Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Wall Street has consolidated into 5 giant banks.

Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

Four giants control over 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

Share to links.

https://werd.io/2024/seeking-share-urls-for-every-platform

We don’t really have something like that with Nostr. Should we have something?

“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.”

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

#tech #cloud #ai #datacenter #environment

uBlock Origin filter list for sites that contain AI-generated content for uBlock Origin. Useful for scrubbing AI-generated bullshit from Google, DDG, and Bing image search pages.

Edit: I didn't make this! Just seemed useful.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/tree/main

The Inaccessibility Cycle

#disability #ableism #accessibility

I need a Matrix client that is good … Element is constantly screwing things up. Sometimes short runs of messages in chats I've been in for months suddenly just can't be decrypted. Sometimes it doesn't notify me of new messages for a week or so, on desktop or mobile, before then returning back to normal. Sometimes certain channels just have an unread badge no matter how far I scroll in the room and the threads, and sometimes the badge will stay even if I mark the room read.

We've got a new version (v2.5.0) out which improves the look and feel along with fixes for the #Hypercore / #Holepunch protocol handlers.

https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/releases/tag/v2.5.0

No, I don't think this had anything to do with startup equity. This advice has cropped up in every industry. I think the job hopping trend is a direct response to growing inequality and companies taking employees for granted. Stagnant wages, erosion of benefits, pushing for longer work hours. The social contract with work is broken. So people are looking out for themselves.
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