It’s just a descriptor to indicate something beyond the prototype phase, and likely reliable enough to eventually be used in commercial applications.

I think there are a few now… iirc victoria launcher is one of them.

The minimalist ones take a different approach, and are really great at encouraging less phone use: minimo launcher, fokus launcher, olauncher and its variants, etc. There’s some theory around why grayscale and text are less addictive than colorful icon grids, widgets, and multiple pages, but I can’t find it right now.

I’m currently on murine launcher because I have a tiny phone, but I use black and white icons with arcticons.

You seem to be completely oblivious to NATO expansionism:

And the atrocities NATO and the US has committed in Europe, Libya, Afghanistan, etc.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html

Or, to put it another way: socialism has powerful enemies. Those enemies don’t care how you feel about Marx or Makhno or Deleuze or communism in the abstract, they care about your feelings towards FARC, the Naxals, Cuba, North Korea, etc

This point is especially important. I’m in the middle of reading (and recording) Philip Agee - Inside the company, a CIA diary. He was a former CIA case officer who defected and escaped to Cuba. In Ecuador, he ran several of the 15+ operations the CIA was running in that country. These programs included everything from running US-friendly assets in the government, infiltrations of labor unions, control of religious institutions, control of youth orgs (especially catholic and conservative ones), journalists (especially getting them to put out anti-communist agitprop), leftist-org penetration agents, witting and unwitting police captains. They ran both ultra-conservative and social democratic / center-left media and political orgs.

These campaigns destabilized and divided the country, and the CIA was laughing while people on the streets were killing each other.

Their #1 goal: to get the Ecuadorian government to cut ties with Cuba and denounce communism, expel Cuban diplomats, and alienate them from Cuba and the USSR. If any org was even vaguely pro-Cuba, regardless of how left it was, the goal was to either take it over from the inside, or if that proved impossible, then make a new org friendly to US interests.

The US knows that the greatest threat to capitalist-imperialism and its overall power, is the threat of a good example, in the form of nations who reject its dominance. Anti-communism becomes the new witch-hunting campaign to unite all these disparate groups, to act on behalf of US interests.

It must take incredible bravery to agree with a country with over 700 military bases outside its borders.

The sad part is that this is probably safer than using vanilla javascript.

Neither axis nor allies, neither washington nor moscow, neither g7 nor brics, neither israel nor palestine, etc. You’re staying very pure and uncontaminated by the major conflicts of our times.

The torture / holding houses are for people who don’t want to be press ganged into the NATO meatgrinder, namely objectors. It also shouldn’t be surprising to find underage people in them, considering even western media has criticized azov for using child soldiers.

Even on the fediverse, speaking up about tara reade during the last election cycle, would get you banned from the liberal / correct the record fediverse servers.

#MeToo gets dropped immediately as soon as it exposes US democrats as being part of the same epstein class.

Syncthing was made for this use case.

Sweet, thx!

In a addition to the BDS (boycott, divest, sanctions) campaign against Israel ppl mentioned below (list of targeted companies here ), here’s a group of vetted aid organizations one can donate to.

Pretty funny that both the hoover institute and MLs agree with this analysis of FDR’s new deal… with opposite value judgements of course.

Sakai even has a really good chapter on this in Settlers too.

Below they called studying history, “reliance on tertiary sources”, and applauded themselves not just on their ignorance, but refusal to learn.

Good thing America doesn’t currently have a gestapo and concentration camps. All thanks to the restorative power of violence.

Unfortunately the pro-slavery forces rallied during the period of reconstruction, and were able to transmute slavery into a system of mass incarceration. Opposition to that wasn’t non-violent, but you can’t blame oppressed peoples for not always winning their confrontations. You can read about that in WEB dubois’s black reconstruction in america. Your unwillingness to read even short articles above, is probably why you’re so ignorant of the history of these class struggles.

Things have in no way escalated since then,

This is interesting coming from someone who avows pacifism, and thus thinks that reactionary violence shouldn’t be challenged in any threatening way, and that we shouldn’t dare fight back.

Anyway, you can keep offering Gandhi’s advice that “jews should’ve offered themselves to hitler’s knife, as it would purify them”. But the rest of us in the real world know that when someone attacks you, the best course of action is to stand up and fight back.

What “ended” slavery was technology making it economically unfeasible, and the violence of it still resonates through American society today.

This is also completely false. What ended modern slavery in the western hemisphere was two tremendously violent events: The Haitian revolution lead by former black slaves, which defeated french colonialism to end slavery (and whose proclamation to end slavery was subsequently adopted by Bolivar, which sealed its end in the southern hemisphere), and the US civil war which brought an end to slavery in the US south with a bloody conflict.

Oppression has in no way ended or even been reduced as the result of violent response.

Also completely false. The biggest example is the eastern front of WW2, the bloodiest conflict in world history, where the USSR defeated Nazi expansionism and its attempt to enslave eastern europe.

I recommend you read the article I linked above, to learn how truly disgusting pacifism is as an ideology.

This is completely wrong, idealistic, and ignores all of history, which shows that violence is nearly always required to overcome an oppressor.

The “victories of pacifism” are almost always used as propaganda to maintain the status quo.

• What about Pacifism / pacifist socialism? Is violence necessary to acheive socialism? What about Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi? audiobook
• Why not just vote leftists into office: what’s wrong with democratic socialism?
• Is a bloodless revolution possible?
• “Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation.” - Arundhati Roy.
• What is imperialism?
• The CIA, Gene sharp, and it’s pacifist color revolution regime change tactics.
• Regime Change Agent: Gene Sharp’s liberal non-violence.
• Was the civil rights struggle in the US really nonviolent? Malcolm X - message to the grassroots.
• FBI cointel directives on “nonviolent” groups.
• Is a state really necessary to transition into communism?
• Engels - on authority.
• An Overview of Leninism, audiobook. Lenin - State and Revolution , audiobook
• Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution, audiobook

Maybe don’t put quotes from slaveowners glorifying their imperial project under a post on Kwame Ture.

A lot of the material in there has already been recorded by me, and currently a lot of the audiobooks linked there are just text-to-speech / robot recordings.

I can’t join due to being busy with lemmy, but thx a ton for doing this, its a great effort.