This year, the obscene capitalist ritual known as "black friday", was marked by the stabbing of a racist cop, worldwide anti-colonial demonstrations, and direct actions targeting corporations facilitating colonial projects, policing and genocide.
Lets keep the momentum going and normalize active resistance against the ecocidal status quo.
Our hearts are with our friends at
the Tesla Science Center who have just experienced a devastating fire. Please be there for them - their work is invaluable.
I suppose there’s still the occasional journalist out there actually asking a few questions every now and again. Here I thought they’d gone the way of the dinosaurs..
Interesting video of Sam Husseini highlighting the US complicity in the Gaza Genocide, asking the pertinent question whether the U.S. is actively preventing Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from invoking the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice — also known as the World Court — in the Hague.
Nothing says colonial cruelty like turning a family park into a giant sandbox for genocidal colonizers to play in whilst supposedly looking for hostages.
Israeli tanks have carved a giant star of David into what used to be Katiba Park in Gaza.
If I've learned one thing from covid it's that apparently the vast majority of orgs and people in this society do not plan anything more than about six weeks into the future
Remember folks, it’s antisemitic to say that Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. The correct term you’re looking for is “compassionate calorific restriction.”
@aral Friendly reminder that Israel and the United Snakes are the only states who don't think that access to food is a human right, and voted against such a UN resolution in 2021.
Watched an interview with him last night (he was a lead Middle East correspondent for the NYT for around 20 years, and lived for something like 7 years in Gaza City).
He has this very bland, calm demeanor despite the thousand yard stare as he talks about unspeakable atrocities, likening the scale of the horrors in Gaza to the seige of Stalingrad. The interviewer asks him how he's feeling about all this, and his tone is so casual, so matter-of-fact, as he replies simply, "Well, you know. I don't sleep at night."
Remember when everyone's favorite lesser evil, #GenocideJoe, fought tooth and nail to keep segregation going because he didn’t want his kids to grow up in a “racial jungle”?
@seachanger This is a gross misrepresentation of the Nakba, which was planned as early as 1917, at least. If you’re not aware of the history, maybe you should read up on it, rather than posting despicable justifications for 75 years of systematic ethnic cleansing, genocide, and human rights violations.
The UK, US, Soviet Union, Sweden et al. should be eternally ashamed for their vile treatment of Jewish people before, during and after WWII, but that is no excuse for what the state of Israel have been doing since day one. Two wrongs do not make a right.
There’s plenty of good books detailing the birth of Israel and the Nakba, I suggest you read some of them before spreading disinformation. Ilan Pappé’s The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is a good place to start.
Palestinians Sue Biden for Failing to Prevent Genocide in Gaza
Via the intercept:
“The 89-page lawsuit, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights in a California federal district court, traces 75 years of history and analyzes acts committed and rhetoric espoused by the Israeli government that exhibit a disregard for international law. It is accompanied by a declaration from a genocide expert who describes Israel’s actions as signs of genocide and argues that the Biden administration has breached its duty under international law to prevent it.
“Under international law, the United States has a duty to take all measures available to it to prevent a genocide. Yet, Defendants have repeatedly refused to use their obvious and considerable influence to set conditions or place limits on Israel’s massive bombing and total siege of Gaza,” the lawsuit reads.
“Despite escalating evidence of Israeli policies directed at inflicting mass harm to the Palestinian population in Gaza,” the Biden administration has opposed “a life-saving cease-fire and lifting of the siege, even vetoing United Nations measures calling for a ceasefire,” the lawsuit continues. “Instead, their actions to fund, arm, and endorse Israel’s mass and devastating bombing campaign and total siege of the Palestinians in Gaza constitutes a failure to prevent an unfolding genocide and complicity in its development.”
“This case is brought on behalf of Palestinian human rights organizations and individuals to enforce what is perhaps the most basic and important legal, and moral, obligation in the world – the obligation to prevent genocide, the destruction of a people.
