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ungezieferwerden

yr mcm thinks this is dope....

ungezieferwerden

userhamilton

traincoded

fairly produced in bangladesh and india? love that only the german part of the supply chain has names. real trust me the brown people i can't credit or tell you the names of are definitely being treated fairly energy. don't even know a single brand in india that has a good supply chain. really dislike this.

traincoded

actually still thinking over this, like this t-shirt is almost the perfect microcosm of why attempts to address climate change through consumer choices in the imperial core is basically a wash. it is obviously not climate change friendly to make a t-shirt in bangladesh and india, ship it to europe to print designs on it and then reship everywhere else.

why not print in bangladesh? why not print in india and ship from there? there are dozens of on demand printing services in india. because this is how capitalist production under imperial relations works. poor countries in the global south are only good for providing raw material for dirt cheap. the real value add, the finishing touch has to happen in the western world, which will pocket the largest share because its perceived as the "sophisticated" part of production. imperial profits then get distributed to the western world, so even the working class in europe now is complicit in the exploitation of the global south.

cathkaesque

“In The China Price, Tony Norfield recounts the story of a T-shirt made in Bangladesh and sold in Germany for €4.95 by the Swdiesh retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M). H&M pays the Bangladeshi manufacturer €1.35 for each T-shirt, 28 percent of the final sale price, 40¢ of which covers the cost of 400g of cotton raw material imported from the United States; shipping adds another 6¢ per shirt.

Thus €0.95 of the final sale price remains in Bangladesh, to be shared between the factory owner, the workers, the suppliers of inputs and services and the Bangladeshi government, expanding Bangladesh’s GDP by this amount. The remaining €3.54 counts towards the GDP of Germany, the country where the T-shirt is consumed, and is broken down as follows: €2.05 provides for the costs and profits of German transporters, wholesalers, retailers, advertisers etc. (some of which will revert to the state through various taxes); H&M makes a 60¢ profit per shirt; the German state captures 79¢ of the sale price through VAT at 19 percent; 16¢ covers sundry ‘other item.’

In Norfield’s words, “a large chunk of the revenue from the selling price goes to the state in taxes and to a wide range of workers, executives, landlords, and businesses in Germany. The cheap T-shirts, and a wide range of other imported goods, are both affordable for consumers and an important source of income for the state and for all the people in the richer countries.’ His blunt conclusion: 'Wage rates in Bangladesh are particularly low, but even the multiples of these seen in other countries point to the same conclusion: oppression of workers in the poorer countries is a direct economic benefit for the mass of people in the richer countries.’” - Imperialism in the 21st Century by John Smith

probablyasocialecologist

Environmental warfare is the colonizer's favorite tool

English settlers believed that they were less cruel than their Spanish counterparts because they used nature, not weapons, to decimate enemi

heated.world

But trees aren’t the only tool NBC has allegedly used to weaponize the environment of striking workers. According to labor complaints filed by Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA on Tuesday, NBC designated picketing locations that did not have usable sidewalks, which forced picketers to move onto the streets. This resulted in two picketers getting struck by a car, the complaints said.

NBC is betting the public won’t see these environmental interventions for the direct violence they truly are. They’re betting that trimming trees won’t be seen the same as squeezing down on picketers’ throats. They’re betting that putting barriers around the sidewalks won’t be seen the same as pushing picketers in front of cars.

Until now, NBC has had good reason to make that bet. Because “indirect” environmental interventions like these are how we’ve justified the violence on which America was built in the past, and how we justify violence against groups society views as inferior today.

Source: heated.world

probablyasocialecologist

Red and Green Make … Degrowth: On Kohei Saito’s “Marx in the Anthropocene”

Andrew Ahern reviews Kohei Saito’s “Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism.”...

Los Angeles Review of Books

Over the long 20th century, mainstream Marxism tended to neglect ecology, if not been downright hostile towards it. From Marx and Engels’s belief in the progressive nature of technological development under capitalism to the extractivist zeal of the Soviet Union, the mainstream of the Marxist historical tradition would seem to make for unlikely environmentalists. In a famous passage from his Critique of the Gotha Program (1875), Marx argues that, for example,

after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, [it is then that] the narrow horizon of bourgeois right [can] be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!

The logic seems clear: if technological development under capitalism is inherently progressive—by his own account, a “historical necessity”—and if humans need to dominate nature in order to bring about “a higher phase of communist society,” then the critique from environmentalists is certainly warranted.

Saito pins this “ecomodern” Marxism back to the idea that technological development under capitalism is a necessary and progressive stage in history—a precondition for emancipation as capitalism falls under the weight of its own contradictions. But when Marx wrote those words, it was at least reasonable to suggest that productive capacity was premature for the advent of socialism. It is harder to say that now: in terms of aggregate capacity, we produce enough food to end world hunger, generate enough energy for everyone to use a sufficient amount, and have enough wealth to end poverty. And yet, 150 years after Marx penned Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, we are no closer to global socialism than when our collective productive capacity was a fraction of what it is today. There, too, we are deadlocked.

In fact, as Andreas Malm has argued in Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (2016), or Timothy Mitchell in Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (2013), the transition from hydropower to fossil fuels or coal to oil was a means of concentrating power in the hands of capitalists, concrete evidence that a transition from an “older” technology to a newer one does not, as such, represent definitive historical progress (especially when that technology threatens to undermine earth’s life-supporting systems or functions to intensify power over workers and the rest of nature). Too many Marxists still suffer from the same scarcity mindset, believing we lack the productive capacity and resources to provide everyone a good life within the means of the planet. But while we can’t fault Marx and Engels for not knowing more about climate change—or for not having the kind of ecological consciousness the 21st century has gifted us with—today’s ecomodern Marxists have no such excuse.

