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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

This single act of imperial violence shattered Iran’s democracy and set the stage for everything that followed: decades of dictatorship under the authoritarian Shah, the rise of the secret police (trained and armed by the CIA), the deepening of anti-Western sentiment, and ultimately the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It’s not a stretch to say that the roots of today’s tensions, the cycles of violence, and the specter of war all trace back to this original sin. The aftershocks of that coup are (4/11)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

still being felt, not only in Iran, but across the entire Middle East.

Yet, in the American imagination, #history often starts with the hostage crisis, or with the latest missile launch, or with the rhetoric of “rogue states.” We’re taught to see Iran as an irrational enemy, a threat to “our” interests, never as a nation whose modern history was violently derailed by foreign powers seeking oil and geopolitical dominance. The coup became a blueprint for U.S. and British interventions (5/11)

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

According to latest reports (and things are moving quickly), they are "not ruling out" the possibility that the assassin had accomplices, but they don't seem to have revealed any specific evidence that he did.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
steinarb ("Steinar Bang") wrote:

@pluralistic On the paradox of the world's 7th largest fossil fuel producer having the worlds highest rate of electrical vehicles https://undark.org/2025/06/09/norway-electric-cars/

(the article doesn't touch on the fact that in addition to producing fossil fuel, Norway also has ~90% hydro electric power in the domestic electricity energy mix and have traditionally had very cheap electricity (though that have changed in the last couple of years...))

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@StroomAfwaarts It's always dangerous, but the safest response may be very different depending on whether the cop is real or fake.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

We're a small town, but we can protest against kings and corruption with the biggest of them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/14/the-morris-no-kings-protest-march/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHLvapLOYz8

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Also, keep in mind that your posts, and your pictures, feed directly into a platform owned by a company with the best facial recognition technology on the planet.

We know #Meta shares data with the police and with ICE.

#NoKings

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

For the same reason you shouldn't bring your phone to a protest, you probably shouldn't post photos with protesters faces in them. Food for thought. #NoKings

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
fediforum ("FediForum") wrote:

Watch Cory Doctorow outline how to de-enshittify technology and more in his keynote at FediForum June 2025.

PeerTube: https://spectra.video/w/7wEFKqfZSPWZyFtbBHRUCs
YouTube: https://youtu.be/7%5FGs1t0qe78

#FediForum
/cc @pluralistic

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

And he's on bandcamp:

https://christophercross.bandcamp.com/album/christopher-cross

(Just keep whistling...)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ritualdust@merveilles.town ("Lizbeth") wrote:

For the occasion of No Kings days I made this little offering.

May this day be a reminder to all that we will not tolerate any king, old or new, dictating and controlling the people, the land and all living things. Every day I see more people waking up, standing up and fighting back, from the streets of countless cities and towns on turtle island, aboard boats and convoys headed to Gaza, in the forests of my own province where the indigenous elders are shutting down illegal logging. Every little bit helps grind down the empire and its machines.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Sorry to be away and missing the NoKings events today. A little proud of my fellow Americans right now.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Yeah, I'm just whistling past the graveyard over here...

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm not sure what's up with creating new music videos for old songs, but I'm enjoying it. New official video for Christopher Cross's "Ride Like The Wind":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA9uaBqvRtA

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@redoak anyway, I assume you’re busy most days trying to convince the Talking Heads to change the name of that song, so thanks for engaging with me instead.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the mint is flowering

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@dusk @LordCaramac I know you’re trying to make some sort of point here, but the simple reality is that the safest way to react if the real police are trying to detain you (or have entered your home) is often very different from the safest response to an armed criminal. Misunderstanding or blurring those lines can be fatal.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A sad and troubling impression from #jsnation and #reactsummit was that a huge fraction of the frontend community is happy to drink at the nazi bar. They don't even seem to feel embarrassed about posting on xitter. 🤦🤦🤦

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Anyway, be safe out there.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Personally, I’ve used a Faraday bag “for real” while out and about with a phone exactly once, and that was under an extremely unusual, particular set of circumstances.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

In particular, a Faraday bag protects you from a very narrow and specific set of phone-related threats, at considerable usability and functionality cost. And they require a nuanced understanding of what they do and what your threat is to use effectively.

If you don’t know exactly what you need one for, you probably don’t.

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

With all due respect, Governor, fuck that.
Stay home if you must for your own safety and wellbeing.

Some of us are ALREADY on the front lines of this war, and not by choice.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

No, we're not going to cower in the face of right-wing political violence.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/14/a-dismal-way-to-start-the-march/

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Much discussion about “opsec” (a term I don’t love when talking about people exercising their rights, but whatever) at protests today, including about phones and Faraday containers.

A Faraday container is probably less useful here than you think it is, but if you do rely on one, make sure it actually works. Here’s a post I did a while back on the ins and outs of containing RF: https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

“you ever think about how in 2009 DHS released a report about the growing threat of violent domestic terrorism from the right and then Republicans got so mad about it the DHS secretary resigned?” —Kelsey Atherton

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@agitatra It’s an impossible dilemma, from which a straight line can be drawn from current law enforcement tactics.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Protesting at #NoKings tomorrow? Use this for your phone background.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

The most broken thing the #BrokenTimes doesn't do today: It doesn't cover the NoKings protests on its home page (can you find it?). There is a link to a 6/11 story about other protests. There is plenty of coverage of Trump's fascist parade. The rest of us? No.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:

"Event at capacity". Tomorrow's Healdsburg protest. https://www.mobilize.us/indivisiblesonomacounty/event/793469/