Blackcap @blackcap@todon.nl
Citizen of Annares, born on Earth by mistake. Your authoritarian systems suck, Terrans, but I love your rain forests. Could you please respect them more?
Trump regime is studying ways to strip Americans of their citizenship, taking a page straight from the Nazi Party's strategy in Germany. (It's how they legally sent Jews off to the camps, by stripping them of their citizenship, so the Weimar Constitution's civil rights no longer applied to them.)
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/uscis-starting-denaturalization-task-force
Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus), one of my favorite berries. Tastes much like a garden raspberry, but less sweet and with a stronger flavor.
If we abolish ICE, our work won't be done. State-sanctioned discrimination and violence against immigrants has existed long before ICE's creation in 2003. In 1882, the US banned Chinese immigrants from entering the country for ten years. Later, Chinese people living in the US had to obtain certificates of residence or be deported.
This is a consequence of the state itself --- creating categories of included and excluded based on where you were born.
Abolish ICE, but also abolish the state.
Abolish ICE
Really, the entire fact there’s a disagreement with the parameters of the one that’s apparently emerging shows how fucked-up and detached from reality Establishment political narratives tend to be.
http://blackcap.name/blog/new/?p=3536
Combined with activism, direct action, and mutual aid, electoral politics at the national, provincial, and local levels form and essential piece of the socialist struggle. Electoralism may not (on its own) force the means of production out of bourgeois hands, but it will increase the profile of our ideas and shift the Overton Window in our favor.
Dewberry or trailing blackberry (Rubus ursinus). They taste like small, very flavorful (and very delicious) blackberries. It figures in the parentage of the boysenberry and the loganberry, being bred into these specifically for its flavor.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-tech-avengers-1530285064
TL;DR Industry insiders aren't going to save anyone from anything. Tweaking around with "screen time" or interface design or adding extra "street cred" from a younger generation doesn't address any of the real problems with Sillicon Valley.
If any of these rich morons were actually sincere they would have to abandon their business models and start again with federated and distributed systems with no data concentration. But of course they're not going to do that.
I found out that Google is hosting some Nazi sites collecting money for Unite the Right. Anyone have experience convincing Google to take them down?
The Game of Life implemented in The Game of Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
$%@#?!! Juneuary
The rest of India is famed for collapsing into mass rioting when one religion feels slighted by another. Kerala is famed for collapsing into mass rioting when a government proposes cutting the health or education budget. And Kerala is one of the most religiously diverse states, not one of the most religiously homogenous. 2/2
It's a democratic socialist example and all, not an anarchist one, but how much things like hunger and lack of health care are really a lack off equitable distribution and not a lack of technology is exhibited by the Indian state of Kerala. Per capita income under $1K/yr (one of India's *poorest* states), near-universal literacy, life expectancy in the seventies and rising. Why? Class consciousness. 1/
I propose a new ideology: #antifatalism
It's about the affirmative belief that humans can change the things that can in principle be changed by humans: Climate change, War, Poverty, etc. We don't have to be resigned to the idea that misery is neverending.
There's no natural law (not even entropy) that says we cannot fix these things. There's only us.
(Note that antifatalism does not imply belief in free will.)
A really good example of that was the Personal Democracy Forum earlier in the year, sponsored by those companies and promanently fearuring Google and Facebook speakers. It's hard to discuss what democracy means, or should become, in the internet era if Facebook is dominating the narrative.
The real inflection point in the surveillance capital story came with web 2.0 in the mid 2000s. Before then the capitalistic stuff was aimed at the user as a paying customer. The commercialism of web 1.0 was a golden era, of sorts, in the sense that companies were trying to produce systems which met the needs of users (often unsuccessfully, admittedly). After web 2.0 the customer was advertisers and the user was just a unit or "impression" or series of "clicks" to be sold.
Life on Enclaudius, below the ice sheets covering the liquid oceans of the Saturnian moon? Evidence of complex organic molecules found.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/saturn-moon-enceladus-complex-organics-life-space-science/?beta=true
@nemoudeis And this is totally bogus: "And organic farming reduces soil quality because it requires ploughing." You think no conventional farmer tills the soil, ever? Seriously?
