I'm surprised to find myself wanting to tweet on the occasion of Pride weekend (nevermind "Pride Inc." and the disney parade). Kind of a generational perspective. Two things... 1/ For a lot of people my age, the alphabet string LGBTQ feels a little like failure of our efforts. We tried to build:

Q = LGBTC

Queer is all of us. (I added the "C" here in 2022. It stands for "closeted" or "curious", meaning people who call themselves "straight".) 2/

These people never quit. Tomaso's confused, misleading paraphrase from 1867 is, of course, from Marx and Engels in 1948 in a famous passage from the Communist Manifesto. It's about how capital differs from earlier social orders (e.g. Feudalism). 1/ Earlier forms of society tended to work hard to conserve a means of production and thus tended towards increasingly complex, rigid structures with intricate hierarchies and oppositions, church and aristocracy, hierarchies of clerics, nobles and peasants, and so on. 2/

Corvellec's talk may be the most interesting and useful talk I've seen from libreplanet. I don't claim to accurately paraphrase her, just to state some of what I take away from it, especially in the context of the event's reception.

on Rules, Ethics, and Morals >

@davelab6 In certain familiar discourses, a rule is an objective standard behavior, and a socially deterministic, socially produced consequence. Example:
"If you are tardy to class, you will receive one demerit." >

This thread is puzzling, @davelab6. For starters, RMS could not control pay, benefits, or conditions without the consent of the other board members.

https://twitter.com/paulnivin/status/1377079987950395393

This is a legal impossibility. If RMS was President, then the board had oversight over him, and he had decision making power over the budget. Even if he merely instructed the President as an advisor, the board had ultimate control

https://twitter.com/paulnivin/status/1377079989372248069

The quote from Moishe Postone ("The historical possibility of the abolition of proletarian labor, ...") in the attached image is a little to long to put in tweets but if you need it in text form, here's a link: reddit.com/r/abolishwagel… 1/few> To paraphrase (part 1): Capitalism, through its marvelous innovations, brings for the "historical possibility of the abolition of proletarian labor". By "proletarian labor", Postone means your right to have a job if and only if you produce surplus value. >

Let's put the new global ecomomic crisis in perspective - namely the perspective of GenX:

Nixon Shock, oil embargo, stagflation

savings and loan crisis (Reagan)

dot com implosion (Clinton)

sub-prime mortgage implosion (G. W. Bush)

housing and public helath crisis (Trump) 1> "Under the hood", all of those are deeply related. We are not in "the second economic crisis young adults have known" - there has been a continuous global economic crisis for 50 years. The acute form of the crisis is volatile and changes its manifestation each time it pops up.>

Sure, let's talk about Bushnell, @migueldeicaza. For context, let's begin here: a variety of powerful people at MIT - none of them RMS - knowingly and enthusiastically sold out the institution to a millionaire pedophile and eugenicist, and attempted to cover it up.

https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1174358818488299522

As news of the depth of depravity at MIT broke, an alum engaged in a media campaign against RMS. In this campaign, she directly, objectively lied about what RMS said. She succeeded in shifting media attention away from the depraved MIT leadership that aided Epstein.