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1. Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 00:52:44 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

   "The idea that people must now play like robots to earn a living so as to be human in their spare time is, indeed, the apotheosis of misanthropy."

   https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/yanis-varoufakis-on-techno-feudalism/

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   • emenel (emenel@post.lurk.org)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 00:52:43 UTC emenel

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     @neauoire I like this quote:

     "In that sense, NFTs offer nothing new within digital worlds, except perhaps that they turbocharge the ideology of capitalism (exchange value rules supreme). In the analogue world, NFTs have value only to the extent that bragging rights offer utility to those who care for them. Even though in so doing, they force outfits like Sotheby’s and Christie’s (which used to monopolise the trade in bragging rights) to change their ways, NFTs in no way subverts the structure of property rights creating and underpinning the oligarchy’s exorbitant power over the many."

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 08:31:32 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • flaeky pancako
     @fleeky Indeed.
     
     "[Marx and Engels] believed in the emancipatory potential of the steam engine and of electromagnetism. But, they never believed that society would be liberated by the steam engine and/or electromagnetism. Liberation required a political movement that first overthrows the bourgeoisie and only then presses these magnificent technologies into the service of the many. This seems to me an excellent way of approaching today’s potentially liberating technologies, including blockchain."
     
     @neauoire
   • flaeky pancako (fleeky@prsm.space)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 08:31:35 UTC flaeky pancako

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     @neauoire no algorithim will remove the need for a genuine revolution...

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 08:32:48 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • flaeky pancako
     He even wrote science fiction on this topic; I'd be interested to read that.
     
     @neauoire @fleeky
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 16:29:23 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • iooioio
     @iooioio @neauoire The height of human-hate.
   • iooioio (iooioio@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 16:29:28 UTC iooioio

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     @neauoire The "apotheosis of misanthropy"? Er... what's that in English?