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The "Capitalist AI" straight-up calls what it is: a weapon of . It argues that algorithms aren’t neutral—they’re built to serve profit, control labor, and deepen .

Instead of just criticizing tech, urges the left to build its own digital tools and infrastructures.

It's a radical, readable push to stop tech billionaires from owning our future—and a challenge to the left to finally catch up.


https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/artificial-intelligence-in-the-grip-of-capital-a-marxist-reading-of-capitalist-artificial-intelligence-leftist-challenges-and-possible-alternatives/

A book cover with a title: Capitalist Artificial Intelligence, Challenges for the Left and Possible Alternatives Technology in the Service of Capital or a Tool for Liberation? Rezgar Akrawi

Despite what apologists for capitalism would have you believe, it *is* possible for humans to live comfortably and sustainably within a system that does not rely on deception, oppression, and exploitation.

It’s important to recognize that capitalism is an extremely recent invention. For almost all of humanity's 200,000+ years of existence, we got along just fine without it, living mostly in harmony with our surroundings.

Our only hope at this point is to get rid of the system that is literally killing us. It’s a matter of survival not only for humans but for countless other animal and plant species being sacrificed on the altar of maximum profits and infinite growth.

We must choose .

➡️ https://www.ecowatch.com/degrowth-economics-environment.html

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@EUCommission

Your focus has shifted to for to replace old twitter.

That means more attention freed for . The future of networking is strengthening connection online.

Let's lead the way forward in how can serve mankind, instead of mindless digital transformation that only serves and the bottom line.

We can envision a together. A place where online and offline are seamlessly connected, not separate worlds.

Extreme inequality between rich and poor is a feature of capitalism, an inevitable and desired result. Another feature is contemptible disregard for those less fortunate.

As the world continues heating up, millions or even billions of disadvantaged humans in the Global South will suffer the consequences of rampant consumerism and capitalist greed in the Global North.

This is all deliberate. It's not an accident.

That's how capitalism works: shift the damage of our lifestyles far away so we don't have to see it or think about it.

Two world maps, one above the other. The top map shows responsibility for climate breakdown, based on each country's overshoot ratio – their national cumulative CO2 emissions in excess of a fair share of the planetary boundary. The USA has the highest overshoot, along with Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the UK, and several European nations. The bottom map shows predicted exposure to extreme heat in a world warmed by 2.7°C. More than 2 billion people will be exposed to this deadly heat, virtually all of them in the Global South. Meanwhile, the large majority of those countries on the top map – those most responsible for climate breakdown – will suffer much less from the consequences.

Ask the average person on the street, are you worried about the climate crisis, and most people will say they are. If you ask should their governments be doing more, nearly all will say they should. And a strong majority worldwide are in favor of a quick transition away from fossil fuels.

SEE ➡️ https://www.undp.org/press-releases/80-percent-people-globally-want-stronger-climate-action-governments-according-un-development-programme-survey

The people of the world want action. So why isn't it happening?

Because the people are not in charge. Our system is controlled by a tiny minority of plutocrats who profit enormously from continued economic growth, from the cancer of capitalism.

We need system change.

An interesting read…

"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this. Instead, there’s a final battle. And this is where it gets really dark. The people who are advancing this agenda are also building their luxury bunkers and their spaceships to Mars. They don’t believe that there is a future. These people believe history is ending, literally."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/naomi-klein-trump-musk-thiel-oligarchs-climate-science-1235330780/

Capitalism is not an ‘economic system’. Capitalism is legalized crime. It is an extortion racket, set up to steal from the poor and give to the rich. It’s a centuries-long con game, and it’s working better now than it ever has.

You can read about this, learn the history. The information is out there in the open, available to anyone. But capitalism’s propaganda machine has been so successful — and the institutions they’ve built to provide a facade of legitimacy are so entrenched — that it’s hard for most people to see what’s really going on.

„Ich dehne diesen Band mehr aus, da die deutschen Hunde den Wert der Bücher nach dem Kubikinhalt schätzen.” — Marx, heute 1818 geboren 🥳 an BFF Engels am 18. Juni 1862 anlässlich seiner Arbeit an »Das Kapital«. Im Triple, Band 1/2/3, für 20 € (!) pro gebundenem Buch: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/das-kapital-kritik-der-politischen-oekonomie

Foto von "Das Kapital", Erster Band, von Karl Marx. Blauer EInband mit goldener Prägeschrift, die sich auf dem glänzenden Tisch spiegelt.

The homeless university lecturer: ‘There’s a sense of shame around it’

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/05/02/the-homeless-university-lecturer-theres-a-sense-of-shame-around-it/

True. If this sort of thing happens in your so-called “first world” country, you should feel a profound sense of shame about it. It shows that your society is failing.

With the levels of wealth and technology we have in countries like Ireland, having homelessness is a choice. We’ve chosen cruelty. We’ve said, we’re ok with it. So yes, we should definitely be feeling ashamed.

You know who is the last person who should feel ashamed? A homeless person whom we have failed as a society.

I read this with interest…

"Billionaires think that they're the smartest people who've ever lived, because they're the wealthiest people who've ever lived. If they were wrong about anything, then why would they have been so financially successful? […] They believe that everything can be quantified, like a person's IQ, and that money is a good measure of how much someone is worth."

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/youre-not-going-to-mars-and-you-wont-live-forever-exploding-silicon-valleys-ideology/