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Wolfram Weimer, der am liebsten Oswald fucking Spengler zitiert und über die „Fortdauer des eigenen Blutes“ sinniert, findet es gemein, wenn ihn jemand in die „rechte Ecke“ stellt. Alles klar.
Die humanitäre Katastrophe in #Gaza übersteigt alles, was selbst erfahrene Helfer*innen bisher erlebt haben: pulverisierte Städte, vollkommen zerstörte Infrastruktur und zutiefst traumatisierte Kinder. Ein Interview mit der Psychotherapeutin Katrin Glatz Brubakk nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1190971.…
Die humanitäre Katastrophe in Gaza übersteigt alles, was selbst erfahrene Helfer*innen bisher erlebt haben: pulverisierte Städte, vollkommen zerstörte Infrastruktur und zutiefst traumatisierte Kinder.
I just moved to Scotland and found this old letter in my mailbox. I feel like I'm now in a civilized place.
In the USA, politicians use many tricks to reduce the number of people who can vote. In Florida, 21% of Black voting-age citizens are not allowed to vote.
In Scotland, I believe everyone over 16 who is a lawful resident gets to vote in Scottish parliament and council elections. That includes noncitizens like me.
(This does not apply to UK parliament elections. And I get the feeling that British politicians are more interested than Scottish ones in reducing the number of voters. But I'm new here, so I could be wrong.)
In Scotland, do they carefully check that you're a "lawful" resident before you can vote?
Maybe not - look at the sentence in marked in red. They certainly didn't ask my wife who she was when she needed to go to the hospital for emergency care! That's another way they're civilized around here.
@Neutralplier - and yet somehow democracy works better in Scotland than in the US. Perhaps it's more important to get people in the habit of voting at an early age, than to prevent them from voting because they can't drink, etc.
@Neutralplier - one reason I consider Scotland a civilized country is that people don't take your attitude: they're not mainly looking for excuses to prevent people from voting. And things work fine!
Luckily you can stay in a country where fewer people get to vote, and you'll be happy there.
I would like to give a shout out to all the people that thinks the real ID people are fagots .FUCK YOU. You file taxes and have a job . They know know more about you than you think so shut the fuck up
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ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION. MEXICO. May 2025.
To those who signed the Declaration for Life:
To the National and International Sexta:
To the National Indigenous Congress:
To the peoples of Mexico and the world:
Compañeras and compañeros, sisters and brothers:
We explain to you what happened to the two Zapatista support bases, José Baldemar Sántiz Sántiz and Andrés Manuel Säntiz Gómez, who were illegally detained and kidnapped by the joint forces of the federal and state governments on April 26 of this year 2025.
They were disappeared for 55 hours and were only presented before the corrupt authorities, thanks to pressure from the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center. They were accused of aggravated kidnapping against Pedro Díaz Gómez.
During the arrest, the National Guard forces, the federal army and the so-called Pakal Immediate Reaction Forces took advantage of the arrest and stole the belongings and pay of the affected people and the communities. They stole a car, a motorcycle and a large amount of cash.
While the supreme government gambled with the life, liberty and property of the two illegally detained, the autonomous Zapatista authorities carried out their own investigation under the guidance of Truth and Justice in common.
I remind you that, as organized peoples that we are, we have principles and regulations in common. It is not permissible to infringe on the life, liberty and property of other people, whatever their ideology, party, religion, sexual preference, skin color, race, language, nationality or social position. In the case of murder, kidnapping, assault, rape, forgery and robbery, these are serious offenses. Additionally, drug trafficking, its production and consumption are not allowed. As with drunkenness and other offenses that are determined in common.
Any compañero or compañera, regardless of position or rank, who is guilty of serious offenses, is excluded from being a Zapatista.
Once the arrest and serious accusations against these two comrades became known, the GALEZs investigated whether they were involved in kidnapping. The organizational structure in charge of investigating came to the conclusion that the two comrades are innocent.
This was made known to the Frayba.
Not satisfied with that, the autonomous authorities continued investigating and came to confirm the involvement of two other people in the crime. These two criminals were detained and, with respect for their human rights, were taken into custody in one of the Zapatista communities.
The two criminals confessed to the kidnapping and murder of Pedro Díaz Gómez, and indicated the precise place where they had buried the body. They indicated the complicity of other people.
