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Attention #California: #RebeccaSolnit has some information to help you in the upcoming #primary #election for #governor.
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-case-for-climate-champion-tom-steyer-in-the-california-governors-race/ -
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https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/
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“We often speak as though we are here to toil, endlessly planting and cultivating seeds and seedlings. But we have also feasted on harvests from what was sown and tended by those who came before.”
Rebecca Solnit // The Beginning Comes After the End
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"The United States is destroying itself.
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment.
The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries.
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But trying to understand motives is something of a hobby when the focus needs to be on consequences. We do not need to understand these criminals in order to try to contain and ultimately remove them. They will not last for ever, and we need to think about what happens when they’re gone – to talk about the kind of reconstruction the US will face for the first time since the civil war, the reconstruction a ravaged and corrupted country has to go through to return to functionality. But not to return to the way things were."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction
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USAnian liberals are v funny.
#RebeccaSolnit rightly observes that the #USA is being dismantled from within, but somehow thinks that's a Bad Thing™. :D
Yes, #Solnit really wants readers to believe in the virtue myths of an empire founded on violent conquest and racism, built on genocide and the Big Lie of "liberty". 🤣😅
Solnit is course right that #Trump is a depraved, crooked monster. But her notion of another, virtuous America, is a Big Lie.
Why does #TheGuardian publish this crap?
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Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/flowers-bloom-on-soldiers-graves-lessons-in-power-and-consequence/
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An excellent summary of the destruction and long term consequences of #Trump and the #maga movement. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction #uspol #worldpol #reconstruction #rebeccasolnit
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The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit review – a manual for coping with change https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/09/the-beginning-comes-after-the-end-by-rebecca-solnit-review-a-manual-for-coping-with-change #RebeccaSolnit #Books #Culture #SocietyBooks #PhilosophyBooks #HistoryBooks
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Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/writers-artists-gardens/
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‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/25/rebecca-solnit-slow-revolution-far-right-cannot-tolerate #RebeccaSolnit #Books #Culture #PoliticsBooks #UsPolitics #Society #Feminism #TheFarRight #Environment #Race #ClimateCrisis #ProtestUs
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Mittagspause mit @RebeccaSolnit und Blick auf die Universitätsbibliothek der @unituebingen - Solnit's "Thr Beginning Comes After The End" ist das LA Times "Most Anticipated Book of 2026" #amreading #RebeccaSolnit #uspol #Feminism #NativeRights
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"Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender." @RebeccaSolnit speaks with David Marchese for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/magazine/rebecca-solnit-interview.html
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"It’s this idea that we don’t have to look for an individual, for a savior, for an Übermensch. I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war."
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-my-never-ending-quest-for-clarity/
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"Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
As the old saw goes, the only constant is change. But change doesn’t always feel as overwhelming as it does right now. We are living in an era of widespread democratic backsliding, sweeping technological disruption and the slow-motion disaster of the climate crisis, to name just a few of the most troubling societal upheavals. But what if, despite all that, there’s a different and more hopeful story to tell about change?That’s the question at the heart of 'The Beginning Comes After the End,'t he new book by the prolific and critically acclaimed progressive writer Rebecca Solnit. A thematic sequel to her classic 'Hope in the Dark,' the book shines a light on the vibrant world often hidden within our own seemingly gloomier one — a world that has embraced ideas of interconnection, ecological care and political equality. It’s not a naïve book — Solnit is keenly aware of the challenges we’re all facing — but it provides a stabilizing counterweight to the feeling that the world, of late, has spun dangerously off-kilter."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/magazine/rebecca-solnit-interview.html
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The Beginning Comes After the End
by Rebecca SolnitImportant new book by Rebecca #Solnit
The synopsis:
#RebeccaSolnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.”
