There's so much going on that I can't post disapproving posts for every single thing. So here's just one blanket one.
It's all wrong. You know, everything. All of it. Not just in the US, but it's happening, or starting to, everywhere. The rule of law is abandoned and people are shipped off to uncontrolled foreign prisons. People's right to be who they are is removed. Institutions to help and better other people are disbanded.
We need to get back to caring about other people. Care about the next generation's ability to get educated. No matter the skin colour, no matter the social class, care about whether people can buy food. Care about people getting a fair trial. Care about people whether they are your gender or not, or have the gender you think they have, or even have a gender.
Care about other people, no matter what kind of 'other' they are.
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I also sometimes use platforms that support nomadic identity, that allows my channels on multiple servers to be synced. From software that doesn’t support that, a follow request looks like multiple separate requests from those channels.
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
Source for everyone in cybersecurity to read through and experience the craziness themselves whistlebloweraid.org/wp-conten…
If the world survives, this will be a required reading in many #cybersecurity courses.
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Soon the Germans will be making the same joke but using “American English”.
Votes for 16 year olds: the scientific argument
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A lot of the arguments against it basically boil down to "they do knife crime!"
But unless you believe nobody over 18 has ever done a crime, this claim falls apart when you think about it for even a second
Votes for 16 year olds: the scientific argument
The Prime Minister has confirmed plans to give the vote to 16 year olds, and the usual suspects are miffed. But they shouldn't be. Because scientifically, it makes more sense than it doesn'tDean Burnett (The Neuroscience of Everyday Life)
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I've mentioned her before, as an actress and as a singer, but Corina Bradley is also a really good dancer. Here in a choreography of her own:
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Interview in Interview by Jenna Ortega with Natalie Portman. They talk about acting, life, being a child star, and Jenna describes how as a 5yo kid she used to think all TV was real and cameras were in everybody's house. I mean, they aren't?
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New film poster for Hurry Up Tomorrow with Jenna Ortega. Out 16 May in the cinema.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have been on a Fight Oligarchy tour.
I think history is going to remember AOC's 'We are not powerless' speech. This is some watch:
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Back home, Sanders made this 'Bad News / Good News' address:
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#FightOligarchy #AlexandriaOcasioCortez #AOC #BernieSanders #Bernie #USPol
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Waiting for someone to come back at me and mention that she doesn't actually say that slogan in this speech... Made you watch... But isn't misquoting historical speeches sort of the norm? The slogan is very much the theme of the speech however, it is in the caption, and she does say it in another version of this speech. Also, sorry, I misremembered.
What she does say however:
That we have to get rid of Big Money out of politics.
That we need a Democratic party that actually fights for people, that congress people who don't should be booted out, but that this means that voters should vote at every opportunity for those Democrats that will stand up for people.
That believing that a minimal wage should cover the cost to live, and that illness shouldn't cause bankruptcy, is common sense, not something out of a communist manifesto.
That she welcomes everybody who will fight for someone they don't know.
That the fabric of community is what can defeat fascism.
(Yeah, we're literally calling it that now)
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I had similar problems when running a desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, etc). I’ve had almost no such issues since moving to a simple window manager instead. There’s just a lot less to go wrong. It’s linux, I’ve had plenty of ‘issues’ just not the basic desktop issues you describe.
WMs are *not* for everyone. I use Sway and LabWC (tiling and stacking respectively) and love them, it is a big step from a more typical desktop environment and requires much more up-front config though.
Linux for dummies is a Mac.
I'd just as soon not use that particular piece of shit.
i saw this toot a few days ago and i was like "you are exaggerating, the steam deck is pretty polished"
last night i was playing tomb raider and i put the deck down for ~5 minutes to check my phone. it went from no battery warning at all to powering off in that time and corrupted all my saves
like any normal consumer i fixed it by SSHing into it, finding the right proton prefix and copying over a save from some kind person on the internet in roughly the same position in the game
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.33' not found; can you repost this from another distro?
The bozos at Canonical gladly mess with your system, they want to be Redmond after all.
