@paulwermer@sfba.socialAbsolutely terrifying - Have we learned nothing from the history of antibiotic use in cattle pigs poultry?
EPA urged to ban spraying of antibiotics on US food crops amid resistance fears
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAmericans have a secret weapon against Trump (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/466518/trump-business-boycott-democracy-resistance
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p39#a251030p39
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org"When people tell me that there’s been no resistance to the Trump administration... or just aren’t paying attention, because there has, in fact, been a tremendous amount and variety of resistance and opposition and it’s mattered tremendously. When will it be enough is a question that can only be answered if and when all this is over and we find out what comes next."
@cdarwin@c.imIndivisible Santa Barbara,
working with Artists for Democracy,
is planning an event for January,
"Art of the Resistance".
We are looking for signs and hand-painted protest art
to show in a gallery during the event.
Go to https://buff.ly/ZplE0qE
to submit your ori…
@padraig@mastodon.ieRE: https://mastodon.ie/@padraig/115224732193029812
I solved this issue by buying the Japanese version of Metal Resistance from Discogs. :D
@UP8@mastodon.social⚡ Anomalous electronic state opens pathway to room-temperature superconductivity
#superconductivity
@hippyjo@c.imIf you're looking for ways to help correct course against Trump and his fuckery, check out the Resistance Directory: #resist
@cdarwin@c.imRobert Reich here.
You asked us to stream
"The Last Class" film.
On Dec. 8, you can watch along with us!
Sign up: >> https://ineq.me/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPad Air with OLED screens; the iPad mini will likely arrive first, as early as 2026 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Ritual Trio:
🎵 Renaissance of the Resistance
#RitualTrio
https://open.spotify.com/track/2O8F2ELiYGuJiXDGFpE6pj
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaHalloween Ruined: Fascist Paramilitary Invades and Abducts Two [Chicago, IL]
Source: #politics
@usul@piaille.frLe capitaine Filimonov, figure de proue de la résistance ukrainienne dans le Donbass
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/24/le-capitaine-filimonov-figure-de-proue-de-…
@3sframe@social.linux.pizzaGovernment - "We're cutting your food, deal with it"
Community - "Fine, I'll feed everyone myself"
Feeding people has become a form of resistance.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialDamn. This is beautiful.
The story and the writing.
https://beige.party/@raineyday/115793532205514401
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/opinion/trump-weaker-resistance-stronger.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p3#a251226p3
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"The GOP is now brazenly lying about the breadth and popularity of the No Kings movement, and the fact that the millions who will turn out are Americans citizens and residents who oppose authoritarian, fascist policies and officials and want to save our democracy and the rule of law. They are scared, and we are getting to them."
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Trump began his second term, conventional wisdom held that the resistance was moribund.
If that was ever true, it’s certainly not anymore.
This year has seen some of the largest street protests in American history.
Amanda Litman, a founder of Run for Something, a group that trains young progressives to seek local office, told me that since the 2024 election, it has seen more sign-ups than in all of Trump’s first four years.
Just this month, the Republican-domi…
@buercher@tooting.ch“on a besoin d’un candidat qui dise au Conseil d’Etat qu’il fait fausse route. C’est un mensonge de répéter qu’on peut baisser les impôts tout en maintenant les prestations. Et Christelle Luisier se trompe en disant que le canton n’a pas de problème de recettes: on a besoin d’une réponse quant aux millions perdus du bouclier fiscal et on a besoin d’un système de solidarité financière”
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/vaud-canton-recherche-ministre-bonne-resistance-au-stress-pour-ramener-le-calme?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}
@markhburton@mstdn.socialLikewise, in today's UK, we say, "There is no immigration question".
"The Danes’ unified refusal to indulge hate and their insistence that there was no 'Jewish question' overtook their more powerful opponent, dashing their plans and even changing some of the German occupiers’ mindsets."