https://kottke.org/26/03/beginning-comes-after-the-end
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For our latest questionnaire, Rebecca Solnit, author of The Beginning Comes After the End, talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using
https://longreads.com/2026/03/04/questionnaire-rebecca-solnit/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #interview #RebeccaSolnit #longreads #authors #writing -
Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "Whose Story Is This?" von der wie immer grossartigen @RebeccaSolnit 💚 Über Frauen und das #Patriarchat, Amerika unter #Trump und die bereits erreichten Fortschritte in ihrer Lebenszeit. Ihr Text zu Statuen und Strassen liess mich hoffen dass auch der Münchner Flughafen und die Stuttgarter Konzerthalle eines Tages nicht mehr nach alten Nazis benannt sein werden. 🌈💚 #feminism #RebeccaSolnit #amreading #Bookstodon #AOC #ClimateChange
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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/29/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "Cinderella Liberator" von der grossartigen Rebecca Solnit, die einen Essay als Nachwort anschliesst. Verwandlung nur um zu sein wer man werden möchte. 👍 #RebeccaSolnit #Märchen #fairytales #Bookstodon
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One Long Year Later: It's Not Over, and We Haven't Surrendered
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/one-long-year-later-its-not-over-and-we-havent-surrendered/
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"How Venezuela stole its own oil on its own territory is something I would love JD Vance to explain in a war crimes tribunal, but the short version is imperialism plus the habit of Republican administrations of regarding the fossil fuel industry as inseparable from government and making its interests the top priority" #RebeccaSolnit - file under #FossilCapital #Venezuela
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/five-facets-of-the-attack-on-venezuela-by-the-rogue-nation-the-us-has-become/ -
Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/06/trump-immigration-whiteness?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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#RebeccaSolnit talks to the #StartMakingSense pod about the #NoKings protests: https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-102225/
Her piece in The Nation, "The Right is Lying About Left-Wing Violence": https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/left-wing-violence-myths-protest/
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸" 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗻𝗶𝘁 -
Though even the update seems out of date now (2015), Solnit's grasp of the breadth of narratives outside of our vision & our obsessiveness with some despairing ones is a healthy and needed perspective.
#books #bookreviews #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #rebeccasolnit #hopeinthedark #virtuesignaling #despair #hope #politics #activism #mentalhealth
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A couple of days ago I finished reading Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”. I’m still digesting it, it was really good - written around the turn of the century (this one, in case like me until recently that makes you think start of the twentieth! Oh god how are we in the 21st century?) it is a book that expects you to think rather than spoonfeeding.
It covers the emergence of walking as a thing in itself rather than just what everyone does to move, engaging with questions of meaning, politics and gender in relation to that. It also touches on the alienating nature of car travel in separating us from one another and the world around us.
It is well worth reading: highly recommended. I’m going to have to add some more of Rebecca Solnit’s works to my book-hoard: they all look interesting.
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A couple of days ago I finished reading Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”. I’m still digesting it, it was really good - written around the turn of the century (this one, in case like me until recently that makes you think start of the twentieth! Oh god how are we in the 21st century?) it is a book that expects you to think rather than spoonfeeding.
It covers the emergence of walking as a thing in itself rather than just what everyone does to move, engaging with questions of meaning, politics and gender in relation to that. It also touches on the alienating nature of car travel in separating us from one another and the world around us.
It is well worth reading: highly recommended. I’m going to have to add some more of Rebecca Solnit’s works to my book-hoard: they all look interesting.
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A couple of days ago I finished reading Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”. I’m still digesting it, it was really good - written around the turn of the century (this one, in case like me until recently that makes you think start of the twentieth! Oh god how are we in the 21st century?) it is a book that expects you to think rather than spoonfeeding.
It covers the emergence of walking as a thing in itself rather than just what everyone does to move, engaging with questions of meaning, politics and gender in relation to that. It also touches on the alienating nature of car travel in separating us from one another and the world around us.
It is well worth reading: highly recommended. I’m going to have to add some more of Rebecca Solnit’s works to my book-hoard: they all look interesting.