This was brought to the attention of the Frayba, who informed the authorities of the bad government.
Seeing that they would once again be ridiculed, the corrupt authorities rushed to mobilize their forces and arrested one of the accused who was on the run. This person confirmed the confessions to the Zapatista authorities. This is how they arrived at the place where the body of the victim of the crime was buried.
All of this was known to the government at all three levels of government, but nothing was done. Instead of immediately releasing our innocent comrades, they dragged their feet and proposed an exchange of detainees. That way they could bribe the media and sell them the story that everything had been the merit of the state and federal justice system. And they could also keep what they stole from the poor indigenous people who had suffered their attack.
The bad government again sent its repressive forces in search of a fourth implicated person. But not only did they not detain him, they also took advantage of the situation to continue stealing belongings from the communities.
Meanwhile, the federal and state authorities pressured and threatened the human rights defenders because their denunciation would show them for what they are: repressors of the innocent and manufacturers of the guilty.
In the early morning of May 2, 2025, the two confessed criminals detained by the Zapatistas were handed over to the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center so that they could review the state of health of the detainees and certify if their rights had been violated. Frayba proceeded to hand over the culprits to the official authorities.
In the course of the morning of May 2, our comrades Baldemar and Andres were released. But the government thieves refuse to return everything they have stolen.
The governments of the so-called 4T lie in everything they say about the indigenous peoples and social movements. They are the same or worse than the previous PRI and PAN governments. Those numbers that boast of “detainees,” to please Trump, are mostly innocent. Instead of buying favorable opinions in the media and social networks, the bad governments should pay their repressive forces well so that they do not have to steal from those who have less or nothing.
What happened is not only in our territories. Throughout the geography called “Mexico,” native communities, defenders of Mother Earth, human rights defenders, social movements and organizations, migrants and even simple people, who work every day to earn an honest living, are extorted, assaulted, kidnapped, disappeared, imprisoned and murdered by a government eager to ingratiate itself to the power of money.
They are hopeless.
The capitalist system was born wrong, a product of injustice, blood and robbery. This is how it continues to this day, regardless of the flags under which it hides. Its sign is death and it will remain so until the end of its days.
As Zapatista peoples we have thought of a way to combat the empire of death. We call that way “The Common.”
And in this painful situation, it became clear that the Common walks the path of truth and justice.
This achievement of the liberation of our two innocent comrades was the fruit of a triple effort: that of human rights defenders, that of national and international solidarity and support, and that of autonomous justice.
It is a moment to not forget other sister peoples, near and far in geography, who suffer the deadly attacks of the evil system. Let us not forget the native peoples, the disappeared and those who search for them, the defenders of mother earth, the people who are only a number in the statistics of crime, the Palestinian people.
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interesting mike walz development x.com/AFpost/status/1918484795… mike walz's phone showing TM SIGNL an israeli (compromised?) version of the mobile app signal
in light of the fact that he added jeffrey goldberg to a chat containing sensitive potentially classified military information, he looks like a compromised israeli agent
REAL ID didn’t make you safer. It made you more manageable. The next phase? Digital IDs, facial scans, social credit. And it started with a little gold star on your license. Nice and quiet.
REAL ID horror stories aren’t bugs — they’re features. You’re meant to feel powerless. You’re meant to give up and comply. You’re meant to be reminded who actually runs this place.
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“Drilling would disrupt the sacred site, the historical site, the land of water. And it would also create problems with drilling noise, lights and traffic that would disturb people who are praying or studying in the canyon.” kotatv.com/2025/05/03/local-or…
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Waltz angered Trump by plotting with Netanyahu to attack Iran and then kept pushing Trump to do it."
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"The Ojibways of Onigaming are a prime example of how community wellbeing, inherent and Treaty rights, and environmental stewardship intersect with development and resource extraction. While the community grapples with a crisis that has claimed many young lives, external pressures from speculative mining companies further exacerbate their struggles." nationtalk.ca/story/mining-com…
(Toronto, Ont.–May 2, 2025) The Chiefs of Ontario are deeply troubled by the serious and persistent challenges faced by many First Nations, particularly the Ojibways of Onigaming First Nation.
