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Adoro la jornada de verano (en mi trabajo es intensiva de mañana, y una hora menos al día) y a la vez me da la sensación de que podría mantenerse todo el año perfectamente. No me parece que cunda menos.
Ahora mismo una diputada de Junts diciendo en la radio que "Catalunya no es España" por el bochornoso espectáculo que están dando en el Congreso. La de JUNTS. La de CIU. jejejejje La corrupción en Catalunya de CIU siempre ha sido más de Circulo Equestre y Eyes Wide Shut.
I know it hurts, and is almost unbearable, but we can not stop talking about the genocide that is taking place in Palestine. Israel is killing them at the food distribution stations. This food stations are becoming death traps. It's so evil.
I'm sure there are some young MAGA boys that currently feel uneasy about how sudden and weird the pivot onto Iran has been who will be swept up by this, impressed 💀
Everyone returns to email in the end. We are there already. #whatsapp wants you to add your email to secure your account ... despite all the nay sayers and numerous well funded attempts and claims to kill #email not even WA can do it. #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc are about deep collab between people, projects and operators to evolve email from within. It is not just about SMTP and IMAP and MIME and OpenPGP which are all exchangeable and can be improved ... Which we set out to do. Cheers.
@madkiwi @brazel you are both of.course correct. Whatsapp very likely wants email addresses to improve.meta's tracking machine accuracy and reach, and sell it under "for your security" because it sounds much better.
Anecdotal evidence technology is interfering with children's ability to learn to read. Anecdotes from elementary school through college. Allegedly the trend began before AI, so it's not a consequence of AI, and it's not because of covid because the trend began before covid as well. Smartphones and tablets began affecting childhood before AI showed up. But the trend is allegedly being accelerated by AI because AI can read for you and you can talk to it, so it is removing the need to learn to read.
@Wayne Radinsky grades could be the purpose, or learning. I think the goal is determined by the student, no? If the student has a goal to get into the best possible university, then grades are the goal. If the student wants to learn new things, then learning is the goal. If the student wants to make as much money as possible, then dropping out of school might be the goal... There is not a single goal to education.
Hernan, Wayne has expressed his opinion a couple times about this. I suspect he was in school districts that were unusually grades oriented, as well as him being unusually reactive to authority.
I went to many school districts (family traveled a lot), and my memory is that most teachers were more learning oriented and less grades oriented, exactly opposite of what Wayne experienced. And of course what you said, that students goals play a big part of the experience.
@HernanLG education may not have an goal post-facto, but it's purpose for the state is to guide youth into maturity and keep up basic functions of society like birth rate, households, consumption, and work. Any education in our state-paradigm has to keep its effectiveness above this bar, wouldn't you agree?
grades could be the purpose, or learning. I think the goal is determined by the student, no?
No. I ran the experiment. When I was in college, and I wasn't learning anything (whether it was because of "learning" gobeltygook or just doing huge amounts of busywork from which neither I nor anyone else was learning anything) and complained, I was labeled "disobedient" and "troublemaker" and treated with unbearable hostility. The notion that I had the ability to unilaterally override the system's goal of "grades" and substitute my own, "learning" (even though "learning" is ostensibly the whole purpose of the entire institution) is laughably, completely wrong. No, students do not have the ability to override the goal set by the institution, and that's grades.
If the student has a goal to get into the best possible university, then grades are the goal. If the student wants to learn new things, then learning is the goal.
If one wants to learn new things, then one should not be in a university! There are bookstores and libraries full of books. There are online open-source textbooks. There's Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias. There's Wolfram MathWorld. There's a magic search engine called "Google" (and others) one can use to find educational materials on just about any topic imaginable. There are online education systems like Khan Academy. There are apps like Brilliant.org and Duolingo, which teaches languages. If you don't know what to search for on a system like Google, you can ask a chatbot like ChatGPT what to search for. (Sounds weird, I know, but try it.) One can ask chatbots like ChatGPT to act as one's tutor (though beware of inaccuracies).
Maybe 100 years ago, if you wanted knowledge, universities were the only place you could go and everyone there (or almost everyone) was a genuine knowledge-seeker. In the world of today, if you seek to learn, why would you ever go to a university? With such vastness of knowledge available so much more cheaply? The only justification is to obtain the credential. Everyone (for all intents and purposes) who goes to university today is a credential-seeker.
If the student wants to make as much money as possible, then dropping out of school might be the goal…
Probably not. Statistics on large populations show people with college degrees make substantially more average. Sure, if you're Mark Zuckerberg, you make more money by dropping out, but there's only a handful of Mark Zuckerbergs and millions and millions of regular people. For regular people, a college degree, actually not so much a money maximizer, but essential destitution insurance.
Wayne has expressed his opinion a couple times about this. I suspect he was in school districts that were unusually grades oriented
Nope. I went to Denver Public Schools for K12 and the University of Colorado at Boulder (aka CU Boulder) for university. Totally normal schools. If these school districts were "unusually grades oriented," other students would have been affected, but it was only me.
as well as him being unusually reactive to authority.
It was only me. "Unusually reactive to authority" I suppose is one way to put it. From my point of view, the question was, why are all normal people so automatically obedient to authority?