Source: lareviewofbooks.org

witnesstheabsurd

[SLAVE ZERO X DEMO NOW AVAILABLE]

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Hey everyone! For the last two years now almost i’ve been working on the game Slave Zero X, a side-scrolling hack n slash about a vengeful rebel swordsman named Shou who defies his master’s warnings and merges with the experimental bioweapon “X” to inflict unimaginable violence on the enforcers of the ruler of the Megacity, the Sovereign Khan, seeking to learn the fate of his missing lover and if necessary, avenge his death. Fully voice acted with fighting game complexity in a character action title, 2D/3D blended visuals and a Dreamcast/Saturn throwback aesthetic full of malevolent armored cops to slaughter.

We lavished this game from head to toe with pulsing veins, industrial megastructures and oceans of blood shed for a righteous cause. PLEASE - if you’ve ever enjoyed my work and wanted to support me, download the Slave Zero X demo and let us know what you think! I’m so excited for everyone to actually get their hands on this thing!!!

witnesstheabsurd

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probablyasocialecologist

monstroso

tumblr ublock filters (updated: 7/19/23) - Pastebin.com

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here you go, remember i love you <3

monstroso

the code has been updated to remove some old extraneous filters that only applied on the old layout, and also now keeps the search bar in the top right.

monstroso

Someone asked what this blocks so here you go. Top screenshot is with uBlock off completely, second screenshot is with the filters applied.

Blocked on the left side: Explore, TumblrMart, Get a Domain, and Go Ad-Free menu items as well as the blue Create button on the bottom of the sidebar.

Blocked in the center: The "Following / For You / Your tags / Manage…" header. The "Changes on Tumblr / Staff Picks / Trending / your tracked tags" marquee below that.

Blocked on the right side: The recommended blogs section and the Tumblr Radar.

There's also an obnoxious banner ad that pops up between the Dashboard selection header and the Changes on Tumblr marquee, but it disappears even when I turn uBlock off so it may be getting swept away by xkit or some other extension I have that I don't know about, but either way uBlock should catch it in its ad filters automatically if it's not already on the filtered list.

If you want this customized you can always inbox me and I can try to adjust the filter setup to keep things like the radar, this is just what I use. If enough people want it I can itemize what each filter does, but I recommend just installing uBlock yourself and playing with the right-click -> Block element... tool to customize your experience. If it blocks something you wanted to keep you can easily undo it by going into the settings. Don't let these guys crowd you out, don't give them your money, don't take no for an answer. <3

probablyasocialecologist

AI Gig Workers Face ‘Unfair Working Conditions,’ Study Says

The human gig workers behind AI are often subjected to "unfair" working conditions, a new Oxford report says

Time

Researchers assessed 15 digital work platforms—among them Amazon Mechanical Turk, Scale AI and Appen—and found that all of them were “still far from safeguarding basic standards of fair work,” according to the report. “While the run for AI deployments gets public hype and momentum, workers behind the design, building and testing of these technological solutions, unfortunately, still face enormous challenges and experience unfair working conditions,” the report says.

The basis for the report was a survey of 752 workers in 94 countries carried out by researchers from Oxford’s Fairwork team, as well as formal interviews with platform managers. The report’s authors then gave each platform a score out of ten based on five principles: fair pay, fair conditions, fair contracts, fair management, and fair representation; with a maximum of two points for each principle. Four platforms (Amazon Mechanical Turk, Workana, Microworkers, and Freelancer) scored 0 points. None of the platforms reviewed scored more than 5. A score of 10 out of 10, researchers note, “simply means that [a] company is complying with the bare minimum.”

“We have very world-renowned platforms that are still among the worst scores,” says Jonas Valente, the lead researcher on the so-called “cloudwork” project. “We still have a very big problem with platforms that are not acknowledging the need to improve their workers’ conditions.”

One finding of the report is that workers spend much of their time carrying out what the authors call “unpaid labor.” The report found that 250 workers on the five platforms most commonly used by AI companies to find gig workers spent 26.8% of their time carrying out what it calls “unpaid tasks,” including looking for work, taking unpaid tests, and applying for work. Taking that unpaid time into account, those workers earned an average hourly wage of $2.15 per hour—though the report notes that this pool of workers hailed from 51 countries where the cost of living varies significantly. “Still, the findings shed light on the persistent problem of low pay on the platforms,” the report says.

Source: TIME

peaceandloveonearth

snoopyoftheday

snoopy of the day

robotpussy

desolationlesbian

Explaining to all companies that the three requirements for me to use a social media with any frequency are:

A chronological follow-only feed, ideally which I can set as default
Anonymity (my real name and face are not required)
Have a desktop version

You may call me boomer or whatever but if a social media doesn’t have bare minimum these three things then I will never use it ever. I won’t even make an account. You can suck at everything else but these are non-negotiable. The fact that they are anathema to profitability does not matter to me. If you cannot provide me these three things then I will simply not use any social media at all.

nonbinary-watanuki

cornerfolks

adobe is actively pushing to make art styles intellectual property covered under copyright law and artists online are doing shit like this

you guys are all so fucked like you dont even understand what youre doing do you seriously think this is in your favour for the love of god hello am i alone in this world. youre leading yourself to the slaughter

jarmes

Also, if your problem is AI art: Adobe is also making an ai art generator

Adobe does not want to ban AI art. They want it to only exist in the hands of wealthy copyright holders. They want art styles to be copyrighted for the same reason: so they can make money from owning other people’s work. So they can sue you for drawing something too similar to an art style they own

Adobe is not your friend. Expanding copyright law is far more dangerous for artists than AI will ever be