A HUGE thanks to Nina Brémont for the translation of this long comic ! Enjoy !
Support. No one wants to hear about the negative stuff about their platform of choice, but it's important to talk about it so it can improve.
In 2008, queer anarchists gathered in Chicago to plot a disruption of the electoral spectacle and cohere a network out of emergent youth crews in multiple cities. Fifteen years later, the proposals put forward then — criminality, autonomous self-defense, riots, and orgies — are needed more than ever. The intervening years have been marked by intensification — of crisis, alienation, loss, and struggle. The right wing no longer hides behind euphemisms: they want to exterminate trans and queer people. The left offers only false solutions: vote, donate, assimilate. A decade of representation, symbolic legal victories, social media activism, and mass-market saturation has left us worse off by all metrics. Our fairweather friends won’t save us from the consequences of their strategy of empty visibility. The inescapable conclusion is that we must come together to protect ourselves.
History confirms the queer legacy of building connection in a world that hates us, the legacy of riotous joy—the legacy of bashing back. The attacks will continue on our nightclubs, forests, story hours, and siblings. To hold on, we need spaces—underground if necessary—to re-encounter each other, spaces to remember, build, share, and conspire.
In this spirit, we are ecstatic to announce the return of the Bash Back convergence! Fifteen years from the original gathering, Chicago will host the 2023 convergence September 8–11. Comrades, old and new, are invited to discuss what’s still vital in the past and what’s needed in the present. In keeping with tradition, the convergence will include presentations, workshops, distros, parties, and other opportunities to make trouble.
The guy you're trying to pass the buck to, money_loo, is from a lemmy instance that only has Chicago sports communities and whose front page is mostly federated meme posts. You're a BeeHaw user. You've presumably read and agreed to the Beehaw community documents.
I expect more than anti-intellectualism from you.
That definitely changes things. Out of curiosity, I looked up what other movies he directed and produced.
He produced and starred in American Sniper, which was incidentally also kind of a political disaster. The nose prosthetic reminds me of the American Sniper fake baby hilarity. Bradley put the blame on the director, but the director makes it sound like it was a monetary and not an artistic choice. That would put the responsibility on the shoulders of the producer.
So many questions!
Are you suggesting that the political aspects of technology shouldn't be discussed in a technology community?
Are you implying that technology is apolitical? That there are technology subjects to discuss that don't have a political component?
Do discussions of the applications of technology not belong in a technology community?
Why am I in the Industrial Workers of the World?
Why am I in the Industrial Workers of the World? [a little black cat sits in a field of red, asking the audience this question]
For the logo. Let me explain… [the little black cat is looking up at the insignia of the IWW, a globe in a circle beneath the letters I W W with three stars among them]
The better-known business unions in the states all have logos of varying appeal… [a collection of business union logos, including the Teamsters, the UAW, the SEIU, the AFLC-CIO and the UFCW]
But for all their history and iconography, none of them have what this logo has… Those three stars. [little black cat looks up at the IWW insignia, with the 3 stars glowing]
Really, for me, it’s the last of the three stars that matters the most. It represents the third and final aspect of our work… [The star is glowing in the center of the frame]
Emancipation [chains being broken]
Emancipation of the working class in struggle and at war, and the Earth that feeds and holds us all. [chains encompassing the planet Earth being broken]
Both the IWW and the business unions fight for higher wages and better benefits, which are both critically important, but… [a big, buff black cat flexes imposingly next to a big, buff dog. They are intimidating a blue duck who is sitting behind a desk labeled ‘boss’ and sweating nervously]
We seek to abolish the wage system, to realize Industrial Democracy and live in harmony with the Earth. We want The Big Win, not concessions. Learn more and join at iww.org! [the little black cat is saying all this while the third star glows nearby]
The Orange County Public Schools’ anti-trans policies are extreme, even in Ron DeSantis’s Florida.
Excerpt:
>This detail bears repeating, as it crystallizes Republicans’ selective approach to free speech: Teachers are not required to use their trans students’ chosen pronouns, but trans teachers are expressly forbidden from using the pronouns that align with their gender. The policy appears to stand in direct violation of the First Amendment, as well as the Supreme Court’s Bostock decision, which protects LGBTQ+ workers from discrimination. > >The fact that the rules for students’ chosen names apply to both cis and trans children may at first appear as merely a cynical ploy to avoid legal challenges, as anti-trans laws have consistently been blocked in federal courts in recent months. No one truly believes a teacher will face disciplinary consequences for calling a cis boy Rob without a form from his parents. Any such rules will be selectively enforced to attack gender nonconformity.