The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We | The Nation
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Growing cocktail of medicines in world’s waterways could be fuelling antibiotic resistance"
#Water #Pollution #Environment
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI suggest that everyone read this piece:
"America Needs a Mass Movement—Now"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/autocracy-resistance-social-movement/684336/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialData Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-data-center-resistance-has-arrived/
@cdarwin@c.imMarjorie Taylor Greene could have led the anti-Trump resistance
-- but the mob boss got his way
The Maga star won on the Epstein files
and COULD have founded a Republican resistance movement
-- but is instead the latest dissenter to head for the exit
htt…
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialEvent: Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference
Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference On December 4, the Interfaith Center of New York, Union Theological Seminary, The Riverside Church, The Beacon, and the Interfaith Alliance will convene diverse religious leaders, civic officials, community activists, and concerned New Yorkers to explore past and present examples of faith community resistance to authoritarian rule. We will learn from the…
@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot@mastoxiv.pageGeneralized quantum limits of electrical contact resistance and thermal boundary resistance
Alice Ho, Jashan Singhal, Deji Akinwande, Huili Grace Xing, Debdeep Jena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10919
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org"Faith leaders have publicly pleaded with ICE and DHS to let them access the people inside so they can provide spiritual comfort and religious rituals, including delivering communion to detained immigrants. But the DHS has prevented them from doing so. In response, church leaders have sued the Trump administration for violating their first amendment rights."
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialResistance is everywhere — it just isn't getting enough attention
Nepal, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Madagascar, and the United States
Bu J. P. HILL
https://www.jphilll.com/p/resistance-is-happening-everywhere
@servelan@newsie.socialThis plague of frogs tells us something hopeful about resistance to Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/frog-costume-2674331856/
@pre@boing.worldThomas voegtlin talks about nostr spam. It's very censorship resistance means spam can't be stopped by moderators.
One way to stop spam is require proof of work before your client accepts a message. A large difficult hash.
But big hashing machines are more available to spammers than people.
Can't use likes or zaps cuz they can be faked with sybil attacks.
Instead: notaries and proveably burned satoshis.
Your public messages are classified as ham rather than spam if you burn enough money.
Nostr event types to prove it are suggested. Including burning to upvote others messages
Don't think I like deliberately burning the money, and seems to me a web of trust might work without doing that? Pay to post also peanizes there poor.
But it isn't really burned here, it's shaed out to miners to continue a subsidy when the block rewards run out. So paying miners and these notaries rather than really burning. Okay. Maybe better, but still makes messages mostly for the rich?
#bitfest #bitcoin #nostr
@scott@carfree.citylooks like there'll be a #NoKings event at Sunset Dunes! cool crossover
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/847587/
main march in SF here:
@randombaywatch@mastodon.social
@StephenRees@mas.toPortland's weird, effective resistance
We live in strange times, and the people of Portland are responding with their trademark whimsy. Despite US president Donald Trump's best attempts to portray the City of Roses as a "war-torn" "hellhole," folks who live there are demonstrating that these are lies – lies intended to bolster his authoritarian efforts to deploy the National Guard in cities that oppose him and his tyrannical policies
@aral@mastodon.ar.alPeak neoliberalism. https://kolektiva.social/@adub/115395745174476749
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhat @… is quoting here is a testament to the waste and the cruelty and the uselessness of this regime.
It is also a testament to the effectiveness of ubiquitous, sustained, pervasive resistance. “What good does it do,” you ask, “to have crowds of random people just yelling and honking and filming?” The answer is that it makes these harassment campaigns unsustainable.
https://toad.social/@KimPerales/115583290500226180
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot“They won’t imprison us all, they know if they fill the prisons with activists, we will overpower them from within. So flood the damn streets in your millions. Shut down these factories in your thousands! They can never arrest the resistance in our smiles. We will use the shards of our broken hearts to spear the system of injustice.” -- Qesser Zuhrah
#SayHerNamee
@brichapman@mastodon.socialBeyond Resistance — #substack
@j_honegger@swiss.socialFrom #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
#KREMLIN LOST CONTROL: UKRAINE’S RESISTANCE STRIKES INSIDE RUSSIA Vlog 1266: War in #Ukraine
As a result of an operation…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialThe similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And
@mlawton@mstdn.social👀 Defensive regression. If you review most of the goals this season, it usually isn’t that LFC don’t have enough people behind the ball. It’s that depth & injuries have been more undermining than expected. Little choice but to play those out of form or out of position.
