Moving to the fediverse, apparently: @ska@treehouse.systems. Grumpy Frenchman, C/Unix addict, author of s6. Likes good tech, so, probably not your tech.
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Oh hi, new followers! Glad you liked my story.
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- Critique of bad tech - which to me means most tech - with lots of snark.
- Critique of late-stage capitalism; general leftie takes.
- But most frequently and importantly: shitposts.
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Laurent Bercot retweeted
The elite media absolutely never talks about how the Mexican left utterly crushed the corrupt narco-establishment in Mexico and instituted a wildly popular democratic socialist government that’s still going strong after eight years because they wouldn’t want to give you any ideas
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"i think all ram should be in datacenters"
looks at election results
"no no what i mean is your pc is a datacenter!! you should have lots of ram!!!"
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Mood:
ALT Drawing by Latvian caricaturist Gatis Šļūka, showing the Earth with a bright beam of light pointing to a gigantic ballot box on the United States, while, at the European edge of the planet, a bunch of people try to remain hidden out of sight while looking fearfully at the box as if it were a bomb
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“We’ve built software to track Wikipedia editors,” says the head of the ADL.
We have an investigation publishing soon about pro-Israel manipulation of Wikipedia, and he just blurts it out
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🇫🇷 French police have left protesters with injuries that human rights lawyers told outlets compare to those seen in conflict zones, as a student uprising over crumbling schools and the cost of living enters its fifth week.
Over Saturday and Sunday alone, French outlets StreetPress, Index and ViolencesPolicières(dot)fr collected several hundred videos and testimonies. Cases they documented include:
🔸 A 17-year-old in Saint-Étienne whose hand was torn off by a police grenade
🔸 A 17-year-old girl in Mulhouse who lost the sight in her left eye after being hit by a tear gas grenade
🔸 Protesters in Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg and Besançon beaten with batons and kicked while on the ground, including one held in a chokehold
France's police watchdog has opened at least 36 investigations into police violence against high school protesters. Christophe Calvao, president of the Paris Young Lawyers' Union, denounced "an increasingly systematic use of crowd-control measures that would normally be reserved for much more serious situations."
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has said police "must be able to use all intermediate weapons," and on Tuesday vowed to "step up" for the next mobilization. France Unbowed leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon said his party and unions know how to keep marches peaceful by deploying hundreds of volunteers, adding: "We could at least expect police to do something other than fire indiscriminately into the crowd."
Melenchon also noted that most European countries ban such grenades, and that Nuñez suspended them only to reinstate them "not even 48 hours" later.
🎥 Edited by @samivanderlip. (Compilation of videos circulating online).
Laurent Bercot retweeted
Israeli Defense Minister on Lebanon:“This is the Gaza model. And this is the model we are implementing.”
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Lebanon:
Look at what is happening in Lebanon.
Today, more than 60 villages in southern Lebanon, beginning with those adjacent to the border, and beyond that, throughout the entire security zone up to the Yellow Line, an area of 700 square kilometers, are destroyed.
All the villages have been wiped out. Twenty-three thousand houses, all destroyed, demolished.
I am not even talking about what is underground, about the tunnels. Everything has been destroyed.
There are no residents there. Two hundred thousand residents are outside.
This is the Gaza model. And this is the model we are implementing.
Laurent Bercot retweeted
"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble."
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Préfectures attaquées, commerces pillés, mairies saccagées ou brûlées, policiers blessés. Ce soir et demain, on va (à raison) beaucoup parler de casseurs. On parlera peut-être moins de ce qui nous a menés là : vingt ans d'impéritie au sommet de l'État.
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🇫🇷 “Bismillah, c’est les ténèbres,” roughly translating to “In the name of God, its darkness,” has become a viral slogan at France’s student protests.
The phrase originated in a bizarre Snapchat message allegedly sent by an undercover police officer posing as a student to infiltrate groups organizing school blockades. The message, awkwardly mixing Arabic expressions, French youth slang, and Algerian flag emojis was asking about protest plans.
Students seized on the apparent attempt to imitate them, and have turned the phrase into a meme to mock suspected police infiltration and racial stereotyping. It now appears on protest signs and is chanted at demonstrations. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg also joined in, repeating the slogan during a visit to striking students at a high school outside Paris on October 13. The identity of the sender and police involvement remain unverified.
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Either the AI bubble will pop, which will create a Great Depression-level market crash.
Or the AI valuations will be justified, which only works if AI replaces a huge number of workers and we get massive unemployment.
Either way, we are headed towards a monumental crisis.
The UK government is entirely beholden to Zionists (doubtlessly because of money). It is sad to see.
