Born following the unholy union of a duck and a cardboard box, Roberto von Archimboldi entered the world as a broken, diseased disaster. He has been searching for joy ever since. My profile picture is of an apple, the upper third of which is brown because it is rotten, held lightly between thumb and fingers
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Last Notes npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi interesting, thank you. the Spanish government can tell themselves that. My guess is that the harraga are burning. The Government is going to have to bring people to the peninsula, no? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi 40,000 people have made their way into Ceuta in the last few days. That is an extraordinary piece of direct action against borders. We need to find ways of building on that. I'm not sure what solidarity looks like here, but I am open to suggestions #AbolishFrontex, #FreeMovement, #FortressEuope, #Migration, #Ceuta, #Spain npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Someone will know... every now and then I chant 'Il-lay-gal, Il-lay-gal, all my friends are Il-lay-gal'. My friend asked me where it is from. The answer, I think, is song made by people on the move in Greece or the Balkans in 2015 as part of the long summer of migration. It is a rather cheesy song, but now I want to find it and play it for my friend. Does anyone know its title or the artist #AskFedi, #NoBorders, #RefugeesWelcome, #Migration, #AbolishFrontex, #Welcome2Europe npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi There are a lot of things going on here. Perhaps they boil down to the sacred and the mundane. You want, perhaps, elections to be sacrosanct. That means that you at least want only eligible voters to vote. Some people go further and want all and only. You also want each vote counted correctly, so that the final tally is a completely accurate record of the valid ballots. You maybe old enough to remember the hanging chads in Florida. Working out which ballots are valid is a non-trivial task. I get the desire for sanctity. There is also the mundane. You want, in a first past the post system, the candidate returned to be the candidate with the most valid balots cast by the eligible electorate. It does not matter if the actual number is wrong. You could almost certainly do a clever enough sampling of the ballots to get the right result with the same degree of certainty as counting all the ballots. You wouldn't because the sanctity of the election is important. Equally though you wouldn't have three people manually doing each step of the process watched by a jury of 501 because it is overkill. Simillarly you don't ask people to attend the polling station naked, inspect any orifice and ask them to produce 8 pieces of ID. In short the optimum level of fraud, from a practical perspective, is not zero. I understand the wish for a perfect election, but, like a crime free society, it is not possible. What you want is to be generally safe in your interactions with others and to be sure that the right candidate was returned npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I guess that 'passions of the people' is code for 'pesky things that the ruling class don't like'. Equally though any system does need a conservative drag for stability npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I agree about the fascinating insights from knowledgable people. Looking at the 17th Ammendment, it does seem like it makes explicit provision for this temporary appointment. It also at least forced any states not yet electing senators by statewide polls to do so. I could well imagine that that was just tidying up. It would not surprise me if it merely put existing practice on a constitutional footing. I would not be surprised if it was novel either. I know very little of US constitutional history. That states can appoint a senator if the seat becomes vacant remains surprising until you learn that a senator is meant to represent her state and that they were orginally all appointed by state legislatures. I think that Babaramon's point may well still stand. This slight oddity could be a legacy of Art 1 §4 npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. That is really interesting. Is there an argument that the senate was designed as a check on popular democracy? Perhaps it still is in many ways given the cost of running a campaign for election npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I guess that falls under 'states' rights' npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Can someone explain how this works? A senator dies and the governor can just appoint any person she likes to replace her? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/14/darline-graham-nordone-south-carolina-senator Really? Why not just hold an election like any normal democracy? #USPol npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I got mastodoned the other day. It made me smile. I was asking for help setting up grapheneos to minimise Google invasive behaviour. I made a throwaway comment about my first love, lineage. A kindly fellow, enquired why I had switched operating system. I explained that my school was enforcing use of outlook and Microsoft's authenticator. My new friend suggested that I change school. My first thought was that this was a proper fediverse or FOSS baptism. I now think it is a bit deeper. Assuming the suggestion was sincere (and I think it was), I could see why it would be annoying. It is so unhelpful, so supercilious and so not to the point. On the other hand, it is just some guy (probably) with a very narrow focus. There is no hostility, just someone who doesn't know how to express solidarity with others in writing. It was kind, well meant and wrong. It is easy to read the lack of solidarity as a put down, especially if you are of low status in that context, like I am, or low status in lots of contexts like any non-normative person. I do think that we have to try to see beyond the 'merely' linguistic before we judge interactions as put downs or exclusionary. My friend probably thought that the suggestion was friendly, not supercilious at all. He (?) would change school because Microsoft are so terrible. To not speak up is to treat me as a special case. That would have been a real lack of solidarity and not just a failure to read the room. #Fediverse, #Culture npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi interesting and depressing. Having just reread the Golden Notebook, I get the impression that the CPGB was a very depressing place npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi reasonable, but why in particular? