Quite excited looking forward to Noctua's "next-generation NH-D15" (https://noctua.at/en/product-roadmap).
It's been just over a decade... while others in the same field release like one new top model every second year, but the trusty old D15 is still considered among the top performers.
Remains to be seen how good it actually is through proper 3rd party tests of course, but the previous D15 remained considered as top tier for a decade during exceptionally rapid development by others.
Two videos of the mass-protests that have begun over Erdoğan's central dictatorship regime today usurping the people's representative chosen by recent overwhelming electoral victory in Colemêrg/Hakkâri of Turkey-held part of Kurdistan.
Police using their shields to censor the press as seen in part one is their default practice whenever a crowd speaks criticism against the actions of the wannabe-Sultan and entourage in public.
Here are some more videos from yesterday of the continuing resistance against the usurpation of the people's electoral will in Colemêrg/Hakkari by dictatorship decree:
The co-chairs and members of the anti-racist, antifascist, feminist and encironmental DEM Party as well as its ally Democratic Regions Party (DBP) held a sit-in through the night in Colemêrg/Hakkari in protest against the usurpation of the people's electoral will by replacing the elected Mayor and arresting on claims of "terrorism" for being elected for the exclusively electoral politics party as was done to almost all of those elected to local positions for the equivalent party during the previous mandate period.
Apparently it was very scary for the dictatorship that the political party leaders sat down, because police came and surrounded them.
Kati Piri, member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Labour Party, commented on dictator Erdoğan's usurpation of the people's will as clearly expressed in recent local election in Colemêrg/Hakkari.
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Erdogan believes democracy is perfectly fine, as long as you vote for his party.
The people of Hakkari elected their Kurdish mayor Mehmet Sıddık Akış just two months ago.
Arresting and replacing him with a government trustee is NOT democracy.
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Here are two videos of mass-protest events in Colemêrg/Hakkari today, with police brutality, tear gas, etc repression including against elderly and press, with one journalist unconscious as a of the indiscriminate police-violence.
CW for the video: see the previous sentence.
@jasper Yes, but you are not a for-profit corporation with shareholders, a government agency or a church... I don't think? ;-)
Such entities will very likely have strongly voiced demands from members/shareholders/etc to not be on a porn platform, regardless of what either your or I think of it.
In my opinion the main reason as many people are still on twitter as they still are now is simply because so many others are too, in a self-sustaining mechanism,
but if e.g. corporate IT-departments are ordered to block access to twitter because it is considered a porn-site, that decreases at lot of people's presence on their and if the corporations also consider that they don't want to advertise their products on or issue statements or other PR where it may be right next to platform-endorsed porn, then that removes a lot of the content that people are there to consume.
If politicians campaigning for power see a similar risk then they will not want to campaign there either, because it creates a risk of undesired association, loss of votes, etc.
Without the politicians present a large part of the news-media likewise will not have as much reason to be present there anymore, as they will not have to keep checking if any politicians or corporations made important statements there and now taken all together there is a negative spiral of reasons for people to be there, so people can go elsewhere,
like here, where each corporation, political party, politicians, news-outlet, etc can in theory own their own instance and have complete control over what is published next to its content.
Just because I keep thinking of how immensely silly they looked, I'll share this video although it was two days ago it was included it in a report on that on May 24 employees of the Center for Banking Services No 714 of Belarusbank in the easternmost town Krychaw/Krichev marched singing "Our father is cool, he is one of a kind in the world" in a song about dictator Lukashenko, by a composer close to the dictatorial family which e.g. wrote the anthem of the prosecutor's office and has been declared the best in the country by the dictator's daughter-in-law.
Martyr Keith Broomfield from Massachusetts remembered in a video by the comrades in the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance whom Keith joined as a part of the People's Defence Units (YPG) to fight against ISIL/Daesh in "a fight against oppression, a fight for freedom" as a sniper, being killed by an injury of combat against ISIL in the legendary resistance of Kobanê/Kobanî to break their siege, on June 3, 2015, 9 years ago today. https://youtu.be/0tyi1rQ8iog https://sdf-press.com/en/2024/06/keith-broomfield-the-internationalist-martyr-a-story-of-heroism-struggle-and-sacrifice-against-terrorism/
The extremely positive impact of Keith and fellow martyrs in life live on after their deaths in self-sacrifice for the cause of freedom and equality, for as long as there is a memory of these times. Thus, martyrs are immortal.
Hmm, well, I feel like it's very much an either/or situation, where some always carry at least 3 guns anywhere and seem to just dream of having an excuse to use them,
while others even in some cases claim they would not even if they were being shot at at the time pick up a found gun to shoot back.
