The free market never existed and cannot exist. “Free” for Adam Smith meant free from rents (e.g. by monopolists, landlords, etc), but capitalism tends toward monopoly as bigger players swallow up smaller ones and use anticompetitive tactics to maintain their position.

Yup. Once you go from a community of lasting relationships to a spot market of one-off, arms length transactions between strangers, the commons disappears. The Commons is not a place, it’s a set of relationships.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/governing-the-commons/A8BB63BC4A1433A50A3FB92EDBBB97D5

Elinor Ostrom knew

Ahh yeah sorry on android it’s keepassDX

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All of them, as long as we have capitalism

Good translation work is difficult and can take a long time. In the past, it was either done as part of academic research or if a publishing company was willing to invest that much. At least as far as works of fiction, history, plays, and anything else with nuance and cultural context go.

Now, machine translation is OK for straightforward factual works and can convey the gist of a story, but still do not measure up to a studied, thoughtful translation. I disagree that a bad translation is better than no translation, since a bad one will give the wrong impression of a text or kill its magic or imply things about the culture it came from that aren’t accurate.

AI slop translations threaten to make what’s left of the cultural differences in this world bland, bias them based on the mostly English language works that AI is t trained on, and who knows what else. AI doesn’t understand meaning, it just provides a plausible answer to the input prompt. What would it do with Ulysses or The Bible if translations of them didn’t exist?

It’s not whataboutism, it’s how we got here. What was once unthinkable is now happening and it takes a few intermediate steps to get there

Being forced to work for billionaires keeps us from leading more fulfilling lives

Organize movements of workers, tenants, etc. Build up support & experience, establish a program of things you want to accomplish, then organize various actions up until you have enough power to strike

It’s not a single, neat answer. Decades of history led to this point. One interesting entry point: https://thedigradio.com/podcast/counterrevolution-w-melinda-cooper/

Yup. This is the basic principle of anarchism.

Firestorm coop, Haymarket books, Anark, Taylor Lorenz, Zoe baker, saint andrew

Use resources available through your library’s website

Yes. Bandcamp has lots of great independent artists & labels

You can thin out some sauces with a neutral oil, like canola or sunflower oil. You can mix some sauces into mayonnaise for an aioli. You can use or make sauces that are less hot or less salty.

Every tax break for a billionaire or subsidy for a fossil fuel company is money we pay for things we don’t want

A change in lifestyle is bigger than a change in numerical age. If you go away to college, that’s a big change. If you get a job, that’s a big change, etc etc

DSA state and local chapters are all different. Some are reasonably organized and strong, like in NY, others are more sleepy or just smaller. Check your local one out, give them a little grace for doing hard work in hard times, but ultimately you’ll be able to see if they are a good fit for you.

They are effective, but not usually by being convincing. Its usually through saturation so that the first brand that comes to mind when you do need a thing is the one that saturated your market.

Spon con and influencers are more convincing/creating a parasocial connection.