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  • Enron and the collapse of California’s power grid is directly linked to deregulation by George Bush’s regime and a lack of public control and oversight of electricity markets. Corporate media blamed the energy price crisis on the governor, leading to a recall and his replacement by a Republican. Capitalists would love for that to happen in Chicago too; squeeze poor families with energy prices they can’t afford and then blame it on the government to shift the state’s politics to the right.






  • There’s the real strategic concern that escalating too quickly will have nuclear repercussions. But the deeper reasons are visible if you view most governments as military industrial corporations stacked under a trenchcoat. The true motivator is that the longer the war continues, the more money will flow from their respective tax payers into their pockets. They don’t care about Ukrainian lives, they don’t care about Russian lives. The popular support for the war and lack of domestic casualties means they get to ply their trade of death, and they come out smelling like roses. Opposing Russian colonialism is a noble cause, but the nobility belongs to those who are dying in the foxholes, not the warmongers who are squeezing this crisis to get more capital.

    Western leaders don’t want Ukraine to win. They want Russia to lose. A quick cauterized wound is less damaging than a slow bleed out. Total bankruptcy of the Russian war machine is the objective, the economic elimination of their primary trade competitor.















  • They don’t work. It’s total bunk.

    I’ll go one further - they can never work. AI is trained using a system where an artist system generates art, and a gatekeeper system gives a confidence rating of how it looks human. The artist system goes through a training process until it can consistently fool the gatekeeper system. If there was a system that existed that could identify currently generated AI art, it would become the new gatekeeper system, and the artist system would only get better.




  • Admin post from Kolektiva:

    🚨 Kolektiva.social SECURITY ALERT 🚨

    This is an alert for Kolektiva.social users. Please read this post in its entirety!

    In mid-May 2023, the home of one of Kolektiva.social’s admins was raided, and all their electronics were seized by the FBI. The raid was part of an investigation into a local protest. Kolektiva was neither a subject nor target of this investigation. Today, that admin was charged in relation to their alleged participation in this protest.

    Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an unencrypted state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else.

    The database is the heart of a Mastodon server. A database copy such as the one seized may include any of the following user data, in this case up to date as of early May 2023:

    • User account information like the e-mail address associated with your account, your followers and follows, etc.
    • All your posts: public, unlisted, followers-only, and direct (“DMs”).
    • Possibly IP addresses associated with your account - IP addresses on Kolektiva.social are logged for 3 days and then deleted, so IP addresses from any logins in the 3 days prior to the database backup date would be included.
    • A hashed (“encrypted”) version of your password.

    🚨 👉 As a precaution we highly recommend that all users on Kolektiva.social change their password immediately to a new, unique, and strong password.

    We sincerely apologize to all our users and regret this breach. In hindsight, it was obviously a mistake to leave a copy of the database in an unencrypted state. Unfortunately, what would otherwise have been a small mistake happened to coincide with a raid, due to bad luck and spectacularly bad timing.

    We understand that our users and other people on the Fediverse will have a lot of questions. We will try to answer them as best we can, but please be patient and bear in mind that we may be overwhelmed with messages, and may be delayed in responding or unable to provide answers to certain questions for legal or technical reasons. As a security culture reminder, it can be extremely harmful to the individuals charged and to our community to openly speculate on the Internet about alleged criminal activity or about what law enforcement may be able to do with seized data. Our present awareness is that the seized Kolektiva data is unrelated to the federal investigation and prosecution and we are exploring legal avenues to have the seized data returned and copies destroyed.

    Thank you for your understanding and solidarity :black_sparkling_heart:

    👇 Please see our replies to this post for additional information (1/?) 👇





  • Five@beehaw.orgOPtoMusic@beehaw.orgACHAB - Black bloc
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    1 year ago

    Thanks! I’ve got lots to share, I’ll keep 'em coming :)

    If you haven’t seen them already, also check out

    • Keny Arkana (Marseille) famous for her alter-globalist rap, and which is topical due to the mini-intifada in Paris over Nahel’s murder.
    • el Deluvi (Valencia) who make feminist folk; the song is a riff on ‘Divisa’ – a poem by a woman who fought to keep the Catalan poetic tradition alive despite its attempted cultural erasure by the Spain’s fascist regime.