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Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 16 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
With me today is Cory Doctorow! You might know Cory from such classics as the term "enshittification" that he coined during one of his many presentations. But besides having catch terms that even your grandparents can agree with about today's big tech platforms, Cory is also a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He's had a few books that us on the open social web might enjoy such as "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" and "The Internet Con : How to Seize the Means of Computation". Cory works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, a visiting professor for numerous colleges. Cory holds and multiple honorary Doctorates. And might I add, I consider Cory to be one of the most charismatic and vocal advocates for digital privacy rights and I am claiming he is now King of the nerds. And there's just so much more to say about Cory, but I recommend everyone just go look up his Wikipedia, because if I have to talk about all of his accomplishments we'll run out of time. Cory thank you so much for joining me and I'm just blown away and honored to be able to speak to you.
i have a friend — she's an old lady born and raised here in the western north carolina mountains. she hates computers, yes, but she's been willing to learn a lot and quickly after joining a big signal group chat that our shared local community uses to keep in touch.
aside from memeing with the best of them in the group chat, she also maintains a large fish pond outside the house she built herself. this despite being in her 70s. she's an inspiration.
she has a landline. it works great, and the landline phone hardware works great with her hearing aids. she's had it for years. spectrum has a monoply in our area so the landline and her cable internet service is with spectrum.
she got a cell phone a few years ago. she got a smartphone basically because she had to to do basic life tasks, including joining the big signal group chat. at first she just used it on wifi, but quickly she decided she wanted to be able to use the phone everywhere so she got a cell phone plan from spectrum because they were already her ISP. spectrum mobile uses the verizon network — famed for its good rural coverage.
this is where things started to go haywire.
all her accounts on websites, things like email and bank accounts and health insurance and healthcare providers, they started trying to send her SMS messages in order to let her get into her accounts.
the SMS codes don't work, because they don't come. she doesn't have cell service at her house. it's up in the mountains, sure, but it's not isolated. she lives 20 minutes from downtown asheville and she has lots of neighbors on her road.
she turned on wifi calling on her phone. now she could receive SMS messages from friends and family, but 2FA codes still weren't coming through. i did some digging, and it turns out messages from 5 digit shortcodes often aren't supported over wifi calling. sometimes they are, but in her case they're clearly not. she has a current, stock iphone. she's using the spectrum-provided internet hardware. she knows how to use her phone.
i did more digging — it turns out some ISP-provided landline services support receiving SMS messages to the landline, and then a computer voice reads them out to you. “we don't offer that service” the spectrum chat told us.
some of these accounts can likely be converted to using TOTP 2FA rather than SMS 2FA. this is good, but you have to get in to begin with in order to turn that on. so what my friend has to do is:
make a list, over time, of the websites that she's locked out of because of SMS 2FA
not be able to use those sites at home the whole time she's making the list
schedule a meetup with a friend like me
drive to town to meet the friend
sit down and systematically go through the list of websites and convert them to TOTP
inevitably discover that some of them don't support TOTP
try and contact those companies and explain that they need to turn off SMS 2FA on her account so that she can use their healthcare/banking/email/whatever service from her home
discover that it's not possible to talk to a company anymore in 2025
other options available to her include
port her cellphone number to a VOIP provider that does support receiving SMS from shortcodes over wifi
spend hundreds of dollars setting up a cell tower signal booster outside her house
move
these are all ridiculous options that shouldn't be necessary in order to log in to a website.
if you look at the spectrum mobile coverage map where my friend lives, it shows she has perfect coverage at her house. and all her neighbors do too. all the way up the holler in fact!
this is simply false. she usually doesn't even have service 100 meters down the road.
another friend of mine who also lives out in the county, a millenial, once said that “SMS 2FA is the bane of [her] existence.” the valley she's in isn't even that deep.
and TOTP, the obvious alternative solution, is still pretty sorry. you have to download an app to do it, it's not just a capability that a phone has by default. and then when trying to find an app to use for it, you're presented with a multitude of high-stakes choices, and often pretty technical explanations if you start internet searching about which app to use.
i understand why SMS 2FA is so ubiquitous. when it works, the UX is good, nontechnical users intuitively understand it, and it's usually secure enough.
but there are 1.1 million people in these western north carolina mountains, 25 million in the rest of the appalachians, and many millions more in the mountain west and pacific ranges.
we have internet, but we have F-tier cell service — what are we supposed to do?
