Always Standing by Juan, Sentenced to 5 Years in the Brescia Trial
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Always Standing by Juan, Sentenced to 5 Years in the Brescia Trial


On Thursday, January 15, our friend and comrade Juan was sentenced to 5 years for “acts with terrorist intent” (article 280bis) in the Brescia trial for the action against POLGAI. If this conviction were to become final, Juanito’s sentence, currently set for 2045, would be extended even further. Given the fragility of the investigation and the evidence against him, which was consistently contested by the defense, one could have hoped for an acquittal. This was not the case: evidently, the Brescia judges and the lay judges who composed the Assize Court, with their usual cowardice and indifference to the lives of others, did not want to throw away an investigation that had lasted years and cost many thousands of euros, since it had reached the third attempt to attribute responsibility for the action to Juan (and initially also to another comrade, who was later definitively exonerated). For our part, while we await the appeal, we continue our mobilization alongside our Juan: if he is “innocent,” he deserves all our solidarity; if he is “guilty,” he deserves even more!

WE NEVER FORGET OUR COMRADES! FREE JUAN, DOWN WITH THE POLGAI!

Comrades

To continue writing to the comrade:

Juan Antonio Sorroche Fernandez
C.C. of Terni
strada delle Campore 32
05100 Terni


Below is the flyer distributed the following day (at the hearing in L’Aquila where Anan Yaeesh was convicted and elsewhere):

Always alongside Juan, Anan, Ali, and Mansour

Yesterday, January 15, 2025, our friend and comrade Juan was sentenced in the first instance by the Brescia court to an additional 5 years of prison. The act he is accused of is a 2015 bombing in the same city against the POLGAI, a structure that collaborates with police forces in various countries in riot control and counterinsurgency techniques.

When the purveyors of state terror see a small portion of their violence returned, the political police and the judiciary work tirelessly to find those responsible for such an affront—let no one dare challenge the bourgeois and state monopoly on violence!—to the point that this is the third time Juan has been investigated for the same act. This time, the judicial farce has succeeded in convicting our comrade.

What is the ultimate expression of the state monopoly on violence? War. And while the various scientific-military-industrial complexes are dragging us toward World War III—of which the ongoing genocide in Gaza is the most brutal foreshadowing—the rearguard of this total mobilization must remain pacified. This is why there is a crackdown on any form of non-symbolic struggle (think of the repressive measures against demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian people, the drastic increase in penalties for roadblocks, for actions opposing major works construction sites, or even for simply distributing texts deemed “inciting”). This is why there are the beatings of students with truncheons or the employer-judicial reprisals against porters. This is why there are the conscription orders for strikes. This is why there are constant investigations against comrades. This is why the 41-bis prison regime applied to Alfredo Cospito. This is why there is an attack on anarchist ideas and publications.

In times of war, the pantomime of guarantees ends. The state shows its face and its hammer. The boundaries between the external and internal fronts become increasingly blurred; the immigrant in struggle is confused with the antagonist, the uprisings in the suburbs push the antimilitarist movements into the belly of the beast.

Today, January 16, the final hearing of the first instance trial against Palestinian prisoner Anan Yaeesh, along with co-defendants Mansour and Ali, is being held in the L’Aquila courthouse, during which the sentencing will likely take place.

Although Anan’s resistance in the Palestinian territories is legitimate even according to the crumbling foundations of international law, and although it is widely known that Palestinian prisoners are systematically tortured in Israeli prisons, the Italian judges classify armed resistance against Zionist genocidal colonialism as “terrorism,” the same charge leveled against Juan for his actions against POLGAI. Let us remember that this organization has been active in Brescia since 1974 (the year of the Piazza della Loggia massacre) and that it collaborates with Israeli police forces. And let us remember that in the province of Brescia (Ghedi) lies a key hub of Western imperialism actively complicit in the endless slaughter of the Palestinian people: a NATO base stocked with nuclear bombs capable of disintegrating entire populations. The circle is complete.

After Juan’s conviction, therefore, in expressing our solidarity and closeness, we cannot help but have the same thought even more strongly in mind:

For a global Intifada of the oppressed. To transform the war of the bosses into a war against the bosses.

Comrades

Here in PDF: Juan-Anan sentences

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Hoy quiero expresar mi apoyo y solidaridad con la medida de moderación tomada por @rober (y el equipo de mastodon.es) respecto a tuiter.rocks.

La administración de una instancia en el Fediverso es una responsabilidad ética, no solo técnica. Cuando surgen denuncias de daño real a personas de nuestra comunidad, la prioridad debe ser escuchar a las víctimas y buscar reparación, no la defensa institucional o las excusas.

