I’m not sure how salient the Dark Crystal franchise is to the public consciousness, though [Netflix did a series five years ago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Crystal:_Age_of_Resistance). Skeksis are like capitalists in that, while they may fight amongst themselves & backstab each other, their primary & common cause is Gelfling subjugation, through deceit if possible or naked violence if necessary.

fediverse davel • 6mo ago • 100%

Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit [with Twitter co-counder Biz Stone on the Board]

blog.joinmastodon.org

tl;dr: Twitter co-founder [Biz Stone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biz_Stone) is on the Board. Someone please update this meme:  Anyone know anything about “human rights advocate” [Esra’a Al Shafei](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esra%27a_Al_Shafei)? This is all I found of note so far: [S.T.O.P. and the Fight Against Surveillance](https://blog.xmtp.com/fight-against-surveillance/) >The amazing activists sneaking footage out of Uyghur detention facilities in China and those fighting for reproductive justice in the U.S. use the exact same encryption as criminals. Where’s the footage, Esra'a? We’re still waiting on it… From [JWZ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski)’s hot-take: [I see no way this could possibly go wrong](https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/04/i-see-no-way-this-could-possibly-go-wrong-2/) >Oh, and apparently one of the other board members, Ghavi, is a lawyer at a firm that is all-in on cryptocurrency and "AI" companies. Anyway, on to the Board: >[Esra’a Al Shafei](https://mastodon.social/@alshafei) is a human rights advocate and founder of Majal.org, a network of digital platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices in Southwest Asia and North Africa. She is also the co-founder of the Numun Fund, the first dedicated fund for feminist tech in the Global Majority. Esra’a currently serves on the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit which hosts Wikipedia. She is also on the Board of the Tor Project, developers of one of the world’s strongest tools for privacy and freedom online. > >[Karien Bezuidenhout](https://www.philanthropy-matters.org/team) is an advocate for openness and supporter of social entrepreneurs. As the former director of the Shuttleworth Foundation, her core interest lies in social and policy innovation through practical interventions and sustainable social enterprises. Through her experience as a board member to social change organisations and social enterprises across the world, she strives to make connections that accelerate learning. > >[Amir Ghavi](https://www.friedfrank.com/professionals/amir-ghavi) leads Fried Frank’s core technology practices as the co-head of the Technology Transactions Practice, where he advises clients on cutting edge technology and intellectual property matters. Amir is also a regular speaker, panelist and commentator to the media on digital assets and quantum computing. > >[Felix Hlatky](https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox) has been the Chief Financial Officer of Mastodon since 2020. Felix helped Eugen by incorporating the project in a non-profit LLC in Germany and raising additional funds from Prototype Fund, NLnet and GLS Bank. Felix is the CEO of SOLARYS, a company developing software for volunteer firefighters in the DACH region. > >[Biz Stone](https://medium.com/@biz) is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Twitter, one of the world’s leading social media platforms. Biz’s career spans various facets of technology and social networking, including contributions to the development of blogging, podcasting, and social media. Beyond Twitter, Biz has engaged in various philanthropic efforts and tech ventures, emphasizing the importance of corporate responsibility and the potential of technology to address societal challenges.

I’m probably going to the_dunk_tank for this, but… Requirements: [Violentmonkey](https://violentmonkey.github.io/) browser extension. Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey might work as well, but I haven’t & won’t test them. Note also that I haven’t & won’t test Chrome or Edge, either. ```javascript // ==UserScript== // @name lemmy-delete-tagline // @match https://hexbear.net/ // @require https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@violentmonkey/dom@2 // ==/UserScript== VM.observe(document.body, () => { const node = document.querySelector('#tagline'); if (node) { node.remove(); return true; } }); ``` Edit to add: Maybe it needs some work: when I click on the homepage icon from another page, it fails to remove the tagline. I’m an old who doesn’t understand how [progressive web applications](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app) work. Maybe I need to remove the `return true` and also tune how often the observer observes. Or maybe there’s some trigger I should hook it up to. Simply removing `return true` does seem to work, but I have no idea if it’s at the cost of any appreciable performance. Edit to add more: !companero@hexbear.net suggested that I just use a [uBlock Origin](https://ublockorigin.com/) filter. I tried it and it works. It’s as simple as: ```plaintext hexbear.net###tagline ```

marxism davel • 6mo ago • 100%

Gabriel Rockhill, "Are Fascism and Liberalism Partners in Capitalist Crime?"