KDE respects your settings while the Red Hats developing Gnome hate you customizing "their master piece" and will gladly destroy/revert them every small update.
The linux desktop is garbage (like all desktop experiences), which is why we have so many distros. The trick is to find the right flavour of tamaguci for you. If you want a hibernating one, Debian on the stable update channel is your go to.
LB: I've noticed this with my Linux Mac. If I forget to run software updates for a few weeks, it slows to a crawl and is generally less than ideal.
Meanwhile, my Macs can go without updates for months because I forget, or can't be arsed, and they run perfectly fine.
@jk
And not having my specific settings on other machines means I need to know the standard way anyway (I don't want to switch in my head, muscle memory helps).
But some customisations live long, e.g. I have no Window top bars and that is working for years now...
I mean, I've been gaming on multi-monitor set-ups since Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, but otherwise I wouldn't know what counts as esoteric hardware/software.
I did just read your other post about having a specific version of .exe files next to specific versions of .DLL files, and just not updating them so they continue working. It might be a bit fiddly to install and set-up the environment, but you can get a similar effect with Debian-based Linuxes using `dpkg --root=<dir>`.
Or AppImage, I guess. I don't know, I always saw the way Windows expects people to install software to be flawed. Running an arbitrary executable to install software only makes sense if every single executable comes from a floppy disk you bought from a shop.
Flatpak and Snap aren't all great either, they're mostly repeating the same mistakes as traditional package managers but with even more restrictions.
honestly, "the solution" to this problem in Linux has been... .tar.gz.
Literally, if you wanted _the_ Firefox from _the_ Firefox website and not what was in your package manager, you'd download and unpack an archive and then just... Run it. Ditto for old games.
Exactly what you want from Windows software: one exe, one set of libraries, no unexpected shifting dependencies breaking everything.
This might be a hot take, but you could argue that the package manager is one of the main things that define a Linux distro
This is a difference of Linux from Windows, a package manager where your distro maintainers compile and serve most software
Actually, I have no idea.
What you are describing is actually a "new" Lenovo laptop with "new" docking station and Lenovo firmware updates, especially if you try to run it say on a more "to the limit" (as in using 4 screens on a dock advertised to support 4 screens, I know I can be crazy like that). Then every firmware update is like Russian roulette. Will it boot afterwards? How many screens will work? Which screens will work? 1/3
Experience with my last 3 work laptop/dock combos suggest that about around the time Lenovo stops selling the things they usually get it done at a somewhat satisfactory level.
My current T16G2 OTOH, needs to for a reboot with the dock attached, a cold reboot of the dock (disconnect the power). Then usually the laptop boots, and all screens come up.
Anyway, Linux generally in my experience does not break, although that depends upon not forcing the distribution in doing unnatural things. 2/3
E.g. my work Ubuntu needs more of hammering it into shape, so sometimes things can break around the places where I forced it to do things my way. 🤷
On Fedora the only regular breakage that I have is my Python venv when I updated the distribution, and I used the system python, and suddenly the system python was a different version. Stopped the practice, install my own python with pyenv, my venv stay whole even after distribution upgrades. 3/3
#Linux package managers update packages they have installed from package repositories -- servers -- whose identities and location are maintained in files on each installation.
When users add third-party packages they run the risk that those packages will not be maintained or updated to ensure they remain compatible with changes introduced by system updates. It's the responsibility of 3rd-party packages to make those changes to keep up, not the distribution's.
Well, years ago we had an inside joke in our group of friends. Whatever the question or problem was, the answer or solution was "go Debian".
In your case maybe it's not the best answer you can get, but certainly it might be a not wrong answer. It mostly works for me, and I'm running unstable for 25-ish years.
