Condoning everyday fascism for those less fortunate is how you eventually get fascism for all. And this isn’t just about the US. This is a warning for Europe and beyond. Here in Europe, most of our governments have been merrily supporting the US and Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza (and the ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, and apartheid) as well as previous imperialist invasions of far off lands for oil, happily sharing in the spoils of the suffering. (Not a surprise, really. After all, who were the settler colonialists that created the US?) Frontex is our ICE-in-making. We’re handing Palantir government contacts and data on our citizens. Successive neoliberal and conservative governments have been steadily pushing the ratchet to the right while demonising those who want to protect the environment and the most vulnerable and who have the audacity to imagine a future where the basic necessities of life – food, water, shelter, healthcare – are human rights, not commodities. In other words, we’ve been playing by the same colonial/neoliberal/conservative playbook as the US (heck, maybe we even invented it)… why should we expect any other outcome if we continue to behave exactly the same way?

All this to say, if you’re fine with the boot being on someone else’s neck today, don’t be surprised when it’s on yours tomorrow.

There might still be time to change things for the better. But it will not happen unless the justice we seek is justice for all.

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#Music on #Blue-Galactic-Hand

#PaulWeller 5/25/1958 #Birth British musician

youtube.com/watch?v=hf4EFDGP4y…

#the-Jam

#TheJam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight


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Two Weeks Until Tapeout

Link: essenceia.github.io/projects/t…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

The Trump 'Board of Peace' excludes Palestine and Resistance states while drawing in the BRICS contingent. beeley.substack.com/p/the-trum…

Finally here, now reading: Move slowly and build bridges - Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media by Robert W. Gehl @rwg

moveslowlybuildbridges.com/

#mastodon #fediverse #bookstodon #alternativesocialmedia

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Israel plans to restrict the number of Palestinians entering the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, ensuring that more people are allowed out than in, a long-standing objective aimed at expelling Palestinians from their land.

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#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Palestinian

BON tout ça est bien blob mais y a toujours personne parmi vous pour me dire en quoi la synchronisation sensorimotrice à un stimulus acoustique repose bien sur un phénomène d'entraînement des oscillations corticales auditives plutôt que de purement refléter l'adéquation du couplage sensori-moteur dans le traitement de l'information kinesthésique relative au tapping hein

Pfff

Blobjour quand même 🤗 :pensive_party_blob:

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This meant doing a big dive with me into the entire archive.

it's funny, looking back at all of it, I do make a lot of my layout, paneling, and overall composition decisions with an extreme degree of deliberation, and I do this to cover for the fact that my draftsmanship is pretty bad, but tbh, it makes for a very readable comic (lettering aside) and I feel accomplished about that.

Power outage across Greenland’s Capital due to incident saba.ye/en/news3634274.htm

1/2 Taavi Eelmaa Rainer Jancise põlvkonnast: "Kunagi nimetas üks hea sõber, minust poole noorem poeet, kirjeldatavat põlvkonda eravestluses mahlakalt „pu**isaatjate põlvkonnaks”. [---]. Umbusklikkus, inglise keele keskpärane valdamine ja demoniseeriv suhtumine rahasse on paljude muude veidruste kõrval sellele generatsioonile omased tõesti. [---] Teatav rohmakus asjade kokkuvõtmisel, komme uks seljataga pauguga kinni lüüa. Mingit laadi tung olla otsekohesem kui tarvis."

muurileht.ee/arvustus-tagasimi…

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2/2 Hea kokkuvõte põlvkonnast. See on nõks vanem kui mina; nt inglise keelt oskavad minuealised ilmselt juba õige natuke paremini. Aga mind jäi eriti kummitama see "demoniseeriv suhtumine rahasse". See on täpselt mina ja minuealiste seltskond, kellega suhtlesin. Mind on ikka õpetatud, et raha peab vihkama ja põlgama. See istub sügaval sees. Väga erinev kui tänapäeva noored.

#matériel
Rappel: Si vous avez un appareil avec une batterie (smartphone, etc.) et que vous voulez faire durer sa batterie, n'utilisez pas de "chargeurs rapides".

Utiliser un chargeur rapide ça charge plus vite mais ça fait chauffer la batterie et ça réduit sa durée de vie.

Si vous avez le temps, bien sûr, chargez lentement : Avec un petit bloc chargeur, ou même sur le port USB de votre ordinateur (qui ont généralement une faible puissance).

