Notices by simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net), page 14
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 10:07:07 JST 
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We are persons via being in exchange with others. One person alone, for himself, is not a person; at most, being alone, he is the faint memory of somebody else. And that is quite interesting a thought to entertain: How does it feel to be somebody else's memory?
#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 09:35:34 JST
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In the #fediverse the equivalent to entropy is centralisation. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 08:32:04 JST
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https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221027-germany-reviewing-possible-chinese-takeover-of-chip-factory -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 08:30:53 JST
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The German government is about to greenlight the sale of domestic chip company Elmos to China (rather: to Swedish company Silex which is part of the Chinese company Sai MicroElectronics). Nobody understands this move and why Chancellor Scholz pushes for it.
The answer is quite simple: Sell a chip factory to China, so that China can deliver chips to the Russian military and defense industry. By selling the company to a Chinese company, Germany wouldn't be in breach of E.U. sanctions against Russia.
I really hope I'm wrong. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Nov-2022 11:34:20 JST
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Oh, good. Although I don't agree with much of what @atomicpoet was saying in that thread, he's been thinking about stuff that is part of the conversation with regard to tendencies of centralisation in the #fediverse. I guess both of you are more apt than me to discuss these matters in detail. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Nov-2022 10:22:11 JST
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♪ Steve Earle, "Ellis Unit One" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tc700Yi8KQ
Solo live performance of this masterful song. One of the examples why Steve Earle, at least at younger age, has been such a profound composer and musician.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Nov-2022 09:45:27 JST
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♪ Buffy Sainte-Marie, "Little Wheel, Spin And Spin" (1966) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EjCHuqdKUs
A spooky song, appropriate for these times of night.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Nov-2022 09:41:21 JST
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♪ Buffy Sainte-Marie, "It's My Own Way" (1964) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9MQ48goMKs
Be blessed, Buffy! Thank you.
!listening -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Nov-2022 00:39:39 JST
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With regard to both
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109273455318668977 and
https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/109112298400889700
I think you both, @atomicpoet and @aral, should perhaps get in contact. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Nov-2022 00:32:19 JST
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Worth your thought...
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109273455318668977
https://gnusocial.net/conversation/7417481#notice-12895330
#fediverse #federation !gnusocial !fnetworks -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 23:55:22 JST
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About to read Roberto Saviano, "Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia" (2007) to get a better understanding of the Putin regime.
Trying to "verify" my hunch that Russia is a mafia organisation, a crime syndicate, in the form of a nation state – with the means, tools, and sovereign rights of a nation state. That is: It's not that organised crime may have occupied some state layers and functions, a partial symbiosis still resisted by the, but that Russia as a nation state, it's whole make-up, is the newest version of a full-fledged mafia organisation. If that is true, then crime and autocratic states may have reached a new quality that typical analysis doesn't grasp. At least I miss this component in the works of Masha Gessen, Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder, Jessica Berlin, Ruth Ben-Ghiat and others. We'll see...
#Russia #Putin #mafia #crime -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 20:58:11 JST
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Mastodon.social seems to me to become the Twitter of the #fediverse. It's the largest instance and for reasons of #federation it "sees" the most accounts on other servers and draws the most people (mutual reinforcement). Thus for people on m.s. it's much easier to interact with accounts on other servers (all communication occurs "inside" of it) than for users on smaller or more "parochial" instances. The effect is that smaller instances are drowned out in the simultaneity of voices. Add various instance blockings, and the instance with the most (active) accounts wins again. To me m.s. looks far more like a walled garden that you cannot escape than is usually admited in all the self-congratulatory sloganeering of "you can choose any instance you like and interact with everybody you want". The inbalance between large and small instances is detrimental to the later. Perhaps the fediverse should think about means and provisions to counter the negative (but unintended, I'm sure) effects of larger intances. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 01:16:01 JST
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AFP, "Russian Court Fines Wikipedia Over Ukraine Content" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/11/01/russian-court-fines-wikipedia-over-ukraine-content-a79263 -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 01:11:23 JST
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I "like" stuff to send appreciation and/or to bookmark.
I "repeat" when I endorse stuff beyond "liking" it. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Nov-2022 23:49:23 JST
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Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan, "The Siege That Still Scars Russia" https://cepa.org/article/the-siege-that-still-scars-russia/
« The Russian security services learned several lessons from the events of October 2002; that they can lie with impunity, and that they would never be criticized, let alone punished for a failure unless that failure didn’t put the political regime at risk. And they got a license to attack the independent media at will. Not only was the assault on independent media fully supported by the Kremlin, and by Putin personally, but by Russian society too. The FSB harassed the relatives of Nord-Ost victims to keep them from talking to journalists, and even that was met with silence. No one was really bothered.
The terrified middle classes of Moscow and the big cities fully supported the Kremlin narrative, accusing journalists of vilifying the government and undermining stability. Society made its choice – as long as the FSB and other agencies delivered security, they would have a carte blanche from the Kremlin and Russian society. Their methods, however brutal, the special operations’ costs in human lives, however high, were excluded from public discussion. Without much debate or noise, society surrendered its right to hold the security services, and by extension Putin, accountable for their actions. This understanding became an essential element of the pact between Putin and Russia. » -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Nov-2022 23:24:12 JST
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Lora Kolodny, "Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/31/elon-musk-has-pulled-more-than-50-tesla-engineers-into-twitter.html
« Managers at Twitter have instructed some employees to work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, in order to hit Musk’s aggressive deadlines, according to internal communications. The sprint orders have come without any discussion about overtime pay or comp time, or about job security. Task completion by the early November deadline is seen as a make-or-break matter for their careers at Twitter.
In an atmosphere of fear and distrust, many Twitter employees have stopped communicating with each other on internal systems about workplace issues. What’s more, some of Twitter’s Slack channels have gone nearly silent, multiple employees told CNBC. »
[Musk already established a terror regime at Twitter.] -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Nov-2022 05:43:34 JST
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@band
I sent a DM to you from here. Did it reach you? -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Nov-2022 03:11:29 JST
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I blacklisted #wikipedia and all its various language version in my main browser's search page in order not get any results from these sites when I do an online search. But there is one exception: In a different browser the sites are blacklisted. So when I indeed want a result from Wikipedia, I have to load the other browser. Which is a suitable compromise. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Nov-2022 02:46:10 JST
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Tell her I'm from afar and won't bother her and that I thank her for her attention. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Nov-2022 02:40:40 JST
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Tell her hi from me in return.
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