SCO Becomes Important Force for Advancing New Type of International Relations – Xi sputnikglobe.com/20250831/sco-… The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has become an important force in building a new type of international relations, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday at a ceremonial reception for distinguished guests of the SCO summit. #news #press
The rule protecting remote wilderness areas received 1.6 million public comments when it was developed. People will have just 14 business days to comment on a key part of its rescission.
The rule protecting remote wilderness areas received 1.6 million public comments when it was developed. People will have just 14 business days to comment on a key part of its rescission.
An independent government agency in Japan declared four cities as "hometowns" of four African countries. Here's how Japan's far right jumped on bad reporting from Africa, leading to protestors in Japan shouting that they didn't want to see their cities "turn Black."
My 12 year old son will speak of skateboarding stuff as "known in the skateboarding community," as if he is their spokesman. "It's a *culture*, dad," he'll say by way of telling me why I should let him skate in places his mom would definitely object to.
Way before Jan 6, when a Trump speech was followed by his fans storming the capitol, there was the PBA riot, when a Giuliani speech was followed by NYPD cops storming NY City Hall, calling Dinkins, the city's 1st Black mayor, the n-word, and threatening him with harm.
Well, NYPD were beating and killing a lot of people, mostly Black and brown. The board responsible for police oversight was ineffective, as it was half cops and half civilians. That's like the "Chicken Safety Oversight Board" being half chickens and half foxes.🤡
After a Dominican man was killed, mayor Dinkins committed two unforgivable sins:
1) He met with the victim's family, and invited them to city hall.
2) He recommended that while policy boards should have both law enforcement and civilian members, the civilian oversight board should be... well... 100% civilian.
Then the Giuliani speech and city hall riot happened.
Then there was a very racist campaign for mayor, that Dinkins lost and Giuliani won.
Then Giuliani did his "broken windows" policing, resulting in significant pain to NYPD Black and brown communities.
Then he supported the Patriot Act to further "War on Drugs" poor Black folk.
Then he did the election stuff that he is still paying for.
Because these things aren't taught in schools, and because US white folk generally don't bother to ask why US Black folk don't like a particular politician.🤷🏿♂️
Again, Woke is just "👩🏼Wow... I admit, I didn't know that many Black people growing up, so I didn't know any of this! Before I knew this stuff, a lot of things Black people ask for seemed... really unreasonable? But... the more I learn about this stuff, the more reasonable their asks seem?"
Reading the Black Panther Party platform and then thinking, "Not only is all of this reasonable AF, they probably should have added at least one stretch goal."
Given that as a white cis-het USA male, I didn't even know about the 1921 Tulsa massacre until its centennial, I only vaguely know of the NYPD City Hall riot (too similar to Jan 6?), and I have no idea what Colfax refers to. It's a crime these things are not well known.
@MartyCormack Tulsa is like one of many that took place over the decades. I don’t know them all, but I know that they exist and one point read about some of them.
Reminder: About 60% of US white people choose the most racist option on the ballot. About 40% of US white people will choose the *least* racist option on the ballot.
About 90% of Black folk will choose the least racist option on the ballot.
90% of Black folk plus 40% of white folk is more than 60% of white folk. So whenever everyone is allowed to vote, the US becomes less racist. ♥️👍🏿
Colfax:
In 1873 Louisiana, there was a governors election, where it was clear that the "We need less racism!" people would defeat the "We want more racism!" people. So white supremacists said, "Well then we'll just take over the government!" And so Black militia men said, "No, we will defend the democratically elected US government!" So the Black and white militia men went to defend the courthouse, and the white supremacists showed up at the courthouse Jan 6 style, armed with guns and... a cannon.
There were also a lot of unarmed Black men, women, and children there too, because they figured that with KKK and Confederate white supremacist soldiers walking around, the safest place might be at the courthouse, behind the militia made of Black and white men, and the democratically elected government. Right? Wrong.
I'll let you read the primary source document of one of the only Black survivors.
