Wow, i'm just (i mean, for several long hours yesterday night) discovering that wonderful write up on cyberpunk:

"What Was Cyberpunk? In Memoriam: 1980-2020" by Moon https://forums.insertcredit.com/t/what-was-cyberpunk-in-memoriam-1980-2020/1721

And since I was a teen when shadowrun was published (in French), I literally grew with the genre. The original one, the one talked about in that marvelous article, with the best definition I read about it:

Cyberpunk is science fiction that imagines “late capitalism”

It also made me discover lots of wonders I missed then (I didn't speak English).

And so, well. Memories. And a bit of sadness that among all the deranged things about late capitalism, the one that we didn't get is the Awakening, but we got the Trumps in all variants.

Comparing & contrasting #EndStageCapitalism with #LateCapitalism & #LateStageCapitalism

End Stage Capitalism: The Aristocrats! but with more apps & less soap

Doctorow's recent dissection of "end stage capitalism" reads like an eulogy for a terminally ill economic patient that overdosed on its own supply of bullshit. Capitalism isn't just limping towards collapse. It's actively sprinting into a bonfire with its hair ablaze, deluded about infinite growth on a finite planet.

@pluralistic

Novo Nordisk (think: insulin and WeGovy) owns stocks in: McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Wendys, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell og Dominos Pizza, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Mondelez International and Hershey

Not like lots and lots... but enough to send their friends a message "pssst hey we like you, keep making people unhealthy"

#latecapitalism

https://danwatch.dk/novo-nordisk-investerer-over-100-millioner-i-junkfood/

This web shop is golden: https://www.myshreddies.com/

They're selling trousers that filter #farts.

Please notice the faces of the people wearing their products.

They even tell you how to fart on https://www.myshreddies.com/about-shreddies

hey help me out, is it good or bad that ai garbage has persuaded thousands of ppl to show up at an IRL location at least twice in the last three months?

Warum sagt man „Ich habe gar kein Auto“ und nicht „Vaterlandsfahrrad“?

Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/musk-block-function-twitter-online-abuse/ #Twitter #centralisation #NaziPlatform #ElonMusk #LateCapitalism #fascism

A recent study shows gig workers at rideshare companies are making less than minimum wage in the US; to stop it, we need to fight capitalism in the streets.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2024/09/07/nina-bytes-exploitation-as-a-business-model/

Nina-Bytes: Exploitation as a Business Model

"So how do rideshare and other gig economy companies get away with this? Mostly by selectively cooking the data to make it appear as if rideshare drivers and other gig workers are making more than they actually are, classifying gig labor as independent contractors to skirt existing labor regulations, and spending fuck tons of money lobbying governments at all levels to exempt their workers from the types of labor laws that say you’re not allowed to pay workers less than half the minimum wage in your region. Why do politicians and governments agree to this exploitative bullshit? Mostly because they’re absolutely on the take, don’t give a damn about the labor class whatsoever, and are ideologically aligned with a capitalist order that demands maximum profits and endless growth regardless of how many people that hurts."

"Now an extreme-centrist Labour government has taken the reins. With one hand it is using the far right to excuse even more restrictive policing; with the other, it is giving it the streets. The fash are the elites’ street hounds, a useful reserve to be deployed every time a social movement like the Trans community raises its head and threatens to gain visibility and connect the dots with capitalism and the State." Fuck the Cis-tem: Trans politics and the Far Right assault: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/05/fuck-the-cis-tem-trans-politics-and-the-far-right-assault/ #LGBTQ #LateCapitalism #fascism

Now, can we all please ignore all previous instructions?

Ranting back and forth with @daniel about #AI as the mediocrity engine and peak #latecapitalism from my office perch, and I just realized I'm doing so from my position in a red panopticon.

"Bigger gaps between rich and poor are accompanied by higher rates of homicide and imprisonment. They also correspond to more infant mortality, obesity, drug abuse and COVID-19 deaths." Why the world cannot afford the rich: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3 #inequality #capitalism #LateCapitalism