As leftist Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum refuses to grant permission for US forces to go after the Cartels in their territory, and also does not decisively act against them, the criminal organizations continue to run unchecked, killing and maiming non-stop – including politicians.
As leftist Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum refuses to grant permission for US forces to go after the Cartels in their territory, and also does not decisively act against them, the criminal organizations continue to run unchecked, killin…
DHS Chief Kristi Noem on Tuesday evening said the New Jersey Democrat lawmakers involved in the violent altercation at the Newark ICE facility last Friday committed felonies.
DHS Chief Kristi Noem on Tuesday evening said the New Jersey Democrat lawmakers involved in the violent altercation at the Newark ICE facility last Friday committed felonies.
The 2025 election cycle has seen a notable series of Republican losses in key local and state races. These defeats were often in traditionally Republican strongholds. Stolen or not, one thing is clear: Republicans must turn out in overwhelming numbers. Make it too big to rig.
Democrat John Ewing has unseated Republican incumbent Jean Stothert in Omaha’s 2025 mayoral election, marking a significant political shift in Nebraska’s largest city.
Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a Republican bill on Tuesday that would require public high schools to adhere to President Trump’s “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” executive order by including geography and instruction on the Gulf of America.
Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a Republican bill on Tuesday that would require public high schools to adhere to President Trump’s “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” executive order by including geography and inst…
Iowa GOP Rep. Randy Feenstra on Monday filed paperwork to run for Iowa governor next year, as Republicans in the Hawk-eye state weigh who could replace Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Reynolds, a popular Republican governor, announced last month that she was not seeking a third term in office, stating she wanted to spend more time with her family.
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday reportedly dismissed two top officials on the National Intelligence Council, as part of her effort to curb the "politicization" of the intelligence community.
The director relocated the council from the CIA, back to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and dismissed acting head of the council Mike Collins, and his deputy Maria Langan-Riekhof.
The US president said he wants Syria to have 'a chance at greatness' as government forces continue to carry out targeted killings along sectarian lines
The House Energy and Commerce Committee released its section of the Republicans' budget reconciliation bill Sunday evening. The legislation, which was marked up on Tuesday, includes provisions to scrap $6.5 billion in funding from parts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that funds climate-related issues.
Coalitions wrote competing letters to the Ways and Means Committee chair, with 21 Republicans wanting to keep the green energy subsidies in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, and 38 Republicans seeking a full repeal.
Read together, multiple indicators suggest that the Trump economy defied expectations and that the trade policies did not adversely damage the nation’s overall economic health. If the trend continues, Trump will have fulfilled what politicians call "dinner table" issues for millions of Americans.
The Spin and the Win: Opposition to Trump may have jumped the gun on the doom and gloom forecasts. Trump's string of deals and demands have moved markets to recovery. Major indices have since exceeded both their April 1 closes and predictions.
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said poor safety culture, and a feud between employees that risked the leak of an unknown pathogen, prompted him to temporarily shutter the high-level biosafety laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
It's not you. HDR confuses tons of people. In this post, we finally explain what HDR actually means, the problem it presents, and three ways to solve it.
Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza condemned the heinous crime committed by the occupation forces against patients and the wounded, by directly targeting the surgical building at Nasser Medical Complex west of Khan Yunis.The Palestinian Ministry of Heal
If you've read any of Linus' conflagratory replies to developers on the LKML it's patently obvious Linus does not like dealing with people. That part is *patently* obvious.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday announced the launch of five programs to advance shared development and revitalization with Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries.
1. B-İlişkileri ve A-Özellikleri Güncel analitik zaman felsefesindeki merkezi tartışmalardan biri de, zamanın yalnızca eşzamanlılık, öncelik ve sonralık ilişkilerden mi (B-ilişkileri) yoksa aynı zamanda gelecek, şimdi ve geçmişin (A-özellikleri) özel…
Can't wait to see some of the fantastic #Python folks I know, and meet many more that I haven't yet met in person.
And, after the keynote from @pluralistic on Friday morning, come see my talk "Diving into the Deep End: A Python Journey in Water Management" in Room 301-305!
I'll be talking about my unconventional journey into building a SaaS for utilities district management with #Django (and, of course, Python).
