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NEW RULE: Anyone pushing for terraforming other planets has to first prove their sincerity and expertise by working to measurably restore Earthโs climate and ecosystems
@Erik Ableson The flaw here is that WE HUMANS are PART OF NATURE. We are not SEPARATE. When we fuck ourselves with stupid restrictions we fuck part of nature, when we fuck nature with a lack of care towards how we affect other species, we fuck ourselves. WE ARE NOT SEPARATE AND CAN NOT BE SEPARATED from nature.
"Truce in the foreground": Merz said that the issue of possible deployment of European troops in Ukraine is not currently under discussion en.topwar.ru/264792-na-pervom-โฆ
You're watching the HD remastered music video for Madonna's "Beautiful Stranger". Original song taken from the 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me' movie soundtrack released on Warner Bros. in 1999.
Lyrics: Haven't we met? You're some kind of beautiful stranger You could be good for me I've had the taste for danger
If I'm smart then I'll run away But I'm not so I guess I'll stay Heaven forbid I'll take my chance on a beautiful stranger
I looked into your eyes And my world came tumbling down You're the devil in disguise That's why I'm singing this song
To know you Is to love you You're everywhere I go And everybody knows
To love you Is to be part of you I've paid for you with tears And swallowed all my pride
Da da-da-dum da-dum da-dum da da da-da dum Beautiful stranger Da da-da-dum da-dum da-dum da da da-da dum Beautiful stranger
If I'm smart then I'll run away But I'm not so I guess I'll stay Haven't you heard? I fell in love with a beautiful stranger
I looked into your face My heart was dancing all over the place I'd like to change my point of view If I could just forget about you
To know you Is to love you You're everywhere I go And everybody knows
I looked into your eyes And my world came tumbling down You're the devil in disguise That's why I'm singing this song to you
To know you Is to love you You're everywhere I go And everybody knows I've paid for you with tears And swallowed all my pride
Da da-da-dum da-dum da-dum da da da-da dum Beautiful stranger Da da-da-dum da-dum da-dum da da da-da dum Beautiful stranger
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apparently this is what euros are getting all excited about #eurovision lmao x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1924138โฆ of course they would need to insert some gay tranny stuff into it
Trump posts another message with a picture stating that ALL ROADS LEAD to OBAMA, and if we, the people, want to see military tribunals. The deep state can not hide the truth any longer, it's all flowing out. Since Trump took office and DOGE started uncovering the massive amounts of corruption, everything is beginning to line up, and all the evidence is there.We know that Biden was not
coherent or of sound mind during his presidency, especially when it comes to the autopen scandal & many more. The question is, who was really in charge of the Biden presidency? Who was calling the shots?What if I told you that not only was Obama allegedly running the show for Biden, but was raised & molded by members of our own government & the CIA, to one day infiltrate American politics, & start the down downfall of ...
America, & destroy the country from within? There are no coincidences. The truth is coming & all roads lead to Obama.
IMO, Zero was a "puppet" & is questionably still around as FU Biden is questionably around. Time will tell which of us is right in our assessment of what is going down or has gone down.
TEHRAN, May 17 (YPA) - Iran on Saturday strongly condemned the Israeli attacks targeting civilian ports in Yemen.ย This came in statements by Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei, who strongly condemned the airstrikes launched by the Zion
Lemmy needs AI features integrated, this would help increase the efficiency of poster and commenter workflows, allowing for maximal upvotes per minute, and as a consequence it increases engagement across all communities. The direct increase in output of posters when they enhance their workflow with LLMs is staggering, and comments per minute for each post go through the roof. This allows for discussions to be longer, and LLMs can be deployed on the site in such a way as to write comments that leave the reader desperate to see what the next reply is, even further boosting how many hours people spend on each post.
