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Reminder not to cross the 🍌 picket line:

"Updated 9:37 PM EDT, May 22, 2025

"PANAMA CITY (AP) — Banana giant Chiquita Brands has fired its workers in Panama who have been out on strike for more than three weeks as part of nationwide protests against reforms to the social security system, the company said Thursday."

apnews.com/article/panama-prot…

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benda

@kathimmel fair enough, mostly just throwing out reactionary rhetoric. the thing is, unless Panama has some crazy worker protections that I am unaware of, they're just gonna bring in strike breakers.
if you don't want to negotiate with your employees/borderline slave labor, then you shouldn't have the opportunity to run a business.
so instead of burning it down, maybe they can tear those U.S. suits to pieces and use their bodies for organic fertilizer on their new worker-owned and operated banana-co-op.

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Sadiq Khan is Mamdani’s London spiritual brother: another woke, Leftist mayor hoisting himself high on the phantom spectre of endemic Islamophobia and social justice. Like Mamdami’s possible New York, London is weakened by two-tier policing, a sense of unprecedented fear for safety among Jews and women, rubbish-filled streets, endless Tube strikes and pointless environmental gestures. Meanwhile rough-sleeping, shoplifting, and muggings are only getting worse. Then there is Paris. Ahh, Paris. Truly a once-great, beautiful and important city which, like London, always put New York as a physical place in the shade. But since its mayor, Anne Hidalgo, took over in 2014, it’s become broke, ugly, dangerous and inconvenient: another would-be socialist utopia. Hidalgo, so intent on gestures of eco-radicalism, seems animated by a loathing for the lives of actual, hard-working people. Like Khan and Mamdami, she prioritises the comfort and ease of illegal newcomers over long-term city-dwellers. No wonder she is vying to become the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees. It would be the perfect role for her. At any rate, to the horror of settled Parisians, Hidalgo has destroyed signature parts of Paris’s architectural heritage, digging up 19th-century fountains, lamp-posts and benches and replacing them with plastic mushroom seats. She has ruled over the worst rubbish crisis the city has seen in generations. She axed half of Paris’s parking spaces because they take up too much public space. The blight of eco-obsessed socialist mayors used to feel distinctly European. The fact that American cities are electing people like this is particularly jarring. Just a decade or two ago, the American dream meant the very opposite of what people like Mamdani stand for. Karen Bass, the woke mayor of LA, and Michelle Wu, who has been peddling social justice ideology in Boston, my hometown, are two further examples.

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A dying industry dies a bit more - by Ed Conway


#energy #industry #economics

Without cheap energy, re-industrialisation is an empty slogan.

In the meantime, energy prices into the UK went from being among the lowest in Europe to among the highest in the developed world. The hydrogen economy remained what it was back a decade ago - which is to say, a lovely idea but, in practice, way too expensive to compete with old fashioned chemicals and energy.


edconway.substack.com/p/a-dyin…


A dying industry dies a bit more

How did one of the world's most cost-competitive plants become unsustainable in only a couple of decades? Here's what happened to the ethylene cracker at Wilton - and one or two wider lessons
Ed Conway (Material World)

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FYI: Bitmap fonts might break with the latest fontconfig release

A new version of fontconfig release recently with the added option to disable bitmap fonts. If you're using a rolling release distro, this might break bitmap fonts for you. It definitely does on Arch (and likely Arch-based distros) because they opted to disable them by default for some reason (AFAICT upstream gives the choice but does not recommend one way or the other).

This'll cause fontconfig to skip bitmap fonts, your apps won't be able to access them.

To fix it, you need to configure fontconfig to not ignore bitmap fonts. There are a number of ways to do that.