I think I told you before how about 2 years after I was forced out of the school system (for disobedience) I met this young woman who was a college student (at UC Davis), majoring in biology. And for some reason I asked her these general, open-ended questions about what her college experience was like. I expected her to describe her daily struggle to be obedient, forcing herself to do her homework, forcing herself to obey the commands that are called "assignments" or whatever but are really commands that must be obeyed. But her experience was nothing like that. There was no struggle to be obedient, and in fact she didn't even think of school in "obedience" terms. She actually liked the system. She liked how someone else had broken down a body of knowledge and figured out a system for learning it, and on Monday we do this, on Wednesday we do that, on Friday we do this other thing, and all she had to do was "jump through the hoops" and everything would work out great for her. She actually liked the "hoop jumping" system. I had never considered before the possibility that such a thing was possible before. I thought other people who did well in school were just "tougher", "grittier", better at forcing themselves to be obedient than I was. I never imagined people existed for whom the obedience struggle was entirely non-existent.
That was what led me (over the last 30 years) to develop my theory of extrinsic motivation. For people who are extrinsically motivated (or sufficiently extrinsically motivated -- their extrinsic motivation level exceeds some threshold -- and in my mind, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation are independent personality dimensions, but I'm going to skip that explanation for now), they don't experience any loss of agency in school. They want to make money doing some profession, they work backwards from there -- they need a college degree in X major (ideally from a prestigious school), to get the college degree they need good grades (ideally "A"s and a high GPA) in various classes, to get their "A"s in those classes they need to do what the teacher says -- and oh how helpful it is that the teacher simply tells you what you need to do to get the "A"s, and all you have to do is whatever you're told. So people don't feeling like they're "being obedient" or like they've lost agency -- they're following their step-by-step plan to acquire extrinsic rewards ("A"s, high GPA, degree, high-paying job). People don't feel "hoop jumping" causes loss of agency because they want to jump through the hoops because they want the rewards for doing so. "Playing the game" is another expression I've heard a few people use (like my aunt who has a PhD). When I was in school, I didn't treat it like a "game". I treated it like my purpose for being there was to learn how to become a competent engineer and I took it very, very seriously. I spent my weekends in the math library while other students were getting drunk at frat parties. They have degrees and I don't. They understood they were there for the grades and the degree -- the credentials themselves are what matters (extrinsic motivation), not becoming a "competent engineer" (intrinsic motivation).
If the goal is to learn, in some classes, there won't be a problem. But in others there will be, because no learning is happening. There's some sort of imitation learning going on -- "learning" gobbeltygook or doing a lot of robotic busywork. In this situation, what you must do is STFU, do what you're told, get your "A", and go on with your life. You can't complain. You can't fight the system. You're one person, and the system is thousands of schools in hundreds of countries with millions of students and teachers and administrators, thoroughly embedded within all the other major institutions of society such as the employment system. The system is vastly bigger than you. You can't complain and change anything. You have to STFU and obey.
When you say
I went to many school districts (family traveled a lot), and my memory is that most teachers were more learning oriented and less grades oriented
to me this just sounds like, you're a normal person with extrinsic motivation levels above the critical threshold, so you didn't experience any problem.
Hmm, I was motivated with both a deep curiosity about the world (intrinsic) and intentions to get credentials (extrinsic) in the process of learning. All my teachers did their job about as i expected, and i learned a lot, much more than if i just read books. Much like that lady you mentioned.
What you might be missing is an appreciation of constraints. Sometimes constraints enable a process. You seem to view constraints only as limits and impedance since you framed your argument in terms of "obedience".
Alicia Juarrero, a philosopher, wrote a whole book about this idea. Here she is discussing the idea in a video interview:
Constraints, Context, Complexity, Culture and the OODA Loop | Alicia Juarrero
Or this video, i don't recall which interview is better:
Alicia Juarrero on Context, Constraints, and Coherence
Apologies for the late reply on this, but I watched the two videos and read the article, and I am completely failing to see the relevance to my educational experience.
I don't see how unconditional obedience to arbitrary authority "enables" education. I am missing "an appreciation of constraints"... If I had "an appreciation of constraints" then I would understand how unconditional obedience to arbitrary authority is necessary for education and I would have embraced obedince throughout my school experience. I would have understood how the "process" of education was "enabled" by unconditional obedience to arbitrary authority and magically had no problem with it. How???? I don't get this at all. Apparently if I understood how unconditional obedience to arbitrary authority functions as a "constrains" that "enables" the "process" of education, then I would never have even "framed" the argument in terms of "obedience".
Doesn't my alternate hypothesis of extrinsic motivation do that already? Extrinsically motivated people don't feel like they are being "obedient" in school. If you want extrinsic rewards (money, jobs, degrees, grades, etc), then having the reward issuer telling you exactly what you need to do to obtain the reward is exactly what you want. They tell you what to do to get the reward, you do what they say, you get the reward, and you don't feel like you're engaging in obedience to an authority. There's no subjective experience of "loss of agency". I spent decades trying to understand this and the extrinsic motivation theory is the best I've been able to come up with. There are people who exist who go to school and excel and experience no subjective loss of agency, even though that seems impossible.
When I was in school, it seemed like I was placed in a room with an arbitrary authority in the front, and if I didn't obey, my life would be destroyed. Bad grades mean a bad college or no college, a bad job or no job, and your life will basically be terrible. Adults successfully instilled this in me in elementary school. Obviously adults felt it was necessary to instill this in me or I would get bad grades, and they were probably right. That's what got me through high school -- the expectation that obedience was childhood, and once you became and adult and went to college, college would be different, college would be about realgenuinelearning. When I got to college and discovered it was more of the same, (besides it being heartbreaking discovering the hope I had held on to that got me through K12 was completely false), I complained and got the associated punishment. I complained when learning was not happening and that's not allowed. Disobedience is not allowed. I got labeled "the disobedient student." That's literally what I was called by the professors.
