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GME has a bunch of cash and revenue left over from their days as a retailer. They also have a large customer base in their membership program.
They are restructuring to sell that data on the behavior futures markets. In short, they are restructuring to have a tech business model
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Still haven't seen this mentioned in any GME story, so I'll try to lay out: GME is a case study in surveillance capitalism.
This case study shows that covid has accelerated the trend of companies ditching older business models for this new model (which is a money machine impervious to pandemics or anything short of the internet going down)
I hate the phrase "historically low supply of housing" used in the context of explaining the US housing situation
The problem is capitalism, not something material like "supply"
- There are ~15 million vacant houses in the US
- There are ~553 thousand people without shelter on a given night in the US
The difference in those numbers is huge; the solution simple
Articles that make this claim will even link to this data
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I have a lot of thoughts about the GME thing that I have no
desire to discuss on social media.
That said, I do want to point out that this is an especially
salient example of the "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" meme
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you
The latest n+1's opening editorial is partially about the comeback of bookstores and has some good jokes at b&n's expense
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-36/the-intellectual-situation/smorgasbords-dont-have-bottoms/
An American Anarchist:The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre | by Paul Avrich.
Almost felt like an anarchist prayer
Also, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and Holofernes is at the SAM until the 26th and i love it
#anarchist #seattle #books #SAM #anarchy #Artemisia
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May you be a Judith decapitating a Holofernes,
A Joan of Arc leading a people to victory,
A Louise Michel fighting on the barricades,
A Voltairine de Cleyre singing songs of revolt,
An Emma Goldman preaching the gospel of rebellion.
Into The War | by Italo Calvino
History sure does rhyme
#books #bookquotes #pol #war #calvino #antifa
This is an image that is a mashup of the two opening pages to "Into the War", a book by Italo Calvino.
The book opens with a page of very mundane descriptions of some Italian teenagers just being teenagers. And then suddenly, Mussolini has announced Italy will enter the war.
borders and governments don't protect you, but they can sure get you killed
Dead Astronauts | by Jeff Vandermeer
"The three knew they were disposable and finite and vulnerable. But they also knew they were rare and precious"
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Big mood right now
Just a difference of opinions folks. Some people think transit should be free, some people think the government should round up, torture, and kill political opponents
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yeesh this comment from a local news site about a seattle fare strike. The comment links out to a torture scene from the movie Reservoir Dogs
#seattle #farestrike #NoFareIsFair #nobodypays #evade #uspol #anarchism #anarchist #transit #antifa
This Is Hell!
episode 1098: Mourning Thanksgiving.
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Yesterday I learned
- thanksgiving has been celebrated in the US since the 1600s
- the "pilgrims and indians" bits of the myth were added in the 1800s as WASP propaganda
so I guess a reminder that if you live and/or work in #seattle, to make rent payments to the Duwamish Tribe.
https://duwamishtribe.networkforgood.com/projects/35157-real-rent-duwamish
We are getting close to the 11th annual Seattle Anarchist Book Fair!
Great chance to connect with old friends and make some new ones
(more info in the PSA link below)
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2019
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM at VERA PROJECT (SEATTLE CENTER)
EVENT IS FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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following up on this cafe vita thing.
Looks like cafe vita is implying people CHOOSE to be homeless so they can get sweet sweet free coffee
reminder that capitalists are not good people. even "small, local" varieties
source: https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/1179427715532746752
#seattle #coffee #trans #transmisogyny #capitalism #nyc (tagging nyc as they recently opened a shop there)
Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples | by Erica Lagalisse
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"When entire cosmologies are reified as 'proper' only to specific preordained identities, we are effectivley saying they are false to the extent that they do not apply across the cosmos whatsoever"
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@OCRbot
#anarchist #anarchism #occult #culture #culturalAppropriation #history #books #bookquotes
fuck.the.portland.police
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via Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | The Oregonian/OregonLive
"The key witness in an assault case against a Portland activist was nowhere near the alleged hammer attack when it occurred during a tense political protest last month in downtown, new court documents claim.
Nor have police or prosecutors spoken with the man they say was seriously injured, according to the defendant’s lawyer."
Good morning, peacherinos!
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I really like this "word of the day"
https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/peacherino-2019-08-27/
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