I'd recommend a user-level fontconfig file. Create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf with below contents and you get your bitmap fonts back. This negates the file in /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps-except-emoji.conf. This is the first time I'm configuring fontconfig so there may be a better way ¯_(ツ)_/¯

This should've definitely been news imo especially because this is not the default behavior of upstream. I shouldn't have to read fontconfig PRs to figure out why my fonts broke, even on Arch.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <description>Accept bitmap fonts</description>
  <!-- Accept bitmap fonts -->
  <selectfont>
    <acceptfont>
      <pattern>
        <patelt name="outline"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
        <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
      </pattern>
    </acceptfont>
  </selectfont>
</fontconfig>

Add bitmap-conf build option to choose default bitmap conf (15cf5fb8) · Commits · fontconfig / fontconfig · GitLab

To allow users to choose one of 70-yes-bitmaps.conf, 70-no-bitmaps-and-emoji.conf, or 70-no-bitmaps-except-emoji.conf for default installation. Fixes https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/issues/474 Changelog: added
GitLab

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A reminder that the anti-Iraq-war protests were some of the largest demonstrations in human history and they failed. The "carrying signs and yelling at empty buildings" theory of change comes from a sanitized retelling of past movements.

Today, every group with a twitter is calling for a demonstration in their town, but movements that don't cause power to feel pain and don't have the institutional capacity to negotiate if/when they do are doomed to failure.

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The Luddite

@sidereal pretty sure that we at least mostly agree? Obviously the people at the march aren't the problem. My point is that the rallies matter as much as they signal or lead to an actual threat to power. If they can be safely ignored they will be.
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Ex-FBI agent on ICE masking:

“Masking has always been associated with police states.

I think the masking symbolizes the drift of law enforcement away from democratic controls.”

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…


The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’

Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’
Sam Levin (The Guardian)

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Silent Siege: How Israel used the war with Iran to lock down the West Bank networkdefenseofhumanitycuba.w…

Silent Siege: How Israel used the war with Iran to lock down the West Bank

June 26, 2025 Israel intensified raids, detention campaigns and demolitions in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: via QNN) By Fayha Shalash – Ramallah As soon as Israel attacked Iran two weeks ag…
Network in Defense of Humanity-Cuba

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Do you understand how just how massive the Supreme Court ruling today about District Court judges not being able to issue nationwide injunctions was?

Me neither, until I heard Stephen Miller masterfully explain the “momentous ruling” to me.

The establishment essentially just lost their main weapon in trying to stop the Trump agenda.

Judicial lawfare just took a huge blow.

Huge W for MAGA.

Onward 🇺🇸

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t.me/WeTheMedia

We The Media

https://linktr.ee/wethemedia Real News: For The People, By The People.
Telegram

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Will Trump’s China Policy Become More Unpredictable After National Security Shake-Up? orientalreview.su/2025/06/28/w…

Will Trump's China Policy Be More Erratic AfterSecurity Shake-Up?

Dismissal of experienced specialists and the reliance on loyal but less qualified allies may limit the White House’s analytical capabilities.
Arina KORSHUNOVA (Oriental Review)

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101st Airborne's Mission Behind Utah Beach on D-Day

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101st Airborne's Mission Behind Utah Beach on D-Day

101st Airborne's Mission Behind Utah Beach on D-DayExploring Drop Zone C - The 101st Airborne's Mission Behind Utah Beach | Normandy D-Day Battlefield Docume...
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Against the Logic of the Guillotine: Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine – and We Should Too

crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/agai…

Every word in this article speaks directly to my soul. I have no desire to burn down the world we live in yet every desire to try and help bring about the kind of world I want to live in: a kinder, fairer, more equal and – to steal a phrase from the piece – more joyous one for us all.

#anarchism #SmallTech #SmallWeb

The worst punishment anyone could inflict on those who govern and police us today would be to compel them to live in a society in which everything they've done is regarded as embarrassing-for them to have to sit in assemblies in which no one listens to them, to go on living among us without any special privileges in full awareness of the harm they have done. If we fantasize about anything, let us fantasize about making our movements so strong that we will hardly have to kill anyone to overthrow the state and abolish capitalism. This is more becoming of our dignity as partisans of liberation.
So we repudiate the logic of the guillotine. We don't want to exterminate our enemies. We don't think the way to create harmony is to subtract everyone who does not share our ideology from the world. Our vision is a world in which many worlds fit, as Subcomandante Marcos put it—a world in which the only thing that is impossible is to dominate and oppress.
Anarchism is a proposal for everyone regarding how we might go about improving our lives-workers and unemployed people, people of all ethnicities and genders and nationalities or lack thereof. The anarchist proposal is not in the interests of one currently existing group against another: it is not a way to enrich the poor at the expense of the rich, or to empower one ethnicity, nationality, or religion at others' expense. That entire way of thinking is part of what we are trying to escape. All of the "interests" that supposedly characterize different categories of people are products of the prevailing order and must be transformed along with it, not preserved or pandered to.
From our perspective, even the topmost positions of wealth and power that are available in the existing order are worthless. Nothing that capitalism and the state have to offer are of any value to us. We propose anarchist revolution on the grounds that it could finally fulfill longings that the prevailing social order will never satisfy: the desire to be able to provide for oneself and one's loved ones without doing so at anyone else's expense, the wish to be valued for one's creativity and character rather than for how much profit one can generate, the longing to structure one's life around what is profoundly joyous rather than according to the imperatives of competition.

