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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/20/actual-material-conditions/

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glc ,
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Not seeing the Tuckerization note here - I may just be missing it in the raft of posts, since I actually read at pluralistic.

Worth a prominent mention - I think it runs about 2 more hours.

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Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections: But they rarely beat the Dem establishment in primaries.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112129086333637636

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pluralistic OP ,
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Hey look at this

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Teresa dissects a troll http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004900.html

Aftermath of @bruces's open-door SXSW party https://web.archive.org/web/20040404080645/https://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sterling/index.blog?entry_id=258972

SXSW Friendster keynote https://web.archive.org/web/20040401205300/http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2004/03/16/what_the_heck_is_social_networking.html

Clips of Bill O’Reilly reading his porn novel https://web.archive.org/web/20090318082924/https://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/03/off_with_those.php

Canada’s science minister is a creationist https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/science-minister-wont-confirm-belief-in-evolution/article17940499/

Duelling “Obama” cafes set up on the same block in Toronto https://web.archive.org/web/20090319181623/http://torontoist.com/2009/03/an_obamanation_on_the_danforth.php

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18+ pluralistic OP ,
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Australian attorney general wants to launch man-in-the-middle attacks on secure Internet connections https://www.itnews.com.au/news/attorney-generals-new-war-on-encrypted-web-services-375286

Miami Crimestoppers head eats a tip rather than hand it over to defense lawyer https://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/03/bound-by-honor-to-defy-a-judge-and-eat-a-document.html

Myspace lost all music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/7uiv8b/myspace_player_wont_play_songs_and_i_want_to/

Majority of London’s newly built luxury flats are unsold, raising the spectre of “posh ghost towers” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/26/ghost-towers-half-of-new-build-luxury-london-flats-fail-to-sell

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18+ pluralistic OP ,
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The story of how Buffalo’s oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias https://onezero.medium.com/how-googles-bad-data-wiped-a-neighborhood-off-the-map-80c4c13f1c2b

China’s “pawn shops” have loaned $43B, mostly secured by real-estate https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-12/china-is-said-to-scrutinize-43-billion-pawn-shop-lending-boom

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Friday, March 15th's threads: Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112100792835858637

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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in Catch me in Toronto THIS FRIDAY (Mar 22), NYC THIS SUNDAY (Mar 24) (with Laura Poitras!), Anaheim (Mar 29-31) and more!

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@pluralistic both links are paywalled

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cgbencini ,
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@pluralistic I don't need a wig for a skin head, but the naval cannon is really interesting. And it's cheap too. 😁

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The laptop is awesome…it does weigh 22lbs 😂

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@pluralistic Back in 2016, I said that to me the US elections looked sort of like a game of rock-paper-scissors: Hillary beats Bernie, Trump beats Hillary, Bernie beats Trump.

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@pluralistic it doesn't help that the US electoral system institutionally favors grifters, rentiers, and the idle rich. If you have to work for a living, it's not possible to take on a months-long unpaid additional full time job to win a contested election. The Dems try very hard to maintain the vibe of respecting the rule of law. The GOP dgaf and will happily line up no show gigs, back channel funding, kickbacks, and shady accountants for their candidates.

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