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A flightless parrot is returning to mainland New Zealand after a 40-year absence
  • Seeing the collective conservation efforts of multiple successive governments to eliminate all non-native predators from New Zealand by 2050 is really inspiring.

    https://youtu.be/OmPrp1w1QYA

  • What's the difference between communism and socialism?
  • A lot of words but not many sources here. So here's a few:

    Marx defined socialism as: "...Socialized man, the associated producers, regulate their interchange with nature rationally, bring it under their common control, instead of being ruled by it as by some blind power; they accomplish their task with the least expenditure of energy and under conditions most adequate to their human nature and most worthy of it. But it always remains a realm of necessity. Beyond it begins that development of human power, which is its own end, the true realm of freedom, which, however, can flourish only upon that realm of necessity as its basis."

    — Capital III, translated by Ernest Untermann, Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago 1909, p. 954

    To understand Marx's definitions you have to realise he was writing mostly in response to the Paris Commune uprising and therefore saw 'communism' as the practical application of a theory of socialism. However, the terms and their meaning were radically reshaped by Lenin, Mao and Stalin.

    — The Paris Commune: First Proletarian Dictatorship, Revolution, Vol. 3, No. 6, March 1978.

    In March 1918 the Bolshevik Party was renamed the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) in order to distinguish it from Social Democratic parties in Russia and Europe and to separate the followers of Lenin from those affiliated with the nonrevolutionary Socialist International.

    https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/Lenin-and-the-Bolsheviks

  • Kayne rules
  • "I love Hitler" – (Kan)Ye, December 1, 2022

  • Probably the worst Deck 2 design I've seen
  • The drowning pool really sets the ambience

  • Probably the worst Deck 2 design I've seen
  • I love this shit. They're always so wrong but such fun designs. I wish I could find pictures of the old PS3 and Xbox 720 concepts that people were paying back in the day.

  • woops rule
  • Ok that was good

  • After fears that Europe's space scope was toast, its first images look mighty fine - Here's looking at Euclid
  • The issue was later found to be from sunlight streaming into the spacecraft through a tiny gap.

    This would be so frustrating. The problem solving process would be a nightmare.

  • Bacon Banana and Cheese Rule

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    Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?
  • I joined Reddit in 2012. I started looking for alternatives around 6 months ago when I realised Reddit was heading the same way as every other social media platform. Migrated to my own instance a month ago.

  • www.abc.net.au African nations threaten force as Niger protests against coup intervention

    Images show demonstrators burning French flags and embassy doors as surrounding nations threaten sanctions amid Niger coup.

    African nations threaten force as Niger protests against coup intervention
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    How much do you use your deck? Was it a good purchase?
  • Yours and my experiences are remarkably similar.

  • Recursive Rule

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    Spark the Electric Jester 3 Made Me Love Games Again

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    Tesla exaggerating EV range for over a decade
  • It seems like it's an issue with manufacturing consistency/quality. The report said some cars were getting literally half their advertised range on daily commutes. That's not an amount that could be accounted for by driving styles.

    The original Reuters report linked below: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

  • Bryan Cranston Tells Bob Iger ‘Our Jobs Will Not Be Taken Away’ by AI in Rousing Speech: You Will Not ‘Take Away Our Dignity’
  • I feel facial recognition is more efficient than human labour. But the dangers of its misuse were too high for the EU to stomach. Seems like a similar issue here, but it's the unions stepping up to force regulation because the government is too weak and stupid to do it itself.

    The misuse of unfettered AI actors does pose real danger of unintended side effects not just to jobs but to society as a whole.

  • Sonic
  • Anyone wanting to get some Sonic Adventure vibes should check out Spark The Electric Jester 3 on steam.

  • open.spotify.com Liberal Fascism

    Listen to this episode from If Books Could Kill on Spotify. Who poses the greatest threat to democracy? Is it the movement that openly identifies with the symbols, goals and policies of fascist governments? Or is it the median bureaucrat at the Department of Health and Human Services? In 2008, a Nat...

    Liberal Fascism

    Episode 18: Michael and Peter explore Jonah Goldberg's origin story for the ridiculous 'Nazis were socialists' argument.

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    Bryan Cranston Tells Bob Iger ‘Our Jobs Will Not Be Taken Away’ by AI in Rousing Speech: You Will Not ‘Take Away Our Dignity’
  • I don't think it's inevitable that a technology that has an advantage to business is destined to succeed. We've been able to ban a number of technologies that are ultimately more harmful in the long run, CFCs, engineered stone, asbestos and even recently the EU banned facial recognition AI. We just need to help people recognise the harmfulness of a technology.

  • Bryan Cranston Tells Bob Iger ‘Our Jobs Will Not Be Taken Away’ by AI in Rousing Speech: You Will Not ‘Take Away Our Dignity’
  • They want to pay for an actor's likeness once then own it for a lifetime. Hollywood should take a lesson from their own anti-piracy ads of the 90s. 'You wouldn't download an actor.'

    As for is resistance futile. Here's just a few things that resistance has bought us just in Australia (a nightmare capitalist society):

    Annual Leave

    Paid Annual Leave was first won after a campaign by printing workers in 1936. The Arbitration Commission granted the workers paid leave, which was then gained by other workers through their unions in different industries. Annual leave loading of 17.5 per cent was first won by workers in the Metal Industry in 1973.

    Awards

    Awards are legally binding documents that set out the minimum entitlements for workers in every industry. The first industrial award, the Pastoral Workers Award was established by the Australian Workers Union in 1908, mainly covering shearers. The shearers had experienced a terrible deterioration of their wages and conditions during the 1897 Depression and decided to take action to protect working people. Since 1904, awards have underpinned the pay and terms and conditions of employment for millions of workers. Awards are unique to Australia and integral in ensuring workers get ‘fair pay for a fair day’s work’.