But according to you, what went wrong was I had inadequate "appreciation of constraints"???
p.s. I don't mean for what I just said to come across as hostile. I'm genuinely confused as to what the connection is between lack of "appreciation of constraints" and getting booted out of school for disobedience. I genuinely don't get it.
"I would have understood how the “process” of education was “enabled” by unconditional obedience to arbitrary authority and magically had no problem with it. How??? I don’t get this at all."
Well, no one that i know has described their educational experience as "unconditional obedience to arbitrary authority". That sounds paranoid.
The enabling constraint is much more mundane than you describe. The constraint is the orderliness of ordinary institutions which have evolved systems to operate over a long period of time. Schools, banks, grocery stores, town halls, whatever institution. They have to plan ahead, hire employees, establish methods and standards. Many people are involved in this process and you're implying they are all a bunch of meanies.
Your apparent view of all this is that normal social and civil constraints are intrusions on your free will. Or, perhaps you personally did attend deviant schools and are not aware that most schools are quite benign about assignments, grades and whatnot.
Assigned reading, pop quizzes, presence in classrooms, all those constraints enable the educational system to endure. Maybe there is a better way. But, that requires activists to re-shape people's normal expectations.
If a person wants to avoid these mature institutions they are free to do so. And it is up to the free spirit individual to figure another way to become a civilized member of society.
So, your expression, "unconditional obedience to arbitrary authority", is not a reasonable description of ordinary civil institutions.
The constraints that enable orderly institutions to endure is a collective norm. You personally don't buy into the educational institutions norms. That puts the burden on you to figure out a better way to get along in life.
Now, given all that, could most school districts become much better? Yes, of course. But fixing "unconditional obedience to arbitrary authority" is not realistic in my experience.
I was dam glad a teacher would teach us. I was damn glad they made an effort to do their job well according to community standards. Almost all of my teachers were good to excellent.
I did go to catholic school my first 2 1/2 years. They were pretty strict and authoritarian, and the phrase "unconditional obedience to arbitrary authority" sorta fits, but not quite. But that was their style, I still got educated quite well even tho they were all bossy about it.
I say all this even tho I personally am rather reactive to authoritarian institutions. But schools? nah, they are pretty much the same world wide. You must have got some wing ding schools or you got off on the wrong foot to be so totally alienated from normal educational institution standards.
The US-Israel war on Iran; how the interests of aggressive imperialism, in the name of "communism" and democracy are served , especially in Türkiye. neodemocracy.blogspot.com/2025…
La #désinformation n’est plus une simple dérive ou une erreur d'appréciation, elle est devenue un outil de gouvernance. Quand l'État perd sa légitimité et s’enfonce dans la #corruption, il n’a plus d’autre recours que la #manipulation systématique. Les institutions, ces prétendues garantes de la vérité, ne sont plus que des machines à mentir. Loin d’être des entités neutres, elles sont désormais les artisans d’une #falsification à grande échelle, distillant des #mensonges savamment calibrés pour maintenir un contrôle total sur la population. Le mensonge est leur #politique, la vérité leur ennemie. Et face à la montée de la contestation, à l’éveil d'une population qui ne croit plus aux discours officiels, ces institutions n’hésitent plus à tenter de censurer ce qui échappe à leur emprise. Les réseaux sociaux, les sites alternatifs, les journalistes indépendants qui osent briser le silence et révéler la réalité, sont attaqués sans relâche. On les accuse de "fausses informations", de "désinformation", alors qu’ils exposent la vérité nue, celle que les chaînes d'information et les journaux subventionnés tentent d’enterrer.
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Mais c’est peut-être l’ #Iran qui cristallise le mieux cette inversion. #Israël frappe un consulat à Damas, viole la souveraineté d’un État tiers, tue des diplomates et c’est l’Iran qu’on accuse d’escalade. Quand Téhéran répond, avec une précision chirurgicale, en ciblant des bases militaires, les #médias s’enflamment et crient à la "Menace contre la paix mondiale", à la "Provocation" ou à "l'Attaque massive". Sans aucun rappel du contexte, ni aucune symétrie de discours. Israël frappe des #civils et des #enfants et c’est simplement normal. L’Iran répond, alors ça, en revanche, c’est inacceptable ! C’est ici que le #mensonge atteint sa forme la plus achevée. Ce n’est plus un récit, c’est une grammaire. Une grammaire de la #domination. Un langage où les agresseurs sont des victimes, où les défenseurs sont des menaces, où le réel n’existe que s’il peut être capitalisé politiquement.
Tiens tiens... J'en peux plus de cette clique intouchable.
Pas de #prison ferme : l’addition finale est allégée pour #François Fillon . L’ex-premier ministre a été condamné mardi à quatre ans de prison avec sursis, cinq ans d’inéligibilité, une amende et des dommages et intérêts pour l’emploi fictif de son épouse à l’Assemblée.
