Today in Labor History September 1, 1880: The utopian communistic Oneida Community ended after 32 years. The Community was founded by John Humphrey Noyes and his followers in 1848 near Oneida, New York. They believed that Jesus had already returned in AD 70, allowing them to bring about Jesus's millennial kingdom themselves. The Community practiced communalism (holding all property and possessions in common). They also practiced complex marriage, where 3 or more people could enter into the same marriage, and male sexual continence, where the male’s goal was to not ejaculate during sex. They were also one of the first groups in the U.S. to practice mutual criticism, to root out bad characteristics in people, something adopted by many later cults, and even by Cesar Chavez and the UFW under his leadership.

The Oneida Community has been portrayed in numerous works of fiction such as “Silken Strands,” by Rebecca May Hope (2019). “Assassination Vacation,” by Sarah Vowell (2005) and “Pagan House,” by David Flusfeder (2007).

#workingclass #LaborHistory #socialism #oneida #cesarchavez #cult #communalism #books #author #writer #fiction #novel @bookstadon

There was a crooked tree…

#MountainMonday #SalishSea #hiking #photography

Für Metas Chat-Bot gibt es ein 200 Seiten starkes Handbuch, worin steht, was die #KI darf und was nicht. Ist durchgesickert und bei #Reuters gelandet, die Echtheit wurde von Meta bestätigt.
Beim Lesen wird klar: rechtliche Vorgaben (z.B. zu Beleidigungen) lagen diesem Handbuch nicht zugrunde. Und selbst wenn man argumentiert, dass es für KI eben noch zu wenig klare juristische Regeln gibt, zeigt #Meta wieder einmal klar, dass ihnen moralisch, ethisch und auch sonst einfach nicht zu trauen ist. Punkt.

heise.de/news/Meta-Platforms-K…

#socialmedia #zuckerberg #unplugtrump #hatespeech

Solche Grässlichkeiten erlaubt Meta seinen KI-Chatbots

Auf über 200 Seiten hat Meta festgelegt, was seine KI-Chatbots sagen dürfen, und was nicht. Das Dokument ist durchgesickert und offenbart Erstaunliches.

^{Daniel AJ Sokolov (heise online)}

Hannes Caspar

#photograpy

Wir haben viel zu lange über unsere Verhältnisse gelebt, meint der Kanzler. Daran kann ich mich jetzt nicht erinnern. Was habe ich denn getan und wo lebte ich über meine Verhältnisse? Ich konnte in meinem Leben nichts dergleichen finden. Nun, denn muss ich mich wohl mal anstrengen und dem Kanzler gerecht werden. Ich dachte ich fange mit einer Flasche Cognac an, für schlappe 2.653€.

#merz #CDU #NichtMeinKanzler

"There is a real lesson for policy makers here. Cash is no good if you cannot buy the things you need with it, and the brutal cost of day care, elder care, higher education, doctor visits, prescription medication, and rent—especially rent—continues to hammer the working and middle classes. We cannot transfer our way out of this crisis."

yahoo.com/news/articles/yes-ca…

#PublicHealth #poverty #healthcare #housing #food #ChildCare #education #inequality #disabilities #incarceration #income

Il ct della Nazionale Gattuso: «Sono un uomo di pace, ma con Israele dobbiamo giocare per andare ai Mondiali»
https://www.vanityfair.it/article/il-ct-della-nazionale-gattuso-sono-un-uomo-di-pace-ma-con-israele-dobbiamo-giocare-per-andare-ai-mondiali?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su News @news-VanityFairItaly

Il ct della Nazionale Gattuso: «Sono un uomo di pace, ma con Israele dobbiamo giocare per andare ai Mondiali»

Le parole del commissario tecnico Gattuso sono le ultime sulla questione aperta: escludere Israele dalle competizioni sportive o scendere in campo

^{Chiara Pizzimenti (Vanity Fair Italia)}

Today in 1969, 56 years ago: the reform of Paragraph 175 of the German criminal code begins to be applied, allowing the practice of homosexuality among people over 21 years of age.

#OnThisDay

'Sunset at Port Tortuga was something else..'