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I have this strong sense that most people in this country, the UK, do not, like me, feel thoroughly removed from power. I also feel that my sense of how power functions in this country is correct. I want to know if my first feeling is shared. This is inspired by a chat with a woman from Shanghai. She was jealous that we could vote, but I think that whoever you vote for, the government gets in. It made me think that the struggle for democracy is really the struggle to realise the worse nightmares of Aristotle, ie rule by the poor, multitude or, as I would put it, the oppressed. In the 18th Century we had a very Athenian democracy. The problem with Athenian democracy was that the franchise was very limited. Similiarly in the C18 the franchise was limited to land owners. As the franchise expanded, so did the democratic character of the constitution recede. Now the same small, wealthy ruling class runs an adminstrative state and the multitude are excluded. That multitude includes much of the of the adminstrative class, the middle class. Hollinghurst in his 'line of beauty' really captures this brilliantly, but you see it in Boris Johnson calling his £200,000/year for a monthly column 'chicken feed' or a nobody like Hancock not blinking before naming his daily rate for 'consulting' as £40,000, and, of course, Farage taking £5 million 'gifts'. It is not just that they are obscenely wealthy. It is that this is their world. It seems obvious to me, but then people like Monbiot start arguing that the political class has been captured by this lobby or that lobby. They must think that power is distributed evenly, but unfortunately some people been corrupted. Maybe I am just wrong afterall. #UKPol, #GeorgeMonbiot, #AlanHollinghurst, #Democracy npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi surely, I can say to someone here is a load of cement. You can have it, but I'm not guaranteeing anything about its quality. You use it at your own risk. If I give something away, there is no contract and so no possibility of liablity under the contract npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it also has quite a lot of incest, Noah and one of his suns, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob marries two sister who are also his cousins, Lot and his daughters, possibly some more npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. Can you point me to something that explains how to set that up npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is, but I need MS authenticator. I preferred the grapheneos sandbox to micro G, but this could have been a mistake npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I installed GrapheneOS on my new to me pixel 8a phone. Does anyone want to explain to me how the sandbox for google services works? I tried reading the docs but they were too much for my tiny mind. #AskFedi, #GrapheneOS PS: I feel strangely sad to leave Lineage behind, but this is probably because I don't like the Google Logo with its terrifying friendly lettering that shows up at boot time. I do love what Graphene are doing npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi je trouve que tu as raison d'avoir envie d'éloigner ces idées hyper-individualistes et proche des fachos de nos luttes. ( Je trouve aussi la même chose ici à l'Angleterre dans la lutte anti-Covid. « Tous le monde doit porter une masque », pas « brûlez la système pharmo capitalise qui profite de nos maladie et l'argent publique avec ses brevets, qui exploite la richesse et les peuples des pays qui joue pas du golfe sans aucun retour. Donnez nous des aménagements pour un travail saludable, etc, etc » ). Mais aussi qu'il faut réaliser que la médicine conventionelle est insupportable. C'est à dire que c'est une système colonialiste. On est habitué de voir les grands monuments comme des monuments du sang. Il faut aussi voir les hôpitals et les cabinets de scanners comme ça. Oui on peux brûler des brevets mais ça depend sur la système plus large que des brevets. On peut pas avoir la médicine moderne et high-tech sans une système très organisée et globale. Ça dépend su l'extraction et exploitation des gens. Même si on n'organise pas le monde pour le profit privé, une système tellement complexe a besoin de contrôle centeralisé et ça va faire la même chose. Si on veut contrôle de nos vies, il faut accepter que on peut pas avoir des scanners mri etc. On doit commencer de penser de la santé et la médicine dans un manière anti-colonial. Ça je sais pas comment faire, mais peut-être les gens de yoga sont aussi proche des anarchistes npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Why do I feel more drunk (and am probably more drunk) in hot weather? #AskFedi, #Alcohol, #Drink npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Brighton, where I live, is pretty unique in the UK at least for having a large collection of elm trees. Some of the older ones are truly magnificent trees. There is one such in the centre where a number of routes converge as they flow down to the sea. The council have put a concrete bench in a square around its trunk. Today, like all hot days, weary pedestrians sat on the bench under its shade. They would check their phones, slowly fan themselves or lick an ice cream. In short, they rested. I like to think that most of them were oblivious to the what a rare and magnificent beast the elm was. It somehow adds to its splendour. #Brighton, #ElmTrees, #HeatDome npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi one hundred percent will be playing with them. I think that they need something fairly fast paced, fairly simple but not quickly boring. This ticket to ride may be the one npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi we definitely played it as kids and enjoyed it. I'm trying to remember beyond singing out 'sorry, start by taking a something back' npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi attention span is worth thinking about. They can lose focus with chess, and they play fast, but that is partly because they are still learning. They don't know what to do once they have pushed a few pawns and got their knights out. That is part of it. They enjoy a couple of rounds of Scotland yard, so something that might last half an hour is probably okay npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi there are a lot of games. These all sound very good npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is a sort of ludo right? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi It is also, and perhaps you make this point, deeply hypocritical. You don't get much more mediaeval than a pogrom npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi while I accept that the attack in Golders Green was antisemitic, I think that we need to be careful about seeing any attack on Jews as Jews as antisemitism. You might think that Hamas' attacks in October 23 were antisemitic, but it is not apparent on the surface. The argument would be something like this: the only way you can justify such indiscriminate slaughter is if you think the victims are not worthy of life To think that the victims are not worthy of life is to think that they are not fully human You can think that of the Israelis if you think them Jews and consider Jews subhuman Something like that might well be right. I am convinced that the Israeli destruction of Gaza and Lebanon, going as it does well beyond any plausible military objective, is racist for just that sort of reasoning. But Israel is a Jewish state. However much I might despise it and wish that it had never been and will cease to be, it claims the right to act for me. The bulk of official Jewish organisations worldwide accept its legitimacy. An attack on a synagogue for the liberation of Palestine is outrageous. It should be condemned not just tactically but morally. It will not liberate Palestine. It will not weaken Israel and it will likely kill people who support your cause. It can't be a legitimate target. Whatever you think of terror tactics, that sort of terrorism is unjustifiable. It is like blowing up a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie. Of course we don't know why the guys shot up the Jews on bondi beach or that guy attacked the synagogue in Manchester. They may well have concluded that Jews controlled the world and needed to die. But assuming they did it to 'globalize the intifada', then the antisemitism is not apparent to me npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that sounds like the right approach to me npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi she said it as part of a YouTube essay. She must be well known for me, an old, out of touch man, to have come across it. I see it in myself all the time, including with the YouTuber: you're bright, engaging and pretty ergo I must fancy you. It must be bloody awful. Another terrible failing, whilst I am being confessional, is assuming that women are performing for me, rather than just being themselves in the world npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I think that probably is a common thing. I heard a young woman on the Internet argue that men aren't trained to have intense friendships. When we subsequently experience intense friendship, we immediately read it as sexual and that is what it becomes. This was in the context of My Little Pony fandom and some quite disturbing (male) fan art. I can't remember who said young woman was, but I thought it profound npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi One of the very odd things about the death of Henry Nowak is why the police put him in handcuffs. Criminal Law Act 1967 authorises the cops to use such force as is reasonable and necessary to effect an arrest. That can include cuffs where a suspect is threatening violence or to escape. Nowak was on the ground, stabbed. What are they cuffing him for? Of course the cops do this a lot (and worse, like kicking mentally disturbed people in the head once they are immobilised). It is the police impunity that needs challenging. #HenryNowak, #ACAB, #PoliceImpunity npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi although also, you're telling me that actual velociraptors were turkey sized and had display feathers? Amazing npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Would you go to Jurassic park? You can have a discount code. It is probably a bit pricey at full whack. You do know all about their safety record, but there are actual dinosaurs (not those modern birds that Linneus or some other pedant thinks are the same thing. They are 'I can't believe it's not triceratops' sort of dinosaurs). I would for sure and not just because their computers use Linux. #JurrasicPark, #LifeQuestions, #Hard npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you and seeing as I arguably met the rule, I sent you £5 npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I propose a new mastodon rule: if you make a post about AI, you have to give at least £5 to someone in Gaza npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi you make programming sound thrillingly risky npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi does that mean that it is just a matter of style as much as anything and different people finding different things intuitive or infuriating? