"Monopolising the ability to revolutionise production has meant concentrating these monopoly activities inside the imperialist states – things like design, research and development, advanced engineering and so on. But concentrating those types of labour inside the imperialist states also means, increasingly, divesting from all other types of labour."
https://red-spark.org/2026/01/22/chinas-big-threat-to-imperialist-monopoly/
DeepCut news: Hate speech laws decried as 'terrifying' and like a 'dictatorship' https://open.substack.com/pub/deepcutnews/p/hate-speech-laws-decried-as-terrifying
Git enhancement proposal: rename "commit" to "perpetrate".
Satellite imagery shows the IDF forcing Gazans into an ever-shrinking area.
Israeli forces are moving the yellow line toward the coast in order to shrink the Gazan-controlled coastal area.
The repositioning is a violation of the Oct 10 2025 ceasefire deal.
Video analysis:
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/birds-eye-view/2026/1/11/how-israel-is-shifting-gazas-yellow-line
#USPol #Europol #IDFYellowLine #displacementReplacement #GazaGenocide #CeasefireDeal #palestine @palestine .
(not new news but this response is new to me and the breakdown and contextualisation of the paper is useful)
A horrifying story came out today of a young adult who attended an ICE protest in Santa Ana four days ago and lost an eye to ICE.
ICE agents shot him at point blank range in the face with a 40mm launcher.
“A company subject to the extraterritorial laws of the United States cannot be considered sovereign for Europe.“
Discover more about the issues with the US CLOUD Act and the chances of Europe to break free from #TechDependency, in The Register’s new story 👇
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/
Let's ask the real question:
Firefox users,
do you want any AI directly built into Firefox, or separated out into extensions?
@firefoxwebdevs
@davidgerard
@tante
@firefoxwebdevs Where's the option for "I do not want this bullshit toy anywhere near my browser"? Is someone forcing you at gunpoint to be pro-slop? Why are all the executives so into this crap? Can't we just let them have their cocaine daydreams without subject the rest of us to it?
An Israeli settler fanatic storms the Palestinian community of Shallal Al-Auja, north of Jericho, and terrorizes local residents as part of the ongoing efforts to displace the community.
"The ceasefire did what it was meant to do – make Gaza invisible"
"It became clear to me that the real goal of the ceasefire was not to stop the violence or death, nor to protect people or limit bloodshed & genocide."
"The real goal was to stop the world from talking about Gaza.. the crimes being committed there.. the daily suffering of people."
"Mass death in Gaza continues."
#GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol #FakeCeasefire #press #racism #palestine @palestine .
for context, that still is from Machado speaking at the Fortune Global Forum in Riyadh last October. basically a sales pitch for the privatization of Venezuela's oil. a sales pitch for the bombings that killed 40 people last night.
it's such a freakishly evil image i can't get it out of my head, and living in a world where this person was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize makes me feel crazy, like we're trapped in a world ruled by monsters. but we're not trapped. they're afraid of the rest of us.
F-35s don't kill starving kids and demolish cities, Senators kill starving kids and demolish cities.
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