Lassoing dangerously insecure software supply chains with #GoatRodeo, by @dpp https://gitlab.com/spicelabs1/goatrodeo
One thing chat-gpt is good for is a thesaurus.
people also ask.
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@stevendbrewer may your silliness be endless and joyful!
@stevendbrewer of men and mayflies...
every life is a death sentence.
it isn’t really democracy until i get to choose my own judge and jury. #ConsentOfTheGoverned
The university is not a suicide pact.
Must.
Or else it’s a thousand dollar brick.
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only i can fix it because i told them not to let anybody else fix it.
if you were sorrows, they could drown you every night, but in the morning you’d come back stronger every time.
u do u but i prefer the dopanice hits.
“The problem (well, a problem) with bad actors and corruption is they push the good ones out… over time the good ones get stomped on and pushed out. They're a threat!” @Atrios https://www.eschatonblog.com/2024/01/bad-apples.html
// great point.
it used to be “apres moi, le deluge”, but now every political actor makes its case as “sans moi, le deluge.” our politics has given up on hope for the efficiency of blackmail.
“‘You know what was good about the Second World War?’ Nayyem asked wistfully. ‘It ended!’” #MashaGessen https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/ukraines-democracy-in-darkness
@Akshay @40Years Yes, the conflict always was going to require a political settlement, but UNRWA was designed to maintain pressure + create demographic realities in order to sustain and enhance “facts on the ground” that might shape a potential settlement that could only be resisted at increasingly brutal cost. Most wars that displace populations do resolve, with political settlements that are easier to reach, when in the usual case, most of the displaced do not return. 2/
@Akshay @40Years There are bitter ironies in all this. In recent decades, Israel adopted the same “facts on the ground” approach to the conflict that Arab states pioneered in shaping UNRWA. And the governments of several states that did shape UNRWA, now threatened by Iran, now wish their predecessors had not locked in “facts on the ground” that would make alliance with Israel very difficult. 3/
@Akshay @40Years But the basic brutal fact is that wars displace people, and usually permanent settlements involve many of the displaced finding new lives elsewhere. It is ethnic cleansing, but that is a fact that attends most wars. To prevent ethnic cleansing, you have to build a peaceful coexistence. 4/
@Akshay @40Years But UNRWA's role in the Israel/Palestine conflict over decades has been absolutely catastrophic. It was designed, in contradistinction to UNHCR and most other refugee-concerned organizations to freeze and escalate the conflict over time rather than to let it, however justly or unjustly, resolve and fade. It has done so. It and those who (decades ago!) framed it bear no small share of responsibility for what is happening now. 2/
@Akshay @40Years Questions of how connected UNRWA employees or facilities are to particular acts of resistance or terrorism are I think secondary. Structurally, UNRWA to function in the role it has taken on necessarily works under terms set by the de facto governing authority, and given its role in education, that also is problematic. UNRWA was designed to be a party to the conflict, not something apart from it. There are bloody hands to go 'round, but the letters "UN" cannot absolve UNRWA. /fin
@candidexmedia FWIW, I've posted a (too long, too intimidating) tutorial on setting up and customizing feedletter.
It really needs to be packaged, installation more automated. But at least its current state is now decently documented, I hope.
https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/01/29/feedletter-tutorial/index.html
"No democracy perfectly distills the will of the people. But America is uniquely terrible at achieving democratic outcomes." @ddayen https://prospect.org/politics/2024-01-29-america-is-not-democracy/
Text: Exactly what part of democracy are we trying to save? Is it our democratic legislature, gerrymandered and malapportioned beyond recognition, with supermajority thresholds that deny rule even by that corrupted majority? Is it our democratic presidency, which Trump legally took over after losing the popular vote in 2016, and George W. Bush in the same fashion 16 years earlier? Is it our democratic judiciary, morphed into a super-legislature and habitually twisting the Constitution to advantage those with power, money, and influence? Are we worried about a democracy that can be so easily purchased, where corporate lobbyists either win whatever they want on Capitol Hill, or win by regulatory change or international trade treaty whatever they don’t? Has this government, where the most important modification of our democracy’s original sin, the second-class citizenship of Black people, is now being steadily reversed by state legislatures and the courts, earned our support? Is there despair over losing something that has produced unequal opportunity, unequal justice, and the conversion of economic power into political power? Where can we find this democracy we need to fight to preserve?