Köyhän kriisi Suomessa tänään:

- Mun tuet, reseptilääkkeet sekä terapia katkesivat yhtäkkiä 4-6kk ajaksi byrokraattisen säästösyyn takia, kun mun asiakkuus siirrettiin yhdestä laitoksesta sellaiseen, missä ei ole jatkolausuntojen kirjoittamisen mahdollisuutta
- Jäin toimeentulotuen varaan, toimeentulotukipäätös on nyt kestänyt 13 päivää Kelan kesätukoksen vuoksi (mulla ei ole ollut edes 1 euroa rahaa yli kahteen viikkoon)
- Virkailija puhelimessa sanoi kuulevansa ”tätä hätää päivittäin”

Посвящается Дэвиду Грэберу,
чье наследие будет жить вечно

Кори Доктороу, "Гиблое дело"

Такое посвящение, как по мне, делает больше для восприятия содержимого, чем аннотация и цитаты на обложке.

Military veteran gets a life sentence for plotting an FBI attack after his Jan. 6 arrest
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-edward-kelley-attack-fbi-assassinate-b835475ca455502ffeb244a13a1f0a2e?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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About 70 Jewish settlers attacked #IDF reservists near #Ramallah, throwing stones, choking a commander, and damaging military vehicles. Israeli media outlets described them as “Jews,” “citizens,” or “settlers” in headlines. The same outlets call #Palestinians who throw stones “terrorists.” The analysis in the Seventh Eye compared coverage from #Kan 11, #Ynet, Channel 13, and other major #Israeli media, showing different terminology for the same actions based on who commits them.

[…] And how did the main media outlets in Israel describe the incident? On Kan 11, not a media outlet considered a propaganda mouthpiece, this headline was given: “Jews attacked reserve fighters, six arrested.” “Jews.” Not terrorists, not hooligans, not even rioters. What a whitewashed definition for a violent and dangerous incident against IDF soldiers.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[…] When it comes to stone-throwers who are not Jewish, the treatment is completely different. For example, the headline on the “Israel Hayom” website for an article that referred to Palestinians throwing stones at Israeli drivers was “Stone-throwing terror.” When Ynet wanted to report on a case of stone-throwing by Arabs, the headline was “Terrorists threw stones at a bus in Samaria and fled, Israeli citizen injured.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew https://www.the7eye.org.il/556557​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@palestine
@israel
#SettlerViolence #Linguisticrelativity

What delayed the launch of my new podcast? you ask. Endless staff debates about whether episodes should be released semimonthly or biweekly. (We compromised on fortnightly.)

Anyway, Kohn's Zone is finally available. Listen to the 1st two episodes now at alfiekohn.org/podcasts/

Kotaku once again passed around like a cheap whore. Sold once again.

archive.is/6ifpx
nytimes.com/2025/07/02/busines…

Indigenous peoples of Panama. Still subdued by neocolonialism. The current government of José Raúl Mulino has represented the opposite of human principles and democracy. Under Operation Omega, there have been people injured, detained, tortured, and killed. A struggle against Law 462, the opening of mining, the reservoirs on the Indio River and territorial sovereignty in the face of the US military presence. All within the framework of the National Strike 2025.

Photographs: Olmedo Carrasquilla Aguila. Radio Temblor / ALER

#Panama #Noticias #Latinoamerica #Internacionales #Nacionales #DerechosHumanos #RadioTemblor #News #Worldnews #Global #World #Breakingnews #Newsalert #Humanrights

Update on my friend's wife's scans. Prelimanary scans are very good and she goes in for more next Monday.
The Karma is working

Thank you all

New podcast out now! @elifriedman.bsky.social and Kevin Lin talk about their book, China in Global Capitalism. Class struggle, feminist activism, China's relations with Israel, the US, and much more.

Listen to a preview here or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcas…

E106: Radical Reads – China in Global Capitalism

As part of our Radical Reads series, we speak to Eli Friedman and Kevin Lin about their new book, China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry.

^{Working Class History}

New podcast episode! We talk to the authors of China in Global Capitalism about working-class life and struggle in China and its relations abroad, inc with Israel, in Africa, and its rivalry with the US.

Listen to a preview here or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcas…

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Bare booty

Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect

Link: glass3d.dev/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Wikipedia's fine; it usually sucks but it is convenient. But it was written during the Perpetual Now, and it's more interesting to look at contemporary sources. Before the establishment of the Perpetual Now by paywalled newspapers and shitty goddamn blogs that want to ruun 6MB of JavaScript for engagement farming, there was Usenet and public mailing lists and bulletin boards for discussion and because of bandwidth constraints, "publications" that weren't on physical media were on really lightweight text files. This sort of thing is easy to pass around, it's all viewable regardless of operating system, you have your choice of software. Searching through text and processing text, these are really well-understood pieces of computer science, there are standard tools for doing it on any operating system, and they are so well understood that when you build search, the first thing you do is reduce everything to text; this is the point of software like Tesseract. Even HTML is more or less serviceable (provided you follow Fielding's advice on document structure). But someone babbling in a TikTok video or some four-hour Youtube ramble, a paywalled news site, that's all huge, heavy on bandwidth, and most people don't have a way to view RealMedia videos, soon enough they won't have a way to view .flv files. Nobody worries about this.

