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Microsoft won’t explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites.

The European Commission said today that TikTok is facing a fine because its addictive features, including infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and personalized recommendation systems, are breaching the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA).

Puebla students have built and launched a nano-satellite to monitor the volcano Popocatépetl and prevent disasters.

I saw this article by Nathan J. Robinson on Current Affairs and wanted to share. I do agree with the idea that the twitter format discourages deep conversation and debate. Lemmy is in general much better in this regard, but even still it is affected by the wider internet culture of our time, and a proper debate culture takes effort.

Even on Lemmy I frequently see more nuanced takes being shut down by quick, snarky comments pushing the conversation into absolutes. And yes, a democratic society absolutely requires healthy discussion of difficult issues, not just outrage.

A man charged a police officer with a knife and was shot.

Zohran Mamdani didn’t check in on the officer, instead he visited the attacker in the hospital and offered condolences to the attacker’s family.

Remember kids, only Black Lives Matter

I was looking through Lenin quotes on the Marxist archive and found this gem. This is exactly how i felt when I was taught Hegel works in philosophy.

Love our diva lenin

[This Post was originally posted in r/TankieTheDeprogram]

The American imperialists occupied Vietnam for 20 years, but eventually the tunnel complexes of Củ Chi and Quảng Trị remain after 51 years and 7.66 million tons of bombs. The Zionist colonizers restructure Palestinian and Lebanese landscapes for settler-colonialism, but eventually the tunnels of Southern Lebanon and refugee camps of Nablus and Hebron remain after 78 years of Nakba Holocaust. Western settlers burned and erase hundred millions of Indigenous and Black peoples, but eventually the descendants of Turtle Island and Africa remain thriving. Occupiers kill and steal, but they cannot uproot the origins. Natives sow and grow, because their roots are unwavered. The dialectical contradictions of momentary ravagers and long-lasting resistance.

Imperialists are momentary because their history and cultures are lived on borrowed time, while the rightfully natives are dignified by their land's permanent existence. Colonizers' sky occupation is paths to the ground, while indigenous resistance's tunnel complex is paths to the cloud. Settlers commit ecocide because the land is their profit, while natives cure the ecosystems because land is lifeline. The ones who stay have nothing to lose, the ones who invade need lengthy boasts to beautify their lies and ideal. The violence extremity of occupation is momentary, but every native victory engraved into the land is forever. Whose rooted have nothing to fear those who rootless. Our enemies made watches, but the times are with us.

I will be the first one to admit that there used to be a time where I would have taken this as an attack on my Pride.

Work to build confidence, while remaining humble and you will accomplish great things.

I know times are tough right now, and I know that many of us (me included) are busy with the Epstein files. These files are interesting, and important, but be aware that releasing these files might just be another manoeuvre by the current administration and elite to distract us. There are red herrings in these files as well. Please do not get distracted and pre-occupied.

Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Palestine, and plenty more countries are still under imperialist threat or occupation. Workers rights and social security are being played with. ICE is roaming around the streets in the US and already is in Europe (though more covertly). The capitalist elite are playing the game on multiple dimensions. We must resist them.

The proletariat must be organised.

Thus, I kindly remind to get outside and get organised IRL :

• 1. Join a party.
• 2. Join/support your union/organisation.
• 3. Organise consistently and collectively.
• 4. Be prepared.

We have a world to win.

[Post was originally posted in r/TankieTheDeprogram]

Charu Mazumdaer was the first General Secretary and Co-Founder of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (CPI-ML). Joined Tebhaga Movement in 1946 and organized the leftist faction of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the 1960s. Mazumdar was instrumental in the Naxalbari peasant uprising of 1967 and soon thereafter, Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal formed the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (AICCCR) and later founded the CPI-ML. Mazumdar was arrested in July 1972 and died in custody, reportedly following torture at the hands of the police.

Bibliography: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mazumdar/index.htm