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My back! Sacre bleu!

Found through Spillstorie.

It will be available on https://psytronik.bigcartel.com/, the coming soon entries already up in the catalogue.

Also going by the description of this edition specifically, it sounds as if users will be able to buy just the digital contents, instead of having to get a physical edition for those.

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There is a line in the email/blogpost that Framework posted announcing their Next Gen event.

No matter how inevitable the AI-takes-all scenario may sound, as long as there is a person in the world who still wants to own their means of computation, we will be here to build the hardware that enables it.

I know that to a degree there is only so much Framework can do, but with all the dystopia that has been creeping into our lives I found this really comforting. It's rare for a company to take such a strong stance and so it really stood out to me.

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An upgraded comment meme from DS9 s4e10 "Our Man Bashir"

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“Well, yes, that is the downside, Fluffy. … Once we kill her, the pampering will end.”

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Detroit, MI – On Sunday, April 5, around 100 people joined Detroit Anti-War Committee at the Spirit of Detroit statue to begin weekly protests against Trump’s war on Iran. Daanyal Syed, speaking on behalf of the committee, explained why the organization began these protests, saying that while the U.S. and Israel continue to ramp up their violence, “we must ramp up our opposition.”

These protests began in collaboration with U.S. Palestinian Community Network, CodePink-Detroit, Engineers Against Apartheid, Wayne State Students for a Democratic Society, Love & Liberation, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

The organizers chose to begin the protests on Easter Sunday, partially in response to Israel’s recent death penalty law that targets heroes of the Palestinian liberation movement, such as Marwan Barghouti and Dr. Abu Safiya. However, the protest also highlighted the U.S. and Israel’s terror on the region as a whole, protesting the Zionist state’s continuous attacks on Lebanon and the threats from Trump to bomb Iran “into the Stone Age.”

People rallied with Iran flags, and many came with signs highlighting all three issues, some holding signs of Palestinian prisoners, others holding signs demanding an end to the attacks on their families in Lebanon, and more.

After the rally, the crowd marched through Campus Martius, chanting, “Money for Detroit, not for war!” Upon returning to the Spirit of Detroit, people continued to hold space despite the march being over. Several people came up to the organizers and promised to come back the following week.

While Iran and the U.S. came to a ceasefire agreement as of April 7, the Detroit Anti-War Committee plans to continue its weekly protests.

Protesters demanded an end to the U.S. and Israel’s terror on the region, from occupied Palestine to Lebanon to Iran. The committee remains steadfast to the demand that Trump and his allies cease all hostilities on Iran and honor Iran’s 10-point ceasefire plan.

#DetroitMI #MI #AntiWarMovement #Iran

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Over 9 million voters have been removed from the voter roll in West Bengal after a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) to its electoral list was conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI), days before the state legislative assembly elections.

The names removed constitute a 12% reduction in the state’s total electorates of over 76.6 million, with a potential to affect results in the majority of the constituencies, allegedly favoring ultra-right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) running the union government in Delhi.

The state legislative elections are scheduled to be held in two phases on April 23 and April 29.

All major opposition parties, including the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which has been ruling the state since 2011, and the Left Front, a broader coalition of the left and progressive parties, have accused the ECI of indulging in electoral manipulation to help the Hindu-supremacist BJP to win the elections.

Opposition parties and independent experts have claimed that the mass exclusion of the voters is based on a fraudulent, selective process that defies people’s constitutional right to vote.

Most of those who have lost their right to vote belong to the minority Muslim community or the socially deprived and poorer sections of society, conventionally opposed to the BJP’s core political line in the state.

West Bengal, with a population of nearly 100 million, is a crucial state given its location bordering Bangladesh and its large Muslim population (around 27% of the state’s total population).

Because of the lack of support among minorities and socially-deprived communities, now heavily disenfranchised, the BJP has so far failed to win any election in the state, despite emerging as a major political force there in the last decade.

Reacting to the development, Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary M A Baby wrote a letter to India’s Chief Election Commissioner on Thursday, underlining how the SIR in Bengal was an “exclusionary exercise” which has disproportionately impacted the “marginalized communities, particularly Muslims, women and economically vulnerable sections.”

The “large scale denial [of the right to vote], particularly of the marginalized sections, constitutes a serious assault on the precepts of the constitution itself,” Baby said.

