Pretty transparent attempt to turn my kids into future debt-ridden customers.
Pretty fucking sick also.
2022-01-25
Got this gem of snippet in an email from a bank.
'... build good money habits this year with a debit card for kids'
A somewhat contrarian view of what Elizabeth Holmes' guilty verdict means.
It boils down to 'only the investors matter'.
https://kitoconnell.com/2022/01/16/elizabeth-holmes-late-capitalism/
Hard to argue with it, I'd say.
Well what do you know! Employees are more productive in a remote work situation.
The 20th Century view -
Previous models of productivity-focused on several now-outdated approaches to measuring the “quantifiable” results of an employee’s work. This included measurement of outputs, such as units and/or deliverables completed, and production line management’s (and its white-collar equivalent’s) assessments of hours worked by watching over a sea of workers, cubicles, and offices.
The 21th Century view-
The new workplace is where the work lives: the shared physical and digital environment used by organizations to enable the workforce with the right tools to get work done.
Context here: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/blog/human-capital-blog/2021/remote-work-productivity.html
Got this from TechRepublic.
2022-01-22
2022-01-21
2 really succinct articles from the Black Agenda Report.
https://blackagendareport.com/biden-plantation
But now the bloom is truly off the rose. The campaign lies and the failure to address the covid pandemic make it difficult for all but the dead enders to support Biden and vice president Kamala Harris. The Black political class will fulfill their role and continue to put lipstick on the pig. The people aren’t fooled though and they won’t turn out in the numbers needed to keep democrats in control of congress. Although democratic control means very little. The military industrial complex gets $770 billion in funding regardless of who is in control. Biden has pledged not to provide medicare for all and he didn’t even present a public option for health care. As for claims that the democrats are more environmentally friendly, Biden has approved more oil and gas drilling permits on public land than the Trump administration did.
A major principle of Marxism is that the contradictions of capitalist society have a tendency of becoming antagonisms which cause tectonic shifts in political and economic relations. The loss of confidence in the Biden administration is part and parcel of the sharpening contradiction between its public relations image as the U.S.’s savior from the so-called evils of Donald Trump and the fact that Biden and company are functionaries of the very ruling elite that produced Trump in the first place. Said differently, Trump is a byproduct of the general crisis of capitalism that Biden’s long career of service to the ruling class helped produce. The capitalist, imperialist, and white supremacist roots of the American Empire are rotting from within. Capitalism is at a dead-end and is faced with an impossible choice: either accept reforms that cut into finance capital’s ill-gotten profits or terrorize workers and oppressed people for everything they have.
For the ruling class, this really isn’t a choice at all. When faced with economic and political crisis, capital always chooses to reproduce itself over the needs and interests of society. The Biden administration’s arrogance in the face of crisis represents a breakdown in the state’s capacity to govern an empire in decay. Capital is banking on the fact that no mass movement yet exists that is mature enough to confront the contradictions of duopoly rule. Any genuine revolutionary must take up this task as Biden moves sluggishly past his first year as president of the United States. American exceptionalism is dead, and the time is now to build revolutionary movements and leaders who are ready to bury the American Empire with it.
2022-01-19
The Habs won ANOTHER game!
Great to see.
Great to see some players who've been out due to injury or COVID coming back.
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And unhappiness. Let's start the latter first; to get it out of the way. I realize that a great deal of what makes me unhappy in my life...
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https://realleecamp.substack.com/p/ai-execs-admit-to-the-largest-labor