#egorodriguez
#editorialart
#illustration
#queerartist

2025 HP EliteBook 8 G1i 14" Laptop Unboxing and Overview

#HP #technews #EliteBook8 #unboxings

youtu.be/SU6gal4tJU8

We Are All Human, Or None Of Us Are.

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” – John F. Kennedy

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The UK is slipping even further into a dark, dark place. Let’s just be clear from the outset: once you declare someone, anyone, as not worthy of human rights you are declaring them to not be worthy as humans. And once you declare someone, anyone, as not being a worthy human, you might be next. Human rights apply to all of us, or to none of us.

Watching Nigel Farage spend a day of unrelenting media coverage this week to show off his latest idea of stripping migrants of their human rights and putting them in concentration camps was sicking. Worse, was seeing Keir Starmer’s response which was basically “we’ll do it too, but better”.

Then we got treated to a second day of it as former Conservative MSP Graham Simpson defected and attracted all of the airwaves to Farage again, followed for a third day by another defection in the form of former Labour Councillor Audrey Dempsey. Make no mistake. If you thought that was merely a coincidence, then you missed the deliberate strategy there.

Farage’s proposal is to follow a decade-long Conservative shibboleth of declaring that those “foreign courts” in Europe who safeguard our human rights via the European Convention on Human Rights are the worst kind of evil and the UK needs to withdraw from it. He’ll put in its place a “British Bill of Rights” that will apply only to British citizens and instead of “the state” telling you what you can do, you’ll have the freedom to do anything unless the state says you can’t do it.

One of the things he wants to do is to round up Afghan nationals who collaborated with the British armed forces during the invasion and occupation of that country. Many of these people now live under the threat of torture and execution by the Taliban since the latter reconquered the country and took back control. Many of these people had their personal details of their involvement with British forces leaked due to the UK’s appalling data security. Some received emergency evacuation. Some, it seems, did not.

Not surprisingly, the Taliban themselves appear to be quite happy to “receive” these people if Farage gets to implement his plans. When asked about whether he’d do it too Keir Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, said, effectively, ‘we’re not taking that option off the table’.

Removing the UK from the ECHR is not going to be as easy as waving a legislative wand. The rights bill is baked into the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and can only be amended with the agreement of Ireland. Farage’s entire plan can be vetoed with a single memo containing the word “No”.

Or Northern Ireland could leave the UK, which would considerably smooth the passage of his plan. There’s still a complication in that ECHR is also baked into the Scotland Act and thus any attempt to disapply it to devolved areas in Scotland would require a legislative consent motion. But as Brexit has shown, this can simply be overridden by a Farage (or Starmer) Government. Or they could unilaterally amend the Scotland Act directly. Devolution will be no protection for Scotland in the way that it is for Northern Ireland.

“My partner is a migrant and is not a UK citizen nor likely to become one. Whenever someone says “prioritising British citizens”, they mean deprioritising and delegitimising my family.”

Even if the “British Bill of Rights” contains a carbon copy of the ECHR and it remains applying to everyone in general (i.e. Farage isn’t allowed to disapply it to Irish, Commonwealth, EU or non-EU citizens as he’s hinted) then we still have to remember that the actual purpose of doing this is to disapply it to specific people in specific instances whenever they become a nuisance to The State.

We’ve long been fed lines of the “bad person” who is “abusing human rights law” to avoid deportation for flimsy reasons like their cat is sick or they’d miss chicken nuggets (the actual stories behind those propaganda lines are far more nuanced). The point is that if such a person existed, these radicalised factions within the UK want to declare them less-than-human and to punish them for it.

This all matters because, sooner or later, it may well affect you. It’s certainly already affecting me. My partner is a migrant and is not a UK citizen nor likely to become one. Whenever someone says “prioritising British citizens”, they mean deprioritising and delegitimising my family. We also have to remember that I don’t just support Scottish independence, I work for an activist organisation that advocates for it. I am paid to agitate against the State in support of secession. In some countries, that’s not a job – it’s a death penalty offence. It might be me they strip citizenship from and declare to be unworthy of human rights.

Which, of course, means it might be you too. Or it might be Nigel Farage. Because even he is only a lost election and a charge of “collaboration with the previous regime” away from seeing his human rights abused too. As the famous line from the play A Man for All Seasons goes: “If you cut down the laws, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?”