As in many other cases Kropotkin expressed the view I already had when I first read it with something along the lines of that, as freedom revolutionaries we must strive to minimize but not absolutely reject violence as if we seek violence we will create a continuation of oppression with people then wanting our deaths for killing people they cared about, but to entirely refuse violence when oneself or others are being oppressed or killed is suicidal or condoning their abuse.
I'm heavily paraphrasing because it's probably like close to three decades since I read it and I can't remember exactly where it was. Some foreword, I believe.
The latest press release from the People's Defence Forces (HPG) Geneva Conventions compliant guerrilla of the PKK defending against Erdoğan's imperialist war of aggression in S Kurdistan/N Iraq.
The ban against using chemical weapons in warfare is absolute.
Except apparently if it is inconvenient to NATO, EU and Putin at the same time,
in which case the organization that has taken upon itself to investigate every such instance, OPCW, will resolutely... call the police on people protesting its inaction outside its HQ and refuse to investigate the videos and soil samples sent to it, just as it refused to reject the bribe it proudly publicly announced having received from Turkey just before Erdoğan began the chemical warfare.
Also, from the same a bit later:
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INVADERS WERE HIT WITH SPECIAL TECHNIQUE IN ZAP REGION
Press Release
Our forces carried out 3 actions with a special technique against the invaders in the Girê Amediyê Resistance Area of the Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region on the anniversary of the Historic 1 June Operation. The invading Turkish army on the Şehîd Pirdoğan and Şehîd Gelhat hills in the Girê Amediyê Resistance Area was hit at 08:44, 13:13 and 17:56 on June 1. In these actions carried out with special technique, 1 container and 1 position belonging to the invaders were destroyed.
Here's the video of the Geneva Conventions compliant freedom guerrilla HPG's airstrikes at three military targets of the imperialist aggression invader Turkey, which was described in their earlier ↑ press release:
The latest press release in English from the Geneva Conventions compliant freedom guerrilla People's Defence Forces (HPG), detailing the balance sheet for the month of May 2024 resisting NATO-dictator, Putin-buddy and ISIL/Daesh-collaborator Eroğan's imperialist war of aggression to expand Turkey's >100 military occupation forts in S Kurdistan/N Iraq:
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Israel ~2h ago bombed areas near Aleppo in northern Syria killing 12 at least Iranian militia. https://youtu.be/gBUdwaHZV6M
No matter what you think of the despicable Iran-theocracy and its imperialist venture helping bloody dictator al-Assad oppress the people, Iran's forces ARE officially invited by a territory holder (the Damascus government) and therefore de jure has the right to be there (not the right to commit their war crimes, etc against the populace, but that's a different topic) while Israel has NOT been invited by anyone with such a right and Israel was NOT under directly ongoing attack at that time by any forces in Aleppo (NORTHERN Syria, not bordering Israel) and therefore Israel has absolutely no possible claim to "self-defense" in this action which therefore is a pure act of aggression, violating the UN Charter once again, in an obvious attempt by Netanyahu and gang to provoke Iran and its imperialist underlings into taking "retaliatory" action which can then be claimed as those initiating a full-scale regional war, which means that Israel considering the presence of several nuke-powers in the intended conflict escalation by this and similar acts such as earlier this week poses an extreme risk to the entire world. You.
A State can not "self-defense" into another State when it is not in response to a direct ongoing armed attack and even then can only do so until that attack has been ended.
That an opponent may exist in another State's territory does NOT https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/70/9973.pdf give right to "self-defense" in another State's territory.
Also, Israel is not legally at war against any entity valid to be at war against in the territory it attacked. An attack in Syria by Israel is an act of war against Syria, regardless if it is some guest military/militia or other non-State entity being targeted; use of force by a State in another State without invitation or UNSC mandate and without valid (see above) self-defense is an act of aggression, in clear violation of the UN Charter and since there is imminent risk that one of at least four nukes-powers closely involved directly (Israel and Iran) or through imperialist interests (Russia and USA) this recurring behavior can not be accepted, by its recurrence demonstrated as calculated and intentional threat against the entire population of the planet earth.
The State of Israel must be stripped of its representation in the United Nations and placed under arms embargo, whereby anyone arming, funding or similarly aiding its rogue State policies will be subject to sanctions.
I vaguely recall some Kurdish saying from the 80s and 90s which went something like "being imprisoned is like coming home, because that is where all friends and relatives are", indicating the mass-targeting persecution of the Kurdish population and also generally supporters of human rights and equality under Turkey in particular during the NATO-backed anti-democracy military coup juntas but also otherwise.