So here’s a really useful tip if you’re using archive.org to look up a site and it redirects to some other site because that’s what they saw at a later crawl…

Prefix your search (in the URL bar) with:

web.archive.org/web/*/

So, for example, if you search for blendwebmix.com/ on archive.org, you’ll get a redirect to a different site.

But if you enter the following URL in your browser:

web.archive.org/web/*/blendweb…

You’ll get the calendar view with all the crawls of the URL.

Thanks to iarchivist for the tip (archive.org/post/1012493/wayba…).

(I’m going through and fixing all the links in a decade of talks for Laura and myself on the Kitten version of the Small Technology Foundation site and most of the conference sites are either gone or don’t have archives so the Internet Archive is coming through again bigtime.)

#InternetArchive #waybackMachine #archiving #redirects #tip

in reply to xianc78

@xianc78 it's RPG In A Box, a game engine built with godot. it's like a more advanced RPG Maker with 3D as its main focus and node-based scripting (you can directly edit the scripts as well).

i was trying out RPG Architect before, as it is a lot closer to RPG Maker and still supports 3D and is actually a really great piece of software too, but RPG In A Box just sort of spoke to me more. We'll see how it ends up!

in reply to Ron Dyck

I heard this today on CBC - the reason for the stop and search is to see if they have electronic vehicle theft tools in the car.

Now, this is a strange way to solve the car theft problem when the manufacturers seem incapable of designing a system that has a reduced attack surface.

The push should be towards legislation that mandates cybersecurity into vehicle electronics - yes it's hard, but it's not impossible.

It's only a matter of time before on-the road hacks can stop your car

in reply to Ron Dyck

@rhempel bunch o' dummies.
i mean seriously, there *are* a lot of gadgets geared towards hacking vehicles for people who couldn't do so otherwise. like the physical analog to kiddie scripting. but as was mentioned, the onus should be on the manufacturers to get their shit together.
make them pay our auto insurance premiums and i bet you they'll figure out how to do their job right real quick.
in reply to benda

@benda Flipper Zero is seen as a threat because it may have a case and an easily identifiable circuit board.

I have sooo many MCU development boards with CAN and/or Bluetooth that any one of them could be a Flipper-like device.

This is as dumb as the Canadian Trade Minister going on a junket to Taiwan during the chip shortage to ask them to make more chips.

Ummmmm, which ones exactly?

You know, chips! Like the ones in electronics. Chips!

"I'm fine if they cut Medicaid.... That's for poor people of color. I'm on (name of federally-funded state Medicaid program) instead".

"I'm fine if they cut 'Obamacare'. I'm on (name of federally-subsidized state ACA program) instead."

A whole lot of MAGAs are about to get a wake-up call about how misinformed they are.

medicaidplanningassistance.org…

PAVEL #DUROV interdit de se rendre aux USA.


Sous contrôle judiciaire depuis son arrestation en août 2024, Pavel Dourov, fondateur de #Telegram, s’est vu refuser par les autorités françaises un déplacement aux #États-Unis pour des réunions avec des investisseurs.
Selon Politico, la justice française juge ce voyage «non justifié».
Dourov reste donc bloqué sur le territoire français.

Les autorités françaises ont interdit à Pavel Dourov de quitter le territoire pour se rendre aux États-Unis, où il devait participer à des réunions avec des fonds d’investissement.
Cette décision, rendue le 12 mai, a été confirmée par le parquet de Paris, cité par Politico : le voyage « ne paraît ni impératif, ni justifié ».
Depuis son arrestation à l’aéroport du Bourget le 24 août 2024, le fondateur de Telegram est sous contrôle judiciaire strict.
Il fait face à plusieurs accusations en lien avec des activités supposément illicites sur sa plateforme :
blanchiment, hébergement de contenus criminels, et refus de collaboration avec les autorités.
La peine encourue pourrait atteindre dix ans de prison et une amende de 500 000 euros.