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A couple of days ago I finished reading Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”. I’m still digesting it, it was really good - written around the turn of the century (this one, in case like me until recently that makes you think start of the twentieth! Oh god how are we in the 21st century?) it is a book that expects you to think rather than spoonfeeding.
It covers the emergence of walking as a thing in itself rather than just what everyone does to move, engaging with questions of meaning, politics and gender in relation to that. It also touches on the alienating nature of car travel in separating us from one another and the world around us.
It is well worth reading: highly recommended. I’m going to have to add some more of Rebecca Solnit’s works to my book-hoard: they all look interesting.
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A couple of days ago I finished reading Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”. I’m still digesting it, it was really good - written around the turn of the century (this one, in case like me until recently that makes you think start of the twentieth! Oh god how are we in the 21st century?) it is a book that expects you to think rather than spoonfeeding.
It covers the emergence of walking as a thing in itself rather than just what everyone does to move, engaging with questions of meaning, politics and gender in relation to that. It also touches on the alienating nature of car travel in separating us from one another and the world around us.
It is well worth reading: highly recommended. I’m going to have to add some more of Rebecca Solnit’s works to my book-hoard: they all look interesting.
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Spiragli di #speranza
L' editoriale di Giovanni De Mauro su #Internazionale di questa settimana riprende (e traduce) alcuni estratti della prefazione del libro di Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the dark nell'edizione più recente (2016):
https://archive.fo/oBisxSono parole di cui al momento si sente un gran bisogno.
La prefazione e il testo originale si possono leggere in rete a questo indirizzo:
https://imp.dayawisesa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hope_in_the_Dark_Untold_Histories_Wild_Possibilities_Rebecca_Solnit.pdf
#Hope #RebeccaSolnit #Letture
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[05:45] Geen Trump zonder cowboys: dit is waar de Amerikaanse isolatiedrang vandaan komt
De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump verkoopt zijn nieuwe importtarieven als ‘bevrijding’ van de VS. Zijn verlangen de banden met andere landen door te snijden, is een nieuwe incarnatie van een oud Amerikaans ideaal: je bent pas echt vrij als je je loskoppelt van anderen. Rebecca Solnit schreef er in 2016 dit essay over.
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"We have work to do, and I see some of it being done. We have to do a lot more, and we have to do it wholeheartedly, and we have to do it not knowing exactly what it will take." -- Rebecca Solnit
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-get-ready/
#RiseUp #RebeccaSolnit #resist #democracy #MutualAid #RiseTogether #PeoplePower #principles #values #love #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #USConstitution #law
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Una puta merda
Cada cop tot es torna mes una puta merda
Tinc una confessió: em fa fàstic com ha evolucionat internet. Vaja, no és cap sorpresa. El món digital, que prometia llibertat i connexió global, ha acabat convertit en un femer de plataformes que són el pitjor exemple de l’esperit empresarial modern. Cory Doctorow en diu “enshittification”, i és el millor nom que he sentit per descriure aquest merder. De fet les idees d’aquest article es poden trobar en part a la conferencia de Doctorow a la Defcon 31 a Las Vegas on parlava ampliament d’això i pots trobar-ne la transcripció aqui https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/27/an-audacious-plan-to-halt-the-internets-enshittification-and-throw-it-into-reverse/ o el video aqui https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8
L’enshittification pasa quan una plataforma comença sent generosa amb els usuaris, després comença a explotar-los per fer contents els seus clients comercials, i finalment es folla tant els usuaris com els clients per beneficiar només els accionistes. El resultat? Un servei tan merdós que ningú el pot tolerar.
La cosa comença dolça, com una droga gratis. Facebook és l’exemple perfecte. Va començar dient: “Ei, som millors que Myspace! Nosaltres no espiarem les teves dades com aquell vell putrefacte australià que controla Myspace. Vine, reuneix-te amb els teus amics, i nosaltres et farem un feed personalitzat amb tot allò que vols veure.” Però abans d’això, cal recordar d’on venia Facebook.
