Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 21

Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 06:39:33 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

now, does the denounced fabrication of a case rule out the possibility that the women were actual victims of some sort of sexual misconduct? it doesn't. the false evidence, their insistence in not pressing charges, recorded in their own messages, casts serious doubt on the fabricated case, suggesting something very fishy in which they might or might not have been accomplices. but that's besides the point. we're not judging them. we're trying to figure out whether there's evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime was committed. I can't read swedish, but even if the manufactured narratives could be enough to justify investigations, someone who can read swedish and who frequently deals with abuse of authority, and who overcame the flood of smearing propaganda to the point of examining it found it laughable and corrupt.
that kind of corruption doesn't require an international conspiracy. an overzealous law enforcement agent who perceives an opportunity for career advancement by catching a big fish is enough to get it started, and once it's set in motion, once a twisted narrative hits the public knowledge and gets spread like this one did, it becomes very costly, to that same career, to retreat. that others would find it advantageous to their own causes to take advantage of those false narratives to advance smokescreens and smearing campaigns adds complexity, but it doesn't require a nefarious international conspiracy. not that we can rule it out either.

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 06:21:23 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

there are tons of conflicting allegations in that wikipedia article. wikipedia aims at a neutral PoV, but it fails to hide a certain bias in this article. for one, it doesn't attempt to explain the contradiction that the swedish authorities couldn't file charges before questioning, but he *had* been questioned before on at least one of the allegations, and yet even that one was allowed it to lapse without charges. why?
it's also worth noting that the controversy around the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, whose interview you disqualify, is covered only to the extent of describing and linking the very interview I mentioned as a source, then describing and linking to a critical response to a much earlier article he published, and linking without describing his own response.
even more interestingly, the one point that the critical response quoted and criticized, about the way he exposed to ridicule the fabrication of the accusations by authorities (that the critical response misrepresents as ridiculing the alleged victims), is not even present in the interview that wikipedia misrepresents as the criticized article.
the article that wikipedia doesn't even reference, at https://web.archive.org/web/20240106123432/<https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-b252ffdcb768>, is *far* more damning to the case than the interview, even if you dismiss the criticized bits.
the controversy is another element of the smokescreen of smearing and distraction
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  Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange
  
  from Medium
  
  By Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 01:09:11 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

got a link to the charges, then? or does sweden not charge suspects of rape? how do you twist reality so that not charging him for a supposed serious crime, and then dropping the case without any further evidence makes any sense?

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:36:56 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

I'll relax when it lands safely.
this reminds me of the day president Lula turned himself in for an unjust arrest.
the collective fear that the plane would crash while taking him to the place where he would be imprisoned was palpable

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:08:23 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
- Shane Celis
isn't that discriminatory to people who experience extreme discomfort with eye contact? :-)/2

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:06:34 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

en.wikipedia.org is not exactly a book, but I've found plenty of relevant material about neurodiversity there. it may be good, at least to get started.
here's a short intro: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-is-neurodiversity-202111232645
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  What is neurodiversity? - Harvard Health
  
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  The term neurodiversity conveys the idea that there is no single right way of thinking, learning, or behaving, and is often used in the context of autism spectrum disorder. A growing self-ad...
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 21:30:45 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
- Mans R
Na'vi was already taken

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 21:25:27 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

e isso tudo porque zeleny (em transliteração do ucraniano) significa verde
já pensou se fosse o maduro?

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 21:20:35 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Think Assange & Stallman. The empires strike back.
https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange
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  «A murderous system is being created before our very eyes»
  
  For the first time, Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur, speaks at length about his investigations into the case of Julian Assange. And he provides explosive evidence.
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 20:58:28 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
- Christine Lemmer-Webber
I can never pass those captchas tests that require electronic appendages for running javascript. I figure that that would be cheating, and I can't really run that much javascript in my head.

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 20:57:49 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

New blog post: Free Assange!
https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2024-06-25-free-assange.en.html

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 18:42:40 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

welcome to the IT Crowd show :-)

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 18:01:35 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

thank you for beating me to sharing this report that sets the record straight.
it's not the first nor the last time that false accusations are used for character assassination. some people make a career out of spreading or even of making up such disinformation. it sucks that we're so vulnerable to this kind of manipulation, and that the exploiters know it and aren't shy to abuse it.

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 17:38:15 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

that's how it was sold. but spectre, meltdown and the never-ending stream of side-channels they sprang proved that the sandbox is porous. it's a nice illusion, for those who fall for it. for me, it's a nightmare, and an accessibility problem

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 17:34:59 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

when I was young, people were taught to avoid running code downloaded from untrusted sites.
then macros and viruses of macros came up, and people were taught to disable macros.
now web sites demand people to enable javascript, i.e., to enable "macros" so that the web site operators can install and run programs on the guest users' computers.
that's not a nice way to treat guests!
https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/#specmelt
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/wwworst-app-store.html

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 12:05:27 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

in my experience with romance languages, it's not so much about remembering consciously, but about training an intuition. after enough training, the convention sounds right and the alternatives sound odd.

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 21:28:42 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

I hope it's not some kind of trick

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 21:24:55 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

is it a unix system?

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 20:53:25 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

alimentação é uma boa aposta. micronutrientes em desequilíbrio são causa comum de muitos funcionamentos mentais atípicos. neurodivergência parece que favorece os desequilíbrios, por consumo atípico de alguns micronutrientes e perda deles durante crises, e aí é fácil entrar em ciclos viciosos com diversos desequilíbrios e disfunções se retroalimentando

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 20:44:05 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

mime type: energy/PoE
alt text: power cord with a US power plug on one end, and an RJ45 plug on the other

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