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Why are there so many different programming languages? Don't they all do the same thing in the end? #AskFedi, #Confused npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi 'ants a bit annoying'. This is heresy. We might need to block the whole freeradical server if they let this post stay up npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is a niche fedi response, but one I heartily endorse. I fear the wider 'verse may take issue that the lawn is not a wild flower meadow and haven for bees, but that should not stop you npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi عيد مبارك Happy Eid Today is a very good day to help out someone in need in Gaza. It is also a good day to repair some old clothes or some old electronics. It is an excellent day to tend a garden or go for a walk. I also recommend barbecuing the rich. I think that just about covers all of the fediverse's favourite things. https://gaza-verified.org/ #Gaza, #Palestine, #Fediverse, #RightToRepair, #BarbecueTheRich, #EidMubarak, #عيدمبارك npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I understand you better now. A rule like the former would have the effect of reducing the rental value, and thus the price, of the station. A win-win npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi You are probably right, although loading your assets with debt seems a common strategy for the investment funds that buy this sort of infastructure npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Very probably true. The station owners themselves are probably heavily mortgaged to some 'unregulatable' bank npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I was travelling from Cambridge to Brighton yesterday. It was hot. I bought two sugary drinks at Kings Cross. Nothing posh, we used to call it pop. It cost £6 something. It's sugar water and colour. The price has nothing to do with the strait of Homuz, Ukraine or any other geo-political nonsense. It's rent and corporate greed. They are the same probably. £6 for two bottles of pop? It's half an hour at minimum wage. #CorporateGreed, #Inflation, #TheyAreABunchOfLyingBastards npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I keep thinking about voting. More accurately I keep thinking about throwing your lot behind mainstream political parties. I make the clarification because your vote is statistically meaningless. Nothing much follows from that about whether you should go to the polling station. It does, however, show that the debate around voting is really about whether we should be supporting mainstream political parties. What we are really doing is arguing about whether we should join a movement to support the election of some party or other. There are two reasons to advocate for joining that movement. The boring one is that you are aligned with their goals. The hard case is when you see their goals as abhorrent, dangerous or just not in your interests but that some alternative is worse. The Emma Goldman approach (voting changes nothing) is not some bizarre objection to majoritarian decision making. It is opposition to a popular front against the worse alternative (fascism). She is counselling against the oppressed (the working class) going into coalition with the liberal party of the oppressors (capital). She is insisting that the oppressed have an independent politics that can only be realised through the autonomous organisation of the oppressed. To go into coalition with the liberals is to be subsumed by them. You will serve their ends, but they will scab on you. Goldman has been right so far. The history of any successful anti-colonial nationalist movement or the crushing, with the collusion of the USSR, of the communist partisans after the second world war, or the Populist Party of her own day will serve as examples. Goldman, however, was part of a genuinely international revolutionary movement of the oppressed. There is no such movement today. Where she could reasonably hope for the overthrow of capitalism in the US and worldwide, we cannot. What I think that we need to take from that is the need to build an autonomous movement of the oppressed. That movement might well counsel voting for the liberal oppressors as better than the alternative. It should never campaign under their banner or enter into alliance with them. If that is right, the rush to the Green party in this country is a mistake. Although having said that, politics is in flux and it is not impossible to imagine wresting control of what was a small party from the liberals. #Pol, #Voting, #Elections, #Strategy npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi my own view is that the destruction of industry means that Labour has lost its base, the organised, industrial working class. Austerity means that the Tories have lost theirs, the university educated, home owning management class. Instead we have people owning low rental value homes in former industrial areas who are pining for a return to the empire as a way of ending neo-liberalism. They are voting reform. We also have the precariat renting or owning with vast quantities of debt high rental value homes in urban areas. They are pining for a return to the EU and its pan-European imperial project as a way of ending neo-liberalism. They are voting Green. Even if the motivations I give are wrong, the crucial factor is the destruction of the traditional bases. Neither the Tories nor Labour have a natural constituency any longer. There is no revolutionary movement and so individuals are flailing around for somewhere to go npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I was going to try the liver one tonight. Fish here is very expensive and a bit out of my budget npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi no apologies are necessary. I cannot write anything without typos and other errors. It is the joy of the internet npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi why do you call it chicken grilled fish? it is also interesting that in both your recipes you give much longer cooking times than I would use. I wonder if that is because your ingredients have stronger flavours. The mass produced stuff that you get in Northern Europe can be pretty tasteless. It is bred for fast growth, colour and ease of transport and storage. It is then grown in dead soil with the aid of fertilizers. Cows and chickens have a monotonous diet and are slaughtered young. I know nothing about food production in Gaza either pre or post the destruction though npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I see. I didn't realise that you are involved, respect. Can you add an RSS feed? Mastodon loves RSS more than anything else npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I couldn't even work out how to donate through the page. It is in Anghamel's bio here, so that was enough for me npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I love this idea, though I couldn't work out how to exchange money for a recipe. It is awful to have to ask for help, but it is more shameful to fail to respond. I am