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The doctors who want to tell the DNC about the hell they saw in Gaza

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/dnc-palestine-gaza-doctors-uncommitted-israel-kamala-harris/

"We’ve seen the images on social media and elsewhere of the scale of the destruction in Gaza. How did that compare with what you saw firsthand?"

Dr. Rana: There are no words, pictures, or videos that can really capture what’s happening. As soon as we got to the other side of the Gaza border crossing, it was like this dystopian image out of a movie. I mean it was just dust. It was an annihilation of the entire land. It’s not just buildings that were destroyed. There were things that looked like dirt fields, but I was told, That was an orchard. That was this farm."

Join us next Wednesday 28th for two must-see talks at the GDG monthly meetup 🤩 !. Nikhil Suresh, author of Lucidity - Mataroa Blog (@ludicity), will give `A talk about the skills that programmers need to defend both their code and their careers from the reality that the industry has real incentive problems and bad actors’.
Maksim Lin @maks will dive into the Maestro testing framework, the awesome testing tool you’ve never heard of!.
RSVP https://www.meetup.com/gdg-melbourne/events/302732707/

@lightweight I became rather unpopular at our primary school (where my wife was also a teacher) when I suggested that the 'free' software they were using in class to collect all of the kids' learning data, year on year, might actually be a rather poor idea. My explanations earned a number of "No one really cares about that, do they?" type responses.

Ugh. Listening to this woman talking about this 'info gathering' tool that she's using. I wonder how much she knows how that software is funded? I suspect it's by 'advertising' - monetising children's data. I wish Jesse Mulligan would ask that sort of thing. And yeah, the use of of these tools and social media by school kids are both fraught. She's calling the tool - which is spying on the kids, somehow, to gather data - 'easier'/less intimidating than actually talking to them.

I'm assuming this Chick-fil-a initiative (if it's true) is about injecting more US-style Christianity into the media there. Wow, blech. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/chick-fil-a-cooking-up-new-family-friendly-video-streaming-service/

The fact check pedants can't say these are fake until they publish the real ones. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/08/15/leaked-emails-from-the-trump-campaign/

Join us playing #HurryCurry together: Check it out from https://codeberg.org/hurrycurry/hurrycurry and have some fun with us (playing now, live).

(We tested the flatpak version, feel free to ping if you have trouble joining)

#Codeberg #LibreGaming #linuxgaming #Godot #Gaming #foss_gaming #CommunitySpotlight

@mike_hales tells me that volume three of Stephen Yeo's 3 vol. history of socialism and cooperativism is now out:

A Useable Past

The History of Association, Cooperation and un-Statist Socialism in 19th and early 20th century Britain. ​

Volume 3. Class Conflict and Co-operation in 19th and 20th Century Britain. Education for Association: re-membering for a new moral world.

“A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting to happen. The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking about revolution as a thing - “the” revolution, the great cataclysmic break - and instead ask “what is revolutionary action?” We could then suggest: revolutionary action is any collective action which rejects, and therefore confronts, some form of power or domination and in doing so, reconstitutes social relations - even within the collectivity - in that light. Revolutionary action does not necessarily have to aim to topple governments. Attempts to create autonomous communities in the face of power (using Castoriadis’ definition here: ones that constitute themselves, collectively make their own rules or principles of operation, and continually reexamine them), would, for instance, be almost by definition revolutionary acts. And history shows us that the continual accumulation of such acts can change (almost) everything.”

― David Graeber, "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology"

We warned Chicago police in the Chicago Sun-Times that the First Amendment doesn’t permit dispersing law-abiding journalists covering protests. Even the DOJ agrees.

It’s a shame officers didn’t listen, but we can’t say we’re surprised. They must be held accountable.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/08/02/democratic-national-convention-dnc-2024-journalists-coverage-police-abuse-first-amendment-seth-stern-op-ed

We’re currently raising funds for our upcoming documentary series InterRebellium. We aim to raise about $2000 CAD per episode. Funds will be used to purchase gear and cover travel expenses for anarchist film crews collaborating on this ambitious project.

Check out out fundraiser at https://www.gofundme.com/f/interrebellium

9th graders learn Linux for the environment!

Last week in #Hannover, #KDEEco joined Akademie der Spiele, an event for 200+ students with 20+ career/cultural workshops.

Students salvaged dozens of computers with #OpenSource #FreeSoftware.

They learned about the #environmental costs of #eWaste and device production.

They presented their work to peers and teachers!

Some even played games🚀

We're proud of our students - congrats for all you achieved in only 5 days!

@kde

#KDE #FOSS #OptGreen

Great news everyone! I'm announcing that I'm leaving the job that has given us so many horrific stories to focus entirely on my own business! I'm going to stealth kill every Deloitte salesperson in Melbourne.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/quitting-my-job-for-the-way-of-pain/

My employer doesn't know yet, so enjoy being one step ahead of management in yet another regard.

Last Tuesday, loads of Linux users—many running packages released as early as this year—started reporting their devices were failing to boot. Instead, they received a cryptic error message that included the phrase: “Something has gone seriously wrong.”

The cause: an update Microsoft issued as part of its monthly patch release. It was intended to close a 2-year-old vulnerability in GRUB, an open source boot loader used to start up many Linux devices. The vulnerability, with a severity rating of 8.6 out of 10, made it possible for hackers to bypass secure boot. CVE-2022-2601 was discovered in 2022, but for unclear reasons, Microsoft patched it only last Tuesday.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/a-patch-microsoft-spent-2-years-preparing-is-making-a-mess-for-some-linux-users/

When it comes to resisting carcerality, the need for solidarity cannot be overstated. Models of repression are what develop the frameworks for rising authoritarianism and fascism we see across the globe.

The repression of Palestinians hurts more than just residents of the West Bank or Gaza. As @subMedia recently noted, “like all prisons, Gaza is a laboratory of repression.” Israel and its weapons manufacturers rake in billions from selling the products of this laboratory to other authoritarian regimes.

These models of repression cause formation of relationships and resource distribution to other authoritarians. Take for example, the cross training of the Atlanta police department and the IDF, or the Israeli phone-hacking technology sold to Vladimir Putin.

The U.S. has its own unique model of repression, where police are trained in the practice of profiling in order to maintain quotas for a profitable industry of mass incarceration. They try to silence dissent by forming relationships with, and promoting the violence of white supremacist prison gangs to threaten dissent, while also publicly denying the existence of political prisoners.

Your support is crucial for dismantling these models of repression. Join us for this solidarity 5K on September 15th, to provide mutual aid to Palestinians and political prisoners, and to empty the cages―from the U.S. to Palestine and beyond. The deadline for registration is approaching quickly―don't miss out!

Register today at: http://phillyabc.org/rdtw