Des contraintes judiciaires toujours en vigueur
Libéré fin août après avoir versé une caution de 5 millions d’euros,
Pavel Dourov n’est autorisé à quitter la France qu’avec l’accord de la justice.
Une exception lui avait été accordée du 15 mars au 7 avril 2025 pour se rendre à Dubaï.
Depuis, aucune violation de ses obligations n’a été signalée.
Pourtant, la nouvelle demande de voyage professionnel a été rejetée sans nuance.
Les avocats de #Dourov n’ont pas réagi publiquement, selon Politico. En parallèle, les représentants américains de l’entrepreneur n’ont pas non plus donné suite.
Ce maintien sous restriction confirme la volonté des autorités françaises de garder la mainmise sur un dossier désormais aussi #politique que judiciaire.

Un climat de pression politique dénoncé.
Ce nouveau blocage intervient alors que Pavel Dourov accuse ouvertement la France d’ #ingérence politique.
Le 18 mai, en pleine #élection présidentielle roumaine, il a révélé avoir reçu une demande du directeur de la #DGSE, Nicolas #Lerner, pour supprimer des chaînes conservatrices roumaines sur Telegram.
« Nous ne commencerons pas à bloquer des voix politiques en #Europe »,
a-t-il affirmé dans un message publié sur X.
Le ministère français des Affaires étrangères a immédiatement démenti ces accusations, les qualifiant de « totalement infondées ».

En #Russie, ces déclarations sont prises au sérieux.
La porte-parole du ministère russe des Affaires étrangères, Maria #Zakharova, a évoqué une « ingérence flagrante dans une élection étrangère ».

Accusé par la France de ne pas coopérer en ce qui concerne Telegram, Pavel Dourov est aujourd’hui empêché de se rendre à des réunions d’affaires. Il semble faire face à une pression systémique visant à le marginaliser sur la scène internationale.

COVID vaccines

Sensitive content

FDA says Covid boosters will now need clinical trials to prove effectiveness in healthy people under 65

freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/…

Comments at link above.

BTW, that poison shit doesn't work for anyone, birth to death.

I assume killing everyone over 65 is okay?? Cuts social security recipients, ya think?

in reply to HunDriverWidow

@Zennagain

birth rates and menstrual cycles among women who had received mRNA injections.

The study warns of “significant risks” to women’s fertility and birth rates following Covid “vaccination,” aligning with previous warnings of “reproductive destruction” caused by the injections.

The findings of the study were published in PLOS ONE journal.

During the study, the researchers reviewed literature from January 2021 to November 2023, across Medline, ...

Doing some deep cleaning at my parent's and found the book that started it all... was gifted this in 5th grade; it was my first introduction to civil liberties and social justice (in the digital age, and everywhere else!)

Over 10 years later and I'm pursuing a degree in tech/data in the public realm, and studying all sorts of different relationships between tech, policing, climate, mobility, accessibility and more. This book has had a seriously profound impact on my life.

Thanks @pluralistic

@pluralistic has uncanny timing publishing things I'm thinking about.

Market Truthers have laundered aristocracy, not realizing market capitalism is a metastable system capable of producing everything from chattel slavery to the Nordic states. A naive understanding of capitalism gets you closer to the former, which undermines the system.

- Wealth is good for capitalists; bad for markets.

- We need more than profit motive to drive innovation

- Trustbustin' is good

pluralistic.net/2025/05/20/big…

Israeli Airstrike Hits Generators at Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, Ignites Fire tn.ai/3317093

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said Israel needed to prevent a famine in Gaza for "diplomatic reasons", after his government announced it would allow limited food aid into the territory.

"We must not let the population (of Gaza) sink into famine, both for practical and diplomatic reasons," Netanyahu said in a video posted to his Telegram channel, adding that even friends of Israel would not tolerate "images of mass starvation."
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AFP: lbcgroup.tv/news/israelgazawar…

Wellll, also their blockading of humanitarian relief is a violation of intl law.
Rule 55. The parties to the conflict must allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief for civilians in need, which is impartial in character and conducted without any adverse distinction, subject to their right of control.
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/cust…
Rule 53. The use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare is prohibited.
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/cust…
Et cetera.

