ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

I swear, in the long term the most useful part of my tech education—which includes a master's degree in computer science from 1990—has turned out to be reading comp.risks religiously since the late 80s and watching every new grift and scam and dark design pattern and type of malware on the internet emerge in realtime.

I hate that in this century everyone needs the paranoia and skill set of a 90s network security administrator.

@Cvwarren @loren

That one has 16 legs. Isopod packages tend to be logic gates which have 14 legs.

Where Does One U.S. Tax Dollar Go? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/where-does-one-u-s-tax-dollar-go/

@maxkennerly
So as an AI expert, let me rephrase this...

The Netanyahu regime set up a computer to give them a random list of people that seemed like they would sound plausible in a list of Hamas members, then listed their addresses as targets, to use that as a pretense to carpet bomb civilian populated areas.

Israel Assures It Doing Everything Possible To Minimize Civilians
https://www.theonion.com/israel-assures-it-doing-everything-possible-to-minimize-1851085308

@palestine

HuffPo got their hands on a private cable from the US Agency for International Development to the White House National Security Council today.

It warns the spread of hunger & malnutrition in Gaza amid the US-backed Israeli offensive is “unprecedented in modern history,” famine is likely already occurring in parts of the Gaza Strip, & the pace of hunger-related deaths will “accelerate in the weeks ahead.”

The dire internal analysis represents a shift from USAID’s last public comment on the matter, on March 18, which called famine “imminent.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-collapse-famine_n_660c96aae4b0328a72be47f5

‘Famine’ with a capital ‘F’ is a scientific classification based on standards, evidence, & technical consensus among experts

On Jane Goodall's 90th birthday, the sweet illustrated story of how she turned her childhood dream into reality https://t.co/CbpUEzYQE8

What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.

#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt

The abusive behavior that was being used to manipulate Lasse Collin into bringing on more maintainers for #xz went unnoticed because abusive behavior in Open Source Communities is so pervasive. In context, we can clearly see it was part of an orchestrated operation. Out of context, it looks like just another asshole complaining about stuff they have no right to complain about. https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/

Florida’s Supreme Court just threw a major wrench into the election, and Democrats are fired up. Rulings yesterday put the whole state into play over the question of abortion, threatening the GOP’s path to a senate majority and even the White House. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/florida-just-upended-the-election?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

People used to think an encrypted web was impossible. But billions of HTTPS certificates later—and with help from EFF's Certbot!—it's a different story. Support fearless public interest technology today. https://supporters.eff.org/donate/support-work-on-certbot--s

I worked my whole life to get to this day. My monster has escaped into the world. SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN is out now!

Shesheshen is a shapeshifting monster with a big problem: she's fallen for a human. This human is so kind and thoughtful, but also? This human is hunting her.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739891/someone-you-can-build-a-nest-in-by-john-wiswell/

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/11/everything-israel-is-doing-to-minimize-civilian-casualties-in-gaza/

Six months into the genocide in Gaza, so much is clear.

On the most elementary level, it’s clear as day that this is a genocide. Plain and simple. Bloody, eliminationist, and sadistically deadly. There is nothing complicated about it, nor hidden from view; one has to willfully make it complex or mask it to say otherwise (which alas, many are doing).

On a human level, it’s clearly, to put it mildly, heartbreaking and traumatizing.

It’s clear too, if one opens their eyes, that there is “no state solution” to this genocide. No state is coming to the rescue, nor forming a bloc of Allied forces to intervene; many states have no power to do so, but many more are part of a global “fascist turn” that doesn’t want to. (Meanwhile, progressives and liberals, including ones who play at being radicals, busy themselves with “state solutions” that clearly aren’t there at all, and in the process, close up space and imagination for social transformation.)

Meaning, for many of us, a certain hopelessness or despair or powerless has felt clear.

What’s less clear is how to stop or perceptibly disrupt this genocide and the fascism that fuels it.

Of late, though, friends known and anonymous, have made it much clearer to me that certain types of resistance could be profoundly, actually impactful, including:

Anticapitalist direct action, such as the bold @a15actions’ call for coordinated economic blockades on April 15 and long-standing but amped-up BDS campaign.

Antimilitarist action and military refusal, whether dogged direct actions to shut down military manufacturers or block military supply shipments, to Israelis going to jail rather than serve in the IOF, to Aaron Bushnell’s action, to unrest with the ranks of US troops.

Abundant space for grief, spirituality, and rituals in do-it-ourselves ways—to defend the sacred, communally maintain our solidarity and humanity against their barbarism, and communally embody life and love.

Remaking the landscape into a culture of resilience, daily and ubiquitously asserting that autonomous self-organization is possible, but so too are other worlds.

(photo: “intifada = uprising” seen on my walk #FuckFascism tonight)