La idea original del seu fundador, Mark Zuckerberg, no era exactament crear un espai de connexió i comunitat. No, el primer Facebook, anomenat Facemash, era una plataforma on es puntuava anònimament i sense consentiment l’aspecte físic d’altres estudiants. Aquesta és la gènesi de la plataforma: un lloc creat per cosificar persones i reduir-les a puntuacions. Això ja donava pistes del tipus d’empresa que seria en el futur.
Van guanyar usuaris gràcies a les xarxes d’amistat: un amic s’hi uneix, i llavors tots els altres s’hi uneixen també. Aquests “efectes de xarxa” són com una droga col·lectiva. Un cop tothom hi és, fugir es torna impossible. Què faràs? Convencer els teus 200 amics que deixin Facebook per alguna cosa millor? Bona sort amb això.
I aquí és on la cosa comença a degenerar. Quan tenen prou usuaris atrapats, comencen a explotar-los. Primer es ven l’ànima als anunciants: “Ei, recordeu quan vam dir als usuaris que no els espiaríem? Doncs era mentida. Ara ho sabem tot d’ells, des de què mengen per esmorzar fins a quantes vegades van al lavabo.” Els anunciants paguen, i Facebook treu beneficis.
També es venen als editors de contingut: “Voleu audiència? Penjeu els vostres articles aquí i nosaltres els fotrem als ulls dels usuaris encara que no ho vulguin.” I mentre publishers i anunciants es freguen les mans, Facebook ho controla tot. Quan arriba el moment, els deixa sense escapatòria. Els algoritmes limiten el contingut que arriba als usuaris, i obliguen els editors a pagar més per arribar al mateix públic.
Tot es redueix a una simple lògica de Darth Vader: “He alterat l’acord. Pregueu que no l’alteri més.” Aquest procés, tot i semblar únic del món tecnològic, té paral·lels històrics en altres indústries. A principis del segle XX, els magnats del ferrocarril i del petroli als Estats Units aplicaven tàctiques semblants. Una frase de Rebecca Solnit ho resumeix perfectament: “Els grans imperis comercials són, per sobre de tot, màquines d’acaparar poder.”
Però això només és la punta de l’iceberg. Avui dia, Amazon ha eliminat pràcticament totes les eines de control de qualitat per als productes que es venen a la seva plataforma. Gran part del seu catàleg està ple de productes de dropshipping que no han passat cap mena de revisió. Si compres un cable de coure per a electrònica, és altament probable que sigui un fil de ferro cobert amb una capa de coure falsa. És literalment més rendible fabricar fils falsos i vendre’ls a Amazon que assegurar la qualitat. Aquest caos afecta sectors sencers. Els petits fabricants que realment volen vendre productes de qualitat han de competir amb una allau de falsificacions barates. I Amazon? Es renta les mans mentre segueix acumulant beneficis.
Twitter no es queda enrere. El que una vegada va ser una plataforma relativament funcional i útil per a debats i notícies s’ha convertit en un femer infecte sota la direcció d’Elon Musk. La decisió de Musk de fer de Twitter el seu altaveu polític i personal va accelerar el declivi de la plataforma. Entre bots de propaganda, pornografia no moderada i la promoció desenfrenada de discursos d’odi, el nou Twitter és una ombra del que era abans. L’obsessió de Musk per monetitzar qualsevol aspecte de la plataforma ha portat a un augment de comptes verificats falsos, la desaparició de moderadors humans i un algoritme que amplifica continguts extremistes i desinformació. Això, combinat amb el seu suport explícit a figures polítiques d’extrema dreta, ha fet que Twitter es converteixi en un lloc perillós per a molts usuaris. Twitter no només ha perdut la confiança dels seus usuaris, sinó també la de molts anunciants importants. El procés d’enshittification aquí és tan evident que es podria utilitzar com a cas d’estudi en qualsevol llibre sobre la decadència de les plataformes tecnològiques.
