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How did “imported antisemitism”, a far-right anti-immigrant buzz phrase, make it into the political mainstream? After all, Germans didn’t exactly need to import antisemitism. But this is the way we see it in Germany: if you haven’t committed genocide you can’t properly claim to be against it. I’m not making this up. You couldn’t make it up. Indeed, the political scientist Esra Özyürek discusses the belief in her excellent 2023 book Subcontractors of Guilt.
The thinking behind it is that because of our history, we teach the next generation to make sure it will never happen again. At school we studied the Holocaust every year. We didn’t learn to analyse antisemitism, but we learned to be very wary of it – or as the writer Max Czollek put it: “Today Germans know mainly one thing about Jews: that they killed them.”
Immigrants to Germany need to know a bit more than that if they want to become German citizens. They need to know when the state of Israel was founded, and who is allowed to become a member of one of the 40 Maccabi sports clubs. If you’re not born in Germany you have to prove you’re not antisemitic by learning facts about Jewish people.
But even if you were born here, like me, the statistics still refer to you as an immigrant if one of your parents comes from a different country. And as such, you are viewed with suspicion when it comes to the antisemitism you may have “imported”. During the last election, Merz suggested revoking German citizenship from dual nationals if they committed a crime. When asked if that meant, for example, getting on a bus without a ticket, he made it clear it related to antisemitism.
However, antisemitism is not a criminal offence in German law, so we see it everywhere. Jews have been arrested for holding up signs reading “Jews against genocide”. An Irish protester was arrested in Berlin for speaking Irish at a demonstration for Palestine because the authorities did not have an Irish translator present to check if they were “importing antisemitism” too. This has gone so far that the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner has reprimanded Germany for criminalising protest against the war in Gaza – including curtailing the use of Arabic at protests. In the end Merz didn’t get his way, but he drove the message home: Germans like me with foreign heritage are Germans on trial.
Trump confidant and tech billionaire Elon Musk openly supports Germany's far-right AfD party and continues to spread false and misleading claims on his platform, X.
Let's all gather round the camp fire, and sing our camp fire song. Our c.a.m.p.f.i.r.e.s.o.n.g song and if you don't think that we can do it faster then you're wrong, but it'll help if you just sing along...
Recently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent.
Please ignore the dog & pony distraction around the #Nobel Peace Prize.
It's already been awarded to a war criminal (Kissinger), a genocide apologist (Aung San Suu Kyi), and a head of state who bombed many counties & assassinated people (Obama).
The whole thing is a performance of geopolitical hegemony, by elites, for elites. Nothing about what's happening around it recently is unusual.
There are real people with actual material needs that need your attention instead.
Really bad phishing campaign being run by idiots who think we're going to believe the United Healthcare wants to do something generous for the people it insures...
"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."
#Cloudflare has at least made it's #AI #crawler blocking free for all users even if you're on the free plan. I enabled it for all of my domains last night. The switches to enable it are right on the overview page for your domain.
"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."
That’s very odd. I wonder if by now sending these alerts this way if the company is opening itself up to a legal liability if an employee doesn’t receive a company alert and is harmed in some way.
i usually have a little burst of computer productivity in the morning then it drops off a cliff, so that by the evening, i'll sit there and stare at the screen and take 1/2 hour do something that i could do in 2 minutes the next morning
shop work is a bit more consistent. if i'm actively doing something in the shop, i'm actually doing it, not sitting and staring at it aimlessly. then when i get tired i just stop
The great @molly0xfff has a mini-thread up on Bluesky revealing how her Substack dashboard shows steady growth... despite the fact she stopped using that platform a year and a half ago: bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/po…
Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department…
AI isn't taking jobs. That is some weird thing people say but that facts don't back it up. Jobs are up, not down. Most employment in the United States isn't in large companies. It's small business.
When was the last time you called practically any company for any sort of customer service? What's the first thing you hear? AI.
AI has taken over most phone support systems these days, it's almost impossible to speak to a human anymore, because they've downsized the staff and have AI do practically everything.
When was the last time you walked into a Dollar Store? You're lucky if they even have two employees working at any given moment, because yay self checkout, who needs cashiers anymore? And the damn self checkout wants a fucking tip no less!
And now we got driverless cabs out there, because who needs a job as a driver? Just let the computer do it instead!