Back then, Republicans were the white people that didn't hate Black people as much. Democrats were the KKK and Confederates. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. 🙂🙃
But Abraham Lincoln was still a self-described white supremacist.🤷🏿♂️
Lincoln called himself a "Liberal Republican." He did not want slavery, but he was vociferously against equality or voting rights for Black people. He also didn't want Black people and white people to be able to marry. And he wanted Black people permanently on the lower rung of society. Abraham Lincoln called Republicans that wanted true equality with Black people "Radical Republicans." He called Ulysses S. Grant a Radical Republican. You still hear this language echoed today, when the GOP complains about "The Radical Left."
After the war, Liberal Republicans conspired together with Democrats to use violence to limit the rights of Black people. Back then, they were called 'Fusionists.' Today they're called "Centrists." Radical Republicans and Liberal Republicans didn't like each other. Radicals thought Liberals were basically siding with the Confederates against Black people. Think Tim Walz and Ossoff vs RFK jr and Tulsi Gabbard.
The election results weren't contested in good faith. Eg, they went to a parish where Black freedmen voters greatly outnumbered white voters, and claimed that the Confederates had won in a landslide. Given that ~40% of the white voters didn't like the Confederates either, this was mathematically impossible. Their contest was basically "Stop the Steal!" logic.🤡
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If Margaret Atwood would like to come to Alberta, I and thousands of Albertans would be very pleased to join her on the steps of the Alberta Legislature with banned books in hand.
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„Ein Test von Käuflichkeit“ in der zerstrittenen Werte-Union tichyseinblick.de/daili-es-sen… Man bekämpft sich bis aufs Messer in der Partei, die vor knapp 20 Monaten als bürgerliche Alternative zwischen AfD und CDU gegründet wurde. Der Parteivorsitzende Hans-Georg Maaßen schrieb in einem Brief an die Mitglieder bitter: „Ich kann mit vielen im jetzigen Parteivorstand nicht mehr vertrauensvoll zusammenarbeiten. … Was hier stattfindet, ist ein Putsch und
Feind, Todfeind, Parteifreund. So beschreibt der Volksmund die Steigerungsform der Feindschaft. Parteileben in seiner saftigen Wirklichkeit kann man derzeit bei der kleinen Werte-Union besichtigen.
Back in March, we covered the story of Davis Lu, a disgruntled coder who programmed a logic bomb into his employers’ systems. His code was malicious in the extreme, designed as it was to regularly search for his Active Directory entry and fire off a series of crippling commands should it appear he had been fired. His 2019 sacking and subsequent deletion of his AD profile triggered the job, wreaking havoc on servers and causing general mayhem. Whatever satisfaction Lu drew from that must have been fleeting, because he was quickly arrested, brought to trial in federal court, and found guilty of causing intentional damage to protected computer systems.
Lu faced a decade in federal prison for the stunt, but at his sentencing last week, he got four years behind bars followed by three years of supervised release. That’s still a pretty stiff sentence, and depending on where he serves it, things might not go well for him. Uber-geek Chris Boden has some experience in the federal prison system as a result of some cryptocurrency malfeasance; his video on his time in lockup is probably something Mr. Lu should watch while he can. Honestly, we feel bad for him in a way because we’ve been there; we certainly toyed with the logic bomb idea when we were coding for a living, without actually ever doing it. Maybe he thought it would just get treated as a prank, but that was probably never in the cards; as we’re fond of telling our kids, the world just doesn’t have a sense of humor anymore.
Speaking of prison, when was the last time you had to use a floppy drive? Retrocomputer fans excepted, chances are good it’s quite a long time ago, unless you’re an inmate in the New Jersey State Prison, where USB drives are not allowed. Instead, prisoners working on appeals or continuing their education are forced to use 1.44-MB floppies to exchange data with the outside world. The New Jersey prison rules seem a bit anachronistic, since they allow a pretty generous stack of 3.5″ floppies — 20 diskettes — but disallow USB sticks. True, the USB form factor is more easily accommodated in the standard-issue prison wallet, but the materials in a stack of floppies seem like they could easily be fashioned into a shiv or shank.
We’ve said this before, but we’ve got to start hanging around a better class of dumpster. Were we to, we might get as lucky as a Redditor who reports finding a sextet of 1 TB solid-state drives in a bin. The lucky dumpster diver doesn’t say much about where they were found, perhaps wisely so, but other Redditors in the thread were quick to point out that they were probably in the trash for a reason, and that they might be a little clapped out if they came from a server array. Still, 6TB of free storage isn’t something one lightly passes up on, and even if the drives have seen better days, they’ll probably be adequate for non-critical applications. For our part, we’d love to find one of those mythical dumpsters that seem to spawn things like Selectric typewriters, supercontinuum lasers, or even all the makings of a semiconductor fab.
