> "The serious guys with guns"
Words cannot express the depths of revulsion I feel towards the liberals who believe so fervently and dogmatically in an image of the state as some justified, rational, rule-bound, benevolent, and intelligent authority ...that does not exist and could never exist.
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“Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price” @TheRegister. Read more here:
theregister.com/2025/02/02/hea…
Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price
Amid wildfire death and destruction, there are solutions, workable smart solutions, but who wants to talk about that?Rik Myslewski (The Register)
"we humans" doesn't sound like the most accurate way to frame it, as it erases those differences.
Academics and researchers, I'm not joking when I say now is the time to save your work/data in multiple places outside of your institution's server or Google or MS cloud.
A thumb drive. An external drive. Print out the critical documents, e.g., final drafts, copies of publications, approved grants & IRB docs, latest teaching/research statements, student evaluations, syllabi, other tenure packet items, etc.
In other words, save your work like it's 2002.
Wired magazine is making big US news orgs look stupid and incompetent. Wired understands what's at stake in the Musk-led database/payment systems takeovers -- and it's doing the reporting to tell the public what's going on. Example:
wired.com/story/elon-musk-gove…
Reuters is also seriously on the case.
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.Vittoria Elliott (WIRED)
"Prepare your pandemic supplies
I’ve said all this before, but it’s worth repeating and putting all in the same place. The folks in charge now aren’t going to warn you about a pandemic. They’re not going to warn you about tuberculosis or anything else.
So:
N95 masks or respirators. Goggles. Plant-based antivirals. Air purifiers. Corsi-Rosenthal boxes. Hand sanitizer. HOCL. Get this stuff now. Help other people acquire these things if they can’t. Normalize mask wearing. Don’t make it easy for podcast bullies to get someone fired for wearing a mask. At this point, I’ve simply resigned to living like there’s always a pandemic. The people who’ve made fun of me for this wound up with debilitating Long Covid.
I didn’t want that for them.
So, set a good example."
the-sentinel-intelligence.net/…
It's All Hitting The Fan Now
You weren't wrong, just early.Jessica Wildfire (The Sentinel-Intelligence)
Copyright is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
If you’ve got lawyers and a copyright, the law gives you tremendous power to silence speech you don’t like. Copyright’s statutory damages can be as high as $150,000 per work infringed, even if no actual harm is done.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Sooooooooo....
THIS is how the 21st century's version of the Great Depression gets kicked off, eh?
it's also how the 20th century's version of the Great Depression got kicked off!
tariffs just be like that
From #CTAN:
François Pantigny submitted an update to the nicematrix package.
Version: 7.1 2025-02-01
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Improve the typesetting of mathematical matrices with PGF
I'm giving away half my wealth over 5 years - not in my will, not after I die, right now. I’ve already sent $1M to eight organizations working to help Americans. There’s a lot more to come.
Let's talk about how we can build the American Dream. AMA!
reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1if…
OpenAI Makes Surprise Livestream Today for 'Deep Research' Announcement - Slashdot
Just three hours ago, OpenAI made a surprise announcement to their 3.9 million followers on X.com. "Live from Tokyo," they'd be livestreaming... something. Their description of the event was just two words.slashdot.org
AfD-Co-Chefin Weidel: Für den Euro, gegen den "Schuldkult"
Die AfD-Covorsitzende Weidel glaubt nicht mehr an eine Rückkehr zur D-Mark - und geht damit auf Distanz zu großen Teilen ihrer Partei. Bei Caren Miosga sprach sie in Bezug auf die nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit Deutschlands von einem "Schuldkult".
Es ist sinnlos, mit Menschen zu diskutieren, die unfähig sind, auf dem Boden der Tatsachen zu bleiben, einen anderen Standpunkt anzuerkennen als den eigenen, zuzugeben, dass sie sich geirrt haben (= etwas dazugelernt zu haben).
Versucht man es trotzdem, richtet man unterm Strich nur großen Schaden an.
Der einziger Grund, solche Menschen trotzdem in eine „Diskussion“ einzuladen, ist Sensationsgeilheit und das ist gefährlich!
Caren Miosga ist keine verantwortliche Journalistin.
The latest transgender research on one page (and more).
transgenderreport.com/trump-ce…
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Trump censors transgender research now (+ more LGBTQ news) - Transgender Report
CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.transgenderreport (Transgender World)
You think plushies are only for kids? Then how do you explain this?
