I remember reading this article years ago, probably in WIRED Magazine or something, about the 'attention economy’, and I feel like what we've gotten instead is a begging economy.

It's a non-stop flood of begging for money and attention; like and subscribe, comment below, follow me on all of my socials, subscribe to my newsletter, boost for reach, support me on Patreon, please donate to support my work or other immediate need, hashtag mutual aid.

And when number don't go up fast enough, they abandon the platform, chase dat clout elsewhere.

It's a weird kind of rat race that doesn't really benefit anyone, and yet here we are.

We are further on our way to 1789 France than anyone realizes.

As capitalists lean on research & dev of biologics (-imab, -umab suffixed meds) and deregulate health insurance, soon a good 5-10% of the population will be forced to oppose capitalism by every means necessary.

The insurance & fossil fuel industries are creating swaths of "nothing left to lose" types who would rather die by gunfire than by slow suffering torture.

A public sector funding initiative should pick up #Mozilla #Firefox and drive it as a community browser indepedent of #Google funding.

A browser is by far the single most impactful gateway to computing resources for people nowadays. (Right after a mobile OS.)

It must not be allowed to fail.

zdnet.com/home-and-office/netw…

#OpenSource #OpenWeb #PublicSector #PublicMoneyPublicCode

Why Google's legal troubles could hasten Firefox's slide into irrelevance

Fewer people than ever use the once popular web browser, but Mozilla remains profitable thanks to Google. How long can that trend continue with the Department of Justice coming after Google?

^{Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)}

Indian company "Yes Madam" sends out a company survey asking how stressed the employees are then promptly sacks 100 employees who respond that they are stressed.

Looks like the real thing, all over the Indian press and the company isn't denying it

indianstartupnews.com/news/yes…

#stress #india #sacking

Shark Tank India-featured YesMadam asks employees if they are stressed; HR says, 'We fired those who answered yes'

Shark Tank India-featured YesMadam has come under fire for reportedly terminating over 100 employees following a workplace mental health survey.

^{Jaya Vishwakarma (Indian Startup News)}

BTW if i’ve learned anything about USA assassinations, is that some faction or other of the government is involved.

so it’s funny to see NYPD’s 10k bounty ―that doesn’t even cover the deductible on an United Health Care policy― when the perpetrator or their accomplices are most likely cops.

second line of suspects are former military personnel. we know the USMIL has looked the other way what with the booming mercenary industry.

guess who holds the biggest contract for DoD policies: UHC.

Before the Civil War, the U.S. had generally followed the English practice of granting citizenship to children born in the country.

In 1857, though, the Supreme Court had decided the
Dred Scott v. Sandford case,
with Chief Justice Roger Taney declaring that people of African descent living in the U.S.
– whether free or enslaved, and regardless of where they were born
– were not actually U.S. citizens.

After the Civil War, Congress explicitly rejected the Dred Scott decision,
first by passing legislation reversing the ruling
and then by writing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution,
which specified that “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

This broad language intentionally included more than just the people who had been freed from slavery at the end of the Civil War:

During legislative debate, members of Congress decided that the amendment should cover the children of other nonwhite groups,
such as Chinese immigrants and those identified at the time as “Gypsies.”

This inclusive view of citizenship, however, still had an area judges hadn’t made clear yet
– the phrase➡️ “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

In 1884, the Supreme Court had to interpret those words when deciding the case of a Native American who wanted to be a citizen,
had renounced his tribal membership and attempted to register to vote.

The justices ruled that even though John Elk had been born in the U.S., he was born on a reservation as a member of a Native American tribe and was therefore subject to the tribe’s jurisdiction at his birth
– not that of the United States.
He was, they ruled, not a citizen.

In 1887, Congress did pass a law creating a path to citizenship for at least some Native Americans;
it took until 1924 for all Native Americans born on U.S. soil to be recognized as citizens.

The text of the 14th Amendment also became an issue in the late 19th century, when Congress and the Supreme Court were deciding how to handle immigrants from China.

An 1882 law had barred Chinese immigrants living in the U.S. from becoming naturalized citizens.

A California circuit court, however, ruled in 1884 that those immigrants’ U.S.-born children were citizens.

In 1898, the Supreme Court took up the question in United States v. Wong Kim Ark,
ultimately ruling that children born in the U.S. were, in the 14th Amendment’s terms, “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States -- so long as their parents were not serving in some official capacity as representatives of a foreign government and not part of an invading army.

Those children were U.S. citizens at birth.

This ruling occurred near the peak of anti-Chinese sentiment that had led Congress to endorse the idea that immigration itself could be illegal.

In earlier rulings, the court had affirmed broad powers for Congress to manage immigration and control immigrants.

Yet in the Wong Kim Ark ruling, the court did not mention any distinction between the children of legal immigrants and residents and the children of people who were in the United States without appropriate documentation.

All people born in the United States were automatically simply citizens.

Since the Wong Kim Ark ruling, birthright citizenship rules haven’t changed much
– but they have remained no less contentious.

In 1900 and 1904, leaders of several Pacific islands that make up what is now American Samoa signed treaties granting the U.S. full powers and authority to govern them. -- These agreements, however, did not grant American Samoans citizenship.

A 1952 federal law and State Department policy designates them as “non-citizen nationals,” which means they can freely live and work in the U.S. but cannot vote in state and federal elections.

In 2018, several plaintiffs from American Samoa sued to be recognized as U.S. citizens, covered by the 14th Amendment’s provision that they were born “within” the U.S. and therefore citizens.

The district court found for the plaintiffs, but the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, ruling that Congress would have to act to extend citizenship to territorial residents.
theconversation.com/long-stand…

Long-standing American principle of birthright citizenship under attack from Trump allies

Since the earliest days of the nation, any person born on US soil is a US citizen.

^{The Conversation}

Now is not the time to politicize this

We must simply accept that CEO assassinations are a fact of life and move on...

Ronald Reagan’s real legacy, charted and graphed. Spoiler: It’s not the bedtime story we’ve been told.

A visual breakdown of the inequality, debt, and mass incarceration still shaping our lives.

'Trickle-down' economics was never real.

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