Notices by ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu), page 8

@dansup only thing I see with this, slick either way

A poem by Brendan Joyce. The immediate interpretation will make you believe revolution is the issue. But it's to highlight the fixation of elections contributes to more death (by lack of direct action).

From https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/brendan-joyce-love-and-solidarity-review

#poem

Two of my Black lawyer friends considered this SC ruling on homelessness and regulations an easy on ramp to slavery and I'm twiddling my thumbs here.

I'm about to try my hand at making a CSS carousel thingy and the first thing that comes to mind is @heydon's Inclusive Components on how to do it (considering slowly reworking my site around this).

If I can muster the will, I could record this. Anything to wiggle on /work. Wish I had more time at past places to do more concrete writeups on work to also waggle.

This is why I routinely avoid non-critical folks who don't have intersectional lenses. What ICE has will be expanded and shared with correctional facilities. What the DEA does will be expanded to hunt down folks trying to run abortions.

It's never a problem until it's bugging white people. https://chaosfem.tw/@DivineKestrel/112697955280336273

@so_treu @dave lmfao it was on HERE

I just saw alf with tiddies and y'all about to have me convert BACK to Islam

Woy! is a good outlet for news on #Haiti that doesn't succumb to Western ideas of Haiti as a blight on the Western hemisphere. This recent title hits with a proverb that easily explains Western propaganda: in order to have you justify their violence, they'll (centrist news, politicans and everyone in-between) tell you what they need to have you cheer on their violence.

https://open.substack.com/pub/woymag/p/le-yo-vle-touye-chen-yo-di-l-fou

The Haitian people and the Haitian state are two completely different beings and the rarest time they aligned was when the only elected president in its 200-year history, Aristide, was elected (and then deposed by the United States two decades ago: https://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/17/exclusive_aristide_talks_with_democracy_now)

Using #Discord as a forum is a weird experience. Even trying to view this feels overly .. crowded? And search seems overloaded with searching in channels, people - like a "omni-search" that's more likely to give something _I don't need_ versus actionable info.

Truly worth it. I'm actually about to sell my Switch and its games (and I already gave away my Xbox after deleting my account - considering selling them but after playing with the discs 🦜).

Being able to play games from anywhere is one of the very very few ways to fight off platform enclosure and allows me to directly support independent game makers (by getting their work on Itch, GoG, Humble Bumble or Steam itself).

It's not praise for Valve. It's an acknowledgement of options and being more optimistic, we need concrete ones.

https://toot.majorshouse.com/@majorlinux/112674786755273960

Good news https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/julian-assange-reached-plea-deal-us-allowing-go-free-rcna158695

I need more material on the history of Microsoft. I know it effectively began as a shield for IBM to avoid antitrust issues and that Gates got insider access that allowed him to leapfrog. But I want to learn more about the political relationships they've managed to develop, especially outside the United States.

I love Google! They're the most ideal company to have in Africa! With all of their knowledge, they're no way they'd play into caricatures of the contine-

@aral That's not what I said at all, Aral.

@potch you're not supposed to leak my therapy notes 😭😭😭

I wasn't expecting @aral to take this into a moment to play victim: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112661498565879805. And at this point, I'm more annoyed than disappointed.

But whatever.

@aral

1. Fixed the first one.

2. Whiteness is a construct and is deployed across phenotypes, geographical markers and the like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_theory. This is how folks like the Karshadians are able to also deploy a sense of whiteness on a global scale: https://ajammc.com/2017/08/29/armenian-whiteness-america/. In short, in the way that I can't run from my Blackness because of whiteness, society will not allow you to run from that. It's on how you utilize it that makes a difference.

3. I'm going off the word of the founder of Elementary, who's highlighted that (and you've blocked?). To follow your example regarding System76's COSMIC, what's available to people (i.e. a layperson isn't building Comet from source, they're pulling it from AppCenter) is what they'll perceive as available. If you haven't updated it, that's on you to fix (and that's easy it sounds like).

This is something Angela Davis wrote about as well.

I wrote https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/oh-aral/ about the recent accessibility campaign that @aral's been holding in (or against) the GNOME community, how it's an inversion of privilege preservation and how I fell for it.

I saw red flags and ignored them because of the messaging.

"There's no evidence of said behavior. But because of the increase of independent knowledge discovery that counters mainstream narratives, especially during the recent uprisings across schools, more legislators are moving to prevent those same events from happening again by weakening what younger folks tend to rely on for general mass communications." - me

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/17/social-media-mental-health-research-surgeon-general/

deflate the ego