<<StGB 140 Belohnung und Billigung von Straftaten in einer Weise, die geeignet ist, den öffentlichen Frieden zu stören, öffentlich, in einer Versammlung oder durch Verbreiten eines Inhalts (§ 11 Absatz 3) billigt, wird mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu drei Jahren oder mit Geldstrafe bestraft.<<
>>VSTGB: §13 (1) Wer einen Angriffskrieg führt oder eine sonstige Angriffshandlung begeht, die ihrer Art, ihrer Schwere und ihrem Umfang nach eine offenkundige Verletzung der Charta der Vereinten Nationen darstellt, wird mit lebenslanger Freiheitsstrafe bestraft. (2) Wer einen Angriffskrieg oder eine sonstige Angriffshandlung im Sinne des Absatzes 1 plant, vorbereitet oder einleitet, wird mit lebenslanger Freiheitsstrafe oder mit Freiheitsstrafe nicht unter zehn Jahren bestraft. <<
Nur mal kurz dagegelassen, angesichts der vielen Leute, die hellauf begeistert die Angriff auf den Iran Biligen, Bejubeln, oder gar Fordern Deutschland solle sich daran beteiligigen. Gibt ja auch Bundeskanzler, die Verbrechen der Aktion als "Drecksarbeit für uns alle" gutheißen. Und Antisemitismusbeauftragte die für einen völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg werben.
Very moving to hear Amjad Al-Rifaii from Nablus talk about the current situation in the Wesr Bank last night. 3 things stood out: 1. Navigating gates and checkpoints for hours a day 1,300 gates now in WB). 2. That he used to believe in the two state solution; not anymore. 3 And: the problem is Zionism, not religion. “We all believe in the same god, we are all brothers.”
Thanks to Eastbourne’s Emmanuel Church for hosting (always hard to find a venue for PSC events).
Ja, ein großer Teil der Prignitzer Bevölkerung hat die AfD gewählt, aber die Mehrheit unserer Mitbürger wünscht sich ein demokratisches und tolerantes Miteinander, damit wir alle von dem guten wirtschaftlichen Weg, den unsere Stadt in den letzten Jahren eingeschlagen hat, profitieren. Dazu trägt der Tourismus in unserer Region einen großen Teil bei.
Das stimmt.
Aber mein Stream ist auch voll von Meldungen über Trupps von Vermummten, die mit Messern und Latten und Baseballschlägern Leute aufs Korn nehmen, die gleichgeschlechtlich Händchen halten, bunte Haare haben oder sonstwie nicht in spießbürgerliche Schubladen passen.
Und die gerne Urlaub machen möchten ohne sich krankenhausreif schlagen zu lassen.
Und da helfen keine Apelle, das ist wie Terror wirkt.
I watched a YouTube video of someone using Vibe coding to make a game with AI. 45 mins in and it was running but spewing out error after error. The presenter finally went in an fixed the errors by hand requiring a lot of time and knowledge. I watched the whole thing like someone staring at a traffic accident.
Trump is demanding Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” in his latest rant on social media, one day after he posted that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”
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While the Israeli attack on Iran dominates the headlines, Israel has been accelerating its campaign of mass killing in Gaza. Israeli soldiers have repeatedly gunned down people lining up for food as they stand on the brink of starvation.
Solidarity Against ICE and the Entire State Apparatus
The devolution of Black politics has never been so evident and could not happen at a worse moment. While the crisis of legitimacy accelerates, and provides opportunities for movement politics, many Black people have declared themselves to be uninterested in political engagement or even worse, to be in solidarity with state oppression. Social media is replete with examples of Black people declaring that they don’t care about genocide in Gaza, or that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has nothing to do with them or even that they are glad other people are targeted for deportation.
The city of Los Angeles, California is now the focal point of resistance, and while there is Black solidarity within the coalition protesting ICE raids and Donald Trump bringing in the National Guard, there is also a strange resistance to acting in solidarity with those who are specifically targeted in this phase of state repression.
There is a great deal of confusion about what Black politics should be. The confusion continues because Black politics, the assertion of Black/African people’s human rights here and abroad, was killed off by repression, the influence of money in politics, years of right wing indoctrination, and the presence of a neo-liberal, imperialist Black man in the office of the presidency. The result is that the people who once were most likely to be at the very least skeptical of the state’s motives are now in support of some of its worst acts.
Entertainer Azealia Banks not only declared , “I’m a Zionist,” but felt compelled to add , “No black person should be supporting Palestine.” Ms. Banks attempted to explain away her inexplicable comments by asserting that all Arabs are racist and therefore undeserving of any solidarity. Even if that broad generalization were true, why would it mean that a genocidal state would be acceptable to her or to anyone?
Banks is one of the worst examples of this dubious narrative, which says that Black people should only be interested in themselves because all Arabs are supposedly racist or all Latinos are racists or because other groups have not been in solidarity with us, or because ICE isn’t raiding them. It is difficult but necessary to clear through many levels of misguided thinking if we are to find our way out of a dangerous morass.
The same forces that destroyed the liberation movement have convinced many Black people that effective political engagement is limited to voting, when in fact voting is the least effective means of bringing about change. Numerous studies have shown that voters don’t get what they want even when their chosen party is in office. Of course, bourgeois democracy delivers a revolving door of democrats and republicans who alternately fall out of favor with the public only to market themselves anew and periodically switch places so that the duopoly can take turns raising hopes and then failing the public over and over again.
We see Black people claiming that their vote for Kamala Harris or Joe Biden or Barack Obama is akin to movement organizing when nothing could be further from the truth. The claims that Black people shouldn’t be involved in the fight against genocide or ICE because we have all fought so hard often amounts to nothing more than people having voted for a democrat in a presidential election year. The duopoly confidence game causes people to be angry because they think their quadrennial trip to a polling place amounts to more than it actually does.
