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'Slow-walk' protests banned at 1,200 locations
  • That reminds me of when the 'freedom' convoy took their protest to a large city, and their protest ended up being just normal bad traffic. Obligatory Good Omens M25 YT scene.

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  • The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time

    yt.artemislena.eu The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time | Crash Course Lecture

    Tuberculosis is often thought of as an old-timey disease, but in reality, it continues to kill over a million and a half people per year, despite its known cure. How did we get here, to a world where decades of work toward a cure stalled in its dissemination around the globe? And how can understandi...

    The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time | Crash Course Lecture
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    Washington @lemmy.world Five @slrpnk.net
    abcnews.go.com First officer is convicted of murder since Washington state law eased prosecution of police

    A jury has found a suburban Seattle police officer guilty of murder in the 2019 shooting death of a homeless man outside a convenience store

    First officer is convicted of murder since Washington state law eased prosecution of police
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    abcnews.go.com First officer is convicted of murder since Washington state law eased prosecution of police

    A jury has found a suburban Seattle police officer guilty of murder in the 2019 shooting death of a homeless man outside a convenience store

    First officer is convicted of murder since Washington state law eased prosecution of police
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    www.thenation.com The President Can Now Assassinate You, Officially

    Under this new standard, a president can go on a four-to-eight-year crime spree and then retire from public life, never to be held accountable.

    The President Can Now Assassinate You, Officially
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    United States | News & Politics @midwest.social Five @slrpnk.net
    www.thenation.com The President Can Now Assassinate You, Officially

    Under this new standard, a president can go on a four-to-eight-year crime spree and then retire from public life, never to be held accountable.

    The President Can Now Assassinate You, Officially
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    theanarchistlibrary.org No Such Thing as Neutral

    Ignatius No Such Thing as Neutral On the Tools We Use June 2023

    No Such Thing as Neutral
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    theanarchistlibrary.org A Letter of Resistance from the Magónista Women’s Commission of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca

    Anonymous A Letter of Resistance from the Magónista Women’s Commission of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca A report from Magónistas on the impact of...

    A Letter of Resistance from the Magónista Women’s Commission of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca
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    blockclubchicago.org Oversharing About Your Kid Online? New Illinois State Law Makes Parent Influencers Pay

    The law, which goes into effect Monday, helps protect minors used in social media videos. Its passage was spurred by children of the social media age who want better digital protection laws.

    Oversharing About Your Kid Online? New Illinois State Law Makes Parent Influencers Pay
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    truthout.org Journalists’ Unions Organize to Provide Internet and First Aid to Press in Gaza

    Reporting in Gaza has become nearly impossible with limited access to power, internet, and basics like food and water.

    Journalists’ Unions Organize to Provide Internet and First Aid to Press in Gaza
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    countervortex.org ECHR: Russia liable for rights violations in Crimea

    Ruling in the case Ukraine v. Russia (re Crimea), the European Court of Human Rights unanimously found that Russia is guilty of a pattern of human rights violations since 2014 in Crimea, as codified under under the European Convention on Human Rights... Read moreECHR: Russia liable for rights violat...

    ECHR: Russia liable for rights violations in Crimea
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    indypendent.org A Palestinian Poet Takes Flight

    Finan Suwwan Al-Abed is a mother of three who has been writing poetry in her spare moment for decades.

    A Palestinian Poet Takes Flight
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    indypendent.org The Fall of Jamaal

    Nine reasons Jamaal Bowman became the first member of the Squad to lose a congressional re-election race.

    The Fall of Jamaal
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    Howard Brown Health Is Laying Off 43 Employees

    blockclubchicago.org Shorter Chicago Pride Parade A ‘Tremendous Success,’ Organizers Say

    Sunday’s parade went off without a hitch, but police made “mass arrests” in Lakeview early Monday morning due to “disruptive actions,” Ald. Bennett Lawson said.

    Shorter Chicago Pride Parade A ‘Tremendous Success,’ Organizers Say
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    [USA] Statement from Jeremy White

    antifainternational.tumblr.com Statement from Jeremy White

    Hi everyone, unfortunately Jeremy received a 2 year sentence. Judge Goldstein and the San Diego DA office had a political vendetta against Jeremy, they have no comprehension or understanding of what it means to be an on the ground activist and protester. We’re all proud of Jeremy and their accompl...

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    www.404media.co 'Local Residents' Terrorizing City Council Meetings Were Actually Overseas, Feds Allege

    A racist 'Zoom Bombing' group was made up of American teenagers collaborating on a Roblox-owned chat with foreign nationals, according to a criminal complaint.

    'Local Residents' Terrorizing City Council Meetings Were Actually Overseas, Feds Allege
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    Solarpunk Pioneers Fund - The Idea
  • In the first pilot project 2024, the funding is only available to students of the Technische Hochschule Augsburg in the MSc program

  • Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here’s the evidence
  • I would be shocked if negative framing did not have an effect, but unfortunately a tasty negative angle is exactly the kind of bait an antagonistic press is likely to go for in order to give the action greater coverage.

    I've lost count of how many people have come here confident that JustStopOil has 'destroyed' art or 'damaged' stonehenge, and a couple that think the private jet action was a failure because they didn't paint Taylor Swift's plane specifically. All of them angles that hacks in the press have taken with these stories. Luckily, bastions of media literacy like the Fediverse exist, and while many of these people are difficult to disabuse of their false narrative, the actual story has definitely gotten better vote scores. Lemmy has been an even better platform in this regard than Reddit, which is a massive win for what we're trying to do here.

