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Israel is becoming a “corrupt and leprous fascist Messianic state.”
Wow, which raving antisemite said that?
*checks notes*
Oh, their former defense minister.
#israel #gaza #genocide #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #crimesAgainstHumanity #palestine
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If Mozilla are activists, I’m a mushroom. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/ 🍄 #mozilla #AI #VC #SiliconValley #BigTech #bullshit #activismWashing #privacyWashing #honeypot #PR #mushroom
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 @aral@mastodon.ar.al You'd be amazed how many people still defend Mozilla and their bullshittery 😕  @aral A rich corporation making money off of advertisement trying to sell itself as activists? So cringe.
Coming soon… Streamiverse. A curated streaming fediverse post API compatible with the Mastodon API for use in teaching, demos, presenting, etc. Basically, if you were using the Mastodon public timeline API for these use cases before it started to require authentication, this will be a good alternative :) If you have suggestions for the curated feed, reply to this with links to posts. 💕 #fediverse #teaching #demos #presenting #mastodon #api #streaming #public #posts #streamiverse   TIL that some Mastodon servers require authentication even to get a public post by API. Oh well, more error checking code it is, then :) Hiding your face isn’t having privacy. Living in a society where you don’t have to hide your face is having privacy.  @aral Rhymes with a healthy, wealthy, pleasant society is one where the rich use public transport. Excellent! We all know rapid growth = success (hey, if it works for cancer…) and, please, do ensure you sniff each and every tech bro brain fart before trying non-corporate alternatives. https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/113483702634402329  Even pro-capitalist folks should be able to recognize that the free market doesn't work in all cases. For instance, when the only way to 'compete' is by screwing over your customers, maybe it's time to try a different system. Insurance most obviously fits into this category, and I think public utilities are similar (like the UK's privatized sewage disaster). Health Insurance contracts out prior auth and denials to isolate liability. Denying lifesaving healthcare and responsibility for a buck. How people think AI is going to kill them: terminator robots. How AI is actually going to kill them: by destroying their habitat and drinking all their water.
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Don't count out the killer robots. They are coming along nicely. Just because they will be deployed by humans and not by SkyNet and won't be self-replicating doesn't make them not a threat. All those "human in the loop" systems are being developed with the knowledge that it would be more profitable to take the human out of the loop at some point. Palantir drools about it. I mean, if an EU citizen’s initiative to tax the rich cannot get a paltry 1 million signatures (less than one quarter of one percent of the population), I guess we really must deserve this bullshit system. You still have five days, sign this ffs: If you want to keep using @signalapp in the EU, say no to #ChatControl https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action-to-stop-chat-control-now/  @aral @signalapp For a list of EU representatives that EU citizens can contact: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/full-list
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Quick, everyone, use the same tech by the same huge corporations… what could possibly go wrong?  @aral well, apple is too expensive and linux stops working every week and takes a week to try to find a fix for before you give up and reinstall the old horror again To understand your own privilege, ask yourself whether you see politics as a game or as survival. Where you land on that spectrum should give you a fairly good idea of how privileged you are.
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FFS, GNOME! Just wasted a day of editing video because the built-in screen recorder records screencasts at such a low quality that I ended up with keyframe artefacts / ghosting in my captures. Bloody hell… And is there any way to set the quality? Is there ever! [Edit] Use OBS. (Thanks everyone in the replies.) (Don’t use GNOME’s built-in screen recorder if you’re posting HD+ videos.)
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 The very fact we have to say “vote against fascism” is a damning indictment of the failure of our democratic institutions and the rule of law. You shouldn’t be able to vote FOR fascism. Democracies that lack constitutional safeguards against fascism will, eventually, stop being democracies. When? At the last election. The one that elected the fascists. Democracy cannot tolerate fascism. Tolerance cannot tolerate intolerance. I’m afraid this is a lesson we will learn the hard way. Again.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al @aral Honestly this is why we dislike the term democracy at this point. The issue is with weak electoralism and Liberalism (big L, not attached to a single political party in any one government) that, as you point out, allows for fascists to gain power. :kitten: Say hello to the new Kitten web site! 🎉 Like Kitten itself, it’s a baby but will be evolving quickly as they approach API version 1 together. Enjoy! 💕 PS. Of course it’s written in Kitten itself. It doesn’t do anything fancy but here’s the source code if you’re interested: https://codeberg.org/kitten/site #Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #html #css #JavaScript #NodeJS #documentation 🎉 You can now use components and fragments in your Markdown pages in Kitten. Following on from yesterday’s Markdown pages feature, you can now import components and fragments and use them in your Markdown pages to add dynamic functionality (similar to how it works in mdx but without using JSX). (The “SCARY” text in the screencast is being randomly animated by a component.) Enjoy! :kitten:💕 |
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When Disney builds their sprawling resort in Gaza, surely already designed and approved, are they gonna call it Disraeland?
@aral Israel and Bibi blew past that stop sign a long time ago. They're already well into the final solution phase.