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Forwarded from Today I Learned 🎓
TIL That 4 months before the Rwandan genocide happened General Roméo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations peacekeeping forces warned the UN that a genocide could happen but they ignored him [Source]
Three years have passed since Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd. While politicians encouraged protesters to seek redress through the "justice" system, nothing could bring back his life, nor the lives of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, or any of the other people murdered by police in a structurally racist system.

The conviction of the officers who murdered George Floyd was an exceptional case aimed chiefly at pacifying an outraged population. Over the past three years, police have continued to murder Black and Brown people at the same pace.

What will it take to stop the police from killing?

https://crimethinc.com/endpolice

This is the question we must all ask today.
Forwarded from Ministry of good ideas
Good idea: sleep enough

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22354-2

TL;DR: A study found that sleeping six hours or less per night at ages 50 and 60 is associated with a higher risk of dementia in later life. Persistent short sleep duration at these ages is also linked to a 30% increased risk of dementia, regardless of other factors. The study, which followed 7,959 participants over 25 years, suggests that short sleep (less than 7h) duration in midlife is associated with a higher risk of developing dementia later on.
Erdoğan's victory in the Turkish elections is another gain for autocracy in the Mideast and worldwide. We have to study the roots of Turkish fascism, understand how it relates to the steady gains of authoritarians around the world, and strategize as to how to stop them everywhere. Voting is not enough.

https://crimethinc.com/2019/11/12/the-roots-of-turkish-fascism-and-the-threat-it-poses
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TIL Eminem holds the record for fastest rap verse, rapping 11 syllables per second, or 222 words in 30 seconds, in the third verse of his Godzilla. [Source]
Twitter-Zensur in der Türkei ist zwar ein alter Hut, aber guter Punkt.
Atlanta Police and Prosecutors Target Legal Support Activists

https://crimethinc.com/AtlantaSolidarity2023

Seeking to protect their cash cow, Cop City, Atlanta police have arrested three legal support organizers connected to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, charging them with “money laundering” and “charity fraud.” This comes less than a week before Atlanta City Council will decide whether to allocate additional millions of dollars to fund Cop City.

This marks a new low for Atlanta police and prosecutors in their descent into totalitarian tactics. Since December, in addition to murdering one protester, they have pressed trumped-up domestic terrorism charges against practically every defendant they have arrested. Now, in order to ensure that defendants in the movement to protect the forest cannot get proper legal defense, they are attacking activists who help to raise bail and provide legal support.

We discuss the precedents and implications of this attack on all forms of solidarity organizing.

#StopCopCity
Aus dem Tagesspiegel Checkpoint:
"In Marzahn-Hellersdorf haben Sie die besten Chancen, eine Zombie-Invasion zu überleben. Das geht aus einer komplett seriösen Datenanalyse des Immobilienportals „Rentola“ hervor, auf die die prä-apokalyptische Welt gewartet hat. Untersucht wurde, welche Orte in Deutschland im Fall einer Zombie-Apokalypse am sichersten wären. Bewertet wurde das anhand von Risikofaktoren: Verletzlichkeit (hohe Bevölkerungsdichte, Katastrophenrisiko-Index und Co.), Versteckmöglichkeiten (Waldfläche, Wohnungsgrößen), Vorräte (Treibstoff, Waffen, Nahrung), Mobilitäts- und Verteidigungsangebot (Waffen, Militärstützpunkte).

Im Berliner Bezirksvergleich ist Neukölln mal wieder Schlusslicht, na klar. Hier überlebt man die Apokalypse mit der berlinweit geringsten Wahrscheinlichkeit. Gerade erst das Image als Corona-Hotspot abgelegt, könnte sich Neukölln zum Zombie-Hort entwickeln, ist mal wieder – Zitat aus der Analyse – „gefährlichster Bezirk in Berlin“. Falls Sie an Zombies glauben, ziehen Sie lieber um – aber bloß nicht die Stadt verlassen, schon gar nicht in Richtung Potsdam. Brandenburgs Landeshauptstadt schneidet von allen 402 untersuchten Regionen am viertschlechtesten ab. Wobei mein Potsdamer Kollege Henri Kramer berechtigterweise methodische Zweifel anmeldet: „Ich finde die Analyse schwierig, weil man in Potsdams Nähe auch das Militärhistorische Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow hat, wo es großkalibrige Waffen und schweres Gerät gibt, um sich gegen die Untoten zu behaupten.“ Journalismus am Limit."
Wer den Zombie Survival Guide - so wie ich - gelesen hat, würde Grossstädte im Falle einer Zombie-Invasion sowieso meiden. Sinn und Unsinn einer solchen Analyse wurde im obigen Zitat bereits angesprochen, wer sich die "Studie" dennoch geben möchte, hier entlang: https://nl.tagesspiegel.de/r.html?uid=F.hqJfY80Da6JfbAGiX23OAA6kG6Jfcs4AA5rMol9zzmR4Je2iX3XOAjS8gg.3DgM6nkvW7dmHTFDgHJc66UpQ_6MRabLPBmLOyT3h_Z2us0YHB2PwxoKrrfu0_KICaDuz2YhKXtvN8lGrBIKWQ