Lemmy not integrating AI workflows is denying a choice that everyone should be making, AI will replace posters that donโt keep up, so learning AI workflows is now essential for posters and commenters. AI will be completely different tomorrow, the workflows are going to be completely different in a months time, and it will produce even MORE text, and even MORE images. You hear me, you should learn AI right now, otherwise the posters and commenters who use AI will overtake you in terms of upvotes, and then, well you all know how important upvotes are.
I propose that accounts have a mode that can be turned on to auto generate posts overnight, and on top of that AI should try to autocomplete every sentence people type into the editor. This will maximise the benefits to Lemmys written communities. I also propose having an AI art generator built into each post, so every post can have an image, further maximising engagement. Moderators can benefit from the shift in paradigm that AI have brought about, with AI being able to create and moderate communities that no one has even asked for! Lemmy should not only allow but encourage the adoption of these tools, and everyone should be jumping on this revolution like there is no tomorrow.
I also think that the developers should integrate AI into their workflow, it could automatically add features that people donโt even know they want. I am SHOCKED that the developers are still creating Lemmy at this point, as AI can already do 110% of their job, the other day ChatGPT wrote me a sorting algorithm that it told me was totally new, and that it was able to sort any list instantly regardless of size.
My stock portfolio has nearly doubled since I went all in on AI stocks, and I expect it to double in coming months, this tells you just how amazing AI is. Since all the companies are valued this highly despite having quite a small consumer base.
This is a really interesting and forward-thinking perspective on how AI could enhance Lemmy! I definitely agree with the idea that AI could bring some significant improvements to the platform, and your points about increased efficiency and engagement are spot on. Thinking specifically about the Lemmy platform: * Enhanced Content Discovery: Imagine AI tools that could analyze the content of links and posts to help users discover relevant communities and discussions they might be interested in, even across different instances. * Improved Content Summarization: AI could assist in providing concise summaries of linked articles or lengthy discussions, allowing users to quickly grasp the main points before diving in. * Automated Content Categorization and Tagging: AI could help communities automatically categorize and tag posts, improving organization and making it easier for users to find specific types of content. * Enhanced Moderation Tools: As you mentioned, AI could assist moderators by identifying potentially harmful content, spam, or rule violations, freeing up their time for more nuanced community management. * Personalized User Experience: In the future, AI could potentially help tailor the content displayed to individual users based on their interests and engagement patterns. Your point about the fear of being left behind is also valid. As AI continues to evolve, platforms that embrace these tools could offer more dynamic and user-friendly experiences. The ability to automate some tasks and enhance content management could allow communities to scale more effectively and foster richer discussions. It's exciting to think about how AI could unlock new possibilities for the Lemmy ecosystem! Thanks for sharing your insightful thoughts.
how is that every single day i get these porn "class invitation" spams in my gmail, but google's super sophisticated AI can't figure out that this is spam?
they can sure block legitimate emails if they don't like your server though
@Suiseiseki my point is the spam has the exact same text string in the subject. it shouldn't be that difficult to say "wow a million people have marked this exact thing as spam today, maybe it's really spam"
You need to use proper filtering software like spamassassin and actually hire someone to implement such rule if you want to implement that.
google *does not* hire anyone for such sort of roles - for example if something is incorrect on gulag maps and wastes hours of your time (even if you do not use google maps, other people use it and think that if it's on google maps, it must be true), google has intentionally made it so you cannot contact anyone at google to get it fixed.
@Suiseiseki my email server actually gets near zero spam. i don't use spamassassin but i use spamhaus blacklist. it works better than gmail at this point and doesn't block legitimate mail.
google used to do better at filtering spam. they've been slipping lately and they are jerks about making you jump through flaming hoops like using IP6, SPF and DMARC, and even then, they still blacklist large ranges of VPS hosts just because they can
Lenin: (T)he following discovery made by the โLeft Communistsโ will provoke nothing short of Homeric laughter. According to them, under the โBolshevik deviation to the rightโ the Soviet Republic is threatened with โevolution towards state capitalismโ. Thirdly, in making a bugbear of โstate capitalismโ, they betray their failure to understand that the Soviet state differs from the bourgeois state economically. wordsmith.social/protestation/โฆ
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.
