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#NYTimes Attempts To Put The #PaperOfRecord's Ol' #EastCoast Spin On A #ComputerNerd #California #Cult, And Its #GenderBender Leader That Darn Near Defies Droll Descriptiion...

If You Love #Murders, Mayhem And Manson-esque Antics Against #ArtificialIntelligence, This Could Be A #GiftLink For You... It has all the #RevengeOfTheNerds chaotic content and egregious elements you love, including #CourtroomDrama, #CopKilling, #ElderAbuse, #manifestos, #patricide, etc etc etc!

nytimes.com/2025/07/06/busines

Season One Episode One: Must Solarpunk "Should"? (aka unpopular opinions about manifestos)

Ariel and Christina discuss #solarpunk, #manifestos, and the human urge to dictate what other people believe and can do. At time of recording, your hosts were nonfiction editors at Solarpunk Magazine and this dilemma of should unconsciously or consciously comes through in a lot of the nonfiction submissions that we received in our slush pile, and we had (and still have) Thoughts and Opinions about it.

So many thoughts! Possibly controversial ones! But one of the best things about solarpunk (we think) is the space that it gives us to explore and think through new paradigms, new systems thinking, new #ideas – some of which maybe we don’t necessarily love, but that are part of our world regardless of whether we like it or not. We’re learning and growing with every new day as solarpunks - come join us!

PS: The audio is bumpy in parts. Please excuse the technical hiccups. At the time, Christina had the world's worst internet connection, which made recording bi-continental discussions prone to glitches.

youtu.be/ZZ5Aqe2pGrw?si=d8Sint

#Labour #Manifesto 2024: A #Dazed #cheatsheet

For the upcoming #GeneralElection, we’ve scoured the major parties’ #manifestos so you don’t have to. Here are the main #takeaways on #KeirStarmer’s #Conservative #vision for #Britain, it's only slightly less #evil than the #Tories.

If Keir Starmer has a million haters, I am one of them. If Starmer has ten haters, I am one of them. If Starmer has only one hater, that is me.

dazeddigital.com/life-culture/

Making the Degrowth #Vote count on 4th July

We organised a session in March around upcoming elections, especially the general #election. The aim was to help decode #manifestos and make as much of a #degrowth intervention as possible, given that no candidates will be standing from a degrowth position and almost all parties subscribe to continued economic growth in one form or other..../ Read more/

steadystatemanchester.net/2024
#GE2024 #UKPolitics #DegrowthVote
#GettingReal

Steady State Manchester · Making the Degrowth Vote count on 4th JulyWe organised a session in March around upcoming elections, especially the general election. The aim was to help decode manifestos and make as much of a degrowth intervention as possible, given that…

The first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections has commenced today. #BJP, #CPIM, #DMK, and #INC have already released their #manifestos - which serve as a blueprint that highlights their motivations, aims, and promises to the public.

@sflcin has compared these manifestos, covering #technology-related rights and gig workers issues.

Read the complete comparison here: sflc.in/comparing-the-2024-lok

#SFLCin #Elections2024 #LokSabhaElection2024 #Techlaw #TechPolicy #FreeSpeech #privacy #censorship
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Software Freedom Law Center, India • Defender of Your Digital Freedom · Comparing the 2024 Lok Sabha Election Manifestos from the perspective of Technology Rights and Gig Workers • Software Freedom Law Center, IndiaOn April 19th, the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections commenced in various states such as Tamil Nadu, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.1 In pursuance of the same, political parties like the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian National Congress (INC), Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) have recently released On April 19th, the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections commenced in various states such as Tamil Nadu, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.1 In pursuance of the same, political parties like the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian National Congress (INC), Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) have recently released

Season one is here! Or, well, it's uploaded to the feeds we own now, so listeners can find it much more easily. We're testing out backdating our season one episodes, so stay tuned! Here's the original description:

"In this soft-launch of Solarpunk Presents, the companion podcast to Solarpunk Futures, hosts and Solarpunk Magazine nonfiction editors @arielkroon and @xtinadlr tackle the question of “Must Solarpunk Should”?"

solarpunkpresents.com/2021/06/

Solarpunk PresentsSeason One: Must Solarpunk Should?In this soft-launch of Solarpunk Presents, the companion podcast to Solarpunk Futures, hosts and Solarpunk Magazine nonfiction editors Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha tackle the question of “…

When I was a kid they tried to sell us on the the bullshit that #videogames and #music were the cause of all evil in #America and corrupting everyone, especially #youth, into #psychos and #killers. Funny thing is, I never saw anyone writing #manifestos to Judas Priest or anything, and I sure as shit never saw anyone killing anyone with a fucking video game controller or copy of #Doom on floppy disk. It’s about the #guns and everything physically, mentally, culturally and legally about them.

After successfully migrating to expressional.social, it is time for a (new) #Introduction!
To a large extent, my work is my hobby: I am a linguist who dabbles in both functional #grammar (especially the grammar of informal speech and writing) and #forensiclinguistics. I study the language and genre of #threats and the linguistic and #intertextual links of #FarRightExtremist #manifestos. Also interested in #hatespeech and #AuthorshipAnalysis.
I love good food, my family, friends and my garden ♥️

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@eborbath @politicalscience

Empirically we focus on #Jobbik, as example of a moderating populist right party in #CEE that also faces pressure from the right (#Fidesz).

We map its #communication throughout its lifespan (2006-2019) in two partisan outlets, press releases & Facebook

We argue they strategically differentiate their appeal across various platforms
📢 Hence we should be cautious when inferring party positions from single sources, be that #manifestos, expert surveys or mass-media

Today, is participating in a theory about a “ mind virus” which comes from the antisemitic theory of “cultural marxism” — which was created by “paleoconservative” “4th generation warfare” inventor and his mentor, CNP founder .

They moved to “woke” after several neo-nazi murder used “cultural marxism.”
identitiesjournal.com/blog-col