Missing out on Guehi was massive, as was the injury to Leoni, and the decision to sell Quansah now looks bad. I think Trent, when he wanted to, was a better defender than his reputation, but defensively, he’s not mis…
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaFascist Paramilitary Invaders Assaults Man on Kedzie Ave in Chicago (10/4/2025)
Source: #politics
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageEstimation of Resistance Training RPE using Inertial Sensors and Electromyography
James Thomas, Johan Walhstr\"om
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03197 https://
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialTonight (November 21) Carpe Diem Arts has a Fall of Freedom event from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM at Seekers Church, Takoma Park across the street from the Takoma Metro (Red Line). More details in comments.
#DC #WashingtonDC
![[POSTER] Statue of Liberty torch drawing with red and yellow beams of light.
[CAPTION] Art matters. Courage is contagious. Take Part. Nov. 21.
"Fall of Freedom" is an urgent call to the arts community to unite and activate a nationwid wave of creative resistance (https://falloffreedom.com/)
"Carpe Diem Arts" has long celebrated the experiences, cultures, and identities that shape the fabric of our nation.
Join us FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 6-9 PM, as we lean into the use of "Arts for Social Chang…](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/588/450/933/250/187/original/6f59d0df54deb1d5.jpg)
@ruari@velocipederider.comMyself and the rest of the resistance will be attacking this Empire stronghold shortly.
@castarco@hachyderm.ioWe are cooked.
We were always a problem for the ones above: we had the opportunity to enjoy high levels of education, access to relatively free & unpolluted knowledge, and welfare systems that worked relatively well for at least half of our lifes.
That was unacceptable, and "AI" is here to fix that.
Big Tech and their fascist friends have convinced many among our younger generations about the idea that "AI" (in its current form) is cool, amazing, necessary, and unstoppable.
We can resist all we want, except it's not our resistance that matters, but the resistance of the younger ones who haven't finished their formal studies yet.
Mozilla's CEO knows it... so he'll happily contribute to dumb us down as much as possible (before anyone has time to react) to ensure that we don't bother ever again the fragile sensibilites of his friends, our capitalist overlords.
@UP8@mastodon.social🏴☠️ From anime to activism: How the ‘One Piece’ pirate flag became the global emblem of Gen Z resistance
https://theconversation.com/from-anime-to-activism-how-the-one-piece-pirate-flag-became-the-global-e…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaconsidering making a new gods teacup as the 1 year anniversary of it approaches. despite my resistance to the idea of this beast having any type of about page, it did make a bit more pronounced splash than other things ive made in the last year, and i dont expect to have anything meaty to show of detondev.com 2 anytime soon lmao
@relcfp@mastodon.socialMovement(s): Migrations, Resistance, and Currents of Asian Diasporas https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/07/movements-migrations-resistance-and-currents-of-asian-diasporas
@hex@kolektiva.socialSome leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
#USPol
@arXiv_condmatstatmech_bot@mastoxiv.pageGravity-Induced Modulation of Negative Differential Thermal Resistance in Fluids
Qiyuan Zhang, Juncheng Guo, Juchang Zou, Rongxiang Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08909 https://…
@kctipton@mas.toNew malaria drug hits 97% cure rate. Now we need to pay for it. | Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/470060/malaria-drug-resistance-global-health-usaid-foreign-aid-vaccine
@kornel@mastodon.socialI've got Eve smart plugs which happen to report grid voltage they see. I've noticed this is precise enough to observe wire resistance, and see how far each plug is from the breaker box!
#homeAssistant
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRussia Strikes Ukraine and Signals Resistance to Amended Peace Plan (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/world/europe/ukraine-russia-strike-peace-plan.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p91#a251125p91
@arXiv_condmatmeshall_bot@mastoxiv.pageOrigin of Enhanced Thermal Resistance Near Nanoscale Hotspots: Insights from Full-Dispersion-Resolved Phonon Transport in Silicon
Jae Sik Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12530 ht…
@pre@boing.worldNot sure what the difference between a panel and a"fireside chat" is. There is no fire.
But here's a fireside chat on what nostr is.
Nostr is freedom for Identity. Accounts without hosts. Publishing without publidhers. Censorship resistance without platforms deciding who gets to say what.
It's not a silo in which you can be tapped as the service enshitifies, since it's a protocol with accounts you control, you can't switch clients or relays without loosing social graph or contacts.
