chapotraphouse chapotraphouse "I'm sitting next to a Lincoln impersonator at the airport bar. He's watching MSNBC reporting on yesterday's assassination attempt. This is easily the most surreal thing I've ever witnessed."
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    red. is an absolutely terrible name for any organization anyways. Completely unsearchable, they practically censored themselves.

    African Stream has an RSS feed and telegram account. https://africanstream.media/feed/
    You should be able to just put africanstream.media into your RSS reader and it will locate the /feed endpoint from the html head element.

    https://t.me/theredstream

    https://t.me/AfricanStream

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  • sino sino Nice of Israel to advertise mainland electronics
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    They definitely should not have been using any kind of electronics made by a west-aligned country. Which is much easier said than done. I wonder if Israel was able to determine that the devices were going to Hezbollah? Or was it just any pagers being shipped to the region? I'd imagine supply chain stuff for any non-western organization is pretty difficult.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse More of me fucking with my dad by pretending he's way older than he is
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    politics politics An interesting survey on if Britons would prefer communism or fascism
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    linux Linux After upgrading from Ubuntu Jellyfish to Numbat, my desktop seems broken? Super key doesn't open menu, dark theme/settings doesn't work. How can I fix this?
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    I guess it switched desktop environments on you? If you're logged out there's supposed to be a way you can switch between desktop environments. It makes sense that the GNOME Settings app would only change wallpaper settings for GNOME, which I think is the main Ubuntu desktop environment. Are you sure you didn't upgrade to a version of Ubuntu that uses XFCE instead of GNOME?

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  • the_dunk_tank the_dunk_tank "Will no one rid me of these turbulent regulators?"
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    Awesome idea lol. Get another right winger to shoot at some politician, that's gonna be a great look Elon.

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  • em_poc em_poc The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns U.S. Convictions of Uhuru 3 As A Fascist Farce
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    So much about the case is so vague in the Tampa Bay Times article that this article links. It says they communicated with someone in the Russian FSB and that's about it. I remember reading about how this group's office was raided by the US government and they had their computers taken. The Tampa Bay Times article (and probably also the US government's case against the three people) is so slimy in that they keep saying the group spread "Russian disinformation" but they never actually specify what that messaging was. In all likelihood it was probably just true information that makes the US look bad. Just classic US government stuff.

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  • memes memes Fujimori failed the water bucket clutch
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    oh my it's real matt

    almost got mad thinking you edited the dates.

    and on the most specialest day of all allende-rhetoric

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    ‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman theconversation.com

    Looks like that one place in Greece probably *doesn't* have an exceptionally good life expectancy.

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    chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Thank you for your service
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    She died in 2005. The Wikipedia article on her says she never accepted payment, so she didn't "sell" them, she just handed over information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melita_Norwood

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  • games games Annapurna Video-Game Team Resigns, Leaving Partners Scrambling
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    It's important to note that Annapurna Interactive only seems to publish games so the team isn't a development team as far as I know so presumably they do publishing related stuff?

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    art blobjim 7 days ago 100%
    The freighter Manitowoc heads down a foggy Detroit River near Stony Island, Sept. 11, 2024 https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/d567bd3a-7667-4a8d-a9ec-a30419e6444e.png

    https://x.com/ShanghaiEye/status/1834096830558433438

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    It tanked their career because they opposed the war the US was carrying out. They didn't endorse the person executing it.

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  • movies movies Jesus Christ the characters in Alien: Covenant are FUCKING STUPID!
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    All the characters in Alien are so likeable too. It feels rare that there's ever a story now where a character isn't annoying to their colleages or unlikeable beyond repair.

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    every plane is piloted by aliens...

    THE WRIGHT BROTHERS did NOT invent airplanes.

    now you understand?

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    will be handled as an adult

    again while the whole "tried as an adult" thing. Used so often you wonder what actually doesn't get someone tried as an adult.

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    illegally purchased for $13 million

    lol that has to be literally the cheapest private jet imaginable and they have the gall to call it "high-class" while the US president jets around with a 747 and motorcade vehicles, and they're planning to replace their 747 with a new plane.

    Also the Dominican Republic has such a pathetic ruling class.

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  • latam latam Communist Party of Brazil - New General Megathread for the 31st of August-1st of September 2024
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    games games Earthbound
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    I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere in the US actually called its divisions prefectures considering how much of a free-for-all political structures are here.

