glenneegee @glenneegee@mastodon.online

This betwixt/between posture left Yugoslavia cut off from both Hollywood movies and Soviet cinema: naturally, they turned to the Mexican film industry.

The 1950s and 60s were the Yu-Mex moment, when the nation thrilled to imported Mexican movies that glorified the Mexican revolution. On Global Voices, Filip Stojanovski tells the story of a quarter century of Yugoslavian Mexican music.

https://globalvoices.org/2021/01/14/remembering-the-mexican-parody-songs-of-the-former-yugoslavia/

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You are defined by your actions and not by the labels that you or others place upon you.

Don't expect worldly people to believe anything you say about yourself, because they know that if you are like most people you have yet to even discover your true self.

It is not what you call yourself that matters but how you actually live your life.

Pelosi impeachments are like a limp dick a lot of pushing with no penetration.

We saw the atrocities during the holocaust and say never again.

Yet as you read this the Uyghurs in China are being rounded up in "re-education" camps. There language banned and kids taken from them.

They are forced sterilizations and abortions. yet we turn a blind eye.

#humanrights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alMhCPjsxlE

Q&A: Racism and Democracy Expert Eric Ward on Political Violence in Oregon and DC, and What Comes Next https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2021/01/12/31347428/qanda-racism-and-democracy-expert-eric-ward-on-political-violence-in-oregon-and-dc-and-what-comes-next

This Saturday, January 16th theanarchistlibrary.org will be down for planned maintenance. Be back soon after. 📚

Reps. Ruben Gallego and Sara Jacobs have written to the acting SecDef to no only investigate and prosecute active duty military members involved with last week's attempted coup, but also to re-activate any eligible retirees found to be involved long enough to charge them under the UCMJ and strip them of their https://twitter.com/RepRubenGallego/status/1348449007492763649entitlements.

They'd also like him to stop downplaying the events as a "first amendment protest".

https://twitter.com/RepRubenGallego/status/1348449007492763649

One of the great ironies of the "stop the steal" conspiratorial fraud and its focus on Dominion's voting machines is that voting machines are, in fact, flaming garbage.

For decades - since Bush v Gore and before - security researchers have been ringing the alarm about voting machine security and the terrible, bullying, incompetent, indifferent companies that make them.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/bmd-insecure.pdf

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This week on my podcast: part 27 of my serialized reading of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," my 2006 novel that Gene Wolfe called "a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read." It's my last podcast of 2020!

https://craphound.com/news/2021/01/11/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-27/

You can catch up on the other installments here:

https://craphound.com/podcast/?s=%22someone%20comes%22

and subscribe to my podcast feed here:

https://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast

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After the 911 attacks, airlines and public buildings adopted a flurry of "security" measures, like taking away fliers' pen-knives or requiring visitors to office buildings to be photographed or present a driver's license.

Bruce Schneier's seminal 2003 "Beyond Fear" called these measures: "Security Theater."

Schneier pointed out that these measures would be easy to circumvent, and were thus providing only the comforting appearance of security - not security itself.

https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/21/beyond-fear-required-reading-for-ashcrofts-america/

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Also spiders fly on electricity.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/spiders-fly-on-the-currents-of-earths-electric-field

We need to get organized.