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Another project we’ve had in the works for a while now, which we we’ll be formally announcing later this month, is a more episodic DocuSeries which we’re calling InterRebellium. Without giving too much away, we can say that InterRebellium will be a multi-part limited series, full of anarchist analysis and plenty of riot porn from around the globe. If you were a fan of subMedia during the Trouble series, you can imagine something akin to that, 30 minute minidocs created with the intention of sparking wider discussion. (And if you aren’t familiar with Trouble, we suggest watching every episode immediately.) We hope to release the first episode of InterRebellium in October. It's probably our most ambitious project to date, and we are confident that it will be worth the wait.

We’ve also been plugging away on our long-overdue documentary about Facebook/Meta: The Social Empire. We’ve been making progress but we’ve also been struggling with the speed at which changes have been occurring in the tech sector, in addition to the sheer amount of information we would like to cover. After much internal deliberation, we have decided to restructure The Social Empire into a 3 part miniseries. Be on the lookout for that sometime in 2025.

Today’s suggestion by the Surgeon General that online speech be labeled as dangerous is extraordinary, and puts him in the same category as censorious public officials like Anthony Comstock. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/no-online-speech-should-not-have-warning-labels

Cool upcoming #film #book from @pmpress to back on Kickstarter about #resistance in #cinema

Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990

http://kck.st/3KSspVr
#filmbook #cinemastodon

@fsf remind everyone that GNU-like #MobileLinux phones (not iOS and not Android) exist, and are great for #freedom! #LinuxMobile

As Kissinger said, "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."

Notice that we didn't attack China (our enemy) with this anti-vaxx disinfo, we attacked the Philippines (our friend).

"The Pentagon campaign sought to intensify fears about injecting a pig derivative. As part of an internal investigation at X, the social media company used IP addresses and browser data to identify more than 150 phony accounts that were operated from Tampa by U.S. Central Command and its contractors, according to an internal X document reviewed by Reuters."

Truly, we are ruled by psychopaths.

Lotsa climate records are being broken this week. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/6/14/2246571/-Cartoon-2024-climate-records

I guess this stuff is plenty obscure, huh?

So, folks, there's a new browser engine dropped (a while ago, actually). It isn't based on WebKit and it isn't based on Firefox, it is written from scratch for a hobbyist operating system SerenityOS by some awesome/crazy people. The browser, called Ladybird, actually can be compiled for Windows, Linux, Mac, OpenIndiana and Android.

It can pass Acid3 and render Github page well (note that Firefox and Chrome circa 2018 cannot do that!), and it has decent JS and afaik wasm support.

Their site is https://ladybird.dev/

I am not related to the project in any way, just amazed that it exist, and I think it deserves more love and publicity. And optimizations for low-end computers. And privacy features. And so on!

I think we can agree that access to green space for school children is a good thing.... well, you'll be unsurprised that the hierarchy of access to green space means that children at private schools have much (and I mean much) more access than those at state schools.

But, hey, we live in a post-class political society... do we hell as like!

#schools #nature

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/16/revealed-private-schools-have-10-times-more-green-space-than-state-schools?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped to its lowest level since March 2018, according to data from the Brazilian government.

Deforestation for the year to date is down 40% compared to 2023, with expectations for a significant annual decline when the “deforestation year” concludes on July 31.

by Rhett A. Butler
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/deforestation-in-earths-largest-rainforest-continues-to-plummet-despite-a-rise-in-fires/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Forests #Rainforest #Deforestation

I previously had all my books marked returnable, but I had to change this because Amazon has been deliberately bulk buying and returning indie books printed through IngramSpark to pressure indie authors to use KDP. (Full info about this here: https://www.lyssachiavari.com/2023/04/21/why-my-books-are-no-longer-returnable-through-ingram/)

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Critical thinking fail. 🤦‍♂️

"I flipped this coin 500 times and it came up heads a few more times than it came up tails, proving conclusively that this coin is rigged."

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/gpt-4-has-passed-the-turing-test-researchers-claim

The plain truth is that capitalism is killing us and we are out of planet. The only way to keep doing capitalism is going to be turning vast swathes of the planet into sacrifice zones and looting folks who can't protect themselves for their resources. If you're a capitalist, and you intend to keep doing capitalism, you're ultimately for genocide because there is no other way to accomplish that. And folks won't politely agree to die for your bottom line, so that means fascism. Balls and strikes.

a fun thing is that Mexicans just elected a nobel prize-winning climate scientist and leftist feminist woman as their president by wide margins

This is the right image to use for a heat wave; not one of children playing in the fountain or people frolicking on the beach.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/well/live/heat-weather-medication-safety.html

Liberals who think protesters are the enemy are actively encouraging the police state that Trump world wants to impose on America.

They should understand this, but they are either willfully dense, or myopic.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/liberal-police-state-campus-protests/

Latest comic: Billionaires Fund Human Intelligence

#ai #cartoon #comic #tech #technology #economy #internet #education