drew mca

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Page 65 of “Owning the Future” by Buller and Lawrence: “significant swathes of the economy and set to take more. Unifying ownership and control, the explosive growth of the sector presages a further concentration of economic power. However, contrary to the industry's claims of investing in a productive post-pandemic future, extensive research details the extractive practices favoured by many private equity firms, including loading companies with debt (thereby reducing tax burdens) and asset stripping (such as selling company assets only to lease them back, with the private equity firm rather than the company retaining the cash from the sale).* The corporate form risks being ransacked further through the historic shifts in ownership underway. On David and Goliath: a Democratising Agenda for the Corporation We do not, then, live in the world envisioned by the advocates of shareholder primacy, nor in the socialised corporation imagined by Marx or Keynes. Instead, what has come to pass is a deep and ongoing monopolisation of ownership and control rights in the economy, epitomised by the systemic power of the asset management giants, with corporations increasingly reduced to vehicles for extracting income for passive rentier investors. How then can we reimagine the corporation as a vehicle for democratic production, resuscitating the emancipatory potential many have identified in the corporate form? There is no way that, on the current institutional foun-dations, we can build a world where production is organised democratically to meet society's fundamental needs. Today, property is privileged over the security and dignity of the vast majority, who are subjected to exploitation, coercive…”
Article title: “Financing shared ownership” subtitle: “How policymakers can support the financing of shared ownership across the economy” Contributors: Júlia Martins Rodrigues & Nathan Schneider
Trump won the presidency by assuring his base that he was a strong leader who could impose his will on the country and the world. Now he is bleating weakly at Putin. Trump was the logical outcome of the myth of cowboy individualism embraced by the Republicans since President Ronald Reagan rose to the White House by celebrating it. In that myth, a true American is a man who operates on his own, outside the community. He needs nothing from the government, works hard to support himself, protects his wife and children, and asserts his will by dominating others. Government is his enemy, according to the myth, because it takes his money to help undeserving freeloaders and because it regulates how he can run his business. A society dominated by a cowboy individual is a strong one.
screenshot of a charge from aws for 67¢
screenshot from the pmsky.social landing page of the same drawing of bricks. a header above the image says "Composable Moderation", and below the text says "Bluesky has taken a stackable approach to moderation..."
digital drawing of a brick wall
screenshot of the new landing page with two columns. left is an image, and right has a header and some copy
screenshot of the youtube warning page before it redirects to bsky. it says “Be careful! This site may be harmful. The site you are trying to visit (bsky.app) may include malware, phishing attempts, or disturbing content. BACK TO SAFETY”
screenshot of calendar advanced settings with an unchecked box next to "turn on time zone support" as the first option
screenshot of delta.com returning: This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. <Error> <Code>AccessDenied</Code> 7<Message› User: arn:aws:iam:: 890936766857:user/akamai_oci-prd-ui-delta-us- east-l is not authorized to perform: 53:ListBucket on resource: "arn:aws: s3:::0ci-prd-ui-delta-us-east-1" because no identity-basec policy allows the s3:ListBucket action </Message> <RequestId>V5ZG659YKZMW0CW6</RequestId> T <HostId> Va3yLwHpwvxZ9gXkXySbEEf/dwBHMI07wskyPRd51zaJFLud/D7xzmvyk9APVaCGHut
a variety of mossy plants that are i assume native to the pacific northwest. some fern looking things, budding shrubs, small lily pad looking clusters & moss and wet leaves. good vibes
slide from @divy.zone’s talk on atproto app dev, which mentions a stack of HTMX + SSRs
closeup of my laptop lid, which is really just a collage of stickers. centered is the sticker of @pius.dog's head
dm from a @pmsky.social user: “ok lmao you can accidentally vote neg on your own meta proposal and get locked out”
a hand holding a pamphlet / zine found at the general forum for ethereum localism boulder with an astronaut headshot with ethereum logos, titled “The Gitcoin Communist Manifesto”, subtitle “Public goods are inevitable”
screenshot of health.pmsky.social returning a 200, showing i got my server, dns, and caddy all setup correctly
screenshot of the pmsky.social profile, with its first post! it says “if you’re curious, start here” with a link to pmsky.social. there’s a link preview card with a stock photo of clouds in an afternoon sky.