I'm not saying this because of nostalgia or anything like that: it is interesting that for that period of history, we have very good records, but it's just that window. Whatever is going on now is all broken links and paywalls and a morass of content-marketing, right, you are at the mercy of major commercial search engines, which are opaque and censored and then further censored in a way that varies by region and then gamed by people trying to make some cash, blogs have to have these massive header images. So one era of history has this really machine-friendly way of recording itself and that was rare before and after: you can read code and text from really old systems but say the bulk of it, the heyday of text files, maybe the mid-80s to the mid-00s.

So I have been reading up a little on Operation Sundevil (I'll probably have some more things to say about it), having gotten interested in it after reading about it in old issues of 2600. If you are not familiar, in 1990 the Secret Service coordinated with local law enforcement to carry out about thirty simultaneous raids across 15 cities and seized BBSs, floppies, etc., but ended up with very few actual arrests, and there was a lot of rhetoric in press releases from law enforcement and it was pretty apparent that they didn't understand the tech. The EFF was founded as a result of a raid that (coincidentally) happened at the same time as the Operation Sundevil raids: Steve Jackson Games was publishing cyberpunk-themed tabletop games and the feds seized the company's BBS because they believed the tabletop game ruleset "GURPS Cyberpunk" was a "hacking manual", they seized half the company's material for their upcoming game (due to be published a month later). All of these independent public communications systems were scooting along, people were dialing in and sending each other messages and then out of nowhere, the cops showed up. The reason someone running a fedi instance should be interested in how that event unfolded is obvious; the German government just arrested that old lady for posting thumbs-up emojis at a joke about a news story. Do you know what it will look like in real-time when they start to *really* notice fedi?

Of course there's a Wikipedia page ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatio… ) but the contemporary accounts of it are very interesting. Wikipedia is written in retrospect: what did the people that were There say about it while it was happening? Fedi actually matches the culture around the BBSs really closely, so when (or "if" for optimists) this sort of thing happens to fedi, what will it look like? Contemporary accounts of it give you a better feel for how it unfolds. People over- and under-reacting, how you perceive these things with the fog of war (so to speak) in effect.

So, here is a tarball of text files. Phrack is a phreak/hacker publication (was distributed on BBSs and still available as text files) and was one of the targets; FidoNet was the biggest network of BBSs and had a model that caused some really similar inter-board dynamics (read some of the old FidoNews, see if it doesn't resemble fedi instance drama) and they had FidoNews published periodically. Note that spelling varies: "Operation Sundevil", "Operation Sun-Devil", "Operation Sun Devil". I was generous with the grep and it is probably going to be a footnote rather than the main topic. But because they're text files, I could just grab them and use grep. (And, of course, this stuff is what got me to write that uudecode thing in awk: I've been reading these on Plan 9. git.freespeechextremist.com/gi… )

I am below going to break one of my own rules; not an ethical thing but a "I really shouldn't". I try not to say "someone really should": I think you either do it or support someone else that is doing it but "someone really should" is terrible. I am going to be terrible.

And, kind of related, maybe there should be something like FidoNews for fedi: a kind of neutral publication that is independent of any given instance or project, information and announcements for people running instances or using fedi, open submissions, editorial from the staff, maybe interviews, maybe transcripts of the interviews in the Fedi Files podcast, something that people can download and have. It is, at present, easier to understand FidoNet's history than fedi's, because of FidoNews. Fedi has itself (good luck searching) and scattered blogs, and if I decide to shit some awful fedi drama onto the FSE blog, there's not an editor that will reject it: I'm the editor of my blog. That's fine for a blog, but a fedi-wide publication with a couple of editors, you know? I'm sure on the non-ideologue region of fedi there are some people that'd do a reasonable job, I'd be happy to help or send some material, but I am really not fit to be the editor, among other things I am too stubborn and I will spend my time arguing with people about their submissions instead of just publishing them (and aside from that, being the FSE admin carries some baggage that this publication shouldn't have to deal with). Tom Jennings (creator of FidoNet and main editor of FidoNews for most of its history) is on fedi and I would be surprised if he wants to be the editorial staff for that but you can probably ask him for advice (and probably should because I have *never* dialed into a FidoNet BBS but FidoNews is still an interesting read). So, sorry to "someone should" but someone should.

Thank you for reading my blog post. Here is a tarball.
operation_sun_devil.tar.gz

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