The lack of historical knowledge is another factor in the encouragement of apathy. “No one helped Black people.” “Why should we care if someone else is deported?” “They’re stealing our jobs.” The prevalence of discredited American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) and Foundational Black American (FBA) ideology leads to hostility even towards Black immigrants. The site of masked ICE officers making violent arrests elicits nothing more than a shoulder shrug from the masses who think their situations are not linked with those being victimized.
At the very least, one would think the admonition warning against cutting off one’s nose in order to spite the face, would be kept in mind. Black people should know better than anyone that police, whether local or from ICE, are the enemy and that we should never applaud their actions, even if we appear not to be the target.
As for anti-Blackness among other groups, discernment is important. There is anti-Black racism among groups who are not white and it isn’t difficult to find examples. But that should not mean support for arresting people when they appear for immigration check-ins as they have done for years or that we shouldn’t feel repelled by ICE agents seeking entry to school buildings, dragging people from work places, and arresting U.S. citizens in the process. Black immigrants are always targets and are easily swept up in a racist system.
But there is also a lack of understanding about immigration itself. Immigration secures a class of disposable labor for capitalists, which is why people from all over the world are admitted to the U.S. If immigrants take what Donald Trump referred to as “Black jobs” it is because that is what the ruling class wants. It is not an accident that entire industries rely on immigrant labor. These same capitalists want a race to the bottom. If they don’t have migrants coming to the U.S. to work, they will leave the U.S. in search of even cheaper labor, and find ways to emiserate citizen workers even more than they do now. That dynamic is a constant, and no one should be fooled into thinking that Black workers would benefit even if every immigrant returned to their home country.
There is a mistaken belief that the fortunes of Black people from the U.S. would improve if others disappeared. Such conjecture is completely ahistorical. Yes, we must wage our own battle but what and who are we fighting? Our enemies are racism and capitalism. There is no reason to believe that mass incarceration, gentrification, or low wage work would disappear if global south immigrants were to leave the U.S. Our situation was not better before they arrived, and thinking that corporate, capitalist parties would somehow offer up something different is not borne out by any experiences Black people have had.
Donald Trump’s actions and his persona are different from other presidents, and that is a problem, but not just for the obvious reasons. It is important to remember that the Democratic Party’s allegiance to its oligarchic class, and its determination to vilify Trump instead of doing what their voters want, led to his return to the white house. It would be unfortunate if the only conclusion reached about this crisis is that we need another Democratic Party president when that party’s fecklessness led to Trump’s second term in office.
The lesson to be learned is that US Black people must understand that every phase of repression is a danger to us. We have no choice but to be in solidarity with all oppressed groups as we struggle for a new system altogether. This is better than finger-pointing about why the democrats failed to win the presidency. Democrats have cut the safety net, increased military spending, created a prison industrial complex, deported millions, and promised their capitalist sugar daddies that they will do everything in their power to keep people in a constant state of precarity. There must be no confusion about who our enemies are.
The ADOS and FBA (American Descendants of Slavery and Foundational Black Americans) movements have gained influence by advocating for reparations exclusively for Black Americans descended from U.S.
Solidarity Against ICE and the Entire State Apparatus
The devolution of Black politics has never been so evident and could not happen at a worse moment. While the crisis of legitimacy accelerates, and provides opportunities for movement politics, many Black people have declared themselves to be uninterested in political engagement or even worse, to be in solidarity with state oppression. Social media is replete with examples of Black people declaring that they don’t care about genocide in Gaza, or that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has nothing to do with them or even that they are glad other people are targeted for deportation.
The city of Los Angeles, California is now the focal point of resistance, and while there is Black solidarity within the coalition protesting ICE raids and Donald Trump bringing in the National Guard, there is also a strange resistance to acting in solidarity with those who are specifically targeted in this phase of state repression.
There is a great deal of confusion about what Black politics should be. The confusion continues because Black politics, the assertion of Black/African people’s human rights here and abroad, was killed off by repression, the influence of money in politics, years of right wing indoctrination, and the presence of a neo-liberal, imperialist Black man in the office of the presidency. The result is that the people who once were most likely to be at the very least skeptical of the state’s motives are now in support of some of its worst acts.
Entertainer Azealia Banks not only declared , “I’m a Zionist,” but felt compelled to add , “No black person should be supporting Palestine.” Ms. Banks attempted to explain away her inexplicable comments by asserting that all Arabs are racist and therefore undeserving of any solidarity. Even if that broad generalization were true, why would it mean that a genocidal state would be acceptable to her or to anyone?
Banks is one of the worst examples of this dubious narrative, which says that Black people should only be interested in themselves because all Arabs are supposedly racist or all Latinos are racists or because other groups have not been in solidarity with us, or because ICE isn’t raiding them. It is difficult but necessary to clear through many levels of misguided thinking if we are to find our way out of a dangerous morass.
The same forces that destroyed the liberation movement have convinced many Black people that effective political engagement is limited to voting, when in fact voting is the least effective means of bringing about change. Numerous studies have shown that voters don’t get what they want even when their chosen party is in office. Of course, bourgeois democracy delivers a revolving door of democrats and republicans who alternately fall out of favor with the public only to market themselves anew and periodically switch places so that the duopoly can take turns raising hopes and then failing the public over and over again.
