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Wie Hightech zu konservativen Machtausübung hilft ist nicht neu und doch wollen dies die wenigsten wahrhaben im Westen, in dem viele "nichts zu verbergen" haben.
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Spionagesoftware entdeckt: Wie Belarus Journalisten bespitzelt
Eine Vorladung beim belarussischen Geheimdienst. Kurz darauf verhält sich das Smart­phone seltsam. Der Verdacht bestätigt sich: eine Abhörsoftware. Offen­bar wird sie seit Jahren gezielt gegen Regime­kritiker eingesetzt.

First/last light, same day. Golden larches.
(From a hike on the last day of our recent roadtrip. The view in the second image is looking back at Hanauer Hütte, in front of Schneekarlespitze and (clipped) Dremelspitze)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on Dec. 12 after saying a tenant had canceled (Dakin Campbell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fermi-america-amazon-tenant-t…

Mystery solved: Amazon is the prospective tenant in talks with data center developer rocked by stock plunge
"The lead negotiator for Amazon called me on Thursday," Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer told Business Insider. The deal would pay more than $20 billion over the next 20 years, he said.

The #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.

"What goes with [GDP growth] is ... ignored; growth depends on increased production and distribution, which always increase waste."
Jon Cloke in our new #ProspectsForDegrowth piece.
The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there… – degrowthUK

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
Jon Cloke* “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definiti…

Who are top 2026 NFL Draft prospects for Indiana, aside from QB Fernando Mendoza? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6719678/2025/10/16/nfl-draft-2026-prospects-indiana-football-elijah-sarratt/

A Quantum Perspective on Uniqueness Pairs for the Fourier Transform
Oleg Szehr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14953 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14953

A Quantum Perspective on Uniqueness Pairs for the Fourier Transform
Kulikov, Nazarov, and Sodin recently introduced the notion of criticality to analyze when discrete subsets of the real line form uniqueness pairs for the Fourier transform, relying crucially on estimates derived from the Wirtinger-Poincaré inequality. In this work, drawing analogies from quantum mechanics, we propose an alternative approach to studying uniqueness sets in a Fourier-symmetric Sobolev space. Our method is based on eigenvalue estimates and offers a simplified perspective on the pr…

The One-Year Jewish Studies Program at Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134939/one-year-jewish-studies-program-paideia-european-institute-jewish

Trump corrupts the minds of Americans
Normalizes bigotry, misogyny,
graft and greed
From: @apron.rupar@threads.net
https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DP1koWjiWp9

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Neguse: "What Donald Trump and his administration are attempting to do is create this perception that he has all the power, and create a sense of hopelessness or helplessness in the American public. We've gotta resist the temptation. He is electorally unpopular. In fact, the most unpopular president at this juncture than any modern president in the history of our country."

Sag mir, dass du #Carsharing nicht verstehst, ohne zu sagen, dass du Carsharing nicht verstehst. 🤦