PS. Saying that, I've the update overdue. Ask me in some time what has been broken 😅
by switching from arch to nixos, ive replaced biweekly weirdness drops with a constant reproducible weirdness flux because it doesn’t follow the FHS 👍
i do think linux ought to just move to package formats like flatpak or nix at this point. it’s not funny when you want to update discord, but discord depends on libshit.so.6.9 and you only have libshit.so.4.2.0 so you run apt update && apt upgrade and now for some reason all of your icons are different and half of them are missing
I don't know. I had everything set up the way that worked great for me and then Canonical put in the Unity desktop and Gnome2 was gone and it's taken me 17 years to get it back to almost like I wanted with AVLinux based on MX linux without using systemd and Wayland. Those last 2 have been the bane of my GNU/Linux usage since they showed up. All my issues the past few years have been because of them.
The only thing not quite there yet? You guessed it--icons I prefer to see on the desktop.
@nazokiyoubinbou FreeBSD with ZFS snapshots is nice for this reason. Something goes weird, you just revert to a snapshot from after your last successful boot. A number of Linux distros also offer root-on-ZFS, so can get the same results.
btrfs on Linux has similar functionality, but I personally find it annoying to actually use.
@bob_zim I don't know about ZFS, but I can tell you that one issue with btrfs is you lack fine control. For example, I don't want it to mark my Kiwix folder as to be considered part of a backup, but that can't be done without making a new subvolume separately mounted just for that.
It's also a pita to clear up freed space that isn't part of a backup sometimes...
@nazokiyoubinbou ZFS and btrfs do a *lot* of things and have a lot of advanced features. In Linux terms, they can cover md(4), lvm(8), a normal filesystem, plus the advanced features like the caching layers, datasets/subvolumes, inline compression, checksums, and snapshots.
I *suspect* some of my distaste for btrfs is just from knowing the ZFS way of doing things like enabling compression or taking a snapshot first, and seeing the btrfs way second.
As an example, though, to take a snapshot of my user data volume, I would use this for ZFS on FreeBSD:
zfs snapshot pool/home@$(<date command>)
And for btrfs I would use:
btrfs subvolume snapshot -r /home /.snapshots/home-$(<date command>)
The actual date command is much longer on Linux, so I’ve replaced it in both with a token to avoid artificially inflating the btrfs command. It’s similar, but where ZFS only requires specifying the dataset name and snapshot identifier (after the at), btrfs requires specifying the new place to mount the snapshot.
The -r option in the btrfs command makes the snapshot read-only. You can send read-only snapshots to remote systems for backup purposes, but restoring from them leads to a read-only filesystem. You have to make a read/write snapshot from the read-only snapshot, and restore from that.
In contrast, you can send ZFS snapshots to remote systems *and* restore from them directly, and you have to take explicit action to make a writable clone (which still leaves the original snapshot read-only).
@bob_zim I mean I could use Timeshift for that, but I'm talking about actually immutable. No updates. Like find an actually 100% working setup and set it to stay.
Basically like a live CD or that sort of thing, but with a writable home directory and such.
This exists, it's just super hard to do at the level I'm talking about. It can be done, it's just not exactly a quick and easy process.
what distro are you using? I must admit I've had some issues with linux from time to time myself but most of the time it was kinda self inflicted.
My main laptop runs manjaro linux (an archlinux derivate) and I have to admit for anything archlinux like you need some technical understanding or else you can destroy your system easily. But running a Debian or something and in general running LTS versions of whatever distro...
:D possibly xD it's been some time since I used mint (about 15 years?) and I didn't like it that much back than but don't even remember why. Kinda strange you're having so much trouble on debian based distros, debian is supposed to be relatively stable.
One tip: where possible use the distros own configuration GUIs and so on. Several times I broke things was because I manually edited some config files without knowing enough or ran some command I didn't fully understand.
Good thread.
#foss often feels like the software of Theseus, except the onboard shipwrite is a kid who has to do all the carpentry because no one else will help, so things keep falling off as we sail.
And I say that as someone constantly glueing bits of #inkscape back together after every release. The complexity begs for a hundred times the paid labour, but our economic proposition doesn't provide enough resource to staff things properly.
Oh, definitely.
Don't run package updates every 2 weeks.
I run package updates when I'm forced to, at gunpoint, by Linus Torvalds personally.
