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• Favorite 9 June 2021
  bobjonkman favorited something by lnxw48a1: Last year, while visiting #sonTwo and meeting #GS3 in person for the first time, I asked my daughter-in-law about smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. She said they had one of each, but she wanted more. So I ordered a few of each and they put them up. Tonight, the gas […]
• New note by bobjonkman 2 May 2021
  But human labour only produces surplus value when it's being exploited. If humans are paid a fair value for their labour then there is no "surplus", ie. no profit for the corporate owners. This is why I favour worker-owned co-operatives instead of capitalist-owned corporations.
• bobjonkman repeated a notice by lxo 2 May 2021
  RT @lxo the greatest challenge of automation for a capitalist economy is that machines don't produce surplus value, only human labor does
• Favorite 2 May 2021
  bobjonkman favorited something by lxo: the greatest challenge of automation for a capitalist economy is that machines don't produce surplus value, only human labor does
• bobjonkman repeated a notice by lnxw48a1 31 January 2021
  RT @lnxw48a1 @geniusmusing Yeah. :-( I think the #blockwars folks may have indirectly caused this. There are people who file complaints against client apps that don’t build in blocklists against specific servers whose moderation policies they dislike. I think that #Matrix / #Element competes with one or more Google-owned chat-type services. Since they gatekeep the […]
• Favorite 31 January 2021
  bobjonkman favorited something by lnxw48a1: @geniusmusing Yeah. :-( I think the #blockwars folks may have indirectly caused this. There are people who file complaints against client apps that don’t build in blocklists against specific servers whose moderation policies they dislike. I think that #Matrix / #Element competes with one or more Google-owned chat-type services. Since […]
• New note by bobjonkman 30 January 2021
  And I can't figure out how to connect to a particular server. The #Patchwork #SSB client I'm using has a "+ Join Server" field, but it requires an invitation code. Which I can't generate unless I have a pub server. Which I can't join until I have an invitation code... Sigh. #SSB: Concept: A+ ; […]
• New note by bobjonkman 29 January 2021
  I was on #SSB Secure Scuttlebutt for a while (attended an #SSB seminar at last year's LibrePlanet conference), but the application was so resource intense that my laptop couldn't keep up. And, there wasn't the network effect I needed to make it useful. While there are probably interesting people to converse with, I have no […]
• New note by bobjonkman 23 January 2021
  Oh, hang on. It's @joeyh who reveals the inadequacy of #journalism. Not the article author, @Jonemo@twitter.com #ReadingComprehension
• New note by bobjonkman 23 January 2021
  @lnxw48a1 writes "In this post, Joey H. accidentally reveals a major reason why #news_media / #journalism is so bad today." This didn't leap out at me. Is it because good, in-depth reporting requires A LOT of research and hard work, and that modern journalism is adequately rewarded by re-Tweeted sound bites?