Thomas Barrio<p>Let’s start with a simple fact: Rousseau’s social contract has never actually been implemented!<br>This raises a fundamental question—do we really want to see the application of Rousseau’s model, which implies active, direct participation by all citizens in writing the laws for collective flourishing? What would it mean today to realize Rousseau’s vision of a social contract based on true, inclusive self-governance?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rousseau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rousseau</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostPolis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostPolis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Participation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Participation</span></a></p>
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Charlie McHenry<p>Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights? <br>The rise of Artificial General Intelligence <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AGI</span></a> marks an existential rupture in economic and political order, dissolving the historic boundaries between labor and capital. Unlike past technological advancements, AGI is both a worker and an owner, producing economic value while concentrating power in those who control its infrastructure. Left unchecked, this shift risks exacerbating inequality, eroding democratic agency, and entrenching techno-feudalism. The classical Social Contract-rooted in human labor as the foundation of economic participation-must be renegotiated to prevent mass disenfranchisement. <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14283" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2503.14283</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Jobd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jobd</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a></p>
Thomas Barrio<p>Radical Bifurcations and New Horizons: From Spinozist Rationality to Cosmopolitics</p><p>Facing the global crisis, multiple bifurcations emerge: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PositiveBarbarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PositiveBarbarism</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Benjamin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Benjamin</span></a>), <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoppingTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StoppingTime</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DecolonizingMarxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DecolonizingMarxism</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fanon</span></a>), <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpinozistRationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpinozistRationality</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CreativeWillToPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeWillToPower</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nietzsche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nietzsche</span></a>), <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConsciousDegrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConsciousDegrowth</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Saito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Saito</span></a>), <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rousseau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rousseau</span></a>), <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cosmopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cosmopolitics</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Serres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Serres</span></a>), <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerClass</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wark</span></a>), <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateHospitality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateHospitality</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FearlessCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FearlessCities</span></a>). Radical critique of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/speed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speed</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Virilio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Virilio</span></a>)…</p><p><a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/bifurcations-radicales-et-nouveaux-horizons-de-la-rationalite-spinoziste-a-la-cosmolitique/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">homohortus31.wordpress.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/06/29/bifurcations-radicales-et-nouveaux-horizons-de-la-rationalite-spinoziste-a-la-cosmolitique/</span></a></p>
John<p>Unrepresentative polls, restricted participation, limited speaking time ignore <a href="https://union.place/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> among <a href="https://union.place/tags/elderly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elderly</span></a> - "giving in to pressure from employers is jeopardising the balance of <a href="https://union.place/tags/Luxembourg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Luxembourg</span></a>’s social model"</p><p><a href="https://delano.lu/article/cgfp-union-raises-its-voice-in-front-of-the-chamber-of-deputies" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">delano.lu/article/cgfp-union-r</span><span class="invisible">aises-its-voice-in-front-of-the-chamber-of-deputies</span></a></p><p><a href="https://union.place/tags/polling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polling</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/PoliticalTheater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalTheater</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/pensions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pensions</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/CGFP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CGFP</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/FGFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FGFC</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/Syprolux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syprolux</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/LCGB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LCGB</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/OGBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OGBL</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/CESI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CESI</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/OGBL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OGBL</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/LSAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LSAP</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/MilitarySpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MilitarySpending</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/SeniorCitizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeniorCitizens</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/seniors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seniors</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/CSVDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CSVDP</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a></p>
Thomas Barrio<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@davevolek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>davevolek</span></a></span> <br>6/8<br>So, we must also re-embed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Virilio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Virilio</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rosa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rosa</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mhalla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mhalla</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rouvroy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rouvroy</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Berns</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Burnham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Burnham</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wark</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zuboff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zuboff</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ellul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ellul</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stiegler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stiegler</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Supiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Supiot</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Illich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Illich</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ostrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ostrom</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Giuliani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Giuliani</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vercellone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vercellone</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brancaccio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brancaccio</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mumford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mumford</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Barad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Barad</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Haraway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haraway</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Harding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harding</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cusicanqui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cusicanqui</span></a>). Once <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conviviality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conviviality</span></a>?), <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> (exchanges, hour-agreements?), and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ImmanentLegitimacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImmanentLegitimacy</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PopularSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PopularSovereignty</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a>)...</p>
Miss Gayle<p>Basing people's social security and retirement funds on how much they can cajole some fascist corporation into paying them during their working life is not a just or a sustainable plan.</p><p>We need a return to defined benefit retirement and/or UBI for every person earning less than $100k a year.</p><p>“The gig economy is zero rights and zero protection,” says Shaf Hussain, a food delivery courier in London.</p><p>Link: <a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-06-25/gigification-the-future-of-work/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">resilience.org/stories/2025-06</span><span class="invisible">-25/gigification-the-future-of-work/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/GigEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GigEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Retirement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retirement</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/LivingWage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LivingWage</span></a></p>
Shrikant Joshi<p>Humans won't be replaced because AI will start giving accurate answers ALL the time.</p><p>Humans will be replaced when AI learns to ask questions.</p><p>Humanity's biggest achievement isn't the ability to find answers. Humanity's biggest achievement is the ability to ask the right questions.</p><p><a href="https://noc.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Musing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musing</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humanity</span></a></p>
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Silkester<p>How Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" Will CRUSH Everyday Americans<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efLBcOiQ3CM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=efLBcOiQ3CM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Imagine there is a organization engaged solely in how to take away your security and healthcare just to give people more money who are so rich that they have every security imaginably and make 1% of the population...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ACA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ObamaCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ObamaCare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USSenate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSenate</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/76890/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Joseph Joubert</b></a></p><blockquote>Men are born unequal. The great benefit of society is to diminish this inequality as much as is possible, by procuring for all, security, property, education, and assistance.<br> <br><i>[Les hommes naissent inégaux. Le grand bienfait de la société est de diminuer cette inégalité autant qu’il est possible, en procurant à tous la sûreté, la propriété nécessaire, l’éducation et les secours.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Joseph Joubert</b> (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet<br><i>Pensées [Thoughts],</i> ch. 14 <i>“Des Gouvernements</i> [On Governments],” ¶ 38 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866), ch. 12]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/76890/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/joubert-joseph/76890…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humancondition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humancondition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humannature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humannature</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mutualassistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mutualassistance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>property</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=socialcontract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialcontract</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a></p>
Silkester<p>"For Putin, it is imperative that his invasion of Ukraine is framed as a spiritual war in defence of Russo-Christian values. It is therefore hardly surprising that the church’s supreme leader gave his blessing to the war, which he has labelled “a holy war”."</p><p>Source: <a href="https://bylinetimes.com/2025/05/28/russia-war-ukraine-fake-spirituality/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bylinetimes.com/2025/05/28/rus</span><span class="invisible">sia-war-ukraine-fake-spirituality/</span></a></p><p>And people wonder why organized religion is viewed as oppressive and cruel by so many... by me!</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Church</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Beliefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beliefs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plurality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plurality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oppressors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oppressors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HolyWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HolyWars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Extremists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extremists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RussoOrthodox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussoOrthodox</span></a></p>
Thomas Barrio<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@pensadorlouco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pensadorlouco</span></a></span> 🛑 Since Clisthène' demes, real democracy has been rare-communes, soviets, direct assemblies. Representative systems are oligarchic machines (Proudhon, Arendt, Weil), not true democracy. Without direct participation, there’s no genuine collective will or social contract. Democracy needs people’s voice, not just their vote! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DirectDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DirectDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> 🏛️🤝</p>
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0<p>I missed this when it came out - still seems relevant:</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/09/precariat-charter-denizens-citizens-review?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2014/apr</span><span class="invisible">/09/precariat-charter-denizens-citizens-review?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Precariat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Precariat</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>populism</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a></p>
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency<p>PSA: If you're walking in a crowded area and/or through a door or on a staircase, and you're not sure where to go or changing your mind, STEP TO THE FUCKING SIDE BEFORE STOPPING! - and if there's no room for that, keep walking until there is, usually just a few goddamn yards. There are other people in the world besides you. </p><p>Double this if you're walking together in a group. </p><p>Jesus, how is this such an increasingly alien concept. </p><p><a href="https://helvede.net/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/decorum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decorum</span></a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rant</span></a></p>