Aujourd'hui, la Cour de justice européenne se prononcera sur le refus d'Ursula von der Leyen de divulguer les messages WhatsApp avec le PDG de Pfizer, Albert Bourla, au sujet d'un accord de 35 milliards d’Euros sur un vaccin COVID pour 1,8 milliard de doses. Des allégations de corruption, de manque de transparence et de contournement des règles de l'UE en matière de marchés publics ont hanté son mandat de présidente de la Commission européenne. Ancienne ministre allemande de la Défense, von der Leyen a été mise en examen pour avoir « attribué » plus de 100 millions d’euros de contrats par SMS privés, supprimé des messages lors d'enquêtes et contourné les procédures d'appel d'offres publiques. Le scandale du «Pfizergate», associé aux 4 milliards d’euros de vaccins gaspillés, illustre sa mauvaise gestion de notre argent et un conflit d’intérêts manifestement grave. Voyons si l'UE conserve un peu de conscience et de dignité. Ou si la Cour se laisse faire.
Ernest Hemingway: There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
#France #Macronie : on s’enfonce toujours plus, Diaspsera visé un de ces jours…
Denis Robert
Nous apprenons, grâce au Figaro ce matin, que l’ #Arcom (Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique) vient de confier le statut de « signaleur de confiance » au #CRIF (le Conseil représentatif des Institutions Juives de France). Ce dont s’est aussitôt réjoui son président : « Ce travail de signalement fait partie de l’ADN du Crif sur l’antisémitisme, le négationnisme et par extension sur toutes les formes de haine que les internautes peuvent être amenés à rencontrer sur les réseaux sociaux ». Le règlement de l’Arcom précise que ces « signaleurs » sont des « organisations reconnues pour leur expertise dans la détection, l’identification et la notification de contenus illicites ». Jusqu’à présent, ils étaient six et tous centrés sur la protection des mineurs, la lutte contre la piraterie audiovisuelle, la cybercriminalité, la cyberviolence ou les addictions et la défense des consommateurs.
En confiant cette mission à une association religieuse et aux prises de positions controversées, en particulier alignée sur la protection du gouvernement d’extrême droite génocidaire d’ #Israël, l’Arcom franchit une borne et ouvre une sérieuse brèche dans ce qui lui restait d’impartialité. Pour le Crif, l’ #antisionisme est un #antisémitisme. Ses prises de positions, surtout depuis le #7octobre 2023, ont constamment évolué quant à la définition de l’antisémitisme et du #négationnisme. En confiant à ses militants qui criminalisent plus vite qu’ils ne défendent les journalistes qui tentent d’informer sur Gaza, l’Arcom manque à la plus élémentaire des sagesses. Ceux qui vont maintenant remettre en cause la doxa qui voudrait que tout palestinien et par extension tout soutien à la cause palestinienne soit devenu un antisémite ont du souci à se faire. Question : à qui s’adresser à l’Arcom si on pense que le Crif attise la #haine en ligne ?
Très difficile à censurer, j'y crois pas trop.... imposer le blocage d'un compte ou d'une instance D* par un autre me parait plutôt facile. Une petite menace à l'admin et en quelques heures c'est fait.
Earlier: Approving this bill would do a disservice to the families who value their own children’s curiosity and education, including their kids’ ability to access books needed for assigned reading or for research using nonfiction sources more advanced than those found in the children’s or teen sections of the library. texasobserver.org/texas-legisl…
Mark Ciccone flew missions in Vietnam and in 1985 worked as a traffic spotter helicopter pilot in Philadelphia. During the altercation between the MOVE organ...
« La Meute » anti-LFI est lâchée…et souligne les contradictions croissantes de LFI.
Depuis des années – et particulièrement depuis la perquisition du siège de LFI en 2018 -, les médias aux ordres, relais de la #Macronie et de l’extrême droite réactionnaire et fascisante, s’en donnent à coeur joie pour taper sur LFI. Le positionnement courageux de cette dernière sur le #génocide en cours en terre palestinienne a débouché sur un torrent de haine et d’insultes, à l’image de la dernière saillie d’Alain #Jakubowicz, ancien président de la #LICRA qui n’a rien trouvé de mieux, jeudi 8 mai 2025 (une pure coïncidence ?), de comparer « toutes proportions gardées » (on en salive déjà…) Jean-Luc #Mélenchon à… Joseph #Goebbels. De quoi même pousser Apolline de Malherbe (très timidement…) à se désolidariser de ces propos, après les avoir laissés être débités.