    Maternity leave

    Australian unions’ intensive campaigning for paid parental leave ended in victory with the introduction of the Paid Parental leave scheme by the Gillard Labor government. Under the scheme, working parents of children born or adopted after 1 January 2011 are entitled to a maximum of 18 weeks’ pay on the National Minimum Wage.

    Superannuation

    Prior to 1986, only a select group of workers were entitled to Superannuation. It became a universal entitlement after the ACTU’s National Wage Case. Employers had to pay 3% of workers’ earnings into Superannuation. This later increased to 9% and on November 2, 2011 the ACTU and its unions’ “Stand Up for Super” campaign celebrated another win for working Australians, when the Labor Government moved to increase the compulsory Superannuation Guarantee to 12% over 6 years from 1 July 2013 to 1 July 2019.

    Equal Pay for Women

    Although there were attempts to introduce equal pay going back as far as 1949, the principle of equal pay for women was finally adopted by Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in 1969.

    Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation Workers compensation laws first came into existence in West Australia in 1902. For many years unions agitated and campaigned for health and safety laws which compelled employers to provide a safe working environment. In Victoria, legislation was introduced in 1985 which saw the active role of workers in maintaining safety on the job. Building unions agitated for many years to ban the use of asbestos, finally succeeding in the 1980’s.

    Long service leave

    Coal workers went on strike in 1949 over a 35 hour week and Long service leave. Long service leave was finally introduced in New South Wales in 1951. Unions in other states followed.

    Meal Breaks, rest breaks

    Before unions agitated for meal breaks and rest breaks to be introduced, workers were required to work the whole day without a break. In 1973, workers at Ford in Melbourne engaged in industrial action over many issues, one of their demands being a proper break from the production line.

    Unfair Dismissal Protection

    Unfair Dismissal Protection came from the concept of a “fair go all round”, after the Australian Workers Union took a case to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission on behalf of a worker who had been unfairly sacked in 1971. Since then, unions have campaigned for laws that reflect that ‘fair go’ principle, which is about having a valid reason to sack someone and that the dismissal cannot be harsh, unjust or unreasonable.

    Green Bans

    'Green bans' and 'builders labourers' became household terms for Sydneysiders during the 1970s. A remarkable form of environmental activism was initiated by the builders labourers employed to construct the office-block skyscrapers, shopping precincts and luxury apartments that were rapidly encroaching upon green spaces or replacing older-style commercial and residential buildings in Sydney. The builders labourers refused to work on projects that were environmentally or socially undesirable. They developed a 'new concept of unionism' encompassing the principle of the social responsibility of labor: that workers had a right to insist their labour not be used in harmful ways.

    Proper unionised workers fighting in solidarity CAN protect their interests through resistance.

  • FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru to create a new superspecies, lawsuit says
  • Anyone from Australia knows we already fucked the shit out that country. It's now mostly just a big hole where a pyramid scheme used to be.

    Corruption, incompetence and a musical - The Guardian

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  • The transphobia stops now
  • Fuck yeah 🏳️‍⚧️

  • Karen Rule

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    spectrum.ieee.org The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties, the First Big Blockchain Game

    In September 2018, someone bought an angry cartoon cat for the equivalent $170,000. It was big win for CryptoKitties, the world’s first blockchain gaming hit. But the sky-high transaction obscured a more difficult truth: CryptoKitties was dying.

    The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties, the First Big Blockchain Game
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    open.spotify.com Are The Straights OK [TEASER]

    Listen to this episode from If Books Could Kill on Spotify. In our "Rules" and "Game" episodes we didn't get a chance to dissect the phenomenon of online dating (i.e. describe our worst dates and read cringe profiles out loud to each other), so that is what we are doing on today's bonus episode.  To...

    Are The Straights OK [TEASER]

    Get the full episode on Patreon to hear about Peter's deep dive into the toxic /r/FemaleDatingStrategy subreddit

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    spectrum.ieee.org The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Horde

    In a series of articles, IEEE Spectrum is examining exactly what data Tesla vehicles collect, how the company uses them to develop its automated driving systems, and whether owners or the company are in the driver’s seat when it comes to accessing and exploiting that data.

    The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Horde
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    thenewdaily.com.au Scott Morrison rejects he misled government over Robodebt

    Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has "rejected completely" findings that he misled cabinet on the legality of the Robodebt scheme.

    Scott Morrison rejects he misled government over Robodebt
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    Michael admitted to originally being a fan of Nudge. Which book did you naively embrace before revisiting?

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    If Books Could Kill

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    BONUS: Conservatives vs. Pride Month

    Peter and Hobbes discuss the Bud Light boycott, Target and corporate presence at pride

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    www.theatlantic.com A Podcast About the Airport Best Sellers We Can’t Escape

    On the podcast If Books Could Kill, hosts Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri dive into the murky details of mass-market hits.

    A Podcast About the Airport Best Sellers We Can’t Escape
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    open.spotify.com The Rules

    Listen to this episode from If Books Could Kill on Spotify. In 1995 a bestselling book proposed a simple dating strategy for women: Lose weight, wear bright colors and become a completely different person for the rest of your life.Thanks to Moira Donegan for helping us with this episode! Support us ...

    The Rules

    Episode 17: The Rules

    In 1995 a bestselling book proposed a simple dating strategy for women: Lose weight, wear bright colors and become a completely different person for the rest of your life.

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    In Defense of Disney’s Strange Solarpunk World

    Exploring the surprisingly radical ecological messages in Disney's Strange World.

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    Cheese Rule

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