Quan mirem com aquestes plataformes arriben al seu punt de col·lapse, es fa evident que aquest cicle és inevitable. Facebook, Google, Amazon… totes arriben a un punt on els seus serveis es tornen insuportables. Els usuaris es queden per inèrcia fins que arriba l’escàndol de Cambridge Analytica, la muskada del dia o algun altre desastre que els obliga a fugir. Llavors tot peta. Pensa en l’èxit inicial de Google: un cercador net, senzill i que feia el que prometia. Ara és un garbuix ple d’anuncis, resultats manipulats i funcions que només beneficien els accionistes. Aquestes empreses són com els bancs als que es refereix Thomas Piketty: acumulen capital fins a ofegar tota competència. Quan això passa, l’únic que pots esperar és l’empobriment general. O com deia Karl Marx: “L’acumulació de riquesa en uns quants porta a l’empobriment de molts.”
El patró de dominació no es limita a plataformes socials i comerç electrònic. Apple, per exemple, van fer reverse engineering de Microsoft Office per crear un competidor directe que era assequible i funcional i crear iWork. Aquesta pràctica, en aquell moment, no era il·legal i formava part del mercat competitiu. Però després, Apple, Microsoft i altres grans corporacions van pressionar per canviar la legislació, fent que aquest tipus de pràctiques esdevinguessin il·legals. Això no només va protegir el seu estatus de dominadors del mercat, sinó que també va tancar la porta a qualsevol startup o petita empresa que volgués competir amb les mateixes regles que ells havien aprofitat. És un clar exemple de com els gegants tecnològics manipulen el sistema per assegurar que ningú pugui desafiar-los.
A Amazon, la situació no és gaire diferent. Quan van voler comprar Diapers.com, una empresa especialitzada en la venda de bolquers, aquesta es va negar. La resposta d’Amazon? Venem bolquers a pèrdues! Literalment van cremar 100 milions de dòlars venent bolquers per sota del seu cost, fins que van enviar a la bancarrota a la competència i es van quedar amb el mercat.
Un altre exemple de com les grans corporacions han manipulat les normes del joc per mantenir el control el trobem en la gestió dels drets digitals, també coneguda com DRM (Digital Rights Management). Inicialment, aquestes mesures es van introduir amb la justificació de protegir la propietat intel·lectual i evitar la pirateria, però, amb el temps, s’han convertit en eines despòtiques que restringeixen el que podem fer amb els productes que comprem legalment. Quan compres un llibre electrònic, una pel·lícula o una cançó, en realitat no n’ets propietari. Només adquireixes una llicència per utilitzar-lo sota condicions estrictes dictades per la corporació.
Aquest sistema permet a les empreses mantenir un control absolut sobre els seus productes, fins i tot després de la venda. No pots transferir el contingut a un altre dispositiu sense el seu permís, ni tampoc compartir-lo, encara que sigui per un ús personal i dins dels límits de la llei. Imagina comprar un llibre de paper i que l’editorial t’impedeixi deixar-lo a un amic o llegir-lo en una altra habitació. Això és el que passa diàriament amb els continguts digitals.
El DRM també és una arma poderosa per destruir la competència i perpetuar monopolis. Les empreses creen formats propietaris que obliguen els consumidors a quedar-se dins del seu ecosistema. Amazon, per exemple, utilitza DRM per assegurar que els llibres electrònics comprats al seu Kindle no es puguin llegir en altres dispositius sense passar per processos complicats que sovint poden infringir la llei. Això no és protecció, és captiveri.
Encara més greu és que aquest sistema permet a les corporacions eliminar contingut dels teus dispositius, fins i tot si l’has comprat legalment. Si, per exemple, la corporació deixa de tenir els drets de distribució d’un llibre o una pel·lícula, poden esborrar-lo remotament del teu dispositiu sense el teu consentiment ni compensació. Això és un nivell de control que mai abans s’havia vist amb els productes físics.
