Agreed, but when both are in place in the US, why is it that citizens still get shafted while oil companies profiteer?

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Exclusive: India drops proposal to mandate national ID app Aadhaar on smartphones after pushback India's government has decided not to go ahead ​with a proposal to require Apple , Samsung and others to pre-install the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on ‌phones, a state body said on...

India abandons proposal to require smartphone makers to pre-install the country's biometric national ID app, Aadhaar, on ‌phones, a move opposed by Apple, Google, Samsung ++ <good. India has created a surveillance monster across many aspects of connected life

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Come the Glorious Day

Tesla paid $1 billion in taxes to China & $0 in federal income taxes to the US. At least 88 highly profitable corporations paid $0 federal income tax last year while bringing in $ billions. Disney, CVS, Palantir, Taco Bell & others are making massive profits, paying executives enormous ⬇️

How can it be true that 40% of the US still approve of the racist, rapist, pedophile, felon, war criminal? What are they thinking?

No more slop-centres. 12 more states plan to ban hyperscale AI data centres. Maine already banned them.

Instead of billionaires having Digital ID on us, lets have Digital ID on them and make them pay their goddamn taxes.

Cartoon by @m2bulls.bsky.social

A competitive market is not a sufficient condition. In the US which is self-sufficient in oil and has a competitive market, petrol prices are also now high. If oil and refineries are privately owned and war disrupts supply, oil companies will profiteer, no?

This ultra-repairable phone now comes with a fully de-Googled Android OS This new phone puts privacy and repairability ahead of everything else

So, I am in the long process of migrating off US tech platforms. This week I am busy de-Googling my life. It is bloody complicated! As one part of that I bought a de-Googled Fairphone pre-loaded with the Murena /e/OS instead of the standard Google Android.
www.androidpolice.com/fairphone-6-...

Everyone in Britain knew Mandelson was The Prince of Darkness. Everyone.

Thames Water privatisation has failed – it's time to put public ownership on the table Who does Thames Water serve? It should be an easy question to answer: the public (or at least the 16 million people in England who rely on it for t...

Excellent article from @barrygardiner.bsky.social on the case for public ownership of Thames Water.

Barry has signed our open letter demanding that Thames Water is placed into Special Administration.

Has your MP signed?

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Tesla's Cybertruck is garbage.

Stop allowing concentration camps being built on American soil!

This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇

screenshot of Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) page https://www.ippr.org/media-office/government-risks-techlash-unless-it-shows-who-benefits-from-ai-ippr-warns Text reads: "Government risks ‘techlash’ unless it shows who benefits from AI, IPPR warns AI could deepen inequality, concentrate power and disrupt jobs without intervention Ministers urgently need to spread the benefits as industry grows Think tank calls for sovereign AI fund to share economic gains with the public The UK government risks being boxed in by AI backlash if they don’t share the benefits of the technology with the public, according to a new report from IPPR."

IPPR recommends: "Deploying AI engineers to schools, hospitals ... to experiment with where AI can improve outcomes"
- why not ask people already working there about outcomes? I'm betting 'fix the leaking roof' and 'stop making cuts' would come out ahead of 'more AI please')

Wealth Tax Now

It's reverse Robin Hood.

Solar powered motors a step closer - Energy Live News Development of solar cells on the roof of cars could change battery lifespan

This is potentially very cool. Hope it becomes a thing.
www.energylivenews.com/2026/04/15/s...

Village switches oil for solar and generates profits for social welfare

The Batte Man doth knowe the trouthe

Pope lecture on structure/agency

Hopefully this won't trend IRL

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Wealth Tax: tax assets, land, property, shareholdings, jets, yachts, artworks.