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From October 4, 2024:
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah agreed to 21-day ceasefire before he was killed by Israel, says Lebanon minister ↗︎
↳ Can’t have a ceasefire, where would Israel’s mass-genocidal intent go? And also they’d be bored — the xenophobic genocidal narcissistic child can’t be bored. — added 5:33am on 04/10/24 ❧
From October 3, 2024:
AI data centers are draining water from this drought-stricken town ↗︎
↳ Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — initiators of the water wars. — added 5:32pm on 03/10/24 ❧
Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds ↗︎
↳ Dystopia is now! — added 5:18pm on 03/10/24 ❧
OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion ↗︎
↳ Quite literally fake money. OpenAI is a black hole for cash and, alongside Nvidia, is on a trajectory to destroy our planet. — added 5:17pm on 03/10/24 ❧
Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship ↗︎
↳ Yet another reason why gate-keeping closed source app stores should be outlawed. Just let people install software on their computers the way we have for decades. — added 5:10pm on 03/10/24 ❧
“Middle East crisis live” ↗︎
↳ What a joke, The Guardian. Israel is a terror state and you should report it as such — not reproduce colonial propaganda. — added 5:08pm on 03/10/24 ❧
AFP launches ‘prohibited symbols’ taskforce after Hezbollah flags seen at Melbourne rally ↗︎
↳ Insanity. These little pigs need a life. — added 5:05pm on 03/10/24 ❧
Productively “slow,” or just bourgeois? ↙︎ — posted 03/10/24, tagged as slow, academia, capitalism, exploitation, expropriation.
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Australia’s PM warns against pro-Palestinian rally as police seek ban ↗︎
↳ Between protest bans, tone policing, and the rampant hegemonic propaganda the choice at our next election is: fascism now, or fascism really soon. Fuck this government and their racist genocidal bullshit. — added 6:41am on 03/10/24 ❧
Calls grow in Germany to ban far-right AfD ↗︎
↳ Someone will listen to these calls, right? Right? — added 3:06am on 03/10/24 ❧
I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age ↗︎
↳ The volume of junk generated by these farms, which simultaneously destroys the planet through propaganda and power use, is breathtaking — and all it does is platform fascism in the mainstream over and over. To the point the mainstream media parrot it back. — added 2:50am on 03/10/24 ❧
From October 2, 2024:
Tennessee plastics factory staff killed in Hurricane Helene reportedly told not to evacuate ↗︎
↳ “Die for your work” — capitalists, literally. — added 7:07pm on 02/10/24 ❧
Albanese stood beside antisemitism envoy. Journalists weren’t even invited to Islamophobia envoy launch. ↗︎
↳ Albanese and his entire government are comprised of racist, sexist, fascist, landlords — and it’s leaking. — added 5:14pm on 02/10/24 ❧
Iran begins attack on Israel ↗︎
↳ I wonder how mainstream media will depict this in a desperate attempt to defend israhell. — added 8:30am on 02/10/24 ❧
Another year, another mountain of cash for the Murdochs and their friends ↗︎
↳ Oligarchs who dictate the public agenda. Sick fucks. — added 6:29am on 02/10/24 ❧