ashamed to be part of the groups responsible for your suffering npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi or they just want us to learn regex npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is all so mysterious. These computer people make it seem so easy, but then... npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Can we all agree that the fediverse has enough content explaining why LLMs are bad? On a more serious note, I was filtering out anything containing 'AI' and this dramatically improved my feed. It also removed any post containing those two letters. This filtered out quite a lot of interesting stuff. It is particularly bad for French language content because writing 'j'ai...' is pretty common. How do I filter for 'AI' as a standalone word? #feditips, #filters, #helpneeded npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is, for better or worse, a long standing principle of the criminal justice system here that sentencing is for the judges. The jury is there to decide guilt. They are always barred from knowing the likely tariff. The thought being that they will overstep their function as the tribunal of fact. The deeper problem is the creation of a permanent state of exception through the various terrorism statutes. To declare something or someone terrorist is to put them outside of the normal protections of the law. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Here is my UK election hot take: The people who vote Reform are small business owners and home owners in post-industrial parts of the country. That is owners of property with competitively low rental value. They are being shafted by the UK being an offshore money laundering centre and service centre for US capital. The people who vote Green are the precariate, small time traders, and members of the repressed priestly caste (academics, researchers, charity workers, doctors, social workers). They are renting or heavily in debt to own property with a high rental value. They are being shafted by the UK being an offshore money laundering centre and service centre for US capital. The Reform voters are pinning after an imagined empire. The vision sold is of Britain being top dog, exploiting all those foreigners for their wages and resources. The Green voters are pinning after another imagined empire, although theirs has more potential, that of the EU. That pan-European empire also exploits non-Europeans for their resources and labour. It is less explicit about it, wrapped up as it is in talk of rights and the rule of law. Neither party will deal with the fundamental problem which is that empire has never benefited the masses. Empire has always been a tool of capitalism. Capitalism is not just a mode of economic organisation. It is a political project. It maintains that power should flow from the ownership of capital. Empire benefits a tiny ruling class. The small time owner has no stake in that power. Big capital destroyed the political power of the state from the late 70s onwards to prevent the transfer of power to the masses so that they could maintain their dominance. Austerity is just structural adjustment brought home. Any project for change needs to be internationalist and democratic. The Greens, as the political wing of the anti genocide movement, might yet get there, but I doubt it. #ReformUK, #GreenParty, #UKPol, #LocalElections npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I can think of nothing more thrilling :) npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi the best resources for you are https://www.asaproject.org/ and Right to Remain: https://righttoremain.org.uk/toolkit/ In short, if you arrive on the beach you will be put in a hostel, if you are lucky you get a room to yourself. if you are unlucky, you will be sharing. If you are really unlucky, you will be in a camp. You get meals but that is it. This is section 98 support. You should be signed up with a GP by Migrant Help. Children have a right to school. Charities might visit and sort out some clothes, shoes and a SIM card. Care for Calais do that a lot. After 5/6 weeks, you will probably be in the same place but you will get £9.95/week for essentials. You might get relocated anywhere in the country into a shared house. You might have to share a room. You will then get £49.95/week. That is section 95. You are not allowed to work. You do have a right to legal aid, but you have to find the lawyer. There are very few people doing legal aid work npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I guess that it is pleasant to blame the Jews for the racism and imperialism of the US and UK establishments, but I am sorry to tell you that they were at it long before Israel existed and will be at long after that evil regime has collapsed. I will acknowledge that Netanyahu and the Israeli establishment are expert at leveraging their position in the US imperial project to further their own genocidal goals. It is a far cry from them using the imperial hegemon as a puppet npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi So there are many terrible things about Sir Keir Starmer. His complete disregard for the meaning of what he says is one. Here is a snippet from his forward to 'Restoring Control' the immigration white paper: 'It is a wound, as I said on my first day as Prime Minister, that can only be healed by action not words. This White Paper is just that.' My friend, it is 80 pages of policy proposal. It is literally words. #KeirStarmer, #Knobhead, #UKPol npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi your kindness, grace and DIY approach to server management are all inspirations to me. I am sure that those skills would be appreciated by some groups local to you npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I think that I am getting something wrong and maybe being unfair, but I don't quite see why all you coders are so upset about LLMs in code and then I am slightly suspicious that the real objection is being hidden. The objection seems to break down into 3 distinct complaints: 1. The tech doesn't work 2. It is doing people out of job 3. It is bad environmentally and exploitative 1 may well be true, but is a shallow objection in the sense that if and when it turns out to be false, you should adopt vibe coding. If true, it is a good reason to avoid automatically generated code. It makes more work and projects worse. It can't explain the hostility. It can't ground that avoidance as a principle. It just a heuristic. 