...deleting records could cause big problems. Referential integrity across database tables simply wouldn’t allow it... it would cause a resonance cascade.

So, to get around the problem, a lot of places simply "overwrite" records when they are deleting them. They replace certain fields with garbage so the structure of the data remains, but the human elements are no longer present. At the heart of those "certain fields" are email addresses, the most widely used identifiers on all the web. And that, dear reader, is how we got to this cursed discovery.

I saw a discussion on the internet where someone mentioned that they deleted users in their app by overwriting their email addresses with $somethingRandom@deleteduser.com. Mmm, I thought - I wonder how common of a thought process that is? I bet whoever owns deleteduser.com gets loads of emails!

I decided to check it out, but to my genuine surprise - no one owned deleteduser.com, so now I do.

Source [web-archive]

Hypothetically speaking

(anyone can answer, but I'm more interested in those with skepticism towards authorities)

The chargers will be open to every car manufacturer and will use the universal CCS2 charging infrastructure.

I recently got an e-mail from Fairphone that they will be ending support for Fairphone 3(+) in a couple of months and I'm thinking about getting a replacement with /e/OS installed on it instead of Android.

All the independent information I can find seems to be from two or three years ago, so I was wondering if anyone with recent experience or knowledge has any thoughts about it?

I'm not interested in recommendations for other operating systems as I'm only considering switching from Android because there is an option for it to come pre-installed on the latest Fairphone with the bootloader locked, which may solve a few headaches. I'd just like to know if /e/OS has any gotchas to be aware of and if Ecorp/Esolutions/Murena are considered to be reputable (i.e. they're not going to steal my data).

after the recent disgraceful behavior in YPTB where @deceptichum@quokk.au was banned by @MrKaplan@lemmy.world for being a "troll", I banned MrKaplan preemptively from !anarchymemes@anarchist.nexus, as I do anyone who displays zionist tendencies. the ban reason was for "zionism, genocide apologia". calling someone pointing out the FHF's long history of zionism and protecting zionist users a "troll" and saying they are acting in "bad faith" is absolutely zionism, and zionism is genocide apologia. at the same time, I also banned @recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca for also banning @deceptichum@quokk.au, with a suspiciously similar ban message.

this aggravated @MrKaplan@lemmy.world, who then started asking around about me to find out more information. they quickly found my profile, which as anyone who has been around AN or dbzer0 might know, has always been rather spicy when it comes to the US and Israel.

“scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds”

queer armed militant anarchist. death to the United States, and death to Israel! the only good zionist is a dead zionist.

my display name at the time was also Luminous5481 "Murder all zionists" [they/them]. this wasn't aimed at MrKaplan, but rather zionism as an ideology in general. it has long been my very vocal opinion that there is no appreciable difference between the state of Israel and Nazi Germany, nor between zionism and nazism. both nations are guilty of having engaged in genocide over the span of years, something determined by the ICC, if not the eyes and ears of anyone who has seen the shocking scenes of Israeli terrorism coming from Gaza these past years.

however, this rightfully calling for the death of a ideology that is incompatible with anarchism, and the rest of humanity in general, was enough for MrKaplan to not only instance ban me, but entirely defederate the instances under the control of the FHF cabal from Anarchist Nexus.

but that wasn't enough. they also contacted other admins of popular instances, and encouraged them to defederate from AN and dbzer0, claiming that the other admins of the flotilla had refused to do anything about it, despite MrKaplan immediately defederating as soon as he raised his concerns with our team. this obviously is a blatant lie, likely to cover for the fact that he most likely did not bother reaching a consensus with the other LW admins over his actions before he took them. but idk about that, it's only my speculation. I only know what he and other admins have said behind closed doors to our team.

the fact of the matter is that wishing death to zionists is a popular opinion among leftists. it's one that I've held for years, and it didn't suddenly go away when Israel accelerated their genocide in 2023. nor did it go away when the German government, and certain German instances and users threw their support behind a genocidal regime intent on wiping out a race and religion they see as subhuman. did I say it more often or more plainly than plenty of other leftists? sure! but do not assume that the opinion is not shared by many who oppose an ideology that, like the nazis, is the enemy of all mankind.

