Would you join the resistance if stuck in an authoritarian regime? Here’s the psychology
"Most of us like to believe we would have opposed the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. We may even like to imagine that we would have bravely fought for the resistance to Nazism in the 1940s. But would we? Our ability to take a stand may be put to the test as authoritarianism is increasing worldwide."
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Would you join the resistance if stuck in an authoritarian regime? Here’s the psychology
Good resistance fighters aren’t scared to take risks.The Conversation
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> Over the past couple of years, I’ve been marking the seasons by the inhale and exhale of this tree.
I tried to do this with an image heavy web artwork before but it needed a chunk of javascript to build a loader. Even though the overall MB size with javascript was smaller, I wanted to keep it accessible for non-JS users so opted for a disclaimer that says the page needs a little time to load.
Also I love this wonderful work of yours.
Shout out to Ibtihal Aboussad who told Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman during Microsoft's 50 years celebration:
“Shame on you. You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you all celebrate when Microsoft is killing children. Shame on you all.”
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #AI #microsoft
When the Gezi protests kicked off a decade ago, Turkish state TV showed a documentary about penguins while people were getting tear gassed and beaten by the police.
The gas masked penguin became the symbol of the protests, and I still have this guitar pick from back then.
It's ironic that as protests against an egomaniac autocrat kick off again in Turkey in 2025, the penguin has become symbolic of another egomaniac autocrat in the USA at exactly the same time.
wow I didn't know that about Turkey and nice parallel with the USA.
The penguin is also a symbol of environmentalism and linux. And a rags-to-riches antihero who rails against the capitalist vigilante Batman. Ticking all the right boxes really.
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¿Cómo compruebo que mis dispositivos son seguros?
Consejos básicos para fortalecer la seguridad de tus dispositivos
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Consejos y buenas prácticas para fortalecer la seguridad de tus dispositivos.docs.fembloc.cat
David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka have traveled the width and breadth of Eastern Europe, photographing the region’s unique brutalist architecture. "Eastern Blocks II," the duo's new book, captures some of these stark scenes.
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#books #brutalism #design #architecture #europe #photography #history
More Than 180 Photographs Chronicle Brutalist Suburbs and Public Buildings in 'Eastern Blocks II' — Colossal
Zupagrafika's 'Eastern Blocks II' chronicles the brutalist housing estates and public structures of the Eastern Bloc.Kate Mothes (Colossal)
They are doing great work, but are always in need of help (people, hardware, bandwith).
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🎉 Our mission-statement 🎉 "[...] @SafeguardingResearch is creating an alternative infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage and scientific knowledge.FeDiHum
Aquí tenéis la joya de diálogo entre @sursiendo , @paukokura y @ekaitz cancela del pasado día 14 de marzo, en colaboración con los espacios recuperados Can Bum y Els 4 kantons.
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Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
Did you know that posts from my gopher forum get read on my radio station?
