Americans have been indoctrinated into the belief that freedom is defined purely by negative liberties: Government cannot take away your rights to speech, religion, expression, etc. These are important liberties but their importance is over-skewed towards the ruling class. 1/6
I want to dig into this, since my book VERY FINE PEOPLE comes out today, and it's in large part about precisely this sort of polemic trickery in service of bullshit apologia of supremacy.
There's a sleight of hand at the start that catapults us into a massive lie.
"YouTube confirms crackdown on VPN users accessing cheaper Premium plans"
No, listen, you just don't understand.
If Google pays taxes in a random country to cheat the system and save money, that's because "Globalism".
If you do it, you get banned though.
tech news-
youtube is A/B testing login-walling videos. a *huge* step towards internet lockdown, and they appear to be blocking accounts using their cookies for downloaders.
https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/issues/551
this is. not good.
"wow OWO" â claude shannon
(Shannon, C. E. âPrediction and Entropy of Printed English.â The Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, Jan. 1951, pp. 50â64.)
The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.
Microsoftâs best selling products these days? Foot guns and bulletproof shoesâŚ
Incredible report: â#Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year to prevent them from coming to the EU.â
This makes the #EU directly complicit in human trafficking, torture and murder of black people. #migration
#whitesupremacy
https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/desert-dumps/
â¤ď¸ to the students. Heartbreaking how core values of university education have been totally lost. Now all about running a business to extract as much money as possible.
A second Boeing whistleblower has died. Josh Dean, a former mechanical engineer and quality auditor at Spirit AeroSystems, had flagged a manufacturing defect in a pressure bulkhead of the 737 MAX. He died Tuesday, two weeks after suddenly taking ill, being intubated and confined to the ICU. He filed a formal complaint against Boeing last year.
Dean's death comes two months after a separate Boeing whistleblower was found dead in his car from a gunshot wound to the head. John Barnett was due to appear for day 3 of depositions but never showed. His body, and a gun in his hand, were eventually found in a parking garage. I'm not aware of any surveillance video showing him driving there that day.
Are these deaths coincidences? A diabolical conspiracy? Either seems entirely plausible to me.
My Mastodon server, cyberplace.social, has received a legal threat in an attempt to have a user's thread deleted. It is styled as a cease and desist.
I have published the email here:
https://github.com/GossiTheDog/Cyberplace/blob/main/LegalThreats/Cease%20and%20Desist%20Order%20-%20Felix%20Juhl
Conservatives and liberals both share the belief that the only legitimate rebellions happened in the past
Iranâs reputation in the West as always seeking to âdestabilize the regionâ is being exposed as pure propaganda. The US and âIsraelâ are the aggressors and destabilizers. They donât belong there! What the fuck are US warships doing in the Red Sea?? US troops in Iraq/Syria/Jordan?