2. Is a bit rich coming from coders. Computers are ubiquitous because they do people out of a job. They were adopted at scale precisely because they reduced the need for human labour. Don't forget that in the 1960s a calculator was a job. 3. Is very true. It is awful. It is also true of clothes, food and the hardware it runs on. It must basically be true of every product we use. Veggies are grown by exploited migrant labour. Clothes are made in sweatshops in Bangladesh. The minerals and metals used to make the machines are mined in hellish conditions. I get not wanting to have one more thing that destroys life on earth and exploits racialized people because, hey, racism. But you need to take more radical action than raging against the slop machines. It requires concerted, independent, international working class organisation and action, not a boycott of one particular product. You really should take the organisation seriously. It is the only way we have a future on this planet. Here is where I get uncharitable. I once read an interview with the less charismatic of the two programmers who wrote Elite (Ian Bell I think). He was complaining that no one had to write machine code anymore. It wasn't real programming to use libraries and abstractions and things I don't understand. I could imagine that Von Neumann thought that assembly language was cheating. You should just set the switches. It feels like the objection is that it is no fun just having to think about the architecture of your code at the highest level, describe the problem you want solved and get the machine to solve it. If so, that is not a deep objection. Coding has changed and you will have to learn new skills that may be less interesting to you. #LLMs, #VibeCoding npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi sorry, I don't understand what you are saying here npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi They both had blue periods npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I hope that you are right. You probably are. We should note though that outside of a very few places, the sort of medicine that keeps me alive does not exist at the moment. I have full respect for a politics that says that it should. Humans are good at looking after each other. There are skeletons of people with congenital disabilities who lived to an old age from the stone age. In addition technology does not require industrialisation. We see amazing tech from every continent long before capitalism got its boots on. I do think that capitalism is a prerequisite of the sort of high tech medicine that we are discussing. I also think that capitalism is unredeemable and inherently racist. Capitalism is the combination of two theories. Firstly that nothing has value, merely price. This is the transformation of things into capital. Anything and everything is a fungible input into production or output for consumption. I think that the insight of double entry accounting is that everything is both. The second thesis is that the world should be run by and for the owners of capital. That is, by those who control the means of production. Things are not capital. 10 carrots are not equivalent to a cheap paperback, though they may cost the same. More importantly, your land is not equivalent to the value of the iron deposit underneath it. However, by insisting on viewing the world in those terms, capitalism does lay the conditions for the creation of material abundance. We are seeing the effects of over production. Marx thought that the problem was the second thesis, not the first. Maybe you do too. Sometimes I think that Marx was right. He thought that if the working class controlled the means of production, if they owned it collectively, they could plan production properly so that we produced what we needed for a good life for ourselves. The reason that I usually think that Marx was wrong is that things are not capital. They are things. Land especially is the space of our lives. It is not something that can be exchanged because it is more efficient to pull the iron out than to grow crops or sunbathe on it or have meetings and so on. It is here that capitalism and colonialism come together. Capitalism requires turning the space of our lives and our capacities to work and to care into inputs into production. Before the British colonialised most of the world they kicked the poor off the land and enclosed the commons. British capital having run out of places to invest at home (read: dispossess) went abroad and repeated the process. At its heart capitalism is about bringing more and more people into the world markets, that is to say subjecting everything and everyone to logic. It will have to create a group who has not to produce for those who have. The problem is that is the logic of turning everything into capital that allows for the extraordinary technological acheivements of industrial society. The Marxists found that having control of the means of production still required a massive dehumanising bureaucracy. I think that is because freedom requires seeing each other and our world as valuable and non-fungible. Once you do that, you cannot ask me to give up my home, my sunbathing spot, my time for your high speed train. It is not primitivism. We know that pre-colonial, including European societies, were technologically, artistically, spiritually, politically, and philosophically rich. They were not utopias, but they show the extraordinary range of ways that we could organise our lives. They cared much more deeply for disabled people than we do, but there were many things that they could not do. My hope is that we can find ways of doing things that are better. I think that being able to work with others to create and to do, ie to be free, is better than a world where a privileged few have access to MRIs. