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Apropos a separate great thread involving nonviolent resistance/protest: nonviolent protest certainly benefits from and perhaps even requires the threat is something more, but it's not at simple as just a display of resolve making clear the threat of more action of change doesn't happen. It's also a form of psychological warfare against your opponent's complicity chains: the set of people that need to go along in small ways for the oppressor's threat of force to actually materialize, and the set of people who support them, and so on. These days lots of those complicity chains are heavily reinforced against psychological attack, for example by convincing them that those resisting are a threat, or are subhuman, or deserve oppression because they have transgressed, or otherwise damping the empathy channel through which nonviolent resistance seeks to create psychological distress, the actions to avoid which are one goal of the tactic. Censorship of news about resistance is another popular strategy in places like Iran and China. These counter-tactics are imperfect and costly, hence the continued effectiveness of nonviolent resistance as a tactic, even if alone it's not going to truly solve problems.
In the other thread I mentioned someone commented from personal experience that nonviolent resistance had died down once an immediate change was effected, even though that change didn't remove the threat they personally were facing. That's one of the weaknesses of the tactic: people on both sides usually move on too quickly.

Immigration-enforcement officers have used tear gas on nonviolent protesters, broken into homes and cars, and killed people, including U.S. citizens.
ICE and Customs and Border Protection have been behaving like an out-of-control police force.
No wonder, then, that when lawyers and other advocates try to challenge these federal officials’ abuses of power—in court and on the streets—they tend to reach for the same legal tool used to combat police violence:
the Fourth Amend…

ICE Might Be Violating America’s Other Bill of Rights
To keep rogue agents in check, we need to look beyond the Constitution.

Sonnet 044 - XLIV
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But, ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To l…

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Aphex Twin:
🎵 minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]
#AphexTwin
https://nanoplex.bandcamp.com/track/aphex-twin-minipops-67-nanoplex-genx-remix

Good example of how ads promote market ideology and not just specific companies. Don’t bother seeking mutual aid from friends when you need help moving. Buy help on the market.
This ad is considered nonpolitical, but the opposite message would be “political.”

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4 Non Blondes:
🎵 What’s Up
#4NonBlondes
https://claptrap-clptrp.bandcamp.com/track/whats-up-4-non-blondes
https://open.spotify.com/track/0jWgAnTrNZmOGmqgvHhZEm

Reliable Robotics, which is developing autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160M led by Nimble Partners, pushing its valuation to ~$1B (Cailley LaPara/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04…

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Black Future:
🎵 Eu Sou O Rio
#BlackFuture
https://nonbelieverrock.bandcamp.com/track/eu-sou-o-rio
https://open.spotify.com/track/14lCV6yqiuHWPaRgw9QZsc

@… congrats on your 3000th commit https://github.com/elk-zone/elk

Cheap Hardware Changes Human Behavior
There is a psychological difference between experimenting with a four dollar board and experimenting with a five hundred dollar device.
People become fearless around cheap hardware.
They cut traces without hesitation. They overvolt things just to see what happens. They shove prototypes into Altoids tins with electrical tape and keep moving.
A lot of genuinely interesting hardware culture emerges from environments where failure ca…

The ESP32 Has Quietly Become One of the Most Interesting Hacker Devices Alive
Rainwater was dripping through a hole in the gas station awning onto a plastic patio chair that...