I guess I appreciate that he cares, he had to fly all that way after all.
(Seriously though, the package distribution model is to create a set of interrelated dependencies that are all supposed to work with each other in arbitrary configurations, and I'm fairly certain that's not actually a tractable problem given the sheer scale of the package repositories these days).
On a Debian-based system you can get a long way with a combination of the policy-rc.d trick - jpetazzo.github.io/2013/10/06/… - and by modifying apt.conf to include
Dpkg::Options {
"--force-confdef";
"--force-confold";
}
These two options combined amount to "never turn on newly-installed services buy default" and "never change the configuration files of existing packages on upgrade". It's imperfect but AFAICT it's the safest way to keep running updates while minimizing user-facing change.
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For me, this was installing Ubuntu LTS and walking away.
Unfortunately, I later found out this only works on server, as Ubuntu LTS for *desktop* is frickin busted.
I am now hoping I can pull a similar trick with Debian LTS.
I can't say I've had that experience, running Debian for many years, and NixOS for a few months. It might be because I'm conservative, take few risks. I don't add many packages, and then (almost) always by the official package manager. (Almost) no wget | sh.
I think I might have a distant memory of a few problems that way, and the solution was just to wait and update again tomorrow.
(Now I'm on Fedora Sway Spin, and I consider Sway a weird enough environment that more is on me.)
@Janeishly My Debian system, which is _directly_connected_ to the Internet (VPS) hasn't been updated in years. I limit what it runs, spent the time to build multiple layers of security, then built custom monitoring for it.
I pay attention to the news, and check to see if any new bugs actually affect my installation. (They usually don't.)
It's stable and reliable. Don't update. Or at least limit that to "security only".
It may be personal but I see it with a much different perspective.
I'm *immensely grateful* that it's possible to have a machine with so many millions of SLOC running pretty much exactly how I want, respecting my freedom, with me contributing so little in return.
I'm also grateful that I can get to learn and know what's inside, and via the stream of updates and breakages, essentially be getting free continuous learning and also staying updated.
I'm purposely running #gentoo on my main machine, playing that Tamagotchi game very much.
When I want to "get things done without surprises", I use a "stable" "supply chain", trading off my own risk against reduced functionality, increased cost.
The good thing with "Linux" is that in no case you lose your freedom.
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A custom image of Fedora Silverblue, offering a familiar(ish) Ubuntu-style desktop.docs.projectbluefin.io
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Here's my experience, YMMV.
I'm also not much for doing weird things on the desktop I use everyday. I generally just want things to work.
While breakages used to be more of an issue, largely I don't have many problems when updating anymore. I have used Mint as my distro and cinnamon as my window manager for about the last 15 years and it generally just works. Generally I pair it with an older thinkpad business laptop.
Honestly, the way to have that experience is to run Debian Stable and never enable the backports repo. You'll get the same, never changing set of packages for several years.
I'm a Professional Sysadmin:tm: and I look after a bunch of RHEL desktop machines. The main issue I have with them is big corporations who should know better fucking up their software repos constantly. Intel and Nvidia, I am looking at you.
It was seen as more efficient and not wasting disk space. In hindsight, screw my disk space.
AppImages and Flatpak kind of go in the opposite direction and include absolutely everything, so that problem *should* be solved going forward (lol)
But yeah, with regards to blame, there's no John Linux or LinuxCorp to direct blame at. There's also about a billion implementations. Someone on Debian is going to have a completely different experience to an Arch user. (Source: I use both)
Android and Valve/SteamDeck manage it well enough.
I can answer definitively yes "Linux" can be configured to practically never change and never break.
But a distribution built by arbitrarily cobbling together thousands of projects moving at their own pace and keeping them up to date, sorry the answer will be likely no.
Your choice of cobblers matter insofar as the frequency of allowed breakage.
Becoming your own cobbler can help but requires much study and more frequent frustration.
"But surely they'll realise they're crashing the economy?"
"We have to raise awareness that these actions will burn the planet!"
