your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Dec 20

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115752477326601097

Matt Yglesias drove on US-Rep Sean Casten’s lane and Casten just flattened him like a steamroller with this thread.

which brings me to the issue of #USA politicians still using the nazi bar and it’s crypto powered romper room:

if they can’t be arsed about #tech #sovereignty, they shouldn’t be legislating it.

2026 is a #USACongress election year. start making noise now about their absence in the #fediverse. they should have their own #ActivityPub powered sites with #Lemmy or #Mastodon

Show threadBrian SmallJun 27, 2023

.> ... it is more gratifying to bask in praise for courageously protesting the abuses of official enemies, a fine activity, but not the priority of a value-oriented intellectual who takes the responsibilities of that stance seriously.
.> The victims within our domains, unlike those in enemy states, are not merely ignored and quickly forgotten, but are also cynically insulted. One striking illustration came a few weeks after the murder of the Latin American intellectuals in El Salvador. Vaclav Havel visited Washington and addressed a joint session of Congress. Before his enraptured audience, Havel lauded the “defenders of freedom” in Washington who “understood the responsibility that flowed from” being “the most powerful nation on earth”—crucially, their responsibility for the brutal assassination of his Salvadoran counterparts shortly before.
.> The liberal intellectual class was enthralled by his presentation. Havel reminds us that “we live in a romantic age,” Anthony Lewis gushed. Other prominent liberal commentators reveled in Havel’s “idealism, his irony, his humanity,” as he “preached a difficult doctrine of individual responsibility” while Congress “obviously ached with respect” for his genius and integrity; and asked why America lacks intellectuals so profound, who “elevate morality over self-interest” in this way, praising us for the tortured and mutilated corpses that litter the countries that we have left in misery. We need not tarry on what the reaction would have been had Father Ellacuría, the most prominent of the murdered Jesuit intellectuals, spoken such words at the Duma after elite forces armed and trained by the Soviet Union assassinated Havel and half a dozen of his associates—a performance that is inconceivable. - https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/noam-chomsky-responsibility-of-intellectuals-redux/

#NoamChomsky comparing #VaclavHavel with #Ellacuría, #IgnacioEllacuria, #FatherEllacuría to place the #LiberalIntellectualClass in context... #ElSalvador #LatinAmericanIntellectuals #JesuitIntellectuals #USACongress #TheDuma

The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Using privilege to challenge the state.

Boston Review
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ChristopherDec 20, 2022
There's a double bind in the case of D #Trump. Yes, he is an indivdual & should face law as such bt he also represents 10s of millions of people who identify with him, who take any attack on him, of any sort legitimate or not, as personal to them. It may have the opposite affect making him a martyr for them.
#USA #usapol #jan6 #USAcongress
LawfareNov 10, 2022

The recent introduction of the Securing Open Source Software Act, and its subsequent momentum, has stoked a debate about the true reason for the open source security problem and the merits of different solutions.

#Cybersecurity #Technology #USACongress #OpenSource #SOSSA

From Chinmay Sharma, John Speed Meyers, James Howison: https://www.lawfareblog.com/securing-open-source-software-act-good-whatever-happened-legal-liability

The Securing Open Source Software Act Is Good, but Whatever Happened to Legal Liability?

The recent introduction of the Securing Open Source Software Act, and its subsequent momentum, has stoked a debate about the true reason for the open source security problem and the merits of different solutions.

Lawfare