here are my highlights from Michael Levin's recent paper on memory he proposes a big shift in our notion of “memory” – from something that stores hard-coded information to a “prompt” that must be reinterpreted by our future self, a prompt which has a minimal agency of its own

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“Three thousand Amazon workers at a warehouse in the United Kingdom are poised to become the first recognized Amazon union in Europe.” labornotes.org/2024/07/will-i…

You and your coworkers are the union.💪

Stop buying fast fashion (SHEIN), stop using AI, stop celebs from going 20 minutes in their private jets. Corporations and billionaires fucked this planet up.

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The housing assoc sector strengthened it's grip on govt with the election of several new MPs who were previously executives for the likes of Clarion Housing Group, Southern Housing, and @sovereignha. shaction.org/2024/07/17/lab… They will resist us, but we cannot let up the fight for

From Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s essay “Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence.” / the idea that prison ‘isn’t a safe place for women’ has a logical end point - that is somehow safe, natural and necessary for someone else.

it's astonishing to me when grown adults encounter opportunities for civility and decide to turn down those opportunities in favor of trying to make people feel badly about themselves in the name of "the truth"

How to identify videos of monkey abuse - a VERY important thread

Few points. 1. The asylum system is basically designed to stoke tensions between communities in poor areas. The far right have been chipping away in these areas for years now, totally unopposed (both online & irl). This has been brewing for ages theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

3) think everyone gets it by now but the left urgently needs to rethink its entire model of politics, & understand that swp style rallies, marches, petitions etc will not stop this. Need to start from scratch & move out of the cities, engage in communities, at the football, etc

The misreporting of race riots /pogroms / lynch mobs across the UK as "protests" is actually a public safety issue. If people don't know they're being targeted, it's all too easy to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And that can mean anything from assault to death.

.Taj Ali: "we are going to have to organise in these communities.. promote a message of working class unity, talk about material need, talk about housing, talk about the NHS... find what unites communities. Why aren't politicians pushing that message?"

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🔥Love, rage and oodles of solidarity with our comrades @ReclaimThePower - from camp to camp✊🏼 The people united (against police repression) will never be defeated! #NoJusticeNoPeace!