The Planned Parenthood clinic was the only abortion provider in California’s Imperial County and a haven for out-of-state patients.
Excerpt:
> Although the cause of the fire is unknown, the loss of the clinic is a stinging reminder of another recent fire at a Southern California abortion clinic. On March 13, 2022, Planned Parenthood’s Costa Mesa Health Center in Orange County was firebombed with a Molotov cocktail. Last month, charges were announced against a third man for his alleged involvement in the attack. “Officials allege that Batten, along with two other men, including a U.S. marine, conspired to attack a women’s health clinic because it had provided reproductive health services,” The Guardian reported.
“In Afghanistan, corruption was the existential threat. It wasn’t the Taliban, it was corruption that did us in.”
Excerpt:
> In Ukraine, many of the same groups lobbying for greater international support against Russia’s invasion are also speaking out about the need to make sure that money gets to its intended recipients. “Huge money always comes with corruption,” said Vita Dumanska, leader of the Chesno movement, a Ukrainian anti-corruption group. “We can’t keep silent on this.”
Overstating the power of algorithmic systems only serves to benefit the tech companies behind them.
Excerpt:
>To underline Blanchfield’s point, the ChatGPT book selection process was found to be unreliable and inconsistent when repeated by Popular Science. “A repeat inquiry regarding ‘The Kite Runner,’ for example, gives contradictory answers,” the Popular Science reporters noted. “In one response, ChatGPT deems Khaled Hosseini’s novel to contain ‘little to no explicit sexual content.’ Upon a separate follow-up, the LLM affirms the book ‘does contain a description of a sexual assault.’”
Sprawling emission nebulae IC 1396 and Sh2-129 mix glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds in this nearly 12 degree wide field of view toward the northern constellation Cepheus the King. Energized by its central star IC 1396 (left), is hundreds of light-years across and some 3,000 light-years distant. The nebula's intriguing dark shapes include a winding dark cloud popularly known as the Elephant's Trunk below and right of center. Tens of light-years long, it holds the raw material for star formation and is known to hide protostars within. Located a similar distance from planet Earth, the bright knots and swept back ridges of emission of Sh2-129 on the right suggest its popular name, the Flying Bat Nebula. Within the Flying Bat, the most recently recognized addition to this royal cosmic zoo is the faint bluish emission from Ou4, the Giant Squid Nebula. Near the lower right edge of the frame, the suggestive dark marking on the sky cataloged as Barnard 150 is also known as the dark Seahorse Nebula.
Have you tried sokui? If you have leftover asian rice, all you need is a blender. It was historically used in Japan to supplement traditional furniture and housing wood joinery.
He assassinated Japan’s most successful politician ever. But now, he seems to have won over public opinion. What happened? — Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spectaclesmedia Sources and Attributions: https://www.spectacles.news/mini-doc-japan/ — On July 8, 2022, in Nara, Japan, Shinzo Abe was shot t...
they wrote this song about a friend who was shot and killed by police. id be happy as hell if a song this cool was written about me
Yikes! They gave Bradley Cooper an even bigger nose than Leonard Bernstein. Is this some kind of antisemitic attack on Jake Gyllenhaal for not taking a pay cut to play the part?
If feel like this is more a studio scandal than a Cooper scandal. They did the casting and approved the prosthetic. I'm disappointed the actor gets the heat and the institution isn't mentioned.
If you want to get angry at Bradley, his relationship with 21 year old Suki Waterhouse was super gross. The studio holds no blame for that mess.
Crack Attack! is a loving parody of addictive tetrislike games that is also an extremely addictive tetrislike game.
Do you remember when the decision of the 2011 grand jury was revealed? If they kept it secret to scare Assange, that's still a pretty outrageous form of press intimidation.
Thanks. Yeah, I think I heard about this jury, but only that its deliberation was secret, and I never found out what was decided. When the indictment was unsealed, I assumed it was the revelation of this Jury's decision.
You're right, it was during the Trump administration. For some reason I thought the first indictment had been made and then sealed during Obama's tenure. Trump's attack was a major escalation.