And finally, Brian Potter over at Construction Physics posted an excellent essay this week on the early history of the Ford Model T, the automobile that gave birth to America’s car culture, for better or for worse. Everyone seems to know the story of how Henry Ford invented the assembly line and drove the cost of a car down to around $400, making motoring accessible to the masses. And while that’s kind of true — Ford is said to have picked up the idea of moving the workpiece rather than the workers from slaughterhouses — it leaves out a lot of interesting details, which Brian picks up on. We were particularly struck by how late in the game Ford introduced assembly lines to Model T production; it wasn’t until 1913, and then only as a small-scale line to assemble the flywheel magnetos used in the ignition system. Once that line proved itself by reducing magneto assembly times by a factor of four, Ford’s process engineers began rolling out the concept across the plant. There are a ton of other tidbits in the article — enjoy!
#Linux 6.17-rc4 is now available for public testing at kernel.org and Linus Torvalds says that "last week felt pretty normal, and rc4 stats bear that out - so it all looks fairly good." Happy testing!
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imagine a bank that lends money to every sketchy fuckin' asshole you know with white guy dreads, a dubiously of-legal-age girlfriend with white girl dreads, and AN IDEA
on the principle that *one* of them isn't gonna blow it on working through PIHKAL
A Silicon Valley billionaire has declared Burning Man “demonic.”
This is a very heavy concept to drop on a bunch of people who are currently tripping balls at the annual festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
Everyone’s aways obsessed with Frankenstein’s monster. How come no one ever talks about Frankenstein’s rose bushes? Or Frankenstein’s amazing chicken Parmesan?
We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7bmz7…
#News #Scienza #Cannabis #Marijuana #Salute #scienza Uno degli aspetti che rendono la cannabis quello che è, è la presenza di determinate sostanze che nel nostro organismo causano certi effetti. Uno dei principali è il cannabidiolo, che come suggerisce il nome è legato proprio alla pianta.
It's not just about what but who we're building with IRL! I'm committed to making these events welcoming. Here's what makes our #FediverseClub the best kind of #DWeb gathering:
1. Community First: As an alcohol-free and family-friendly event, the focus is on clear-headed conversations and genuine connection. Feel free to bring your kids and pets along; this is a space where your whole self is welcome
2. Accessible to All: Events are designed to be economically affordable for everyone. Located near a Skytrain station with free parking, we've removed the barriers so anyone can join the conversation and contribute
3. Intentional Connection: The goal isn't just networking; it's to have intentional conversations with developers, designers, and thinkers who are all about building a better #OpenWeb
“You wanna straighten out the budget? Start taxing corporations and the wealthy like we’ve been telling you. Do you think we’re idiots? Do you think we don’t pay taxes? ... You know nothing about what a working-class citizen does."
The tools of boycott and public protest are inherited from the period of direct colonial rule. We need to adapt these tools to target where the centers of power lie today in our region: Arab capital.
ARD gründet neues Faktencheck-Netzwerk, das soziale Medien ins Visier nimmt apollo-news.net/ard-grndet-neu… Ende Juni gab die ARD bekannt, dass sie ihre Faktenchecks ausweitet und ein senderübergreifendes Faktencheck-Netzwerk unter der Leitung des NDR ... The post ARD gründet neues Faktencheck-Netzwerk, das soziale Medien ins Visier nimmt appeared first on Apollo News. #news #press
Weil Facebook sich von Faktencheckern abwendet, will jetzt die ARD ein neues senderübergreifendes Faktencheck-Netzwerk aufbauen. Einsatzschwerpunkt des Netzwerks sind dabei die sozialen Medien.
