Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman

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  • It honestly reminds me a bit of how the Israeli military co-opted Deleuze & Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus as a philosophical work backing their war machine.

    I asked Naveh why Deleuze and Guattari were so popular with the Israeli military. He replied that ‘several of the concepts in A Thousand Plateaux became instrumental for us […] allowing us to explain contemporary situations in a way that we could not have otherwise. It problematized our own paradigms. Most important was the distinction they have pointed out between the concepts of “smooth” and “striated” space [which accordingly reflect] the organizational concepts of the “war machine” and the “state apparatus”. In the IDF we now often use the term “to smooth out space” when we want to refer to operation in a space as if it had no borders. […] Palestinian areas could indeed be thought of as “striated” in the sense that they are enclosed by fences, walls, ditches, roads blocks and so on.’5 When I asked him if moving through walls was part of it, he explained that, ‘In Nablus the IDF understood urban fighting as a spatial problem. […] Travelling through walls is a simple mechanical solution that connects theory and practice.

    However, I don’t think Musk et. al. are in any way as philosophically rigorous as the Israeli military has been.






  • Musk and Trump were correct that these courts move way too fucking slow. The damage to the Treasury is done.

    You can’t unopen this Pandora’s Box. They’re in the fucking systems and they’ve exposed tons of systems to the wider internet. So much national security has already been compromised and so many of these systems will now have what are known as “persistent threats” even after they’ve legally been denied access.

    They’re doing damage daily while these judges are fucking dithering.

    In a way, Musk is correct that working late or over the weekend is a superpower, because despite us being in the middle of a fucking coup none of these people are willing to change their schedules to accommodate that.

    If I were in a position of authority, I would think it would be in my best interest to buckle down and not leave my office during such desperate times. I mean, why would a coup mean you still get the weekend off. This is a fight for survival. You don’t get a break during a fight for survival

    Because the system was already a slow dinsosaur as it is, but when they’re up against people who are literally sleeping in the offices so they can do things at all hours of the night, these courts are gonna be a hundred steps behind.




  • Hear, hear. That’s some bullshit.

    We’re about to enter an era where literally the only kind of thing that might work is a General Strike which is gonna mean people literally having to plan a month of eating very little because they won’t have income to buy fresh food. Packing stores of water in case your water gets shut off.

    It’s gonna suck real bad, but all these people are like “I want to get involved, but I’ve gotta go to work.” Motherfucker unless your job is literally saving the lives of people, your job can do without you. You can find another job. McDonald’s and Home Depot aren’t making the world a better place.

    Further, maybe we should all be bailing on these worthless jobs that aren’t contributing to society and instead give our skills to Mutual Aid Groups. Maybe our labor would be better spent on our communities rather than selling worthless plastic shit and unhealthy food back and forth to each other?

    You know how Amish communities get together to raise a barn for a neighbor? Yeah, that’s what we need to be fucking doing. The Amish suck in a lot of ways, but they understand that they have to pool their labor together to meaningfully take care of their community. We need community-driven Habitat For Humanity on fucking steroids.

    “We’ll still be expected to go to work during the apocalypse.” Yeah, only if you choose to bend over and fucking take it. You could also walk out of the fucking job because it’s the fucking apocalypse.



  • The fact that through all this gaslighting and society falling apart the best therapists can do for me is to give me techniques to ignore it all.

    Like at what point do we stop making it the job of people who have been broken by this society to fix them fucking selves and control their emotions while all the assholes who keep making it worse are never expected to fix shit about themselves?

    The worst literally just shrug it all off and keep being assholes. When the fuck are mental health professionals gonna acknowledge maybe its not up to us to fix ourselves when society itself is breaking our minds?

    The gaslighters, abusers, and selfish all just get to keep doing what they’re doing and all of us halfway decent people have to do “better” because of them. It’s literally the same stupid attitude that allowed our country to be dragged into fascism.

    Stop making the fucking victims of it all be the ones who have to put in the work to fix anything!




  • “Sideloading” isn’t an actual thing. It’s a word the industry made up to make installing your own software sound dangerous.

    All traditional Windows applications were “sideloaded” and back then it was just fucking called installing an application.

    Prior to the bullshit ass Microsoft Store, sideloading was literally the only way to get shit on Windows.

    Linux also always allowed you to install applications directly. Everyone just uses package management software at this point because it’s all well managed and easier to keep things updated, but you can still install things manually with make.

    If this leads more people to understand that “sideloading” is some contrived boogeyman bullshit for just being allowed to install what you want on the device you fucking own that’s a good thing.