As the Korean War raged on in December 1950, Western powers vied to restore Japan as a “great Asian power” to counter global communism. In December 2000, a teenage boy bombed a video store in Kabukicho. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/02/japan/history/tokyo-population-communism-inflation-kabukicho-bomb-1925-1950-1975-2000/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #tokyo #population #taisho #coldwar #inflation #shinjukuward #kabukicho
How the Atomic Tests Looked Like from Los Angeles
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-atomic-tests-looked-like-from-los.html
#HackerNews #AtomicTests #LosAngeles #History #NuclearTesting #AmusingPlanet #ColdWar
Luca Sironi
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The Byte, a Moldovan clone of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. On display at acms.org.au
#oldcomputer #oldcomputers #ColdWar #retrocomputing #retrocomputer #Sinclair #Speccy #ZXSpectrum #SinclairSpectrum #Moldova
The Byte, a Moldovan clone of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. On display at acms.org.au
#oldcomputer #oldcomputers #ColdWar #retrocomputing #retrocomputer #Sinclair #Speccy #ZXSpectrum #SinclairSpectrum #Moldova
Florida’s laws allow open carry, permitless carry and “stand your ground” are a potentially deadly combination. A historian points to a 31.6% increase in firearm homicides after the ‘stand your ground’ law passed in 2005. https://theconversation.com/floridas-new-open-carry-law-combines-with-stand-your-ground-to-create-new-freedoms-and-new-dangers-267496
@TheConversationUS #Florida has long been ‘where people go to die’, but it used to be just from old age.
With help from the #Russia -funded #NRA It’s diversifying its ‘death industry’. 🤷🏻♂️ https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals
#Putin and his #Kremlin comrades don’t miss a trick when it comes to taking revenge on the #UnitedStates for winning the #ColdWar that disintegrated the #SovietUnion.
Billy Smith
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The Silent Killers in #IndianCountry: #Copper, #Lithium, #Uranium and #Plutonium
Judge finds plutonium plants in #NewMexico and #SouthCarolina violated environmental laws
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 10, 2024
"The U.S. government's plan for increased plutonium production at #LosAlamos National Laboratory, in the heart of Pueblo lands in northern New Mexico, has been delayed by a federal judge.
"Continuing the U.S. legacy of poisoning Indian country with #radiation, this comes as the U.S. government is granting leases to foreign #mining companies targeting Native #sacred lands and communities.
" #CopperMining is targeting San CarlosApache's sacred #OakFlat; #Hualapai are suing the US Department of Interior to halt lithium mining at their sacred spring Ha'Kamwe'; and the U.S. government is promoting the ongoing digging into the #Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada for #lithium, in violation of all federal laws that protect Native religious and historic sites, the environment and endangered species.
"Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon threatens #Havasupai's aquifer, the haul route endangers everyone in the Four Corners region, and the uranium mill at White Mesa Ute in #Utah is poisoning #Utes.
"Interior Sec. #DebHaaland said in Farmington, N.M., that Los Alamos Labs would be the leader in the so-called ' #GreenEnergy transition' in the #FourCorners region.
"More than 500 radioactive #UraniumMill sites remain on the #NavajoNation that have not been cleaned up by the U.S. #EPA, which deceives the public by announcing plans and promises to clean up the #ColdWar sites.
"In the current federal lawsuit, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled that U.S. energy officials illegally neglected to study impacts to the #environment in efforts to increase plutonium production for nuclear weapons in New Mexico and South Carolina.
"'South Carolina District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis sided with environmental, #AntiNuclear proliferation and community groups last week who sued the National Nuclear Security Administration ( #NNSA), which oversees the nuclear weapons stockpile as part of the U.S. Department of Energy [ #DOE],' reports Source New Mexico.
"The U.S. is investing billions into restarting the manufacture of #PlutoniumPits, the grapefruit-sized spheres developed for #nuclear weapons. The plutonium is produced from uranium.
"'The federal government halted its manufacturing program at the #RockyFlatsPlant in #Colorado in 1989 after an FBI raid due to safety concerns and #EnvironmentalCrimes,' Source New Mexico reports.
"The U.S. government's #AtomicBombTesting in #Nevada left a trail of cancer and death for #WesternShoshone. The documentary 'Downwind' reveals the truth.
"'This is a very serious issue and that's why I can't let it go. I can't move on. People say, 'oh, why don't you just let it go?' Because it's killing my family. It's killing my land. It's killing my people. And that will not stand. It's being done in secret. And killing Indians in secret will not stand,' said Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of the #ShoshoneNation of Indians. Zabarte is featured in ' #Downwind' about radiation poisoning from U.S. #NuclearTests.
"Currently, foreign companies -- which receive the profits and find it easy to avoid clean up and responsibility for #environmental crimes and deaths from #cancer -- are receiving the mining leases from the U.S. government. The leases are granted by the U.S. Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and in the case of #UraniumMining in the #GrandCanyon, it is the USDA's Forestry Service. #Biden's attorneys have joined the lawsuit with #RioTinto to devastate #OakFlat.
"Australian and Canadian mining corporations are devastating Native lands and communities, poisoning the water and causing widespread cancer.
Rio Tinto, targeting Apaches #OakFlat, is an Australian company which destroyed 46,000 years of #Aboriginal sacred history in caves in #Australia.
"Another Australian mining company is targeting #Hualapai's sacred site. It is #Hawstone / #ArizonaLithium, in Perth, Australia.
