Notices by CEO of Anti-Clock Society (be@floss.social), page 4

It is up to Jews to challenge our own, and our fellow Jews' active support and passive complicity in settler colonialism, not only in Palestine, but everywhere. My grandfather changed his name to avoid anti-Semitism and assimilate, and now my mother identifies as white. Many Ashkenazim, particularly in the US where most Jews live today, identify as white and are happy to benefit from white privilege. This too must be challenged.

I don't know if you've ever talked to a Palestinian, but in my experience, and the experiences of my Jewish friends, Palestinians tend to be extremely kind. I recall once the Palestinian man who owns a restaurant in my neighborhood giving me baklava with my food for free, just to be nice. My friend has had similar experiences at another Palestinian American restaurant. To suggest these people want to kidnap me is ludicrous.

The only Jewish organization I've ever felt comfortable in is Jewish Voice for Peace. Just about any other Jewish organization, I can count on it being Zionist, and facing harsh backlash and/or exile if I speak up for Palestinians. Sometimes even saying the word "Palestine", even acknowledging that Palestinians exist, is enough to trigger severe backlash from other Jews.

Last night in a meeting of JVP, an elder told her story of visiting the West Bank in the early 2000's soon after the Second Intifada. She saw the occupation of Palestine herself and saw the city of Jenin in ruins. When she came home, her synagogue refused to even let her speak about her experience.

In the same meeting, a younger Jew told her story of telling her dad about challenging Zionism. Despite her dad rarely expressing their Jewish identity much her whole life, her dad was so enraged that he threatened to never talk to her again.

It is imperative for Jews to reclaim our identity, our faith, and our traditions from Zionism. It is such a tragedy that these are conflated with a settler colonial state committing genocidal violence. We must not let them win in defining Jewish identity.

We must resist Zionism for Palestinians' safety as well as our own. Our fates are inextricably bound with those of our cousins. Israeli propaganda claims that Israel makes the world safe for Jews. I have heard this trope from my family. But is precisely the opposite. No Jew anywhere in the world is safe while the state of Israel oppresses Palestinians in our name. Israeli violence fuels anti-Semitism everywhere.

I don't know if gentiles have are aware of this, so I feel a need to speak. You've likely noticed lately the extraordinary and harsh repercussions that people criticizing Israel face, even if they are Jews. I want you to know this also happens within Jewish communities and families. Probably every anti-Zionist Jew can tell you a story of alienation from some Jewish group for their politics.

As a recent example from my own life, three weeks ago (after October 7), my mom texted me. I didn't respond immediately. The next day she said she was afraid that I had been kidnapped by Palestinians... while I was sitting safely at home in Chicago. My mom has been saying wildly racist shit about Palestinians, and other racialized peoples, my whole life. It's one reason I wasn't enthusiastic about responding to her text immediately.

@Yehuda @Hvresse @Tzipporah Would you take donations of laptops instead of money? Likely someone on the fediverse has an old laptop lying around.

🙈 Volkswagen detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass.

https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen

If you want your software to be adopted by Americans, good tests scores from the CI server are very important. Volkswagen uses a defeat device to detect when it's being tested in a CI server and will automatically reduce errors to an acceptable level for the tests to pass.

@mhoye AI will save the world!

@alx @aral It's pretty clear that's what was going on. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67082047

List of Palestinian solidarity rallies around the US and Canada this weekend

https://uscpr.org/oct-2023-protests/

This clock is right more than twice a day. It is always right because it is not trying to tell you what time it is.

@eniko When people ask me "Is that your real name?", I respond with "It is if you really call me it."

"All unions are oligarchic. All unions are counter-revolutionary. All unions have cooperated with management and the police to suppress unauthorized “wildcat” strikes, as they still did in the 1970’s, when unions still had some power. We will never abolish work without some kind of a revolution..."

https://hermetic.com/black/afterthoughts-on-the-abolition-of-work

"... The unions, if they still exist, will have nothing to do with that. Anything that puts business out of business, puts unions out of business too. Unions are, in fact, businesses. They are much more like insurance companies than social movements."

Unions are in a sadomasochistic relationship with bosses. Unions are subs and bosses are doms.

@gamey Why own the means of producing bullshit?