Notices by Jonathan Korman (miniver@mastodon.social), page 2

@AnarchoNinaWrites

I really do not WANT to believe that the right are perennial, that the best we can every do is bully them into pretending to believe in democracy and equality.

But the evidence of these recent years is that this is largely true.

@alisynthesis

Hey, you, know what TV series should get rebooted as a Hollywood blockbuster series, played straight?

An independent Nerd Rōnin who travels light, abhors violence, knows how things work, improvises, and saves the day when institutions fail!

https://miniver.blogspot.com/2023/11/macgyver.html

Obligated to do what they CAN to stop Israel’s genocidal military attack on Gaza, from most to least:

Benjamin Netanyahu
Hamas
IDF soldiers
Fatah
Zionists
Israeli Jews
Israelis
President Joe Biden
The United States of America
Jews in the US
Palestinians

Not responsible for Israel’s genocidal military attack on Gaza:

Jews in the US
President Joe Biden
The United States of America
Israelis
Israeli Jews
Zionists
Palestinians
Fatah

Responsible:

Benjamin Netanyahu
Hamas
IDF soldiers

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Capable of stopping Israel’s genocidal military attack on Gaza:

Benjamin Netanyahu
IDF soldiers

Incapable:

Hamas
Fatah
Zionists
Israeli Jews
Israelis
President Joe Biden
The United States of America
Jews in the US
Palestinians

@oluOnline

It is tempting to assume that distributed architectures are inherently democratic, egalitarian, even liberatory.

They are not.

I was really hoping this one would turn out to be BS, but this is evidently reliable confirmation

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/12/israel-white-phosphorus-used-gaza-lebanon

Elon Musk thinks he is the hero of a Heinlein novel but he is actually the villain of a Bruce Sterling novel.

Cyberpunk in the ’80s & ’90s was the literature of seeing the dystopia which neoliberalism would produce.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule