Notices by Personne (per_sonne@ciberlandia.pt)

RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/115946014188139067

This is how an autocracy is born. Those of us who have lived through them know all the signs too damn well. When is the american military going to stage a coup to remove these people?

@insane @kaia

* me laughing using Firefox reader mode feature and giving bloated websites the middle finger *

@kaia

* laughs in Linux, barely using 2Gb of RAM *

"Diretores clínicos, de enfermagem e de qualidade foram despedidos após terem denunciado as ordens."

CEO do grupo que gere Hospital de Cascais mandou recusar doentes “não rentáveis”
https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/ceo-do-grupo-que-gere-hospital-de-cascais-mandou-recusar-doentes-nao-rentaveis/96788

@lxo @FranciscoBaleotti @dausacker

Quais programinhas?

For those of you not in the know, my HIGHEST recommendation this week for the youtube channel Vegetative Streaming, harbouring a collection of INCREDIBLY RELEVANT and magnificently produced documentaries by Adam Curtis.
Reserve a few hours off your week, make some popcorn if you will, and sit through them. It's damn well worth it: they're sharp, they're witty, they're up to date and they're still relevant to this day.

https://invidious.reallyaweso.me/channel/UCKdyr0GUEypqAoqXH_R2ynw

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdyr0GUEypqAoqXH_R2ynw

@MrLaCave @bitboxer

It is quite well known; IBM provided the computation solutions to manage the lists of people to send off to concentration camps.

"And so you have what I can only call a culture of Whatever. Bitcoin failed as a currency because the people who got most invested in it do not care about currency — it could be bottled dragon farts for all they care, except that putting it on the computer means there’s no need to actually worry about a product. It’s just something to pump the value of; the underlying asset could be, well, Whatever. "

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

"Fascinating tangent

This is why I absolutely cannot fucking stand creative work being referred to as "content". "Content" is how you refer to the stuff on a website when you're designing the layout and don't know what actually goes on the page yet. "Content" is how you refer to the collection of odds and ends in your car's trunk. "Content" is what marketers call the stuff that goes around the ads.

"Content"... is Whatever."

@Tati

* Português do outro lado do mar, penando sob 45ºc, olhando para esse toot *

O_O

@elebertus @pluralistic

Yeah, because this time we really do have a real fascist government in the US, advancing a racist and anti-labour agenda, with a secret police kidnapping people off the street, with a budget the size of a medium sized nation...

@Ze_Andarilho
Ah, então fodeu, lascou, deu merda?

@NotaDiamond

Oi...explica aí para este falante de Brasileiro Europeu, pá. O que significa "dar pau"?

"World War I and the Great Depression of the 1930s eroded most of the robber barons’ wealth, and much of their power was eliminated with the elections of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.

America demanded fundamental reforms — a progressive income tax, corporate taxes, estate taxes, limits on the political power of large corporations, antitrust laws, laws enabling workers to form unions and requiring that employers negotiate with them, Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, unemployment insurance, civil rights and voting rights, and Medicare.

For the next half-century, the gains from growth were more widely shared, and democracy became more responsive to the needs and aspirations of average Americans. During these years America created the largest middle class the world had ever seen."

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-single-stupidest-statement-about

@RuiSeabra

The machosphere hates it.

So it must be good!

Está aí alguém que se dedique ao tema de arquivos, arquivística e bibliotecas?
É para uma amiga enriquecer o seu perfil no Mastodon seguindo pessoas e instituições interessantes.
Boost para maior alcance, please. :-)
#bibliotecas #música #nerds #arquivos #arquivística

@augustocc @programadorreal

Oba, não conhecia. Como você o compara com o Hugo, por exemplo?

@cwebber

It's "decentralized" but only has one, very central, instance.

So...it's like claiming you have a multicoloured pencil box, but with only one blue pencil inside, no other pencils available and no plans to provide them.

@cstross @tbortels @Remittancegirl

It fucked it up because it was never a "reunification". It was an annexation and privatisation of public assets from the East.
That was the goal of the Treuhand.
The West capitalist industrialists were never interested in improving the conditions of life for people in the East. They wanted new consumers to expand their markets and above all, fresh cheap industrial assets at bargain prices (the Treuhand was a fire sale of public goods, just like in 1990's Russia; they literally stole public funded and public built property and gave it to oligarchs) and cheap, flexible and downtrodden labour to outcompete and crush unions in the west. Furthermore, they could use the east Germans as "examples" to prevent western Germans from ever considering any temptations of "socialism", by conflating socialist policies and labour rights with autocracy ("socialism = bad").
There was never other outcome to be expected.

@cstross @tbortels @Remittancegirl

When you remove the option for left-wing policies off the table (as neoliberals, their institutions and media have been doing for 40 years, "there is no alternative") fascism is the only road open for discontent.