Posts by passenger@kolektiva.social
(DIR) Post #AaAlSmUr02lPqnC6b2 by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-09-26T20:57:21Z
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@gwynnion @saddestrobots @foolishowl @JessTheUnstill Oh wow, that's amazing. Almost a perfect example.
(DIR) Post #AaAlsSmytXCcG1v3sO by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-09-26T22:21:58Z
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@mayonesa @JessTheUnstill @jdp23 @gwynnion @foolishowl @saddestrobots Go fuck yourself, fascist.
(DIR) Post #AaIHa2PQnDIZrwshwu by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-09-29T09:07:36Z
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@rastilin @bastardsheep @randahl @ghost_shit Musk cares about the border because "the border" is a publicly-acceptable euphemism for white supremacy."Care about the border" means sending cops to terrorise Latinx people, and having special unaccountable police forces and prisons specifically for this purpose. It means a racialised and minoritised group of people having to carry paperwork to protect themselves from being disappeared, which means the process for granting that paperwork can be made arbitrarily complex and expensive in order to force those people around. It means that process can be selectively made more rigid to fuck over individuals who stand out of line.In world-systems theory, we learn that a border is not a line on a map between countries; it's a line between human beings. "Care about the border" means, in this context, wanting to paint a legal dotted line around every minoritised person so that wherever they go, wherever they were born, they're always an outsider and their rights are only ever temporary and contingent.I'm South African. I know this tune, even if the words are different. They used to sing it in my country too.
(DIR) Post #AaQRFtR6zuV73SNcES by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-10-04T10:06:02Z
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PLEASE BOOST(especially if you're a London comrade, have connections to London comrades, or are curious about antifascism and are based in the London area.)Come join LAFA for a film night to learn about Czech antifascism! We'll be watching the film "161 > 88" and have a discussion afterwards.It's free, but any donations are welcome. They'll be split between London antifascist activities and donations to Belarus ABC.20th October 2023, 7pmAll Good Bookshop, London N8 0EP5 mins from Turnpike Lane stationBring snacks to share if you want. Depending on covid numbers, you may need to bring a mask.Terfs and fash not welcome.
(DIR) Post #AbKcG5Pa1KytrqGPyq by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-10-31T14:13:18Z
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@lowqualityfacts What was worse is that it was the KKK who sued them.
(DIR) Post #AbOIbRMhRRMoPlTZw0 by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-11-02T08:50:47Z
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@tante The Beatles did do some very experimental music later in their career, but I'm pretty confident that Beatles-music-autogeneration isn't going to focus on copying pieces like Revolution 9 or You Know My Name (Look Up The Number).
(DIR) Post #AbWTrcrD8RldRzLaUa by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-10-31T06:27:46Z
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@LALegault During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese civilians that were killed by the American military were often reported as being members of the Viet Cong.During the South African border war in Namibia, every Black person killed by South African forces was referred to as a "terrorist", later simply shortened to "terrs".Trump used the term "MS13" to refer to every Central American.Some pro-Russian media uses the term "Azov" to refer to every dead Ukrainian, armed or unarmed.I think this is the context one has to bear in mind when one reads Israeli and American press statements about being "at war with Hamas", and particularly the Israeli government's comments about wanting to "wipe out Hamas." Yes, there is an actual organisation called Hamas, but that's not what's being said here.
(DIR) Post #Abo17fu4tJ2DuR7fdo by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-11-14T17:49:28Z
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@ariadne Hey, however someone gets their code to compile is none of my business. As long as they comment their shamanism properly.
(DIR) Post #Ac2gPhLJdXsJLucBI8 by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-11-12T10:25:32Z
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@aral I'm reading a book called The Rule of Law by @ChrisMayLA6 . I expected it to be a book laying out the liberal case for the rule of law, why it's good, blah blah blah.In the fucking introduction, he blows that away. "The rule of law", he says, is a phrase that liberals use which they assume justifies itself and don't really examine further. Does it refer to laws being obeyed? No, he says, giving examples of cases where people condemn certain laws as being "against the rule of law." Rather, it's an ideological thing. It refers to the idea of laws, rather than to their reality. It cannot fail, only be failed, it is circularly defined, and it's vague enough for an advocate to invoke whenever they like while being too vague for a critic to nail down.The rest of the book is about examining this using the tools we use to talk about ideologies, rather than about actual legal theory. I'm enjoying it and looking forward to finishing it.He doesn't make the following comparison (so far as I've got) but I'm going to, because it stuck in my mind: liberals believe in "the rule of law" like Marxists believe in "the people." If a communist state faces opposition from its populace, then that doesn't mean that "the people" disapprove of communism; rather it means that the regime needs to repress the populace in the name of "the people." Similarly, a state which passes harmful laws which stunt personal liberty and economic development doesn't mean that "the rule of law" has failed; rather it means that those laws are against "the rule of law."It's a god one can invoke to do the thing one needs to do to maintain power, same as any other god.