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    STALIN HAS ARRIVED IN AMERIKKKA https://twitter.com/mkstalin/status/1829026672928047296

    ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f8cb3f80-5398-4639-a4f7-8e54e587c148.png) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/46b793d0-6e2c-45dd-b106-8afbfcac1ed4.png)

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    One-on-one with prime minister of Solomon Islands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAT2EB_mLlg

    You can skip past the parts with the CGTN correspondent. They copy western reporter style way too much lol. Basically the newer prime minister/government in the Solomon Islands is continuing it's cooperation with China. And the usual "mutual respect/win-win cooperation" language that countries use when talking about relations with China and vice versa.

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    chapotraphouse chapotraphouse The level of debate over Gaza in the US
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    He's a little whiny pissbaby who does nothing for America

    It seems like your thing is that he's not effective at being a ruler in the US? If you aren't a chauvinist you wouldn't care about "[doing something] for America". That just sounds like bog-standard middle-class little-Eichmann-type feelings of insecurity about the 4th Reich's ability to continue it's stranglehold on the world. Maybe you want Harris to get into office and show the world that The West™ can still control the world efficiently.

    Do you think the people who face the most oppression in this country or any other cares about the important differences between the two candidates? What do people in US prisons think about the two of them? How about people in Latin America? Doubt they give a shit.

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    Pretending that there aren't large segments of the class hierarchy in this country that benefit from (includes me) and support all the awful stuff the US does is childish.

    And using the phrase "mango mussolini". My brother in Christ you probably would've been a Mussolini supporter if you were Italian (but you think you wouldn't because your brain only thinks of Mussolini as "a bad dictator from the other country the US fought" instead of a fascist who had a support base of people exactly like you).

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    news news The US is Israel’s accomplice, not a ceasefire mediator
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    chapotraphouse chapotraphouse I guess we doin Hamas agitprop now.
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    I don't think it's really "agitprop" in the definitional sense. But it definitely agitates some people...

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    While China’s acceptance of the recommendations can be viewed as a positive development, there’s no guarantee that it will follow through on its promises. The country accepted six similar recommendations during its last periodic review, and almost nothing has changed in that time, some critics say.

    In some cases, including the Las Bambas mine in Peru, projects appeared in the previous review and then again this time around.

    Take it with a grain of salt because they also publish stuff like https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/activists-ask-for-help-combatting-violence-against-nicaraguas-indigenous-communities/ and https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/harmful-mining-continues-in-nicaragua-despite-u-s-sanctions-new-investigation-shows/ where they use US-speak calling Ortega a dictator.

    Also the website was founded by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett_Ayers_Butler who seems kinda sus.

    And not suprising at all, they're funded by exactly the kind of orgs you'd expect: https://mongabay.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2023-Mongabay-Annual-Report-web.pdf

    Donors and Supporters – Thank you for your support in 2023

    $100,000+

    Anonymous (4), Arcus Foundation, BAND Foundation, Climate and Land Use Alliance, Ford Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Montpelier & Hampshire Foundations, Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, John F. Swift, Khanna Foundation, Lisa Yang, The Overbrook Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Tilia Fund, Walton Family Foundation.

    And notice how it literally says "$100,000+" so they're probably donating millions.

    Look how big their team is: https://mongabay.org/about/team/

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    How about go talk to their friend Joe. You know, the guy in charge of this other guy. They're Senators and they're writing a letter???

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    They released virus-carrying (non-native) mosquitos over cities in the South as bioweapons tests.

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    French make surprise arrest of Telegram founder [Pavel Durov] at Paris airport arstechnica.com

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240825223154/https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/shocker-french-make-surprise-arrest-of-telegram-founder-at-paris-airport/

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    Democrats Abandoned Their Anti-Death Penalty Stance. Those on Federal Death Row May Pay the Price. theintercept.com

    > Yet in the hours before Salaam spoke at the convention, many Americans were learning for the first time that the DNC had [removed its goal of ending capital punishment](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-scrub-death-penalty-campaign-platform_n_66c67a0de4b0b9c7b360296b?1jq) from its official platform. The issue had previously been enshrined in the party platform for years, with the language in 2016 especially robust: “We will abolish the death penalty, which has proven to be a cruel and unusual form of punishment,” it read. “It has no place in the United States of America.”