Not that Netanyahu and gang seems to care about war crimes or be held accountable for them, but rather frequently publicly brag about having committed such.

in reply to b9AcE

"The Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy is an international initiative grounded in international law, aimed at breaking the siege on aid entering Gaza and restoring humanitarian access."

Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to Gaza – Q&A: law4palestine.org/diplomatic-h…
More: law4palestine.org/category/gaz…

in reply to b9AcE

As the next convoy to break Israel's illegal siege against the people in the Gaza Strip of Palestine approaches, this time by land, Israel urges its lapdog military coup dictator al-Sisi of Egypt to keep Egypt's part in the war crime blockade, as without Egypt's direct complicity at the Gaza/Egypt direct border, there would be no siege of Gaza.
lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnew…

The atrocious al-Sisi regime would not be initially able to stand against the oppressed people if it was not for USA's military and economic "aid" which is received on condition of aiding Israel against Palestine (as agreed in the Camp David Accords of 1978 when Sadat was the second regional leader to sell out Palestine, only after Turkey was the first).
That was why USA chose to ignore the rule that it is officially no allowed to give aid to coup regimes, but after a pretty long public debate where that was the key point, it was... just done anyway, to as Israel wants it keep the people in Gaza starving and dependent on Hamas.

Gramsci: The intellectuals' role is not to consolidate the status quo, but to challenge it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • 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.


Imagine how many lives were shattered because someone was told they were suffering a “chemical imbalance.”

It’s shameful. It’s time for other alternatives to treat depression to come forward. Yes, that includes psychedelics.

And it turns out, the CDC admits that they and the doctors and the pharmaceutical companies knew this 25 years ago... But continued to prescribe them because they are a big profit item.

This article came out two years ago and they are still prescribing these drugs.

Did you get the picture? - Gary Williams

#massawakening
#pureblood

Présent à Cannes pour le documentaire qui lui est consacré « The Six Billion Dollar Man », Julian #Assange porte un t-shirt sur lequel sont inscrits les noms des 4986 #enfants de moins de 5 ans tués par #Israël depuis le 7/10/23. Au dos du t-shirt, un appel : « STOP ISRAEL ».


legrandsoir.info/

'Europe's 500yo sense of dominance is ending' — Themba Godi odysee.com/Themba-Godi-intervi…

Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI

Link: developers.googleblog.com/en/i…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

It won't be long before SpamX is just Elon Musk and a billion spambots bylinetimes.com/2025/05/20/x-s…

Birne Helene reshared this.

‘Full MAGA Lobotomy’: Rubio Rebuked by Senate Dem — ‘I Regret Voting for You’ thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/…

#civilrights #vsn

in reply to Alex Seibz

Went ahead and made a discussion post: discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…

Trump-Putin Talks Reveal There Are Peace & War Parties to Negotiations, Russian Senator Says en.sputniknews.africa/20250520…

"Die Empörung der genannten Liberalen folgt dem Zweck, die anderthalb Jahre dauernde Unterstützung und unmittelbare Beteiligung an den täglichen Kriegsverbrechen vergessen zu machen.

[...]

Regierungspolitiker werden jetzt in Talkshows mit Bildern des völlig zerstörten #Gaza konfrontiert und nach ihrer moralischen Bewertung gefragt. Doch diese Bilder sehen genauso aus wie die von vor einem Jahr."

jungewelt.de/artikel/500432.se…

#Westbank #Palästina #Israel #Genozid #Rassismus #Rechtsextremismus

Nach einem von Julia #Klöckner geächteten Zwischenruf im Bundestag outet sich Mirze Edis als Urheber. Der Linke-MdB erklärt, warum die Rüge ins Leere geht und weshalb er Israels Regierung einen Genozid in Gaza attestiert. nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191363.…

FALSE FLAGS
Signs of a False Flag – From Robert Barnes

1. Asks you to respond emotionally rather than intellectually.
2. Strips the event of context, such as the contemporary factual setting, geopolitical reality, or historical awareness.
3. Demands a rush to judgment before a diligent, independent inquiry occurs.
4. Collectivizes judgment, by taking an individual event, and demands you blame an entire culture, religion, race, ancestry, community or country for it.
5. The only explicable motive offered for the offending action is irrational evil or utterly stupid immorality, as it is against the rational interest of the offender to commit the act for the reasons alleged.

