Notices by kravietz 🦇 (kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)

#Poland Olympian Maria Kwaśniewska refused to give the Nazi salute while receiving a medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. When Hitler referred to her as a “little Polish woman,” she retorted that she was taller than him. To save face, Hitler reworded it to “little Poland.” Later, Kwaśniewska used a photo of herself with Hitler to bypass guards at the Pruszków concentration camp, allowing her to rescue several prisoners. She passed away on this day in 2007.

No, this is no a new CAPTCHA, this is a new malware vector which tricks users to open #Windows command line and paste a command to download some harmful stuff.

Just reported by Mohamed Aruham on Twitter.

You may have been spared exposure to this periodic shitstorm if you’re not Polish or French: was Maria Skłodowska-Curie a “Polish” or “French” scientist? 😱

The only useful lesson we may draw from the whole story is the answer to the question: why was young Maria even forced to go to study in Paris?

And she had to because universities in Russia-occupied Poland did not accept women, who could at best obtain secondary education 🤷 Leading Polish scientists organised covert education for women called Flying University (due to frequent changes in the teaching location), which is an amazing but entirely separate story. But, using modern analogies, you can’t study CERN-level physics at lectures organised in private flats at risk of arrest.

For me, the main lesson from Skłodowska’s story is that state policies, obviously, do impact personal choices of people, including emigration. States complaining about “brain drain” are essentially like the popular meme guy putting a stick into his bicycle’s wheel and complaining about this entirely self-inflicted harm.

Yet another topic is the nationality-obsessed attribution of “ours” and “theirs” scientists or artists, which expresses the more the person in question doesn’t care about it. One Russian Jew told me a suitable joke, which perfectly sums up the public perception of this:

— Mom, other children call me a “Jewish mouth” at school

— Well, you have to stand that for a while and then when you get the Nobel prize everyone will start calling you a “renowned Russian scientist”.

You can’t see any better response to #Russia “peace proponents” that what #Germany Foreign Office has just posted on Twitter:

There has been no lack of efforts in the last two years by the international community and by the #Ukraine to get Putin to end the Russian war of aggression. But his answer is always: more suffering, death and destruction.

1 March 2022 — When peace in Ukraine was negotiated in Istanbul, Putin responded with the most brutal crimes against the people of Bucha and Irpin.

2 Summer 2023 — When several African countries wanted to enter into peace talks, they had to leave Moscow disappointed. During earlier talks in Kyiv, they were greeted with the explosions of Russian missiles.

3 June 2024 — When around 100 delegations from all over the world, from Argentina to Qatar to Thailand, met in Switzerland to discuss peace based on international law, Putin responded with waves of bombs on Ukrainian power plants.

4 July 2024 — When the international community called on Russia to withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant at the UN General Assembly, Putin did nothing of the sort and instead once again fired on targets in the region around the nuclear power plant and throughout Ukraine.

5 July 2024 — Nevertheless, Ukraine invited Russia to the next peace summit. But Putin’s reaction was swift: missile terror, violence, death and a clear rejection of diplomacy.

Nevertheless, people are still screaming for peaceful negotiations. That it was the West’s fault that Russia invaded, and that the war is still being carried out. That Ukraine is supposedly not interested in negotiations.

This list proves once again what not only the Ukrainian government, but leaders from all over the world always say. Russia is not interested in peace talks. Russia is only interested in one thing, to prolong this war and to win it by any means necessary, and to overwhelm the country and its people with war and terror.

Original: https://x.com/AuswaertigesAmt/status/1828725371228856677 (in German)

Translation: https://x.com/deaidua/status/1828731994953453970 (in English)

@bperruche

Poza tym warto co mówi @polamatysiak i Horała bo tam jest wyraźnie określony program - nie zlanie prezentowanych przez nich systemów wartości tylko wspólna praca nad projektami, które są ważne dla wszystkich.

@wariat @rcz

Polska lewica już nie lubi w internacjonalizm i preferuje ścisłe tradycje plemienne 😉

@rcz @bperruche

Zwłaszcza, że zobaczcie ilość reakcji na ogłoszenie tej inicjatywy…

@polamatysiak

A #Chicago activist Michael McLean demonstrating 30 years of spent fuel in a LaSalle County #nuclear power plant. That’s it, these containers represent over quarter of century of low-carbon generation.

And it’s incorrect to call it “waste” - the fuel in these containers still contains 90%+ usable uranium which is just unsuitable for generation as it has been “polluted” by fission byproducts. But it can be reprocessed back into new fuel - the only reason why it’s not being done today is that it’s cheaper to use newly mined uranium for that purpose. This may change in future and then these containers will be opened and reused.

On average, only 4% of each container is actual “nuclear waste” that needs to be stored somewhere long-term. But even that doesn’t means “millenia”, because the very point of radioactive decay is that this waste loses activity pretty quickly. The more active it is, the faster it decays - and the byproducts separated from spent fuel will drop down to 7% of their original activity in only 100 years.

@didleth

LiberaPay działa bardzo fajnie, używam od kilku lat. Stripe to po prostu firma przetwarzająca płatności kartami, powszechnie używana. Ale LiberaPay obsługuje także przelewy SEPA.

@agnieszka @kuba @arek

@TruthSandwich

I also thought about it, but this doesn’t remove the fundamental barrier raised by Russians - access to the kids. Those with fake birth certificates have now disappeared in Russia and if you can’t find them, you can’t even request a DNA test. That was the purpose of the fake birth certificates in the first place, and you can expect full Russian red tape here. The only chance is that in 20 years when they grow up, they will do a commercial DNA test and find out accidentally.

@aral

Aral, this story is bullshit. It’s yet another of US companies to thwart a regulation that hurts their business, nothing more - I’ve explained it in details here:

https://agora.echelon.pl/notice/AbOZJBmQBHLG8ySyZs

@agnieszka

Ale jakie dobra osobiste są naruszane przez transkrypcję czyjejś publicznej wypowiedzi na kazaniu w kościele? I w jaki sposób naruszane są dane osobowe wygłaszającego je księdza?

@piotrsikora @panoptykon @didleth

@didleth

Wypowiedź publiczna w miejscu publicznym nie podpada pod ochronę danych osobowych. Prawa autorskie też średnio, chyba żeby potem te transkrypcje sprzedawać :)

@piotrsikora