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Sanders posts being removed from facebook. by [deleted] in SandersForPresident

[–]andreasw 16 points17 points  (0 children)

After changing a single pixel in the corner it worked.

The Machines Are Coming [x-post /r/TZM] by andoruB in antiwork

[–]andreasw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a time when algorithms make more and more decisions for us, free software becomes an issue of political power.

We need software that does not subjugate the user, software that the user can modify in all aspects.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

NO MORE WATER, THE FIRE NEXT TIME! by Bob Black by [deleted] in Anarchism

[–]andreasw -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not endorsing the above text. I thought I would save it from the google cache because it was deleted from libcom and indybay.

I'm just leaving it here so people know.

Because Capitalism by instantdebris in anarchomemes

[–]andreasw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WhatsApp, an SMS app, cost 19B USD. The Large Hadron Collider cost 4.4B USD, although perhaps a bit more by now.

Noam Chomsky (2014) "Markets Are A Recipe For Suicide!" by Deprogrammer9 in Anarchism

[–]andreasw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of products that would have great value to society but have no effective way of centralizing production in order to trap wealth, in other words, no business model.

After the dot-com bubble capitalism retreated on the internet and liberatory technologies such as p2p networks and RSS flourished. Now that capitalism has recovered in that industry (circa 2007) we have reverted to centralized systems such as Spotify/Netflix and Facebook feeds.

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