Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

We definitely need to build more tools for publicly accountable collaboration in online community moderation, but shared blocklists are anything but this. I don't support those projects and none of mine will implement that uniformly perilous convention.

Characterizations by analysts seem accurate that the whole process appears specifically designed to incite the present ground invasion. There never would have been any hope for resistance. There's no way they could anticipate some broad coalition of spontaneous defense given the opening event. The best case for their motives is that they're accelerationist terrorists; it's just nothing short of insane. Am I missing something here?

Or have we in fact seen Netanyahu's direct investments mature?

I just can't figure out why Hamas would make this kind of horrifying, instantly galvanizing provocation at a time when their ostensible adversaries were losing support and resistance was growing amid institutional destruction. You would think anybody who intended to preserve Gaza would let Netanyahu fall on his domestic-political sword. I would call the decision suicidal if it wasn't for Hamas leadership situated comfortably offsite free to tender instead the suffering of Gazans to their agenda.

counter-strike 2? i started with counter strike beta 2.0 kiddo. burst fire glocks on cs_alley ... attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion

the only problem is that as far as I know, anyone who possesses your genetic material in or on some object handled in the course of business, without a specific disclaimer, is often perfectly free to do forensic analysis on it. And in some US states like Texas, last I checked, police are often able to draw blood during detention without alcoholic probable cause, etc. Genetic data is not easily kept secret but people deserve the privacy of many impracticalities of extracting it.

LB: i suppose that's a bit mean to those affected, but seriously, don't willingly hand over your genetic data to some corporation

hopefully public & medical institutions charged with it do better

And don't let me sound like I minimize the event; there is no question that Hamas decided to open this war with an unthinkably brutal civilian slaughter and capture, and this time on the scale of the deliberately "10x" death toll the apartheid state typically wreaks upon Palestinian civilians, as well as opening a major territory conflict beyond 1949 borders. That is an undeniable provocation Netanyahu & co. are openly salivating to be forced to respond to.

Clearly, when you want to make a final colonial usurpation of a population under your complete control, the most efficient method is to force them into a corner with the worst representation and power dynamics possible, place them under mortal strain indefinitely, wait for somebody to crack, then exercise collective punishment.

I should remind you that Bibi said right out loud that Israel was funding Hamas in order to guarantee there would *never* be a unified, effective Palestine.

My pain tolerance really hasn't been up to the way the last few weeks have gone.

Sure, he bit my basic idea, but he's completely missing the point.

The kind of deep cringe like when I haven't produced k8s fedi admin docs yet and then hear about instances wiped out by simple mistakes I'd have amply cautioned against

Pure agony watching so many people lose their social networks overnight and knowing I still won't be delivering my answer to this problem for weeks yet

Things really suck right now but there is so much to look forward to.

And because afaik the United States does not actually regard Palestine as a state, and its embattled status and existence, as well as the notable void of any recognized legal military defense power, there is no method to provide material aid the way western powers did for Ukraine. Public understanding is so poor that even after openly describing their final solution, I fear the neocolonial fascists could be validated in their brazen decision that they can pull it off.

The difference is important -- the world recognized immediately that was a massively disproportionate war, and it was. This time we're talking about an apartheid system that allows Israel to simply turn off the food, water, and electricity for nearly three million innocent people, ordering the entirety of their colonized victim populations to vacate their home cities or be considered combatants. Israel has always made an open policy of "taking ten for every one". They promise abject horror.

In fact, the parallels are striking -- generalizing problematic factions (for him, "Nazis", for them, "Hamas") that their pressure created and empowered to sell a breach of treaty/sovereignty, using the fluctuation of general bilateral tension as a legitimacy ratchet, vaguely horrifying and completely unverifiable accusations of crime against humanity, taking advantage of the obscurity of their opponent, middle-period national claims to someone else's land reborn in ascendant fascism…