"They'll stop once they see the impact on human lives, especially their own people."
We have to remember that the destruction is the point. They do want to reset everything, believing they are best placed to be the only survivors of the human race and the ones to start a new era. That's also why they amass so much more wealth than they need now.
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Just back from watching Jenna Ortega in Death of a Unicorn. I really liked it! There's also something about the combination of her acting with detailed realism and the story being like 'well, unicorns', and that is a combination that I weirdly really liked. I guess it adds to the multiple things her character is trapped in.
My review of Death of a Unicorn on Letterboxd boxd.it/9jRbqN
Jenna Ortega's film Death of a Unicorn is out tomorrow in The Netherlands.
Hurry Up Tomorrow...
...will be released in the US next month.
"LLM did something bad, then I asked it to clarify/explain itself" is not critical analysis but just an illustration of magic thinking.
Those systems generate tokens. That is all. They don't "know" or "understand" or can "explain" anything. There is no cognitive system at work that could respond meaningfully.
That's the same dumb shit as what was found in Apple Intelligence's system prompt: "Do not hallucinate" does nothing. All the tokens you give it as input just change the part of the word space that was stored in the network. "Explain your work" just leads the network to lean towards training data that has those kinds of phrases in it (like tests and solutions). It points the system at a different part but the system does not understand the command. It can't.
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Your so close to understanding! So many people fall for them *because* their rendition of thinking is indistinguishable from LLMs. It's all just language manipulation in pursuit of personal gratification. Unencumbered by meaning or logical consistency.
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@Gidi Kroon I hear you... News headlines of late are like political satire, only 100% true and terrifying.
It's really quite depressing.
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12 April, the second series of the re-re-boot-boot of Doctor Who on the BBC. Here's the second trailer:
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Interview with a UK photographer and filmmaker, Edward Matthews, who went to Ukraine to help charities document their war effort. It also contains part of a documentary he made which is a very touching interview with a Ukrainian fire fighter.
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Via Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too)."
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@nilsskirnir They do. mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114204928…
Here’s a fact: the corporate/neoliberal Democrats are more afraid of AOC and Bernie than they are of Trump. Fascism may not be their first choice but it’s preferable to what those two promise for them. They already sabotaged Bernie once – just like Starmer and co. sabotaged Corbyn in the UK – and they’ll continue to do anything and everything to try and scupper their progress. Even if it means more fascism. The ones doing this are as responsible for fascism as Trump is and they’re not your friends. mastodon.social/@Bellison22/11…
Oh that's sad lol. I had no idea how pathetically small protests were in the US. That's laughable for a city of apparently over 700.000 inhabitants.
Americans post about "fascism is here! we need to resist!" all day long and then they really think they're done resisting with that social media post, huh.
For comparison, last year the anti-right wing protests just in Düsseldorf, a city of ~600.000, were over 100.000 people. And the alt-right party isn't even in power here.
Much to unpack here.
A lot of people in the US[1] have been convinced that protest is useless.
In fact, our mass movements have repeatedly been sabotaged from without and within. See Occupy.
The "politics as usual" for the last 50 years has been pretty uninspiring. I know people on the Internet hate "both sides" arguments, but they do hold some water. Yes, both sides are bad, and one side is orders of magnitude worse. Which is why I voted for Harris-Walz. Nevertheless, we wouldn't be where we are without Democrats enabling Republicans, since they answer to the same donor class, rather than the people. Bernie and AOC are trying to do something about this.
Our complex of government and corporations has succeeded wildly with bread and circuses and divide and rule. Though more and more of the bread is being taken away, and the circuses are more and more expensive. Divide and rule is still in full swing. Between these two strategies of the ruling class, people are kept off the street unless the problem directly affects them.
When US citizens do get out in the streets en masse, I expect that it will be violent. As H. Rap Brown said, "Violence is as American as apple pie." If the military is used against the populace, I'd note that the US military is historically very bad at maintaining an occupation. See Iraq, see Vietnam.
