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  • How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking

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  • there's a long history of cops making petty abuses of the power over others they're granted, and of those additional powers not making their communities any safer. to me this headline reads as "most predictable thing imaginable has come to pass"

    here's my advice:

    1. dismantle the surveillance state
    2. abolish the institution of prison
    3. abolish the police

  • Did you hear about the guy who thought he was a fish? After examination, doctors determined....

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  • i thought this was gonna be "he was feeling crappy"

  • Iran déjà vu: Trump once again threatens massive escalation against Tehran only to walk back

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  • and just in case anyone doesn't know, this is what he's done all through his real estate career. he was well known for playing games of chicken with potential business partners by coming to a quasi sense of agreement and then reneg. the only thing that kept him afloat there for a while were his ties to organized crime

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  • facts shmacts

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  • Dr Fauci killed 1 million americans by creating the concept of cold. Also, cold doesn't kill people so the advice we wear coats was irresponsible

  • a 112-year-old bald vegan tattooed pansexual monk boy in nomad gear

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  • as far as we know in his entire life he had exactly one romantic interest and any flirting he did was with also femme characters. of team avatar if anyone's pan it's Toph strictly because she's not gonna let some made up gender binary tell her who to be attracted to, she won't let anyone tell her what to do

  • What's wrong with America?

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  • https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3VzGdo1IDdc

    top level summary: manosphere edgelords are fucking losers. when they feel emasculated they target their violence at who they hate (usually women, school teachers are often women), who they're jealous of (in the case of school children, school children are often representative of the last time the terrorist felt whole, when they felt safe from the world, and before the pressure to perform masculinity became overwhelming during puberty. additionally children are representative of a community's hope for a future, and shooters are often completely doomeristic in their worldview), and who they feel does not present a threat of fighting back, or "soft targets" as they're sometimes called (school shooters are very consistently trying to crack a high score. they make references to prior shooters and keep track of a leaderboard in their diaries and notes)

  • What's wrong with America?

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  • not sure why you're sitting in the negative it's literally true. sociologists call it "the cult of the gun." it goes beyond just "the problem is the guns" and into "the problem is the relationship with the guns." we're one of only two nations on earth where upper middle class families commonly take photos of themselves with guns for holidays, and the other one is israel. we have it ingrained in us that gun is more than just a tool or a weapon, but instead a monument to our identities, frequently with that identity being tied to masculinity.

    then you have to dig into the motivations behind most school shootings. the profile of most school shooters is incredibly consistent. they're usually older boys or young men with an interest in manosphere identity politics. we usually just say "incel" but it's bigger than that. incels are just one subculture within the manosphere, and the school shooters are coming from all across the manosphere.

    additionally we don't talk about school shootings as what they are. i have survived two school shootings. it wasn't until 13 years after the second experience that someone explained to me that these are terrorist attacks. they are terrorist attacks because the motivations of the shooters are usually to influence politics more towards something that they want. people with an education in how our society is structured are going to be more likely to take their frustrations and dedicate their energy to organizing.

    this is not what happens with school shooters though. the reason for this is is that when they get cut off from one last tether to their perceived sense of masculinity, they go to reclaim their masculinity in the way that's been taught to them rs what it means to be a man: through omnidirectional violence. the goal of their terrorism is to make others see them and to make sure that the targets of their hate, usually women, particularly queer and minority women, live their day to day lives with more fear of men.

    hold on let me go find a link to a video for people…

    edit: FD Signifier has talked about this a few times. he literally has a masters degree from his time as a social worker studying how to understand and address this societal problem. but this is also covered in the conservative death cult video and the connecting the manosphere video

  • Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death

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  • just so people know, in case this is unfamiliar, cops have been doing this to indigenous women for decades, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, Western Canada, and near the black hills (Montana, the Dakotas). what ICE is doing is not new, it is an expansion of this violence to more target groups. i advocate for the abolishment of ICE because the USA's modern day slave catchers cannot be reformed. their existence has been engaged in the latin american genocide since they were established. further, though, i need people to understand that the abolishment of ICE will not represent an end but a beginning. we need societal reform beyond the elimination of just one racist police force

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  • ‘Lenin was an enemy of humanity’: Why Kyiv wants to put Cossack chief statue in place of Soviet leader

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  • Nestor Makhno identified as a Zaporozhian Cossack. The legacy of the Cossacks in modern Ukraine has been significant to both the left and right wing movements in the region with ultra-nationalists placing emphasis solely on the aesthetics of the self governing military nomads, and anarchists placing an emphasis on the governance structures innovated by Cossack groups, particularly surrounding the settlement of Lviv and the Bug river basin where Cossack identity was divorced from ethnic heritage and instead placed into notions of mutual aid through fraternal orders and community defense. Given the events that followed in The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic after the crushing of both the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Makhnovshchina i can sympathize with the people there having a distrust of the man who sponsored the Red Cossacks to do that crushing. I can also understand the warriness of uplifting Cossack identity since the ultra-nationalists place such a heavy emphasis on the aesthetics of those groups and their concerted efforts to erase, in particular, the Galitzyen Cossacks and the Zaporozhian Cossacks' legacies

  • What was the best generation of consoles in your opinion?