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Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way.

forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste…

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I really miss walking among the west coast cedar trees,
their smooth, flat, needles brushing gently against the skin on my hands and face;
inhaling the lovely fragrance ever so lightly spicy paired with a strong deep sweetness.
If caught in a light rain a large cedar tree offered a dry shelter,
where I rested my weary body upon a deep forgiving carpet of discarded dry fronds.
Crushed cedar needles when exposed to a tiny flame
always provided a natural fire starter to warm my damp chilled fingers and toes.
I miss walking among
my old, stately, quiet friends,
Vancouver Island western red cedars.

#BC #VancouverIsland #Canada
#SnowRT

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US federal law enforcement agents kill man in Minnesota; officials demand their departure saba.ye/en/news3634206.htm

In the nineteenth century, Black people lived in fear that at any moment a slave catcher could snatch them or their children up, regardless of status or social position. In the twenty-first century, Black people live in fear that at any moment police will throw them against a wall, or worse, regardless of whether there is any pretense of suspicion other than the color of their skin.

Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

#quote #quotes

youtu.be/UrMnOp2N9Kw?t=2518
(00:41:58~) "... We imagine that someday billion cars on a road will be autonomous... every single car will have autonomous vehicle capability..." :neocat_laptop_owo:

Is nVidia dreaming of regulations that would take cars without autonomous AI off the road?


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The police aren't hired to protect you. They're hired to keep an eye on you to see what you did that was wrong so that they can book you. That's their function. They are not protectors. They are not hired to be protectors. They are hired to keep an eye on all of us as potential criminals. Now, do you think they're going to make you safe? They weren't hired to make you safe.

Robert LeFevre

#quote #quotes

Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

Link: androidauthority.com/google-si…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Israeli enemy forces arrest two Syrian youths in al-Quneitra countryside saba.ye/en/news3634159.htm

💗Experiencing Jesus 💗

Hear me out. We need prayer for our kitty friend @Turkleton

Last time I did this, the very first prayer I received was “total cancer death.”
That was the problem and that was “Testing Jesus. The muses didn’t like that!

This time is different.
This time is experiencing Jesus—love, mercy, healing.

Only sincere prayers may enter here.
No careless words. No dark intentions.
If you truly wish @Turkleton to get well, you are welcome.
If not, please pass respectfully.

Let us do our best for @Turkleton 🐾🤍

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Australia's Special Envoy To Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal and her husband John Roth help pay for this Advance Australia Fair propaganda to the tune of $50,000.

The March for White Australia on January 26, already infested with neo-Nazis and white nationalists of varying stripes, is propelled by the same forces that claim to be 'combatting antisemitism'.

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2/ The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism is the title of a terrific essay by Fredy Perlman.

I thought of it and the poetry of Erich Mühsam as I read over Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal's submission to the NSW parliamentary inquiry into ‘Measures to prohibit slogans that incite hatred’, which makes a number of recommendations.

Among them (Recommendation 4) is the introduction of a new offence, one of 'promoting, advocating or glorifying violence and similar conduct'. The submission recommends that:

"This offence should not be confined to promoting violence against protected groups. It should specifically include conduct which implicitly promotes violence, including by:

• References to nation-states or their entities (such as “Death to Israel”, "Death to Australia” “Death to the Zionist entity” etc);

• Prohibited organisation symbols (including Nazi, terrorist and "prohibited hate organisation’ symbols), and symbols or gestures that are so closely connected with a prohibited organisation that they are customarily used to identify the group or any part of the group or its ideology (including the inverted red triangle, discussed below); and

• Phrases which can reasonably be interpreted as promoting violence.

The offence should be a strict liability offence.

The offence should be supported by authoritative guidance which illustrates the scope of the offence provision (see, Recommendation 2 above). As discussed above, this might be included as a non-statutory list of examples (including a pictorial list of symbols), and in addition, more detailed guidance might be published by NSW Police, endorsed by the Attorney General."

So: declaring vigorous opposition to/calling for the abolition of a nation-state should, according to Segal -- whose family trust funds the right-wing ultra-nationalist Advance propaganda lobby -- be a strict liability criminal offence.

Of course, just as nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, nobody should expect a committed Zionist to appreciate anti-nationalist sentiment, but those of us who do includes anti-militarist poet and anarchist Erich Mühsam, who as a political opponent of Nazi Germany was tortured to death by Nazis in Oranienburg concentration camp on July 11, 1934. Fifty years later, his poetry helped inspire German punk band Slime to compose a little ditty called "Deutschland muß sterben (damit wir leben können!)"; or: "Germany must die – so that we can live!"

I'd be happy to be included in this honourable tradition.

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