Also indulged in one of my unwise habits by randomly perusing a collection of primary documents I don’t have all the context to understand. It can be dangerous because you can easily misunderstand or misconstrue. Searched the UN documents archive for items relating to Palestine or Israel with the word “colonize”. (Quality of the OCR is mid.) Here is the earliest hit:

UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PALESTINE. VOLUME 4 : REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY : ANNEX B : ORAL EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT PRIVATE MEETINGS - A/364/ADD.3 dated 01/01/1947. Original is linked in the top right corner as a zip archive containing various languages. NL471672.PDF is english.

I find it interesting going back to 1947 and seeing how everything that created the present situation was already in place. I’ve looked at other UN committee or assembly docs from mid-century. Even though they were created for specific contemporary situations, they’re pretty much legible and you see the consistent threads running through them.

I didn’t know there were ambivalent lib jews anymore. How have they managed that?

I bet Norman Finklestein has that information somewhere. How detailed of an answer are you looking for? Sounds like something introductory to start?

What is the significance of the word “colony” being used specifically? I found for you this on natopedia Zionism as settler colonialism. You should open the footnotes.

Jewish Alternatives to Zionism: A Partial History

they could at least get vasectomies like hitler’s family.

I heard an interview with her today. She said that after harassment from musk and co, she went offline for a while. Which she had never done before. It was the first chance she ever had to think without constant bombardment of rightwing shit. This led to a reorientation. And then experience of being made the target of AI revenge porn. She had an analysis of that business I’ve never heard before which is that “edge case” data is valuable. So the platforms allow it because it is generative of such data. But didn’t explain details of that.

She talked for a while about how difficult it is to get out of right wing media culture once you are in it because the people in power have so much leverage and they aren’t afraid to use it. Said that since she has left she gets communications from her friends who are still in it saying they hate it and wish they could leave but they are afraid for reasons she wouldn’t elaborate upon but from the way she said it, like they’d be murdered or something.

Its just what she said idk what’s really up with her now or in the future. Hopefully she has legitimately gained perspective to be a better person. I doubt her fears about elon musk having the ability and desire to seriously fuck with her are misplaced.

That’s not a very strong argument. Its like saying you can’t complain about capitalism if you consume products of capitalism. More directly, I am sure other components of how you yourself access lemmygrad.ml were created and are maintained by heinous people. Internet itself was created in context of cold war anti communism. Devices, telecom networks etc.

Even more specifically one of the Lemmy devs is known to make comments against trans people. So is it the law of Lemmy that we all must adhere to?

Its not wrong on the mere premise, its wrong in factual basis and in conclusions drawn.

I read a book written about 20 or 30 years ago about how cities had been putting in policies against any kind of fully public square type situations for a while. To discourage hanging out together. And that as you say this was part of a larger plan to disperse the population into the individuated suburbs. That concept has been very recuperated into the whole “walkable cities” and similar in the intervening years but thats not necessarily a refutation.

See it also in context that creating places like that is predicated on a prior demobilization and disconnection. No city falls out of a coconut tree. The newer post war style created during labor peace red scare. Think of redlining also as active contributor to the atmosphere. Redlining made formally illegal in US in ?70s so very much in living memory. And say nothing of settler genocidal state stealing land.

In the places with dense cities there are different (related) histories.

In other contexts, public squares are actually interventions to control civic unrest. They provide an obvious location to gather when the populous becomes agitated, which is inevitable. They are designed in ways which allow crows to be managed by cutting off routes, to guide them as required to non disruptive dispersal locations. They are usually near locations of economic and political power as the crow flies. But actually with a lot of barriers to prevent access to those.

Having an objective source of truth undoes their way of doing things, so they have to dismiss anything from Wikipedia out of hand. As is tradition, their way of doing that is to assign it an insulting nickname so that anyone who brings it up is subject to bullying.

Youseall will pry NATO pedia from my cold dead fingers. But I’d never describe it as “objective source of truth”. That’s not even how Wikipedia describes itself. I didn’t know anybody would think of it this way.

All highschool teachers are tankies now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZrAYxWPN6c

Been pretty offline this week. Is citizenship on the table or is the question itself delusional?

But the way the clerk just turned the guys bag upside down and dumped everything onto the belt. The look on the face of the young female clerk at the next aisle when she saw the lotion. Who was ineffectually reassured. And that guy straight ran out.

A drama during quiet hours.

Dialectics

I can’t read the terminal text on my phone its too small. Is this headline claiming she removed the website from the internet?

All I can find about is the data leak. They’ve put up a cute website about it here https://okstupid.lol/

Doctorow is popular because his critiques never offer up any systemic solutions but rather place “enshittification” as a bad thing corporations do.

Literally he is constantly saying that there are no personal solutions, only systemic solutions. He even makes fun of people who ask questions like “so what can I do about it?” He’s like, haven’t you been listening? You can do nothing other than organize to build and enforce collective power. I heard him say how important it is that people do not think he is advocating for individual actions of any sort.

I think there are critiques to be made of Cory doctorow but overall he’s a good influence to have around. He sees his role as articulating communism in a way that will be appealing to his constituency, who are mostly lib/center technocrat types.

We are mostly not his target audience. But sometimes I really appreciate his analysis on some technical or legal issue because he knows that shit really well and there’s not a lot of leftists who do.

As to “enshittification” specifically he has been going around introducing the concept by attributing the popularity to how it gives people the opportunity to use bad language in a context they usually wouldn’t. which I find very funny.