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    China Vietnam meeting

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDQWUbEsTzo

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    Hamas Vows to Make Israel Pay Heavy Price for Assassination of Haniyeh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqtafhnVnpk

    Thought this was interesting because the video is from CCTV.

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    Washington Senate race election left-crankery

    > Henry Clay Dennison > > (Prefers Socialist Workers Party) > > (206) 323-1755 > > swpcampaignwa@gmail.com > > www.themilitant.com > > Elected Experience: No information submitted. > > Other Professional Experience: Henry Dennison is a railroad conductor and SMART-TD union member. > > Education: Dennison learned to have deep confidence in the solidarity and fighting capacity of the working class from the Black- led movement that defeated Jim Crow segregation, and through five decades of work in fruit packing plants, coal mines, railroads, steel mills and other industries. > > Community Service: He has recently taken part in solidarity with farm workers, miners, auto workers, flight attendants and firefighters, among others, and joined actions against anti-Jewish attacks, in support of Ukraine’s independence, against the US embargo of Cuba, and in solidarity with immigrant workers. > > Statement: We live in a deeply class-divided country ruled by a handful of billionaire families and their government. Democratic and Republican parties say they speak for workers, but millions increasingly recognize this isn’t true. > > The global order the US rulers dominated after World War II is coming apart. The economic workings of capitalism are marching the world towards World War III, accelerated by Vladimir Putin’s murderous invasion of Ukraine to deny its national rights, and Hamas’ October 7 pogrom – orchestrated by the counterrevolutionary rulers of Iran – that slaughtered over 1,200 Jews in Israel. Only the working class has the capacity to halt this trajectory. > > Driven by competition inherent in capitalism, corporations continue to pursue more production from fewer workers for less pay. But recent union organizing and strike victories point to the possibility of a different future. The low point of labor resistance is behind us. Working people need to build a labor party that breaks from all collaboration with the ruling class and wages a struggle for workers’ power. > > Defending constitutional freedoms won in the first American Revolution is a working-class issue. Attempts to jail and silence Donald Trump and criminalize political differences deal a blow to rights working people need. Drop all the charges! Defend Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews in the face of rising Jew-hatred today! Join efforts to defend Jews from attack! Workers need to fight for a public works program to put millions to work at union scale wages building roads, schools, parks, hospitals and more; for regular cost of living increases, wages sufficient to raise a family and quality housing workers can afford; and for workers control of production to guarantee safety on the job and reverse the profit-driven destruction of the environment. https://kingcounty.gov/en/legacy/depts/elections/how-to-vote/voters-pamphlet

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    SUPERPOWER OF GLOBAL PEACE

    New from ![weihua](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/145e6876-9634-4391-a67b-608c6e0e1f8f.png "emoji weihua") https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202407/26/WS66a2ce8ca31095c51c50ffc5.html

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    A 2020 Intercept article about Microsoft and policing theintercept.com

    They reposted posted it on their mastodon account today.

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    It's podcastin' time

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rgemLnmLPM

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    Seattle police chief dismissed from top job amid discrimination, harassment lawsuits apnews.com

    Still gets to be a police officer at the departmeny "because he deserves it" ![jokerfied](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f67d9195-8ebc-4a04-af35-1b8fc184cb2c.png "emoji jokerfied")

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    Lmao CGTN
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    YouTube Subscriptions
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    HE DID IT
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    only large children and adults please

    or small children while they're awake

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    Microsoft pushes Bing, GPT-4 in Chrome pop-up adverts www.theregister.com

    From the article: What's really gross is the next part. Clicking "Yes" installs the Bing Chrome extension as well as changing the default search provider, and Chrome alerts the user in another dialog box that something potentially malicious is trying to update their settings. Google's browser recommends you click on a "Change it back" button to undo the tweak. But Redmond is one step ahead, displaying a message underneath Chrome's alert that reads: "Wait – don't change it back! If you do, you’ll turn off Microsoft Bing Search for Chrome and lose access to Bing AI with GPT-4 and DALL-E 3." --- Feels a little odd putting this under "technology"

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    here he comes

    Live coverage of some politics session thingy lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiuwQbQC0tw

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    Ken Jennings on the imminent revolution https://bsky.app/profile/kenjennings.bsky.social/post/3kmjlikfcqx25

    ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/e82c9188-4b0c-4ba5-82b0-f4bb0acc580b.png)

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