I don't see any reference to a Grand Jury in the linked article, and I can't find anything in Google about "assange grand jury 2010". Are you thinking about this section?
Justice officials said they looked hard at Assange but realized that they have what they described as a “New York Times problem.” If the Justice Department indicted Assange, it would also have to prosecute the New York Times and other news organizations and writers who published classified material, including The Washington Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper.
It seems to indicate that they didn't even bother to assemble a grand jury, which is even better for Obama.
the Grand Jury that was impaneled to look at Assange during the Obama years chose not to prosecute because they couldn’t disentangle other media outlets
One of us is confused; the history I remember is that the Grand Jury decided to prosecute not just once in a sealed indictment, but then added further controversial charges in a second indictment.
There were some very deluded people during the Trump years who thought Assange would get special treatment for his vendetta against Hillary Clinton helping to get Trump elected. But you nailed it right on the head -- killing press freedoms and not paying debts are even bigger parts of Donald's brand than gaudy letters on the sides of buildings.
But don't get it twisted. Then Secretary of State Clinton went hard against Assange, and it did look bad for press freedoms in the US. You have to remember the State Department did not take press freedom seriously at all, abusing the espionage act left and right. They put more journalists sources in prison than any other previous president. They went after journalists families, like when they detained Glenn Greenwald's partner in Heathrow. That should always be remembered as part of Barack Obama's legacy.
The Trump "Fake News" era was absolutely devastating to journalism, so it's easy to see Obama's administration through rose tinted glasses. But it's important to remember the damage they did that contributed to where we are today.
The first amendment doesn't exist to prevent editorial censorship. It has nothing to do with "cancel culture."
It protects freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. It has been interpreted by centuries of court decisions to protect against exactly this - harassment and prosecution by government agents for engaging in protected speech, especially political protest.
The U.S. ambassador to Australia said there could be a “resolution” to the Justice Department’s pursuit of Julian Assange.
Excerpt:
> The United States is considering a plea deal that would allow WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange to return to Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday. > > U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy told the Morning Herald that there could be a “resolution” to Assange’s now-four-year detention in Britain. Assange, an Australian citizen, has been held in a London prison since 2019 while combating U.S. extradition efforts. He faces 18 criminal charges in the U.S., 17 of which allege violations of the Espionage Act.
The assault on the Marion County Record is another reminder that Trumpism is a threat to press freedom.
Excerpt:
> On Friday, local police, acting like the Gestapo, raided the office of the Marion County Record, as well as the home of its owner and publisher. They used a trumped-up search warrant approved by a compliant local judge to seize newsgathering equipment, including the computers and cellphones of reporters. The raid was so traumatic that the publisher’s 98-year-old mother, who was the newspaper’s co-owner, died on Saturday as a result. > > The police were trying to suppress the truth that the newspaper had uncovered about a local restaurant owner who hosted an event for the region’s far-right member of Congress, Rep. Jake LaTurner. > > The Marion County Record was doing basic accountability reporting, the lifeblood of small-town journalism.
You must not be from a culture with an antifascist tradition of "First they came for the "
I'm concerned you would think this is an okay thing to post, and I'm worried about the people who subscribe to socialism and would upvote this kind of sentiment.
Furthermore, you're not even correct. The police's justification is the vehicle's attendance at an unaffiliated nonviolent climate movement protest, though I doubt that changes things in your mind.