for now, I have graciously offered to step down as admin, in the hopes that the FHF will stop throwing their weight around to bully smaller instances and suppress the free speech of the people. it's one thing to ban a user for a viewpoint you don't like. it's another thing to defederate from an instance, and then threaten other instances to get them to defederate as well. it's another thing to go around telling everyone they should defederate simply because you are offended at an opinion that should be shared by all who love humanity. of course, some might say that this is entirely because I accused the "FHF team members of being zionists while simultaneously calling for zionists to be murdered". but if that were true, then why has MrKaplan not also defederated from lemmy.ml, despite many of their users being just as vocal as I am ? there's a big difference between AN and ML, and that difference is user count. MrKaplan feels he can get away with throwing his weight around and demanding other instances censor themselves according to his views when it's an instance that's smaller than LW. and I'm not asking to be unbanned. I really do not care about "missing out" on LW. but at the very least? MrKaplan should not be censoring other instances and maliciously attacking them behind their back by seeking defederation from other admins. and he certainly should not be doing it in the dark, where nobody can see or comment.

UPDATE: @rimu@piefed.social also banned me for "death threats", something which doesn't show up in the modlog because I've never used that instance for anything.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46148690

Over the past few days, @MrKaplan@lemmy.world/@MrKaplan@piefed.world has banned multiple users, blocked entire comms, and now defederated from Anarchist.Nexus over their anti-Zionist stance.

This extreme overreaction and general power trippin' bastard behavior stems from Lemmy.world's history of pro-Zionist views. And now MrKaplan is seeking out the flimsiest pretext to to enact his own personal vendetta.

Free Palestine, Death to Israel, Death to Zionism.

Lemmy.world is a ZioNazi instance. Avoid it like the plague.

Over the past few days, @MrKaplan@lemmy.world/@MrKaplan@piefed.world has banned multiple users, blocked entire comms, and now defederated from Anarchist.Nexus over their anti-Zionist stance.

This extreme overreaction and general power trippin' bastard behavior stems from Lemmy.world's history of pro-Zionist views. And now MrKaplan is seeking out the flimsiest pretext to to enact his own personal vendetta.

Free Palestine, Death to Israel, Death to Zionism.

Lemmy.world is a ZioNazi instance. Avoid it like the plague.

Palantir shared 22 points excerpted from CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, and they're troubling.

It's on Podcast Addict.

1. Europe’s Imperial Juggernaut - The first episode of our series establishes the development of European imperialism in the Arab world from the late 18th through early 20th centuries, the rise of constitutionalist movements that challenged monarchical absolutism, and the emergence of early labor and land reform movements. These processes shaped all political thought and action, affecting revolutionaries as well as restorationists across the region.

2. The Birth of Arab Nationalism - This episode lays out a key genealogy of 20th century anti-colonialism, forged through the “Great Revolts” in Iraqi, Syria, and Palestine, and the parallel birth of a range of ideological colorations: Arab nationalism, Islamic resistance, Ba’athism, and communism.

3. The Post-Colonial Arab State System - A comprehensive overview of the Middle Eastern Arab state system that crystallized with the end of British and French colonial rule.

4. From Nakba to Nasser - Laying out the politics surrounding the Zionist settler colonial destruction of Palestine, and the ground-shifting event that followed in its wake: Nasser’s 1952 Egyptian Free Officers Movement coup, which would set the tone for two decades of revolutionary nationalism across the region.

5. The Struggle for Syria - We trace an arc from the fight for independence, to the first (CIA-backed) coup of 1949, and the rise of the Ba’ath and Communist movements, detailing how the dye for a martial expression of politics was cast by Western subterfuge.

6. Cold War Heats Up - Laying out the intensification of the Cold War across the Middle East–specifically Nasser’s mass political campaign against the Baghdad pact, the nationalization of the Suez Canal, and the military and political responses it provoked.

7. United Arab Republic Against Eisenhower - We begin with the US’s Eisenhower Doctrine, which in 1957 inaugurated a new era of imperialism in the Middle East, including the deployment of American combat operations in the region; and end with a local political response: the Ba’ath Party driving Syria and Egypt into the United Arab Republic, a superstate under Nasser’s rule, in 1958.

8. Origins of the Arab New Left - This is a compact introduction to the Movement of Arab Nationalists, which in the 1950s built a presence that stretched across the region, from Beirut and Jordan to Cairo and the Gulf—becoming a truly powerful force in Kuwait. Led in significant part by Palestinians, its early history offers a ground-level look at the organizational and theoretical currents shaping radical Arab politics.