Nostr is notes and Other Stuff, what other stuff? the panel is working on an audiobook publishing system with perhaps a required payment and affiliate revenue share. E-commerce, video publishing, zap stream for live video with zap payments.
Onboarding can be tricky with private key management needing to be understood and such a range of options of clients and what relays are. Can we make it easier?
Perhaps by abstracting away the fact it's nostr at all. Devine users don't even know they are using nostr. But this robs users of the understanding they may need to move clients or use the same account for video and notes, say.
Perhaps by making a private messagnger, the panel thinks people are used to using multiple messenger apps. Though I find they hate that, and that's why they refuse to install signal. They feel they don't need it since they already have WhatsApp with a bigger network.
In the end it's education. We have to teach literacy so people can read and write, we have to teach public keys encryption so people can do so securely.
#bitfest #nostr
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Scientists probe Tajik glacier for clues to climate resistance"
#Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialThere is a cult of action at the heart of tech.
This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.
AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.
Doing what is easiest is only going to make things worse. The only helpful course of action is to fix the system.
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaFascist trying to run over someone for not answering questions then crashes his car [Baltimore]
Source: #politics
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: I'm hardly likely to use the landing area am I? I need to contact the resistance fighters.
CALLY: Your words are meaningless to me.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/354
@timbray@cosocial.caResistance is futile. You will be assimilated
Fa la la la la.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialThis is a subtweet...
People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRemember that authoritarian movements of all kinds, but especially fascist movements, do not initially have the power to force an entire nation state to bend to their will. They need — not just benefit from, but absolutely •need• — the passive acquiescence of large numbers of people.
Loud, annoying, visible resistance punctures the lie that it’s inevitable, that people who keep their heads down will be rewarded in the end.
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialEvent: Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference
Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference
On December 4, the Interfaith Center of New York, Union Theological Seminary, The Riverside Church, The Beacon, and the Interfaith Alliance will convene diverse religious leaders, civic officials, community activists, and concerned N
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot@mastoxiv.pageAssessment of Hybrid RANS-LES and WALE Formulations for Wake and Resistance Prediction of the BB2 Submarine
Noh Zainal Abidin (GeM), Frederic Grondin (GeM), Pol Muller (Naval Expert), Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Sigrist (Naval Expert)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03383
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pagePoS-CoPOR: Proof-of-Stake Consensus Protocol with Native Onion Routing Providing Scalability and DoS-Resistance
Ivan Homoliak, Martin Pere\v{s}\'ini, Marek Tama\v{s}kovi\v{c}, Timotej Ponek, Luk\'a\v{s} Hellebrandt, Kamil Malinka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04619
@paulwermer@sfba.socialThe similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.pageOn the Cryptographic Futility of Non-Collapsing Measurements
Alper Cakan (Carnegie Mellon University), Dakshita Khurana (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, NTT Research), Tomoyuki Morimae (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University), Yuki Shirakawa (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University), Kabir Tomer (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Takashi Yamakawa (NTT Social Informatics Laboratories)
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThis is starting to sound like real resistance, and real alternative that could even result in a new nation divided from the burning hulk of Trump's America.
"That compact might begin with a preamble in which We the People of these several states recognize not just our rights but our obligations to treat each other with dignity.”
#TheAmericanFascist #BlueStateCompact #USPoli
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/blue-states-democrats-trump
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmid US public media funding cuts, a look at how the model of private donations can lead to an audience that's older, whiter, and richer than average Americans (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/funding-c…
@benb@osintua.euHell in Pokrovsk: 100,000 Russians faced Ukrainian resistance: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/05/hell-in-pokrovsk-russians-faced.html
@cdarwin@c.imIt has been a bracing moment for American federalism,
with both unprecedented efforts to extend executive control over state and local govts, and
novel forms of subnational resistance.
Where is federalism going?
Paul Nolette and I have edited a new issue of Publius on that question.
Short thread:
Jim Gardner leads off the batting order with an article that raises important questions about whether,
and under what conditions,
federalism can prot…
@pre@boing.worldGeyser is a crowdfunding system.
Lots of history of patrons raising funds from the public for art works or public infrastructure.
Kickstarter and the like on the internet made this much easier. But it's all bank money which is conservative and restrictive. Not global. High fees and middle men.
