How long will society allow these highly addictive apps to steal our data, feed us lies and sell us dangerous things?
#RegulateSocialMedia #PeopleNotProfits
Facebook Boosts Viral Content as It Drops Fact-Checking
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-meta-abandons-fact-checking-boosts-viral-content
Donald Trump says no right of return under his Gaza proposal
US President Donald Trump has said Palestinians would not have a right to return under his plan to #ethnically #cleanse Gaza.
#Trump’s comments contradict other officials in his administration who have sought to argue he was only calling for the temporary relocation of #Gaza’s population.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24924670.donald-trump-says-no-right-return-gaza-proposal/
Fight the Rich
Kshama Sawant
"I served as the only socialist on the Seattle City Council for ten years. In that decade, my council office led movements of working people to win historic victories, including the highest minimum wage in the country. I also saw firsthand how every part of the political establishment, led by big business and the Democratic Party, viciously opposed virtually every pro-worker piece of legislation we fought for. I saw how all the cogs of the capitalist machine — the establishment politicians, the courts, the police, the NGO leaders, and sadly many labor leaders — all work in concert together against the interests of workers.
I can tell you from my experience — and it is increasingly evident to working people — that this system is completely irredeemable, as are both U.S. political parties."
[Kshama Sawant is a revolutionary socialist, a founding member of Workers Strike Back, and a former Seattle City Councilmember who helped win the first $15/hour minimum wage in a major city and the Amazon Tax on wealthy corporations to fund affordable housing.]
1 year on, we know this: #Sweden’s trade unions are more than a match for Elon Musk
It's the first & only #strike against #Tesla anywhere in the world. It has now become the longest-running strike in Sweden for a century. In April, six months into the dispute
#Musk said: “Actually, I think the storm has passed on that front, I think things are in reasonably good shape in Sweden.” That was not true then, and it is not true now
Corporations when they say they can't possibly pay people a livable wage...
#capitalism #EatTheRich #PeopleNotProfits #LivableWage
#asyl suchen, bekommen, #verdienen
kriegshinterbliebene (bei sozial-versicherungen als eigenes kreuz)
richtlinien wer bleiben darf &für's wohnen zahlen?
#gerechtigkeit #peoplenotprofit #peoplenotprofits #menschenstattprofite #fair mit wohnenden nachbarn&wohnungsfreien mitmenschen
This is why I find so called 'smart' meters, currently, a nuisance
An #electric/gas meter has always been the property & responsibility of the power corporation
#SmartMeters have a 1 year warranty, after which the homeowner needs to pay to get it fixed!
Quite simply, life continues to get worse in the #UK
‘I’ve never been so driven’: Led By Donkeys on mocking Liz Truss, duping Matt Hancock and renaming Michelle Mone’s yacht
The group has campaigned on everything from the #PPE scandal to the deaths of children in #Gaza with their headline-grabbing guerrilla actions.
And they’re only just getting started
Attention #British citizens …
Americans (insured or not) still receive no-cost Covid vaccines.
WTF is wrong with the #UnitedKingdom's government? [Rhetorical question]
East Germany invented unbreakable drinking #glasses
#Superfes, East Germany’s unbreakable #glass. Superfest was designed to make them last 5 times longer than regular drinking glasses. They were found to be 10x more durable.
The reason for its decline was its strength
Glass retailers live off the fact their products break. A glass that doesn't break is a threat to #profits
Zivilisation beruht auf Selbstreflexion, nicht jedem Impuls zu folgen. Versöhnt mit den eigenen Impulsen brauchen wir Räume der Selbstreflexion ohne Selbstzensur, also Privatsphäre aus der dann bewusst & überlegt in einen demokratischen Aushandlungsprozess in Gemeinschaft eingetreten werden kann.
Daher sollten Daten auf Servern nur verschlüsselt bereitgehalten werden (auch kein Admin ließt mit). Gute Beispiele: @signalapp @protonprivacy
UK sends private #healthcare shareholders profits of £10 million/week
Our NEW analysis reveals the #NHS lost £6.7 billion to private profits since 2012 due to #outsourcing - that is £10 million a week.
Outsourcing is NOT a neutral choice. It turns our health service into a wealth service for a handful of people.
Takes 30 seconds to email local candidates now.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/we-send-private-shareholders-profits-£10-million-week
Labour and Tories would ‘both leave NHS worse off than under austerity’
Labour and the #Conservatives would both leave the #NHS with lower spending increases than during the years of Tory #austerity, according to an independent analysis of their manifestos by a leading health thinktank.
Both Tory & Labour represent lower level of #funding increase than the period of austerity
STOP spending huge amounts on private agencies - give it to our #NHS instead!
Private agencies charge hospitals nearly £2,000 per SHIFT for nurses
Last year #OurNHS spent over £10 billion on agency staff
Privatisation fails & takes away valuable staff, money & resources from our NHS
NHS England came up with comprehensive plan to give our NHS enough permanent staff to meet needs of patients for years to come
#Petition:
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/agencies-give-the-nhs-the-money-instead-petition?utm_source=mastodon
Yes, prime minister, it’s a scandal so many of us are signed off work
Maybe #Tories should stop making us ill
The numbers signed off work have surged in last 14 years because #Conservative governments us catastrophically unwell
The #UK does not have a #sicknote problem. It has a government-couldn’t-care-less problem
The normalisation of neglect: Covid, human rights and water quality
In the last 14 years, the British government has brought about destruction and chaos. Never before has there been so much mismanagement in public office, more so since Brexit and the Covid pandemic.
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/the-normalisation-of-neglect-covid-human-rights-and-water-quality/
Hospital admissions for waterborne diseases in England up 60%
Analysis follows widespread anger after record sewage spills
Environment Agency data shows raw #sewage discharged for more than 3.6m hours into rivers, seas last year – 129% increase on the previous year
Increased raw sewage in rivers means higher risk of infections as people likely to contact the #bacteria in human waste.
Oxford University analysis has debunked #NHS privatisation
Rresearchers looked at studies of healthcare #privatisation & found privatisation leads to poorer patient quality care
Every month, private hospitals send 550 of their patients to the NHS because of an emergency they had while in the private hospital!
Privatisation works for shareholders, not patients
1 min video:
A brand new Oxford University analysis has debunked #NHS privatisation.
Oxford researchers looked at studies of healthcare #privatisation and found they agreed on one thing: privatisation leads to poorer quality care for patients.
I was fined £150 for feeding a #pigeon a chip. Is this really how councils raise funds now?
Local councils are strapped for cash, that is clear. But issuing fixed-penalty notices for things like this is not the answer
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/22/fined-feeding-pigeon-chip-councils-funds
