Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The smell of death is everywhere in northern #Gaza after 'non-stop Israeli bombardments', Unrwa chief says - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/22/middle-east-crisis-live-blog-news-updates-israel-iran-lebanon-gaza-palestine-hamas-hezbollah-war "He said his staff are reporting shortages of water, food and medical care" #israel

I don't think I could feel any greater 'AI' -everything fatigue. I'm catching snippets of my wife (a lecturer at the polytech) listening to a presentation in the other room (via the poly's MS Teams, naturally. 🤮 ) on dealing with 'AI' in the classroom, and it's use (illicit & otherwise) by students. The presenters are effusively pro-'AI', and I find their enthusiasm incredibly grating and it makes me sad for humanity.

Fell in Love with Fire

Watch here:
https://crimethinc.com/fellinlovewithfire

Five years in the making, this hour-long documentary explores the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid.

This is an inspiring portrayal of the tactics that gave demonstrators control of the streets, the organizing strategies that enabled the movement to act effectively while remaining leaderless, and the importance of time and space in revolt. It is also a cautionary tale about how the government used the promise of a new constitutional process to recover enough legitimacy to regain control. It chronicles a high point of action in a struggle that continues today.

On recent visits to the US (where I grew up) I was amazed at the friction I felt in most transactions. Having to add sales tax to everything mentally, paying tips, and literally every online transaction, e.g. renting a car, getting a phone SIM, was crowded with scam operators from every conceivable angle: service consolidators, speculative insurance providers, etc. The US 'system' is a chaotic mess. Every transaction seems prone to extra gotchas & not getting ripped off is exhausting there.

On Global Encryption Day, we urge Congress to get serious about protecting Americans’ privacy, and cut out the censorial sideshows.

https://freedom.press/issues/global-encryption-day-strengthen-encryption/

I don't think that leftists are going to matter at all electorally in the US -- there are too few of us, and those of us who do exist are mostly in states that the Electoral College makes unimportant. But I have to say I haven't seen a more outright hostile Democratic campaign and online group of self-appointed get-out-the-vote people in some time.

People are defending genocide as the lesser evil and showing incredible contempt for anyone who says it matters.

The maintenance was successfully completed and Codeberg is back in service. Additionally, we now have a 10G fiber interconnect to our next server, an important step towards our new setup.