Ur-Fascism: Umberto Eco's 14 Features of Fascism YouTube video by Oliver Twit

Ur-Fascism: Umberto Eco's 14 Features of #Fascism
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One of the best works on fascism. I was lucky enough to see him read it live, before it was published in the NYRB at a freer Columbia in 1994. We both smoked Merits (brown) and he bummed one off me after the lecture.

Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935) Image via Wikimedia Commons In his 1935 essay, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility,' influential German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin introduced the term “aura' to describe an au...

Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)

Metallica: Inamorata (Official Music Video) Metallica's official music video for “Inamorata,” from the album “72 Seasons.” Listen to “72 Seasons”: https://metallica.lnk.to/72Seasons Subscribe for more videos:…

#OnThisDay in 2023, our video for 'Inamorata,' directed by Jess Cope, debuted...

12/ Ad-tech built a warrantless surveillance system in the guise of a marketing tool.

You are the target. So are your kids. And your friends.

And it's being abused by some of the worst autocrats & security forces around the world.

graphic from report showing relationships

4/ Where does #Webloc, a tool that can monitor entire populations come from?

Well, it originated from notorious Israeli surveillance firm Cobwebs.

But like so many surveillance products, it's gone through some corporate ownership shuffling.

Now, it's sold by #Penlink.

ID verification on a device level is perhaps a better way to screen minors from adult/social services. Responsibility rests with the parent, not each service platform.

If however this is extended to all users, not just minors, it becomes mass surveillance and marks the end of Internet anonymity.

What Proton's Data Breach Observatory reveals in 2026 | Proton New incidents uncovered in the 2026 Data Breach Observatory show that small businesses were hit especially hard by cyberattacks.

The quantity of breaches is rising, and many go unnoticed. We've updated our Data Breach Observatory, check it out to keep on top of our ever-expanding record of 500+ breaches👇

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How To Make Your Phone Unhackable YouTube video by Proton

How to make your mobile phone more secure and less hackable

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Great now I can replace Google Meet with this 😛
And also immediately upgraded to the Premium tier after I saw it

Glad to see this privacy focused alternative to Google Workspace continuing to grow

Love this video clip

George Eliot, "Count That Day Lost"

Cold Eyes, by Oráculo Records from the album NNHMN - Deception Island Part 2

NNHMN - Cold Eyes #sotd
#SynthWave #SynthPop @nnhmn.bsky.social

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Trump Has No 'Endgame' In Iran Conflict | Anne Applebaum YouTube video by Times News

Astonishing, the Pharaoh is kept outside the Situation Room to rid of his tantrums.

Trump Has No 'Endgame' In Iran Conflict | Anne Applebaum
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Screenshots of a Twitter thread from 2019: GAIL SIMONE: The Punisher would be a lot prettier if he smiled more. TWITTER USER A: Ummmmm, I know what you're getting at here, but the jab doesn't work due to his backstory and personality. He actually has a huge plot point as to why he doesn't smile alot. Try harder GAIL SIMONE: [Posts a photo of a bookshelf full of comic spines] TWITTER USER A: Nice collection of what looks to be mostly female centric comic books. That literally has nothing to do with my comment, nor the topic under discussion. Unless if you're pointing out what is the most likely fact that you know very little about Punisher's backstory. TWITTER USER B: Read the names of the writer on the spine, now look at her name. TWITTER USER A: K, so she's a comic book author. That actually makes her case look worse seeing as how she should know better GAIL SIMONE Dude, between the two of us, which one has actually written the Punisher, do you think?

Glad to see they've got this one:

www.reddit.com/r/dontyoukno...

Tweet Katie Mack • @AstroKatie • 15/08/2016 v Honestly climate change scares the heck out of me and it makes me so sad to see what we're losing because of it. 75 L. 1,205 3,312 Gary P Jackson #Conser... • 15/08/2016 v Maybe you should learn some actual SCIENCE then, and stop listening to the criminals pushing the #GlobalWarming SCAM! Q121. 2, 498 © 161 凸 Katie Mack @AstroKatie く Replying to @gary4205 I dunno, man, I already went and got a PhD in astrophysics. Seems like more than that would be overkill at this point. 16/08/2016, 01:26 6,486 Retweets 21.2K Likes Tweet your reply

My all time favorite from Katie

“Dork ass losers” never fails

[At the Pentagon] "So the German naval attache definitely said they were sending mine sweepers to help in the Strait?"
"Yes, admiral. His English wasn't brilliant, but he definitely said they were sending a mine ship."

The English in Ireland: a great bunch of lads.

Thanks, Tommy Cromwell. 😐

Thank Thatcher For 1996, The Wildest Year In The Wildest Decade For Britain | Dominic Mohan YouTube video by Times News

Don't see why should thank Thatcher for any of this, but pretty much yeah, 'twas fun times.

1996, The Wildest Year In The Wildest Decade For Britain | Dominic Mohan
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Meanwhile, musk has the support of Durov, Telegram's boss. Investigated by the French as well.

Hope you had a pleasant time and experience in Athens.

ZEIT III Henrik Meierkord is a musician who experiments with different genres. His main instrument is the cello, but he also plays other instruments. Through his ambient music he tries to let the listener find

Henrik Meierkord - Zeit III #sotd
#Drone #Ambient @henkemeierkord.bsky.social

ICE agents stand in two rows, carrying riot gear (helmets with face masks, black vests) and in green uniform. Clowns, standing 4 ft away next to officers, also carrying items (whistles, a whirling toy, etc) and in full, very colorful costumes, some wearing red, round clown noses.

I love Portland, OR!