Ben
@henbinder.bsky.social
Researching the democratisation of provisioning systems, i.e. how we take more control over the systems that give us access to life (food, energy, housing etc.).
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Historical anarchists weren't just against representative democracy. They also opposed direct democratic governments. This was because (a) majority government would oppress and dominate various minorities + (b) actual direct democracies like ancient Athens were really just forms of minority rule.
December 28, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Historical anarchists weren't just against representative democracy. They also opposed direct democratic governments. This was because (a) majority government would oppress and dominate various minorities + (b) actual direct democracies like ancient Athens were really just forms of minority rule.
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In 1934 the anarchist Emma Goldman complained that "the pattern of life has become standardized, routinized, and mechanized like canned food and Sunday sermons . . . Even songs are turned out like buttons or automobile tires—all cast from the same mold".
December 5, 2024 at 7:14 PM
In 1934 the anarchist Emma Goldman complained that "the pattern of life has become standardized, routinized, and mechanized like canned food and Sunday sermons . . . Even songs are turned out like buttons or automobile tires—all cast from the same mold".
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Vulgar standpoint theory: listen to x person just because they belong to y oppressed group.
Actual standpoint theory: people who belong to an oppressed group generally have experiences of oppression. This places them in a better epistemic position to collectively develop knowledge of it.
Actual standpoint theory: people who belong to an oppressed group generally have experiences of oppression. This places them in a better epistemic position to collectively develop knowledge of it.
December 2, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Vulgar standpoint theory: listen to x person just because they belong to y oppressed group.
Actual standpoint theory: people who belong to an oppressed group generally have experiences of oppression. This places them in a better epistemic position to collectively develop knowledge of it.
Actual standpoint theory: people who belong to an oppressed group generally have experiences of oppression. This places them in a better epistemic position to collectively develop knowledge of it.
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This cartoon is from 1894 but could have been drawn today. The solution to this problem remains the same as it was in the 19th century: workers and tenants organizing strikes for higher wages and lower rent. To win we have to build power from below.
December 2, 2024 at 12:14 PM
This cartoon is from 1894 but could have been drawn today. The solution to this problem remains the same as it was in the 19th century: workers and tenants organizing strikes for higher wages and lower rent. To win we have to build power from below.
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"by telling the poor that their poverty is the result of the children they don't avoid having, the wealthy West deflects attention from its brutal, systematic impoverishment of the Global South" - @davidrvetter.bsky.social
climatelaundry.substack.com/p/overpopula...
climatelaundry.substack.com/p/overpopula...
'Overpopulation' Is A Racist Trope. It's Time We Laid It To Rest
A new movie satirises the myth that climate change is a consequence of too many people. In the real world, our overpopulation obsession must be euthanised.
climatelaundry.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:36 AM
"by telling the poor that their poverty is the result of the children they don't avoid having, the wealthy West deflects attention from its brutal, systematic impoverishment of the Global South" - @davidrvetter.bsky.social
climatelaundry.substack.com/p/overpopula...
climatelaundry.substack.com/p/overpopula...
Everyone should read Zoe Baker's book means and ends. It is an incredible summary of anarchist thinking and the history of the field. It is fundamentally important for understanding and thinking clearly about the political morass we find ourselves in today.
December 2, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Everyone should read Zoe Baker's book means and ends. It is an incredible summary of anarchist thinking and the history of the field. It is fundamentally important for understanding and thinking clearly about the political morass we find ourselves in today.
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Too many liberals respond to problems by putting their hope in the next election. The result is a feeling of passivity and powerlessness. Politicians aren't going to save us. We have to save ourselves and take direct action. Doing so builds our collective strength and ability to change the world.
December 2, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Too many liberals respond to problems by putting their hope in the next election. The result is a feeling of passivity and powerlessness. Politicians aren't going to save us. We have to save ourselves and take direct action. Doing so builds our collective strength and ability to change the world.
She'll say this now that the democrats aren't the party of government. This is what I mean when I say that the democrats in power legitimate motion for the right. They refuse to make these robust challenges because they're afraid, and in so doing lay the groundwork for evil.
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
November 22, 2024 at 1:06 PM
She'll say this now that the democrats aren't the party of government. This is what I mean when I say that the democrats in power legitimate motion for the right. They refuse to make these robust challenges because they're afraid, and in so doing lay the groundwork for evil.
