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strypey

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Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! All my posts here are CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later).
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strypey, to random
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Blockchins (n.): Very square jaws.

strypey, to random
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"Capitalists don't want market economies, where they have to compete with one another, eroding their margins and profits – they want a planned economy, like Amazon, where Party Secretary Bezos and his commissars tell merchants what they can sell and tell us what we must pay."

#CoryDoctorow, 2024

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/make-them-afraid/#fear-is-their-mind-killer

#markets #PlannedEconomy

strypey,
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Make capitalists afraid again!

strypey, to Podcasts
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So in 2024 we've got NSW police saying of recent Sydney stabbings;

"I urge all Australians to seek their information from reputable news sources"

Meanwhile 7 News is confirming the name of one of the stabbers... and getting it wong;

"That guys couldn't leave his house, because he was falsely named based off... internet conjecture that was then reported as facts, then repeated."

, Mumbrella

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018936035/mediawatch-for-28-april-2024

strypey,
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Clearly we need better metrics for what makes for a credible news source. I doubt looking for outlets that are high profile, well-funded or long-serving was ever enough, but it's certainly not any more.

strypey,
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"We don't have free speech in Australia. That's not part of our constitution, it's part of the American constitution, and because of that our defamation laws are such that Ben Robert Smith can sue... and it just drags all this stuff through the courts, and millions of dollars are spent, and everyone comes out of it badly."

, Mumbrella, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018936035/mediawatch-for-28-april-2024

Where do I start with this nonsense?

strypey,
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First, it may not be specifically protected in the Australian constitution, but they definitely have free speech. Otherwise the government would be free to tell Mumbrella and other news outlets what they can publish, like the CCP can and do with media outlets based in China.

Second, I'm not sure exactly how defamation laws work in the US, but people can most definitely sue if they believe they're misrepresented. The 2nd amendment protections for free speech constrain Congress, not the courts.

strypey, to Podcasts
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"...over 60,000 between the USSR and the US... but thankfully we've got it down to a sensible 5 or 6 thousand warheads each now. It's still plenty to kill everybody on the planet 5 times over, but at least it's not enough to kill us 50 times over, which is where we were in the early 80s."
https://dreamland.libsyn.com/generation-x-and-the-nuclear-nightmare

#podcasts #DreamLand #nuclear #NuclearWeapons

strypey, to random
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Overall the ban on cell phone use in schools seems to be a net positive;

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/02/how-students-are-reacting-to-the-school-phone-ban.html

I guess even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

strypey, to facepalm
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Tori Whanau's column in this weekend's Sunday Star-Times talked about introducing water meters and charging households for water.

Have we learned nothing from the privatisation of the publicly-funded electricity network? Which has led to households facing massive price hikes since the 1990s - a contributor to the rising cost of living - while effectively subsidising commercial users who can get power much cheaper on the spot market.

strypey,
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Wellington council are also looking at privatising what's left of the public's shareholding in the airport;

https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin/10-11-2023/will-the-city-to-sea-bridge-survive-wellingtons-cost-cutting-spree

This is what happens when we don't have a progressive tax system that allows governments - local and central - to maintain public infrastructure without running huge budget deficits, and increasing public debt.

strypey, (edited ) to InitialD
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An entertaining and insightful history of social housing in the UK. Including how Thatcher's 'right to buy' empowered the same kind of predatory slumlords that social housing was intended to protect working people from, and resulted in people working hard to buy their flat, only to be evicted and given a pittance when the tower blocks their homes were part of were under-maintained and then condemned.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AxCgueTf0W0

#video #UK #history #housing #SocialHousing

strypey, to random
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Deducated (adj.): Taught to death.

thomasbeagle, to random
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In the old days I'd assume it was a technical problem causing Reddit in the browser to get unreliable and slow, but these days I assume they're deliberately fucking it up to force people to use their app.

strypey,
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@paulhellyer
> I use various instances of Libreddit

The one you linked is now running Redlib.

A click on "code" at the bottom links to;
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

Suggesting it and others are now running RedLib. Good to know such a thing exists.