Attack on minorities and socially-deprived population

The SIR measure is claimed to be a periodic revision of voter lists done by the ECI in order to address any discrepancies. However, experts dispute its legality, with a case pending in the country’s top court over the issue.

The latest round of SIR, initiated late last year in various states, has also invited strong objections and popular protests.

The opposition has questioned the hurried manner in which the process was done this time around, with deliberate and unprecedented requirements of documentary proof of citizenship placed for voter registration.

The ECI has also allegedly refused to pay any attention to the socio-economic conditions of the people while listing the documents as required and removing the names who fail to produce them, as most of the voters disenfranchised have been poor, illiterate, or migrants living away from their electoral constituencies.

After the first round of SIR in West Bengal was completed in February, 6.3 million voters were removed. An additional 6 million voters were put under “adjudication” pending final revision.

In the final list released on April 7, nearly half of these voters, over 2.7 million, were additionally deleted from the electoral list, taking the total number of deletions to over 9 million.

A large number of the state’s population belongs to minority Muslims and socially deprived sections, such as Matuas and Rajbanshis. Most of these communities are also poor and work as migrant workers.

Due to their social and economic conditions, it is often very difficult for them to obtain the legal documents on time necessary to establish their citizenship.

Independent analysis of the deletions reveal a clear pattern of targeting voters from Muslim and socially-deprived communities, mostly from districts such as Murshidabad, North 24 Pargana and Malda, with their high concentration of Muslims.

Most of these people who were deleted from the electoral list now have no time to appeal against the deletion and will fail to vote in this month’s elections because the 60 days given for adjudication expired on Thursday.

Neutrality of the ECI in question

The failures of the ECI to pay attention to the objections raised by the people has caused strong popular resentment and raised doubts over its neutrality.

There are 294 seats in the state assembly and whichever party wins more than half of the seats will be able to form the government. In the outgoing legislature, the BJP has 77 seats while TMC has over 215 seats.

It is speculated that the BJP may win a high number of seats in the districts of Murshidabad, North 24 Pargana, and Malda, due to the exclusion of voters from minority and socially-deprived sections, which may help it win the state elections this time.

The ruling TMC and other parties have raised the issue and had appealed for a stay on the process before the state legislative elections. However, India’s Supreme Court, on April 6, refused to stay the process.

TMC leader and chief minister Mamata Banerjee has reiterated the accusation that the ECI is manipulating the electoral rolls on the basis of social and sectarian bias to help the BJP win the elections.

The left parties, which ruled the state for over three decades until 2011 and were now looking for revival in these elections, have also maintained that the ECI has carried out a dubious SIR.

CPI (M) state secretary and the leader of the Left Democratic Front (LDF), Mohammed Salim, had expressed deep concern over the fact that the state’s administrative resources have been turned into a weapon [by the BJP] “to selectively victimize religious minorities, the economically disadvantaged, migrant workers and even party activists,” just to win elections.

Read more: 300 million on the streets in a historic national strike in India

Most other opposition parties have also accused the ruling BJP of using the ECI to manipulate the voter list, targeting their voters.

Indirect implementation of the NRC

The Left has also accused the ECI of implementing the BJP’s dubious agenda of the National Register of Citizenship (NRC), under the guise of the SIR.

The BJP has always maintained, without any substantial proof, that most Muslims and people from socially-deprived communities are “illegal migrants” from Bangladesh and has demanded the NRC identify and deport them.

Its union government amended India’s citizenship laws in 2019 with similar intent. However, due to months-long nationwide protests at the time it was forced to abandon the idea.

The opposition parties have claimed that in a country like India, where a large number of the population is still illiterate and lives in rural areas, the implementation of a process such as the NRC can create chaos and public harassment, apart from being discriminatory.

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Als ich in der ersten Klasse war, wollte ich Mitschüler:innen tätowieren für Geld. Ich hätte kleine Sachen auf die Arme gemalt für 10 Cent pro Tattoo. Ein Mitschüler, der eine Stufe über mir war, meinte, wenn der Tattoo-Stand dann zu ist, brauche ich unbedingt ein Schild, auf dem "Klosett" steht. Daher obiges MeiMei :)

Switch carts are back on the menu 🤷‍♀️

I'd say that's a good moment to take a breath and check whether this applies before proceeding.

(This obviously doesn't apply for celebrities.)