#massawakening #pureblood

Genozidales Verhalten & genozidale Sprache gehen Hand in Hand. Wer Bevölkerungsgruppen als zu vernichtendes Ungeziefer einstuft, noch dazu als Arzt, der zeigt deutlich auf wie sich eine Gesellschaft selbst zerstört im glühenden rassistischen Hass auf Palästinenser

»Israeli doctor compared killing Palestinians in Gaza to 'eliminating cockroaches'
Reservist surgeon described taking part in military operations as a 'public health' matter in now deleted post on social media«
middleeasteye.net/news/israeli…

#Skwawkbox | Israel’s handful of ‘aid trucks’ is pure #PR. After months of starvation, it will not save these kids

"Kids were starving in Gaza BEFORE Israel’s blockade. A few trucks now for Israeli and western propaganda is too little, too late – lift the whole blockade NOW"

skwawkbox.org/2025/05/20/israe…

#Gaza #Starvation #Genocide #propaganda

Kommentar: Selbstgefällige Moralität https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/500432.selbstgefällige-moralität.html

Gazakrieg: Israels Rückhalt schwindet https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/500425.gazakrieg-israels-rückhalt-schwindet.html

19 MAYIS NEYİN TARİHİ?

Elias Nin

19 Mayıs, “Halkın Takımı” olarak nam salmış olan Beşiktaş Kulübünün girişimiyle ilk kez 1935 yılında kutlanır. Beşiktaş kulübü, 19 Mayıs’ın resmi bayram olarak ilanı için Ankara’dan ricada bulunur; bu rica bir yasa teklifi olarak Mustafa Kemal’e sunulur ve onun da onayıyla bir kanun halini alır. 1938 yılı itibariyle de “Gençlik ve Spor Bayramı” olarak kutlanır.
Resmi tarih anlatımına göre 19 Mayıs, “Mustafa Kemal, İstanbul hükümetinden bağımsız olarak 19 Mayıs 1919’da Samsun’a gelir ve orada Milli Mücadeleyi başlattıkları” tarihtir.
Deniz Gezmiş ve arkadaşları da kendi mücadelelerini “ikinci Bağımsızlık Savaşı” olarak adlandırdıklarından, 19 Mayıs tarihinde, adeta tarihi tekerrür ettirmek istercesine Samsun’a gider ve orada “Tam Bağımsız Türkiye İçin Mustafa Kemal Yürüyüşü” düzenlerler. Lakin gerçek hiç de Türk resmi tarih tezinde anlatıldığı gibi değildir.
Mustafa Kemal, Padişaha rağmen Samsun’a gitmez. Mustafa Kemal ve yanındaki İttihatçı kadrolar Padişah Vahdettin’in emriyle Damat Ferit Paşa tarafından Samsun’a gönderilirler. İttihatçı kadroları Samsun’a götüren gemi İngilizlerin izniyle İstanbul Boğazı’ndan geçerek Karadeniz’e ulaşmıştır. Gemidekilerin maaşları da saray tarafından ödenmektedir.
Mustafa Kemal ve arkadaşlarının Samsun’a gidiş nedeni “İşgale karşı mücadele etmek” değil, bağımsızlık yoluna girmiş Pontus Rum ve Koçgiri Kürt bağımsızlık girişimlerini ortadan kaldırmaktır. Ermenilerin bağımsızlık girişimi önceden bastırılmış olsa da bir tehdit olarak devam ediyordu; bunun da tamamen bertaraf edilmesi plan dahilindeydi.
Tabii bu sırada bir de ilan edilmiş Erzincan Sovyetleri var, henüz tehdit oluşturmasa da yarın bir tehdit olabilirdi, o da dağıtılmalıydı.
19 Mayıs’ın birçok anlamı olsa da bu tarih esasen Pontus Rum Soykırımı ile özdeşleşmiştir; biz de buradan devam edelim.

Pontus’ta Ne Olmuştu?