Com diu Cory Doctorow, el DRM no protegeix els artistes ni els creadors, protegeix les corporacions. En lloc de fomentar un mercat obert i competitiu, perpetua una dinàmica de control on els consumidors són tractats com a llogaters dels productes digitals que haurien de posseir. Aquesta lògica és una altra capa de l’enshittification: fer que el valor del producte desaparegui en benefici d’una estratègia empresarial que només beneficia els accionistes i destrueix qualsevol possibilitat de resistència o innovació.
També hi ha sectors com el de l’automoció que exemplifiquen la magnitud del problema. Els fabricants de cotxes, per exemple, guanyen tants diners venent dades de telemetria com venent els cotxes. Et controlen quantes vegades has frenat bruscament, quantes vegades has superat el límit de velocitat i molt més i ho venen a les asseguradores que fan servir aquesta informació per decidir si et canvien el preu de l’assegurança o directament si et renoven o no. Això no és vendre cotxes, és vendre control.
I aquesta explotació no es limita als cotxes. Els dispositius intel·ligents de casa també participen d’aquesta dinàmica. Refrigeradors que monitoritzen quins aliments compres i els venedors de termòstats que recopilen dades sobre quanta energia consumeixes. És una estratègia de control total. Cal recordar com la manca de competència porta a l’estancament. Com diu Evgeny Morozov: “Quan el poder es concentra en poques mans, la innovació es converteix en un simple vehicle per perpetuar aquest poder.”
No tot està perdut. Per frenar l’enshittification, hem d’atacar tres fronts: desfer monopolis, garantir interoperabilitat i implementar regulacions estrictes.
Necessitem lleis que protegeixin la privacitat, evitin la manipulació d’algoritmes i protegeixin els treballadors.
Com diu Rebecca Solnit: “L’economia digital és un sistema de servitud voluntària.” Això no pot continuar així. Però la resistència comença amb nosaltres. El hacking ha estat històricament una força de transformació. Des de la creació de Linux fins al moviment del codi obert, els hackers han desafiat les grans corporacions i han obert nous camins. Avui, més que mai, aquesta resistència és essencial. La comunitat hacker és la millor eina contra aquests abusos. Recuperar internet per la gent vol dir lluitar per un món on les plataformes no puguin alterar les regles quan vulguin, ni explotar la nostra privacitat sense conseqüències.
Com diu Doctorow, necessitem un foc controlat per cremar el vell sistema i fer espai per al nou. L’alternativa no és evitar el foc, és el gran incendi que ho consumeix tot. Tornem a una internet feta per i per a la gent. El vell internet va morir, però podem crear-ne un de nou, i millor.#Algoritmes #Amazon #Apple #Capitalisme #CapitalismeDigital #ControlCorporatiu #CoryDoctorow #DiapersCom #DretsDigitals #DRM #EconomiaDigital #ElonMusk #Enshittification #EvgenyMorozov #Facebook #Google #Hacking #InnovacióTecnològica #KarlMarx #Monopolis #Musk #PlataformesDigitals #PrivacitatDigital #RebeccaSolnit #ResistènciaTecnològica #ReverseEngineering #ThomasPiketty #Twitter #XCom
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Hmmm.
#RebeccaSolnit shared this image & said "A common response to mention of #renewables is a denunciation of mining for battery materials by people who don't seem to notice that fossil fuel is also mined/extracted -- on a scale that dwarfs everything else."
I seriously wish I knew the actual ratio, which this image does not offer.
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There's something to it in that some of the MANY nationwide numbers of heavy equipment already extant, could be making small dams, ponds, wetlands, infiltration systems, #keyline plowing, erosion management, #watershed #restoration, & so on, & would be far better use of a small bit of the remaining oil (most of which, of course, should be left in the ground).
The tools that are destroying #ecosystems can be used for restoration & #rewilding. A bigger outcome (a life-support system🙄 ) with far, far less less oil burned.