The campaign to change the rules was years in the making, orchestrated in part by two men with close ties to US health secretary RFK Jr

When a federal judge in Mississippi ordered a sweeping rollback of the state’s strict school vaccine rules in 2023, the ruling hit some doctors like “a gut punch”.

Mississippi had for years achieved some of the highest vaccination rates in the US for children – a point of pride in a place that consistently ranks at the bottom of other health measures.

The state health director warned of the dire possible consequences, including a comeback of preventable illnesses like measles, diphtheria and pertussis – known as whooping cough.

“None of these diseases are gone,” Dr Daniel Edney told a talk radio host as the state implemented the newly ordered rules. “They’ve not been eradicated. They’re just waiting. They’re lurking.”

A patient with three different autoimmune diseases has entered complete remission after undergoing an experimental treatment that effectively reset her immune system.

There is the heaven realm of the Brahmā worlds. In the "Kevaṭṭa Sutta", a monk goes through increasingly higher heaven realms until he meets Brahmā:

'I, monk, am Brahmā, the Great Brahmā, the Conqueror, the Unconquered, the All-Seeing, All-Powerful, the Sovereign Lord, the Maker, Creator, Chief, Appointer, and Ruler, Father of All That Have Been and Shall Be.’

Brahmā, however, didn't know how to answer the question the monk brought to him, and couldn't admit this in front of his followers, on the basis of upkeeping the view that he is "All-Seeing, All-powerful", & so forth. Instead, Brahmā recommended the monk return to the Buddha, who was able to answer the question.

Soon after the Buddha's full enlightenment, it was Brahmā Sahampati who urged the Buddha to lead others to enlightenment; the Buddha otherwise was going to remain silent about it (see "Brahmayācanakathā"). Brahmā Sahampati later even bows to the Buddha. The Buddha is presenting a more worthy & permanent release from suffering than Brahmā's heaven realm; beings born into this heaven realm generally are still subject to eventual death & rebirth into lower realms (see "Brahma-nimantanika Sutta"). There is also Māra, who is generally viewed as the main antagonist to the Buddha - e.g., with the epithet "Evil One". In the "Brahma-nimantanika Sutta", it's shown that Brahmā's heaven realm is under the control of Māra, who is able to possess Brahmā's followers. The Buddha said:

‘I know you, Evil One. Don’t assume, “He doesn’t know me.” You are Māra, Evil One. And Brahmā, and Brahmā’s assembly, and the attendants of Brahmā’s assembly have all come into your hands. They have all come under your sway.

Māra though is also a deity in the Paranimmitavasavattī heaven - a heaven of deities with power over others' creations. In the Vimalakīrti Sūtra, it is revealed that Māra is actually enlightened himself, leading other beings to enlightenment - a bodhisattva.

[T]he māras who play the devil in the innumerable universes of the ten directions are all bodhisattvas dwelling in the inconceivable liberation, who are playing the devil in order to develop living beings through their skill in liberative art.

I believe that Satan/Lucifer in Abrahamic religions is Māra, who is a higher power than God, though both are attempting to develop beings and spare them from suffering.

Note the Buddha also presents himself as omniscient & omnipotent. Though, this too is a fabrication that parallels Brahmā's. In the "Pañcavaggiyakathā" - again shortly after the Buddha's full enlightenment - the Buddha has an ignorance that a deity (the word 'deva' or 'devatā' is used in Buddhism) needs to correct him of:

Then the thought occurred to the Blessed One, “To whom should I teach the Dhamma first? Who will quickly understand this Dhamma?”

Then the thought occurred to him, “This Āḷāra Kālāma is wise, competent, intelligent. He has long had little dust in his eyes. What if I were to teach him the Dhamma first? He will quickly understand this Dhamma.”

Then an invisible devatā informed the Blessed One, “Lord, Āḷāra Kālāma died seven days ago.”

And knowledge & vision arose within him: “Āḷāra Kālāma died seven days ago.”

The thought occurred to him, “A great loss has Āḷāra Kālāma suffered. If he had heard this Dhamma, he would have quickly understood it.”

Then the thought occurred to the Blessed One, “To whom should I teach the Dhamma first? Who will quickly understand this Dhamma?”

Both the Buddha & God aren't all-knowing & all-powerful. Though, I do recommend either to take refuge under. I prayed to the Buddha, the Medicine Buddha, God, & Māra for support in sharing this; am an anāgāmi & bodhisattva myself.

May all beings swiftly obtain perfect enlightenment.

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