The demise of the nation state.
(…) we need to find new conceptions of citizenship. Citizenship is itself the primordial kind of injustice in the world. It functions as an extreme form of inherited property and, like other systems in which inherited privilege is overwhelmingly determinant, it arouses little allegiance in those who inherit nothing. Many countries have made efforts, through welfare and education policy, to neutralise the consequences of accidental advantages such as birth. But “accidental advantages” rule at the global level: 97% of citizenship is inherited, which means that the essential horizons of life on this planet are already determined at birth.
Schmutzige Rente: Klimaschützer wissen nichts von ihren Investitionen in Gas und Öl.
Wer sein Geld in Pensionsfonds steckt, läuft Gefahr, von klimaschädlichen Konzernen auch in Deutschland zu profitieren – unbewusst. Eine internationale Recherche unter Leitung von CORRECTIV legt erstmals die Verbindungen offen.
European Tramdriver Championship 2023.
If it`s true that nobody can resist an idea whose time has come, then the competition of the best European tram drivers will be one of the highlights of public life in the larger European cities.
Aiga Rasch (via de.wikipedia.org).
Aiga Rasch war (…) die Illustratorin aller von 1970 bis 1999 publizierten drei ???-Bücher
Instagram cofounder on Mark Zuckerberg.
will he go into destroy mode if I say no
🙀
Python Pitfall: Mutable Default Arguments
The core issue is that in Python, the value of a default argument is evaluated only once, when the function is declared. The default argument syntax
count = {}causes the Python interpreter to create an empty dictionary, but it’s the same dictionary object every time the function is called.
The EU – especially Germany’s Fraport – is screwing Greece so hard!
Desperate to escape debt, Greece is forced to sell off its major infrastructure.
If EU and IMF policies continue to fail, the burden will once again fall on the people.
Subplot: P. told me about this, and when I was searching for sources using a more expletive term, one of the results led me to a content spoof vulnerability of one of the biggest German news outlets. (Screenshots: search result, spoofed content)
Relevant? “EMU entry is an irreversible step. Once a currency enters, its identity is extinguished.”
Subplot ⅱ: This one I found while looking for test patterns for testing displays and printers.
見ざる, 聞かざる and 言わざる
TIL the three wise monkeys have names, and there sometimes is a fourth one, Sezaru (“do no evil” or “smell no evil”).
How Nonviolence Protects the State.
The entire idea that violence is masculine, or that revolutionary activism necessarily excludes women, queers, and trans people is, like other premises of nonviolence, based on historical whitewashing. Ignored are the Nigerian women occupying and sabotaging petroleum facilities; the women martyrs of the Palestinian intifada; the queer and transgender warriors of the Stonewall Rebellion; the innumerable thousands of women who fought for the Vietcong; women leaders of Native resistance to European and US genocide; Mujeres Creando (Women Creating), a group of anarcha-feminists in Bolivia; and British suffragettes who rioted and fought against cops. Forgotten are the women from the rank and file to the highest levels of leadership among the Black Panther Party, the Zapatistas, the Weather Underground, and other militant groups. The idea that fighting back somehow excludes women is absurd. Not even the history of the pacified white “First World” bears it up because even the most effective patriarchy imaginable could never prevent all transgender people and all women from militantly fighting against oppression.
Where we are going we don’t need RSS.
DevURLs – A neat developer news aggregator.
Read programming news from the most popular programming websites in one place.