I went to tune into Whisper Radio on Shortwave again and it shows as “Broken” on radio-browser: radio-browser.info/search?page…
I don’t know much more about how to properly host internet radio, nor list proper entries on radio-browser, but here’s an example of an entry that works –maybe it would be helpful to compare to your entry?: radio-browser.info/history/ca1…
Steam Deck Verified round-up for early April 25 with new and upcoming games gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/stea…
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Steam Deck Verified round-up for early April 25 with new and upcoming games
Need a fresh game for the weekend and you're playing on Steam Deck or Desktop Linux? Here's some fresh picks of games that recently became Steam Deck Verified.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition rated Steam Deck Verified - but still no official announcement that it exists gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/neve…
#NeverwinterNights2EnhancedEdition #NeverwinterNights2 #SteamDeck
Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition rated Steam Deck Verified - but still no official announcement that it exists
While it still hasn't been announced yet, we've seen that Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition exists thanks to SteamDB and now its rating has improved to be Steam Deck Verified.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Run, jump and glide at blazing speed in Haste, the latest game from Landfall out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/run-…
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Run, jump and glide at blazing speed in Haste, the latest game from Landfall out now
Originally called Haste: Broken Worlds and now just Haste, it's the latest game from Landfall (Content Warning, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Clustertruck) that ensures you gotta go fast.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Earthquakes, cockroaches and broken bones didn't stop the Hungry Horrors demo releasing gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/eart…
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Earthquakes, cockroaches and broken bones didn't stop the Hungry Horrors demo releasing
Sometimes developers put up blog posts talking about developing their game, but it's not every day you read about how they had to deal with earthquakes, cockroaches and broken bones.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Oddventure blends Alice in Wonderland and EarthBound now in Early Access gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/oddv…
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Oddventure blends Alice in Wonderland and EarthBound now in Early Access
Like your RPGs a little on the weird side? Oddventure from developer Infamous Rabbit that's inspired by and blending a little Alice in Wonderland and EarthBound has finally entered Early Access.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, April 4th edition for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/ever…
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Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, April 4th edition for Steam Deck / Linux
Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for April 4th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Mesa 25.0.3 graphics drivers released with numerous bug fixes gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mesa…
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Mesa 25.0.3 graphics drivers released with numerous bug fixes
Mesa 25.0.3 has arrived as the latest bug-fix release for open source Linux graphics drivers, bringing a bunch of fixes across different drivers and some game fixes are included too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#MolecularClock analysis shows #bacteria used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis
phys.org/news/2025-04-molecula…
A geological timescale for bacterial #evolution and oxygen adaptation science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc…
"the earliest aerobic transition occurred in an ancestor of photosynthetic #cyanobacteria, indicating that the ability to utilize trace amounts of oxygen may have allowed the development of genes central to oxygenic #photosynthesis."
Molecular clock analysis shows bacteria used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis
Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely fossilize. Determining when exactly a particular group of microbes first appeared is especially hard.Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Phys.org)
#DRIVE Rally leaves Early Access on April 16 with Linux support and Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/driv…
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#DRIVE Rally leaves Early Access on April 16 with Linux support and Steam Deck Verified
Pixel Perfect Dude has announced that their racing game #DRIVE Rally will be leaving Early Access on April 16.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Awesome auto-battler Mechabellum gets a free weekend, discount and update gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/awes…
#Mechabellum #PCGaming #Gaming
Awesome auto-battler Mechabellum gets a free weekend, discount and update
My absolute favourite auto-battler Mechabellum will have a Free Weekend starting later today, it's one you definitely have to try as the battles just look awesome.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Get inspired by Nextcloud's success! 🌟 CEO Frank Karlitschek shares insights at #FOSSASIA Summit 2025 on building a sustainable #OpenSource company with 500k+ servers, team in 24 countries, and a vibrant community! 📈
Exclusively on Youtube by Google! What open source inspiration! What a monument to privacy and decentralization!
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#Nextcloud #Privacy #OpenSource #YouTube #Google #Decentralization
I was on the fence about my latest insomnia purchase, but it's surprisingly super high quality
My partner wants to get it a little I❤️NY shirt 
Yep! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
I stopped maintaining it with the platform.coop directory launched.
Subvert — The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace
A music platform owned by us all. Join Subvert to sell your work, support artists, and shape our shared future. Sincerely Ours.Subvert — The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace
110. Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? Nathan Schneider sees it every day. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
Nathan Schneider has spent roughly 15 years as a journalist and academic trying to understand democracy in the 21st century through Occupy Wall Street, cooperatives, the blockchain, and currently, federated social media.Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
"Online counterculture" by Manuel Moreale manuelmoreale.com/online-count…
Counterculture is increasingly in private forums, RSS, and off screens entirely. Totally agree.