" #EnergyFuels, now uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and operating the uranium mill at #WhiteMesaUte, is a Canadian company. Another Canadian company is digging into the #Paiute Massacre Site. It is #LithiumAmericas.
#Hopi judge #DianeHumetewa granted a temporary restraining order to halt the lithium mining at #Hualapai's sacred spring."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-silent-killers-in-indian-country.html
#NoUraniumMining #CopperMining #LithiumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #NoWar #NoNukes #NuclearWeapons #RecycleCopper #RecycleLithium #WaterIsLife #NuclearWaste #DefendTheSacred #WhiteMesaMill #Ute #AtomicBomb #CulturalGenocide #Genocide #FirstNations #NativeAmericanNews #SuperfundSites #ToxicWaste #SaveOakFlat #OpenPitMining #Pollution #ReaderSupportedNews
happyborg
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Still, #LLM are voiding the #GPL (and #AGPL) reciprocity.
That's why years ago I wrote the #HackingLicense https://encrypted.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt
It was designed with automated corporate #exploitation of #FreeSoftware in mind: it's goal is to balance #freedom and #communion, and it share with those that accept it much more than permissions, while being a stromger #copyleft and an explicit shrink-wrap contract.
Unfortunately, it's not compatible with GPL, because GPL is much weaker.
The fundamental issue of Free Software, the one that let people create the #OpenSource narrative and permessive licenses to exploit programmer ideals and #freelabor, was that #RMS, as an American grown up during #ColdWar, was too fond of the freedom-vs-communism propaganda to understand how lack of rules means the rule of the rich.
The problem is not commercial use of free software but commercial exploitation of free labour, as @doctormo@floss.social correctly stated.
The Hacking License does not prohibit commercial use, but requires recipient to share their own #copyright with the users of any derivative or dependant work they create as a contractual binding.
It's modelled after the research of #ElinorOstrom about Commons governance and the #Hacker ethics based on the value of #curiosity.
Still, #LLM are voiding the #GPL (and #AGPL) reciprocity.
That's why years ago I wrote the #HackingLicense https://encrypted.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt
It was designed with automated corporate #exploitation of #FreeSoftware in mind: it's goal is to balance #freedom and #communion, and it share with those that accept it much more than permissions, while being a stromger #copyleft and an explicit shrink-wrap contract.
Unfortunately, it's not compatible with GPL, because GPL is much weaker.
The fundamental issue of Free Software, the one that let people create the #OpenSource narrative and permessive licenses to exploit programmer ideals and #freelabor, was that #RMS, as an American grown up during #ColdWar, was too fond of the freedom-vs-communism propaganda to understand how lack of rules means the rule of the rich.
The problem is not commercial use of free software but commercial exploitation of free labour, as @doctormo@floss.social correctly stated.
The Hacking License does not prohibit commercial use, but requires recipient to share their own #copyright with the users of any derivative or dependant work they create as a contractual binding.
It's modelled after the research of #ElinorOstrom about Commons governance and the #Hacker ethics based on the value of #curiosity.
Trump was already cutting low-income energy assistance – the shutdown is making things worse as cold weather arrives https://theconversation.com/trump-was-already-cutting-low-income-energy-assistance-the-shutdown-is-making-things-worse-as-cold-weather-arrives-269342
@TheConversationUS #DonaldTheDeplorable is going his damned best to turn the #UnitedStates into another #Russia. #Qanon in the #Kremlin is celebrating the ‘success’ of Agent #Krasnov.
#Project2025 , #American#Carnage2.0, #USpol #kakistocracy , whatever you want to call it, it is all just the means of achieving the *same* underlying goal; #Russia taking revenge on the #UnitedStates for the disintegration of the #SovietUnion after losing losing the #ColdWar.
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Nuclear testing you say?
"Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism
in #Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold
War”
#NuclearTesting #ColdWar @histodons
https://ipus.snu.ac.kr/eng/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/02_Robert-Jacobs_DOI.pdf
Nuclear testing you say?
"Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism
in #Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold
War”
#NuclearTesting #ColdWar @histodons
https://ipus.snu.ac.kr/eng/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/02_Robert-Jacobs_DOI.pdf
NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, C.1966
https://flashbak.com/norad-cheyenne-mountain-combat-center-478804/
#HackerNews #NORAD #CheyenneMountain #CombatCenter #1966 #ColdWar #MilitaryHistory #SpaceDefense
Alex Akselrod
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Today in Labor History October 12, 1892: The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by U.S. school children, without any mention of god. The Pledge went through several iterations over the following decades, but it was not until 1954 that the word “god” was added to it, to ingrain in U.S. children how much superior they were to the godless communists in the USSR.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #patriotism #ussr #ColdWar #anticommunism #communism #school #children #god #atheism
Today in Labor History October 12, 1892: The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by U.S. school children, without any mention of god. The Pledge went through several iterations over the following decades, but it was not until 1954 that the word “god” was added to it, to ingrain in U.S. children how much superior they were to the godless communists in the USSR.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #patriotism #ussr #ColdWar #anticommunism #communism #school #children #god #atheism
Greg Lloyd
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@Kay The song "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" always reminds me of this great scene in Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three" (1961):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heAxSmpW0S8
The film was actually forbidden in Finland at the time, for political reasons, and it was first shown in Finnish movie theaters only in the 1980s.
@Kay The song "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" always reminds me of this great scene in Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three" (1961):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heAxSmpW0S8
The film was actually forbidden in Finland at the time, for political reasons, and it was first shown in Finnish movie theaters only in the 1980s.