now yields its usual social return, as well as additional value derived from its incorporation into AI systems.
Yet, despite the value of their contributions, public funding for artists and creators has steadily declined. In the United Kingdom, for example, direct support from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to national arts bodies fell by 18% per person in real terms between 2009-10 and 2022-23. Over the same period, core funding for arts councils dropped by 18% in England, 22% in Scotland, 25% in Wales, and 66% in Northern Ireland. As generative AI continues to churn out synthetic content and displace human labor, that support must increase to reflect the realities of a changing creative economy.
Admittedly, with public finances under pressure and debt on the rise, this is hardly the time for unchecked government spending. Any additional funding would need to be financed responsibly. While a detailed policy blueprint is beyond the scope of this article, it’s worth noting that the enormous profits generated by major tech firms could be partially redirected to support the creative communities that power their models.
One way to achieve this would be to impose a levy on the gross revenues of the largest AI providers, collected by a national or multilateral agency. As the technology becomes increasingly embedded in daily life and production processes, the revenue flowing to AI firms is bound to grow – and so, too, will contributions to the fund. These resources could then be distributed by independent grant councils on multiyear cycles, ensuring that support reaches a wide range of disciplines and regions."
#AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #Copyright #IP #AITraining #Commons #DigitalCommons #CreativeLabour #PublicGoods
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David Bernhardt Sets Up His Own Shop to Lobby (indirectly) For Twin Metals
I missed this June Politico story about David Bernhardt breaking with Brownstein Hyatt and setting up his own lobbying shop at 1455 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, just a block away from the White House. The former Secretary of the Interior, who oversaw Trump’s first assault on the Boundary Waters, will now run the Twin Metals lobbying game.
The most recent Senate lobbying disclosures show Brownstein Hyatt filing a termination report on July 16, after collecting $110,000 for lobbying the Senate, House, and the Department of the Interior on behalf of Twin Metals in the second quarter of this year.
Just one day before that, on July 15, the Bernhardt Group LLC filed a new registration, to lobby — not directly for Twin Metals, but for Brownstein Hyatt “obo” (on behalf of) Twin Metals LLC. The Bernhardt Group has the same arrangement “on behalf of” other Brownstein clients, including Barrick Gold, USA Rare Earth, Bakelite, Denver Water, and the Central Arizona Water Conservation District.
In these cases, the Bernhardt Group LLC will lobby for a lobbying firm on behalf of the lobbying firm’s clients. I suppose “subcontractor” is the charitable term here.
Former Brownstein lobbyists with a Twin Metals track record, including Kate Gonzales, William McGrath, and Luke Johnson, will lead the Bernhardt Group’s lobbying effort for their former lobbying firm on behalf of Twin Metals. Their declared focus will be “mine leasing issues.” The Group billed $40,000 in the second quarter for its work.
In 2023, Bernhardt wrote a self-promoting book all about accountability and the “failing” administrative state. So it’s a little odd to see the former Secretary of the Interior’s new lobbying firm enclosed like a Matryoshka doll within another lobbying firm — an arrangement that should raise serious questions about public accountability and what people like Bernhardt call the DC swamp.
Maybe this is just another small reminder that David Bernhardt and the America First crowd were never talking about public accountability; they are complaining that sometimes the DC bureaucracy cannot be brought readily to heel.
For years, this crowd has worked behind the scenes to discredit the very idea of American government while exerting power within it and influence over it; now they are also dismantling the parts that stand in their way, so that their clients and cronies can strip, hoard, and sell our natural resources, our public lands, and other public goods.
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#administrativeState #corruption #deconstructionOfTheAdministrativeState #governmentCapture #governmentFailure #lobbying #lobbyingDisclosures #publicGoods #resourceHoarding
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Paul Krugman exposes a troubling reality: Drastic budget cuts to NOAA and scientific research aren’t just fiscal moves; they undermine vital public services in weather forecasting. A staggering 40% reduction reflects a dangerous agenda to diminish climate change evidence. This trend threatens long-term economic stability as ignorance is prioritized over science. Discover Krugman’s insightful analysis here: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/for-maga-ignorance-is-strength #PaulKrugman #NOAA #ScientificResearch #ClimateChange #PublicGoods #TrumpAdministration #IgnoranceIsStrength #Economics #PolicyAnalysis
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Herzlich Willkommen im #Fediverse! 👋
Die »Digital Public Goods Alliance« ist #NeuHier auf #Mastodon!
👉 @dpgallianceDer #DPG-Standard zeigt, ob eine digitale Lösung einem digitalen öffentlichen Gut entspricht:
https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/standardFolgen und weitersagen!
#OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #PublicGoods #SDGs #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #UN #OpenData #privacy #Datenschutz #OpenAI #OpenContent #NewHere #WissKomm #SciComm #ÖRR #FediCampus
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Current administration priorities, to be nuanced, might not be intended *specifically* to kill a huge number of us and our families, but that is absolutely the consequence of MAGA. #dismantlement #disruption #plunder #privatization #democide #publichealth #health #healthNews #kakistocracy #plutocracy #publicResourcesArePublicGoods #publicGoods #theftOfPublicGoods #theftOfPublicGoodsIsTheirPoint
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Current administration priorities, to be nuanced, might not be intended *specifically* to kill a huge number of us and our families, but that is absolutely the consequence of MAGA. #dismantlement #disruption #plunder #privatization #democide #publichealth #health #healthNews #kakistocracy #plutocracy #publicResourcesArePublicGoods #publicGoods #theftOfPublicGoods #theftOfPublicGoodsIsTheirPoint
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Online news analysts Francesca Fiorentini and Wajahat Ali “...break down the authoritarian power grab and the indispensable programs – from Medicaid to school lunches – that [Don Trump's #project2025 initiative to scrap all programs which use public funding to serve public needs, ie, to vaporize #publicGoods to the ultimate benefit of private equity] targets under the guise of eliminating programs that 'advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies.'
“YouTube star Brian Tyler Cohen also joins the show to discuss how Democrats are massively failing to respond while Trump and his MAGA base wreak havoc on the country...”
#powerGrab #dissolutionOfSeparation #separationOfPowers #wealthTransfer #savingsTransfer #investmentsTransfer #dismantlement #heritageFoundation #corporateSocialism #MAGAplunder #constitution #headlines #news #powerOfThePurse
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#NetworkSovereignty #Commons-based/#mutualistic communities built on #interdependency, shared public goods. In #SOAM residence programme we explored collective data stewardship over profit.
#PublicGoods #Blockchain #Governance #Cosmolocal
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Vitalik Buterin Responds to Rumored Sales, Reaffirms Commitment to Ethereum and Charitable Causes - After some activity was noticed from wallets linked to Vitalik Buterin, co-founder... - https://news.bitcoin.com/vitalik-buterin-responds-to-rumored-sales-reaffirms-commitment-to-ethereum-and-charitable-causes/ #ethereumecosystem #buterinethereum #cryptocurrency #vitalikbuterin #walletactivity #publicgoods #blockchain #tokensales #ethereum #l2tokens #charity #news
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Join me in signing @wikimediafoundation's open letter supporting three key ideas that should be part of the UN's #GlobalDigitalCompact: 1) online #PublicInterest, 2) digital #PublicGoods, 3) and #AI to support and empower — not replace — people https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2024/04/23/open-letter-protect-wikipedia-global-digital-compact/
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Abolishing #Section230 Would Abolish #Wikipedia
"…to make sure that your #Section230Reform proposal will address the harms you're seeking to address, without negatively impacting multiple #publicgoods, things that we want to protect and preserve on the internet, like for example, #Wikipedia — aply #TheWikipediaTest."
#RebeccaMackinnon, the legend, interviewed by @mmasnick
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Chicago Is Considering Opening a Municipal Grocery Store
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/chicago-municipal-grocery-store-publicly-state-owned
#ChicagoMunicipalGrocery #PubliclyOwnedGroceryStore #FoodAccess #CommunityDevelopment #LocalEconomy #PublicGoods #Politics #News
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#AI #Commons #DataCommons #OpenSource #PublicGoods: "In short, the sharing economy’s world without money was built on top of a world where money was everything, and the bill has come due. Our data has not only been appropriated, but is increasingly used against us. It has become the fuel behind AI models whose power and influence on our lives we are just beginning to fathom, but that we can already see are not all positive, or not all to our advantage – especially to those most vulnerable in our societies.
Big Tech will continue to cling to the idea of data as a non-rival good, claiming that data extractivism is all done for our benefit. They may even promise that their AI models will be open-source public goods, which supposedly means that our stolen data will come back to us as a more useful product, capable of solving the world’s problems.
We must see these moves for what they are: Not the altruistic actions of benevolent corporations, but a way to avoid lawsuits, delay attempts at serious regulation and more importantly, justify the privatisation of the commons."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/8/19/ai-and-the-tyranny-of-the-data-commons
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Unless you can address the economics of capital, rents, labour, public goods, and assets, and their relationships to power, privilege, and oppression, then technology itself either does not help, or worsens, power imbalances.
https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/49817e2057a40139c261002590d8e506
#BigProblems #economics #technology #power #PublicGoods #Assets #rents #capital #inequality #oppression
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Similarly failure to adhere to well-defined and reasoned #protections and #taxes needed for 'thePeople' to preserve what are deemed #publicGoods, could be grounds for #redistributing property, such as #land.
It is why we are so adamant that those few state #policymakers in #Australia who went so far as to privatise something so foundational as our #landRegistries need to be taken to a #criminal court for possible #treason against the people, for handing over such delicate data to #corporatists.
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@lj_writes
(2/4)There are going to be bad apples in any bunch. We cannot single out #environmentalists any more than #religiousGroups that believe when people die, that's Gods way. Or #capitalists who believe that the 99% don't work hard enough. Or #slavetrade operators, #rentSeekers and rabid #shareholders who want to suck all the #productiveValue from the masses while paying them a pittance and #evadingTaxes that might help pay for #publicGoods like #healthcare.
The bad exist...(2/4)