dm from @listifications saying that @sniffer.on.computer has added me to the “extreme stinkers” mod list
screenshot of the top of the wikipedia page for Liberalism, with the last line highlighted, which says “Not to be confused with Libertarianism”
screenshot from the tenth paragraph in the article, which says “Collins’ concerns this week over the tax measure emerged a few weeks after he received tens of thousands of dollars in donations from prominent members of the city’s commercial real estate and hospitality industries. The South Boston Democrat told the Globe that the contributions had no influence on his actions.”
screenshot of the notifications tab, showing several individual “X followed you back” notifications, when it could be one consolidated “Y users followed you back” like other notification types are
screenshot of @kamalaharris on instagram, looking normal and no snake like claimed in the post above
screenshot of a text from BallotTrax saying i need to cure my ballot, and a link to a tool to do so
Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social This is the biggest weakness of Bluesky in my opinion. The fascists are here already and they will keep coming. Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem If they are slow to curb the few fascists mostly communicating in English, all hell will break loose when the fascists from all the non English speaking corners of the world set up a base here. So far, no sign they are serious about preventing What happened with Twitter/Facebook Chad Loder@chadloder.bsky.social The German-speaking fascists have a really large cell here already, probably larger than the English-speaking cluster. But the English cluster's pretty big and growing quickly.
red and green northern lights!
A unifying perspective The book is thus motivated by a concern with economic forces on the one hand and with politics on the other. In clarifying the manner in which it seeks to blend the two, it is useful to dwell on one of the canonical texts in contemporary social science: the Coase Theorem. 23 Coase bases his argument on an example in which a railway runs through a valley populated by farmers. The allocational issue is the number of trains that should operate each day. Transportation is valuable and operating trains produces profits for the railway; but transportation is also costly, for soot and sparks from the passing trains damage the crops of farmers. Acting purely out of a regard for corporate profits, the
screenshot of the wikipedia page for socialism, with the following quote highlighted: “Social ownership can take various forms, including public, community, collective, cooperative, or employee.”
screenshot of the steam listing for “supermarket simulator”
the bsky 10m celebration image, i’m #59,770
translating calabresa to pepperon
iOS translation of the grammatically more correct brazilian portuguese “calabresa” into “pepperon” in english
bsky screenshot translating “calma calabreso” in brazilian portuguese to “calm down pepperoni”
A reply to a reply to Lula’s post. First reply said bsky is “shit” (translated), this reply says “calma calabreso”, and there’s an apple translate window at the bottom translating it as “calm down pepperoni”
scene of a mostly blue sky, with smoke billowing up from the current wildfire near Lyons, CO in the distance.
screenshot of `rust-problem-matchers` at work; a compiler error displayed on the code diff of a pull request
screenshot of getProfile.ts in the atproto repo, lines 11 through 18. of note, line 15: if (!bskyAppView) return
holding two purchases from unnameable books in Turners Falls, MA: Networked Press Freedom by Mike Ananny and Social Organization, the Science of Man & other writings by Henri de Saint Simon
screenshot of v6acolab.org on mobile. the main text is only about 50% of the width of the screen.
the cover of cixin liu’s “the three body problem”
cover of the disposed by ursula k le guin
screenshot from nextdoor showing 9 reactions, 7 hearts and 2 agree, plus ones, and 38 comments. it says “neighbors have a lot to say about this post”
view of the sun through solar glasses; looks like an orange crescent moon
a google search for “does the usps charge more for commercial mail” showing the top result that spam mail is actually cheaper than retail