The Philosophy Behind the Movement: More Than Just #SolarPanels
Solarpunk represents not just an aesthetic or literary movement, but a comprehensive framework for reimagining human civilization. Its strength lies in combining practical technical solutions with radical social and cultural innovation, while remaining grounded in ecological reality and human needs. As we face cascading environmental and social crises, Solarpunk offers not just hope, but a practical pathway forward that is both revolutionary and achievable.
by NickyCammarata Nov 24, 2024
Excerpts: "While mainstream coverage often focuses on Solarpunk’s aesthetic elements, the movement represents a fundamental reimagining of human civilization’s relationship with technology, nature, and itself. At its core, Solarpunk challenges the dominant narratives of both techno-optimism and eco-pessimism, proposing instead a radical middle path that embraces both technological advancement and ecological wisdom.
"Often overlooked in basic Solarpunk discussions is the movement’s deep connection to #IndigenousKnowledge systems and decolonial thinking. Many Solarpunk principles mirror traditional ecological practices:
"Solarpunk explicitly rejects the notion that market forces alone can address environmental challenges. Instead, it proposes alternative economic models:
- Commons-based peer production - Gift economies for local exchange - Circular economic systems that eliminate waste - Democratic ownership of key infrastructure - Time banking and alternative currencies - #Degrowth economics in overdeveloped regions #TechnologicalSovereignty
"Unlike techno-utopian visions that centralize control in #corporate hands, Solarpunk advocates for:
- #OpenSource technology development - #CommunityOwned and maintained infrastructure - Appropriate technology scaled to local needs - #RightToRepair and modify equipment - Distributed manufacturing through #makerspaces - Knowledge sharing networks independent of #corporate control"
Solarpunk: A Deep Dive into the Cultural Revolution Reimagining Our Future
The Philosophy Behind the Movement: More Than Just Solar Panels
While mainstream coverage often focuses on Solarpunk’s …
DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY AND SAY NO TO FASCISM.
Note: the "contact organization" link on the right of this page DOES NOT go to us!! Do not reach out that way, as we will not get it.
: you are not permitted to abuse Czech WWII victims for your hasbara spam purposes. But you do that anyway.
If a Czech holocaust victim is found at all in your online victims database, the record never contains an adorable pre-captivity photograph (sometimes a triple pane prisoner mugshot, typically a drawn silhouette of a man replacing a photograph).
However, commonly no record is found at all for murdered Czech Jews, like Laura Kussiová, in victims.auschwitz.org/victims?….
In addition, it is uncommon to find pre-captivity photographs of Czech Jews in the online Yad Vashem database, although usually a record exists (as is the case for Laura Kussiová - see the first screenshot).
Typically records describing Czech Jewish Holocaust victims ARE found in holocaust.cz/en/ as is the case forLaura Kussiová in holocaust.cz/en/database-of-vi… (see the second screenshot which shows a warning not to mess around with the information and photographs provided).
You keep scanning the internet looking for adorable, pre-captivity, photographs of JEWS - and incidentally, of mostly prominent Polish people.
In DuckDuckGo I searched for:
"Anton Guttenberger" murdered
The second result referred to an Instagram page (instagram.com/p/C9aFtZhKabE/). Part of it is shown below in a screenshot.
Note: the faces of the people shown were made unrecognizable (by me) as I did not attempt to obtain permission for republishing an image showing recognisable faces of WWII victims (please visit instagram.com/p/C9aFtZhKabE/ to see their faces).
The Instagram page contains the following additional ext (outside of what can be seen in the screenshot): ❝ 20 likes romasintiholocaustmemorialday
Anton Guttenberger was one of the Sinti and Roma who actively resisted the National Socialists. In April 1938, he and his family refused to take part in the planned examinations by the Racial Hygiene Research Center in Schondorf. However, when another registration took place in July of the same year, nine members of his family were categorized. In March 1943, Anton Guttenberger, his wife and six children were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and murdered there. Stolpersteine (small plates engraved with the names and live dates of victims of the Nazi persecution) in front of their former home commemmorate the family since 2008. 2August #neveragain #NaBister #BistrenGar #RomaSintiHolocaust #RomaHMD2024 July 14, 2024 ❞
@auschwitzmuseum : you clearly don't care about WWII victims. In particular Sinti, Roma and queers get even less attention from you. When spamming about Jewish victims, you prefer toots containing huge photo's of adorable people for your Hasbara, as click-cattle boosts them most, comparable to a beauty contest.