[1] I've even heard this "protest is useless" stuff from Canadians. I hate that form of cynicism.
and vance has the nerve to criticize europes democracys?
when will the us-citizens wake up and take the streets? whole democratic world is waiting
Labels we were indoctrinated in school to fear like socialist.
But they are the only way out because they have been speaking the truth.
The rest of the democrats have caved in fear.
Will we survive for history to record the truth?
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez turned 35 this year — the minimum age eligible to become President of the United States.
(Apparently you could run at age 34, but must be age 35 by inauguration day. Youngest so far was Theodore Roosevelt, who succeeded the assassinated McKinley in the office at age 42. Second was John F. Kennedy, who was elected and assumed office at age 43.)
I'm just saying ...
@nilsskirnir @mls14 @rzeta0
Read in my newspaper this week:
When Obama won his first term, the Republicans were in the same kind of inner turmoil as the Democrats are now. "What did we do wrong" turning into "who's to blame" and then the Tea Party emerged.
I like Bernie and AOC, I see them as *normal*, good social-democrats, the kind we have here in Europe. Whereas in the US, "liberal" is a swear word and red scare is never far away.
@nilsskirnir @rzeta0 I’m being a LOT more serious than people trying to foment division between AOC and the rest of the party when it’s clear this is a moment to come together.
The story linked had nothing to do with some past grievance that some older people seem to still have with the DNC. It is not “finally Bernie will take over and show those mean old Dems!”
It is a feel-good story of people joining together to fight Trump. And yet I see all the pointless division added in by these comments. To me that feels like a crappy thing to do in this moment.
Read my initial comment. All it asked for was for people to pull together, and I got so much negativity for it!
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Nils makes a valid point.
The DNC has acted against these two on multiple occasions.
The DNC doesn't passively hate them.
They proactively undermine them.
Because the DNC is owned by the same people who own the GOP. Billionaires.
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If you want to beat Trump, you need a compelling alternative.
You can't ask people to vote Dem just because they're not trump. How did that work out in 2024?
@nilsskirnir The “DNC” doesn’t hate members of its own party.
The enemy is Trump. Why don’t we all focus on that instead of worrying about who likes or dislikes whom among the resistance?
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You are confidently wrong.
Voting for the democrats as they are will not improve the situation overall.
There is no incentive for them to change.
So different action needs to be taken.
It could be mass denial of vote and support for new political movements - which won't produce a new gov soon, but neither will voting Dem.
Or it could be tough action on the Dems to clean them out.
There is no option that avoids a trump government in the short term.
The Americans on this thread can at least agree that we need to come together in this moment, and leave inter-party squabbles in the past.
@mls14 I don’t agree with that at all. The people right now who are saying that we need to “leave inter-party squabbles in the past” are the people who are themselves actively attacking people within their own party and their own base. Guys like Schumer consistently side with Republicans, guys like Bernie Sanders and AOC have consistently sided with the working class, but it is Sanders, AOC, and their ilk who are most often attacked as “sewing discord,” especially in the mainstream media.
So I embrace inner-party squabbles, and more than squabbles, an all-out war between people who represent the working class and people who represent the oligarchs. If we can’t purge the Democratic party of pro-oligarchy candidates like Chuck Schumer, and also people like Joe Biden, the Clintons, and the Obamas, then the Democratic Party will only ever be nothing more than an extension of Trump and the Republican Party, more than worthless, positively toxic.
@efialto @nilsskirnir @rzeta0 There seems to be a disconnect here, and I think I am figuring it out.
The Americans on this thread can at least agree that we need to come together in this moment, and leave inter-party squabbles in the past.
Those outside the US seem to think differently. I assume you all have good intentions, but it occurs to me that our different systems of government are causing you some confusion.
In the parliamentary system, if you have a far-left party, you can vote for them. They might win a few seats, and those representatives will form a coalition government with the more moderate left party. More far-left seats means those ideas get a bigger voice in the coalition.
In the US, that’s not an option. There are two options. Period. So turning Democrats against each other is harmful to the country, as it empowers the Republicans, who have turned into the party of Nazis.