#earthworks
#energy #FossilFuels #permaculture #relocalization #renewables
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"The choices #tech titans make in their personal lives [..] show that a segregated, shrouded life is their ideal. But they profit off technologies which, while encouraging our own social withdrawal, are focused on capturing as much information about us as possible."
#RebeccaSolnit reads her powerful LRB essay, "Losing #SanFrancisco"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley
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"I Stand With Penguins!"
yasaman posted "How to Comment on Social Media" by Rebecca Solnit and mefites are offering their cheeky addendums.
https://www.metafilter.com/202363/How-to-Comment-on-Social-Media-by-Rebecca-Solnit
#commenting #lithub #RebeccaSolnit #satire #SocialMedia #funny
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> .. they talked about the May 2017 cyberattacks.. compared to the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic.. Honeywell noted, the vulnerability came from a lack o.. “#DisciplineAndHygiene .” She insisted that in today’s #NetworkedWorld, we were dealing with the same problem: “Nobody’s washing their hands.” She noted that all kinds of widely used software were full of such bugs..
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/05/easy-chair-15/
#RebeccaSolnit on #OnlyConnect #HowardsEnd #EmForster w/
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I just finished Orwell’s Roses by one of my favorite living writers, Rebecca Solnit.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
#orwell #orwellsroses #rebeccasolnit #solnit #reading #books #georgeorwell #roses
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This essay by #rebeccasolnit resonates with me. Throughout my life, I have been happiest & healthiest when most focused on creative work, community, and positive action for the common good. If we focus on what we have to gain from confronting climate change and wake up from our fear and despair, the possibilities open up. #climatecrisis #climatedenial #climateoptimism #Community #climateactionow
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@flockofnazguls @franchot I agree! From my Canadian perspective, even Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren are pretty tame, though I adore them. No one questions our current #corporatism, #capitalism, #extractivism, eternal growth, rampant individualism... it's as if they're laws of nature, not just arbitrary systems made up by rich & powerful humans. I love this essay from #RebeccaSolnit (no paywall) on the #ClimateCrisis as an opportunity.
#wecandobetter #abundancemindset
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/15/rebecca-solnit-climate-change-wealth-abundance/ -
'More than 200 contributors skewer the New York Times' coverage of trans people': https://www.alternet.org/200-contributors-skewer-nyt-trans/
'Numerous, eye-opening examples of how the "Old Gray Lady," as the paper is often called, positions and frames transgender people and the issues they and their families face are packed into the letter, which compares the paper's coverage to "far-right hate groups." Perhaps one of its most consequential call-outs is how The Times' reporting is used by anti-LGBTQ state lawmakers and other officials to support anti-transgender legislation and policies.'
Every person who seriously reads The New York Times and considers their political output knows they mainly pander to advertisers and press releases from the White House.
From Chomsky/Herman's 'Manufacturing Consent':
'New York Times editor Max Frankel, who said in an interview that “we’re an establishment institution, and whenever your natural constituency changes, then naturally you will too.”'
Noam Chomsky :chomsky: in his book '9/11':
'To quote the lead analysis in the New York Times (September 16): “the perpetrators acted out of hatred for the values cherished in the West as freedom, tolerance, prosperity, religious pluralism and universal suffrage.” U.S. actions are irrelevant, and therefore need not even be mentioned.'
Via William Blum's 'America's Deadliest Export: Democracy':
'This war [in Iraq] is the most important liberal, revolutionary U.S. democracy-building project since the Marshall Plan … it is one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad. (Thomas Friedman, much-acclaimed New York Times foreign affairs analyst, November 2003)'
Chomsky again, in https://dev.lareviewofbooks.org/article/dismantle-all-of-this-stuff-a-conversation-with-noam-chomsky:
'A couple of days ago I had a talk with a group of Latin American activists. They were from all over Latin America. Well, just for fun, I read for them a column that appeared in The New York Times that day by one of their top foreign affairs specialists. It was about how the United States has been committed to the rule of law, human rights, and democracy. They just burst out laughing. They’re living in the real world, not the world of US intellectual culture.'