  • Landlords didn't get their job for their brains, also ALAB.
  • Oh, no! Not Lemmy downvotes! What will you trade in for equity when the Fediverse goes public?

  • Two brief articles regarding federal organization
  • The founding documents of the IWW were ratified using a delegate system, and delegates were used by revolutionary Catalonia to treaty with the Stalin-backed Spanish Republican government. In the latter case, the Soviet-leaning representatives offered the anarchist delegates power and significant concessions if they would compromise significant aspects of their revolution, mistaking them for fellow politicians.

    The Republicans were shocked to learn that any agreements made by the delegates had to be ratified by the revolutionary assemblies to be binding; and even if they were personally tempted to accept their bribes, they were structurally incapable of this kind of corruption.

    While a delegate system may not meet some people's definition of anarchist organization, it is clearly an improvement over 'representative' democracy. The revolutionary system was so threatening to the Spanish social order that the republicans viewed the anarchists as a greater threat than even the fascists, and wasted precious resources while losing to Franco in order to purge anarchists from their zones of control.

  • Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here’s the evidence
  • You're shifting goalposts and conflating two different groups with different ideas and tactics.

    Just Stop Oil activists protest in museums with timeless paintings with great cultural and historic significance. They take care that their actions don't irrevocably harm the art. The priceless quality of the art is essential to the message of the protest, as it contrasts with the priceless nature of what climate change is in the process of actually destroying.

    The anti-genocide protester damaged a portrait of a British statesman displayed on the wall of a public area of Trinity College. This is part of a conceptually distinct form of protest where activists challenge public monuments to people with tainted legacies. The artistic merit of these products were pedestrian even for their time, and merely being old does not endow them with intrinsic cultural value. People concerned about the preservation of similar works have moved them to museums where their public display is less likely to be interpreted as an endorsement of their subject's legacy. One could argue that a greater artistic value comes from the creative defacement of these publicly displayed political advertisements that have long-since outlived their historical moment.

    Do you carry the same outrage toward the destruction of monuments to Confederate commanders or defacement on Nazi memorials?

  • Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here’s the evidence
  • Thank you for sharing the supporting article. Sometimes, evidence contradicts intuition. From your link:

    Less is known about the relative impacts of non-violent but disruptive tactics. “Is it better to throw soup on a painting, or block traffic, or glue yourself to something?” says Dana Fisher, a sociologist at American University in Washington DC. “We don’t know which is the most effective.”

    But there is evidence that these types of protest can have an impact. Social Change Lab gathered opinions in three surveys — each asking around 2,000 people — before, during and after disruptive protests in the United Kingdom by Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion in April 20228. The protesters blockaded oil depots and glued themselves to government buildings and oil-company offices. Most people who were surveyed opposed the actions, but continued to support climate policies and Just Stop Oil’s goals to stop new fossil-fuel projects. This counters the view that disruptive action can sour public opinion on an issue.

    Overcoming bias is an essential part of science literacy in both acknowledging climate change as a phenomenon and policy change to prevent it.

  • The theft of the commons
  • This is an excellent contribution, thank you.

  • Who shared fake news sources?
  • Yes, they are suspected right-wing bots separated from the data-set based on a set of criteria that marks them as outliers.

    The “supersharers” and “superconsumers” of fake news sources—those accountable for 80% of fake news sharing or exposure—dwarfed typical users in their affinity for fake news sources and, furthermore, in most measures of activity. For example, on average per day, the median super- sharer of fake news (SS-F) tweeted 71.0 times, whereas the median panel member tweeted only 0.1 times. The median SS-F also shared an average of 7.6 political URLs per day, of which 1.7 were from fake news sources. Similarly, the median superconsumer of fake news sources had almost 4700 daily exposures to political URLs, as compared with only 49 for the median panel member (additional statistics in SM S.9). The SS-F members even stood out among the overall supersharers and superconsumers, the most politically active accounts in the panel (Fig. 2). Given the high volume of posts shared or consumed by superspreaders of fake news, as well as indicators that some tweets were authored by apps, we find it likely that many of these accounts were cyborgs: partially automated accounts controlled by humans (15) (SM S.8 and S.9). Their tweets included some self-authored content, such as personal commentary or photos, but also a large volume of political re-tweets. For subsequent analyses, we set aside the supersharer and superconsumer outlier accounts and focused on the remaining 99% of the panel.

  • Who shared fake news sources?
  • It's not even close to fake news. Logarithmic scales are standard in this kind of visualization. The thrust of the result is that right-wing people share more fake news, and if you look at the graph, this is clear. If you mistake the X-axis as a linear scale, the result makes the effect less pronounced, not more.

    So if anything, the graph undersells the thesis in the name of creating a more compact and readable visualization. There is no deception here.

  • Don't Talk to the Police
  • A classic.

  • A web app to easily transfer your user data from one Lemmy instance to another
  • The code is completely written in JavaScript, so all the code is readable if you look at the source, which is also available on the GitHub page. https://stablenarwhal.github.io/LemmyInstanceMover/js/script.js

    It looks like it uses a Lemmy API endpoint to transfer account settings.

  • Appel À Solidarité Internationaliste pour la Communauté du Squat de Prosfygika
  • Pas vraiment. Juste un gros utilisateur de traduction automatique et de copier-coller.

  • My pressed flowers collection
  • Very nice! What method do you use to press the flowers?