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Great points and thanks
The old adage that if you give folks a choice between #Repuke and #RepukeLite, they’ll choose Repuke almost every time.
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Again, confidently wrong.
Many of us outside the USA ave been following US politics for decades.
Why?
Because it is the wider world that suffers from what the USA does.
Some of us have noticed your attempt to diminish the democrat's facilitating a genocide...
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Many people like me could never vote for anyone who covers for genocide.
That is step 1 for the democrats.
Disown Israel, impose sanctions, drag Netanyahu to the ICC, and physically disarm that genocidal apartheid war criminal state. Enforce UN resolutions.
Or do the democrats stands for double standards in international and domestic law?
@davbram @nilsskirnir @rzeta0 Yes, you are part of the solution. We might not have all gotten the candidate we wanted from our party. But we know, for the good of the country, we come together to oppose Nazis.
I disagree with you strongly on multiple aspects of your opinion of Harris, but we can work together because we both know it’s about never ever letting the GOP get a majority again.
- People gathering, to listen to politicians.
- Politicians delivering speeches.
- Politicians telling people to vote for Democrats, in 2026.
That's it.
That's the plan "to take on billionaires and win our country back", while some 80 #DOGE crooks with laptops continue with dismantling the US, this very moment, day by day.
I find this pretty over simplified and personally, I'd absolutely much rather see leaders reaching out and talking to thousands of people than hiding from American people and even avoiding town halls
If you read the global responses and see what other countries feel about it, it may (or may not) change your perspective.
I don't profess to know the answers but I sure as hell support anyone working for solutions....but I do see your use of tags to make your thoughts known.
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What we can do is donate and/or spread their actual words around (videos)
Bernie and AOC are fundraising through ActBlue on both their accounts:
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Donate to AOC.
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A US judge on Monday ordered #Trump administration officials to explain whether the administration violated his order when they deported hundreds of *alleged* Venezuelan gang members over the weekend & potentially set up a constitutional clash between the president & the federal #judiciary.
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower
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Judge James Boasberg in Washington set a hearing for 5PM ET (2000 GMT) on Mon & instructed the govt to provide details on whether the flights that transported the #Venezuelans to #ElSalvador took off after his order or were in the air at the time.
#Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration
The hearing was scheduled in response to an overnight filing by the ACLU & other advocates seeking clarity on the flights.
The rapid developments represent a potential escalation in #Trump's challenge to the US #Constitution's system of #ChecksAndBalances & the #independence of the #JudicialBranch of govt.
At an emergency hearing on Sat requested…Boasberg issued a 2wk temporary block on Trump's use of the #AlienEnemiesAct of 1798 to deport 238 alleged members of Tren de Aragua….
#law
The judge said in court that any flights already en route should return to the #US. His written order following the hearing appeared in the court's online docket at 7:26PM ET….
WH press sec Karoline Leavitt issued a stmnt on Sun denying the #Trump admin had violated Boasberg's order, while also questioning his #power to issue it:
"A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft ... full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from US soil.”
#law
The flights suggest the #Trump admin may be growing more brazen in its defiance of judicial restraint. The #US #Constitution established the #judiciary as a co-#equal & #independent branch of government.
Trump has sought to *push* [illegally expand] the boundaries of #ExecutivePower since taking office in Jan, cutting spending authorized by #Congress, dismantling #FederalAgencies & firing tens of thousands of #FederalWorkers.
On Mon, #Trump's border czar, #TomHoman, said the flights were already in international airspace when the judge's orders came & that more flights would continue.
"Once you're outside the border, you know, it is what it is. But they're in international waters, already on the way south, close to landing. You know what? ... We did what we had to do," he told FauxNews…. [The law applied to the admin’s actions who were not in international jurisdiction; idiot.]
Asked what was next, #TomHoman said: "Another flight, another flight every day."
"We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think," he added.