This duty is enshrined in the 1948 Genocide Convention, to which the United States, Israel and Palestine have all acceded, and it
is judicially enforceable as a peremptory norm of customary international law. Plaintiffs seek an order of this Court requiring that the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense adhere to their duty to prevent, and not further, the unfolding genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza.
If the legal responsibility to prevent an unfolding genocide is to mean anything – indeed, if the rule of law is to signify anything – courts must have a role and responsibility to enforce these foundational international law principles. The lives of so many more people are at stake.”
Now that is a banger of an intro, it has to be said.
The 89 page lawsuit can be viewed/downloaded here: 👇
This has been the primary complaint from security and privacy experts as well as others regarding the Signal software, which otherwise is widely considered "the gold standard" in encrypted messaging, alongside that one must register using such a personally identifying telephone number even after Signal started using its own centralized servers as method of communications about a decade ago and then dumped SMS ("phone texts") entirely, while other similar privacy-focused chat softwares such as Wire and others have allowed for both sharing one's contact information in the form of a username and for registering using the much more privacy-friendly e.g. e-mail method of registering for their services.
@b9AcE They still demand that you register a sim-card though, so there's actually no meaningful difference. From a privacy/opsec standpoint it's utterly useless as they demand you broadcast your exact location and your phone's macaddress.
I so, so, so don't want to drive any new car that can do this:
A federal appeals court refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.
The court ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors, which are defendants in five related class action suits focused on the issue.
The plaintiffs had appealed a prior judge’s dismissal. But the appeals court ruled Tuesday that the interception and recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.
A suit filed against Honda in 2021, argu[ed] that beginning in at least 2014 infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system.
An Annapolis, Maryland-based company, Berla Corporation, provides the technology to some car manufacturers but does not offer it to the general public, the lawsuit said. Once messages are downloaded, Berla’s software makes it impossible for vehicle owners to access their communications and call logs but does provide law enforcement with access, the lawsuit said.
Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. Automakers are exponentially increasing the number of sensors they place in their cars every year with little regulation of the practice.
One of the more limiting things about Signal is you have to give out your mobile number to everyone. Even if it is a burner, I still don't want to advertise to the world that it's mine.
Was happy to read today that Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.
@briankrebs Don't see the point of this since they still demand a sim-card. So you'll still advertise your location/identity to every fucking cell-tower in vicinity.
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Das 40,00€ teurer gewordene Nachfolgeticket zum 9-Euro-Ticket soll Daten melken. Zwar solle das Ticket übergangsweise nicht nur für Smartphones erhältlich sein sondern auch auf Chip-Karten und kurzzeitig auf Papier mit QR-Code, aber wichtig scheint es den Regierenden vor allem anderen, dass mit dem 49€-Ticket Echtzeit-Verkehrsdaten erhoben werden können.
Positiv klingt zunächst: "Es werde nicht gespeichert, wer von A nach B fährt, sondern nur, wie stark die Verkehrsmittel ausgelastet sind. Für die Fahrgäste könnte das ein Nutzen sein, weil die Verkehrsunternehmen so für ausreichend Kapazitäten sorgen könnten."
Allerdings: Das Ticket wird wohl nur als Abo personalisiert erworben werden können, so dass darüber anfallende Personendaten zukünftig schnell integriert werden könnten. Mit Hinblick auf den aktuellen massiven Ausbau des Überwachungsstaats und der Kontrollgesellschaft in Deutschland und der EU (digitale Personenkennziffer/RegMod, Chatkontrolle, Identifizierungspflicht, Biometrie, eIDAS uvm) ist es doch auch gar nicht die Frage ob, sondern nur wann und mit welchem Vorwand (Anschläge, Pandemie, Jugendschutz, Wahlkampf) personalisierte Datenerfassung und Polizeizugriffe kommen werden, sobald die digitale Kontrollinfrastruktur erst einmal errichtet wurde.
@autonomysolidarity I wish people would stop dishonestly reporting this. They're experimenting with usernames, but you still have to share your phone number which will be linked to the username. Nothing has fundamentally changed.
@autonomysolidarity Just to be clear, i wasn't criticizing you for sharing the article, just expressing frustration with how the tech journalists are presenting it.