Will this let me bypass those “login to verify age” walls? I hate those.

Nah, he was sheep dipped as a communist by US intelligence. A real communist as outspoken as he was would never have been allowed to keep his security clearance. He learned the Russian language at a school that was only attended by US intelligence agents who were going on assignments. He was likely told by his commanders that he was going to spy on Russia, but his true purpose was to make it look like a communist sympathizer (or Soviet spy) was behind the assassination.

All of his activities as a communist were high profile incidents designed to gain attention and create a paper trail, but involved no genuine effort. Michael Parenti described his depth of knowledge of communism as “laughable”.

https://hexbear.net/comment/7252678

Maybe you missed some other important context from that lecture.

@17:50

Lee Harvey Oswald spent most of his adult life not as a lonely drifter, but directly linked to the US intelligence community. At the age of 18 in the US Marines, he had [a] secret security clearance and he was working at Marine air control in Atsugi base in Japan. Atsugi was a top secret base where the CIA launched some of its U2 flights, and did other kinds of covert operations in China.

The next year at the age of 19 he was assigned to El Toro air station in California with security clearance to work radar. And here, certain strange things began to happen. He emerged as a babbling Russophile and Soviet communist. He started playing Russian language records at blast level in his barracks. He started addressing his fellow Marines in Russian. He read Russian books and touted Soviet communism as, quote, “the best system in the world”. He called his fellow Marines “comrades”.

Now, the US Marine Corps in 1958 was not exactly known as [a] bastion of liberal tolerance and free thinking. My buddy Bernard Livingston wrote a book called Closet Red; he tells of his experience in the army where they had to filter out anybody who had funny opinions—who had pinko-ish opinions or whatever else—they had to be reported. [Livingston tells] that the army constantly, and I’m sure the Marines [too], constantly surveil[ed] anybody who might outspokenly or actively begin to say, or act, certainly, in the way he did.

But in this instance? Oswald’s Marine commanders didn’t mind. He kept his security clearance. He kept all the radar records. He could see what was going in and out and knew all about the things that were happening there—a wealth of sensitive radar information and other highly sensitive information from sensitive bases—black operations, as they were called.

@31:49

Once back in Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald settles in under the wing of one George de Mohrenschildt, a right-wing Russian with CIA ties. And this begins a whole pattern that goes on in Dallas and New Orleans, namely, forays out into the public eye as a leftist. He starts a one person Fair Play for Cuba organization in New Orleans [and] never recruits another member. In all his time in New Orleans and in Dallas he never once contacts a single member of the communist party or any other left organization, although he writes lots of letters to the Communist Party USA and the Socialist Worker’s Party, two groups which at that time that weren’t even talking to each other: “Dear comrades, how are you? We fight forward and we go on. Yes, what should I do?” and this and that, “Send me instructions”, you know.

He blazes a trail. Local TV, fistfights, inflammatory incidents, leaflets. One of the leaflets showed that his organization was on Camp St. [in] the very same building that Guy Banister had his office (Guy Banister was an FBI agent), and a whole bunch of other Cuban émigré right-wing groups were there.

And his personal relations were with right-wing anti-communist Cubans, or with right-wing crypto-fascists, or CIA-types, or others. So while he was supposedly was this “leftist”—and if you ever heard any of the tapes of him speaking and explaining what communism was or what socialism was, it’s laughable. It’s this little rote, superficial thing—while he was a “leftist”, in fact, all his personal associations were with right-wing people linked to the intelligence community.

Open-source developer Scott Shambaugh deleted an AI-generated code submission to Matplotlib, which has 130 million users. In response, the AI agent (of unknown ownership) created a blog post publicly lashing out at him.

It’s missing this methyl group, so it’s (technically) a different molecule.

Edit: Also the bottom left-most ring should have five members instead of six.

Using JavaScript defeats the purpose of Tor

Peculiarities:

• Comparison of Lemmy instances contains Hexbear but not lemmy.ml

• Fediverse Observer contains lemmy.ml but not Hexbear.

It’s the devs’ test instance.

The devs are Marxist-Leninists. They’re the admins of the instance. Therefore the instance has nuanced-to-positive views on Actually Existing Socialist (AES) states, and allows for criticism of Democrats from the left.

It’s been defederated by instances whose admins aren’t wiling to critically examine their lifetime of capitalist programming and are accustomed to Reddit’s universal condemnation of AES states.

Qubes OS

The default transcoding profile uses ffmpeg’s veryfast preset, which is the third fastest of the ten available presets, and already leaves a lot of quality to be desired IMO. Using a different transcoding profile requires the use of server plugins, as would the ability to set the profile per channel or video. I haven’t checked to see if a plugin exists which allows the user to select a profile, but it’s something I’m also interested in myself. I’m also not sure if using a different profile makes a transcoding job any more or less likely to fail.

He’s very wrong

Pig poop balls vs. snail poop head

All VPNs are blocked on my university’s network

I live off campus, thankfully, but it sucks that I can’t have any privacy on my laptop while on campus.

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The Slavic brainpan cannot hold disparate ideas. This proves that every one of their news outlets is propaganda (unlike those in my home country).

I am an unbiased news consumer.

Who proved it?

A D.C. think tank?