@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-15 15:55:00
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-10-15 16:23:04
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-16 08:24:42
Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)
@crell@phpc.social2025-10-15 14:02:41
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-15 12:20:37
SNAP Is Now a Key Part of Democrats' Campaign Messaging (Raymond Fernšndez/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2026-election/snap-democrats-campaign-messaging
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p22#a251215p22
@pimterry@toot.cafe2025-10-15 18:24:53
Node v25 is here!
https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases/tag/v25.0.0
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-15 20:00:03
power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…
@siggib@infosec.exchange2025-11-16 16:31:08
Listening to "What the world Needs Now (is love)" by the great Dionne Warwick, and the lyrics ring so true.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
The world needs a lot more love, of every kind. We need to stop judging how and who people love and celebrate the fact that they are loving and folks are getting loved.
So go out there and spread as much love as you can. Whether it is platonic, brotherly, neighborly or roma…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-15 16:36:35
Finland joins NATO's PURL mechanism to procure US weapons for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/finland-joins-natos-purl-mechanism.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-10-17 00:00:04
chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://
