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Ted

My wife told me "Bookmark it!"

She's pretty engaged in efforts to oppose a #fascist takeover.

https://www.justsecurity.org/92714/american-autocracy-threat-tracker

#Autocracy #threat #tracker

P.S. autocracy /ô-tŏk′rə-sē/
noun

  • Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism.
  • A country or state that is governed by a single person with unlimited power.
  • Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.

American Autocracy Threat Tracker

A comprehensive catalog of the autocratic threat to democracy based on former President Donald Trump and his associates’ autocratic plans and promises.

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psych@diasp.org
Michael

Just as it's been looking like the pendulum may be swinging back towards #truth, #democracy, and #justice....

SCROTUS

The Court of #TrumpVirus and protectors of the Ginni/MAGA cult... intervened to do their favorite President a favor...
As Jack Smith is put on hold, if not notice. 💅 (Can't find a nail-biting emoji...). 👿 vs ⚖️ #justice and #democracy

US Supreme Court to decide Trump criminal immunity claim in 2020 election case

"Supreme Power Corrupts Supremely"
#SCOTUS #GQP #TrumpVirus #Autocracy #Oligarchy #Jan6 #Justice #Accountability #Truth

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

I can only hope that after being arrested I can still spread #love like #AlexandraSkotschilenko did.

Her story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandra_Skochilenko

On 16 November 2023 she was sentenced, in a St. #Petersburg court, to seven years of imprisonment for replacing supermarket price tags with #antiwar slogans in 2022. In her final statement to the #court, before the verdict was announced, she told the presiding judge: "Your honour, you have a unique opportunity to show an example to society with your verdict ... You can show how to resolve conflict with the help of words and compassion."

Anyone who thinks that Russia is an evil #autocracy should know that even in the West, people who tell horrible truths are locked away, like Julian #Assange.

#Russia #law #news #crime #thoughtcrime #politics #criticism #problem #protest #military #justice #freedom #war #truth #newspeak

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anonymiss

‘Mind-reading’ device to detect #porn could speed #China’s policing of illicit content, say researchers

  • Electrical #engineering team combine the power of humans and #AI to create a #prototype device that sounds an alarm when an indecent image appears
  • But an observer says there is no law to regulate the use of such objects, which could be used by censors, or to protect the data they collect

source: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3182087/mind-reading-device-detect-porn-could-speed-chinas-policing

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The whole thing is pretty ridiculous. Because #pornography is forbidden in China, the censors had problems to get appropriate material. The internet is full of porn but not in China because of the big firewall. For testing, they ended up using material with black bars as shown in the photo above. Only such material can be used legally in China. What they have found out scientifically now is probably that there are people who are attracted to this black and white zebra porn and react accordingly with brain #activity.

#science #brain #censorship #internet #greatFirewall #censor #politics #humanrights #sex #fail #news #technology #autocracy #online #privacy

‘Mind-reading’ device to detect porn could speed China’s censorship

Electrical engineering team combine the power of humans and AI to create a prototype helmet that sounds an alarm when an indecent image appears.

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anonymiss

How censoring #China’s open-source coders might backfire

Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/30/1052879/censoring-china-open-source-backfire/

Li went through the manual review for all his projects on Gitee, and so far 22 out of 24 have been restored. “Yet I assume that the #review process is not a one-time thing, so the question is if the friction of hosting projects will increase in the future,” he says. Still, with no better domestic alternative, Li expects users to stay: “People might not like what #Gitee is doing, but [Gitee] will still be required to get their daily job done.”

China is ruining everything for good with its autocracy. The knowledge transfer of the Linux kernel as free open-source software was the biggest aid ever given to development. Now that they need their own operating system for mobile devices in the trade war with the US, because they are no longer allowed to use Google's software, it is very stupid to scare their own open source developers. Source code should always be apolitical and the fact that so many projects are subsequently released shows that the censors have no idea what they are doing.

#censorship #censor #fail #os #software #opensource #freedom #politics #news #problem #autocracy #system #future #floss

How censoring China’s open-source coders might backfire

Many suspect the Chinese state has forced Gitee, the Chinese competitor to GitHub, to censor open-source code in a move developers worry could obstruct innovation.

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anonymiss

What if Xi #Jinping just isn't that competent?

source: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/what-if-xi-jinping-just-isnt-that

And as a final word, seeing Xi’s stumbles really drives home how hard it is to be a truly successful autocrat. Their human rights records are certainly nothing to admire, but people like Deng Xiaoping and Park Chung-Hee — dictators who can take personalistic control of a country and leave it much stronger than they found it — are rare. Ultimately, that’s why autocracy is not a good way to organize a society — you have to roll the dice and win every time a truly strong leader comes to power. If Xi screws up the legacy his predecessors left him, it’ll be his fault, but it’ll also show that China’s political system wasn’t as ironclad as many have let themselves believe.

#china #autocracy #politics #economy #humanRights #problem #news #propaganda #system

What if Xi Jinping just isn't that competent?

A question few people seem to be asking.

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anonymiss

Woman’s #diary goes viral as #lockdown in #China forces her to stay with #blindDate

source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/womans-diary-goes-viral-as-lockdown-in-china-forces-her-to-stay-with-blind-date

#Wang went for dinner on Sunday at her blind date’s residence in the central Chinese city of #Zhengzhou, where a recent #outbreak of #Covid cases sent thousands into #quarantine in parts of the city. As she was finishing her meal, the area was put under lockdown.

She was unable to leave her date’s house as result, she told the Shanghai-based news outlet the Paper this week, saying she had gone to the city for a week-long trip to meet potential suitors from the southern province of Guangdong.

Wang quickly shared the bizarre experience with friends on social media. “I’m getting old now, my family introduced me to 10 matches … The fifth date wanted to show off his cooking skills and invited me over to his house for dinner,” said Wang in one of the videos.

So if you ever see protesters claiming the #security actions against Covid are a #tyranny, tell them what can happen in a real #autocracy.

#problem #news #fail #internet #viral #visit #corona #health

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Mark Lansbury

Do not pass the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

This proposed legislation seeks to permanently limit civil liberties.

It will severely restrain the right of the public to protest while expanding police powers to take action against members of the GRT & Black communities disproportionately affected by new trespass laws and stop and search tactics.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/579242

#Antidemocratic #autocracy #oppression #UK #dictatorships #ToryDictatorship #corruption #protest #FreeSpeech #PoliceState #BorisTheLiar #DemocracyNow #ToryCorruption #CorruptToriesOut #CivilRights #CivilLiberties #HumanRights #KillTheBill

Petition: Do not pass the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

This proposed legislation seeks to permanently limit civil liberties. It will severely restrain the right of the public to protest while expanding police powers to take action against members of the GRT & Black communities disproportionately...

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