# 2021-10-17

-   Reading:  [[A People's Guide to Capitalism]].  Enjoying it muchly thus far.  Making clear a bunch of concepts I've sort of half-grasped before, but never really fully.  Not saying I fully do yet either, but it's helping for sure.
    -   [[Capitalism]]
        -   [[Primitive accumulation]]
        -   [[Slavery]]
    -   [[Commodity]]
        -   [[Use-value]]
        -   [[Exchange-value]]
        -   [[Labour theory of value]]

-   Robot dogs with guns.  What could possibly go wrong.
    -   https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42717/robot-dogs-can-now-have-6-5mm-assault-rifles-mounted-on-their-backs

-   [[Philanthropy]]
    -   [The Gates Foundation Avoids a Reckoning on Race and Power | The Nation](https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gates-foundation-colonialism/)

-   Imagine the end of [[Facebook]]
    -   [Imagine the End of Facebook | LibrarianShipwreck](https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2021/10/07/imagine-the-end-of-facebook/)
    -   [Can The Public Sector Displace Facebook’s Unprecedented Corporate Power?](https://www.readthemaple.com/can-the-public-sector-displace-facebooks-unprecedented-corporate-power/)