Las últimas horas han demostrado una triste realidad: en lugar de reflexión, disculpas y reparación hacia quienes se sintieron agredidos, hemos visto negación, justificación e incluso amenazas hacia quien señaló el problema. Eso, en cualquier comunidad ética, es inaceptable.

Apoyar esta decisión no es sobre "tomar partido" en un conflicto, sino sobre defender principios básicos:

1. Las víctimas primero. Su bienestar y sensación de seguridad importan más que cualquier justificación técnica o de "libertad de expresión" mal entendida.
2. La moderación es un acto de cuidado, no de censura. Es lo que permite que espacios diversos sean seguros para todos.
3. La responsabilidad es colectiva. Como comunidad del Fediverso, debemos construir una cultura donde el daño se repare, no se ignore o se justifique.

Mi respeto total a Roberto y a mastodon.es por tener la integridad de priorizar a las personas sobre la política o la conveniencia. Defender un espacio seguro a veces implica decisiones difíciles y contracorriente.

Mi abrazo solidario a quienes se vieron afectados por esta situación. Veo su dolor, creo en su palabra y estoy aquí para lo que necesiten.

Y a la comunidad en general: sigamos construyendo un Fediverso donde la empatía, la reparación y la responsabilidad sean nuestros pilares. Donde el dedo que señala un problema no sea atacado, sino escuchado.

#Fediverso #ModeraciónÉtica #Solidaridad #MastodonEs #ComunidadSegura
#DESALICION

¡HASTA LA ✌ICTORIA SIEMPRE! 🛠

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How to Experience the Thrill of Slope: Your Guide to Playing Slope 2


If you're an avid gamer seeking an exhilarating online experience, look no further than slope 2 This action-packed game combines speed, strategy, and reflexes, making it an exciting challenge for players of all skill levels. In this article, we'll discuss how to play Slope 2, share some gameplay tips, and help you make the most of your gaming experience.
Gameplay Mechanics
At its core, Slope is a fast-paced game that puts players in control of a ball that rolls down a steep, ever-changing slope. Your primary objective is to navigate the ball while avoiding obstacles that emerge along the way. The controls are simple: use the arrow keys or swipe gestures to guide the ball to the left and right. However, the game's difficulty ramps up quickly, as the pace intensifies and the landscape becomes more complex.
Your ball will continuously accelerate, and with each passing second, you'll face a series of increasingly challenging turns and obstacles. As you play, you'll collect points for the distance you cover and can earn bonuses by completing certain challenges or surviving for longer periods. The design is visually striking, with vibrant colors and geometric shapes that will keep your eye engaged as you navigate through the dynamic environment.
Tips for Mastering Slope 2
1. Practice Makes Perfect: The key to becoming a skilled player is practice. Take some time to familiarize yourself with the controls and get a feel for the game mechanics. As you play more rounds, you'll develop a sense of rhythm and timing, which is crucial for avoiding obstacles.
2. Stay Calm and Focused: With the rapid pace of the game, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Take a deep breath and concentrate on the path ahead. Focus on the next few obstacles rather than getting caught up in the distance you've already covered.
3. Use Your Peripheral Vision: As you move through the game, keep an eye on the sides of the screen. Often, obstacles will appear from the edges, so being aware of your surroundings can help you prepare to dodge them.
4. Learn from Mistakes: Don't be discouraged by crashes and defeats. Each game provides an opportunity to improve your skills. Reflect on what went wrong and think about how you can adapt your strategy in future runs.
5. Explore Different Levels: Slope 2 offers various levels with unique challenges. Don't hesitate to explore them all! Each new environment brings its own set of obstacles and visual aesthetics, adding to the excitement and keeping your gaming experience fresh.
Conclusion
Playing Slope 2 is an exhilarating experience that challenges your reflexes and strategic thinking. With its simple controls, vibrant design, and increasingly demanding gameplay, it’s no surprise that this game has garnered a dedicated following. Whether you're hoping to score a new personal best or simply enjoy the thrill of fast-paced gameplay, Slope 2 is worth trying out.
So, gather your energy, sharpen your skills, and dive into the exciting world of Slope 2 by visiting slope 2. Happy gaming!

19 January 1935 | A French Jewish boy, Gilbert Gluck, was born in Paris.

On 23 August 1942 he arrived at #Auschwitz in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU


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Free software is for everyone: framatube.org/w/vdScW3ApcAcFNs… #FSF #FreeSoftware


Free software for non-developers


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Presented by: James Gregora

James Gregora is a 3rd year law student at Rutgers with an interest in intellectual property and criminal justice issues. He has a B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College, and an M.A. in Philosophy from Brandeis University.