Chomsky in his book 'Global Discontents':
'If you look at polls, plenty of people are opposed to surveillance. The ones who support surveillance are the ones who are as deluded as people like Thomas Friedman or Bill Keller at the New York Times, who think that we have to have surveillance for the sake of security—not noticing that the very administration that is calling for defense against terrorism is maximizing terrorism and the threats against us.'
From Chomsky's book 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals':
'Others are missing from the list of honored dissidents, for example, the six leading Latin American intellectuals, Jesuit priests, who were brutally murdered by Salvadoran forces fresh from renewed training by U.S. forces, acting on the specific orders of the U.S. client government. In fact, they are scarcely known at all. Few even know their names, or recall the events. The official orders to murder them have yet to appear in the United States anywhere near the mainstream, not because they are secret: they were published prominently in the mainstream Spanish press. This is not an exception. It is the rule. The facts are not in the least obscure. They are well-known to activists who protested the horrendous U.S. crimes in Central America, and to scholarship. In the Cambridge History of the Cold War, John Coatsworth writes that from 1960 to “the Soviet collapse in 1990, the numbers of political prisoners, torture victims, and executions of nonviolent political dissenters in Latin America vastly exceeded those in the Soviet Union and its East European satellites.” When we turn to coverage in media and intellectual journals, we find that the picture is reversed. To take one of many striking illustrations, Edward Herman and I compared the New York Times coverage of the murder of a Polish priest—whose assassins were quickly found and punished—with the murder of one hundred religious martyrs in El Salvador, including Archbishop Óscar Romero and four American churchwomen, whose assassins were long concealed, while the crimes were denied by U.S. officials and the victims subjected to official contempt. The coverage of the murdered priest in an enemy state vastly exceeded that of one hundred religious martyrs in the U.S. client state, and was radically different in style in the way predicted by a propaganda model of the media. This is only one illustration of a highly consistent pattern over many years.'
From Rebecca Solnit's book 'Whose Story is This?':
'One way we know whose story it is has been demonstrated by who gets excused for hatred and attacks, literal or physical. Early in 2018, the Atlantic tried out hiring a writer, Kevin Williamson, who said women who have abortions should be hanged, and then unhired him under public pressure from people who don’t like the idea that a quarter of American women should be executed for exercising jurisdiction over their own bodies. The New York Times has hired a few conservatives akin to Williamson, including climate waffler Bret Stephens. Stephens devoted a column to sympathy on Williamson’s behalf and indignation that anyone might oppose him.'
...and:
'This misdistribution of sympathy is epidemic. The New York Times called the man with a domestic-violence history who, in 2015, shot up the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, killing three parents of young children, “a gentle loner.” And then when the serial bomber who had been terrorizing Austin, Texas, was finally caught in March 2018, too many journalists interviewed his family and friends and let their positive descriptions of the man stand, as though they were more valid than what we already knew: he was an extremist and a terrorist who set out to kill and terrorize Black people in a particularly vicious and cowardly way. He was a “quiet, ‘nerdy’ young man who came from ‘a tight-knit, godly family,” the Times let us know in a tweet, while the Washington Post’s headline noted that he was “frustrated with his life,” which is true of millions of young people around the world who don’t get a pity party and also don’t become terrorists. The Daily Beast got it right with a subhead about a recent right-wing terrorist, the one who blew himself up in his home full of bomb-making materials: “Friends and family say Ben Morrow was a Bible-toting lab worker. Investigators say he was a bomb-building white supremacist.”'
#TheNewYorkTimes #TransRights #Trans #NoamChomsky #WilliamBlum #RebeccaSolnit #MaxFrankel #ThomasFriedman #BillKeller #EqualRights #propaganda
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La esperanza no es una promesa... es un llamado a actuar y hacer que otro mundo sea posible 🙌
El mensaje de la escritora Rebecca Solnit:#mensaje #esperanza #rebeccasolnit #hope #futuro #vivir #actuar
