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"attracting" companies like Intel that are on the BDS boycott list is not really a good look for Linux.

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https://theislamicinformation.com/news/list-of-brands-supporting-israel/#comments

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https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide

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One advantage over wordpress is that it avoids bringing its parent company, Automatic, into the Fediverse.

From Wikipedia:

In February 2024, Automattic announced that it would begin selling user data from Tumblr and WordPress to Midjourney and OpenAI.

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Thank you, that's an important distinction. I hope they can be trusted to live up to that. However it still feels l pretty problematic to bring them in and would be a lot of opting in to debate and implement. It remains a pretty big violation of user privacy and trust and it says here:

As if that weren't bad enough, preparations for the sale went poorly, and it seems large categories of Tumblr posts that weren't supposed to be sold were added to the mix anyway. That data includes:

Private posts from public accounts

Posts on deleted or suspended accounts

Unanswered asks

Private answers

Explicit posts

Posts from partner accounts, like ad campaigns where Tumblr doesn't own the rights. (Apple is specifically named here.)

Announcing: West Coast Rojava Speaking Tour This May! — Emergency Committee for Rojava (www.defendrojava.org)

We are excited to announce our upcoming West Coast speaking tour, Report from Rojava: Women’s Revolution, Direct Democracy & Social Ecology in North-East Syria, which will take place May 11th - 17th, featuring public talks led by ECR members Debbie Bookchin and Arthur Pye....

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It is a bit disappointing that they aren't touring outside of that area. I'm on the East Coast and would love to attend this and I'm sure comrades outside Turtle Island would as well. Although it's certainly forgivable as travel can get costly. Given that it's listed as "West Coast Tour" I'm going to hope it goes well and try to remain optimistic that there will be an "East Coast Tour" and more to follow.

I'd also be interested in concrete info about what's going on there and certainly hope such a project isn't tainted by some problematic people within it.

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It’s all worth it if it means having this image grace the Fediverse.

Memories of Aaron Bushnell (crimethinc.com)

On February 25, Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire at the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC as an act of protest against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Hostile critics have attempted to shrug off Aaron’s action as the consequence of mental illness. On the contrary, Aaron’s choice was a political...

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I'm glad you enjoyed it! It definitely is. You may also appreciate Democracy Now's coverage yesterday where they interviewed his friend from the military https://youtu.be/6f8MYAF1L9M?si=vmyZ25IK8fIg9-22

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I understand your sentiment and appreciate it but I disagree with it. I'm not offended but I'm curious if you read all this. In no way is anyone glorifying suicide or encouraging it and his friend from the military states clearly that that's not what this was. I didn't read this is as glorifying or martyring him but honoring the message and who this man was. I'm sad as well but would rather do that without directing anger at those remembering him.

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Tthanks. When you reply to posts or comments, consider commenting on the content of the post as well as the form

To Change Everything, an anarchist appeal (crimethinc.com)

If you could change anything, what would you change? Would you go on vacation for the rest of your life? Make fossil fuels stop causing climate change? Ask for ethical banks and politicians? Surely nothing could be more unrealistic than to keep everything the way it is and expect different results....

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I imagine the mods of this community might have a more thorough answer but for me the short answer is "no" or "not exactly". It's most of the things you just mentioned although AI probably won't be super popular to everyone here. The Solarpunk Manifesto states: "Solarpunk envisions a built environment creatively adapted for solar gain, amongst other things, using different technologies. The objective is to promote self sufficiency and living within natural limits" . In many ways it's a reaction to AnPrim that embraces technology and optimism about the future and I haven't seen any AnPrims write about their positive views of our movement.

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I have Session. Given that it's a fork of Signal and more anonymous I'm inclined to trust it from a privacy standpoint but can't say I have the knowledge to really critique it's tech. People aren't really on there yet, at least nobody I know, so I don't have much use for it yet but I would if it catches on a bit more at some point.

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Thanks. They’ve referred to themselves as a fork of Signal but maybe a bit of an oversimplification

EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities (sls.eff.org)

These resources are designed for advocacy organizations, journalists, defense attorneys, policymakers, and members of the public who often are not getting the straight story from police representatives or the vendors marketing this equipment....

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