The Philosopher-King<p>“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”<br>— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)</p><p><a href="https://blog.philoblognotes.com/2025/05/rousseaus-political-philosophy-briefly.html?m=1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.philoblognotes.com/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">5/rousseaus-political-philosophy-briefly.html?m=1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rousseau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rousseau</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticalPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalPhilosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enlightenment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhilosophyQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyQuotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>
Kalvin<p>* Did you know?</p><p>The Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) is not just history — it's the foundation of Malaysia.</p><p>✅ Sabah & Sarawak did NOT join Malaysia — they CO-FOUNDED it together with Malaya and Singapore.<br>✅ MA63 is an international treaty signed by all parties and witnessed by the UK.<br>✅ It promised special autonomy to Sabah & Sarawak in areas like immigration, education, religion, and resource control.<br>✅ Full MA63 implementation = a real federation, with equal partners — not central control from KL.<br>✅ Honoring MA63 is NOT anti-Malaysia. It is how Malaysia was meant to be: fair, united, and just.</p><p>We don’t need to fight to divide. We need to speak up to restore.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/MA63" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MA63</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Sabah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sabah</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Sarawak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sarawak</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/EqualPartners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EqualPartners</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FoundersNotFollowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoundersNotFollowers</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/MA63" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MA63</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Sabah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sabah</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Sarawak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sarawak</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Malaysia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Malaysia</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Federalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Federalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PoliticalScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalScience</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonization</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ConstitutionalLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalLaw</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/InternationalTreaty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalTreaty</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autonomy</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PostcolonialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostcolonialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/EastMalaysia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EastMalaysia</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BorneoRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorneoRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/MalaysianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MalaysianHistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PoliticalAccountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalAccountability</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Equality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Equality</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/politicalscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politicalscience</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/malaysia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malaysia</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/sabah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sabah</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/sarawak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sarawak</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/sabahsarawak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sabahsarawak</span></a></p>
John<p><a href="https://union.place/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaires</span></a> buy politicians to write rules for themselves, to dodge <a href="https://union.place/tags/taxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taxes</span></a>, exploit workers, fuel division, pollute our <a href="https://union.place/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> and destroy <a href="https://union.place/tags/PublicServices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicServices</span></a> – all while raking in obscene profits.</p><p><a href="https://www.ituc-csi.org/May-Day-2025-en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ituc-csi.org/May-Day-2025-en</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://union.place/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unions</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/MayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MayDay</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/May1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>May1</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/May1st" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>May1st</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/ITUC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ITUC</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/LivingWage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LivingWage</span></a></p>
Silkester<p>This Is Neoliberalism ▶︎ Introducing the Invisible Ideology (Part 1)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myH3gg5o0t0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=myH3gg5o0t0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/predatoryCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>predatoryCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hayek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hayek</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JamesMcGillBuchanan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesMcGillBuchanan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MildredFridman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MildredFridman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SchoolOfChicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SchoolOfChicago</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarket</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CorporateWelfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateWelfare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a></p>
Silkester<p>Why AI Is Scarier Than You Think<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChX_ms5Nhm0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=ChX_ms5Nhm0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exploitation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateImpact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateImpact</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialContract</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AITriage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AITriage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIEthics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biases</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CorporateDictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateDictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EchoSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EchoSocialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeepLearningSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepLearningSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pattern</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Analysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Utopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utopia</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopia</span></a></p>
TheLindenPapers<p>If we want a different world, we MUST have a cultural shift in which we agree to a new social contract. </p><p>We must agree that: </p><p>1.) The truth *matters*. </p><p>Peer-reviewed, rigorous scientific endeavor is valuable.</p><p>Evidence-based study is valuable.</p><p>Both must be wielded with compassion, and with the input of all being affected.</p><p>We cannot make decisions rooted in greed, insecurities, and harmful ignorance any longer.<br>➡️</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meaning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Purpose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Purpose</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Socialcontract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Socialcontract</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheThreeConnections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheThreeConnections</span></a></p>
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