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  • i'm going to say the 7th generation, but for a different reason. you chose it for community, i choose it for continuity. those consoles were the standard targets for games companies for an uncommonly long time. consoles that came before and since haven't matched that. some of this, i think, is due to them kind of being architectural dead ends. that was the last console generation where the hardware wasn't just PC hardware but a little bit different. the PS3 in particular is an incredible feat of human ingenuity with second hand PS3s being hard to find at reasonable prices since the US military depends on them for nuclear research. but all this cleverness made them too expensive to develop for corporations seeking to design hardware to sell at a loss to play games sold at a markup.

    but during the era of the 7th generation? it was incredible. whichever console you chose you would have so many options for games that would give you incredible and unique experiences. and the hardware exclusivity was an actual real constraint sometimes with developers knowing they were making a PS3 exclusive or a 360 exclusive targeting that hardware to get every drop of performance out of the hardware, whereas now it's just a form of manufactured scarcity since new consoles are on the same architecture as PCs nowadays.

    the games that have come since that generation also haven't had any fundamental paradigm shifts in how they're played that makes them more fun either. there have been some paradigm shifts that have made gaming less safe and healthy to engage in with companies shifting the brain chemistry of their players by creating addictive structures in the rulesets and paradigms of the games.

    in conclusion: 7th generation good, industry bad

  • How would a Solarpunk society handle law enforcement and military?

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  • i think we'd draw wisdom from pre-colonial societies who responded to community members violating consensual paradigms of existing with community based corrections. the challenge i have is that on the Eurasian continent something went awry and when the most extreme punishment in this paradigm, exile, was assigned enough, eventually the exiled created their own domination societies that would go on to eliminate the societies that had exiled them (examples include the Kievan Rus', the Romans, and the Huns). part of a realistic thought process towards solarpunk means asking ourselves how we prevent domination societies from re-arising

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    How much streaming services pay musicians per stream

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  • they do not, but most artists still encourage listeners to listen on bandcamp since so few artists on streaming services are getting all that many repeat listens, and if you repeat an album enough bandcamp will encourage you to purchase. once you get to that point, and buy maybe 1 album a month (about the same price as spotify premium) you will end up getting more money into the hands of artists, and especially the small artists who are around you in your city, than you ever would have paying for Tidal

  • TIL one of the most famous musical instrument companies primarily runs on open source software out of pure spite

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  • Real talk their entire answer was "we under no circumstances discuss our internal operations, no matter how seemingly meaningless"

  • Free Speech Crackdown: Germany Deports Bob Vylan Frontman for Anti-Israel Chants

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  • my issue is the context under which you and i are having in the first place. Bobby Vylan has been labeled as making calls for violence for calling for the dissolution of the enforcement arm of a genocidal occupying force. while there may be elements that do not find this tolerable, overall the people are either complicit through their inaction or are glad for this to be what their government is doing, just as the issue in the united states, russia, or israel as global fascism is on the rise is a mixture of enthusiastic participation or apathetic inaction. we're much deeper into Martin Niemöller's poem than people seem to be realizing…

  • TIL one of the most famous musical instrument companies primarily runs on open source software out of pure spite

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  • see edit2

  • TIL one of the most famous musical instrument companies primarily runs on open source software out of pure spite

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  • i do have to wonder if 23 years later they're still with RedHat especially since IBM renegotiated many of the contracts when they bought redhat. i'm almost curious enough to email Ernie Ball with the full expectation that they email back "we ain't telling you shit about our network topology"

    EDIT: Curiosity got the better of me and I sent an email asking

    edit2: they emailed back with an extremely reasonable "we ain't telling you shit about our network topology"

  • Free Speech Crackdown: Germany Deports Bob Vylan Frontman for Anti-Israel Chants

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  • the issue is that by framing calling the end of the apartheid enforcement mechanism of an ethnostate as discrimination, Germany has normalized and sanewashed a genocidal ethnostate. further, the tying of Jewish identity in Germany to the modern settler colonial project of Israel is harmful to the Jewish diaspora: it does the opposite of Germany's stated aims. there are many kinds of Jew in the world, but by deferring all discussion of Jewish identity to an Ashkenazi supremacist entity, Germany has committed themselves to a political position of only recognizing those Jews who are themselves the most like Germans from the ~1600 years of central European contact.

    the only part of your comment i really accept as a useful reframe is that it sounds like you're right. this isn't a free speech crackdown. you haven't had the freedom to hear about the true meaning of Jewish identity in at least 90 years, and so you switched, as a society, from the militaristic anti-semitic position that Jews have no place in your modern society to the militaristic zionist position that Jews have no place in your modern society.

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    TIL one of the most famous musical instrument companies primarily runs on open source software out of pure spite

    www.cnet.com /tech/tech-industry/rockin-on-without-microsoft/

  • Missing Ukrainian Boy From Kherson Region Found Serving in Russian Army

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  • Oh don't I know it! It's one of the reasons it's so important that Americans get involved in mutual aid projects. The military industrial complex relies on the desperation of poverty to ensure that there will be people willing to risk dying to get basic medical care fore the rest of their life as well as a lack of education to ensure that the people taking that risk don't fully understand the ramifications of their actions while under the orders of their commanding officer

  • Missing Ukrainian Boy From Kherson Region Found Serving in Russian Army

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  • it's only a matter of time. the US has a high degree of societal militarization going back to right after the first world war. it's been in hyperdrive since the 1950s, and especially so since the passing of the patriot act. the school to military pipeline has been really strong for a long time, but as of late has weakened. so the hitler youthification of our schools will come soon to indoctrinate the children into the importance of national struggle rather than class struggle

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    FYI, blahaj.zone is down for the next few hours

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