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Marx's theory of alienation - Wikipedia

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:45:23 +0000

Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement of people from aspects of their essential human nature as a consequence of living in a society structured by private property and wage labour. Developed by the German philosopher Karl Marx and first articulated in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, the theory is a foundational concept of Marxism. At its core, it posits that under the capitalist mode of production, workers are inevitably separated from the products they create, the activity of production, their fellow human beings, and their own creative potential.

Tags: #marx #philosophy #politics

Millionaires Love NY: New IRS Data Shows New York’s Millionaire Population Grew Years After the State Raised Taxes on the Rich - Groundwork Collaborative

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:02:12 +0000

New York added nearly 2,000 millionaire tax filers in a single year, according to newly released IRS data. The agency’s 2023 Statistics of Income (SOI) data show the number of New Yorkers reporting more than $1 million in income grew about 3%, shortly after the state raised its top tax rate on high earners. Far from triggering the millionaire exodus warned about, the new figures cut at the heart of one of the most persistent arguments against millionaire surtax proposals.

Tags: #government #politics #taxes

Secret Handshake Installs Arcade Games In D.C. To Criticize Trump’s Iran Policies | HuffPost Latest News

Mon, 11 May 2026 23:28:07 +0000

See scenes from Secret Handshake's games depicting FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the pope and others.

Tags: #gaming #politics #trump

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon

Mon, 11 May 2026 21:38:27 +0000

This machinery of niceness reaches points of fracture, but only occasionally. The most infamous was back in September 2016, when Fallon hosted Donald Trump. He sat with the then-candidate, not to interrogate or even lampoon him, but to perform a brief, cozy skit culminating in Fallon mussing Trump’s hair. The moment was not just a lapse in judgment; it was the ultimate, logical end point of the show’s ideological structure.

Tags: #fallon #latenight #politics #trump #tv

Times New Resistance — Abby Haddican

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:34:23 +0000

Introducing Times New Resistance – a Times New Roman impersonator that autocorrects the autocrats. Do you have access to the computer of an ICE apologist, white supremacist, Republican mouthpiece, right wing propagandist, or other morally bankrupt American? Install Times New Resistance and unleash some mischief.

Tags: #fonts #funny #politics

AI and Trust - Schneier on Security

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:53:54 +0000

A public model is a model built by the public for the public. It requires political accountability, not just market accountability. This means openness and transparency paired with a responsiveness to public demands. It should also be available for anyone to build on top of. This means universal access. And a foundation for a free market in AI innovations. This would be a counter-balance to corporate-owned AI. We can never make AI into our friends. But we can make them into trustworthy services—agents and not double agents. But only if government mandates it. We can put limits on surveillance capitalism. But only if government mandates it.

Tags: #ai #government #llms #models #oss #politics #public

The Zurich protocol

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:11:04 +0000

They lined up the editors first, zip tying their hands together and leading them into vans downstairs. Then they began to gather the rest of the journalists. Laptops were gathered from desks. The server room, such as it was in the wake of zero trust and enterprise cloud services, had its door kicked in, switches and rack servers ripped out of their frames. One IT support engineer objected and found a gun in his face, the safety off, its owner ready to make them into an example.

Tags: #fascism #internet #journalism #politics #tech #uspolitics #writing

So, we're still doing this, huh? - Portland Mercury

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:25:56 +0000

This whole "talk about politics on the internet" as if it makes a difference thing? We're still doing this? We think the things we say on the internet matter to literally anyone? We think if we craft the perfect anti-Trump argument, maybe one person will change their mind? I mean listen, go ahead. I'm not saying you shouldn't do it. I'm just saying it's worse than internet porn. Because at least with internet porn, you eventually achieve end goal with that.

Tags: #online #politics #social #uspolitics

Schrodinger's Democracy: Why Isn't Anyone Doing Anything?

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:01:36 +0000

And in the end, it’s impossible to convince people that it’s worth throwing away whatever we have left in this life on an abstract idea of “doing something” when the very leaders whose business is telling us how very serious this is, how awful the fascistic future is going to be, how deeply in danger we all are, won’t risk even a sliver of their comfort to do much of anything but continue talking about how brave they are to talk about how brave they are.

Tags: #grim #politics #protest #uspolitics

Zohran Mamdani knows how to win - Salon.com

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:26:03 +0000

Mamdani undeniably has a lot of personal charisma, but the concepts that elevated his campaign can be replicated across the country: Bold ideas that draw attention, and that ideally anger the very people your voters don’t like. Such campaigns should emphasize outreach over fundraising, while being assisted by social media methods that allow the candidates to circumvent the usual gatekeepers to get their message out. They should remember the invaluable lesson of treating conflict as an opportunity to get attention, rather than something to run away from due to the fear of alienating jumpy donors. The establishment may not like it, because it’s a threat to their personal power. But if Democrats want to get their groove back, it will have to be through tactics like this.

Tags: #mamdani #nyc #politics #uspolitics

The president has never understood that the White House (and government) aren’t his – pbump

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:10:19 +0000

The metaphor of Trump crushing a portion of the White House as he aims bulldozers at democracy itself is almost too obvious to note. But it’s not just a symbolic parallel: both are rooted in the same indifference to what these American institutions mean to Americans and to America. Both are rooted in Trump wanting to treat those things as his own and now feeling empowered to do precisely that.

Tags: #america #politics #trump #uspolitics #whitehouse

Thoughts On Omarchy: Slick Distro, Complicated Ethics

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:26:28 +0000

Omarchy is a reminder that we live in a world where software isn’t just software, but the people who make it. And dhh, despite his rep as a dev’s dev, comes with a hell of a lot of baggage. Recently, the Ruby on Rails community has been through some things, and dhh himself has proven a lightning rod on multiple occasions, most recently for a post many saw as deeply xenophobic, bordering on eugenicist.

Tags: #dhh #linux #omarchy #politics

The Files | The Secret Handshake

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:22:25 +0000

WE'VE RELEASED THE FILES. They may have taken down the Trump/Epstein Best Friends Forever statue, but now you can celebrate Friendship Month at home and make your own. Click below to download a free 3D printable copy of the statue.

Tags: #3dprinting #epstein #politics #trump

As I remember London | Christian Heilmann

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:20:36 +0000

So if people claim that they remember a safer, cleaner and racially homogenous London they either never lived there, or didn’t immerse themselves in it. Or completely talk out of their arse following an utterly different agenda, one that I find despicable, regressive and governed by fear and hate and not inclusion and inspiration.

Tags: #england #london #politics

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:14:41 +0000

The terminally online nature of the messages does somewhat explain the conflicting reports released yesterday. Conservative influencer Steven Crowder published a screenshot of an email “from an officer at the ATF,” which claimed that the bullet casings were engraved with “transgender and antifascist ideology.” This was then corroborated by The Wall Street Journal, though they eventually walked back their story about it. The New York Times reported that that hadn’t been actually confirmed by law enforcement. Crowder is now claiming that his team is being subpoenaed by the ATF over the leak.

Tags: #groypers #memes #politics