Description:

The four freedoms encompass the rights to use, modify, copy, and redistribute modified copies. Yet most software users have no intention of ever modifying software, let alone redistributing modified copies of their software. So why should these freedoms be of any concern to them? Over the past three decades, the number of users has increased by several orders of magnitude. Proprietary software has become the predominant form of software, to the extent that many ordinary users are surprised when they learn that a particular piece of software is free rather than proprietary. While this is a significant negative development, the widespread adoption of software by less technically oriented people presents a unique opportunity: it means that nearly everyone in the developed world has a personal stake in the future of software freedom.

This talk elaborates on the personal stake that ordinary users have in the future of free software, and how the movement can express the importance of its ideas to those who are not particularly technically inclined. The presentation focuses on the underlying ethical questions posed by the widespread use of nonfree software, and will propose various ways to communicate these concerns in layman's terms.

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“Playing the Nazi card in the Third Reich” – ENGLISCH SUBTITLES AVAILABLE
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La question du pluralisme au regard du parti unique. Entretien avec Mohammed Harbi

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Nevada Green Rhythm January 2026 Edition

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Hey #musicproducers I have some things I want to release but I feel concerned about LLM's scraping my voice for their training. Does any one know of something I could use to overlay with my voice that would create dirty data for LLM's but that would keep the listening clear for human ears?

Please boost for visibility #music #producer #MusicProducer #musicproduction #dirtydata #mastodon #fediverse #help #programmer #llms #ai #airesearch #newtech

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I don't know if this helps... but I use Linux, and use audio and video programs, and a lot of the time, in the past, I'd be trying to do something, and look online for the answer on how to do it in the program. I couldn't find it, or the browser would link to YouTube videos that I'd have to go through, that still didn't answer what I wanted.

I've been using Brave's Search Assist of late, and get a lot of direct quick answers on these programs.
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Some folks claim they would die for their country. Very noble and very much according to plan when this idea was first created by kingdoms to ward off rivals by using the peasants working their land to fight for them voluntarily.

A person of integrity may say they would fight for their ideals. For me, this is much more powerful and has a greater purpose.

We are, despite our best efforts, savage animals as history will show repeatedly. Current history too.

But then we are this too.

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This is the drum that Rebecca Solnit and others have been beating for several decades now… the instinctive, human response is to band together, share, give, and help. Capitalism and existing power structures *do* understand this, which is why they work so hard to promote narratives that use insurrection, mob violence, social disorder as boogeymen that will erupt to consume us anytime hierarchical control slips. They work so hard because it takes a lot to overwhelm people’s fundamental cooperation and altruism, and fear is definitely the best weapon in their battle.

Wall Street ditching NY?

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@pluralistic is a master at explaining tech as simply as possible. He's taking on why LLM/AI isn't what it's being sold as, and what that will mean Very Soon Now.

I'm looking forward to his book on LLM/AI. But for right now? You need to read this in The Guardian. Because odds are, you don't want to be a reverse centaur left holding the proverbial bag.

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The Empire Laid Bare: US Terror in Venezuela


In these early days of January, we have had to witness what hoped never to see, though it comes as no surprise: the kidnapping of a legitimate sitting president through a criminal act of aggression by the United States.

The initial bewilderment that followed in the first hours after the US military operation has given way to actions of denunciation and expressions of solidarity worldwide. These actions are a result of serious assessment in the face of an overwhelming flow of information (some accurate, others misleading or entirely false) that circulated across social media and the formal media.

Venezuela’s state and government remain intact: the National Assembly convened on January 5 and Vice President Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as acting president.

However, dawn has not yet broken over the battlefield.

There is no room for naïve optimism. The fires still burn. The lessons are not yet learned.

The US military assault on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and National Assembly Deputy Cilia Flores was no “surgical strike”. There is nothing surgical about deploying 150 aircraft, Delta Force units and then the entire ensemble of the US Southern Command (its electronic warfare systems capable of shutting down power and communications). This operation destroyed Venezuela’s military defense systems and other military installations across the country, as well as civilian structures (including warehouses holding medical equipment). Over a hundred Venezuelans were killed resisting the abduction, facing a military equipped with weapons systems funded by more than USD 1 trillion a year.

This is not only a display of power but also of desperation. The final resort after 25 years of failed operations to enact regime change in Venezuela. It is meant as a global warning: a message of force and issued by a power that has been unable to break Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution and seize control of the world’s largest oil reserves before time runs out. There is nothing new in this posture. It follows an all-to familiar script from a long history of US interventions: the coups against Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala in 1954, João Goulart of Brazil in 1964, Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic in 1965, Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973, and the broader coordinated terror campaign against the entire Left in Latin America through Operation Condor from 1975. Chávez knew this history. Maduro does as well. For a country with strategic resources, nothing is clearer than the need to defend sovereignty (a lesson that is well known across the Global South).

