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costrike

@costrike@mastodon.social

Writer and lecturer teaching #sustainability, #SocialInnovation & #SystemicDesign (#SystemsThinking & #design). Launching an upcycling social enterprise (morphbags.com) and publisher of a small press (wickedproblemscollaborative.com). Co-founder of the Circular Design Lab (circulardesignlab.org). Bureacracy is my kryptonite.

Author: Pandemic Capitalism
Editor: What do we do about inequality? & What do we do after the pandemic?

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dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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The New York Times is now visibly working -- from the "news" side of the operation -- to undermine Biden's re-election.

More than most of Big Journalism, it has been thumping the right-wing-generated "he's too old" drum even before the 2020 election. The poll published today, from my perspective, is designed to further a narrative that the so-called Paper of Record has done so much to create.

I thought a new top editor might be an improvement. Kahn has been, in fact, a disaster.

costrike,
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@dangillmor Their current approach welcomes catastrophe.

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Slaveowners sexually assaulted and abused their women slaves—and demanded reproduction from them. Rape was used as a tool to both force the women into submission and increase the profit of slaveholders through breeding. The slaves did their best to resist and rebel against such violence, while white women failed to oppose the gruesome behavior perpetrated by their husbands."

https://www.theroot.com/21-truths-and-myths-about-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-1851246946/slides/16

costrike,
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@StillIRise1963 Horrifying.

costrike, to journalism
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This is required reading from @amywestervelt on the importance of properly functioning for the .
https://drilled.media/news/fixing-media

costrike, to random
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Asbestos builds character.

StillIRise1963, to random
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The white men swearing fealty to this psychopathic life long loser rapist are pathetic fucking weaklings, sad little dignity less pieces of shit.

costrike,
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@StillIRise1963 yep. Sad little pieces of shit grasping at unearned, undeserved, unjustifiable advantages in life, while telling themselves they're better than others when the preponderance of evidence alone ought to be enough to send them back into the shadows.

costrike, to random
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We're bootstrapping an upcycling social enterprise that makes everyday goods out of waste and could use loads of help getting the word out.

Here are a few links for our About videos in case you're up for giving us a hand.
Questions are absolutely welcome! :)

YT: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcb6AgGEmyIJQBmO9mNoLi_Y716uizEeB
FB: https://www.facebook.com/MorphBags/posts/pfbid0aSegoFt4tuzB7Y14z11G4WHVMXEwVZ3s56cD2SnGyoFNCvACdTMD2buDpZgQtVsyl
IG: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2YhQ3_vlsc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/morph-bags_morph-morphbags-upcycling-activity-7155014505712832512-lPfU/

Theblueone, to random
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Just heard someone say “this is the third presidential election cycle that Trump is involved in” and I felt something break inside.

costrike,
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@Theblueone yep

donni, to random
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    costrike,
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    @donni You should tell yourself to F* off.

    shoq, to random
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    I don’t care how popular Threads appears to be getting with media people. Their priorities are not our priorities. The fact is, conversation there is largely non-existent. It’s all performative posting for brand building, either personal or professional. There are no conversations going on there for more than a reply or two, if that. It may be the future, but it’s going to take a lot of work to make it a fecund future, and not a repeat of the nightmare we’ve just gone through.

    costrike,
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    @shoq If that's the future, I'm out.

    plaguepoems, to random
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    Do not worry
    about which of your guests
    will bring the green beans
    and which of your guests
    will bring the roasted yams
    which of your guests
    will bring pumpkin pie
    and which of your guests
    will bring dinner rolls
    no, worry instead
    about which of your guests
    will bring the virus

    costrike,
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    @plaguepoems just one?

    costrike, to random
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    Feels like we're tossing the lessons of history on the bonfire.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/22/geert-wilders-profile-netherlands-elections-far-right

    costrike,
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    @willemdevlaming There's also this today, where US leadership is effectively admitting that what they're doing is morally wrong, but that they have other priorities.
    https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/should-us-aid-to-israel-be-contingent-on-human-rights

    costrike,
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    @willemdevlaming I hear that. Do I ever hear that.

    Green_Footballs, to random
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    I know a lot of folks use Substack and I can appreciate why, but I’m unlikely to read things at Substack because TBH, their management is waaaay too welcoming to anti-LGBTQ cranks, racists and even some Nazi-adjacent types. Nilay Patel’s interview of their CEO is an eye-opener.

    costrike,
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    @Green_Footballs I hear you. I started writing there before I knew about this. Haven't been doing so and I'm not sure where to go now. It's too bad, because the platform allows you to focus on the writing.

    HeavenlyPossum, to random
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    The Israeli state is starving the people of Gaza and I don’t know how to wrap my head around the horror of this.

    I watched Asad do this to Syrians for years and it is a horrific way to die. People with diabetes will die first, in agony, and then children and the elderly.

    https://www.wfp.org/news/gaza-faces-widespread-hunger-food-systems-collapse-warns-wfp

    costrike,
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    @HeavenlyPossum the inhumanity is just too much

    Daojoan, to random
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    The time has come for America to view voting as a civic responsibility rather than an option.

    Compulsory voting drives participation across all groups, neutralizes suppression techniques, and establishes a culture of active political awareness.

    Reform is never easy, but the crisis of civic engagement demands bold action.

    https://www.theindex.media/p/america-needs-compulsory-voting-its?r=17kl0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

    costrike,
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    @Daojoan we need this so badly

    donni, to random
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    I don’t need to watch the news to get mad, I can just think about birds

    costrike,
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    @donni Canadian geese, amirite?

    superbetsy, to random
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    There was a day about 10 years ago that this meme made me laugh so hard that I couldn't feel my elbows. It's still funny.

    costrike,
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    @superbetsy you must be this old...

    dgar, to random
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    I’m going to go and stand outside.

    If anyone asks, tell them I’m outstanding.

    costrike,
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    @dgar he's out..............standing

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    The death of the New York Times

    https://www.rawstory.com/new-york-times-2666238128/

    costrike,
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    @StillIRise1963 Whatever the mission has become, it certainly isn't keeping us informed about the things we most need to know about.

    mmasnick, to random
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    For the last few months I've been trying to get an itemized bill from the giant "non-profit" hospital system that patched me up in February. Despite it being required by law, they've done everything to make it impossible to get. Me in the Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/getting-an-itemized-hospital-bill-is-basically-impossible

    costrike,
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    @mmasnick they poked the wrong bear. Lolol

    costrike, to random
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    "It’s now clearer than ever that Trump, if elected, will use the federal government to go after his political rivals and critics, even deploying the military toward that end. His allies are hatching plans to invoke the Insurrection Act on day one." - Margaret Sullivan

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/09/trump-president-democracy-threat-media-journalism

    taylorlorenz, to random
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    No matter how you feel about the war this is NARC behavior and you’re garbage if ur ratting in colleagues for porting their personal thoughts on their personal accounts. As journalists we should value FREE speech and FREE expression above all else.

    We all know that bosses never care if staffers post certain political content online. We see examples of this every day.

    It’s not about hiding people’s political opinions, it’s about making sure staffers only express the right political opinions.

    costrike,
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    @taylorlorenz Fuck that shit. The dwindling reliability of media outlets has got to be reversed if we're gonna find a way out of the current morass without going through hell first.

    superbetsy, to random
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    costrike,
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    @superbetsy hard livin

    costrike, to random
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    Never gets old.

    Riding through Bangkok on a bus with the doors open.

    costrike,
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    @LeftistLawyer It's not entirely obvious. I wanted to get closer, but the bus jerked a few times, so I decided to sit back. lol

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