Voters in Portugal are voting on Sunday in the third parliamentary elections in three years, with Prime Minister Luis Montenegro expected to win but without a parliamentary majority.
This is by far the best argument to just keep things the way they are.
I personally don't really care what people call them and I also think language evolves naturally and organically. So I think language doesn't really need an improvement proposal.
everyone knows that a lot of world events these days is dictated by intelligence agencies but its sometimes funny to find out which ones and where.
for example every time something gets exposed about Charlottesville, the scandal seems to have been orchestrated by British intelligence, not American or Israeli.
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun on Wednesday laid out six proposals to support the reform and transformation of United Nations peacekeeping operations, reaffirming China's long-standing commitment to multilateral security cooperation.
Israel announced the initial phase of โGideonโs chariots,โ the expanded ground invasion to permanently โconquerโ Gaza, amid reports that Trump reneged on his deal with Hamas to lift the blockade, and will reportedly expel 1 million Gazans to Libya.
Von Pavel Durov auf Telegram. Er riskiert viel fรผr die #Meinungsfreiheit:
โEine westeuropรคische Regierung (raten Sie mal, welche ๐ฅ) ist an #Telegram herangetreten und hat uns gebeten, konservative Stimmen in #Rumรคnien vor den heutigen #Prรคsidentschaftswahlen zum #Schweigen zu bringen. Das habe ich rundheraus abgelehnt. Telegram wird die #Freiheiten der rumรคnischen Nutzer nicht einschrรคnken oder ihre politischen Kanรคle blockieren.
Man kann die #Demokratie nicht "verteidigen", indem man die #Demokratie zerstรถrt. Man kann keine #Wahlbeeinflussung bekรคmpfen, indem man sich in #Wahlen einmischt. Entweder man hat #Redefreiheit und faire Wahlen - oder man hat sie nicht. Und das rumรคnische Volk hat beides verdient. ๐ท๐ดโ
Les sanctions amรฉricaines frappent, Karim Khan, le procureur gรฉnรฉral de la CPI : ses e-mails sont bloquรฉs, ses comptes bancaires sont gelรฉs et 900 membres du personnel sont interdits d'entrรฉe aux รtats-Unis.
Le procureur en chef de la Cour pรฉnale internationale (CPI), a รฉtรฉ placรฉ sous sanctions amรฉricaines par lโadministration Trump en fรฉvrier 2025, dans le cadre dโune tentative visant ร contraindre la Cour ร mettre fin aux enquรชtes sur les abus israรฉliens ร Gaza.
Son compte de messagerie Microsoft officiel a รฉtรฉ dรฉsactivรฉ et ses comptes bancaires britanniques gelรฉs.
De plus, les 900 membres du personnel de la CPI se sont vu interdire l'entrรฉe aux รtats-Unis, accusรฉs de mener des enquรชtes ยซ illรฉgitimes ยป sur des crimes de guerre prรฉsumรฉs commis par Israรซl.
Le gouvernement amรฉricain a menacรฉ toute personne ou organisation fournissant ร Khan une assistance financiรจre, matรฉrielle ou technologique de se voir infliger des amendes ou des peines de prison.
Le jour oรน Karim Khan, a annoncรฉ qu'il a soumis des demandes de mandats d'arrรชt contre Benjamin Netanyahu et Yoav Gallant, dans le cadre de l'enquรชte sur la situation en Palestine. (20/05/2024)
Gift idea. A pre-paid scratch 'n win lottery ticket. It loox like a regular scratch 'n win, but it's fixed. Ya pay twenny two bux for it and it scratches a win for twenny. Give it as a gift for a birthday or whatever. Everyone loves winning a scratch 'n win. The recipient feels lucky on his birthday and doesn't know the difference. K.