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3 February 1907 | Czech Jewish woman, Margita Dolejšová, was born in Olomouc.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
Starmer urged leaders to act bold,
To put pressure on Russia, be cold,
With sanctions in place,
They must not lose pace,
To stand up for justice and uphold.
#GuardianLimerick #Ukraine #Europe #Politics
theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
Starmer calls on European leaders to put more economic pressure on Russia
PM wants to ‘see all allies stepping up’, saying Donald Trump’s threat of sanctions has rattled Vladimir PutinRowena Mason (The Guardian)
The #Fediverse now has 12,281,466 users.
Within the past month, it grew by 1.5M accounts.
This represents the biggest month of growth since November 2022.
FediDB, Fediverse Network Statistics
FediDB is a cutting-edge service providing detailed statistics and insights into the Fediverse network.fedidb.org
OpenAI Makes Surprise Livestream Today for 'Deep Research' Announcement - Slashdot
Just three hours ago, OpenAI made a surprise announcement to their 3.9 million followers on X.com. "Live from Tokyo," they'd be livestreaming... something. Their description of the event was just two words.slashdot.org
- Networked actors in Haskell! forgefed.org/blog/networked-ac…
- We've used all our 2024 budget, yay! Waiting to sign the 2025 grant with NLnet
- I want to make ForgeFed practical and usable for implementors! Are you a forge feveloper? Let's talk ❤
- I'm going to try carving a shortest path towards a federated collaboration demo with usable UI - more on that soon!
--Pere
Dear US friends. For a few bucks a month you can get, say, a terabyte of storage in a European datacenter at an EU-based hosting company to store pictures, documents, backups from you, your family and friends to keep them a bit further away from US authorities. It's not a 100% guarantee, but better than nothing.
I personally have #Nextcloud based storage at #Hetzner for that. Other companies offer similar solutions. Locally I just have the Nextcloud sync app installed.
I need to get away from dropbox.
Is there a smart solution how to migrate all my data to nextcloud e.g.?
Ich hoffe ihr/wir wissen alle was die Schock Strategie ist.
Weil, das ist was Rechte Ökonomen und "Vordenker" seit den "Chicago Boys" und dem Pinochets Putsch gegen das demokratische Chilie immer wieder durchziehen:
Die Bevölkerung wird durch viele extreme konzertierte Maßnahmen geschockt & traumatisiert. Die Bevölkerung verfällt oft unvorbereitet, dass demokratische Regeln nicht mehr gelten in eine Schock-Starre und wird sturmreif geschossen.
Das ist was #Merz gerade erfolgreich macht.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons
1) Do not obey in advance.
2) Defend institutions.
3) Beware the one-party state.
4) Take responsibility for the face of the world.
5) Remember professional ethics.
6) Be wary of paramilitaries.
7) Be reflective if you must be armed.
8) Stand out.
9) Be kind to our language.
10) Believe in truth.
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Jaddy hat dies geteilt.
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11) Investigate.
12) Make eye contact and small talk.
13) Practice corporeal politics.
14) Establish a private life.
15) Contribute to good causes.
16) Learn from peers in other countries.
17) Listen for dangerous words.
18) Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.
19) Be a patriot.
20) Be as courageous as you can.
Snyder, T. (2017). On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Crown.
If there's a lesson you want to know more about, I'll do my best to summarise it.
Jaddy hat dies geteilt.
You remember these posts ⬆️ Well, Snyder is warning not only the US, but Germany as well.
"Elon Musk schaue "kolonial" auf Deutschland, [...]. Er (Musk) sei auf der Suche nach Partnern, die seine Sprache sprechen und er glaube, "die AfD wird mir helfen, den deutschen Rechtsstaat zu vernichten". Nur "die deutschen und europäischen Gesetze können ihn davon abhalten", sagt Snyder. Musk sei "gegen Rechtsstaaten - nicht nur gegen den amerikanischen, sondern überhaupt" [...]."
zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/aus…
Historiker sieht US-Rechtsstaat durch Oligarchen gefährdet
Der renommierte Historiker und Yale-Professor Timothy Snyder ist wegen des wachsenden Einfluss von Oligarchen in den USA besorgt. Auch Deutschland warnt er.ZDFheute
teilten dies erneut
Registro - Sesión "¿Criminalización de Tor en el caso Ola Bini?"
Nos complace a invitarles a completar el presente registro para participar de la sesión virtual "¿Criminalización de Tor en el caso Ola Bini? Lecciones para expertos digitales del Sur Global" organizada por la Misión de Observación del caso Ola Bini,…Google Docs
Marc "Anarchy" Godin
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