(DIR) Post #AcI7RSuds3olJJbXfc by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-11-29T06:59:26Z
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@untsuki @vantablack It started during Prohibition times, as a group of religious ex-soldiers who would trash establishments that sold alcohol. They were defeated by a rival group of ex-soldiers who liked their booze, called the Skeleton Army.I'm not making this up, it's amazing.
(DIR) Post #AcQa0O2SKt8mJKNYki by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-12-03T09:06:48Z
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@mjg59 I'm always horrified when I hear non-technical business people speak confidently about how they can solve problems using new technology.(Not least because who's going to have to clean up the resulting mess? Me, that's who.)
(DIR) Post #AcXwJZa9CSgkiDPYMS by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-12-06T22:21:29Z
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@Aviva_Gary @StillIRise1963 The enemy doesn't get held back by cops and soldiers, he's protected from you by them.
(DIR) Post #AcwwU3j4qRIC8e8zuy by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-12-18T23:40:05Z
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@Deiru Deus Ex:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2_-knUokw90RzIwUEJsU2pYdWs/view?resourcekey=0-dqmq9k501fBUBDoUEgv4Sw
(DIR) Post #AcywatyDu3zmE0PYpc by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-12-19T23:01:20Z
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@aljazeera That's... not a hopeful headline, Betteridge's Law being what it is.
(DIR) Post #Ad61qIYQOZgtf9858C by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-12-23T09:02:10Z
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@mjg59 If that isn't a shitpost, yes I actually can explain the social benefit of it (it prevents the oceans freezing.)
(DIR) Post #Ad6203oe2z96qeN4uO by passenger@kolektiva.social
2023-12-23T09:02:40Z
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@mjg59 If that isn't just a shitpost and you would be interested in the answer, yes I actually can explain the social benefit of it (it prevents the oceans freezing.)
(DIR) Post #AdPkcYEu09zEKPI7pA by passenger@kolektiva.social
2024-01-01T17:42:21Z
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@harriettmb @migriverat @futurebird @Peternimmo @mybarkingdogs My covid mutual aid group set up a NextDoor, which gradually got adopted by a particular subset of people who were mostly concerned with alarmism about ethnic minorities and teenagers, and getting very stressed that the police were ignoring their curtain-twitching. None of those people did much actual mutual aid and none of the people doing serious mutual aid stuff got involved with them.
(DIR) Post #AdQJW5DqTDBgzXRqq0 by passenger@kolektiva.social
2024-01-01T22:26:00Z
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@argumento @faab64 @gavinisdie @palestine Both are Shi'a groups, interestingly. I wonder if that's significant.
(DIR) Post #AdY861ZZs6ZludfFce by passenger@kolektiva.social
2024-01-05T09:05:22Z
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@peterrelph2 @MakBerberovic In the UK where I live, there are no major parties which are against fascism. None. The only question is whether they want it soon or whether they prefer to take a slow stroll in that direction. None are committed to policies which will undermine fascism, or even call it by its name.I can vote pro-fascist, I can refuse to vote, or I can vote for a party so niche that under FPP voting for them is the same as not voting.I am not an expert in Australian politics but my understanding is that you have the same sort of thing over there.
(DIR) Post #AdYiTBA9ykqEfL7Esy by passenger@kolektiva.social
2024-01-05T09:04:27Z
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@bamboombibbitybop The worst thing I've ever seen is a dude who was using an LLM to turn a short prompt into a longer email, and then another dude using an LLM to generate a short summary of that longer email so he didn't have to read it all.My dudesYou have invented the world's first anti-compression algorithm, which sends a short statement by means of turning it into a larger statement for transmission.