Pontus Rumlarının tehciri 1914 yılında başlamıştır. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Balkan Savaşlarında yenilmesiyle birlikte, Pontus Rumlarının tehciri de başlamıştır. Bahane ise Pontus Rumlarının “Rus işbirlikçisi” oldukları iddiasıdır.
Esasen tehcir ve jenosit, İttihat ve Terakki'nin o yıllardaki temel siyasetidir, zaten bundan yalnızca Pontus Rumları değil, Ermeniler ve Süryaniler de paylarına düşeni almıştır.
Toplu tehcir kararı hayata geçirilmeden önce, Pontus Rumlarının yerleşim alanlarına Topal Osman ve İpsiz Recep'in kontrol ettiği çeteler tarafından saldırılar düzenlenir.
Erkeklerin çoğu Osmanlı ordusunun amele taburlarına alınarak ölesiye çalıştırılmaya götürüldüklerinden, Pontus Rum yerleşim yerleri daha da savunmasızdır; bu da Topal Osman ve İpsiz Recep çetelerinin savunmasız köylere saldırılarını daha da kolaylaştırır.
1916 yılı itibariyle ise Pontus Rumlarının kitlesel olarak tehciri başlatılır. 1916 yılındaki toplu tehciri araştırmacı yazar Tamer Çilingir şöyle resmediyor: “Sevkiyat’’ diye bahsedilen sürgün Karadeniz’de, 1916 yılının Kasım ayı ortalarında hayata geçirildi. Dağlara sığınanların dışında, gidenlerin büyük çoğunluğu bir daha geri dönemeyecekti. İttihatçıların onlara hazırladığı kader bununla sınırlı değildi. Bu sürgünde varılacak yer ölümdü. 50 km güneye çekilmeleri kararı alınmasına rağmen kat edecekleri yol kimi zaman 200 km olmuştu."

1914-1922 arasında baskınlarda ve tehcir sırasında toplam 353 bin Pontuslu öldürülür.

Sonuç olarak

19 Mayıs, Türkler için “bağımsızlığa” ilk adımın, Pontuslular için ise bağımsızlık haklarının Türklük tarafından çiğnendiği, Pontus halkının soykırıma uğratıldığı, topraklarından sürgüne gönderildiği tarihin adıdır.
Türklerin adına “bağımsızlık” dedikleri, “Osmanlı bakiyesi” olarak kabul ettikleri topraklarda Türklüğün hâkimiyetinin tesis edilmesinden başka bir şey değildir.

instagram.com/nin.elias/p/DJ01…

Debatte über den Zionismus: »Der Kongress ist ein Zeichen gegen Antisemitismus« https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/500431.debatte-über-den-zionismus-der-kongress-ist-ein-zeichen-gegen-antisemitismus.html

#Palestine / Israeli Politician Golan: Israel "Kills Babies as a Hobby" in Gaza

Appearing to accuse Israel of "killing babies as a hobby" ("הרג תינוקות כתחביב") and conducting warfare against civilians, Israeli opposition leader and Democrats party chairman Yair Golan has warned that Israel risks becoming "an outcast nation among nations" similar to apartheid-era South Africa if it doesn't change course.

In his statement, Golan emphasized that a "sane country does not conduct warfare against civilians" and criticized the current approach to the Gaza conflict.

The former IDF general differentiated between Israel's military personnel and political leadership, praising soldiers as "heroic" while characterizing government ministers as pursuing dangerous policies. Golan called for Israel to reaffirm its identity as a "Zionist, Jewish and democratic state" while advocating for an end to the fighting, the return of hostages, and the beginning of rehabilitation efforts.

Ironically, #Ynet is reporting that among the critics was also #Herzog, who'll forever be remembered for autographing a bomb to be dropped on Gaza and doing exactly what Golan warns against, claiming that Golan's words are a "serious and false defamation of IDF soldiers."