We see Black people claiming that their vote for Kamala Harris or Joe Biden or Barack Obama is akin to movement organizing when nothing could be further from the truth. The claims that Black people shouldn’t be involved in the fight against genocide or ICE because we have all fought so hard often amounts to nothing more than people having voted for a democrat in a presidential election year. The duopoly confidence game causes people to be angry because they think their quadrennial trip to a polling place amounts to more than it actually does.
The lack of historical knowledge is another factor in the encouragement of apathy. “No one helped Black people.” “Why should we care if someone else is deported?” “They’re stealing our jobs.” The prevalence of discredited American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) and Foundational Black American (FBA) ideology leads to hostility even towards Black immigrants. The site of masked ICE officers making violent arrests elicits nothing more than a shoulder shrug from the masses who think their situations are not linked with those being victimized.
At the very least, one would think the admonition warning against cutting off one’s nose in order to spite the face, would be kept in mind. Black people should know better than anyone that police, whether local or from ICE, are the enemy and that we should never applaud their actions, even if we appear not to be the target.
As for anti-Blackness among other groups, discernment is important. There is anti-Black racism among groups who are not white and it isn’t difficult to find examples. But that should not mean support for arresting people when they appear for immigration check-ins as they have done for years or that we shouldn’t feel repelled by ICE agents seeking entry to school buildings, dragging people from work places, and arresting U.S. citizens in the process. Black immigrants are always targets and are easily swept up in a racist system.
But there is also a lack of understanding about immigration itself. Immigration secures a class of disposable labor for capitalists, which is why people from all over the world are admitted to the U.S. If immigrants take what Donald Trump referred to as “Black jobs” it is because that is what the ruling class wants. It is not an accident that entire industries rely on immigrant labor. These same capitalists want a race to the bottom. If they don’t have migrants coming to the U.S. to work, they will leave the U.S. in search of even cheaper labor, and find ways to emiserate citizen workers even more than they do now. That dynamic is a constant, and no one should be fooled into thinking that Black workers would benefit even if every immigrant returned to their home country.
There is a mistaken belief that the fortunes of Black people from the U.S. would improve if others disappeared. Such conjecture is completely ahistorical. Yes, we must wage our own battle but what and who are we fighting? Our enemies are racism and capitalism. There is no reason to believe that mass incarceration, gentrification, or low wage work would disappear if global south immigrants were to leave the U.S. Our situation was not better before they arrived, and thinking that corporate, capitalist parties would somehow offer up something different is not borne out by any experiences Black people have had.
Donald Trump’s actions and his persona are different from other presidents, and that is a problem, but not just for the obvious reasons. It is important to remember that the Democratic Party’s allegiance to its oligarchic class, and its determination to vilify Trump instead of doing what their voters want, led to his return to the white house. It would be unfortunate if the only conclusion reached about this crisis is that we need another Democratic Party president when that party’s fecklessness led to Trump’s second term in office.
The lesson to be learned is that US Black people must understand that every phase of repression is a danger to us. We have no choice but to be in solidarity with all oppressed groups as we struggle for a new system altogether. This is better than finger-pointing about why the democrats failed to win the presidency. Democrats have cut the safety net, increased military spending, created a prison industrial complex, deported millions, and promised their capitalist sugar daddies that they will do everything in their power to keep people in a constant state of precarity. There must be no confusion about who our enemies are.
The ADOS and FBA (American Descendants of Slavery and Foundational Black Americans) movements have gained influence by advocating for reparations exclusively for Black Americans descended from U.S.
Statement of the ILPS US Country Chapter The International League of Peoples' Struggle US Country Chapter and Southern California (SoCal) vehemently denounce the militarized attacks on migrant communities in Los Angeles and around the country, where …
you should have watched the whole video with context..
don't be like them, bro...
2011 trump
00:00:44 "iran can be taken. i would never take the military card of the table and it's possible that it will be used, because iran can not have nuclear weapons, but you gotta exhaust other possibilities."
Watch Donald Trump warn that Pres. Obama will start a war with Iran because he can't negotiate, is weak, and wants to win re-election.Trump's remarks about I...
I have not posted on FB in a long time. Just 1 thing here or there. Today I carpet bombed my TL. It don’t matter that FB might suppress my reach. I do it just as much to lift morale of like minded people as to meme the shot outta my wokenitized (woke hypnotized) family 🤣🤣🤣
Israel hat den Iran angegriffen. Wer das verurteilt, verteidigt nicht gleich auch das Mullah-Regime, sondern vor allem die iranische Bevölkerung, deren Schicksal als Kollateralschaden hingenommen wird
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Reposting this from Mohammad Hureini:
My neighbor Yusef Nawaja from the village of Susya was brutally attacked by Israeli extremists settlers !
These systematic terror attacks against my community is a policy carried out by the Israeli government that granted these milita full impunity to drive us off our land !
"When Israeli warplanes struck #Iran this week — violating Iranian sovereignty in a brazen act of aggression, killing scores of civilians alongside top military commanders and nuclear scientists and inviting Iran’s equally indiscriminate retaliatory strikes — Europe’s leaders didn’t condemn the attack.
They perversely endorsed it and condemned Iran for the attacks on its own territory."
"The German foreign ministry went a step further and actually 'strongly condemned' #Iran for “an indiscriminate attack on Israeli territory' — even before Tehran launched its missiles in response for #Israel’s attack on its territory — while fully endorsing Israel’s actions."
