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   James Tindall (atomless@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 04:10:10 JST James Tindall

   • Cory Doctorow

   How much we all benefit from @pluralistic ’s compulsion to write. So very grateful. Chapeau! https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blockheads-r-us/

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     Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 00:37:11 JST Alx 🐈

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     @atomless @pluralistic this reminds me of a recent interview I did with a printmaker, when he told me that he strongly disagrees with the government definition of 'creative industries', as art can't be 'industrialised', simply because, even if the creator loves what they do, there are moments in which you don't feel like making art, and making art without feeling it it's simply not art, and if politicians really want to support artists, they should stop conflating them with production machines.

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     James Tindall (atomless@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 03:34:37 JST James Tindall

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     • mike805

     @mike805 @pluralistic I really like the detail of this story that it was Marx’s wife, Jenny von Westphalen, who pawned Marx’s trousers —apparently to buy food. Was there also perhaps an element of punishment to this choice? Were there really no other things to choose to pawn? Or was she actually helping him focus on finishing Kapital by removing the option of leaving the house?

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     mike805 (mike805@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 03:34:38 JST mike805

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     @atomless @pluralistic I didn't know Karl Marx was ever that broke. He is known for living high on the hog at Engels' expense. Was that before Engels was supporting him?

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