karenm @karenm@librem.one

Barnard 68: Dark Molecular Cloud https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230129.html #APOD

can confirm —

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Actually, this deserves its own point:

ChatGPT used Kenyan workers for content moderation and paid them at a rate of TWO DOLLARS AN HOUR:

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers

Like… we all know the mental health harms of content moderation processes, right? So to put that level of harm onto undervalued already-exploited workers is just… morally disgusting.

The #LAPD is sending out emails asking people to be on the lookout for "larger groups" and "ANTIFA members."

Its notable here that 'antifa' - short for antifascist, is capitalized, a styling that is literally only used by the far-Right, reactionary news outlets like Fox News, and online chuds.

Just as we saw during 2020 and on J6, the culture of the police is awash in far-Right conspiracy theories, talking points, and reactionary, racist politics.

#TyreNichols #StopCopCity #BlackLivesMatter

The group protesting in Columbus has not received a city permit to protest, Henderson said. Under city ordinance, protests with more than 15 people must be permitted. “If the crowd gets larger than 15 people, we will disperse it,” [Mayor] Henderson said.

Riot police and the Mayor of #Columbus in #Georgia today are threatening to "disperse" any crowds of more than 15 people today, as there is a scheduled vigil for murdered forest defender, #Tortuguita.

Local news reporting that already 50 riot police staging in the area.

#StopCopCity #BlackLivesMatter #TyreNichols #Tort #JusticeforTort #Atlanta #Georgia

https://www.wrbl.com/news/local-news/columbus/mayor-skip-henderson-comments-on-fridays-scheduled-community-rally-in-columbus/

Shooting follows a deadly Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank's Jenin refugee camp that killed nine Palestinians.
Gunman wounds at least 10 people in East Jerusalem attack

Police killing people and then issuing press releases telling people not to destroy property is a good reminder that police kill people in order to protect property.

Twitter Co-Founder @biz just endorsed Mastodon!

In a Guardian interview, he said:

“I don’t know that Twitter as a company is going to succeed for ever but the idea of Twitter I think will be around [indicating Mastodon].

"It would only matter that Twitter the idea continued. And that’s happened. That seems to be happening already. Mastodon seems to be winning the open-source, decentralised version of Twitter. People seem to be going there."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/27/elon-musk-doesnt-seem-like-right-person-to-own-twitter-says-co-founder

Need someone to tell me if NBC is low key suggesting an FBI guy running a COIN desk in New York in 2016 and 2017, was in pocket for "zee Russians" during the Trump investigation; or they just want me to infer all that from the extraneous information included in the article and run with it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/ex-counterintel-head-fbi-new-york-mcgonigal-arrested-rcna66995

Read that carefully and tell me there isn't a subtext there?

(No opinion on veracity of that subtext; not enough information to go on - but sure feels like NBC is saying something)

RT @Jimmi_Lotts
Some work got done during march for #StopCopCity and #Tortuguita in Minneapolis, 1-21-23

Lots going on in Philly for Tortuguita! Graffiti and a vigil, photos and a report are posted on phlanticap.noblogs.org

The Twitter API lockout of third-party apps is only the latest reminder of centralization's most important rule: The platform owner has the right to capriciously wreck the businesses of people who accepted the platform's invitation to run a business on the platform.

This should utterly terrify literally everyone.

Like, this was already being done with space and positional mapping, but this level of detail and fidelity is almost certainly going to be used for primarily terrible ends: Cops, military, whole reams of blackhat bad actors. This is just…

Some concepts don't need proving. JFC.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00250

@atomicpoet “Linux is a failure” *posted to a site hosted on Linux servers, then consumed on phones running Linux by connecting over network gear running linux, while drinking coffee brewed by a coffee pot also running Linux*

When they evicted and abandoned us,
we built networks of mutual aid and community self-defense.

When they dismantled our pirate radio station,
we installed a bigger antenna and sailed farther out to sea.

When they banned us from social media sites,
we reconvened on decentralized and encrypted platforms." ~ @CrimethInc

https://crimethinc.com/2023/01/17/poster-well-go-where-flowers-grow

Far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said waving the Palestinian flag is an act in support of 'terrorism'.
Israel orders police to remove Palestine flags from public spaces

Bolsonaro supporters in the plenary of the Federal Senate in Brasilia:

https://twitter.com/muriloffagundes/status/1612164883684130816

Though this will probably not succeed as a coup attempt—Bolsonaro is currently in Florida, far from Brasilia—it will function as a pressure tactic to convey that governance in Brazil will be very difficult without appeasing Bolsonaro's fascist supporters. Even if this effort backfires for them, it will reinforce the idea that the only political options today are to side with the centrists who defend capitalist democracy (Biden, Lula) or to permit fascists (and the oligarchs who lead them) from seizing power.

Both centrist neoliberals and far-right fascists benefit from suppressing the possibility of participatory transformative change.

Today, far-Right supporters of ousted President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the National Congress building and have attempted to enter the Planalto Palace. Check @CrimethInc for updates.

Since Bolsonaro lost the election, far-Right figures like Steve Bannon, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and head of the pro-Trump white Breitbart, has pushed election denial conspiracies while building ties between far-Right movements in Brazil and the US.

Jair son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, is also a part of Steve Bannon's group, "The Movement," which has linked together neo-fascist, white nationalist, and far-Right political parties across the US, Europe, and Latin America. Eduardo has also helped bring the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference to Brazil, further linking fascist leaning elements in the GOP with those from the Bolsonaro camp.

In November, the Washington Post reported that Eduardo Bolsonaro met with Trump at Mar-a-lago as well as with Bannon and "former Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller, now CEO of the social media company Gettr."

Bannon has pushed Bolsonaro not to concede to losing the election and is clearly helping to craft a strategy that seeks to seize state power by force - just like on January 6th in the US.

Like the fascists, our movements need to be global in opposition and just like in the US, we can't put our hopes on the neoliberals to contain and stop the spread of authoritarianism.

Fire for Alfredo Cospito and Lützerath in Hamburg, Germany
#AnarchistAction #AlfredoCospito #Hamburg
Via @Nae_Midion

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/08/fire-for-alfredo-cospito-and-lutzerath-in-hamburg-germany/