Notices by simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net), page 20
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 23:03:07 JST 
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Listening to Richard Thompson lately? -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 05:49:38 JST
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With today's annexation of the four Ukrainian oblasts and their declaration as Russian territory by the Kremlin, expect a major war in the whole of Europe between NATO and Russia in the near future. (And no, you cannot "prepare" for that. You can perhaps flee, if you have a destination abroad and travel means to reach it.) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 04:48:34 JST
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In context of https://gnusocial.net/notice/12624576
With the annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts as new territories of the Russian Federation, Putin gained a major victory. Every further fighting will be seen by Russia (not just Putin) as an attack on the "motherland". People will accept the current partial and future general mobilisation. People, now grudgingly, in a few weeks far more enthusiastically, will embrace the war situation, will close ranks around Putin and the regime. Depending on Ukraine's and the West's next moves (primarily resignation or escalation), a general war is now far easier to justify and to rally for by Putin than it has been the past months ago. Couldn't have gone better for Putin. He's now in a far better position than in March and April.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Sep-2022 10:11:00 JST
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♪ The Marshall Family, "When I Wake Up To Sleep No More" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hc2ZWxiDLs
The mandolin play is superb.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Sep-2022 10:09:34 JST
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♪ Gétatchèw Mèkurya, "Muziqa heywete" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzJ_WuUKGBc
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Sep-2022 09:59:29 JST
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Can't find my bookmarks on that topic right now, but just have a look here (2016) https://www.wired.com/2016/08/linux-took-web-now-taking-world/ to remember how intricately Linux and the corporate world are intertwined. The tinker boys – it's pretty much always boys, very rarely girls – simply ignore that as they ignore how much it's them that provide the new tech that corporations and governments are happy to adopt. Don't sing me "freedom" and "autonomy", when the baseline, i.e., the consequences, of your technology is oppression and the happy choices allowed for in the various strands of consumerism. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Sep-2022 09:43:23 JST
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And again, the same old propaganda of " 'free' equals 'beautiful' and 'progressive' ". Ha! The whole internet rests on open source and free software. Most of the servers, major websites, gadgets and infrastructure, all major capitalist platforms (from Facebook, Google to Wikipedia) ... they all rely on or use use open source and free software, as governments use them for spying and surveillance... No globalisation without the internet, and no internet without open source. The effect of free software is primarily capitalist control, oppression, exploitation. That some tinker boys can play with their pet projects and advertise them in colourful images of tech as liberation is not just propaganda but the exception that proves the rule. They pose as deflection, and in their propaganda they mask how they contribute to making the world worse and more unfree. The free software community, in 40 years of activity, truly did more harm than good. So no reason to celebrate, and no reason to frame it as liberating. At all. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Sep-2022 10:39:52 JST
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Michael Gardiner, "Understanding Zombie Capitalism and the Limitations of the Posh Left" https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2022/09/24/understanding-zombie-capitalism-and-the-limitations-of-the-posh-left/ -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Sep-2022 10:05:44 JST
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Repeater Radio on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/repeater-radio
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Sep-2022 09:50:13 JST
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This :
♪ https://soundcloud.com/repeater-radio/dvd-presents-crazy-838929196
Love it.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Sep-2022 09:49:51 JST
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This :
♪ https://soundcloud.com/repeater-radio/dvd-presents-crazy-838929196 .
Love it.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Sep-2022 08:45:01 JST
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Moscow Times staff, "Prigozhin Admits He Founded ‘Brave, Patriotic’ Wagner Mercenary Group" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/26/prigozhin-admits-he-founded-brave-patriotic-wagner-mercenary-group-a78887
The oligarch closely linked to Putin admits having founded one of the most brutal and notorious mercenary gangs in 2014. Putin defenders esp. in the West can now stop denying that.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Sep-2022 02:56:50 JST
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♪ Leonard Cohen, "Live in Warsaw/Warszawa 1985" ("Various Positions Tour") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPwfiMkZdoA
I'm not a big fan of L.C. because I find his songs mostly not poetic or "deep" but sentimental. This concert is an exception.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 11:28:32 JST
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Imagine the Russian military causes major damage at Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and the release of radioactivity that the wind carries across western Europe. Does that amount to an attack on NATO states by Russia that would automatically trigger Article 5 assistance?
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 10:16:06 JST
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When the German Social Democrats and Grens enacted labour market- and social reforms in 2003-2005, the main goal was to create a low wage sector to improve the competitiveness of the German industry. This new underclass is now the first to struggle with rising prices and inflation in the current multilayered crisis. Chances are they will turn to the political right. But this is only another step how the Social Democrats and Greens helped the political far right consolidate its standing in parliament and public opinion. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Sep-2022 23:05:12 JST
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I only now realised that when you use a fee-based email-account, you don't pay for "doing" your emails but rather for storing them. Messaging is secondary, storage and organisation is priority.
But if that is the case and that is the service the email provider primarily offers, then why are both tasks (storage and organisation) so badly solved? -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Sep-2022 22:56:17 JST
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Russian protesters against the partial mobilisation are detained at the rally, many handed draft papers while in custody.
Do you hear anyone on the Western Left speak out? Where is the Left now? But no, they are only vocal when they can blame the U.S. and NATO. Fricking hypocrites. The Left's reaction to Russia's brutality is reason enough not to take these sensitive and concerned people seriously. Gee! -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Sep-2022 22:47:30 JST
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Reuters staff, "Russian anti-draft protesters being ordered to enlist, rights group says" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-anti-draft-protesters-being-ordered-enlist-rights-group-says-2022-09-22/
« Some Russians detained while protesting against President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilisation have been handed draft papers while in custody, the OVD-Info rights group said on Thursday. »
As mediocre as Russia is today, it is still a master in Stalinist perfidiousness, of cynically and insidiously tormenting people. I'm torn between anger and dismay and of killing two birds with one stone. (In this case: Snatching people and preventing further protest.) I'm just torn between anger and dismay. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Sep-2022 22:40:58 JST
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Reuters staff, "Russian anti-draft protesters being ordered to enlist, rights group says" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-anti-draft-protesters-being-ordered-enlist-rights-group-says-2022-09-22/
« Some Russians detained while protesting against President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilisation have been handed draft papers while in custody, the OVD-Info rights group said on Thursday. »
Russia is a mediocre country. But where Russians are masters is their perfidiousness, how they cynically and insidiously torment people, often thereby killing two birds with one stone. (In this case: Snatching people and preventing further protest.) It's all true Stalinist tradition.
I'm just stunned, torn between anger and dismay. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 22-Sep-2022 23:35:59 JST
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Ukraine wouldn't be in its current situation had Germany (and France) not stalled its membership application to NATO in 2008. It's a matter of simple decency that Germany accepts its responsibility and supports #Ukraine now. Even if that means a recession or economic breakdown.
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