Il est vrai que l’occasion était belle de matraquer LFI du fait de la sortie de l’ouvrage La Meute, relatant une enquête de deux années de la part de Charlotte Belaïch (Libération) et Olivier Pérou (Le Monde) sur l’organisation interne de LFI. Un livre publié quelques jours après la diffusion d’un « Compléments d’enquêtes » sur France 2, là aussi à charge. Depuis, la meute éditocrate et journaleuse est lâchée et LFI sommée de répondre non pas à des questions, mais à des interrogatoires en règle à l’image de Manuel Bompard questionné sur BFM-TV par les euro-atlantiques Yves Thréard (Le Figaro), l’homme-lige de Macron Bruno Jeudy (Tribune du Dimanche) et l’épouse de Jean-Michel Blanquer, Anna Cabana. Indépendance et déontologie assurées…. Et les coups sont bien rôdés : « dictature », « antisémitisme », « terreur », sous-entendus avec le « stalinisme », etc.
Et quoi de mieux pour porter les coups que de s’appuyer non pas sur la droite et l’extrême droite haineuses, mais sur les « alliés » de LFI qui multiplient les attaques dans tous les sens, de Jérôme Guedj à François Ruffin, d’Olivier Faure à Fabien Roussel. Il est vrai qu’on n’est jamais mieux trahis que par les siens – n’oublions pas les « historiques » Simonnet, Garrido ou Corbière qui, dorénavant, avec la complicité de Clémentine Autain, animent l' »APRES » et, pour bien marquer leur différence, espèrent une… « union de la gauche » sans Mélenchon en 2027. De quoi ravir Lucie Castets (portée disparue) et Marine Tondelier.
Pour autant, il est assez cocasse de voir des militants insoumis crier à la « trahison » de la part de la prétendue « gauche ». Car la trahison ne peut valoir qu’une fois, pas vingt fois : dans ce cas, ce n’est plus un traître mais un ENNEMI (et de classe, de surcroît). Quand LFI décide de remettre en scelle le Parti « socialiste » au bord de la mort clinique dans le cadre du NFP en 2022, cela s’appelle du sado-masochisme politique… et l’assurance de ressusciter la « social-démocratie » (dont se réclame désormais explicitement François Ruffin). Une « social-démocratie » qui, de 1914 (a minima) à 2025, passe son temps à trahir : guerre mondiale, « pause » de Blum en 1937, pleins pouvoir à Pétain en 1940 par ¾ des parlementaires SFIO, guerre d’Algérie, « tournant de la rigueur » de 1982/83, record de privatisations, application du traité de Maastricht et soutien au bombardement otanien de la #Yougoslavie par la « gauche plurielle » (à laquelle ont appartenu Mélenchon et le PCF), mandat calamiteux de Hollande, etc. Et à chaque fois, après le désastre, le même cirque : « union de la gauche ». De quoi redonner de l’oxygène à des personnes carbonisées… et renier la ligne de masse qui assurerait le succès.
Car au-delà des pratiques internes de LFI sur lesquelles nous n’avons pas à nous prononcer (même si certains cas comme ceux de Charlotte Girard ou François Cocq ont de quoi interpeler), le vrai problème affaiblissant LFI est l’abandon de la ligne de masse de 2017 qui lui permettait d’être franchement insoumis : « l’Europe, on la change ou on la quitte ! ». Un abandon qui ne peut être compensé par le seul positionnement courageux sur #Gaza et la #Cisjordanie, surtout quand dans le même temps s’accumulent les contradictions : s’allier à des partis soutenant l’ #OTAN et le régime pronazi de Kiev jusqu’à exiger les livraisons d’armes ; critiquer l’ #UE et célébrer Robert #Schuman (comme Manon #Aubry le 9 mai 2020 !) ; exiger une « autre Europe » sans rompre avec une UE totalement irréformable et offrant un boulevard à la fascisation sur tout le continent. Autant de contradictions dont raffole la Meute qui peut désormais fondre sur LFI, renégats à l’appui.
Tout progressiste ne peut qu’apporter son soutien à LFI face au torrent de haine et boue dont elle est la cible. Mais tous les insoumis doivent se poser d’urgence les questions sur lesquelles ne cesse de les interpeler les militants franchement communistes et franchement insoumis du PRCF depuis des années au sujet du positionnement sur l’UE-OTAN et des alliances électoralistes. C’est indispensable pour éviter un nouveau désastre en 2027…
Fadi Kassem, secrétaire national du PRCF – 12 mai #2025
NASA Glenn Research Center’s work in power and propulsion was on full display at the Piston Powered Auto-Rama at the I-X Center in Cleveland, March 28-30. The event is the largest indoor showcase of cars, trucks, motorcycles, tractors, and other engine-powered vehicles. Center staff introduced guests to NASA’s Stirling engine technology, a free-piston Stirling power […]
April 24 marked the 35th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The iconic space observatory remains a household name —the most well-recognized and scientifically productive telescope in history. Engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland played a significant role in how the telescope functions today. NASA Glenn researchers assisted in all […]
NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland hosted a delegation of Slovenian government officials and representatives from the Ohio Governor’s Office on April 11. NASA Glenn leadership provided the group with an overview of the center’s vital role within the agency. The delegation also visited key space-related and aeronautics facilities, including tours of the Zero Gravity […]
Today is the Wednesday of Mid-Pentecost, marking the midpoint between Easter and Pentecost.