Against the Logic of the Guillotine

Fetishizing the guillotine is like fetishizing the state: it means celebrating an instrument of murder that will always be used chiefly against us.
CrimethInc.
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Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders: United
States losing ground as China’s lead expands rapidly

nature.com/nature-index/news/n…

#usa #china #science


Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders: United States losing ground as China’s lead expands rapidly

Although the latest data predate the current Trump administration, observers warn that funding cuts will accelerate the rate of China’s gain.
Nature Index

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Dear #Wobblies!

There will be an ORGANIZING TRAINING 101 in #Berlin 9-10. August 2025 together with #FAU Berlin

If you are from Berlin would be nice to take part on it.

Contact the #IWW #GLAMROC for more #info!

wobblies.org/bildung/

Dear Wobblies! There will be an ORGANIZING TRAINING 101 in Berlin 9-10. August 2025 together with FAU Berlin If you are from Berlin would be nice to take part on it. Contact the IWW GLAMROC for more info! https://www.wobblies.org/bildung/

Fortbildungsprogramm - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) im deutschsprachigen Raum

Die IWW hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt Kolleg*innen dabei zu unterstützen am Arbeitsplatz Forderungen durchzusetzen und das Machtverhältnis am Arbeitsplatz zu verschieben.
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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cette pseudo-théologie sert avant tout à justifier un modèle de domination économique capitaliste très terre à terre : « Les gens de la tech se vivent comme des élus – ce qu’ils sont d’une certaine manière. Ils dominent grâce à un monopole, alimenté par le vol généralisé de notre activité humaine. » Sincèrement convaincus, leur discours religieux permet de justifier, en creux, un projet de société ouvertement eugéniste : « Ils considèrent qu’il y a une partie de l’humanité qui doit périr, et une autre qui doit survivre… Et que la technologie permettra de faire le tri », assure Mathieu Corteel. L’idéologie post-humaniste recycle selon lui l’éthique protestante décrite par Max Weber, qui a accompagné l’essor du capitalisme américain : l’idée qu’un appel divin légitime le succès économique et que les plus performants (sur le marché comme avec les technologies) sont ceux que Dieu a élus.


Usbek & Rica - Servir l’IA jusqu’à disparaître : la religion secrète des patrons de la tech qui menace l'humanité

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#technologie #intelligenceartificielle #patrondelatech #géantdunumérique #posthumanisme #capitalisme #eugénisme #technofascisme #milliardaire

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Servir l’IA jusqu’à disparaître : la religion secrète des patrons de la tech qui menace l'humanité

Pour certaines grandes figures de la tech, l’extinction de l’espèce humaine serait une opportunité pour engendrer un descendant plus sophistiqué : l’intelligence artificielle.
usbeketrica.com

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Glyphosate : la plus vaste étude animale conduite à ce jour confirme des risques accrus de cancers

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#étude #santé #cancer #glyphosate

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Glyphosate : la plus vaste étude animale conduite à ce jour confirme des risques accrus de cancers

Une équipe internationale de chercheurs a testé les effets du célèbre herbicide sur plus d’un millier de rats de laboratoire à différents dosages. Dans tous les cas de figure, les scientifiques ont enregistré un surcroît de tumeurs.
Stéphane Foucart (Le Monde)

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"It's alarming enough that people with no history of mental health issues are falling into crisis after talking to AI. But when people with existing mental health struggles come into contact with a chatbot, it often seems to respond in precisely the worst way..."
futurism.com/commitment-jail-c…

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.
Maggie Harrison Dupré (Futurism)

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Controversial #AIPAC #israeli lobby in american #politics
t.me/Bad_Memes_By_Tank/119907

#video #ausgov #politas #australia #usa #america #israel #israhell #antiisrael #fuckisrael #Antiisrael #boycottisrael #antinazi #antizionist #classwar #nazis #neonazis #fascism #colonialism #oppression #repression #statism #rightwing #farright

Bad Memes & News by Tank

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A list with 1051 verified accounts from media organizations in the Fediverse 👇🏼

There's a powerful search for filtering by country, language or software (#Mastodon, #Flipboard, #Threads, #Ghost, #Bluesky...) & you can easily export the results for batch-following (in Mastodon at least).