Not that EU governments are any better, but please, could you at least put *some* effort to hide it?
🇬🇧 UK’s Labour Party is threatening to pull out of local governing deals with the Green Party across England and Wales unless local Greens publicly condemn their party's "Zionism is racism" motion.
In about 18 councils where no party holds a majority, Labour and the Greens share power, either governing together in coalition or with one party propping up the other. Labour Party Chair Bridget Phillipson said local Green groups must issue a "clear and unambiguous statement" condemning the motion, which Green members passed 1,022 to 813 on Oct. 4. "Where they are unable to provide that assurance, Labour will bring any such local arrangement to an end," she said.
The Greens called the move "disappointing and wrong," saying Labour is conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism. "Trying to tell local parties what to do and who they can work with is undemocratic," a spokesperson said.
The ultimatum follows Prime Minister Andy Burnham ruling out any national partnership with the Greens over the motion.
🔗 More below ⬇️
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Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.
Trump & Hegseth aren't just proposing to livestream an execution for people who want to watch.
They're proposing to broadcast a man being shot to death, even if deserved by our system, and even if you agree with this version of the death penalty, knowing that the footage will be clipped, shared, and pushed into social media feeds.
Including those of our children. The gruesome image will be everywhere.
Parents will have virtually no control over whether their kids see it. Once those images are released, there is no taking them back.
Hope all the parents in the Trump Admin are cool with that.
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The moral collapse of this country will be studied for a generation. We are devolving at a rapid pace. We are ruled by degenerate psychopaths.
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It's so difficult to explain to the outside world what it has meant to live in the West Bank in the last few months.
The level of Israeli violence we have been witnessing has not only been unprecedented, but it's beyond rogue and feral.
Israelis, whether in the army or not, have been armed not just with military grade weapons like M16s, but they've been provided with drones.
Every neighborhood in the West Bank faces some form of Israeli violence every day. It's either settlers carrying out pogroms, shooting Palestinians in their own lands and homes, or the army and police detaining Palestinians and subjecting them to torture as a sadistic ritual.
As Palestinians we've been stripped of all capacity to not just push back, but to even remain on our lands.
BRIEF:
Water has been systemically cut off, electricity is slowly cut off, access to hospitals and education is ruptured, there are economic restrictions on money flow while Israeli soldiers carry out organized and systemic robbery of Palestinians (stealing money from people on checkpoints, stealing gold from homes, and even carrying out army-sanctioned robberies of hundreds of thousands of dollars from official money exchange offices).
The West Bank feels so dystopic, every day we wait to see if Israelis have come up with a reason to carry out their sadistic games of violence. Whether it's some Jewish holiday, or some other excuse, we're always just waiting to see what event Israelis will evoke that day to attack us.
It's like a daily waltz with death. You either survive another day, or you don't.
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« C’est toujours l’oppresseur, non l’opprimé, qui détermine la forme de lutte.
Si l’oppresseur utilise la violence, l’opprimé n’aura pas d’autre choix que de répondre par la violence. »
Nelson Mandela – Un long chemin vers la liberté (1996)
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Les geôles du Tribunal judiciaire de Meaux sont remplies de COLLÉGIENS qui supplient d’avoir un goûter et un mot pour excuser leur absence de l’école…
C’est absolument lamentable
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The name of this worldview is “TESCREAL.” I, along with Timnit Gebru, have written extensively about it. If you’re interested in understanding the Silicon Valley mindset and the race to build ASI, read the article below. 👇
Elon Musk’s ultimate AI vision is a “star mind” powered by the sun.
“We’ve already built the most powerful AI training clusters in the world. And then what we expect to do by the end of next year is about 10 times more than what we’ve done thus far. This will be very important practice for space AI.
And I do think that AI training will continue to be on the ground, but AI inference, the day-to-day use of AI, will be in space. So we’re aiming to get to 10 gigawatts by the end of next year. This is depending on what the value per watt is.
If the value per watt is probably going to be $30 to $50, which means if we bring 10 gigawatts of AI online by the end of next year, it will be $300 to $500 billion a year in revenue. Big numbers. And sometimes I wonder, what is our purpose?
And it could be that the purpose of humanity is to give birth to a star mind, a sentient sun. I don’t know what the AI is going to think about, honestly. It’s a lot of compute.
But I guess this is the next step in the evolution of a civilization, is to harness the power of the sun. There was a physicist called Kardashev who argued that you could consider any given civilization on the basis of whether it has been able to harness most of the power of its planet, or most of the power of its sun, or most of the power of its galaxy, and beyond. So that’s what’s going to happen.
And we’re going to do it. The factory for star mind will be located nearby, adjacent to us, basically. They just come from space.”