This video by
@MorbidZoo
is wildly important if you're going to think about changing the world in any way. Particularly how she discusses the impacts of journalism on the Vietnaam war, and how power relations and journalism interacted. t.co/GCb0t6BhSJ
@MorbidZoo
is wildly important if you're going to think about changing the world in any way. Particularly how she discusses the impacts of journalism on the Vietnaam war, and how power relations and journalism interacted. t.co/GCb0t6BhSJ
https://youtu.be/kGd8d5CZXYU
t.co
September 24, 2024 at 10:23 AM
This video by
@MorbidZoo
is wildly important if you're going to think about changing the world in any way. Particularly how she discusses the impacts of journalism on the Vietnaam war, and how power relations and journalism interacted. t.co/GCb0t6BhSJ
@MorbidZoo
is wildly important if you're going to think about changing the world in any way. Particularly how she discusses the impacts of journalism on the Vietnaam war, and how power relations and journalism interacted. t.co/GCb0t6BhSJ
When we publish with the big journals we sign away any right to control the research we create. They're well within their rights to do this, and it's why all of these mega corporations must fall.
This piece from The Bookseller seems to confirm Informa /Taylor & Francis / Routledge intends to use academic work to train AI without any consultation with authors. www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...
Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
Authors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment.
www.thebookseller.com
July 20, 2024 at 4:01 PM
When we publish with the big journals we sign away any right to control the research we create. They're well within their rights to do this, and it's why all of these mega corporations must fall.
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The reason why not is it allows you to justify whatever behaviour you want because the ends justify the means. Malm is a dangerous authoritarian, who thinks anything the left does is justified as long a it works because it's in service of a goal he likes. It's inconsistent and genuinely dangerous.
January 15, 2024 at 7:41 AM
The reason why not is it allows you to justify whatever behaviour you want because the ends justify the means. Malm is a dangerous authoritarian, who thinks anything the left does is justified as long a it works because it's in service of a goal he likes. It's inconsistent and genuinely dangerous.
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Imo the real climate denialism is the rank presentism of these late twenties early thirties new academics. I know I'm one of them, but there seems to be a pervasive failure to understand the temporality of climate change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hannah Ritchie: ‘Doomsday predictions are a dream for climate deniers’
The environmental scientist, whose book Not the End of the World offers a data-based analysis of the climate crisis, on being informed and engaged without succumbing to despair
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Imo the real climate denialism is the rank presentism of these late twenties early thirties new academics. I know I'm one of them, but there seems to be a pervasive failure to understand the temporality of climate change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Everyone should know by now that Bitcoin mining is an energy hog, but apparently cooling mining rigs also slurps down vast quantities of water too: more than the total water use of New York City apparently! Gift link here www.wsj.com/science/envi...
December 6, 2023 at 5:02 PM
Everyone should know by now that Bitcoin mining is an energy hog, but apparently cooling mining rigs also slurps down vast quantities of water too: more than the total water use of New York City apparently! Gift link here www.wsj.com/science/envi...
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If anything COP28 is unrealistic in exactly the opposite direction!!! It absurdly understates the potential for rapid immediate change!!
Even the oil and gas industry is clumping together through a series of panicked mergers in preparation for a world with falling demand for their deadly shit!
Even the oil and gas industry is clumping together through a series of panicked mergers in preparation for a world with falling demand for their deadly shit!
December 14, 2023 at 7:45 PM
If anything COP28 is unrealistic in exactly the opposite direction!!! It absurdly understates the potential for rapid immediate change!!
Even the oil and gas industry is clumping together through a series of panicked mergers in preparation for a world with falling demand for their deadly shit!
Even the oil and gas industry is clumping together through a series of panicked mergers in preparation for a world with falling demand for their deadly shit!
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full chat will be available to watch back on YouTube in due course but as a closer @joeloclimate.bsky.social asked the guests what they'd remember #cop28 for
McKenna: "What the heck was that?"
Angelo: "I cried several times"
Adow: "We lost 1.5C"
McKenna: "What the heck was that?"