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide

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in reply to oatmeal

Quoting Rogel Alpher on Israel’s mainstream zero tolerance for having their status as ultimate victims challenged:

[...] Golan is the first to present a third option: condemning Israel as an immoral state that has gone off the rails and is committing crimes against humanity. This effectively makes him the only opposition leader in Israel. Surrounded by zeroes like Lapid, Lieberman, Gantz, and also Eisenkot, whose moral voice on the matter of killing Gazans is not heard. Golan told Israelis: "You are not moral," and most Israelis cannot stand it. It drives them crazy. They must be the most victimized, the most righteous, the most moral. Always. And they curse his big mouth. But it's not the mouth. It's the conscience.

Hebrew haaretz.co.il/gallery/televisi… or archive.is/bwtpt

Alpher mentions how in the mainstream discourse the only acceptable reason for opposing the killing of babies in Gaza is based on potential damage to image and public relations abroad, not on moral grounds. Golan is the first Jewish and Zionist party leader to present a third option: condemning Israel as immoral and committing crimes against humanity. Golan's act is seen as changing the rules of the game and effectively making him the sole opposition leader by challenging the Israeli public's need to perceive themselves as the ultimate victims, just, and moral.

Alpher's analysis brings to mind the fact that most Israelis voluntarily act as spokespeople for a poison machine designed to spread disinformation and draw attention away from Israel's crimes since 1948. If you've ever encountered an Israeli, chances are you met one of them. These individuals are the ones who will attempt to persuade you that they are more akin to yourself: civilized, European, and the real victims. People like the Israelis at #Wix: skwawkbox.org/2023/10/27/softw…

@palestine @israel
#GazaGenocide
#IsraelWarCrimes #Zionism #hasbara

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in reply to oatmeal

A flyer distributed to journalists during Golan’s meeting with the Israeli press documents statements made by Israeli political figures regarding Gaza.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Bezalel Smotrich: "There is no such thing as Gaza civilians. Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat - annihilation is absolute."

Galit Distel-Atbaryan: "Gaza needs to be erased now."

Itamar Ben-Gvir: "To destroy, to kill, to eliminate, to crush, to demolish, to burn, to starve, to cause suffering, to destroy, to crush, to exterminate!"

Moshe Feiglin: "Every child, every baby in Gaza is the enemy... so that not a single child's remains in Gaza.“

Yaakov Bardugo: "To bomb without discriminating, without distinguishing between those who are involved and those who are not involved."

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide #ICJ

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The minute you challenge a Redditor worldview about anything, there comes the downvotes

In this episode, Xbox is talking about "integrating Steam" somehow, whether it's walled gardened or not, it's pretty much just a fucking PC at that point

This is where we find brainlet Redditors that would give Microsoft fat stack of cash for what they can already do on PC, on the TV, with a controller on Steam Big Picture, One Game Launcher, custom OSes made for just that, etc. because it's too hard somehow, but PC games on Xbox without using a pesky wireless mouse to access possibly and probably walled gardened? O H B O Y

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Stalin: We know that a Right opposition often masquerades in a "Left" toga in order to mislead the working class. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • 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.


TIL blocking users on Lemmy is nothing but a placebo


Today I found out that on this platform, "block" is just a fancy word for "filter". Just had an individual user go through my entire profile and downvote everything. So I blocked them, thinking that this would make me safe from any future stalking. But I was just informed that no, any user that you 'block' is actually still able to see everything that you post and vote freely.

All that 'blocking' actually does is hide the person from you. But they're still free to stalk and do as they please. I just tested this out for myself using my other account and sure enough, it's true.

I just want to know, how is this acceptable? I bet you that if I called out this user publically, I would probably end up in hot water myself for harassment or something. And yet 'blocking' is completely fkn useless too. So what recourse does a user actually have here when faced with a hostile user that wants to ruin their experience on Lemmy?

Coming from Blåhaj, I thought I would try 'moderating' my own experience for a bit. But you can't 'moderate' your own experience if the tools to do so are fkn useless and only trick you into thinking that something has been achieved, without actually doing anything useful.

And now I'm starting to see a new value in instances like Blåhaj. Because you actually need admins that give a shit around here or else you're just left to the wolves on a platform that seems more interested in protecting abusive users than allowing users to protect themselves.

