Okay, time to #AskFedi because search engines are shit now and this is driving me up a wall

A rapper sampled the #BlackStar performance (usually referred to as "What Is Beef") from Chappelle Show back in 2003 and made part of it a chorus for a song. Anybody remember who it was? I'm reasonably certain it was a song from between 2010 and 2020. Not many more clues than that right now. Should have favorited the song when I first heard it, but I didn't. Meh

#Music #HipHop #Rap

A great image showing exploding the illusion of capitalism-in-one-country!
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Workers on or near American assembly lines must be opening boxes of components from all over the world to create "Made In America" products.

The global process of production created by capitalism itself points the members of the international working class to each other. But this process does spontaneous welds and bolts and glue those workers into a party that fights for their own historic interests.

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Please, I beg of you, if you're publishing anything – especially a position paper, report, white paper, etc – include the date in an obvious, visible place. Ideally right there on the cover.

Stuff is moving fast. A report or a white paper that is not clearly marked with a publishing date is very close to useless – is it a year old, or a decade? Is it up to date? Is it not quoted anywhere because it's literally just out, or because it's considered crap?

Come on, people! Put dates on your shit!

I'm after a decent pocket compact camera, with at least a 1" sensor. It seems that cameras are out of favour unless you want to spend £3k. What I'd really like is a Canon G5X ii, but they've been discontinued. The only still available alternatives seem to be the Canon G7X iii, or the Sony RX100 vii. It seems the Sony is a bit fiddly, and the G7X doesn't have a viewfinder. The lead time for both is a couple of months.

Any suggestions? Is it worth risking trying to get hold of a G5X on eBay?

#photography

Brazil’s Supreme Court backed down and withdrew its proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic activities from a controversial bill that critics say violates the Constitution.

On the same day, the Federal Attorney General’s Office presented a draft presidential decree also excluding mining activities on Indigenous territories but allowing tourism and other activities led by Indigenous communities.

By Karla Mendes
news.mongabay.com/2025/04/afte…

#News #IndigenousPeoples

After outcry, Brazil Supreme Court nixes proposal for mining on Indigenous lands

Brazil's Supreme Court backed down and withdrew its proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic activities from a controversial bill that critics say violates the Constitution.

^{Alexandre de Santi (Conservation news)}

Over many bedtime readings with my son, we just finished Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salmon Rushdie. Tears were streaming down my face. It’s so beautiful.

It’s about a boy and his father. The father is a storyteller secretly fed stories by a literal sea of stories. One day, a genie turns off the pipe and he no longer has any stories to tell. They go on a fantastical adventure to save the sea of stories.

Rushdie wrote it for his son while in hiding during the 1989 fatwa against him.

So... Do I happen to have any followers that live in Japan that might be cool with me having a prize I may win in a contest sent to them so I could have it shipped to me in the states?

I'd pay for all the shipping! Just like, especially in these times, I think this is the only way I might be able to get the little plushie I've been dreaming of getting...

The CBC's Evan Dyer talks about what it's like trying to cover Poillievre's campaign as the CPC bus tours the country and the party tightly controls questions from reporters.

"Today, in Trois-Rivières, we asked to be allotted a question. Party staffers said yes, so long as it was asked by my colleague Tom Parry. We responded that I would prefer to ask it. At that point the party took away our question and gave it to another outlet.

The difficulty of trying to keep up with a campaign that has its own chartered aircraft is a logistical problem that can be mitigated to some extent. But the extreme message control makes it all but impossible to bring the same level of accountability to the Poilievre campaign that other campaigns are subject to. It also protects the campaign from having to answer tough questions and is a marked departure from previous Conservative campaigns I have covered.”

cc: @davidakin
#Elxn45 #canPoli #CdnPoli
cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory…

#ICE is the #Gestapo: "On Friday, (3.7), while on a Zoom call w/an ISSO advisor who continues to reassure me that I was in legal status, ICE came knocking @ my door w/o a warrant. If I had been alone I would have opened the door. My roommate, an American citizen, recognized the knock as that of law enforcement. Given the lack of warrant she refused to let them in & repeatedly asked them to identify themselves; something they refused to do."

normanfinkelstein.com/letter-f…

#USPol
#Ranjani Srinivasan

Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada

Visit the post for more.

^{Norman Finkelstein}

#cat #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

#animal #animals #cute #cuteanimal #Pic #pictures #picture #pics

Martin Luther King was assassinated on 4 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.

#MartinLutherKing #CivilRights #OnThisDay

In a little-noticed #FAA filing last month, fed regulators requested comments on a proposed rule that would mandate #Boeing update a critical communications malfunction in their 787 Dreamliner plane that could lead to disastrous accidents.

VHF radio channels are transferring b/w the active & standby settings w/o flight crew input. “The uncommanded frequency changes could result in missed communications between the flightcrew & Air Traffic Control."

#PublicSafety #USPol prospect.org/infrastructure/tr…

FAA Warns Boeing 787 Radio Can Cut Off Air Traffic Radio Without Notice

Engineering problems have plagued the airplane manufacturer in recent years.

^{Daniel Boguslaw (The American Prospect)}