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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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"Make no mistake: imprisoning and blackmailing people behind fences has always been a huge moneymaker for the capitalist amoeboid. Sometimes the fence is invisible but trust me, it’s there. We are all shoved into concentration camps whether they are real or virtual..."

Amid Israel’s man-made famine in Gaza, a young Palestinian boy scours the streets for fallen pasta from an aid truck, a stark reminder of the severe hunger and suffering that is still gripping the strip.

Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

MSF condemns Israeli attack on water distribution site in Gaza City  | MSF On 15 September, Israeli forces fired upon our clearly marked water truck in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, Gaza City.

Source:

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Only a third of world’s river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024 Increasingly erratic water cycle is creating food scarcity, rising prices, conflict and migration, says UN agency

'food scarcity, poor crop yields and rising prices, with some hard-hit regions already experiencing tensions and migration'

River basins, breadbaskets of the world - hit hard by climate change, sand mining + dams blocking replenishing sediment.

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The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto, The Dominican friar was a key actor in the ‘Zero Hunger’ program in Brazil Written by Fernanda Canofre

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

In Praise of Themis, by Gail Zawacki In tandem with consciousness, humanity developed a deeply embedded penchant for denial. It's a terrific survival strategy that evolved to help blind us to the pain of animals we hunt and eat, the terr...

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"Innumerable articles, studies, and books have been published detailing how humanity has run out of time, and again and again the deadline is farcically pushed ahead so we still have decades, or at least, now, a few years, to turn the tide."

there is zero way to "fix the gun problem" without fixing the military industrial complex problem in this country. follow the money. US priorities are clear.

there's lots of talk over on twitter about who has motivation & means to carry off this public execution.

to elon: who the fuck cares what color people are? what is your actual problem?

Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead – Arena Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

"Assuming that deaths from deprivation were 4 times the violent deaths... the total Gazan death toll would accordingly be 136,000 violent deaths plus 544,000 from imposed deprivation, leading to a staggering total of 680,000 deaths by 25 April 2025."
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"The parasite’s biggest strength, the efficient exploitation of its host, is in fact its greatest weakness: it will die once its host becomes sick. For a civ sustained by ecocide,.the realisation of parasitism is an existential threat it must protect itself against, through.. supremacy narratives"

End the Genocide now

End the Occupation now

Isolate Israel

Genocide apologia does not just dehumanise the victims.

The perpetrators and their apologists also dehumanise themselves. There’s no other way to commit or support genocide.

“The occupation might stop them and that’s expected, but it breaks the siege morally and sends a message to the entire world that Gaza has not been forgotten” says a Gaza resident after an international flotilla departed for Gaza, carrying aid and more than 300 activists

[quote] "As a lawyer from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, during my visits to those held in military custody and prisons, I have witnessed unimaginable pain. Two moments in particular have stayed with me: the first was when a prisoner quietly asked, 'Does Gaza still exist?'"

Behind Pakistan’s repeated floods: Melting glaciers, depleted forests Deforestation and glacial melting are the two leading causes compounding the climate crisis in the north of Pakistan.

Behind Pakistan’s repeated floods: Melting glaciers, depleted forests flip.it/FeVoNI

Unmasking Israel’s Map: Israel’s “Safe Zones” in Gaza Are Dumps, Ruins, and Military Sites - Quds News Network Israel claims Gaza has “safe zones” for displaced families. On the ground, these areas are garbage dumps, destroyed neighborhoods, and active military sites.

Israel claims Gaza has “safe zones” for displaced families. On the ground, these areas are garbage dumps, destroyed neighborhoods, and active military sites.

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Israel’s Assassination of Memory Israel’s razing of Gaza is not only about ethnic cleansing. It is about the erasure of a people, a culture and a history that expose the lies used to justify the Israeli state.

"Israel speaks of occupying Gaza City. But this is a subterfuge. Gaza is not to be occupied. It is to be destroyed. Erased. Wiped off the face of the earth..The moonscape, devoid of Palestinians of course,will provide the foundation for new Jewish colonies" chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-as...

The paint on the Mexico side of the wall is so much prettier

"Climate scientists have little clue right now of where this planet is heading. All they know is that things are “worse than predicted”... Forecasts from now will at best be merely speculative. We know we are entering hell, we just don’t know at what speed & whether there will be wi-fi and snacks.."

only got through about half of it this eve 😴 but it's a pleasure to listen to you both, gonna keep listening in 20 minute chunks 😊

thank you for reminding me!! perfect time cuz i just finished charting & have a sliver of time. starting it right this minute, will report back.

"Here in Gaza, there is no border between life & death. We dwell in their intersection, where joy & grief are served in the same cup, where coffee is sipped beside the still-warm ruins of a home, where hope itself is a crime against the despair the heavens have decreed for us."
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Israel is starving Palestinians to death.
Israel is assassinating journalists in Gaza with impunity.
Israel openly plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
Israel is openly planning concentration camps in Gaza.
Israel kidnaps and targets doctors in Gaza.

my entire timeline on twitter is in mourning over this. here on bsky it's mostly crickets. no wonder i come here less & less often.

as shocking as biden's abysmal record on gaza is the disdain many who voted for him/kamala demonstrated for those of us who (because of his record) voted 3rd party