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Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page, marking a major shift in how Israel’s aggression on the besieged enclave is being documented on the world’s largest online encyclopaedia.

In a related move, the platform’s editors recently voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League “generally unreliable” on the subject, adding it to their list of banned and partially banned sources.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241108-its-not-close-israel-committing-genocide-concludes-wikipedia-ending-editorial-debate/

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America is now at the stage of the game of Monopoly where it's obvious who has won because they own everything, but you have to keep going round and round the board while they drain the last of your money from you.

This is the point where some people choose to flip the board.

@luckytran I remember back when I was only 10 years old and disagreeing with adults and they told me "Your views will change as you get older". They're right that it changed, but only more towards the humanist/libertarian side, not away from it.

@Quinnypig TIL Dropbox is still a thing

Instead of devoting trillions of dollars to get to summarize our emails, can we all just agree to write shorter emails?

@lanodan It's a pretty decent list, although I'd rank most of them above lynx since I *think* it's the only one among them that is completely unaware of css.

Hence, to securely log in, you' alway hit the SAK key combination first (on Windows, that's Ctrl-Alt-Del), and once the real login screen pops up, you are ready to go.

The Linux kernel has been supporting a SAK concept for a long time too. (see: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.6/security/sak.html – it's also available via magic sysrq K). However, the way it is implemented is a bit too drastic: it simply kills *anything* with an open fd to the console.

Some progress on the plugin for IM / libpurple. Still a lot to do but slowly getting there. The node is connected directly to the serial port / USB. I will also implement TCP but no plans for BLE.

Screenshot of the Pidgin IM application connected to Meshtastic

It's just amazing how unhinged people are. All of them. perhaps I should let loose a bit too. I wonder what that would even mean? I'm not sure I know how to be crazy. Or maybe I'm crazy and just don't know it. Maybe I should jump into a bathtub filled with cheese puffs. This requires some additional thought.

Donald Trump has called for journalists and whistleblowers to be jailed, threatened to revoke broadcast licenses, and tried to censor online speech.

He’ll try to do all that and more in his second term.

We must fight back.

https://freedom.press/issues/trump-will-try-to-destroy-press-freedom-we-wont-let-him/

@LALegault Do you have a moment to hear about the good news about Cheesus Crust?

Signal has no ads, no trackers, no surveillance.

It is time to install it.

It is a nonprofit

It is time to donate.

https://signal.org/donate/

Donating to Signal helps pay for the servers, bandwidth, and ongoing development to ensure that Signal remains available to the millions of people around the world who count on it to protect their privacy.

@olasd Ah so this is why phones keep getting taller and taller.

@mementomaori It's not anymore? Damn I didn't get the memo.

@LALegault I think she could have done a lot better if she had more coaching from marketing people and other popular polititians, even Sanders and Warren could've probably helped her shape her language to be a lot more palatable.

@LALegault You know, a good politician can usually put a good spin on something without even changing anything in reality. When her supporters chanted pro-palestine slogans at her rallies, she could've easily said something like "I'm not going to say something against the policies of my president, but under me things will get better" which isn't any kind of commitment at all, but it's a lot better than the effective "F U" that her supporters got from her.

Voters asked Kamala Harris to make their lives more afforable and stop committing a genocide, and she went with Israel and Cheney. Don’t you dare blame anybody but her team and her bad judgement

@LALegault I'll license it for who wants to marry a Capetonian, because property prices here are already skyrocketing due to the influx of Americans and Europeans who are fleeing.

@magicalgirlsabrina I won't be smug about it because I hoped she would win. I wouldn't have been particularly happy about it, but besides her poor foreign policy the democratic campaign set forth one of the progressive campaigns ever, and a democratic win would've been a lot better for the US, for individual rights for people in the US, medicare, workers rights, and for climate change. This *should* have been a slam-dunk, but unfortunately she chose to be dismissive to voters.

@magicalgirlsabrina Nothing wrong with having hope, and if anything, hope is more important now than ever. Probably not the best time to say this, but hope, for all the good that it is, is not a strategy. For months I've seen people ignore huge issues with the democrats affecting their voting base in the hopes that it just won't be an issue, and Kamala turning against a big part of her voting base ended up costing her dearly.

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