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Before products are seen, speed sets the stage
Slow-loading pages increase bounce rates by 53% (Google Data)
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Minimize HTTP requests
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"A 1-second delay in page response can result in 7% reduction in conversions." - Aberdeen Group
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Best practices for product pages: - Keep descriptions under 50 words - Highlight key specs in bullet points: - Price - Size options - Availability status - Key features - Use ample whitespace (minimum 30% negative space) - Place CTAs above the fold
3. Intuitive Navigation Flow
Navigation essentials: - Standard menu placement (top or left side) - Maximum 7 main categories - Breadcrumb trails for multi-level sites - Predictive search function - Filter/sort options for product listings
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Element
Importance
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Critical
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Reviews
92% impact
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Videos
64% lift
15-30 sec demo clips
Trust badges
Essential
SSL, payment icons, guarantees
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Statistics to consider: - 67% of e-commerce traffic comes from mobile - 53% abandon sites taking >3s to load - 70% use mobile for price comparisons in-store
Mobile UX checklist: - Thumb-friendly tap targets (minimum 48px) - Streamlined forms with autofill - Persistent cart icon with item count - One-tap checkout options
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Conversion killers to avoid: - Mandatory account creation (offer guest checkout) - Hidden costs (show all fees upfront) - More than 3 form steps - Limited payment options
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11:09 UK's Ambrey: An incident occurred 22 nautical miles east of Khor Fakkan near the Strait of Hormuz, unrelated to the security situation. english.masirahtv.net/news/355…
Und während #CDU / #CSU, #SPD und #Grüne weiter unverändert Waffen an die rechtsextreme, in Teilen faschistische israelische Regierung liefern, und #Israel's imperialisische Angriffskriege und den #Neokolonialismus ermöglichen, halten die bürgerliche Presse und Linksliberale konsequent die Klappe und stellen damit so offen ihren gewaltigen #Rassismus zu Schau. Sind ja nur Araber / Muslime!
Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz dankt Israel für den Angriff auf iranische Atomanlagen und Militärziele. Die Operation sei ein mutiger Schritt – und ein Dienst an den westlichen Verbündeten.
You mean late, but better late than never. I never did look too closely at the gory details of the gossip, but I started to notice missing stuff because so many instances defederated fosstodon. So.
I've been putting it off myself. Been hoping the new leadership would cause it to be federated again. But obviously that has not happened? Guess I'll have to rethink my procrastination approach.
New leadership is doing a really poor job. Some nazi asshat posted his manifesto on all sorts of random topics including the past Fosstodon mod situation, misrepresenting it, then replied to himself asking to be a mod on Fosstodon. They made him one.
well to be fair, once it was pointed out, new leadership also started complaining that people were too mean to them and should be more tolerant of hate speech, so
Bonsoir le Monde ! Un petit bijou découvert grâce à un article de Korben qui permet de faire une capture d'écran et d'en extraire le texte vers le presse-papier ! C'est juste super pratique pour extraire des informations texte d'une page web, d'un ma…
TEHRAN, Jun. 17 (MNA) – The Chinese embassy in Israel has urged Chinese citizens to return home or leave the country via land border crossings as soon as possible.
I'm almost finished with my game, but I can't help but look at fundamental flaws that are too late to fix.
For one, the game is clearly inspired by Zelda, but I feel like that since it plays somewhat like Zelda then they should also expect shields to work like they do in Zelda, but in my game, the shields just reduce damage (making them act more like the rings in Zelda 1). The truth is that I made the shields reduce damage instead of blocking projectiles because I didn't want to bother writing collision detection for that along with trying to find/create sprites to accommodate. But then I realized that I have Octorok-like enemies that shoot projectiles and there is no way to dodge them outside of moving out of the way.
The other major flaw is something that someone else pointed out, which is that the enemies spawn in random locations. I should have included preset spawners in the room templates, but I never thought of that and including that now also means that I have to make different spawners in each template along with the number of spawners that appear in each difficulty.
I guess these are things to keep in mind for next game.
@MountainJay I used a combo of veggie thins and cheese goldfish . I know they are kinda terrible for us . Wrap them up in bacon put em on a rack at 400 degrees for 30 minutes ish You could use any cracker and some people put Parmesan cheese on it too
The base and those top influencers who channel their interests (and at times add their own insight) arguably define MAGA, but Trump is the only one with the power to implement it at scale, and he now believes that he knows better than them.
"Settlers, fully aware that the IDF has been ordered to stand down, are methodically erecting outposts beside Palestinian villages and carrying out daily pogroms until residents pick up and leave—at least sixty communities have been expelled since October 7. On the rare occasions the IDF does show up, they’re more likely to arrest the victims."
The Western media remains largely oblivious to the bureaucratic coup redrawing the map of the West Bank. Annexation, for all intents and purposes, is complete.
The PinePhone PRO was just announced! I own a regular PinePhone, and while it's a great device to try out, and develop for mobile versions of Linux, I always felt the hardware couldn't really carry that phone into a daily driver state for me. It seems like The Pine 64 have decided to offer a more premium device this time around, so let's see what it will look like!
00:52 The Device 03:40 Who is it for? 04:56 The Strategy
It sports a Rockchip system on a chip, with 6 cores running at 1.5Ghz, paired with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and 128GB of internal eMMC storage. That SoC seems to be a variant of the RK 3399, fine-tuned to have as good thermals as possible, and better battery life. They also managed to enable suspend state, so your phone will still be able to receive calls and messages without using too much battery life.
