Notices by Voline (voline@kolektiva.social)

@gregly @Urban_Hermit @pseudonym @inthehands
Remember when Sony-BMG intentionally encoded malware on a music CD then distributed 22 million of them to the public? No Sony executives went to prison over this. But just you try it ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

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@davidaugust

One time-tested "unconventional strike" tactic is called "work to rule". It's where you do everything exactly by management's specifications. Workers stop doing all the work-arounds they use to actually get things done. This reliably causes productivity to go to hell.

@apalu @Toni2167

If you’re using Firefox, right clicking on the link, or even in the web address field, choose “Copy Without Site Tracking”. That'll do the trick.

@jonny @nullagent

“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.”

— Joan Robinson. *Contributions to Modern Economics*. Oxford: Basil Blackford, 1978. 75.

@DM_Ronin @inthehands
Not all Western leftists are campists. Most anarchists in the US understand that the enemy of our enemy isn’t necessarily our friend.

@inthehands @sindarina
Same here. One of my workplaces is fully enmeshed in the GSuite. I use Vivaldi for that site. It’s Chromium-based and seems to render pages and be accepted by sites as though it were Chrome, but it doesn’t install the Google background demons.

@avirr @inthehands @kevpluck
Has Megan McArdle ever been not wrong? She should be well used to the feeling by now.

@abolisyonista @evdas
The IAS has updated the page where they posted the statement by the 12 of 61 RICO defendants in Atlanta, “Anarchism Must Not Be Criminalized”. It seems the messages in solidarity with Palestine were added to AMNBC by the authors *after* it was sent to IAS.

The version of AMNBC on the IAS web site is now the most recent one and contains the messages in solidarity with Palestine. A note from publishers was added at the top of the page, it reads:

"An earlier version of this statement was posted on this blog which the IAS later discovered did not include important edits made in solidarity with Palestine. The statement shared with us was a version prior to these edits and we were not aware of them at the time of posting. We have now updated this post to include the entire updated statement. Thank you to those who made us aware of this, and we apologize for this oversight.”

https://anarchiststudies.org/anarchism-must-not-be-criminalized/

@abolisyonista @evdas
The IAS may not even know that a previous, and differing, version of the statement exists.

@evdas @abolisyonista
It’s not negligence on the part of the IAS if the 12 say, “Here is our latest statement that supersedes the previous one. Please post it.”

I'll e-mail the IAS to see what's up.

@evdas @abolisyonista
The statement at the Scenes from the Atlanta Forest blog is dated 9 Nov. The statement on the IAS web site is dated 20 Nov.

I really doubt the IAS would have edited the statement by the 12 on their own initiative. That would be profoundly dishonest, and having worked with them in the past. I don't think they'd do that.

The 12 may have chosen to to change their 11/09 statement. I asked in a comment on the IAS web site why the difference between the two statements exists. We'll see what the IAS say ...

@mmasnick @Popehat
I miss you all’s contributions, but not enough to take another ride on the enshittification curve. Good luck.

@thomasfuchs
Using the same query in DuckDuckGo. The top links all contain Kenya in their list of African countries.

@jt_rebelo @aral @joaopinheiro
Shoot y’all. I totally forgot about the alt-text. My bad.

Martyn Turner in the Irish Times

Check this out. Thief approaches door of house with car parked out front. He is holding a wire antenna. If the car owner has left their keys near the front door, the wire antenna will boost the signal. Success! The key fob is near the door. Signal boosted. This causes the car to think the key is very near to it, and opens the car door. Thief's accomplice gets in and starts the car. They drive away! https://mastodon.social/@it4sec/111167031354970229

@glennf @ninavizz The “Tragedy of the Commons” is that the commons were stolen by the wealthy.

I think it’s difficult for us in North America to appreciate how shocking, rebellious, and frankly prophetic Sinéad O’Connor was in an Irish context. I lived there briefly in 1985, and so saw the place and time she was from.

It was a bit of a culture shock. I was 19 and not in school. I got a work permit and flew over to Dublin. I only spoke English at the time so it was kind of a toss up between London and Dublin. I didn’t think there’d be much of a difference it was all “Western Europe” as far as I was concerned — Denmark, France, Ireland, … all pretty similar right? Hahahaha.

Unlike today, Ireland in 1985 was a poor country. Deprivation had forced generations of people to emigrate to have a better life. There were 4 million people in the Republic, but in 1845 there had been 8 million. The only country in Europe whose population declined over that period. 1995 was the first time in 300 years Ireland did not have negative net migration.

And it was pious. Sinéad called it “a theocracy”. There were no state schools. All education was in the hands of religious schools — overwhelmingly Catholic. Two years before, in 1983, the Republic had put a ban on abortion into their constitution. Condoms were illegal when I got there. In 1980 Bob Geldof had summed up his home town as “police and priests”.

It seemed a bit more patriarchal than the US in the Reagan years. But I didn’t know the half of it. It wasn’t until years later that I learned about the Magdalene Laundries where “troubled” girls were imprisoned in workhouses operated by orders of nuns, the Mother and Baby homes where women who were pregnant out of wedlock were kept out of sight to have their babies in secret, who were then taken from them and sold to American Catholic couples — and underneath it all the decades-long, quietly suppressed crime of the clergy sexually abusing boys and girls.

This stuff was not talked about in 1980s Ireland. But Sinéad did. She would not shut up. She would not stay in her place. She made original, passionate music. But if you think she caused an uproar in the US when she tore up a photo of the Pope on SNL … well, in Ireland in 1992 it was incendiary.

It was only later, in the late 1990 and 2000s that the scandals broke, and everyone could see that the crazy woman who would not shut up was right. She had been right all along.

The 2022 biographical film Nothing Compares is good. If you want to get the flavor of what she means to people in Ireland, go scroll through the expressions of grief pouring out on mastodon.ie

The woman was a giant.

#Sinead #SineadOConnor

@grayface_ghost @jakob

Just the card catalog. The library is still there.