Hollywood hardly even needs actors or video producers anymore, they can just have AI crank out new movies for us.
I'm sure there's way more examples that can be added to this list, but yeah, AI and modern technology in general are indeed taking over jobs.
Yes, voice systems have been around for quite a while. But there was almost always an easy way to bypass all that and talk to a human. It was just as simple as dialing 0, and there wasn't hardly much wait time, they tended to have more actual people operating the phones back then.
And you don't go to the Dollar Store to socialize with people, you go to save money when buying toilet paper and cat food or whatever the hell. But hey, you do you, if you got enough money to piss away just to avoid low income people, then by all means piss away and live in your little bubble. The rest of us tend to look for ways to save money when we can.
You sound like the sort of person that would tell a poor person to go get a job rather than offer them a job cutting your grass or washing your car or something.
That sort of thing is part of the problem too, many would rather avoid poor people than to offer them an opportunity to earn money.
Plans by Israel’s defence minister to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp have been condemned by legal experts and academics, who described the scheme as a blueprint for “crimes against humanity”.
Israel Katz said he has ordered Israel’s military to prepare for establishing a camp, which he called a “humanitarian city”, on the ruins of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Haaretz.
@DeAngelisCorey: I just received a copy of the National Education Association's resolutions that they passed at their annual convention. They kept them private this year. The nation's largest teachers union adopted ...…
The UN human rights office on Tuesday raised alarm over reported proposals that Israel is working with other countries, including the US, to potentially facilitate the so-called voluntary movement of Palestinians out of Gaza, warning that such plans could amount to forcible transfer under international law.
"This raises concerns with regard to forcible transfer," spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters.
DOJ update from the acting US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas on the July 4 ICE ambush in Alvarado TX (south of Ft. Worth). youtube.com/watch?v=9VK9M-uxm_…
Federal authorities have charged 11 suspects in a coordinated ambush on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. The attackers, dressed in bl...
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Dudes. 24 short hours from now my PhD defense will be all over, one way or another. I’m spending the time between now and then in deep review. Wish me luck!
Acquitted self honorably. I am a doctor! Alltime superthanks to Oli, Kurt, David, Suzi, Fran, Olivia, Carrie and always always Nurri – there is *no* way I would have made it through without you all. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Also I’m seeing Messthetics at OTO tomorrow night regardless of outcome, which will be awesome. I haven’t seen Brendan and Joe since the sidewalk outside the 9:30 Club in, like, 1990 or something stupid.
hope you enjoy it- you get to talk about what you’ve spent the last few years deeply immersed in & they will have read about and ask hopefully insightful questions.
It seems to me that the ability to read source code will become more and more important over time. This skill is rarely taught, as far as I can tell. The learning situation resembles that for natural language: knowing how to produce/generate text does not immediately translate into the ability to read it, let alone read it well.
I have some Godot framework codebase to understand (godotforums.org/d/29497-mock-u… ) and with some work I can understand what one methods do (most of the work consisting in understanding what other methods from other classes it calls and how they relate to each other) but when I start trying to understand the next method I happen to have forgotten the first...
I wouldn't be able to teach you how to read source code on Mastodon any more than I could teach you how to read Greek. It's a skill that takes sustained effort and practice.
From what you've said it sounds like it'd help to diagram the code. Sequence diagrams can be helpful in understanding the logic; I like to start with those. Start with some simple flow and build up from there. I don't know how long you've been working with that codebase but I wouldn't rely on memory alone till you're quite familiar with it.
More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same.
ok attempt #2 at buying a lower engine splash guard for the RSX. first one was never delivered.
missing these plastic things can definitely have a negative effect on your engine when driving in wet conditions. they're there for a reason. this car was missing many little things like this when i got it
temptation is really high to do all the remaining body work on the RSX but ugh. i really need to be moved out of this shop by fall. getting extremely nervous
the RSX body is ok now, in that it's not going to rust apart, and the door closes and everything seals properly. i just don't like all the dents and crap making it look trashy.
body work takes forever. i would probably regret starting that. i can do this stuff later after some of the pressure is off and i'm moved onto the property
I used it with pleasure for a while. It was the only RPM based distribution I used. My heart is always on the Debian side. FreeBSD and OpenBSD operating systems have also won my heart in the meantime.
I used Mandrake 8.0 for a while, but the next release I tried, 8.2 was the buggiest Linux distribution release I've ever encountered. So I started looking for alternatives, and switched to Slackware.
