Morning Comrades! Before I get into the thick of it, short announcement that I am dropping a patched hip bag as well as a patch this Friday. The supporting comrades of this newsletter will be receiving an email on Thursday with their discount code. I have uploaded both products to the online shop already for those that are interested.
I wrote a lengthier piece on the popular uprising in Colombia yesterday and whilst the situation is developing I urge you all to pay close attention to it all. I am going to be posting a few information resources from the ground over on IG later today, so keep an eye out for those as well.
In other news, multinational, co-opting woke ass brands that sell diluted bullshit of cool do what they always do. Don’t for one second think this only applies to adidas, this is the norm. This is what marketing was invented for.
This is a most excellent article by Sue Halpern. At this point I would like to think that every reader of this email has essentially the same feeling towards the Facebook empire, but nevertheless, I would highly recommend spending a few minutes with this piece.
Over the years, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s C.E.O., has issued a cascade of apologies for the company’s privacy breaches, algorithmic biases, and promotion of hate speech, among other issues. Too often, the company seems to change course only after such issues become public; in many cases, it had been made aware of those failures long before, by Facebook employees, injured parties, or objective evidence. It took months for the firm to acknowledge that political ads on its platform were being used to manipulate voters, and to then create a way for users to find out who was paying for them. Last December, the company finally reconfigured its hate-speech algorithm, after years of criticism from Black groups that the algorithm disproportionately removed posts by Black users discussing racial discrimination. “I think it’s more useful to make things happen and then, like, apologize later,” Zuckerberg said early in his career. We’ve witnessed the consequences ever since.
There is no real structural reason to share this video with you, other than my increasing rage at our countries withholding of the covid-19 vaccine IP’s.
The Fuckening. For you to share from me to you.