Republican rebels try to stop Trump's Canada tariffs
Four Republican US senators have broken ranks and voted with the Democrats in an effort to block President Donald Trump's tariffs against Canada. In a rare display of opposition to the president, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and Susan Collins helped to vote through a resolution 51 to 48 to end Trump's emergency declaration on fentanyl trafficking that he has used to justify tariffs on Canadian imports.
#News #BBC #Trump #Canada #LisaMurkowski #MitchMcConnell #RandPaul #SusanCollins
Republican rebels vote with Democrats to scupper Trump's Canada tariffs
Four Republican senators vote with Democrats to try and end levies on imported Canadian goods, steel and aluminium.Adam Hale (BBC News)
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GitHub - devnoname120/epubviewer: EPUB/CBR/PDF reader app for Nextcloud
EPUB/CBR/PDF reader app for Nextcloud. Contribute to devnoname120/epubviewer development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Josefa Sánchez, socióloga y activista climática: «Hoy los despojos racistas se justifican con el imperativo de salvar el planeta».
La investigadora mexicana publica 'Despojos racistas. Hacia un ecologismo anticolonial', un ensayo que expone cómo la transición energética da continuidad y profundiza la lógica colonial.
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Josefa Sánchez, socióloga y activista climática: «Hoy los despojos racistas se justifican con el imperativo de salvar el planeta» - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad
La investigadora mexicana Josefa Sánchez publica 'Despojos racistas. Hacia un ecologismo anticolonial', un ensayo que expone cómo la transición energética da continuidad y profundiza la lógica colonial.Andrés Actis (Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad)
"This week on #ReimaginingTheInternet, Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr) explains how poor democracy on major social media platforms has eroded our actual democratic governance, and how practicing democracy in everyday ways can teach us how to practice it well again.
Nathan Schneider wrote the fantastic #GovernableSpaces, out now on UC Press and freely available online."
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110. Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? Nathan Schneider sees it every day. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
Nathan Schneider has spent roughly 15 years as a journalist and academic trying to understand democracy in the 21st century through Occupy Wall Street, cooperatives, the blockchain, and currently, federated social media.Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
Cat #PSA: If you clip your (indoor) cat's claws, at the beginning you need to trim a little bit every few days; as the quick recedes gradually, the claws can be trimmed shorter, and they'll be easier to maintain. I noticed that the cats are having an easier time controlling them when they're shorter.
Couldn't find the original source for the diagram.
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red tabletops think of cold
black floors w/ objectivity
thin red lines emotion says
dividing blocks of SCREAM!
black. so back off —
striped drapes objectivity
old newsprint think of
wallpaper cascading blood
an atmosphere of severed limbs
antiquity shots and swords of
of people gathered murder
for raucous amusement held in stasis
i drinking molson’s think of revolution
— discriminating in this albany tavern
distinction plots and politics
think of eisenstein as argued long ago
in post-revolutionary revolution
russia in form and style
“mother russia” that’s all that
visions of snow and ice changes
cascading water are they here tonight
held in stasis fomenters of tomorrow
brutal massacre on the would I be of them
steps (steppes) if i knew?
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Why People Support Rotten Empires
It’s nice to think that a government that Goes Too Far will eventually cause the citizens to rise in righteous wrath and throw the rascals out. It’s also convenient when all the defenders of the Evil Empire wear uniforms (except for the occasional Secret Police spy). Unfortunately, we know from centuries of experience that it doesn’t really work this way. The worst tyrannies imaginable have been enthusiastically supported by people no worse than you or me.
Without going deeply into psychology, here are some of the reasons why citizens support tyrannies. You can use these to make your fictional Evil Empire and its people something more than laser fodder.