An excellent [Critical Theory Workshop](https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/about-2/) lecture and Q&A on fascisms and liberalisms—contemporary but also historical—through a dialiectical materialist lens.

chapotraphouse davel • 7mo ago • 0%

“Shen Yun To Turn 10 Iconic Bay Area Landmarks into Giant Billboards” (Sorry I’m a day late)

brokeassstuart.com

Beldon for scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up-dfbIeBIc

the_dunk_tank davel • 7mo ago • 100%

Billionaire Says His Long-Delayed ‘Titanic II’ Ship Will Be Antidote to ‘Woke’ Politics

www.rollingstone.com

 Make Titanic Great Again 

the_dunk_tank davel • 7mo ago • 100%

#ThisIsMyLifeNow

Effort posts are messages in bottles.

the_dunk_tank davel • 7mo ago • 100%

“I’m pretty sure the Tiananmen square massacre was a bigger crime. Not to mention their genocide of the Uighur people, their oppression of Hong Kong, their attempts to steal Taiwan’s sovereignty.”

My  response to this weapons-grade gish gallop: --- >Tiananmen square massacre - [The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.](https://www.autistici.org/poderobrero/articulos/the-tiananmen-square-massacre-the-wests-most-persuasive-most-pervasive-lie) - [1989 Tian'anmen Square riots](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/1989_Tian%27anmen_Square_riots) - [A Note on the Tiananmen Protests](https://www.qiaocollective.com/articles/a-note-on-the-tiananmen-protests/) - [Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows](https://old.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/1400qeg/images_from_tiananmen_1989_the_west_never_shows/) (NSFW / CW: violence and death) - [‘Tank Man’: the full footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989](https://twitter.com/carlzha/status/1134582926325104641?lang=de) --- >their genocide of the Uighur people This bullshit never ends, does it? - https://lemmy.ml/comment/8588979 - [A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China](https://medium.com/@bobbyarlan/a-reddit-ama-claiming-to-be-a-uiyghur-quickly-exposes-a-cia-asset-slandering-china-1d667c098b77) --- >their oppression of Hong Kong Hong Kong was the product of [the UK’s century of Chinese oppression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars), and [their 99 year lease on oppressing Hong Kong ended in 1997](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_for_the_Extension_of_Hong_Kong_Territory). --- >steal Taiwan’s sovereignty Taiwan is only considered sovereign by eleven countries, most of which are micronations like the Holy See, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan --- >was a bigger crime - [List of Atrocities committed by US authorities](https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html) - [Are We The Baddies?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooMCvGlbbc4)

podcasts davel • 8mo ago • 100%

Eyes Left: A Guide to Getting Out of the US Military (Now) w/ the GI Rights Hotline

Maybe someone you know needs to know this. >It's much easier than the Pentagon wants you to think. Whether you're in the military or know someone who is, this is the definitive guide to walking away. And as Biden's support for genocide spins out into new US wars across the Middle East, from the Red Sea to Iraq, now would be a good time to walk away. > >Featuring special guest Maria Santelli, longtime counselor with the GI Rights Hotline, which provides secure, free and expert support to any service member who wants to leave the military. > >CALL the hotline anytime at 1-877-447-4487 for advice, or visit them online at https://girightshotline.org > >Maria is Executive Director of the Center on Conscience and War: https://centeronconscience.org [GI Rights Hotline](https://girightshotline.org/) > >SUPPORT this podcast by making a tax-deductible donation the The Empire Files at https://www.patreon.com/empirefiles

Taylor Swift davel • 8mo ago • 100%

“What I find amazing about Taylor Swift’s concerts is the logistics that goes into it…”


marxism davel • 9mo ago • 100%

Thoughts on applying these Reddit r/GenZhou rhetorical tactics on liberal Lemmies?