Coca-Cola 'n Mentos should do a collab. Special addition, cola flavored. Put some pop rox in the middle ta represent the famous eruption. So..... who's advertising department shall I be expecting a cheque from, Coke or Mentos? ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คช๐
Enver Hoxha: N. Khrushchev, slandering our Party at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and crudely interfering with our domestic affairs, said that the Albanian leaders were against the criticism of Stalin's personality cult because the personality cult methods are allegedly thriving in our Party, that terror and injustice are allegedly reigning in Albania. We shall not stop here to reject these slanders, but the fact that their author has fallen so low as to mobilize the public opinion against our Party using such "arguments" borrowed from the most rabid enemies of socialism and communism, shows his dark aims. It is evident that by linking at the 22nd Congress his unsubstantiated attacks on the Party of Labor of Albania with his "fight against Stalin's cult and the anti-party group", N. Khrushchev aimed at showing the "analogy" between the alleged "Albanian Stalinism" and the "epoch of the Stalinist crimes" in the Soviet Union, in order to create in this way the "atmosphere" he needed at the Congress and in the world public opinion to make his slanders more credible. The Party of Labor of Albania has always taken and continues to take account of the teachings of Marxism-Leninism concerning the role of the masses, classes, party and leaders. It has always considered and continues to consider the manifestation of the personality cult as phenomenon alien to Marxism-Leninism, harmful to a communist and workers' party. wordsmith.social/protestation/โฆ
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.
The #feature shown in the #advertisement does not exist and Apple had to withdraw the advertisement. Apple promised #customers AI features that don't even exist yet.
The analysis below by Lauri Myllyvirta, originally published on Carbon Brief, demonstrates that, โfor the first time, the growth in Chinaโs clean power generation has caused the nationโs carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demaโฆ
US President Donald Trump has said that he will hold a telephone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday, 19 May, where the two heads of state will discuss the ceasefire in Ukraine and trade and economic issues.
โThis isnโt 'The Hunger Gamesโ for immigrants,โ #Worsoff told the newspaper, referring to the dystopian fictional novel by #SuzanneCollins, in which contestants fight to the #death for #survival. โThis is not, โHey, if you lose, we are shipping you out on a boat out of the country.โ โ
Nous nโoublierons ni ne pardonnerons jamais ร quiconque a fermรฉ les yeux, fait la sourde oreille et tournรฉ le dos au peuple palestinien et ร Gaza alors quโils รฉtaient soumis au massacre et au gรฉnocide.
They tend to lag behind on purpose for stability reasons, but a year out of date is pushing it.
Part of the issue they have is that one of the most popular apps for lemmy, Sync, has been abandoned by its dev. They said they have roughly 5k/month sync users, and if they update, their experience will break further. The egregious part is that app has subscription options, and it's still been 10+ months since the last update.
I left Sync for summit a couple of months ago due to the above, and boy howdy is it better. ~~Actual FOSS,~~ huge amount of options, very similar ux and flow as sync. It's a champion.
Here's hoping more people trickle off of sync to a better app and lemmy world can drop that from their issues list.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) โ A Mexican Navy sail training vessel on a global goodwill voyage collided with New Yorkโs Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday at 8:20โฏp.m.
Mes amis, Il y avait une fois un continent qui nโen finissait plus de donner des leรงons au monde entier. Sur toutes les scรจnes internationales, il prรชchait la justice, le respect des lois, la solidaritรฉ entre les peuples. Les mots รฉtaient beaux, puissants, martelรฉs ร coups de grands discours.
Mais voilร quโun jour, alors que le peuple palestinien subissait un siรจge interminable depuis prรจs de deux ans, un retournement inattendu survint. Ceux que lโon dรฉsignait sans cesse comme les mauvais รฉlรจves de la communautรฉ internationale, ceux ร qui lโon reprochait leur manque de principes, ce sont eux qui dรฉcidรจrent dโagir. Tandis que les puissances europรฉennes sโenfermaient dans le silence et les promesses vides, cโest la Chine souvent critiquรฉe sur tous les fronts qui prit lโinitiative dโenvoyer de lโaide humanitaire, brisant le blocus imposรฉ par lโรtat sioniste.