Human rights must apply to all of us or they apply to none of us. So I would ask Farage (and Starmer, and any other MP tempted to support this idea) a question: Please look through the rights guaranteed by the ECHR. Which rights do you wish would no longer apply to you, personally?

Because if he gets his way, one day they might not.

#ECHR #HumanRights #news #politics #UKPolitics #UKPolitics

#Movies #NowWatching

Watched August in the Water (1995), directed by Gakuryū Ishii, last night with a group of friends.

It's a coming of age story of sorts, that follows a high school girl who suffers from a mysterious illness and begins to unlock the secrets of the universe.

With the back drop of climate crises and the early days of emerging internet technologies in Japan.

Beautiful and dreamy.

#JapaneseFilms #ClimateChange #Technology #Drama #Aliens

Sepia sentinel - where light fades into memory.

Street Light in Morgan, South Australia.

Photographed and edited by Kev.

© All Rights Reserved by 2 Peeps and a Camera

#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #southaustralia #light #lamp #streetlight

Learn more about the Terror of Hudemühlen Castle!

#Germany #folktale #folklore #kobold #castle
wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Hi…

Hinzelmann

^{Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles Wiki}

“El Fediverso es joven”, decimos… mientras discutimos protocolos como si estuviéramos en la sobremesa del domingo.

Hemos hecho un bestiario mastodónico: desde el abuelo sabio de Usenet 📚 hasta el fiestero de after 🕺 o la abuela que saluda con 200 favs

tuiter.ovh/guia-no-autorizada-…

¿Cuál te falta en la lista?

Guía no autorizada de abuelos mastodónicos - Tuiter.Rocks

(porque la media de edad del Fediverso no engaña) En Mastodon decimos que no hay influencers, que aquí no hay postureo y que todo es comunidad. Pero si miras un…

^{elenamusk (Tuiter.Rocks)}

Alexandra

#portrait #portraits #photography #photos #model #hamburg #fashion

Der OMNIBUS verlässt X und kommt komplett zu Mastodon!

Selbstverwaltete Plattformen gibt es kaum, Mastodon ist ein kleiner Schritt zu freier Information.

Wir bleiben außerdem auf Instagram, Facebook & unserer Webseite: omnibus.org

#OMNIBUS #Mastodon #DigitaleFreiheit #Selbstverwaltung #FreieInformation #SozialeMedien #Unabhängig #Gemeinschaft #ZukunftGestalten

Back to school is coming fast!

Drop-off + pick-up at our kids' elementary school in #Montreal used to be a dangerous rodeo.

This year, we got approval for a rue-école (school-street).

Closed to cars—open to people.

I explain how we did it in this weekend's Globe:

theglobeandmail.com/opinion/ar…

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→ « La création de jeux vidéo progressistes est une impasse »
mediapart.fr/journal/culture-e…

« [Marijam Didžgalvytė, habituée des milieux punks et #anarchistes,] dresse un portrait acerbe de l’industrie du #jeu_vidéo et des conditions de #production des jeux ou du matériel informatique. Il permet de prendre la mesure des problématiques qui traversent le jeu vidéo, mais aussi des formidables possibilités de ce loisir souvent boudé par la gauche. »

#punks #gauche #création #matériel #industrie

« La création de jeux vidéo progressistes est une impasse »

Autrice d’un livre sur la dimension politique des jeux vidéo et leur pouvoir émancipateur, Marijam Didžgalvytė appelle la gauche à s’emparer de ce pan de la culture, sans se perdre dans de fausses pistes et en s’intéressant aux conditions de producti…

^{Théo Dezalay (Mediapart)}

Dwayne Johnson, 'volevo un ruolo non amato da Hollywood' - People - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/canale_lifestyle/notizie/people/2025/09/01/dwayne-johnson-volevo-un-ruolo-non-amato-da-hollywood_31602714-0b12-4b4d-99cd-7fed61ab32c1.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Lifestyle @lifestyle-AgenziaAnsa

Dwayne Johnson, 'volevo un ruolo non amato da Hollywood' - People - Ansa.it

Pugni, sangue e tenerezza, in 'The Smashing Machine' di Benny Safdie in concorso all'82/a Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia e interpretato da Dwayne Douglas Johnson, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di 'The Rock', attore, produttore…

^{Agenzia ANSA}