Edit: watching you all upvote the person talking shit about how this works on other platforms while downvoting the actual correct information that comes with a source has certainly taught me a thing or two about this platform and the people on it. You all actually prefer misinformation to fact as long as it suits your vibe or opinion more. Like a bunch of fkn MAGAs. I really wish there was a way to disable notifications for this post (another feature missing here) because watching you people upvote misinformation is enough to make me no longer give a flying fuck what anyone here says or thinks.

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in reply to Character_Locked

I think the utility of blocking people on a public platform is kind of fake anyway. If someone is harassing you, and you block them, it's obvious that you did it so they'll just log out and suddenly they can see your posts again. Accounts are trivial to make on the fediverse too so they can always just spin up a new one to harass you.

I think silent filtering is better for that reason because they can't tell that you did it so they won't just immediately switch to a new account and keep going.

Active blocking like you're talking about only makes sense if there's such a thing as "follower-only" posts imo. Otherwise it's a false sense of security because they can see everything anyway just by logging out or switching to another account.

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Héctor Llaitul: The Legacy of This Government Will Be the Permanent Militarization of the Wallmapu


By: Héctor Llaitul Carrillanca

“We are a politically and militarily occupied people. Chile is a country of a profoundly racist and colonial nature. Currently we live oppression in all dimensions. The current government is the worst government that we have had to live through since the military dictatorship. We graph it as follows: this May 18 marks 3 uninterrupted years of the State of Exception, which specifically means tanks, armored vehicles, helicopters, drones and numerous military and police personnel for the unrestricted defense of the tasks and interests of the economic groups that devastate the Wallmapu with their extractivist policies.

With militarization and repression, the policy of the stick is imposed very strongly against the Mapuche cause, and the carrot policy is being relegated to the background and is only trying to co-opt some Mapuche sectors, subjugating them to develop new processes of capitalist investment. These are economic policies that are subject to the rearrangement of big capital, as we have already denounced.

Instead of peace and understanding, this government will leave a legacy that will be the permanent establishment of militarization in the Wallmapu. This has resulted in the allocation of many resources for the police and the armed forces, installing a true state of military occupation never seen before. And, without a doubt, repression and persecution of expressions of resistance will continue.

For this reason, we reaffirm once again that with this government the Mapuche people will not achieve any progress through legal and institutional means, and that is why it is more strongly sustained to maintain the resistance against capitalism that attacks the historic Wallmapu.

For territory and autonomy for the Mapuche Nation !!

Héctor Llaitul Carrillanca”.

Source: radiokurruf.org/2025/05/19/el-…

abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…

#chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #southAmerica #Wallmapu

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars 20 years ago. In this image, the bluish glow in the sky above the Sun would be visible to us if we were there, but an artifact of the panoramic camera’s infrared imaging capabilities […]

19 Mayıs:
Güneş mi, Ateş mi?

Samsun ufkunda bir güneş doğdu, diyorlar.
Oysa Karadeniz’in dağlarında ölüm, kan, duman tütüyordu.
Bir millet doğdu diyorlar, bir başka millet
toprağından, dilinden, tarihinden siliniyordu.

Adına “kurtuluş” dediler,
ama kim için, kimden?
Yıkılan sadece bir imparatorluk muydu,
yoksa komşunun evi, kilisesi, mezarlarıymıy dı?

Bir elinde nutuk, ötekiyle susturulan çığlıklar…
Rum anaların çocukları Karadeniz’de boğuldu,
Sürgün yolları taş değil, kemik doluydu.

Ve şimdi…
Her 19 Mayıs’ta,
birileri bayrak taşırken coşkuyla,
birileri içinden kanlı bir denize bakar sessizce.

Mahmut Uzun
instagram.com/p/DJ0Y_FCK1Et/

#UK hat die Verhandlungen über ein Handelsabkommen mit #Israel abgesagt und den Botschafter einbestellt:

>>UK halts trade talks with Israel and summons ambassador over 'cruel' aid blockade
The UK has paused trade negotiations with Israel over the country's "indefensible" aid blockade in #Gaza It comes after the UN warned 14,000 babies could die in the next 48 hours if the blockade of the enclave continues.<<
news.sky.com/story/gaza-live-u…

in reply to stephie

Weiterhin hat die Regierung in #UK heute #Sanktionen bzgl. der israelischen Siedlungen von #Israel in der #Westbank verhängt.

