An invasion of Kharg island would be a suicide mission for US soldiers. Wouldn't surprise me if Trump goes through with it, but I also have my doubts that it will happen at all. This is maybe wishful thinking on my part, but I feel like the US is just gonna withdraw unceremoniously from the conflict.
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Notes and things that are better suited for here than on other applications. Also shituationist on tumblr.
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116278661360029668
This is, I think, the story of the last few years. Software is tapped out. There is more software than can be sold. We are in a glut, and we've made it worse by stuffing word embeddings with code that can then be teased out with text prompts. All new software products are solutions in search of a problem, or actively polluting the Web with synthetic data extrusions of dubious quality at best, which threaten to saw off any usefulness of the Web as a technology by turning it into a playground for chatbots.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/116278993772857946
My wife's due date is in May ðŸ˜
RE: https://mstdn.social/@jschauma/116251321191395352
Mid-career SWE, considering starting a lawn care co-op with a comrade to make end's meet while I train as a home inspector.
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@arrrg/116236274908968534
Heh, maybe I'll make this a thing on my home inspection site, when I get licensed.
Right-libertarians are correct on this one, just for the wrong reasons.
There's really no way around it, the federal government has to be massively down-sized. There's no New Deal 2 coming, no redux of the Radical Republican amendments to the Constitution (which only came about because the reactionary southern states were militarily occupied), no new Civil Rights Acts on the horizon. On the net, the federal government is the most evil institution in American society: Indian removal, fugitive slave laws, imperialist war, the FBI as an instrument of class war. The whole structure is rotten.
The Lebanese and Syrian governments seem content to just let the Israeli military murder its citizens. Not even an ounce of push back.
Migrating more of my posting over to here from bluesky. I think bluesky is living on borrowed time, to be honest. The rat's nest of a protocol that is clearly all too inspired by cryptocurrency and the worst practices dominant in the Californian software sector, combined with the team's just utter hatred of the user base who doesn't agree with them, makes me think ActivityPub-based websites are probably gonna last longer.
"The only mass libertarian structure whose words did not differ from deeds is the EZLN. Shortly after the invasion, they filled the streets of their municipalities, unconditionally condemning this aggression, calling for the immediate withdrawal of the Russian military, at the same time not considering the Ukrainian bourgeois state as something principally better. This protest was symbolic, hardly anyone in the Kremlin even saw it at all, but it seems they did the maximum that is possible in their mountain jungle…"
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2023/07/27/ukrainian-group-assembly-explains-its-antimilitarist-positions/
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2023/07/27/ukrainian-group-assembly-explains-its-antimilitarist-positions/
Ukrainian group Assembly explains its antimilitarist positions - Anarchist Communist Group
Interview realised by the International Relations Commission of the Italian Anarchist Federation (CRINT-FAI) With this interview, we wish to present to international publics the Assembly group that is active in the city of Kharkiv where it produces an online counter-information newspaper, to which several links are provided in the text of the interview, and operates in local solidarity networks in a city