Ghazi @curiousmind@qoto.org

So ... I've been in IT for 20+ years, most of that time working directly in databases.

That whole thing about Twitter, FB, Reddit, Google, whoever ... "deleting" your data after you jump thru the right hoops.

That's all bullshit.

I mean, even apart from the whole "market, monetize, sell and spy on our userbase" thing.

DBAs, people who actually work with databases, we almost never *actually* delete stuff in a database.

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Twitter succumbs to Erdoğan’s pressure, silences key voices in Turkey on election eve.

https://www.turkishminute.com/2023/05/13/twitter-succumbs-to-erdogan-pressure-silences-key-voices-in-turkey-on-election-eve/amp/

The younger generation of Palestinian refugees in Gaza carry memories of their original villages, even though they've never been to them. 75 years after the Nakba, they still dream of return.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/05/gaza-refugees-dream-of-a-paradise-lost-during-the-nakba/?utm_content=buffer9e81e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel

Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by the same Israeli bullets directed against her fellow Palestinians. Those bullets have continued to fly, and the Israeli war machine has taken the lives of nearly 300 Palestinians in the past year. Shireen's was one of them.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/05/shireen-abu-aklehs-killing-made-clear-that-israels-war-on-palestinian-journalists-is-part-of-its-war-on-palestine/?utm_content=buffer24a8a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel

I just got access to Google’s new MusicLM and…

Wow.

No exaggeration when I say this will change the music industry. Thanks https://twitter.com/zackhargett/status/1656812761324875776 for the HT.

If you ask me how I feel a year after Shireen Abu Akleh’s assassination, I would tell you that I feel angry because both Shireen and I died under the tree that day. Shireen awaits justice from heaven, while I wait for it down here on earth.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/05/how-are-you-a-year-later/?utm_content=bufferd826f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel

#Gaza bombings

#IsraelΑpartheid has killed 27 & wounded 70 Palestinians in 3 days of bombing Gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/5/11/israel-palestine-live-news-gaza-rocket-unit-commander-killed

One year after Al Jazeera journalist was killed, rights advocates say Biden administration is shielding Israeli abuses.
Shireen Abu Akleh killing: Advocates decry ‘abhorrent’ US stance

Microsoft, one of the world’s most profitable companies - a story in two parts.

rien à cacher

Are Passkeys a Big Tech Tracking Nightmare? Let's Take a Look! https://neat.tube/videos/watch/0fc71036-b3f1-4140-92c7-598df7fe64c9

Well now....

STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/a428d531-2f02-4464-b1d4-9eee22c02800

The European Union was founded on respect for democracy and #HumanRights.

The current leadership of the EU and its Member States spits on those ideals every single day.

They are deeply embedded in illegality. From the EU’s “let them die policy” in the Mediterranean, to several member states criminalizing saving lives at sea, to the EU’s complicity in torture in Libya.

It's not a happy #EuropeDay when our leaders have abandoned us and our shared morality.
https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/05/03

(⬆️) La justice saoudienne a prononcé une nouvelle condamnation injuste de 37 ans de prison contre le jeune détenu, Osama Khalid, membre des communautés des logiciels libres et wikipédia.
https://www.fsf.org/working-together/profiles/osama-khalid

Israeli occupation forces bombed the Gaza Strip early Tuesday morning, killing at least 12 people and injuring 20.

Three Islamic Jihad commanders were killed in the bombings, along with many of their family members, which Israel claims were in response to rockets being fired from Gaza following the death of hunger-striking political prisoner Khader Adnan.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/8/israeli-jets-hit-targets-in-gaza

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

'Many experts welcomed the Lilly data as an important step forward but cautioned that donanemab was not a cure and the full results of the trial have not yet been published and need to be closely studied.'

https://www.ft.com/content/b18aefc1-ccbc-442e-a23c-117f27826d71

Quand vous aurez 50 mn de libre - Comment #Facebook et #Zuckerberg ont détruit l'humanité ou presque... #GAFAM

https://video.blast-info.fr/w/158455be-12a7-4b54-8a5e-9a113864c632