I used Mandrake/Mandriva as the first Linux distribution beyond pure experimentation starting from 2004. The producer's problems led me to install Ubuntu on the desktop I bought in 2010, but I have some nice memories of Mandrake/Mandriva.
Mandrake: I really REALLY wanted to use this distro but I never got it to work on my old Siemens Amilo A notebook. So frustrating. My redemption came unexpectedly in a brown form in 2004, when Ubuntu finally enabled me to switch for good.
I have worked for 6 years (2000-2006) at MandrakeSoft/Mandriva in Paris, and my very first task was switching from LPD (Line Printer Daemon, line printers are kind of high-speed electric typewriters) to #CUPS and so Mandrake was the first distro with CUPS and easy printing.
So whatever Mandrake version was released in fall of 2000 was the first ever Linux distro on the world which used CUPS.
Chinese defense industry manufactures equipment comparable or superior in quality, but always much more affordable than #NATO. Moreover, the West is already facing problems as they lose #Russia's and #China's rare earths. #Iran is in talks to buy an entirely new air force with J-10C and AWACS aircraft from China. If China were to arm Iran, it would reshape the military and diplomatic landscape of the entire Asia. Checkmate
This is a good deal for both sides; it will enhance China’s weapons export market and give Iran considerably new capabilities, as its air force was in shambles even before the war.
Offset 'air superiortity' of F35s? 🤣 Theyre junk. Built junk and remain junk. Deathtraps actually. They fall out of the sky for no apparent reason as a recent vid showed. A flaming scrap pile BEFORE it hit the ground @IAmSpartacus
#Israel has perfected the art of snuffing-out #Palestinian lives. Their speciality is babies, infants, toddlers, and children. #Hitler would be proud. He taught them well. #PalestinianHolocaust
In North Korea, dictator Kim Jong Un has been making more public appearances with the person many believe will succeed him as supreme leader, his daughter...
BBC | #Israel 's defence minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.
One Israeli human rights lawyer condemned it as nothing less than an "operational plan for a crime against humanity".
"It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the #Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation outside the strip,"
Central Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital to run out of fuel within hours
It is one of the barely functional hospitals left in the central area, and this chronic shortage will have severe repercussions on the lives of many patients who are receiving treatment inside, and will lead to the potential suspension of a number of medical services, including kidney dialysis treatment.
Anti-genocide campaigners receive warm welcome from delegates furious with Graham and cronies Some of the protesters outside Unite’s conference yesterday. Unite members lobbying the unionR…
ALEX JONES SAYS A DEAL WAS MADE WITH THE DEEP STATE CONCERNING EPSTEIN
( No Deals! )
====Bullhorn Barry📢 (Opinion / News)
According to Alex, the Deep State is supposedly going to roll over and let Trump do his thing—as long as he backs off the Epstein disclosures.
Yeah… no. That’s never going to happen.
You can’t make deals with devils.
Now, I’m not even saying I believe that claim—but IF there’s any truth to it—NO DEALS CAN BE MADE! Personally, I think what's happening is something else, but I don't think anyone knows for sure except for those on the inside.
Multiple Israeli women have testified to a joint Knesset committee, accusing senior figures of involvement in ritual abuse. One survivor said that her harrowing experience is only “a drop in the oc…
El Gobierno 🏛️🇪🇸 autoriza a Defensa a comprar tecnología a Israel 🇮🇱 para su plan de rearme
Alegan “la carencia de capacidad industrial” para abordar “avances urgentes” en sistemas antimisiles, guerra electrónica y sensores de última generación”.
El Ejecutivo ha decidido permitir al Ministerio de Defensa adquirir tecnología militar israelí en el marco del plan de rearme, justificado por la carencia de…
Trying to explain "How Capitalism Works" without mentioning its disastrous structural flaws for the masses is just a cover-up, albeit an entertaining one, I must admit.
#Capitalism needs "suckers" on an individual level, all the way to colonies on an "empire" level.
Fortunately, -although I have some doubts about stupidity- both of these "characteristics" are beginning to disappear. And this is precisely the path that capitalism will inevitably take.
Today on the popular FOX News panel show, The Five, liberal host Jessica Tarlov suggested that people being held in ICE detention centers are reporting sexual abuse by the workers at these facilities.
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