my everything server recently died and i’ve got a bunch of old androids that i was using as security cameras. plus this sounds like fun. lol

the diaspora is a definitely a thing and that’s not what i’m describing.

i’m talking about unofficial state sanctioned violence that happens and then gets ignored after the fact despite it descendants and a handful of intellectuals trying to make the world aware while it continues to happen elsewhere.

those are the only “legitimate” sources for us americans. lol

During the event in Caracas, the president of the American Association of Jurists of Argentina, Claudia Rocca, proposed filing a complaint with the International Criminal Court against United States President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for crimes committed against Venezuelan migrants and for attacks on vessels.

i wonder what the goal is in taking this action when it’s clear that the icc won’t do anything about it; they still haven’t moved on netanyahu.

pogroms like this were really common in the american southwest; especially in california and arizona; and i descend from one of the people’s who were the victims.

we only continue to exist to this day because enough of us were on the mexican side of border to keep to keep our existence going and the palestinians don’t have this “luxury”

these episodes are completely forgotten except by a handful of intellectuals despite occurring less than 4 generations ago and i fear that the same will happen to the palestinians.

it’s the most hardcore version of democracy in action.

i dunno; the ones in nepal & ukraine worked pretty well.

i felt relief when i dropped all social media and tv news; including facebook.

then i’ve selectively adding in new platforms one-at-a-time ensuring that each one wasn’t controlled by the same forces that have gamified and/or manufactured narratives like facebook/reddit/bluesky/etc. does.

lemmy, rednote, and tiktok are the only things to pass muster so far, but i suspect i’m going to have to drop tiktok eventually considering its new ownership.

TLDR News on YouTube

i watch this too and i can attest that it’s not much different than what you get on tv; it’s still beholden to the same forces that control abc, cbs, nbc, fox, cnn, guarding, skyone, etc.

democracynow is on youtube is the best you’re going to get in this country.

i worked for starbucks in the late 90’s and the trauma from its popularity at the time still leaves me w nightmares from time to time 30 years later. lol

President Castro has also faced a divided congress and hostile mayors in many municipalities. The highly militarized police forces and the army have strong ties to the US. Further, a corrupt legal system and the abiding influence of Honduras’s oligarchic, very wealthy families who control much of the country’s industry, commerce and agriculture challenge popular rule. That Castro has secured her many achievements under all these constraints is remarkable.

it’s remarkable that any leader in latin america is capable of doing this and these conditions make me skeptical that the us empire will ever lose ground to brics.

i sometimes wonder if holding anyone in the media to any kind of journalistic integrity is realistic anymore

surprised to learn that he was never aligned with isis; i saw him as osama bin laden 2.0.

yes and that’s why i said europe and not the eu

… just get the next body in

this is the overwhelming majority in my anecdotal experience for the last 23 years professionally so now i don’t try so hard.

try saying that you support palestine action publicly in the uk. lol

i got to jump back in recently w a new laptop that came w windows.

i’ve been buying linux first hardware for the last decade and going through this exercise has been eye opening for; i wasn’t aware of much the landscape has changed.

logflip sounds more fun. lol

very true and cryptic codebases w/o documentation was the only reason why i was employed for the last 20 years. lol

interviewing & working w the young people hired at my last 2 places who used ai to get work done MUCH faster than i could showed me how much of a dinosaur i was and it was the biggest contributing factor to leaving the field. my experience in the last 10 of those 20 years makes me aware that only software engineers with a prestigious pedigrees (eg well regarded universities and/or well known names in their resume) are given a chance today.

people trying to take a path similar to mine to become a software engineer – poorly regarded state university degree and accepting shitty contract gigs at the beginning of their career in roles that are barely software related – are fucked unless they’re lucky or well connected.

i was SUPER LUCKY to get contract gigs at faang and old-silicon shops to put on my resume and i learned retroactively (and in writing) that, that was the only reason i got interviewed at all.

We dont even know their names.

that’s surprising to learn since the likes of farage, le pen have & hocke heavily influencing politics in the uk, france & germinay and meloni winning her election in italy.