Pallas, the retronaut

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<p>30 • 🇦🇷 • #nonbinary (pan-outherine/pan-autonomine), #aspec in every level of attraction and #Enbian in every possible way/direction. #Disabled, #Neurodivergent & #ChronicallyIll.</p><p>Interested mostly in music (#ClassicMusic, #Vkei, #Punk, #Goth, #Jazz, #Tango, #Steampunk, etc) history, politics, technology (#FLOSS & #Fedi), #vintage media and fashion and Astronomy.</p>

I deleted my #Duolingo account. Had a streak of 800.

Got enough of the boring repetitive lessons, the generated content, the one path, the non-stop push to buy Super or Max, the interactive game ads, the removal of earning hearts by practicing, the removal of community answers, the extensive tracking, the AI-first. The #enshittification reached a point where I just didn’t feel good using it any more.

I think I can spend those 10-15 minutes a day with something more meaningful and fulfilling.

Hoy se estrenó la serie de #ElEternauta en Netflix, pero no olvidamos que el co-creador de la obra original, H.G. Oesterheld y sus cuatro hijas (dos de ellas embarazadas) fueron desaparecidos por la dictadura argentina en 1977.

#NuncaMás

Ireland on Wednesday highlighted a complete disregard for international law in Gaza during an open UN Security Council debate on the Middle East.

“What we are witnessing on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank is indicative of a complete disregard for international law, the UN Security Council and the integrity of the United Nations as an institution,” said Fergal Mythen, Ireland's permanent representative to the UN.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ireland-highlights-israels-complete-disregard-for-international-law-in-gaza-at-un-security-council/3553644

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#Gaza #Palestine

Ireland highlights Israel's 'complete disregard' for international law in Gaza at UN Security Council

Israel’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies into Gaza 'rapidly deepening the hunger crisis,' Ireland's envoy says during open UN Security Council debate on Middle East - Anadolu Ajansı

A report published by Declassified UK on Monday revealed that a British company is supplying engines for "Israel's" newest line of military drones, raising fresh concerns about UK complicity in the Gaza genocide.

RCV Engines, a Dorset-based engineering firm, has been identified as the manufacturer of the propulsion system for the APUS 25 drone, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), an Israeli government-owned weapons manufacturer.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/new-investigation-reveals-uk-firm-supplying-engines-for-isra

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#Gaza #Palestine

New investigation reveals UK firm supplying engines for Israeli drones

Israeli drones have reportedly been used to broadcast the sound of crying babies to lure Palestinians into open spaces, where they were then targeted.

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@CheeseToastie
MAGA/The GOP. Google financed Trump's campaign (just like meta, amazon and all that crap).
Ideologically they're pretty close and the latest changes have been in agreement to Trump's policies.

There's the golf if America thing, the fact that they have been eliminating the posibility to report bigotry in Youtube.

It's now that they work for/with three letter agencies, which isn't only a "privacy concern" in the individualistic sense, but also a democracy concern, as these agencies spy and kill activists, orchestrate, train and backup dictatorships, interviene in elections, and more.

There was an issue here a decade ago of so of google prioritising right wing media, even if it it wasn't known at all or if it was known to push fake news.

@CheeseToastie
Mainly political. While privacy and security are a concern, I'm more focused on stop using products by big corporations, in particularly those with ties to fascist parties and government agencies and I'm very wary of those who try to sell their products as "private and secure FOSS alternatives" while holding similar fascistic ideas.

tell this fucking ACAB and ex-CIA pig, to shut the fuck up about woke and stop throwing Black people under the bus.

if Democrats are gonna use “woke” like the N-word, cut them off the knee STAT and make them feel the pain. scorch the earth around these fascist-lite, anti-Black, pieces of shit.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/slotkin-has-a-war-plan-to-beat-trump-dont-be-weak-and-woke-00308176

USA has always been a fascistic, or rather authoritarian (as its flavor of alt right authoritarianism actually predates fascism) state at its core.
It isn't a novelty of the current Trump administration. What that administration actually repredent is an extreme exasservation of say USA authoritarianism and the complete fall of the mask of "the democratic USA" for the relativelly privileged USian and their allies in other parts of the global north.

For the rest of us the mask has never been on and we have suffer the USA for what it always has been: an authoritarian, anti-democratic, imperialistic, neocolonial and parasitic state.

There's something very charming in confused iPhone users thinking iOS is a valid alternative to google android, and not another corporative trash that doesn't respect you at all.

You should #degoogle and #demeta, yes. But you should also #deapple.

#Apple has been accused and, in some cases been proven guilty, of unfair competition, false advertising and monopolic practices.

It's not an alternative to the technological oligopoly, but a core member of it.

#Microsoft walking back its climate commitment is a great example of why we need binding state and federal #climate laws, not corporate pledges that are reneged when they become inconvenient to profits and shareholders”
#climatefriendly #it #bigtech #unplugtrump #opensource #foss #ClimateAction #datacenter #ki #ai
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/microsoft-shrugs-off-company-climate-goals-to-support-burning-methane-gas-for-ai-data-centers/
Microsoft shrugs off company climate goals to support burning methane gas for AI data centers

 

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