Geoff Berner performs at the Brandon Folk, Music, and Art Festival, 2012
``` [Verse 1] Hush little baby don't you cry Please don't mind the screaming Of the man in the alley on the small of his back The police man's knee is kneelin' I'll tell you an open secret, child Not everyone is knowin' If that little man ever left this place You and I would soon be goin
[Chorus] 'Cause that's what keeps the rent down, baby That's what keeps the rent down low That's what keeps the rent down baby That's what keeps the rent down low
[Verse 2] Your daddy ain't rich, he's a music man Your mother she's a painter We took over the lease of this old house From those whose hearts are fainter 'Cause we don't mind the painted ladies With their weeping souls all swollen We don't mind that everyone we know Has had their stereo stolen
[Chorus] 'Cause that's what keeps the rent down, baby That's what keeps the rent down low That's what keeps the rent down baby That's what keeps the rent down low
[Verse 3] One fine morning you wake up to Bulldozers and renovation 'Cause folks like your mom and dad Are just shock troops of gentrification For the single young professionals Who find the neighborhood hip and charming But if they heard about the lady who got chopped up in the alley They'd probably find it alarming
[Chorus] 'Cause that's what keeps the rent down, baby That's what keeps the rent down low That's what keeps the rent down baby That's what keeps the rent down low That's what keeps the rent down low That's what keeps the rent down low ```
Excerpt: > While living in Chicago as an obviously gay man, I felt free to be my unabashed self, clad in all manner of sequins and androgyny. On the road, not only did I literally not have the closet space to accommodate such a wardrobe, but I often didn’t feel safe presenting myself the same way in unfamiliar regions. Despite experiencing kindness across the country, there were times when I’d be too wary to exit the RV at rural gas stations, deterred by the glares I was getting through my window. And in Wyoming, a beautiful state that I adore, a group of teens shouted homophobic slurs and joked about assaulting me—all while I was wearing the most muted, all-black outfit I could possibly find to “hide” myself.
Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along
“There were no Black people — literally no Black people,” says Gebru, who was born and raised in Ethiopia. “I would go to academic conferences in AI, and I would see four or five Black people out of five, six, seven thousand people internationally.… I saw who was building the AI systems and their attitudes and their points of view. I saw what they were being used for, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, we have a problem.’”
Enron and the collapse of California's power grid is directly linked to deregulation by George Bush's regime and a lack of public control and oversight of electricity markets. Corporate media blamed the energy price crisis on the governor, leading to a recall and his replacement by a Republican. Capitalists would love for that to happen in Chicago too; squeeze poor families with energy prices they can't afford and then blame it on the government to shift the state's politics to the right.
Report on law enforcement being caught placing GPS trackers on an activist's car in so-called Michigan. For more information and photos, go here. On Monday August 1st, Michigan activist Peatmoss found 2 GPS tracking devises attached with powerful magnets to the rear axle of their car, see pictures h...
I thought from the title that the song was about how love was gay. Yay invidious!
Attention please, this is the final call for flight one seven two one Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Jack Straw, bye bye, all bye bye Billy Graham, Gerhard Schroeder, Tony Blair, bye bye, all bye bye Boris Yeltsin, Mick Hucknall, Tipper Gore, bye bye, all bye bye Ian Paisley, Pauline Hanson, Courtney ...
``` Attention please, this is the final call for flight one seven two one
Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Jack Straw, bye bye, all bye bye Billy Graham, Gerhard Schroeder, Tony Blair, bye bye, all bye bye Boris Yeltsin, Mick Hucknall, Tipper Gore, bye bye, all bye bye Ian Paisley, Pauline Hanson, Courtney Love, bye bye
Goodbye, bye bye, goodbye, bye bye Goodbye, bye bye, goodbye, bye bye
Garry Bushell, Paul Condon, Ally McBeal, bye bye, all bye bye Jean-Marie Le Pen, Janet Reno, Bill Clinton, bye bye, all bye bye Judge Sabo, Bono, Howard Stern, bye bye, all bye bye General Pinochet, Nicky Wire, Rupert Murdoch, bye bye
Goodbye, bye bye, goodbye, bye bye Goodbye, bye bye, goodbye, bye bye ```
Fascists everywhere disappointed that antifascism is still protected speech in the United States.
Russia is still the world's #2 arms exporter. Using supply domestically means that less can be exported, and more importantly, demonstrably under performing compared to western offering reduces demand.
There's the real strategic concern that escalating too quickly will have nuclear repercussions. But the deeper reasons are visible if you view most governments as military industrial corporations stacked under a trenchcoat. The true motivator is that the longer the war continues, the more money will flow from their respective tax payers into their pockets. They don't care about Ukrainian lives, they don't care about Russian lives. The popular support for the war and lack of domestic casualties means they get to ply their trade of death, and they come out smelling like roses. Opposing Russian colonialism is a noble cause, but the nobility belongs to those who are dying in the foxholes, not the warmongers who are squeezing this crisis to get more capital.
Western leaders don't want Ukraine to win. They want Russia to lose. A quick cauterized wound is less damaging than a slow bleed out. Total bankruptcy of the Russian war machine is the objective, the economic elimination of their primary trade competitor.
