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*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦  ·  3 days ago
@matthewguy
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The recent provincial election in BC confirmed that being an awful human being is no longer disqualifying in modern politics. For evidence, see: #BrentChapman

@pluralistic lays out a solid tactical plan which, while ostensibly written about countering #Project2025, could be adapted with few alterations into a battle-plan for countering the rise of right-wing politics in Canada:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/#disassembly-manual

#CDNPoli#CanPoli

Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦
Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦  ·  2 weeks ago
The #Biden Administration once again writes rules that turn monopolies into competitive markets. This time: banks.

Switching costs are real. And now quantified for banking.

Reminder: monopolists and oligarchs pay lip service to “competition.” That’s why they are suing to stop this final reg.

From @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/01/bankshot/

Also
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/no-matter-what-bank-says-its-your-money-your-data-and-your-choice

#competition
#Election2024
#USPolitics
#finance
#harris

sleepy62
sleepy62  ·  2 weeks ago
@kegill @pluralistic

💯 Totally on board with this. I read Cory's article this morning and realized that is exactly what I was complaining to my banker about a few months back. I would love to give #RBC the boot but it would just be so painful and costly. It should be as easy as changing cell phone provider (or #Mastodon instance for that matter).

Then again these new rules are only for USA. Canadian banks will continue to rape and pillage til the cows come home.

#banks #cdnpoli

LeftyLabourTechToronto
LeftyLabourTechToronto  ·  2 months ago
"The first labour union of game developers in Ontario was formed by staff at Joydrop, only for the majority of employees that voted to reportedly be fired two working days after the victory."

#unions #unionbusting#Ontario #Canada #labour #labor #workersrights #onpoli#OntarioPolitics#CanadianPolitics #cdnpoli #GamingNews #Gaming

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/first-ontario-game-dev-labour-union-formed-at-joydrop-majority-of-staff-who-voted-reportedly-fired

Alison Creekside
Alison Creekside  ·  2 months ago
Poilievre is riding @pluralistic 's “enshittification” of the internet:
the "aggressive, quasi-libertarian, pseudo-scientific, fratty, horndog, boorishly provocative" reactionary, angry-dude discourse.

Women aren't having it, dude. #cdnpoli

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/pierre-poilievre-is-winning-the-online-rage-war-but-his-playbook-may-be-crumbling-before/article_46901d14-7064-11ef-b485-9b08b9c24cad.html

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  2 months ago
Broadly speaking, the role of an establishment economist is to come up with new ways of saying, "actually, your boss is right." In other words, the world we're living in is the best possible world, and the fact that you got contact burns from collapsing on the scorching sidewalk outside of the grocery store where you couldn't afford your weekly shopping is unfortunate, but unavoidable.

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Marius Fortuna_3
Marius Fortuna_3  ·  2 months ago
@pluralistic

Establishment Economists explaining the Central Bank setting interest rates at 20%, causing massive unemployment, collapse in the housing market, widespread small business failures, and suicides among small business owners and unemployed;

"Well last months M1 and M2 Money Supply numbers combined with high employment were at levels econmists and Central Bankers consider potentially inflationary so they had to do it."

#USPolitics #cdnpoli #ukpolitics #capitalism #economics