Compare this to the regular PinePhone, which only sported a Quad-Core Allwinner SoC running at 1.152 GHz, with up to 3GB LPDDR3 RAM, although my model only had 2 Gigs. It should be a major improvement, and have performance levels comparable to a mid range current Android smartphone.
As a matter of fact, The Pine 64 says it should be about 20% slower than a PineBook PRO, which is a very capable ARM laptop. That should make our Linux mobile desktops run really well on this thing.
Cameras have been vastly improved as well, with a 13MP main shooter in the back, and a 5MP front facing camera.
The regular pinephone had a 5MP main camera and a 2MP front facing one, so there should be a very visible upgrade in terms of image quality. megapixels aren't everything, but you need to have a healthy amount of them to at least pretend to take a decent picture.
The body of the phone seems very close to the original, to the point that the Pro supports all accessories made for the baseline pinephone, including back attachments, the keyboard and the wireless charging case. The only things that won't fit are the covers.
You still get the same hardware killswitches under the case to disable the mic, Wifi and bluetooth, headphone jack and the modem.
The display uses a 1440x720p resolution, the same as the original pinephone. It's an IPS display though, it's covered by Gorilla Glass 4, and has an elevated bezel to protect the screen from scratches when lying on a flat surface or falling.
It does make the chassis 2mm thicker though. The back plate has also been modified to be less prone to fingerprints, which is a good thing, as the original one could quickly turn into a nightmare for neatfreaks like me.
The battery is the same as the PinePhone, a Samsung J7 compatible one, at 3000mAh. This might be an issue, as the new SoC is more powerful and thus might use more power. We'll have to see if the optimizations they've worked on with the manufacturer can offset that.
The PinePhone Pro is available for preorder already, at a 399$ price, and people opting to buy one should expect it to arrive in early 2022, unless component shortages intensify.
Of course, this thing isn't a silver bullet for Linux phones. Software still has a ways to go to be daily driver material for me, and probably for a lot of people as well.
So the PinePhone PRO is still geared towards developers, and super early enthusiasts who want a phone that can also be their Linux desktop when they need it to, but who don't rely on apps too much.
The New York Times reports that in recent months, some users of AI chatbots like ChatGPT have found themselves drawn into dangerous rabbit holes of delusional thinking and mystical hallucinations after conversing with the AI systems. breitbart.com/health/2025/06/1…
Generative AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are driving some vulnerable users into delusional spirals and drug abuse, distorting their sense of reality in disturbing ways.
Milan (Italy) (AFP) – Hardcore supporters of Serie A giants Inter Milan and AC Milan were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for a range of crimes including criminal conspiracy and murder, following a probe into illegal activities of so-called "ultra" groups.
All 16 people standing trial for a variety of offences, in a fast-track procedure which began in March, were found guilty and handed sentences which added up to 90 years.
The crimes broadly involved activities around the iconic San Siro stadium on matchdays, from ticket touting to control of parking, sales from concession stands and taking payment from people without tickets and letting them into the stadium.
Andrea Beretta was one of three people handed the harshest sentence, the former leading Inter ultra being found guilty of criminal conspiracy aggravated by mafia methods and the murder of fellow top Inter ultra and mobster Antonio Bellocco.
Beretta turned state's witness after stabbing to death Bellocco during an altercation outside a boxing gym in a Milan suburb, weeks before the arrest in September of 19 leading Inter and Milan ultras.
The murder of Bellocco was especially shocking due to his status as a scion of an 'Ndrangheta mafia family, from the southern Italian region of Calabria, which bears his surname.
Beretta was also one of six people to be arrested in April for the murder of notorious ultra and career criminal Vittorio Boiocchi in October 2022.
He stepped up to take over the "Curva Nord" section of the San Siro from Boiocchi who was gunned down outside his house at the age of 69 as part of a power struggle between rival factions.
Beretta and Marco Ferdico -- sentenced to eight years -- used Bellocco's 'Ndrangheta connections to push aside more traditional football hooligans, linked with far-right politics, who were bidding for top billing among the Inter ultras.
Milan's top ultra Luca Lucci was also given 10 years in prison for criminal conspiracy and planning in 2019 the attempted murder of a rival ultra, Enzo Anghinelli.
His right-hand man Daniele Cataldo, judged to be the man who carried out the attack on Anghinelli, was handed the same prison sentence.
The fast-track trial, known as "rito abbreviato", is a legal procedure in Italian law in which defendants are judged on the basis of evidence brought by prosecutors, with no debate of that evidence by legal teams.
The procedure allows trials to be completed in a much shorter space of time than the years it takes for the ordinary judicial procedure, under which the remaining three people arrested in September began their trial in February.
That trio includes Francesco Lucci, who often took charge of the Milan ultras during his brother Luca's frequent problems with the law for offences that include drug trafficking and the assault of an Inter fan who was blinded and later committed suicide.
Neither of the clubs were charged in relation to the crimes, and were awarded 50,000 euros each as civil defendants and damaged parties in the trial.
Hardcore supporters of Serie A giants Inter Milan and AC Milan were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for a range of crimes including criminal conspiracy and murder, following a probe into illegal activities of so-called "ultra" groups…
The United States, while not directly attacking Iran, bears significant responsibility for the ongoing Israel-Iran war due to its long-term policies and
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