Notices by ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu), page 12

I've found her analysis and research helpful since it expands on other European powers with colonial ties (my focus is on France, for reasons 😭).

It also gives me space to help answer a stupidly difficult question: can a country, a state, a nation truly be held accountable for the harms committed against a set of people?

I feel like for the United States, it's aggressively doomed as there's so little federal conversation about things like government officials giving orders to "wipe out" or "exterminate" Indigenous peoples.

I have to admit, I am obsessed with the idea of brand allegiance. It's no different (from what I'm understanding) from a kind of corporate nationalism. By buying into something and extending your worth by building an association to a faceless, non-accountable and inherently capitalist entity, what do you gain in return?

It's not protection: companies will and routinely dump and violate its fans/stans/soliders for profit.

What is it?

This is the world of surveillance. This is getting out of hand (and it's been). https://www.fastcompany.com/91087484/how-fast-food-is-becoming-a-new-surveillance-ground. I'm going to always ask folks to read and understand how all of this is tied to the American project, as highlighted in Logics https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/ (https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/JqjB)

$4,000 could:

-> match the need of a grassroot program in Oakland for ~2 months https://www.peoplesprograms.com/pbo - check out their work: https://youtu.be/Cb9fLivGw8o

-> extend or help kickoff permanent homeownership for a family in the Bay Area as a sponsor https://ebprec.org/ -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbU8jkC2EPE

-> sponsor almost two workers fighting injustices at jobs and places like Apple at https://coworkerfund.org/support-workers/tech-workers-fund/

We can't be saying "oh the future" and fiscally carpet bombing any chance at supporting people for the "IDEA" of being at the cutting edge.

The cutting edge of what?

The wet dream of the John Gruber nation is here. https://www.404media.co/email/9e3427e0-af5c-4011-b29e-6a0d63a323a9/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Now they can get install succOS on their vision pro and get more flushable wipes to keep it clean because they keep hitting themselves in the face

The fact and speed of this...

Gruber's recent anti-Asian foaming mirrors the irony and branding of the people who make Apple.

And I'm not talking about the actual laborers. I'm talking about the people who give Apple its reputation.

Never not going to be over the fact that this device is the cost of housing for areas in San Francisco's Mission or New York ($4,000 before taxes)

Ironically, if there's a game I'd recommend, it's definitely The Outer Worlds.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/you-can-get-obsidians-fantastic-rpg-the-outer-worlds-and-all-its-dlc-for-free-on-the-epic-store-this-week

I love to repeat that I got cool with the composer because they KNEW wtf they were doing ha

This isn't sustainable. The "easiest" (aka the lowest cost way for the US to help) would be lifting sanctions on Cuba, relinquishing its control of the DR's government (and since we're here, leaving PR completely, providing them with a payout from the time of their trade from Spain to the US to focus on autonomy projects and a suite of other things other PR folks can tell you about).

It's almost always the same thing - people wanting the damage done centuries ago to be acknowledged (it's not), atoned for in some capacity (African representation in the White House for the country that accelerated this isn't it).

But for now, America and the West copies England's old(!) play book of _exporting_ these things so they can make a false claim like being the first to "abolish slavery" (abolishment by law and not in society is not a just abolishment at all).

About ~1/yr, I'm working with folks who are migrating from Hispanola to the US. It's not a terribly public thing and tbh it's like a "travel su-su". You need someone to vouch for you for the government to even consider you worth admitting and that's if you're not on the immigration shit list (insert Family Guy acceptability score-hard here from the TSA sequence).

The cost of getting people moved around safely climbs (as with everything) however things like cruises and luxury spaces.

Spaces that operate _right next_ to a set of humanitarian crises that the United Nations created (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/world/americas/united-nations-haiti-cholera.html - The United Nations reintroduced cholera to Haiti) or the United States had a deep hand in (like the Duveillars, the US did everything to keep them in Haiti - it was the strongest anti-Communist effort in the island and with its proximity to Cuba, the murder of Haitian citizens meant nothing).

We don't even have to go back THAT far, we can ask the sitting President of the United States about his feelings about Haiti before (https://charlierose.com/videos/25686).

If we're keeping it a buck, if all of this happened within the coordinates of say, 48° 51' N, 2° 21' E, would have been not only addressed but kept as rotating headline news (pray for XXXXX - look up the coords!)

This image is burned into my brain.

TIL that Zoom uses XMPP

It does suck that the top results about Zoom's use of XMPP are about the vulnerability and not the XMPP site itself mentioning Zoom's use (inb4 try google: I know, I checked it before posting it)

fuck generative AI fr fr https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358 y'all are getting annoying

You gotta be kidding me. So much for wanting to help the open Web; they're going to opt to sell people's contributions to the Web.

Reddit: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/17/24075670/reddit-ai-training-license-deal-user-content

Wordpress/Tumblr/Automattic: https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

Who's next? Glitch? Medium? Flickr?

Why do you think people keep pushing people to use Discord as a forum instead of (anything else)?

Edit: Thanks Elon.

@phryk That I can agree with especially because of the aggressive focus on a platform over a protocol

Nintendo baring its teeth in its support of DMCA bullshit: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/nintendo-v-yuzu-switch-emulator-shut-down-settlement/

God, I really hate that the majority of the news on Haiti operates as if the government of Haiti has any interest in helping Haiti.

The fucking Prime Minister who's been tied with the gangs in the past isn't even in the damned country.

This defeats the purpose of writing things. If the page is too long and require summarization, SPLIT IT UP! Make a level setting doc and actually work to make it useful! Do NOT CLICK THE BUTTON