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. I did not know that version (take might be better). What a version. I'm going to go down a rabbit hole npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I feel like there is a lot of confusion over the decision to seek re-trial in the Filton case. A number of different charges were tried together. Aggravated Burglary, Violent Disorder, GBH with intent, and Criminal Damage. Only one defendants was charged with GBH. It is normal to try multiple defendants together on multiple charges. The test is: do the charges arise from the same incident or form a course of conduct? You might still split the indictment if some of the charges would cause prejudice or embarrassment. The default is to join the charges. The jury are then asked to come to separate verdicts against each of the defendants on each of the charges. Essentially you hold separate trials but at the same time because it is convenient and less stressful for victims and witnesses. It also reduces the chances of inconsistent verdicts. Everybody was acquitted of Aggravated Burglary and three of the six were acquitted of Violent Disorder. There is no retrial of those charges. The acquittal is absolute. Yay I can't say that I am surprised about the aggravated burglary acquittals. It was an ambitious charge. The prosecution would have had to show that the activists entered with the intention of using their hammers against people. Given that to the jury they are going to seem like brave, moral citizens committed to preventing genocide, it is hard to see how the prosecution could ever make a jury sure of that charge. Without seeing the evidence the violent disorder acquittals are more surprising, but they would have argued that any violence that would have put a reasonable person of firm disposition in fear of her safety (the test) was done in self defense. That seems like it might be a plausible account of what went down. The jury couldn't reach a verdict with respect to three of the violent disorder charges or the criminal damage or the one charge of GBH. The CPS will retry those charges. This is normal. Generally where the jury can't reach a verdict, the Crown has another go. The trial will only be of the GBH, violent disorder against three of the six and criminal damage. If the jury cannot come to a verdict again, normally the state gives up and does not seek a retrial. There was no defense to the criminal damage charges, so the jury has been perverse there. Go jury. The TL;DR is that the jury was not obviously perverse on the majority of the charges. The acquittals are absolute. The state is not being malicious in seeking a retrial. The state should stop selling weapons to Israel. The state is evil but the prosecution decisions are normal. #Filton24, #PalestineAction, #LawFedi, #JuryTrial npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi The Jollof Cafe present Refugee Valentine at the Rose Hill in Brighton. It is on 14th February. Come celebrate a love that crosses borders. https://therosehill.co.uk/event/refugee-valentine/ #Brighton, #Events, #ValentinesDay, #Refugees, #Community https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/996/023/239/981/890/original/53d935d340172a60.jpg npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Calling all Brighton people with a soul. Thousand 4 1000, a community housing project for forced migrants, has an event on 21st February. Poetry, prose, food and music. https://www.thousand4thousand.org.uk/events/ #Brighton, #Events, #Refugees, #Migration, #Homes https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/996/004/838/394/029/original/9f934d3f72141387.jpg npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Is there a sensible application, ideally integrated with nextcloud, that will allow electronic authorisation? I would like to do two things for our charity: 1. Create a digital authorisation for storing and processing data for GDPR purposes 2. Create a digital authorisation to act on someone's behalf (a form of authority) #HelpNeeded, #FOSS, #Nextcloud, #GDPR npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi now they are some seriously SMART objectives npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi signal does allow you to hide your number, though obviously not your Signal username. If you switched to that, you would at least limit the contact into available. Maybe it does not go far enough npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am genuinely laughing out loud npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I love it. Joking aside, I think that they forgot that he had a politics. In their heads he was a poor, oppressed human rights defender. They were shocked to discover that, despite not being white, he had views about power and who should have it npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I see that the hard right have decided to be upset that Egyptian revolutionary Alla Abd El-Fatteh once tweeted that we should kill all cops and Zionists. I do think that something strange has happened to mainstream discourse. They are really scared of dissent. Nobody thinks that these tweets are a problem. Everybody, or almost everybody, thinks that lethal violence (killing) is justified in some circumstances, against some agents. The British government flies reconnaissance flights over Gaza to support Israel in their war against Hamas (in reality to facilitate their complete destruction of Gaza). They think that in the circumstances people must be killed. It is not a radical position. The difference between Badenoch and El-Fatteh is who they want dead. (I would be very surprised if Kemi opposed the US killings in Nigeria). This faux outrage serves only one purpose. It is to crush dissent. The Palestine solidarity movement with its call to globalise the intifada terrifies those in power. They know that there is a growing anti-colonialist movement that has serious revolutionary potential and they are scared. It must be deligitimised. #AlaaAbdElFatah, #UKPol npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I also thought that this article, though not easy to follow, was very powerful: https://freesudangazette.com/2025/12/17/from-revolution-to-ngo-business/ npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi now that is a feast. I know that it wasn't Christmas, but I hope that your Christmas was as good npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi good news npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi you are too kind npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi wow thank you. It was my reflection on a conflict that never got resolved at a social centre I was involved in npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I don't know very much about the bad space. I will say this: the Jews who are complaining that comparing Israel to Nazis is antisemitic believe it. They may even be right. I am a Jew who used to think that. Binyamin Netanyahu is in terrible faith, but that doesn't mean everything he says is wrong or that anyone who thinks what he says is just trying to cow others into submission. It is also obvious that people should be able to say that Israel is a Nazi state or that Zionism is racism or that the IDF is like the Nazis. 