Darunter:

*Daniella Weiss
*Harel Libi
*Zohar Sabah
* Coco's Farm
* Libi Construction & Infrastructure
* Nachala
* Neria's Farm

Finanzen in der UK werden eingefroren, Handel unnd Bereitstellung von Ressourcen für diese Personen wird verboten.

gov.uk/government/news/uk-sanc…

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in reply to stephie

Daniella Weiss war zuletzt in Theroux BBC-Doku zu sehen, die taucht überall auf wo es um Siedlungen geht - quasi die Königin der Siedlerbewegung, die Pläne für Siedlungsbau in Gaza schmiedet und laut ihrer Aussage "Das tut was die Regierung nicht öffentlich tun darf" sie helfe der Regierung.

Libi hat eine Vorgeschichte von Gewalt, beste Beziehungen zu Parlamentariern, baut Siedlungen und war auch in Gaza aktiv und hat dort Gebäude zerstört.

mehr dazu auch: assets.publishing.service.gov.…

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After more than a year of publicly vilifying anti-genocide and anti-war crimes protesters in the harshest terms possible, actively aiding the culprit, consistently voting against the pro-humanity majority and falsely legitimizing the atrocities as "proportionate right to defense" which literally is not a thing that exists,
yesterday the government of Sweden finally had enough of Netanyahu and gang's crimes against humanity and issued a public condemnation.

Today "Sweden seeks EU sanctions targeting 'individual Israeli ministers' [...] over Israel's treatment of civilian Palestinians in Gaza".
lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnew…
Don't worry "dear" rulers, you're still co-culpable (also legally).

#Filmemacher #Imad #Karim: #Muslime wollen #Deutschland übernehmen


videos.auf1.tv/w/kZn3iDKeJkcdo…

#TV-Journalist #Imad #Karim
#Hart aber #Bunt - Podcast mit #ImadKarim und #Kian #Kermanshahi
Lassen Sie sich überraschen und lassen Sie uns bitte wissen, wie Sie die erste Folge gefunden haben.

#german #video #AFD #NoAFD #ImadKarim #Karim #Migration #Afganistan #2015 #Flüchtlinge #Lügen
#2015 #Flüchtlinge #Lügen #Migranten #JAFD #Querdenker #Leerdenker

Ich erforsche aktuell die Frage, welche Erfahrungen, Motivationen und strukturellen Hürden die Partizipation von FLINTA-Personen in Hackspaces prägen.

Dafür suche ich deine Perspektive im Rahmen eines persönlichen Interviews! (online, ab 19.5.2025, kein Vorwissen oder Vorbereitung notwendig)

Du bist im FLINTA Spektrum und möchtest deine Perspektive teilen? Melde dich bei mir!

E-Mail: livia-leo.weigel @ s2020.tu-chemnitz punkt de
Matrix: @livia:envs.net

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in reply to Livia Weigel

Da das offenbar etwas größer wird noch etwas Kontext für interessierte:

ich habe eine Hausarbeit in der qualitativen Sozialforschung über Hürden & Motivation bei politischer Partizipation geschrieben. Explorative Pilotstudie, zwei Interviews. Die Erkenntnisse möchte ich bei einem baldigen Talk vorstellen.

Weil mir das Thema am herzen liegt habe ich ein paar Freundinnen & Bekannte gefragt, ob sie Lust haben über Erfahrungen in Hackspaces zu Reden. -> Gleiche Methode, anderes Thema, mehr Daten!

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in reply to Livia Weigel

Eins führte zum anderen, ich wurde auf die Idee gebracht meine Bachelorarbeit zum Thema an der TU Chemnitz zu schreiben. Gespräche dazu laufen aktuell, aber so richtig fest ist es noch nicht.

So oder so: am Ende interessiert mich was wir als Community erleben und wie wir vielleicht wachsen können. Dieses Thema möchte ich mit qualitativer empirischer Sozialforschung beleuchten.