With the #Republican-controlled #Congress largely backing his agenda, federal judges have often been the only constraint on #Trump, putting many actions hold while they consider their legality. In several cases, the admin has refused to comply w/judicial orders.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #immigration #AbuseOfPower #SeparationOfPowers
Non sequitur
What was the legal jurisdiction / flag those planes were flying under?
A cruise ship under N'th flag, is under N'th legal territory, regardless of where on the planet it is.
It's why they check your passport at San Diego when you board a Norwegian flagged ship to go spend 3 days in Oregon. You step out of California, into Norway, even when that boat is still tied to the docks.
Does ICAO need to have a chat, using crayons, with Bondi?
The planes were all labeled airline GlobalX flights (Global Crossing Airlines is an American charter airline). There were only three GlobalX arrivals to El Salvador’s international airport on March 15 & 16, according to the flight tracking site FlightRadar24.
First flight tail number: N278GX
Second flight tail number: N837VA
Third flight tail number: N630VA
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #immigration #Venezuela #CivilRights #Judiciary #AlienEnemiesAct #Trump
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I wanted to see if I can recreate Ché Aimee Dorval's album cover for The Widow. I used my two Arri tungsten lights, one 300W with a blue gel, and one 650W with a red gel and a softbox.
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Jenna Ortega Shares Update On ‘Wednesday’ Season 3 & Teases Season 2: “There’s A Whole Episode Based Off Of Slashers”
#News #JennaOrtega #Netflix #Wednesday
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Jenna Ortega Shares Update On 'Wednesday' Season 3 & Teases Season 2: "There's A Whole Episode Based Off Of Slashers"
Jenna Ortega is spilling the tea on Wednesday's upcoming second season.Armando Tinoco (Deadline)
This is an interesting concept. That maybe when you as a content creator, or any other creative person, feel like you're stuck in a rut and don't know what too create next, maybe you're too stuck in your own head. Maybe you need to allow yourself to be inspired by others. Read a book. Listen to music.
New video by Tah:
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Another thing I'm thinking when watching her channel: why is she so worried about viewing numbers? She doesn't need viewing numbers to be an interesting channel, she already is. Ok, so only 816 people watched her previous video. I'm one of them. And I liked it. And even if nobody watches them, who cares, they're still interesting and worthy videos.
Sometimes I post photos on Instagram. I like taking them. The new analytics on Instagram show that these reach between 2 and 5 accounts. So I've long given up doing that for the numbers. I just like taking them and knowing they're out there or somewhere.
Google are breaking my mittens - Sonofa. Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” (web-goddess.org/archive/14046) with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens, and I entered them in the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I was pretty proud of my cleverness. In the blog post (web-goddess.org/archive/11192) where I talked about making the mittens, I said:
I wanted my code to be as simple as possible, so I needed to use a URL shortener to mask my intended address. I settled on using Google‘s, reasoning that it was likely to be around the longest. (Though who knows these days, right?)
You can guess what’s happened, right? Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available (developers.googleblog.com/en/g…) as of August this year.
Bastards are breaking my mittens. Perhaps I’ll have to add some embroidery. web-goddess.org/archive/56383
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.Sumit Chandel (developers.googleblog.com)
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Self-Replicating Mittens
After giving a talk on geek knitting in 2012, I was inspired to try my hand at knitting a QR code. The code on these mittens actually scans and points the viewer to the pattern on this page so they can make their own.web-goddess
Was explaining the whole self-hosted/small web movement to someone at work today, and they replied “Oh, so you’re like one of those preppers with a bunker, but digital.”
And I will not be taking any further questions at this time.
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For those in the Netherlands who follow F1 but don't want to pay a lot of money to Viaplay or F1 TV, and therefore can't see it live: due to a deal signed only yesterday it will be on delayed broadcast, for free, on Ziggo channel 13 (so not the normal channel 14). This means that today's qualifying session is repeated at 20:30 tonight and tomorrow's race at 21:15, tomorrow of course. This may not be in your tv guides yet.
The usual summary broadcasts on Ziggo Sport and NPO 1 have been cancelled for this year.
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