"Chris Rea, le chanteur de « Driving Home for Christmas » et « The Road to Hell », est mort Š l’âge de 74 ans" 😢
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/articl
Après la prison, le retour en politique de l’opposant biélorusse Sergueï Tsikhanovski : « On me répétait : “Tu vas mourir ici” »
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/artic
We are not in an era where democracy is “challenged.”
We are in an era where democracy is under siege.
Authoritarianism isn’t knocking…it’s battering the door.
Propaganda isn’t creeping…it’s flooding.
The public isn’t outraged…they’re exhausted.
This isn’t a moment for:
“Be Inspired.”
“Stay Hopeful.”
“Vote Blue.”
“We’ll Be Fine.”
This is a moment for:
“DO. NOT. LET. GO. OF DEMOCRACY.”
Macron: ”Vem röstar folk på om de frågar Chat GPT?”
Samtidigt är EU på väg att pausa delar av sin AI-lagstiftning, efter påtryckningar från USA.
https://www.dn.se/varlden/macron-vem-rostar-folk-pa-om-de-fragar-chat-gpt/
Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.
Dzisiejsza demonstracja pod Ministerstwem Aktywów Państwowych ws. embarga na dostawy materiałów wybuchowych do USA.
18 listopada br. organizacja Palestinian Youth Movement opublikowała opracowanie, które opisało rolę naszego kraju - a konkretniej firmy Nitro-Chem z Bydgoszczy - w dostawach trotylu do produkcji broni wykorzystywanej przez Izrael w Gazie. Od ponad dekady firma ta jest czołowym producentem i eksporterem TNT w NATO i UE i odpowiada za 90% eksportu tego materiału do USA. A ten kraj z kolei wykorzystuje go do produkcji bomb i amunicji dostarczanej izraelskiej armii i wykorzystywanej w Gazie.
Cytując opracowanie: “Bez trotylu (TNT) wyprodukowanego w Polsce niemożliwa byłaby bezprecedensowa skala i intensywność bombardowań z powietrza, które pochłonęły życie dziesiątek tysięcy Palestyńczyków i zniszczyły warunki życia w Strefie Gazy”.
Link do PDFa do poczytania jest gdzieś tutaj:
https://www.embargoforpalestine.com/reports
Datenschutz-WTF Moment:
Zum ersten Mal in einer neuen Arztpraxis, ich bekomme einen Stapel Formulare zum Ausfüllen. Eines davon eine Einwilligungserklärung in die Datenbearbeitung, die auf die "folgende Seite" verweist.
Diese "folgende Seite" war eingeschweisst, und ich erhielt sie nur zur Ansicht und sofortigen Rückgabe nach Unterschrift.
Dass ich beides fotografiert habe, hat man nicht verstanden.🤦♀️