Marx talks about it in excruciating detail in the “So-called Primitive Accumulation” section of Capital, like the massive nerd he was. It’s the last part of the book and mostly an historical account of the enclosures, it’s an easy read.
August 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Marx talks about it in excruciating detail in the “So-called Primitive Accumulation” section of Capital, like the massive nerd he was. It’s the last part of the book and mostly an historical account of the enclosures, it’s an easy read.
People went to work down the mines because they were evicted from their farming livelihoods by enclosures. Farming was not exactly an easy lifestyle, but all of them would have preferred it to mining. They had to be forced by acts of parliament to give it up.
August 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
People went to work down the mines because they were evicted from their farming livelihoods by enclosures. Farming was not exactly an easy lifestyle, but all of them would have preferred it to mining. They had to be forced by acts of parliament to give it up.
I had missed this article. This one was written in response to the same Embery quote, and it makes the same arguments critisticuffs.org/texts/immigr...
Critisticuffs — Economics 101: Immigrants Suppress Wages
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April 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I had missed this article. This one was written in response to the same Embery quote, and it makes the same arguments critisticuffs.org/texts/immigr...
I get so angry watching Silo! Why spend all that money filming it if you don't let us see it??? Contrast to Wolf Hall, where most scenes are filmed in dimly lit rooms, and all the characters are clearly visible and vivid.
January 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I get so angry watching Silo! Why spend all that money filming it if you don't let us see it??? Contrast to Wolf Hall, where most scenes are filmed in dimly lit rooms, and all the characters are clearly visible and vivid.
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I find it interesting that parenting is often talked about as a soft skill, nurturing, etc, when in reality the first few months are a load of physical, arduous labour.
November 22, 2024 at 12:05 PM
I find it interesting that parenting is often talked about as a soft skill, nurturing, etc, when in reality the first few months are a load of physical, arduous labour.
this is where the idealism around atproto falls over: yes anyone can run their own aggregator, but that's like saying anyone can scrape the web as google does. when the stream gets big enough, only big players will be capable of doing so. the real bottleneck is the pursuit of wealth in the abstract
November 15, 2024 at 1:19 PM
this is where the idealism around atproto falls over: yes anyone can run their own aggregator, but that's like saying anyone can scrape the web as google does. when the stream gets big enough, only big players will be capable of doing so. the real bottleneck is the pursuit of wealth in the abstract
There's a lot of idealism floating around that because bsky is an open protocol, even if it were to enshittify, other less shitty players would arise. But this is unfounded optimism, these other players would be motivated by the same goals and therefore unlikely to do things differently.
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
There's a lot of idealism floating around that because bsky is an open protocol, even if it were to enshittify, other less shitty players would arise. But this is unfounded optimism, these other players would be motivated by the same goals and therefore unlikely to do things differently.
I feel seen
bsky.app/profile/afn....
bsky.app/profile/afn....
Anyone building a Google Reader on atproto yet?
it’s like if RSS was signed typed JSON and we had a common contract for aggregating RSS, and that’s how all apps worked
November 12, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I feel seen
bsky.app/profile/afn....
bsky.app/profile/afn....
Alright bluesky feels nice to use as a sighted user without a screen reader, but there are some glaring accessibility holes.
All the buttons for quoting, replying, retweeting, liking are all divs. Not even a `role="button"` in sight.
All the buttons for quoting, replying, retweeting, liking are all divs. Not even a `role="button"` in sight.
November 5, 2024 at 12:25 PM