20 likes, 0 comments - romasintiholocaustmemorialday on July 14, 2024: "Anton Guttenberger was one of the Sinti and Roma who actively resisted the National Socialists.
"Solarpunk is a prefigurative, utopian artistic and activist movement that envisions what the future might look like if humanity solved major modern challenges like #ClimateChange, and created more #sustainable and balanced societies. As a genre and cultural aesthetic, it encompasses literature, visual art, fashion, video games, architecture, and more. Solarpunk carries many aspects of punk ideologies such as rebelliousness, #humanitarianism, #egalitarianism, animal rights, #decolonization, #AntiRacism, #AntiSexism, anti-#authoritarianism, anti-#corporatism, and anti-#consumerism. Similar to the cyberpunk genre, the big difference between the two is that in solarpunk technology and nature are in harmony with one another rather than in conflict."
Teachers College, Columbia University, is the first and largest graduate school of education in the United States, and also perennially ranked among the nation's best.
This aged well
![Screenshot of https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/167869-laura-kussiova/
At the top, grayed out, the same photograph as in the Auschwitz toot, of Laura Kussinová, can be vaguely seen.
Below that is a relatively big dialog box demanding respectful treatment of victims in the Czech database of Holocaust victims. It reads:
Database of Victims – Terms of use
This database contains the names and fates of those who were deported from the territory of today’s Czech Republic, be it their homeland or may they have been deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto before from different european countries. Further, it contains basic information on those men, women and children, most of whom were Roma or Sinti, who died as prisoners of the so-called „Gypsy camp I“ Lety u Písku.
This data has been published for the purpose of a decent and dignified commemoration of the victims, and with great respect towards their descendants. By using this database, you confirm that you are aware of the purpose of this database and that you are fully responsible for your own handling of the materials and information you will find in the database.
[Button: "X"] [Button: "I confirm"]](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/57685000 "Screenshot of https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/167869-laura-kussiova/
At the top, grayed out, the same photograph as in the Auschwitz toot, of Laura Kussinová, can be vaguely seen.
Below that is a relatively big dialog box demanding respectful treatment of victims in the Czech database of Holocaust victims. It reads:
Database of Victims – Terms of use
This database contains the names and fates of those who were deported from the territory of today’s Czech Republic, be it their homeland or may they have been deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto before from different european countries. Further, it contains basic information on those men, women and children, most of whom were Roma or Sinti, who died as prisoners of the so-called „Gypsy camp I“ Lety u Písku.
This data has been published for the purpose of a decent and dignified commemoration of the victims, and with great respect towards their descendants. By using this database, you confirm that you are aware of the purpose of this database and that you are fully responsible for your own handling of the materials and information you will find in the database.
[Button: \"X\"] [Button: \"I confirm\"]")
![Screenshot from part of https://www.instagram.com/p/C9aFtZhKabE/
Posted by:
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[Photo: a group of 11 people can be seen posing in a forest on a sunny day. It is a greyscale photograph of reasonably good quality.]
At the left of the photo the following vertical text can be seen:
"Foto: Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma"
The following text under the photo provides a description:
"Anton Guttenberger (1st row, 2nd man from left) and his family refused to take part in the registration process of the Rassen- Hygienische Forschungs-Stelle in April 1938. However, this only postponed the investigation until 1943. Guttenberger, his wife and their six children were then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The family was murdered there."](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/57667484 "Screenshot from part of https://www.instagram.com/p/C9aFtZhKabE/
Posted by:
https://www.instagram.com/romasintiholocaustmemorialday/
[Photo: a group of 11 people can be seen posing in a forest on a sunny day. It is a greyscale photograph of reasonably good quality.]
At the left of the photo the following vertical text can be seen:
\"Foto: Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma\"
The following text under the photo provides a description:
\"Anton Guttenberger (1st row, 2nd man from left) and his family refused to take part in the registration process of the Rassen- Hygienische Forschungs-Stelle in April 1938. However, this only postponed the investigation until 1943. Guttenberger, his wife and their six children were then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The family was murdered there.\"")
George Dinwiddie
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Awful.
That's America for you. Vote in The Joker. Get hell.
Everyone else in the world sees through him.
#uspol #forests #deforestation #GreenPlanet #cars #CountryRoads #trump #nationalparks
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