I'm always searching for (verified!) accounts, that I missed. If you know some, please send them to @mho@social.heise.de


Media in the Fediverse

All verified accounts by media organizations available from the Fediverse

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LIVE BLOG: Israel Kills Civilians in Lebanon, Deliberately Targets Gaza Aid Seekers – Day 630 #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/live-bl…

LIVE BLOG: Israel Kills Civilians in Lebanon, Deliberately Targets Gaza Aid Seekers - Day 630 - Palestine Chronicle

Several Palestinians, including children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced families in the Al-Saftawi area.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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Chris Hedges Report: Francesca Albanese on an Economy of Genocide consortiumnews.com/2025/06/27/…

Chris Hedges Report: Francesca Albanese on an Economy of Genocide

In her forthcoming report, U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese will detail how Palestine has been exploited by global capitalism and the role certain corporations have played in the genocide.
Consortium News

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Virtual Machines- is there a better way to jump start a VM?
I’ve been using VirtualBox for a year now and I’m getting pretty ticked every time I have to start a new Ubuntu VM. I speed more time going to root shell prompt to add myself to sudoers file, add myself to groups, the addons, shared folder and storage not mounting right away….. etc etc.
I’m sure I might be not using VirtualBox to its full potential to avoid long setup times but I feel like I shouldn’t have to deal with this. It should act is it being installed on a bare metal machine. Is there a more modern approach? Something more streamlined?
FYI I’m learning containers and miniKube so I’m not jumping in the deep end quite yet.

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A clear #example of how #history is rewritten in the #west and #reality is overruled by #propaganda.

#French #polls on who contributed most to the defeat of #Germany. In 1945, 57% of the French answered - the #USSR, while 20% voted for the #US. In June 2004 the picture is exactly the opposite. I am afraid to guess what the results of the #poll will be in another 20 years.

vox.com/2014/6/16/5814270/the-…

A clear example of how history is rewritten in the west and reality is overruled by propaganda. French polls on who contributed most to the defeat of Germany. In 1945, 57% of the French answered - the USSR, while 20% voted for the US. In June 2004 the picture is exactly the opposite. I am afraid to guess what the results of the poll will be in another 20 years. https://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5814270/the-successful-70-year-campaign-to-convince-people-the-usa-and-not

The successful 70-year campaign to convince people the USA and not the USSR beat Hitler

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it.
Dylan Matthews (Vox)

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🇵🇸 BBC VS PALESTINE (MULTILANG) 🔥

🇬🇧 The BBC really thought they had it all covered by not live streaming Kneecaps set 😂

Then comes along Bob Vylan 🎤

🇨🇵 La BBC pensait vraiment avoir tout prévu en ne diffusant pas le concert de Kneecaps en direct 😂

Et puis arrive Bob Vylan 🎤

🇮🇹 La BBC pensava davvero di aver coperto tutto non trasmettendo in diretta streaming il set dei Kneecaps 😂

Poi arriva Bob Vylan 🎤

#Glastonbury2025

t.me/primalinea161

#video #classwar #palestine #gaza #rafah #ausgov

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New #blogpost!

A bit of a response to @robert about his thoughts on #blogging balance.

Yet another remix of "just write lol" :blobcatderpy:

This is day 89 of #100DaysToOffload

joelchrono.xyz/blog/blogging-b…


Re: Blogging Balance

How much and what to write is a struggle for some people, but I personally think that it's no big deal, and writing what you want regardless of what other says is usually fine
joelchrono.xyz
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Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to remove the Palestinian presence around Jerusalem. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/israel-…

Israel is building a tunnel to cut off Palestinians from the heart of the West Bank

Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)

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