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Father in heaven, author of all truth, a people once in darkness has listened to your Word and followed your Son as he rose from the tomb. Hear the prayer of this newborn people and strengthen your Church to answer your call. May we rise and come forth into the light of day to stand in your presence until eternity dawns. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
1. Replace workers with AI. 2. Now instead of wages you pay a company for AI services. 3. Despite the likely decline in quality of the work, suppose you become dependent as a company on this service. Suppose you make it work. 4. AI is heavily subsidized by venture capital, its priced lower than the cost to provide the service to attract early adopters (and to lock companies like you in.) 5. Inevitably the AI bubble bursts, AI services jack up their prices.
I can understand the urge to cut the cost of wages. Wages are the greatest expense for most companies. But, they have to know it's not gonna "get cheaper" it will get more expensive. Maybe they plan to retool their production process two times over? Seems inefficient.
People keep saying this is like buying machines to replace factory line workers, but it's not. It's renting machines to replace workers. And renting them from people who are on the verge of becoming desperate since they aren't making a profit.
I have never met a C-suite executive who could think more than a quarter ahead.
You're assuming that those executives will be around for more than a quarter, and won't have cashed out and are sipping margaritas by their Olympic-sized pool.
And these are all companies who are fighting unions because they don't want anyone to have any kind of power over them. Just wait until their Do Stuff bill doubles overnight.
someone needs to show me the math for like replacing checkout counter workers earning $20-25/hr including benefits versus installing millions of dollars in specialized equipment plus the compute for these AI auto checkouts - not even including model training! Plus inevitably just paying foreign workers to review the recorded video when the models fail.
it helps assuage the fear that someone out there might be benefiting in a way they do not "deserve" (which in the minds of the investor class means the worker, who is poorer than you, benefiting in any way whatsoever)
management has been aggressively pushing to opex vs. capex for at least the last 30 years.. from most employees being contractors, to magic beans, it's all the same
short term gains with terrible long-term prospects. but they've learned they won't be held accountable. at worst they might have to change jobs and probably end up making more.
Tech companies who stop using traditional means and, instead, move to using LLM services have given up their ability to do work over to the LLM vendors.
Once the subsidy from VCs ends the price will go up drastically - what choice will they have but pay it? They laid off all of their workers who knew how to make things happen.
Exactly. Even in the best case scenario for #AI, businesses are going to end up literal hostages. You'd think all those business school alumni could figure that out.
I am of a class of people who are born into this world where we are forced to rent ourselves out to a class of people, so we can pay rent to the same class of people.
And that’s the benign side of the argument, really.
There’s a darker side, where psychopathic & narcissistic leaders can maintain companies whose mode of operation goes way beyond anything a real human would ever work for.
The elimination of moral human agency will enable actors whose cruelty will go beyond anything ever experienced by humanity so far.
AFAICT the answer to the riddle is that these execs are not thinking like rational businesspeople, however much they might speak and justify themselves in those terms.
It's about screwing people over, disempowering them, and replacing them with obedient machines that can't talk back. An LLM will never outmanoeuvre you in office politics, or threaten your bonus.
in many European countries (I don't know much about the US or UK), we not only have worker rights, but also the reverse: There are laws protecting the employer against unfair retaliation from the workers. Changing to renting AI throws these rights out the window.
It boggles the mind that anyone is willing to take that risk.
Much like crypto completely does away with consumer rights and protections in the banking system.
the high price and low quality will hit the sweet spot where a company can't justify hiring people to replace the AI, but the quality is just low enough to bleed the company to death
So during the era of Biden, there was this X report that seemed to be heavily influenced by Q slop.
And for 4 years lots of people bought the premise that Trump was stil in control. Even when he had to spend most of his time defending himself in court against baseless accusations they claimed that it was just theater.
Trump was still in control. I lost count of how many times Hillary Clinton was executed and replaced by a clone.
Sunday sermon Hebrews 7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translatio…
Like, this is the damaged art for her default skin in GFL1
John Carlos Baez
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Unknown parent • • •@Neutralplier - one reason I consider Scotland a civilized country is that people don't take your attitude: they're not mainly looking for excuses to prevent people from voting. And things work fine!
Luckily you can stay in a country where fewer people get to vote, and you'll be happy there.
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