Citizens fear that the unknown will be worse than the known: a foreign philosophy, a strange religion, or perhaps society breaking down to anarchy. They may fear and hate an enemy population, especially if they are a different religion or race, let alone species: Do you hate the Bug soldiers because they
... show moreThis one of my favorite observations on the subject:
Why People Support Rotten Empires
It’s nice to think that a government that Goes Too Far will eventually cause the citizens to rise in righteous wrath and throw the rascals out. It’s also convenient when all the defenders of the Evil Empire wear uniforms (except for the occasional Secret Police spy). Unfortunately, we know from centuries of experience that it doesn’t really work this way. The worst tyrannies imaginable have been enthusiastically supported by people no worse than you or me.
Without going deeply into psychology, here are some of the reasons why citizens support tyrannies. You can use these to make your fictional Evil Empire and its people something more than laser fodder.
Citizens fear that the unknown will be worse than the known: a foreign philosophy, a strange religion, or perhaps society breaking down to anarchy. They may fear and hate an enemy population, especially if they are a different religion or race, let alone species: Do you hate the Bug soldiers because they are cruel and ruthless, or because bugs are icky? Many people fear that a new government would cost them their jobs or personal power; in a corrupt regime, they may have good reason to be afraid of justice. A clever regime’s propaganda will play on all these fears, constantly portraying the foe as inhuman, the rebels as terrorist killers.
People who are used to obeying the law often have a hard time changing their habits when the law becomes oppressive. They still believe that “the police only arrest criminals; honest people have nothing to fear.” When the rebels break into an armory to get guns, these people see only that a robbery was committed. Enough of this and patriotic citizens may volunteer for the army to fight the wicked rebels. Obviously, rebellions find more support on worlds that were free until the empire conquered them. But even there, some citizens may hate the occupier but doubt the rebels would be any better. You can fight for “freedom” – but once you win, you have to set up a government.
And people may be loyal to the idea, or to the ideals, of a nation or empire, even when the reality is tarnished. “My country, right or wrong . . .”
It is not evil, or even cowardly, to be afraid of starvation, torture, and death. Any successful rebellion must overcome these fears . . . to convince the people that anything is better than slavery. Meanwhile, the government is telling them that anything is better than anarchy. Which is why rebellions have a hard time of it.
– John M. Ford
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in reply to Muse • • •@Jay Bryant There is certainly some truth in what Ford says.
But there are also the people who hid Jewish families like Anne Frank's during WW2, even though they were not personally under attack by their government. Sam goes for the entire nation of Denmark who collectively worked to rescue their Jewish population.
And then there are the hundreds of peaceful Indian protesters of India who were slaughtered at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by British troops. This led to the non-cooperation movement of 1919-1922 headed by Mohandas Gandhi.
In 1965 in the US there was "Bloody Sunday" at the Edmund Pettus Bridge where 600 people peacefully marched for their civil rights and were set upon by white enforcement officers who tear-gassed and beat the protestors. Subsequently, these people continued their peaceful campaign for the right to vote.
In 1976 thousands of black South African children in Soweto peacefully protested the law that mandated the teaching
... show more@Jay Bryant There is certainly some truth in what Ford says.
But there are also the people who hid Jewish families like Anne Frank's during WW2, even though they were not personally under attack by their government. Sam goes for the entire nation of Denmark who collectively worked to rescue their Jewish population.
And then there are the hundreds of peaceful Indian protesters of India who were slaughtered at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by British troops. This led to the non-cooperation movement of 1919-1922 headed by Mohandas Gandhi.
In 1965 in the US there was "Bloody Sunday" at the Edmund Pettus Bridge where 600 people peacefully marched for their civil rights and were set upon by white enforcement officers who tear-gassed and beat the protestors. Subsequently, these people continued their peaceful campaign for the right to vote.
In 1976 thousands of black South African children in Soweto peacefully protested the law that mandated the teaching of classes in Afrikaans. When the police responded with violence killing 176 people and injuring 1000 more, the international community was appalled. This began many countries, including the US, divesting from South Africa. This was an important moment in the eventual ending of Apartheid.
John Ford seems to be speaking about the behaviour of the privileged classes under tyrannical governments.
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