You have to overlook 235 days of Israeli butchery and the deaths of over 36,000 Palestinian people to ask “What about October 7th?”
But I guess even that’s nothing compared to overlooking 75 years of settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing should your calendar for blame happen to begin and end on October 7th.
“France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that recognition of a Palestinian state was not a ‘taboo subject’ but that it should take place at a ‘useful moment’.
@Chris I don’t much care who Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people is convenient for. I would very much like to see it stop and for Israel to be held accountable.
There might be space for a few people from outside the university to attend so if you want to drop by, make some noise and I’ll have a chat with the university.
Thanking @mirela for organising this and looking forward to hopefully meeting some of you in the Netherlands soon.
• Runtime is now Node 22 (22.1.0 as 22.2.0 has a bug that can crash on deprecation warnings). This might be a breaking change for your code (e.g., import…assert is now import…with, etc.) Remember, Kitten is pre-release/not API-versioned yet.
• Applied all semver-compatible dependency version upgrades.
• Fixed tests & coverage. Tests are still woefully inadequate but will improve.
There’s a difference between being useful and being a usefool.
A usefool is someone who launders their legitimacy to benefit corporate interests for short-term gain. They do so even if, ultimately, it’s against their own interests and those of others in the longer term. (1/3)
Oftentimes, the usefool doesn’t think the longer-term ramifications apply to them as they feel sheltered by their perceived privilege. However, not being among the predator class that own and run corporations, they mistake the scraps occasionally thrown to them as a sign that they’ll be protected from ever becoming prey themselves. Sadly, some find out the hard way that the only people not prey in a system run by predators are the predators themselves. (2/3)
I love how folks still think people farmers like Google have a trust problem.
In 2024!
They don’t have a trust problem.
They are untrustworthy.
And they’ve always been untrustworthy. It’s just that your friends happen to work there and your agency gets scraps of work from them sometimes and maybe they sponsor events you speak at that you’re even still questioning this. And, by doing so – still, even today – helping legitimise them.
@aral> It’s just that your friends happen to work there and your agency gets scraps of work from them sometimes and maybe they sponsor events you speak at
Or they're a patron of your FOSS project or Linux distro you use.
If your justification for the genocide of the Palestinian people is that what Israel’s doing is legal, may I remind you the Holocaust was legal too. Hitler was acting entirely within the laws of Nazi Germany while committing the genocide of the Jewish (and Roma, and gay, and disabled, …) people.
Legal does not mean moral, just, or right.
If something is legal but unjust, it is your moral duty to break the law.
No social progress has ever come about without moral people breaking unjust laws.