With this criminal operation (one that violates all the norms of what remains of so-called “international law”) the United States faces a crisis of legitimacy, even among its own allies. The face of imperialism is laid bare: the assertion of dominance over all others, in any hemisphere. Propelled by an overwhelming military force and the capacity to strike anywhere in the world, imperialism today goes beyond the Monroe Doctrine. Donald Trump and his ilk want everything and want to lose nothing. Here lies his fragility.

Trump has been forced to confront the absolute failure of the Venezuelan Right. He has withdrawn the fictitiousness of their right to rule and instead has had to accept the continuity of the Chavista leadership. Just as they failed to impose Juan Guaidó, they have now failed with Maria Corina Machado. To place either of them in the Miraflores presidential palace, the US troops would have had to climb the hills around the city and fight street by street against the resistance of a population unified by its hatred of a return to the oligarchy.

Faced with such US aggression, one cannot believe in a path of diplomacy necessarily based on the recognition of sovereign and equal states. The United States interprets the willingness to dialogue of our nations as signs of weakness and pounces like a starving beast. We must never forget this. Nor should we forget that they lie.

The battlefield has a military component, in which the United States have carried out a mission successfully. But it has other components (economic, political, ethical, symbolic fronts) that are contested. The protagonist of these dimensions is the Venezuelan people, mobilizing their memory, their recent history, their dignity, their victories, and their protagonism. The people mobilized under Chávez’s enduring gaze.

The role of Cuba


For Cuba, blockaded for more than 60 years and accused by the same empire of being a state sponsor of terrorism and a failed state, there is no other path than to deepen anti-imperialism.

The ties between Cuba and Venezuela were born from the admiration José Martí (1853-1895) had for Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) — that traveler who wept before the statue of the Liberator. These ties were nourished by the love between Chávez and Fidel a century later. These are not mere commercial ties forged out of the need to survive amid a blockade, though sovereign cooperation would be entirely legitimate. They are bonds of fraternity, ties between siblings in the pursuit of a socialist path, nourished by faces of the people, by thousands of Cuban professionals who have served in Venezuela, and by stories of affection, loyalty, and sacrifice born over decades.

Our countries have sustained economic relations based on trust and mutual commitment, on the exchange of oil for medical and educational services, on compensated trade relations with preferential agreements. These exchanges have diminished in recent years due to unilateral sanctions and the tightening of the blockade. A naval blockade on Venezuelan oil could mean new difficulties for that exchange, but what Cubans are talking about these days is not national economic interests, but imperialism, revolution, internationalism, commitment — words we must bring into our lives as a compass for everyday practice.

The Left is living through a moment of definition and must take its rightful place in history at this hour. We have failed to advance regional integration. We have failed to strengthen regional sovereignty by pooling our resources and strengths. We have failed to deepen our understanding of one another’s struggles and the differences in our national realities. And in the face of this, there has always been an empire (today more voracious and soulless, but the same as ever).

Cubans condemn the US military aggression against Venezuela and the threats against the countries of the region, and we firmly condemn the kidnapping of Maduro and Flores and demand their release. In defending the Proclamation approved at the II CELAC Summit that recognizes our region as a Zone of Peace, we defend peace with sincerity. Our anger today does not translate into hatred, but carries the history of the victory over mercenary troops at Girón, the October Crisis, resistance to acts of state terrorism and to a blockade that was already 40 years old when formal fraternal relations with Venezuela began.

Today, the Cuban people mourn 32 sons of a country that only wants to work to live better along the path it has chosen. They are so aware that no people can confront the threats now being launched against Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, and Greenland alone. Only united can we stop a powerful fascist who has no morality or ethics other than dispossession and unpunished criminality, who feels entitled to every part of the world that interests them and endowed with the right and the power to destroy the part of the world they can do without.

Llanisca Lugo González is a member of the No Cold War Collective, is a researcher and the Antonio Gramsci Chair at the Instituto Juan Marinello, Havana, Cuba. She is a Deputy in the National Assembly of Cuba.

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Italy: Palestinian Activist Anan Yaeesh Sentenced to 5 Years and 6 Months in Prison


In Italy, the court in L’Aquila sentenced Palestinian activist Anan Yaeesh to five years and six months in prison for “terrorist association,” while Ali Irar and Mansour Doghmosh were acquitted. Accused of links to a resistance group in the occupied West Bank, Yaeesh had been detained since January 2024 and attended the verdict via video conference. Despite a sentence less severe than the prosecution had requested, the defense and support committees denounced a biased trial based on Israeli intelligence, as well as the denial of the right of peoples to resist occupation. This case is part of a broader context of prosecutions against several Palestinian activists in Italy, accused based on Israeli allegations.

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Translation fun question for the spergs here, In Transformers Kissplayers there's a type of robot called the "autorooper" now the thing is this is a pun due to pronunciation in Japanese, Autrooper would be a technically less literal translation that keeps the pun, which would you go with? I'd go with the later as it keeps the original intent of the name.

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