It’s estimated that between 1,000 and 1,200 settlers surrounded the village, and around 500 stormed it just after midday local time on Friday, blocking all the roads in the area....
The purpose of terrorism is to generate fear. This is something different, like oppression, displacement, or genocide. The purpose here is to replace people, not to spread fear.
Possibly, but terrorism is really an understatement of what is going on here.
In the West after 9/11 there seems to be this assumption that nothing is worse than terrorism, but that's an incredibly privileged take founded in the conviction that the enemies of the West are too weak to achieve anything worse when attacking our civilization than to spread fear.
Once you start eradicating an entire population it's not, or at least not primarily, terrorism any more.
Yeah. What is happening is beyond what most of us can fathom, and certainly beyond what we can express. And the feeling of powerlessness is not making anything better.
And everyone feels this way. I have a friend who is working directly with the UN in Palestine, she was working on it before this all broke and she's still doing it now. She says most of her job these days is to counter propaganda attacks from Israeli shell organisations, and that it feels like she's not doing anything meaningful at all. Any individual action just feels too small, and it's disheartening as fuck.
It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?
OpenStreetMaps is amazing, but it is a map, not a whole ecosystem like Google Maps is. As a map I find it's often better than Google Maps, but what is still lacking are good front-ends implementing a wide range of functionality in a user friendly way.
On desktop I often use GNOME Maps, but it leaves a lot to be desired still and is obviously intended for Linux users running GNOME.
Let's see if Loops can fill the gap. Not sure if an open source alternative could generate enough hype to be viable - maybe if TikTok is banned in the US or something.
Great song about the difficulties of making a living off music now that everything is available for nothing. Father John Misty recorded a version when he was invited to the Spotify Sessions, which was a nice little fuck you to the people inviting him.
A fun industry fact: Have A Cigar was sung by Roy Harper, as he happened to be in the studio and the members of Floyd thought he could be a good fit. Roy Harper is perhaps more known in the mainstream through the Zeppelin song Hats Off to (Roy) Harper than through his own recordings, though he's still alive and active.
Harper didn't feel like he was appropriately compensated for his work on Have a Cigar, which is ironic considering the overall thematic.
It's not very newsworthy perhaps, but seems relevant for a union community.
When seen in relation to what has happened over at Boeing it's a decent reminder of the role of unions not only in ensuring worker's rights, but also in guaranteeing quality and safety for consumers.
I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community....
I'm curious - what's the difference between magazines and users when linked to the greater fediverse?
It seems like the link to both would be @name@kbin.social. If somebody creates a user named news, it would therefore be found at @news@kbin.social - which is where the news magazine is found.
Don't these collide? How do we distinguish between the two?
[YT] How Mozilla Ruined Firefox (www.youtube.com)
Actually pretty good video....
a-ha - Take On Me (1984) (www.youtube.com)
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8/10 adults did not realise this (lemmy.ca)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/19875697
Documents found on a North Korean server suggest US studios may have unknowingly outsourced animation work (www.cnn.com)
Israeli settlers storm West Bank village, setting cars and homes ablaze (lemmy.world)
It’s estimated that between 1,000 and 1,200 settlers surrounded the village, and around 500 stormed it just after midday local time on Friday, blocking all the roads in the area....
What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?
It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?
What are songs about the music industry that you like?
Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow (edition.cnn.com)
Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.
These mods on their power-trips really need to stop
I just got banned from linux@lemmy.ml, which seems to be the biggest Linux community out there....
President Biden is now posting into the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps (www.xda-developers.com)
Airbus Canada union votes 99.9% to reject latest offer, 99.6% voters rejected first offer (montreal.ctvnews.ca)
[Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites (retrododo.com)
I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community....
TIL in 1995 NASA tested psychoactive compounds on spiders. Each drug affected their web patterns differently. (lemmy.world)
Here’s a more detailed description for those that like to read up: rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-exper…...