Imaginez la scรจne : ceux qui passaient leur temps ร prรชcher la morale sont restรฉs figรฉs, incapables de passer ร lโaction, pendant que dโautres prenaient concrรจtement le parti de lโhumanitรฉ. Le comble de lโironie, cโest de voir ceux qui รฉtaient critiquรฉs pour leur prรฉtendue indiffรฉrence donner une vraie leรงon de solidaritรฉ ร ceux qui se proclamaient dรฉfenseurs des grandes valeurs.
Et pendant ce temps, les dirigeants europรฉens restaient lร , embarrassรฉs, en train de compter les discours au lieu de compter les actes. Voilร la rรฉalitรฉ, mes amis : parfois, lโhistoire aime renverser les rรดles, et la honte finit par sโabattre lร oรน on sโy attend le moins.
Il y a peine 78 ans, un peuple errant, rejetรฉ, brisรฉ. Chassรฉs de leurs terres (Europe de l'est), refusรฉs aux ports, ignorรฉs par les nations, ils voguaient de rivage en rivage, frappant aux portes... en vain.
Cuba leur dit non. LโAmรฉrique leur ferma les bras. Le Canada dรฉtourna le regard. D'autres pays, muets ou complices, les laissรจrent dรฉriver, sans abri, sans terre, sans espoir. Ils รฉtaient les indรฉsirables de la planรจte.
Et puis, ce peuple arriva sur une terre quโil ne connaissait pas, quโil nโavait jamais foulรฉe, mais quโon lui avait promise. Une terre dรฉjร habitรฉe. Dรฉjร enracinรฉe. Dรฉjร vivante. Mais peu importe. On planta des drapeaux, on traรงa des frontiรจres, on effaรงa des villages.
Et voilร que ceux quโon appelait autrefois rรฉfugiรฉs devinrent les bourreaux. Les exclus dโhier, devenus puissants, dressรจrent des murs, imposรจrent des blocus, rasรจrent les maisons des autres, comme si lโhistoire ne leur avait rien appris.
On regarde cette histoire ร lโenvers, et on se dit, presque : Peut-รชtre que ceux qui les avaient refusรฉs avaient lu lโavenirโฆ
Stephen King: Don't spend time waving signs or carrying petitions around the neighborhood. Instead, run, don't walk, to the nearest nonschool library or to the local bookstore and get whatever it was that they banned. Read whatever they're trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain, because that's exactly what you need to know. wordsmith.social/protestation/โฆ
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.
"Mit Blick auf eine ausgehungerte, mehrfach zwangsvertriebene Bevรถlkerung in Gaza wird immer klarer: Wer sehen kann, aber nicht hinsieht โ wer alles weiร, aber dennoch verharmlost oder schweigt โ, ist nicht bloร Zuschauer. Sondern Teil der Geschichte."
Der Begriff Genozid bleibt in Deutschland hochumstritten, aus Grรผnden. Auch unser Autor hat einige Zeit mit sich gerungen, ob er von Vรถlkermord sprechen soll โ und wirft den deutschen Medien nun Versagen vor
"Zwar steht das Urteil des Internationalen Gerichtshofs (IGH) noch aus. Doch zahlreiche Menschenrechtsorganisationen haben lรคngst klar Stellung bezogen: Israels Vorgehen erfรผllt demnach die Kriterien der UN-Konvention โ die Absicht, โeine nationale, ethnische, rassische oder religiรถse Gruppe ganz oder teilweise zu vernichtenโ. Ranghohe israelische Militรคrs und Politiker wie Israels Finanzminister Bezalel Smotrich haben diese Absicht immer wieder offen formuliert."
