The Dončić/AD situation tells you everything you need to know about NBA players being workers.
These men make millions of dollars but in the end of the day control very little of what they can do, where they can live, what their bodies will look like. Some people make the league happen and some other people make money from it. That’s all it is.
[#]NBA #Mavericks #Lakers
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“we haVE tO sLoWLY aCCepT cHaNGeS tHrOUgh rEFOrMs”
Meanwhile, in Serbia:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/28/serbia-prime-minister-milos-vucevic-resigns-amid-anti-corruption-protests
[#]Balkans #Politics #Serbia #EuroPol #Corruption #Protests
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US consumer society is so wasteful. I’m trying to recycle a printer and I’ve spent hours trying to figure out how to do it. Websites don’t have info, recycling centers are open odd hours that change randomly and are run by shady people.
I know garbage collection is a racket/corruption. It’s just so infuriating.
In Germany any store that sells electronics has to take them for recycling. Regardless of manufacturer/time/date. Here, Best Buy doesn’t even take printers.
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This is positive masculinity. 🫶 Russ.
One of the greatest players of all time, it’s a pleasure to see him shine once again.
From: @nuggets
https://twitter.com/nuggets/status/1882918655929024646
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I wish people who came up with free software projects picked less nerdy names. I get what it's supposed to mean, but Wolf is such a better name than LibreWolf.
It's so hard to get people to adopt things that sound like they were named by your 13yr old cousin who started reading Ayn Raynd.
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An outrageous circumvention of the democratic process. There was a landslide vote in support of the resolution at the AHA convention.
Immense hypocrisy of leadership, particularly after the AHA issued a similar resolution about Ukraine.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/shared-governance/2025/01/17/historians-council-vetoes-gaza-scholasticide
[#]Palestine #histodons #Gaza #AcademicFreedom
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Never been prouder! My elementary school, OŠ "Ivo Andrić" is going on strike, in support of the student-led protests.
It is located in a Miljakovac, a Belgrade working-class neighborhood which has been slowly decaying since the local factories shut down in the 90s.
Their message to parents and students highlighted shared struggle with high schools and universities, "no healthy future without the dignity of teachers'.
[#]Labor #Strikes #Serbia #Education #StudentMovements
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Today, a 38yr old driver with license plate ran over a law student. She was protesting corruption that lead to the railway canopy collapse in Novi Sad.
Student is in the ER, although last news is she is alive and will likely survive. The driver is in police custody.
Regime-aligned people have been using cars to run over protesters, out of frustration with 15min protests blocking major streets.
[#]StudentMovements #Serbia #Balkans #FuckCars
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It’s like reading the Zenitists all over again.
Valid critiques of modernity, echoes of the past in this manifesto.
From: @motorhueso
https://mastodon.social/@motorhueso/113013094359031469
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If you like pictures from the (post)socialist world, follow my #pixelfed. I’ll be posting occasionally about communism, empire, architecture, and futures past.
@belgradecosmos
[#]socialism #histodons #architecture
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This is the old Jamal, he’s on fire tonight. Note how much the team is making space for him too. Love it.
Mavs would be a different story with Luka, but right now they seem cooked.
[#]NBA #DenverNuggets #nuggets #DallasMavericks #mavs
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Folks, if you don't know it, follow @loops. It's an open source federated #TikTok getting built by the team behind @pixelfed. It looks REALLY good and quite user friendly.
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The cost of this one (horrific) instance of wildfires in Los Angeles will be more than the total cost of building high speed rail from LA to San Francisco.
That is under the current, incredibly inefficient, construction regime designed to funnel public money into private hands.
Don't buy the lie that it's too expensive.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/13/la-fires-wildfire-economic-losses
[#]Trains #HighSpeedRail #California #Wildfires #LosAngeles
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Russell Westbrook is a joy to watch. That man leaves his heart on the court. Not selfish, explosive, capable. Watching those cuts with Jok is like poetry.
Really great to see AG back on the court too. Entire bench really brought the game today.
A really exciting matchup. Sorry, Mavs. Dinwiddie was impressive on your side.
[#]DenverNuggets #NBA #DallasMavericks
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I am particularly interested in ways in which fire-smart prevention is coupled with returning custody of land to indigenous groups, how climate resiliency can be coupled with #LandBack.
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I'm trying to get a good understanding of existing fire-smart prevention techniques in Southern California. I'm sure climate and environmental scientists are inundated right now, but if anyone has a good set of sources to read through, I'd much appreciate it!
The California landscape is very similar to parts of Yugoslavia/Mediterranean I am familiar with. I'm thinking about things like this over there:
https://www.istituto-oikos.org/files/risorsa/2023/Fire_Smart_Landscapes_Oikos_ENdef.pdf
[#]California #Wildfires #ClimateScience
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All kinds of Malthusian nonsense on the internet about how California is incompatible with this level of human settlement etc. This is fascist ideology masking itself in environmentalist terms.
We can build buildings out of less flammable material. We can build in higher density, rewilding suburban areas. We can severely restrict fossil fuel use in LA County.
We have the resources, they are just not distributed fairly.
[#]Wildfires #California #LosAngeles #BackdoorEugenics
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I support defederating from Threads. We have rules for server mod policy, Threads is violating them. Letting them not follow rules because they are too big is a recipe for disaster.
I see what people mean about cutting off communication, but this is necessary when fighting fascism. Rules are good, actually.
[#]SocialCoop folks, please vote in our Loomio, make your voice heard.
[#]Threads #Defederate
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This thing is awesome and affordable and ingredients actually available in stores in LA. I can finally breathe!
Look up how to build a Corsi-Rosenthal box.
Mine was about half the price of the cheapest air purifier (anyway you can’t buy them anywhere in LA).
It’s noisy but you can upgrade the fan later to something better.
[#]Wildfires #LosAngeles
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Since people are boosting: to be clear, it's not that this happens very well in ex-Yugo.
It's that the public imagination of the responsibility of the state is very different.
Here's a good book about it:
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/JansenYearnings
[#]Yugoslavia #postsocialism #anthropology #DisasterResponse
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