If money is your god then you should worship at the altar of your Lord the almighty dollar. How much $$$ can you get by selling your soul to the power brokers? The billionaires. America oligarchs. Does that make you feel good? Do you feel empowered? Do all the lies you tell and the cheating you do make you think you are better than everyone else? #money #lies #power #worship

Right now the American people need to wake up. See what is happening today. The country is suffering. Being changed. Not in a positive way. Nothing being done is good or positive for the majority of the people. The administration is only acting in the best interest of their own best interests. They could care less about the average American. Money and power is their gods.
We should all be pissing in. Not letting them piss on us! #nazi #USA #president
#america #american #power #money #president

The next round of talks between the United States with Iran over the Middle Eastern country’s nuclear ambitions may take place in Italy. Read more from @euronews
https://flip.it/RwjOkk
#Iran #US #Nuclear #MiddleEast #Power

#MontyPython “Well, I didn’t #vote for you.” – Peasant Woman to King Arthur. But... Every Day we read this - 'This is the crisis moment': Political scientist says Trump crossed a crucial red line (April 14) - No he crossed it on Jan 20 and every day thereafter #media #journalism #corruption #power #blackmail #access #democracy #government #maga #politics #freedom #censorship #deportation #immigration #education #climate #healthcare #measles #economy #finance #insidertrading #wallstreet #markets

WFH Power back up! The 600LFP can actively pass through enough sunshine to power the WiFi, laptop, spare monitor, external drives, USB hub and even the lights in my drum set, saving power for a movie after dark! #WFH #WorkFromHome #backup #power #solarpower #inverter #rockinit

When there are cheaper sources of power that the government actively looks to avoid harnessing and distributing to the people at large, you know that that government is not putting public interests first but private ones.

Who Owns Free Knowledge?
Last week, digital researchers and free knowledge practitioners came together at the Weizenbaum Institute to examine the power hierarchies embedded in free knowledge today, and to imagine a more just future of the commons. It was a wonderful conference, with @wikimediaDE full of enlightening thoughts and new questions.

Read the full report here: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/who-owns-free-knowledge-report/

OpenKnowledge #Equality #Power #Wikimedia #DigitalSpaces #Commons #Platforms #Culture

My Create an Adaptable Life April 2025 newsletter: How Can We Change Our Bias for Action to Gathering More Information?
https://createadaptablelife.com/2025/04/how-can-we-change-our-bias-for-action-to-gathering-more-information.html
video: https://youtu.be/DoQZ3rzcl6Q
#change #power

“excess power”

Secure software does not exist.

Not just in practice, though certainly there, but even in theory.

There's hope in that.

No matter how strict an authoritarian regime becomes, no matter how invincible-seeming a dystopia you might find yourself in, its mechanisms will always be vulnerable.

The curious will always have power that the tyrant lacks.

Ammetto che con gli Elvenking è sempre stato un rapporto di amore e odio, mi piacciono alcuni dischi (the Winter Wake lo adoro), altri li trovo abbastanza inutili se non proprio brutti, tanto più che ad una certa ho anche smesso di ascoltare le nuove uscite con regolarità.
Le recensioni dell'ultimo "Luna" mi hanno incuriosito, si parla di un ritorno alle sonorità dei primi lavori e... solo oggi è la terza volta che gira sullo stereo.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6in7yHRsNUeqUtOoXpTYjg

It's a real low point when your screen is so ancient that even in complete darkness, you have to light up the room just to see what's on it!

...Or maybe it's just my eyes

"We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start," says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she details a fast-moving technological coup and the rise of the "broligarchy": an unprecedentedly powerful class of tech executives (like Elon Musk) who are complicit in dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE

HONOR Power Might Come With An 8,000 mAh battery #androidphones #honor #honorpower #mobile #mobilephones #phones #power #qualcomm #rumoursleaks #snapdragon7gen3 #specifications #specs

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/347805/honor-power-might-come-with-an-8000-mah-battery/

#CoerciveControl is a useful concept for making visible the abuses of #power that can occur in hierarchical relationships.

We now see them more easily in #families, #cults & other institutions. Perhaps our next step is to see how people raised in relations of hierarchy learn that the only way to be safe is to either become the biggest #bully in the room or to appease that bully.

So many of the people who achieve power in our #political & other institutions appear to operate like this. While bullying behaviour is seen as normal, or even valorised as a characteristic of alpha masculinity, our cultural framing rules (what we’re allowed to say) & feeling rules (what we’re allowed to feel) obscure it from view. The consequences of a bully’s actions are seen as resulting from the personal failings of those who are harmed. Naming this dynamic becomes a dangerous act.

Sound familiar?

What if our culture‘s assumed hierarchy of human value is mistaken? What if this way of making sense of the world harms us more than it protects? What if we are all connected & our wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of others?

When bullies win, everyone loses. I say yay to every way we make this visible.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/coercive-control-religion-geelong-revival-centre/105146234?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

US power outages: Detailed look at power outage statistics across the US
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/understanding-us-power-outages
#infrastructure #california #power #pge #us #+

It can be muscle or money, influence or infamy. It can be the reason people follow you, or the reason they hate you. It can make you or break you, and will often define you. So tell us
https://www.callersbooks.com/post/what-does-power-mean-to-you

The erosion of democracy and equality is not a bug, it’s a feature:

I’ve been working the in #IT industry for 30 years now, and I’ve seen it in every single company I’ve worked for

You come in while it’s small, climbing. Everybody is needed & listened to, decisions can be overturned

As it grows, #power starts to come in. You can still talk, but it has less effect

One day, you notice them faking it’s a discussion, but the higher ups already decided

Then they punish you for speaking out