Auch Zuschauer sind Teil der Geschichte. In diesem Fall die Weltรถffentlichkeit und gestern Nacht Europa - mich hat das Publikumstelevoting des #esc schockiert, wenn ich an Gaza denke und den unertrรคglichen Horror, den Israels Machthaber dort umsetzen. Eine junge ESC Kandidatin geht in den kรผnstlerischen Wettbewerb fรผr Israel, die auf dem Musikfestival gewesen war und das Terrorattentat der Hamas รผberlebt hat. Um Kunst geht es dabei nicht, das ist politisch.
Of course a white dude who writes for The Washington Post and the New Yorker thinks racism was the SECONDARY reason for Trumpโs second term.
This is an extremely offensive point of view to those being hurt by 47โs administration. The winnerโs campaign slogan was โMass Deportationโ and his opponent (who had over 100 days to campaign because Biden DID step down) was a black woman.
60% of WHITE MEN voted for Trump, who made no bones about the fact that he was going to deport every person of color he could find.
95% of black women voted for Harris. In fact, the ONLY demographic that went majority Trump was WHITE people.
SOOOOOOOโฆโฆ. Quit falsely blaming Biden and start looking around at our fellow white guys. The next 10 you see? 6 of them are likely Nazis. @TonyStark
I want to begin this column by paying homage to the two most extraordinary passages in Donald Trumpโs extraordinary speech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last week.
My talk "Making Android phones Last" for #LinaroConnect 2025 has been accepted!
Thursday, 15 May 12:30 - 12:55 (WEST/UTC+1), on location in Lisbon, Portugal (but at least the recording should be available afterwards, not sure if a live stream will be available for free)
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Officials confirmed that Hamas and Israel are indirectly discussing a two-month cease-fire, followed by talks for a permanent truce. Both sides returned to the table as the IDF launched massive strikes in Gaza alongside an expanded ground offensive
The police has surrounded us and are announcing things in French, but as I do not understand French, their law does not apply to me (that's how it works, right?)
Some day there will be a documentary about Eurovision, showing how they heroically invented a technology that filters out booing during Israel's performance, banned pride flags from stage, beat up people shouting โfree palestineโ, and shut down all opposition to banning a genocidal state from participating, despite multiple nation's public broadcasters urging them to have at least a conversation about it.
I'd say this isn't like Eurovision, but sadly this is very much aligned with Europe's spirit.
In our world, violence can be so normalized, if necessary, that it's the bearer of the message that annoys us, for the insult of forcing us to have a glimpse down the ivory tower is so great, not even a human life could compare.
This is what RTVE, the Spanish public broadcasting service, and the Belgian public broadcast, due to pressure by unions, portrayed during the ESC finals:
Maybe going to the ESC and yelling isn't nice to the artist who isn't representing the state of Israel (necessarily) in any legal or ideological way.
However, every other option has been attempted. The public broadcasting services of multiple countries have attempted to start a conversation at the EBU about Israel's participation, which was always shut down the moment it started. Even the winner of last year's ESC, Nemo, said they don't see much of a reason as to why Israel is allowed to participate.
If Russia could still participate, you could bet your ass that thousands of people with Ukraine flags would protest this event and its superficially displayed peace to remind people of the reality of millions suffering from their war. Which would be the right thing, always.
To brush off these protestors as violent or annoying, when all non-disturbing ways have been tried, is unfair.
"I'd say this isn't like Eurovision, but sadly this is very much aligned with Europe's spirit."
I hope not. #Eurovision, like everything on TV, is there to make #profit for #billionaires. But I hope that #Europe itself is a little better than that... ๐ค ๐ค
The Genocidal State of Israel will be whitewashed in the Eurovision song contest in Switzerland. Multiple companies and states sponsor this event, where we will give voice to these shameless genocides, while letting them silence, destroy and kill everyone in one of the poorest areas of the world.
While Trump was wined and dined across the Middle East this week, from Saudi Arabia to Qatar to the UAE, he and the officials who embraced him looked the other way as Israel committed one horrific massacre after another in Gaza, leaving hundreds of Pโฆ
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