So doing it freely with bitcoin makes some sense. Censorship resistance and global scope.
Geyser has been running and funding projects for a while. Non custodial and money goes to creators only if target reached in time, otherwise returned.
All open source in smart contracts on chain.
#bitfest #bitcoin #crowdfunding
@cdarwin@c.imWelcome to the Resistance:
Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid
on the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House.
Liberals are voting for Zohran at the ballot box,
fighting ICE in the streets,
and just generally looking favorably upon social democracy.
This discussion puts the moment in historic context and plots out the strategic exigencies and opportunities ahead.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDems' resistance stymies DOJ in Stephen Miller doxxing case (Marc Caputo/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/07/democrats-resistance-doj-stephen-miller-doxxing
http://www.memeorandum.com/251107/p78#a251107p78
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech
@servelan@newsie.socialA Message From The Frog Resistance - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5zxdSObso
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialPowerful image: A protester carries a US flag through tear gas launched to clear protesters outside the Broadview immigration processing centre in Chicago.
Photograph: Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/TNS/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
"My travels through Chicago: tear gas, resistance and Trump’s big immigration crackdown"
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioFeeling helpless? Don’t. All of this resistance makes a real and concrete difference. Honestly, the fact that this huge chunk of local residents is giving a visible, sustained “HELL NO” all the time is basically the •only• thing holding them back at this point — but it •is• making a difference.
If there were a sense of blanket permission, a sense that nobody is watching and nobody cares, a sense that there will never be consequences…we’d be in a whole different circle of hell right now.
@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot@mastoxiv.pageAtomic-Scale Origins of Oxidation Resistance in Amorphous Boron Nitride
Onurcan Kaya (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Aut\`onoma de Barcelona), Qiushi Deng (School of Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia), Thomas Souvignet (Universit\'e Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, LMI UMR 5615, Villeurbanne, France), Catherine Marichy (Universit\'e Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, LMI UMR 5615, V…
@hex@kolektiva.socialTwo things are worth noticing right now:
1. The military brass *did not* respond well to Trump and Hegseth.
2. The deployment to #Portland keeps getting delayed.
The military will never say "no" to the president (unless he's literally ordering them to open fire on unarmed civilians or something equally obviously illegal). But there are ways to not comply that don't necessarily involve refusal. Brass showing that they aren't aligned with Trump may weaken his billionaire backers, who might be realizing now that weak dictators who can't lead their militaries tend to get toppled... and their oligarch-backers tend to end up against walls.
If folks being ordered to send troops to #PDX don't want to comply, delaying until the there's an initial response from the lawsuit would be basically impossible to detect. The deployment to LA went far too fast, running into logistical challenges like troops sleeping on the floor. The delays we've already seen could indicate either a more careful approach or quiet resistance.
Trump will continue to escalate at every chance he gets. I would be surprised if PDX didn't give him a fight. I doubt the troops will become more interested in serving a guy who's stabbed them in the back and wasted their time at every opportunity.
It is still possible troops just won't deploy. Trump will make something up about how just the threat of an intervention was enough to make things safe or something like that. If we see that, it's 100% the military telling him to kick rocks because he's not competent enough to know when to back down.
Honestly, I think Trump wants revenge for the resistance PDX put up at the end of his last term. Any backing down from that is absolutely a big loss for him.
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCultures of violence and female resistance: receptions of ancient Greek myths from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond
https://ift.tt/Le2NYi6
updated: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:08pmfull name / name of organization: ERC project…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@pre@boing.worldPanel asking what nostr doesnt fix?
Relay centralisation could enable censorship, and the UI asking users to manage private keys is tricky.
Could one app become a centralisation choke point? They say no. Agreed. Nostr has very good migration here, if one app goes bad it's easy to move.
Privacy is not solved here, since almost all content is public anyway, by design. But since so users have public keys, it's a step towards enabling privacy. Agreed, and at least clients won't generally spy on every mouse click and scroll pause.
No mention of the thing I think most important, that censorship resistance means poor moderation that means bullying, spam, and harassment. That's tricky to solve I think. The fediverse model seems more suitable for good moderation.