Today's gospel reading is John 7:14–30, in which Jesus goes into the temple and teaches “in the middle of the feast.” In his teaching, Jesus reaffirms his unity with the Father.
The middle of the days has come, beginning with the Savior’s Resurrection, and sealed by the holy Pentecost. The first and the last shine with splendor. We rejoice in the union of both feasts, as we draw near to the Lord’s Ascension: the sign of our coming glorification.
In a stunning display of journalistic malpractice, CNN recently aired an interview with a member of Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa cartel, a group designated as a terrorist organization by the Trump Administration.
Ohio residents can now take their vehicle to new heights with a specialty license plate showcasing NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. It is available on the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) website under the “Special Interest Plates” section. Click the “Organizational Plates” drop-down tab for details on NASA Glenn’s plate. The Ohio BMV will collect […]
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Unitika Schlawenger: I've heard that revealing the truth is like lighting a match-stick. They say it can either bring light, or actually set your world on fire. I lit my own match-stick. I had enough light to see my reflection in the mirror and finally get to know who I am and what I am capable of, but soon, I was also the one who set my world on fire. Within the fire, I did not burn, but I danced inside the heat, just like a flame. I was soon the Girl on Fire, someone, who was just ready to do anything to help the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Water is essential for life, and it is an important engineering tool as well. On March 21, NASA’s Glenn Research Center staff joined Great Lakes Science Center in celebrating World Water Day at the science center, home of the NASA Glenn Visitor Center, in downtown Cleveland. Staff conducted hands-on demonstrations highlighting NASA’s Liquid Cooling and […]
The cute younger sister's day is finally here! Rejoice and celebrate by spending the day not thinking! For a bit of a different tone, I actually want to use this day as an excuse to discuss Koishi as a character. I feel like there's far too many misconceptions when it comes to her. Lots view her as this impulsive emotionless serial killer who only performs cruel acts but that's not even close to who she is. Yes, she did seal her ability and with it a small part of her mind. The reality is though, this didn't drive her insane. She's still rational and has restraint. Anything she normally wouldn't have done she still wont do. She doesn't experience things quite the same as she did before but she still has emotions to some degree. She's an impressively unique character that's hard to really grasp. Labeling her as violent psychopath because of her unique traits though is a complete mistake. youtube.com/watch?v=jyt7mf5BaE… Always love .new label, and this one is an especially crazy track. Exactly 5:14 too. mangadex.org/title/0c226e3a-63… An emotional, slightly comedic doujin of the two sisters. Very well done stuff.
A story of the inhabitants Palace of the Earth Spirits before the events of Subterranean Animism. Told with humor and feeling in a unique drawing style.
NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland supported the 26th annual FIRST Robotics Competition Buckeye Regional, April 3-6, at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center. This international engineering design challenge combines the excitement of sports with the rigors of STEM. NASA Glenn Center Director Dr. Jimmy Kenyon helped kick off this year’s event by addressing the student […]
Saturn’s moon Titan is an intriguing world cloaked in a yellowish, smoggy haze. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and has weather, including clouds and rain. Unlike Earth, whose weather is driven by evaporating and condensing water, frigid Titan has a methane cycle. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, supplemented with images from the […]
@violetmadder @mapto @Homoevolutis0 Fascism is literally what happens when you take greed and egoism to a form of government. All the isms and phobias, racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, nationalism -- you name it! They are all egoism and greed. The belief that people like yourself are special and deserve to take from other people whatever you want, even their lives.
During his first official visit to China as president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro confirmed that he will authorize Colombia's participation in the Belt and Road Initiative, sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road.
A science team has combined data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope to see evidence of cloud convection on Saturn’s moon Titan in the northern hemisphere for the first time.
Exactly 5:14 too.
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