1. They might be right. 2. even if they are wrong and it is antisemitic, they are not trying to eliminate the Jews. They are just wrong and need to do some political work. This makes me think that TBS genuinely believed that Nina, Rich, Kolektiva are racist but they wrong to think that means that they must be driven off the fediverse. Rich is right though. We don't know how to deal with abuse. I just think that our current 'strategy' is counterproductive. It is a vector for abuse and it destroys things that are good. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is very true. I also find that in the spaces I move in we politicise the behaviour. Instead of saying, 'you are an arsehole and a bully' we say, 'you are racist and transphobic'. They probably are but this is not why we are so upset with them. It becomes a weird political fight instead of a straightforward conversation about the actual problem. The latter is much harder for the arsehole to wriggle out of npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi makes sense. Still, I want to go shop(lift)ing in London Drugs npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Wait, there is brand called 'London Drugs' in Toronto? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I agree on the last point. I agree that people get tired of shouting at each other. I think that is a political failure and enables abuse. I also think that we should be slow to judge that someone is in bad faith. To prevent our charity in interpretation being abused, we need to be prepared to shout back. This does not of course deal with the problem of abusers in our spaces. I have no idea whether the bad space people were on a power trip or trying to make the world a better place. They were certainly misguided. There is nothing safe about a world full of cops, even if you are a cop. You can of course create your own private space run on your own private terms, but don't mistake that for the public sphere. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I agree that we do not have good ways of dealing with abuse and abusers. I also think that we need to be much more into shouting at each and much less into treating disagreement as a reason to drive people out. The Bad Space thing is a good example. I'm sure they genuinely thought that Nina and others were racist. They should have been taken seriously, but even if they were right, Nina should not have been ostracised. On this assumption, she is just wrong. They had a political disagreement. She wasn't and isn't a threat to anyone. She doesn't want black people dead, enslaved or out of society. if you take that view, bad faith actors can't manipulate what is in the end political disagreement to take power. Even if they are not in bad faith, it is a still a problem. You end up requiring an arbitrator and then cops to enforce their decisions. In other words, you need a hierarchy. Policing speech is inherently conservative. It is seen in the way that mastodon.social excludes Palestinians because some Jews genuinely think that they are being antisemitic and the moderators are sympathetic. They are also enforcing their rules. The rules are bad. They require top down power. We should work to get rid of those dynamics by going back to shouting at each other. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is awful. That is so unjust npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi From a 'realist' foreign policy perspective why are European states so keen to get behind the US? The current US regime is determined to extract ever higher tribute from its European vassal states. They want the EU to fund their war against Russia. (This is not to say that people in Ukraine don't have their own reasons for resisting the invasion, but those don't motivate the powers that be in Washington). The European powers don't have political or moral aversion to authoritarian war mongers. They are happy to work with Israel and the gulf states. They will get behind a US invasion of Venezuela. So why line up behind the US? Why not make deals with Russia and China? They would have more power in that alliance. Is that so much European capital is actually US capital that the US could bankrupt Europe if they moved out of line or is it just good old fashioned racism? In end is it a commitment to white supremacy? #EUPol, #Questions, #Politics, #ForeignPolicy npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi You are not so late. I have been trying to get my head round the documentation. I am not sure that I can install this stuff. Thank you. It does look like fresh has the best features npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I certainly don't envy you having to navigate that minefield npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. I hope that liberation comes soon npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi you too. May it be full of joy npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi this is mind blowingly stupid and depressing. To think that the US academy used to laugh at Soviet biology because ideology drove what theories were accepted npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi this is probably the simplest npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. I will try npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it looks like FreshRss it is. Thank you npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. I will investigate. I am a bit scarred by my ongoing struggles with nextcloud and php, but I should not let that deter me