@thomasbeagle

strypey,
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@paulhellyer
> I use various instances of Libreddit

A click on "code" at the bottom of that page links to;
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

Suggesting it and others are now running RedLib. Good to know such a thing exists.

@thomasbeagle

strypey, to Podcasts
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"[Current Affairs TV shows] still rate really well in Australia. They do hard reporting (but) they have a kind of tabloid magazine format. Morally, they go beyond the pale a lot of times. There's trickery involved in getting stories. They'll pay money, you know, as we've seen with Bruce Lehrmann. But ethically, they fall short at times and the networks get sued."

, Deputy Editor, media news website Mumbrella

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018935997/competitive-current-affairs-across-the-tasman

strypey,
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I watched 7 Sharp recently. It was mostly promotion disguised as news. Not sure we're really getting bang for buck considering what gets spent making these shows.

JoshuaACNewman, to random
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In Netanyahu's view, support of antisemitism serves the function of supporting Israel.

Bibi Netanyahu is a committed, powerful antisemite.
https://mastodon.social/@LiberalEd/112338611422296377

strypey,
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"In turn the size and scope of government efforts to quash these protests is also unprecedented, now becoming evocative of Kent State in 1970. That’s the first thing that comes to mind when anyone proposes placing National Guard troops on a US college campus. Doing so would be a provocation and incitement for escalation, and that game plan appears to be unfolding."

, 2024

https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/zionisms-expired-pharaoh.html

Also reminiscent of the provocation at the Sorbonne in 1968.

@JoshuaACNewman

strypey,
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"Judaism came first and has an obligation to take the lead in creating a new paradigm, of a monotheistic, biblically-rooted tradition that nevertheless stands for tolerance and human rights for all. Jews must recognize that the shelf-life of Zionism has expired. Also important is that Judaism is a religion, not a form of ethno-nationalism, despite former President Trump’s attempts to dragoon all Jews into the effort to censor free speech over Palestinian human rights."

https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/zionisms-expired-pharaoh.html

strypey,
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"Our Judaism cannot be protected by the rampaging military of that state, for all that military does is sow sorrow and reap hatred – including against us as Jews.

Our Judaism is not threatened by people raising their voices in solidarity with Palestine across lines of race, ethnicity, physical ability, gender identity and generations.

Our Judaism is one of those voices and knows that in that chorus lies both our safety and our collective liberation."

, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel

nedhamson1, to random
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Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’ | Bernie Sanders | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/bernie-sanders-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-gaza-war “No Mr Netanyahu, it is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that, in a little over six months, your extremist government has killed over 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 78,000, 70% of whom are women and children,” Sanders said.

strypey,
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@Hyolobrika
> Does anyone have any copies of these videos?

Firstly, it's irresponsible to make claims like this without presenting the evidence yourself. Otherwise it's like me claiming you raid the graves of dead children and eat their organs, then asking if anyone has video.

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@nedhamson1

strypey,
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Second, nobody is claiming anti-semitism doesn't exist. Of course anti-semites are going to jump on the Palestine solidarity bandwagon and try to twist anti-Zionism into anti-semitism. We do need to push back firmly and decisively against this.

But as @adiz says, that doesn't change the fact that what the crypto-fascists in charge of Israel are doing is totally beyond acceptable, and must be stopped.

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@Hyolobrika @nedhamson1

strypey,
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It's also worth keeping this in mind;

https://mastodon.social/@LiberalEd/112346625445084598

@adiz
@Hyolobrika @nedhamson1

feld, to random
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Student Movements Are Often Wrong https://reason.com/volokh/2024/04/26/student-movements-are-often-wrong/

LMAO this is based as fuck

strypey,
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@feld
It's take on the Vietnam outcome is profoundly wrong-headed. The US students could not predict or control the future atrocities by the Khmer Rouge et al. But they certainly could know about the actually existing atrocities being committed by their own country's military, and that many of their peers were coming home in body bags. And as it turned out, that was something they could control.

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strypey,
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The Paris 1868 insurrection, for example, kicked off when the cops ignored a centuries-old tradition of leaving uni campus discipline to the Procter. The cooperation the later stages of the uprising engendered between students and industrial workers had huge positive impact on French politics and society, for decades to come.

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@feld

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