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@johnwilsonwsws@mastodon.world See my Re: post. I'm no fan of Trots or "anti-Marxists," but if the ideas are sound, they will stand on their own.
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The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism by Torkil Lauesen
The Long Transition lays bare the global contradictions of capitalism and delivers a strategic blueprint for building a socialist world …
Preston Maness wants to read Now, the People! by Jean-Luc Mélenchon
If the teaser provided by #jacobin is any indication, then this is something organizers in the United States definitely want to make time to read.
jacobin.com/2025/04/melenchon-virtue-universalism-humanity-creolization
Also, Re: tenforward.social/@aspensmonster/114397702094429061
Preston Maness wants to read Secondhand Time by Svetlana Aleksievich
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first …
Accounts from the last Soviets before, during, and after the USSR's collapse? Hell yeah I want to read that.
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Evan Prodromou replied to Evan Prodromou's status
@aspensmonster also, and I cannot emphasize this enough: an ActivityPub thing doesn't have to be a social network server for humans to log into. The protocol is very broad. The last chapter covers some interesting areas to explore.
Preston Maness wants to read ActivityPub by Evan Prodromou
ActivityPub is the new standard for connecting social networks together on the social web. This …
Starting to feel, more and more, like I need to build my own #ActivityPub thing. This book sounds like a good foundation to build off of. Authored by @evan@cosocial.ca.
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ludovic reviewed Run Your Own Mail Server by Michael W. Lucas (IT Mastery, #14)
You Against the Email Empire Message services appear and disappear, but email remains. One of …
best email how to i've read
5 stars
Back in 2006 I wanted to self host my mail. After two weeks of feeling with a bunch of howtos from the linux documentation project I gave up. That was also probably due to me getting free email hosting from google. When that offer ended, I thought about self hosting again , this time documentation was way better. This book is huge howtos and covers everything email related. The protocols, the history. It also provides exemples, sequencing : what to do first and then. I've been using email and managing some email related domains for 25ish years. I've learned a lot and would recommend that every sysadmin reads this book.
#email #sysadmin #book #goodread #bookreview #bookstodon #ryoms
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ludovic quoted Run Your Own Mail Server by Michael W. Lucas (IT Mastery, #14)
You Against the Email Empire Message services appear and disappear, but email remains. One of …
Email is not the place to be clever. Email is the place to be boring.
— Run Your Own Mail Server by Michael W. Lucas (IT Mastery, #14)
Just love that quote.
Preston Maness wants to read Disability and Empire by Jane Cutter
Disability and Empire: Class, US Imperialism, and the Struggle for Disability Justice aims to bring …
I'm interested in the intersectionality of class, imperialism, and disability justice, especially after following Crutches and Spice on TikTok for a few years.
Preston Maness wants to read No Soy Yo -2081- by Belén Conde Durán
Año 2081. La gente vive segura, pero distanciada, y el mundo disfruta de una engañosa …
Vi este libro en mastodon de @BelenConde@masto.es. Mi español es malo, pero creo que podría ser un buen comienzo.
Preston Maness wants to read Secrets of the Killing State by Corinna Barrett Lain
Heard about this via @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social at:
www.texasobserver.org/sordid-story-behind-lethal-injection/
I've heard before about how lethal injection is pseudoscience. Perhaps a full treatment is given in this book. Now that I've decided to go into nursing, having a full understanding of the system could help to motivate healthcare to take a stronger stance against it.
#DeathPenalty #LethalInjection #CriminalJustice #TexasObserver
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Léo Varnet quoted Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
So much relies on science. But what if science itself can’t be relied on?
Medicine, …
It is not just that the system fails to deal with all the kinds of malpractice we've discussed. In fact, the way academic research is currently set up incentivises these problems, encouraging researchers to obsess about prestige, fame, funding and reputation at the expense of rigorous, reliable results.
Preston Maness wants to read Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman
'Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one …
This was recommended in revolutionaryth0t's video essay on normality:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6oUHaLCc_U
I'd like to get around to it eventually. In particular, I wonder if it has any historical investigation of the human tendency to measure a distribution, and yet walk away from the result of that measurement thinking instead "I have found a point."
Author: INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Subjects Gender and Sexuality > Feminism and Women’s …
It is important that we not collapse these differences even while recognizing a set of shared structural forces and logics. This is especially important as non-profits themselves are vulnerable to these structural forces. For example, non-profit organizations continue to feel impacts of the recession in both the increased demands for basic social services as well as the shrinking of government and foundation funding and individual donations. Many small organizations made up of poor and working-class members have dissolved or folded into larger non-profits. A lack of funding has led such groups to give up vital infrastructure and compensated staff positions, but the work continues through volunteer labor, in members' homes or donated space.
— The Revolution Will Not Be Funded by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence (Page xviii - xix)
If non-profits are to serve as a tool for liberation and reconstruction, then they need their own productive forces to call upon for fueling their efforts. Subjugation to capital, be it directly through philanthropic foundations, indirectly through (capitalist) government funding, or even tortuously through individual donors --themselves dependent upon exchanging their labor to capital for the money they donate-- necessarily clips the non-profit's wings. It is always contorting itself upon the whims of capital. Perhaps a partnership between non-profits and co-ops, both worker owned and operated, could serve to foster such a development of productive forces beyond --or at least less hindered by-- the antagonistic ruling capitalist class's reach. In this model, non-profits could serve as a stabilizing foundation upon which less certain co-operative proletarian endeavors could build.
#socialism #communism #marxism #coops #coop #NonProfit #npic
Author: INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Subjects Gender and Sexuality > Feminism and Women’s …
The AIC [Academic Industrial Complex] framework brought renewed attention to the role of the academy in directly supporting criminal punishment systems and military industrial complexes. [2] At the same time, if non-profits have been essential sites for access to life-saving and sustaining resources, universities have remained important locations for generating critical dissent. In recent years, students and teachers have found that space shrinking and made vulnerable through attacks on critical and ethnic studies programs, centers, and faculty members; the elimination of tenure track lines and adjunctification of labor; and the cutting of state funds and increased privatization on the backs of students in the form of unbearable debt. [3]
— The Revolution Will Not Be Funded by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence (Page xii)
Also timely, given that universities have been sites of struggle against the ongoing genocide in Gaza in retaliation for the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. The universities' implicit bargain with the capitalist ruling class of funding-for-workers, at the expense of an education-first model, has left these sites painfully vulnerable -- and sadly, largely ineffective at making material gains.