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jz, 4 months ago

@eff I wonder: if EFF had never gotten any money from Google, would they call them something more incisive than "paternalistic" (which sounds a bit bad, yet reassuring, clearly not of ultimate danger..)?

maybe more like: "violently predatory" or "beyond monopolistic", or "enemy of freedom" or "ultimate threat for privacy and freedom online"?

bah! "paternalistic" is probably enough to describe one's sugar daddy...

#NGOIndustrialComplex

jz, 4 months ago

@GreenFire Just a quick question: Is what you are describing a world where one is "either with you or with the terrorists"?

Can one be against Trump and Hillary Clinton (her biggest manipulation of US elections ever documented, her suicidal foreign policy)?

Can one be against Putin and the wars of the US in Afghanistan, Iraq, killing 1M people, and its proxy wars?

Can one be against Carlson but acknowledge that when he aligns w/ int. journalist unions, Amnesty, RSF, he is sometimes right?

jz, 7 months ago

We are journalists, and as such we have come to ask you to desist from committing an injustice against one of our own, Julian #Assange.

After thirteen years of persecution, this Australian citizen is currently imprisoned in the United Kingdom under threat of extradition to the United States, at the behest of a conditioned justice which treats him as if he were a spy or a traitor.

../..

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jz, 7 months ago

Beyond the iniquitous fate of the WikiLeaks founder, this procedure turns journalism into a crime and endangers all those who make it their profession, all over the world.

We are journalists, in other words we serve a universally proclaimed fundamental right: the right to know everything that is in the public interest, a right which, in the USA, is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Journalists, says the European Court of Human Rights, are the "watchdogs" of democracy.

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jz, 7 months ago

.../...They can disturb, displease and upset, but they are necessary to ensure that the public knows everything that is being done in its name, so that it can make its choices freely, without being blinded by propaganda and lies.

Julian Assange has done nothing other than reveal information of public interest, and in this sense he has acted as a journalist.

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jz, 7 months ago

We can attest this especially because we have published this information, we have actively collaborated with #WikiLeaks and, in some cases, we have published investigations signed by Julian Assange. While the whole world has been able to judge the democratic usefulness of his revelations, the proceedings brought against him by the United States of America can only strengthen the authoritarian powers in their repression of independent journalism and the free press.

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jz, 7 months ago

We are journalists, diverse in our sensibilities and opinions, but all committed to the same professional ideal: to serve the truth of the facts. This is why, Mr. President, we urge you to put an end to the extradition proceedings against the founder of WikiLeaks. In order to re-establish the truth of which we are the guarantors: before history, #Assange has served journalism.

First signatories: Mediapart, Der Spiegel, Il Fatto Quotidiano, InfoLibre

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/la-redaction-de-mediapart/blog/270923/julian-assange-appeal-launched-mediapart

#FreeAssange

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jz, 8 months ago

@Kilbaba Looks amazing, even through invidious proxy on the evil platform!! So amazing that there should be a more reliable/durable(un-censorable?) way to access the archive! How about neat .flac files on archive.org, and/or bittorrent, or the such? <3

#chiptune #forever

jz, 8 months ago

@Kilbaba invidious is "just" a proxy to youtube, for those who do not want to give away their cultural, musical, political, etc. habits and behaviours to that big US company swallowing souls... It doesnt solve a lot. the real problem is the importance that youtube takes in everyone's lifes...

what is otherwise your favourite source for HQ versions of these chiptunes? there used to be some obscure ffshrine websites, etc... but havent looked in a while... and those private bittorrent trackers...

jz, 8 months ago

@joat it's also true for playing MP3/FLAC files locally, to some extent. (sure computer may die off, but there are backups..)

Remember how it used to be a norm 15y ago? before copaganda from music industry and the governments serving them, and the mirage of "easy" streaming made things go somehow backwards?

jz, 9 months ago

🥱 While some remarkable indie stuff comes from Hollywood, most its production is very homogeneous at a given time in terms of aesthetics, story structures, people making it. I want more diverse aesthetics, cultural background and people!

💥 Some cultural tropes from the USA are almost inevitable, got ingrained in my mind: Most movies contain at least one gun shot. Some contain hundreds, if not thousands, and explosions. Gun saves. "Good guy with a gun" wins. Heroes and cars...

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jz, 9 months ago

🪖 Even some of the most modest productions get infused by the geopolitical agenda of the USA, and the PR interests of its armies and intelligence agencies: USA always the center of the World, the "good guys", defines "bad guys".

😵‍💫 This is subtle but extremely powerful. I want to reset my perspectives and World view by adding multiple input, by counter-balancing that force. In past 20years, thanks to #bittorrent🌊 I explored cinema of all places and times:

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jz, 9 months ago

to explore #Cinema in perpendicular ways, i sometimes search my favourite #bittorrent trackers:

• by directors, exploring entire filmographies (Truffaut, Hitchcock, Murnau, Lang, Melville, Lautner, Godard, Varda, Risi, Pietrangelli, Antonioni, Fellini, Yimou, Gavras, Wilder, Eisenstein, Fulci, Kurosawa, Campion, etc.)

• by name (or through lists) of specific production houses (Hammer, Shaw, Ghibli, Golden Harvest, Cannon, ..)

• by year, for fantastic journeys 1972, 1966, 1984, 1917, etc.

jz, 9 months ago

@nblr "it is the simplest" and "we impose this as a default that you cannot change" together is clearly misleading and manipulative.

When US crowd takes decision that affects the safety of maginalized populations everywhere, in the name of "simplicity", they are practically endangering them (if not plainly spitting in their faces..)

and still the list stops because of max. size of toots. we could add:

• empty promises to solve #2
• shitty crypto-ponzi scam added
• looks at contacts by default

jz, 9 months ago

@juul It's only because of character-limitation (and because the initial toot was from 2018), but yes, it has been added in the subsequent thread...

their "non-googlified" version on their website, last time i checked (a while ago) wouldnt download without..... activating some javascript from google.com (!!! authentic, i double-checked because i was so flabbergasted!)