[How to effectively counter imperialist lies on Xinjiang on the internet: A Guide](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/229915) Any tactical changes or improvements to be made?

chat davel • 9mo ago • 100%

MetaFilter liberalism: An infintile disorder

When I was still somewhat liberal I was active on [MetaFilter](https://www.metafilter.com/). The community was groundbreaking in the realm of well-moderated social media networks. For years now they’ve even been paying the moderators for their labor. But over the last several years I less & less could stomach how  the community is. About a year ago I had enough when a prominent poster said they *fucking hate nazis and tankies more* than neoliberals. They subscribe to [Uyghur genocide propaganda](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide_allegations) without question. Standard imperial core lib shit.

philosophy davel • 9mo ago • 100%

Philosopher Hans-Georg Moeller: What is Philosophy Good For [and not good for]?

www.youtube.com

TL;DR: It’s good for: - Questioning religion - Coining concepts - A jobs program for failed writers and mathematicians/scientists [Hans-Georg Moeller](https://fah.um.edu.mo/hans-georg-moeller/): *My research focuses on Chinese and Comparative Philosophy (specifically Daoism) and on Social and Political Thought (specifically Social Systems Theory).* [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OR3HMCUAAAAJ) He has a [YouTube series on the history of media theory](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM0AijAXbZKmRJLOHdzlHZQzoB5K_Gvos).

philosophy davel • 9mo ago • 98%

Thanks to Gaza, European philosophy has been exposed as ethically bankrupt

www.middleeasteye.net

Maybe the last 500 years of Atlanticist colonialism has something to do with it. And also maybe the CIA: [Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism](https://monthlyreview.org/2023/12/01/imperialist-propaganda-and-the-ideology-of-the-western-left-intelligentsia/) >In this regard, the Frankfurt School under Horkheimer played a foundational role in the establishment of what is known as Western Marxism, and more specifically Cultural Marxism. Figures like Horkheimer and his lifelong collaborator Theodor Adorno not only rejected actually existing socialism, but they directly identified it with fascism by benightedly relying—very much like French theory—on the ideological category of totalitarianism. Embracing a highly intellectualized and melodramatic version of what would later become known as TINA (“There Is No Alternative”), they focused on the realm of bourgeois art and culture as perhaps the only potential site of salvation. This is because thinkers like Adorno and Horkheimer, with a few exceptions, were largely idealist in their theoretical practice: if meaningful social change was foreclosed in the practical world, deliverance was to be sought in the *geistig*—meaning intellectual *and* spiritual—realm of novel thought-forms and innovative bourgeois culture. > >[…] > >Finally, the evolution of the Frankfurt School into its second (Jürgen Habermas) and third generations (Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser, Seyla Benhabib, and so on) did not alter in the least its anticommunist orientation. On the contrary, Habermas explicitly claimed that state socialism was bankrupt and argued for creating space within the capitalist system and its purportedly democratic institutions for the ideal of an inclusive “procedure of discursive will-formation.” The neo-Habermasians of the third generation have continued this orientation.

videos davel • 9mo ago • 100%

Fresh yelling-at-Nathan-J.-Robinson-through-the-screen content from Briahna Joy Gray

www.youtube.com

“Unlisted” video: [Our Task for 2024 (w/ Nathan J. Robinson) - FULL VIDEO ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5RFWySFOsI) >Current Affairs Magazine founder, author, and famously accurate predictor of the 2016 election Nathan Robinson returns to Bad Faith Podcast to weigh in on 2024, how he predicted John Fetterman's fall, & what he predicts for 2024. Brie and Nathan spar on the issue of political litmus tests, and whether Brie should take the W on Gaza becoming a redline for voters rather than interrogating why it was that witholding votes from Biden was a much more radical proposition back in 2016 or 2020. Bad Faith famously debated Noam Chomsky on the subject of whether the threat of Trump compelled leftists to vote blue no matter who in 2020. Would he change his mind in 2024 in light of the genocide in Gaza?

The American “intelligence community” wants to control the narratives on federated social media, as they already do on corporate social media. - Atlantic Council: [Collective Security in a Federated World](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/scaling-trust_annex5/) - Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund: [Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps](https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/fediverse-governance-successes-gaps/) The whole “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” discourse was/is a psyop for top-down propaganda control. The Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi such that his continued investigatory work into this intentionally opaque system is being ignored.

covid davel • 10mo ago • 100%

Swiss cheese transmission risk reduction graphic; applied to any airborne virus

https://mastodon.social/@mackayim2022/109345282886472862

A refutation of Cantor’s idealist [diagonal argument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor's_diagonal_argument) using Turing’s materialist theory of computation.