Angelo: "I cried several times"
Adow: "We lost 1.5C"
want to know wtf is going on as #cop28 enters the endgame? Join us in half an hour with a kickass panel
December 12, 2023 at 3:20 PM
full chat will be available to watch back on YouTube in due course but as a closer @joeloclimate.bsky.social asked the guests what they'd remember #cop28 for
McKenna: "What the heck was that?"
Angelo: "I cried several times"
Adow: "We lost 1.5C"
McKenna: "What the heck was that?"
Angelo: "I cried several times"
Adow: "We lost 1.5C"
We know that climate change has driven system collapse in previous eras. I think what we get down to when we argue with tech optimists is an issue of gambling. They're happy to bet on human ingenuity to get us out of it, I am not willing to gamble with lives.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Systemic Risk and Resilience: The Bronze Age Collapse and Recovery
PDF | In this chapter we apply the concepts of resilience theory and systemic risk to the Bronze Age Collapse. We contend that this was a case of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
www.researchgate.net
December 13, 2023 at 1:15 PM
We know that climate change has driven system collapse in previous eras. I think what we get down to when we argue with tech optimists is an issue of gambling. They're happy to bet on human ingenuity to get us out of it, I am not willing to gamble with lives.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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With all the talk of unabated emissions, its worth revisiting the enormous penalties that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies will inflict upon fossil fuel power generation
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December 13, 2023 at 10:37 AM
With all the talk of unabated emissions, its worth revisiting the enormous penalties that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies will inflict upon fossil fuel power generation
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Imagine living in a place where every time you step outside the weight of past sins can be felt in the sweat and sunburn on your skin. Imagine living in a place where for months a year you hardly get to breathe fresh air because it's too hot to ventilate the building properly.
December 13, 2023 at 12:54 PM
Imagine living in a place where every time you step outside the weight of past sins can be felt in the sweat and sunburn on your skin. Imagine living in a place where for months a year you hardly get to breathe fresh air because it's too hot to ventilate the building properly.
Sorry to all who had to see my back and forth with crypto evangelists today. I'm tired and avoiding work...
Anyway, here is a great youtuber who's unpicked a lot of the issues with blockchain technologies in the context of NFTs and scam artistry.
youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g?...
Anyway, here is a great youtuber who's unpicked a lot of the issues with blockchain technologies in the context of NFTs and scam artistry.
youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g?...
Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
If someone pitches you on a "great" Web3 project, ask them if it requires buying or selling crypto to do what they say it does.Sources and Further Readinghtt...
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December 12, 2023 at 5:41 PM
Sorry to all who had to see my back and forth with crypto evangelists today. I'm tired and avoiding work...
Anyway, here is a great youtuber who's unpicked a lot of the issues with blockchain technologies in the context of NFTs and scam artistry.
youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g?...
Anyway, here is a great youtuber who's unpicked a lot of the issues with blockchain technologies in the context of NFTs and scam artistry.
youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g?...
Anyone want some more hate watching? lol
The argument from the paper goes "renewables aren't being connected to the grid fast enough so we should use them to mine bitcoin" which honestly is so hilarious it might as well be satire. Oh and 2/3 authors have worked for Shell...
The argument from the paper goes "renewables aren't being connected to the grid fast enough so we should use them to mine bitcoin" which honestly is so hilarious it might as well be satire. Oh and 2/3 authors have worked for Shell...
December 12, 2023 at 9:51 AM
Anyone want some more hate watching? lol
The argument from the paper goes "renewables aren't being connected to the grid fast enough so we should use them to mine bitcoin" which honestly is so hilarious it might as well be satire. Oh and 2/3 authors have worked for Shell...
The argument from the paper goes "renewables aren't being connected to the grid fast enough so we should use them to mine bitcoin" which honestly is so hilarious it might as well be satire. Oh and 2/3 authors have worked for Shell...
The thing that has always perplexed me about COPs is the prevelance of businesses. Why are civil society groups not given priority space there? Why do we not see indigenous pavilions and municipality pavailions? I know why, but I mean, it's pretty revealing as to the priorities.
December 7, 2023 at 9:25 AM
The thing that has always perplexed me about COPs is the prevelance of businesses. Why are civil society groups not given priority space there? Why do we not see indigenous pavilions and municipality pavailions? I know why, but I mean, it's pretty revealing as to the priorities.