alyaza [they/she]
internet gryphon. admin of Beehaw, mostly publicly interacting with people. nonbinary. they/she
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9·2 days agoi think this topic has about run its course in terms of productiveness, and has mostly devolved into people complaining about being held to (objectively correct) vegan ethics. locking
6·3 days agofor context: Shawn Fain has been pushing for this since at least the beginning of 2024. so by the time the date happens, he will have been organizing this for over four years–that is the kind of lead time you need for this to not just be toothless posturing (and there’s a decent chance it still won’t be nearly as sweeping as you might expect of a general strike due to low US union density).
you can’t just organize a general strike on the fly, and this is an actual one with actual backing from unions that’s been organized since well before our current issues. and currently it’s a struggle to even get many unions to align their contracts in a way that would be conducive to the date (since that’s not a thing you can just do, you have to negotiate that), so it’s not even a guarantee that the over three years of lead time given is sufficient.
‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ is just… something else. what are these buzzwords
21·6 days agosomeone on Bluesky analogized what is happening to how QAnon transpired for most people, which is that the crazification it was causing simmered under the surface until January 6, when it all publicly exploded and the influence it had over a non-trivial block of the population became undeniable. hard to disagree with that!
15·9 days agothe paper in question: Efficient mRNA delivery to resting T cells to reverse HIV latency by Paula M. Cevaal et al.
1·14 days agodeleted by creator
just a nightmarish headline. get these two the fuck out of here
Art rock legend Brian Eno has called on Microsoft to sever its ties with the government of Israel, saying the company’s provision of cloud and AI services to Israel’s Ministry of Defense “support a regime that is engaged in actions described by leading legal scholars and human rights organizations, the United Nations experts, and increasing numbers of governments from around the world, as genocidal.”
Eno’s connection with Microsoft goes back 30 years—he composed the famous boot-up jingle for Windows 95 that was recently inducted into the National Recording Registry at the US Library of Congress.
“I gladly took on the project as a creative challenge and enjoyed the interaction with my contacts at the company,” Eno wrote in an open letter posted to Instagram (via Stereogum). “I never would have believed that the same company could one day be implicated in the machinery of oppression and war.”
Regardless, Eno clearly isn’t interested in Microsoft’s protestations of innocence: “Selling and facilitating advanced AI and cloud services to a government engaged in systematic ethnic cleansing is not ‘business as usual’. It is complicity. If you knowingly build systems that can enable war crimes, you inevitably become complicit in those crimes.”
and the press release from Fandom, which previously owned them for some reason:
San Francisco, CA - May 10, 2025 - Fandom, the world’s largest fan platform, is selling Giant Bomb to long-time Giant Bomb staff and gaming content creators Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb. Financials of the deal were not disclosed. Giant Bomb’s programming, which was paused in order to work out the terms of this deal, will resume as quickly as possible. More details will be communicated soon by Giant Bomb’s new owners.
Statement from Fandom
“Fandom has made the strategic decision to transition Giant Bomb back to its independent roots and the brand has been acquired by longtime staff and content creators, Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb, who will now own and operate the site independently. Fans are at the core of everything we do at Fandom and we’re committed to not only serving them but also supporting the creators they love, and the sale of Giant Bomb represents a natural extension of that mission. We’re confident Giant Bomb is in good hands and its legacy will live on with Jeff and Jeff.”
Joint Statement from Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb
“Giant Bomb is now owned by the people who make Giant Bomb, and it would not have been possible without the speedy efforts of Fandom and our mutual agreement on what’s best for fans and creators. The future of Giant Bomb is now in the hands of our supporting community, who have always had our backs no matter what. We’ll have a lot more to say about what this looks like soon, but for now, everyone can trust that all the support we receive goes directly to this team.”
this is likely to benefit him tremendously in the gubernatorial race, where he’s running in the Democratic primary but has generally been the third or fourth wheel to this point. if you’re curious about more details of how he’s been protesting, DocumentedNY has you covered:
To representatives of Delaney Hall, the mayor was staging a publicity stunt. But to the mayor, Delaney Hall was pitting his city in a direct confrontation with the Trump administration’s deportation agenda. Delaney Hall, Baraka claimed, was violating city and state laws by contracting with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and by prohibiting him from entering the facility, they were evading the enforcement of city codes.
In April, the city of Newark filed a lawsuit to block Delaney Hall from reopening and to allow city officials to inspect the facility for code violations. The Trump administration has since attempted to intervene to stop the lawsuit.
For nearly three hours, the mayor and his staff, along with over a dozen protesters who chanted “Say it loud, say it proud, immigrants are welcome here,” waited to be allowed in.
Nearby, two bulldozers from the Newark Department of Public Works, each carrying a large concrete slab, were parked nearby as a veiled threat to the detention center’s management, insinuating that if they do not comply with the city’s mandates, the mayor might order the facility to be barricaded.
When asked if he planned to place barricades outside the facility, Baraka, who is currently running for governor of New Jersey, smirked and stated he was entertaining the idea.
additional flavor text to this tense situation: Pakistan blamed a terrorist attack on India literally earlier today
You can post articles critical of the US, EU, Australian or any other government, but if you post a China-critical text you are whatabouted to death.
this will be a blunt comment. people would have no problem if you were doing this, but just in a quick scan, something like 10 of your last 15 submissions on our instance (Beehaw) are you obsessively posting about China–often from sources that are straight up fearmongering and/or guilty of doing literally the same thing they’re complaining China is doing. one of the most egregious submissions you’ve made in this vein is quite literally from the House Select Committee on China, as if the American government’s committee on “competition with the United States” doesn’t obviously have a vested interest in portraying things China does in the most uncharitable light possible (much as China would for America).
separately, and in a Beehaw context: at least from our userbase, you will largely not find disagreement that China is bad–nobody here really needs to be proselytized to the fact that China is an authoritarian capitalist country guilty of acts of imperialism against their neighbors, and probably of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Xinjiang. in fact, partially because of our political disagreements in that space, we do not federate with many of the Lemmy instances you might characterize as “pro-China.” this fact makes it incredibly conspicuous when someone like yourself obsessively posts every neurosis a Western country has about China on our instance. we’ve had a pattern of several users doing this in the past year or so–and at this point it’s blatantly propagandistic and Sinophobic bullshit we’re just not interested in letting people use our instance for.
even if you aren’t doing this for propagandistic reasons, though, and just think you need to push back against pro-China campists on Lemmy or whatever: this is also not your personal anti-China dumping ground, nor is it a place for you to shadowbox with campists who think China is cool. if you are genuinely posting in good faith: diversify your submissions and, if you don’t, at least drop the persecution complex when people push back on your voluminous China posting; if this is just using us as some middle-man in a bigger thing: going forward we’re going to aggressively prune these types of post.
1·1 month agodisagreement is fine, but both of you need to chill out a bit
you can find a May Day event here
the website: https://onemillionchessboards.com/
the website for it is pretty comprehensive as far as i can tell
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this is going over hilariously on social media, despite the insistence by the Grammy’s that it has nothing to do with Beyonce’s win last year: