If you've ever wanted to make Ryu, Chun-Li, and Ken look like MCD mascots...

175 years ago, Karl Marx struggled to prevent adventurism and idealism from splitting and wrecking the world's first communist party. Today, the Western "left" faces similar dilemmas as the failed strategy of entryism continues to dominate discourse as a barrier to movement building. In this video, we look at the history of entryism in the USA - from the Great Depression campaign of Upton Sinclair to Michael Harrington's conception of "realignment" to the modern populism of candidates like Graham Platner.

I stumbled across Diode whilst looking for ways to do secure off-site backups (to my own equipment at another house) and it feels like a paid-for TOR (Ok, there is a free option)

I'm looking for any real experience as the site has too much marketing lingo in it:

Every Client is secured with a public/private key self-custody identity

And this doesn't seem very dynamic if I want to change something:

Diode’s Blockchain Name System can be used for Client friendly names

And somewhere on the site it infers unlimited storage...!

So, is the free option worth me looking into, or is it a waste of time?

Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs

The teardown of the White House’s East Wing this week is a Rorschach test. Many see the rubble as a metaphor for President Donald Trump’s reckless disregard of norms and the rule of law, a reflection of his willingness to bulldoze history and a temple to a second Gilded Age, paid for by corporate donors. Others see what they love about Trump: A lifelong builder boldly pursuing a grand vision, a change agent unafraid to decisively take on the status quo and a developer slashing through red tape that would stymie any normal politician.

In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible. Privately, many alumni of the Biden and Obama White Houses acknowledge the long-overdue need for an event space like what Trump is creating. It is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties.

The State Dining Room seats 140. The East Room seats about 200. Trump says the ballroom at the center of his 90,000-square-foot addition will accommodate 999 guests. The next Democratic president will be happy to have this.

Preservationists express horror that Trump did not submit his plans to their scrutiny, but the truth is that this project would not have gotten done, certainly not during his term, if the president had gone through the traditional review process. The blueprints would have faced death by a thousand papercuts. [...]

Archived: archive.today

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38111920

from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Oct. 26, 2025

Also:

• Rubble, gangs, and airstrikes: What was waiting for me back in Gaza City
• Settler terror devastates Wes tBank olive harvest
• My last words to Gaza
• PODCAST: Reckoning or reverting? Israeli society after the ceasefire

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/buyeuropean/p/1399805/a-first-step-in-europe-proton-slams-switzerland-s-new-surveillance-bill-at-the-united-n

YT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojlbve82DzQ

Last thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

• Something interesting that happened to you
• Something humourous that happened to you
• Something frustrating that happened to you
• A quick question
• A request for recommendations
• Pictures of your pet
• A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
• Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38104202

All these years I’ve read from a Kindle I’ve never quite understood reasoning behind jailbreaking the device. Recently I looked into what DRM is and learned it is enforced by the publisher, itself, and I would think it is also based on contract agreements with author or estate, in some cases. It feels like same as music piracy in a way, but I also see the issue as I am writing this message. If you buy a book, you should be entitled to read it however you wish, however I do see the side of publisher in that you could just give the book to someone else and read it. In some ways I think this is good, and also not intended as a publisher or author, but also this is how books have been consumed for years’ prior to digital age. Book clubs, reading groups, little libraries, etc.

Discuss. I’m open to hearing more about this and views from others.

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend!

Related to a class action regarding privacy violations in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

You can apply if you:

• held a Facebook account between 2 November 2013 and 17 December 2015 (the eligibility period)

• were in Australia for more than 30 days during that period, and

• either installed the Life app or were Facebook friends with someone who did.

Try this link to see if the company has records of you or your friends logging into the Digital Life app. If there are, you should be able to use the “fast track” application.