9. Palestinian Road to Revolution - “Palestine on the Road to Revolution” covers the creation of a Palestinian national liberation movement throughout the 1950s by a people dispersed by the Nakba: organizations, alliances, and theories of change assembled in the universities, cities, and refugee camps surrounding Palestine. We end with the 1958/59 foundation of Fateh, an organization that eventually became the largest in the Palestinian political system, primarily focusing on the idea of launching an armed revolution as the pathway to liberating Palestine. This is the story of the beginning of the Palestinian national liberation movement as we have come to know it today.

10. Iraqi Revolution, Communist Power - We learn the story of Iraq’s 1958 July Revolution: a Free Officers’ coup overthrew the imperialist-aligned Hashemite monarchy and brought nationalist Abdul-Karim Qasim to power alongside a surging Communist Party. Revolutionary currents soon turned against one another, however, as did Qasim and Nasser.

11. Ba’ath Seize Power – This episode recounts the destruction of the two giant revolutionary projects of 1958: the union of Egypt and Syria under Nasser’s United Arab Republic and Iraq’s July Revolution that brought Qasim alongside communist allies to power. The rival radical projects of pan-Arabism and communism suffered huge blows. The Ba’ath also transform in this period, from an ideological movement to a party dominated by military men who want to turn the organization into an instrument of raw domination.

12. Origins of Saudi Reaction - Abdel and Dan anatomize Saudi Arabia, a country whose reactionary, US-aligned trajectory was throughout the 1950s and 60s challenged by labor strikes, dissident currents, rebellious princes, and an anticolonial oil minister. But, eventually, Saudi royal conservatism won out, and was exported across the region.

13. Revolutionary Arabia - “Revolutionary Arabia” chronicles the armed left-wing revolutionary movements that challenged British imperial power across Southern Arabia, from the National Liberation front seizing power in South Yemen to the Dhufari revolutionaries in Oman waging a liberation war against the British and the sultan. While today’s alliance of reactionary Gulf monarchies seems inevitable, here we see they were made by colonial power–and that they were seriously contested by revolutionary movements in the 1960s and 1970s.

14. Palestinian Revolution - We cover the rise of the Palestinian Revolution and then its explosion after the Arab defeat in the June War of 1967 with the Israeli colonial state. Fateh, the Popular Front for Liberation and Palestine, and other factions launched an armed guerilla struggle, engaging the Palestinian people in a full-scale mobilization for their liberation. Also: Ba’athists Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr and Saddam Hussein seized power in Iraq, as did Muammar Gaddafi’s Free Officers in Libya.

15. Black September - We address the Palestinian revolution in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan–leading up to the 1970 conflict that the national movement had with the Jordanian state and the violent expulsion of PLO guerillas that followed during Black September. Then, Egypt and Syria checked Israel’s power in the October War of 1973–only for Anwar Sadat, Nasser’s successor, to lead Egypt into Kissinger’s plan to pacify the Arab revolution.

16. Siege of Beirut - This final episode of the main series traces a massive defeat of the Palestinian Revolution: Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the brutal siege of Beirut. Under severe pressure and isolated in the wake of Egypt’s normalization with Israel, the PLO evacuated its headquarters in Lebanon. What followed was an unthinkable large massacre of Palestinian civilians and an end to the decades-long era of Arab revolutionary politics that Thawra was dedicated to chronicling.

17. Epilogue Part 1: Islamic Revolution and Gulf Wars - In Palestine and across the region, the sort of secular left wing and nationalist parties, whose stories we have dedicated Thawra to telling, were being eclipsed by conservative Islamic religious parties. That includes Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Palestine, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Muslim Brotherhood across the region. We end this episode by discussing the PLO's move toward the Oslo Accords.

18. Epilogue Part 2: Decades of American Destruction - How did the Oslo Accords play out through the rest of the 1990s and the years waiting up to the Second Intifada, which began in 2000? And what did the Second Intifada, these years of enormous militant mass uprising, what did that movement expose about the reality of the Zionist project and indigenous resistance to that project in post-Oslo Palestine?

19. Epilogue Part 3: Genocide and Resistance - This episode takes us from Hamas’s victory in the 2006 legislative elections, through the siege on Gaza, to October 7, the Gaza genocide, the Axis of Resistance, and Israel’s attempt to draw Iran into a massive regional war with the US.

In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow made a stark observation about the stalling evolution of the Information Age: Following the advent of transistors, microprocessors, integrated circuits, and memory chips of the 1960s, economists and companies expected these new technologies to disrupt workplaces and result in a surge of productivity. Instead, productivity growth slowed, dropping from 2.9% from 1948 to 1973, to 1.1% after 1973.

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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/62853763

Here lies darkness.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45637051

the study: https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN9.0000000000000057