Shibaprasad Bhattacharya @shibaprasad@qoto.org

"Socialist Realism in Albania: A visit to the National Gallery of Art "
This and many more nice art works of Soviet period Realism. Worth a visit and collecting the images!

https://www.davidbellard.com/blog-1/2016/8

I just got inspired for an upcoming Blog post.

Thanks @truckfreak for posting a nice painting that lead me this way!

#Socialism #Realism #art #Albania

Think about this. I've been posting about privacy issues for quite some time. It's real. Folks are too willing to give up their privacy in exchange for an 'app.' Check this out and pass it along. The article is long by today's 'short attention span' standards. But, it's worth it.

"It doesn’t take much imagination to conjure the powers such always-on surveillance can provide an authoritarian regime like China’s. Within America’s own representative democracy, citizens would surely rise up in outrage if the government attempted to mandate that every person above the age of 12 carry a tracking device that revealed their location 24 hours a day. Yet, in the decade since Apple’s App Store was created, Americans have, app by app, consented to just such a system run by private companies. Now, as the decade ends, tens of millions of Americans, including many children, find themselves carrying spies in their pockets during the day and leaving them beside their beds at night — even though the corporations that control their data are far less accountable than the government would be. . ."

". . .one thing is certain: We are living in the world’s most advanced surveillance system. This system wasn’t created deliberately. It was built through the interplay of technological advance and the profit motive. It was built to make money. The greatest trick technology companies ever played was persuading society to surveil itself."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

How can you even think about going to a farmhouse with your friends to chill? Just how? There are people out there going for protests, not knowing if it will even result in anything.

But of course YOU want to have fun.

@shibaprasad Good luck and keep safe, friend. Seen on the news the clashes of police with students on the streets.

☮️ Good luck!

A quick reminder, for those of you who didn't follow the NRC proceedings in Assam. One of the worst affected groups were women from poorer families.
Women usually don't have their name on property documents.
Women marry, move locations and become part of "other families". They lack access to their parents' and grandparents' documents.
Generations of women change their names for men - and lose the paper trail for their ancestry.

A thread by blurple blob ( @shabbalilies@twitter.com ) on the link between Abusive Parenting & BJP's propoganda:

https://threader.app/thread/1206496373266247681

Citizens: here's how I think the economy should be handled

BJP: let me handle it! I'm more experienced than you

BJP: *breaks the economy, causes an explosion, the entire country is in shambles*

Citizens: wtf did you do

BJP: AT LEAST I TRIED, YOU COULDN'T HAVE DONE BETTER!!!

cc @sanjayuvacha @Universityofhumanity @tariquesani @noor @jamewils

https://nitter.net/shabbalilies/status/1206544888130461698?s=20

And trust me, this is not the country you wanted when/if you voted them in. You wanted jobs! Shiny things! Instead you're getting a fully totalitarian regime, because that, essentially is Modi & Amit Shah's main agenda.

I'm ashamed to admit that we as a country have left dissent and protests to our students. It's a burden they've been forced to carry on their own.

@shibaprasad It has been amazing having you with us and look forward to your future contributions.

I was asked today what I do for fun, and I legit had to refrain from saying that I was part of a cult of technomancers working to restore the future timeline to save the internet.

and that felt pretty good.

#notacult

#freedom is :

- using a multiple content capable clipboard; keeping ten or more clippings ready for reuse at a moment's notice (TY Microsoft.com Win10)

- using a browser that is not Google controlled and spied on. (TY https://Waterfox.net and https://Mozilla.org Foundation)

- using a free, powerful, easy to learn all around joy, Irfanview image editor. (TY https://www.irfanview.com )

- using a simple and easy to work with blog, #fediverse aware and integrated. (TY https://writefreely.org )