#nostr #nostrshire
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza“This plaza, is restricted from First Amendment activity”
It's no longer a question of what if fascism comes to the USA. The question now is, what do we do to defeat fascism?
#politics #resistance
@cdarwin@c.imA team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA.
The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium.
It shows no signs of resistance so far, offering hope in the fight against drug-resistant infections and paving the way for new approaches to antibiotic discovery.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAmerica Needs a Mass Movement--Now (David Brooks/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/autocracy-resistance-social-movement/684336/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p57#a251014p57
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioLocal community groups? Busting their asses, but they live and die on volunteer support. Legal system? Too slow, too compromised. City, county, state elected officials? Grasping for something they can do. Local police? Useless or worse than useless, of course.
BUT…all the above are formed by, shaped by, and constrained by popular sentiment. An active, defiant citizenry changes how all these institutions behave. Police know, politicians know, and yes, even judges know: they can only stray so far from what people will tolerate.
This active resistance? Hell yeah, it matters. It’s the short-term •and• the long-term.
@cdarwin@c.imScores of volunteers are training to protect their noncitizen neighbors from the potential deployment of military troops in New York City.
Organizers said they are building on what they’ve learned from the experience of resistance in Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago,
where masked and unidentified agents have often used excessive force and broken federal laws to carry out the Trump administration’s devastating campaign against immigrants.
“We need to exercise repeatedly w…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMy travels through Chicago: teargas, resistance and Trump's big immigration crackdown (Oliver Laughland/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/my-travels-through-chicago-tear-gas-resistance-and-trumps-big-immigration-crackdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p109#a251003p109
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaPolice Ignore Paramilitary (ICE) Vehicle With No Plates In Aurora, Illinois
Source: #politics
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe resistance is ascendant -- Donald Trump may still have a firm grip on the three branches ... (Dan Froomkin/Heads Up News)
https://www.headsupnews.org/p/the-resistance-is-ascendant
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p154#a251105p154
@cdarwin@c.imThe willingness of congressional Republicans to defy Trump and back legislation requiring the disclosure of federal files on Jeffrey Epstein,
was the clearest evidence yet that G.O.P. lawmakers are starting to look beyond Trump’s tenure to their self-preservation in midterm elections next year.
There are other signs as well,
notably the refusal by Senate Republicans to bow to Trump’s demand to gut the filibuster during the shutdown fight,
and resistance in some states…
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaWoman Violently Shoved to Ground by Fascist Paramilitary Invaders Near Moving Van [Chicago]
Source: #politics
@cdarwin@c.imTrump just called for the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago to be thrown in prison.
And when Mike Johnson was asked about Trump’s call for their jailing, the speaker evaded and dodged.
It’s becoming jarringly clear that there’s very little in the way of defenses standing in the way of Trump’s escalating authoritarianism.
And yet, at the same time, there is resistance developinginside places like DOJ.
And that matters, even if it doesn’t seem like it at…
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaApparently JD Vance posted this bullshit on Bluesky today (10/18/2025).
I guess he's saying the figurehead of the maga regime is a king and we should all bend the knee. But the American people today, showed what we think about kings.
#politics #resistance
@cdarwin@c.imOn October 18, 2019,
protests erupted in Santiago, Chile,
over a hike in the cost of public transportation.
But the demonstrations quickly grew into more than that.
Those in the streets demanded change—real change.
They demanded more rights.
They demanded a new Constitution.
Police cracked down with impunity.
Videos went viral of riot police beating people in the streets.
Chemical water guns.
Shooting rubber bullets at point blank …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJared Kushner's Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia Is Running Into Resistance (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-hotel-russia-serbia-jared-kushner-9a7189f5?st=MydtY4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p72#a251215p72
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaThe regime's paramilitary, profiling random people in a Walmart parking lot.
Source: #politics
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaFascist paramilitary invaders abduct and drag sitting blind disabled person at a protest
Source: #politics
@cdarwin@c.imAn unintended consequence of Trumpian authoritarianism is a massive awakening of citizens to the values and benefits of American democracy, and a determination to protect it.
In June, under the banner of
“No Kings,”
more than 5 million people, in more than 2,000 cities and towns, in all 50 states, participated in one of the largest protests in U.S. history.
Every week since, protests have continued with thousands of participants in small and large cities, blue and re…
