This article from Democracy Now interviews Rabea Eghbariah, the lawyer that wrote it, and has the entire censored article embedded:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/5/harvard_columbia_law_school_nakba_censorship

Direct link to censored article (pdf):
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24733670/toward-nakba-as-a-legal-concept-rabea-eghbariah.pdf

This article has some good info, especially in the photos.

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I review post histories: if I see that comment content and the history is less than six months old and also full of bot lookin’ shit, I just block. If it’s egregious I reply with a post to that effect so others know too.

They get one chance with me, because I approach these threads in good faith and that has value to me. If they’ve blown it because it’s obvious they can’t or won’t, then too fucking bad.

I look at threads like this as an opportunity to round them up while they gather at the trough in groups. Block them here and never have to see them again. They’ll still have to spend the effort to create new accounts, but every troll blocked is one more I never have to see again.

Got a face like a deflated waterbed, that one.

Two month old account, all trollish whataboutery, bothsidesing, pro-Russia/anti-Ukraine: what are the chances ol’ index over here is getting paid per post? In rubles?

Blocked, and good riddance.

I don’t have to make anything up, and I note that you did not post a single word of what Mia Farrow or Ronan Farrow had to say about it either.

Posting one side of a very heated and ongoing family squabble does not an adequate rebuttal make.

EDITED TO ADD that I have deleted my original comment because I will not knowingly give pedophile apologists a springboard to launch their twisted defense of him.

4 day old account, most of it comments like this, probably getting paid in rubles. Block that shit if you value your reading time.

Yes, exactly. Paul and Linda came to visit John when he was living with May Pang in LA, according to her documentary, and there was other sporadic contact after the breakup, but not hostile.

If memory serves the whole breakup thing was because they had been working almost non-stop for ages, and then the catalyst was that Allen Klein (who was a truly sketch individual even by the most generous accounts) got involved with their management, and that just pushed it all too far.

But they never hated each other, McCartney and Lennon had been friends literally since childhood. They were just hurt and angry, and surrounded by users who stood to make coin by capitalizing on their own specific individual relationships with band members, like Klein.

Polanski raped a child.

Multiple children. A number of other now adult women have later accused Polanski of raping them when they were teenagers. Right now he’s back in legal trouble right now for another, earlier victim that has now come forward. Not sure what it will accomplish as it’s a civil trial, he doesn’t have to come back for it, but at least this accuser will get her day in court, and if she wins she can garnish/levy any US assets he may hold or generate.

And Woody Allen . . . DELETED because I will not give pedophile apologists a springboard for defense of his sick shit.

EDITED TO ADD: The asshole who defended him on this thread just downvoted like thirty of my posts in the last hour, apparently thinking downvotes are private in his vast personal command of technology. Seriously. I just attached screenshots. This is hilarious! I want you to know I will go to bed tonight laughing because I pissed off a pedophile apologist enough for him to hunt me down and girly bitchslap as many of my comments with downvotes as he could reach, lol. Go git the rest of 'em, lil buddy. There’s only like 1200+ more to go, and I know you’ve been working up that hand strength, so give it a shot. Wear yourself out, seriously. And then follow me like a sad puppy for the rest of your online days because hiding in the shadows is what the people you defend love the most.

SECOND EDIT to add Imgur link: https://imgur.com/a/I6QUrtx

To everyone in this thread thinking ooh, how horrible for those poor women, where can I get some, may all your deepfake nudes end up looking like Donald Trump mushroom hunting with sixteen misshapen fingers through Jabba the Hutt folds of his own curdled fat.

You’re not wrong. Clearly Texas does have at least one juvenile facility – the one where he was taken for evaluation – but why they’re not keeping him there is not evident.

Clearly the family is not up to the challenge; they can’t even keep their own guns secured. If the authorities do not intervene now, this kid is just going to keep going. Juvies and jails are like finishing schools. He’ll come out of it not actually better, just better at it. The 20th century is full of examples of the utter failure of penal systems for turning around a bad start, from Clyde Barrow to Charles Manson .

This kid is already well on his way to a full lifetime of similar behavior:

The boy is being held in juvenile detention for threatening a student on a bus in another incident earlier this month . . . after sheriff’s deputies were contacted on April 12 of this year about a student who threatened to assault and kill another student on a school bus.

I have Foxit installed and can usually use that, but am forced to have Adobe Reader installed for other reasons.

Adobe Reader will now never be updated on my machine. It’s a small price to pay. And Foxit is great for most pdf tasks.

Yeah, this is just the opening salvo; the actual hearing is on Monday. But NY state law on both the payment of judgements and what constitutes an actual surety is clear, and Letitia James is just quietly locking every door around this fool with it, whether he knows it or not.

As the representative of the winning party in the original lawsuit, Letitia James already has the right to decline any surety under NY state law. But this filing and others before it demonstrate that she’s going out of her way to create an actual legal basis for the repeated rejection of this non-existent surety, just to ensure Trump’s play is ultimately unwinnable.

He’s already just another defendant who can’t pay and Ms. James is not fooled. She’s keeping her eye on the real ball legally and not getting distracted by his never-ending shouts of “Squirrel!”

The actual hearing is on Monday. Should be interesting.

There was a point not so long ago where Adobe Collaboration Sync got so bad on my Windows 10 box it wouldn’t let me close any pdfs that were open. “File in use” error, even if all Adobe programs were closed except for that pdf. I’d have to go into Task Manager and manually kill it. Between that and Adobe Updater I couldn’t get rid of it by any known means, and it was choking the shit out of my machine.

I’m transitioning to Linux but not there yet, still need the Windows box for now, so I had to do something. But I’m old school, so it was a DOS batch file to the rescue. I call it “kiladobe.bat”:

taskkill /f /im armsvc.exe       
del "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\armsvc.exe"      
taskkill /f /im AdobeCollabSync.exe     
del "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\AdobeCollabSync.exe"      

It’s now a scheduled task in taskschd.msc. I put kiladobe.bat in the main Adobe program folder (heh) and run that task as administrator at startup and every four hours or so, give or take an hour.

No more problems.

Now, all that remains is that every so often I see the command window flash up for a split second because this batch file is killing Adobe shit, and it just makes me smile. (I could probably make it stop flashing up the CLI, but I genuinely enjoy the reminder of how I’m fucking Adobe’s virus-like install and lock endeavors up the ass.)

EDITED TO ADD a simple “@echo off” by itself as the first line would probably turn off any appearance of the CLI, if anyone wants to use this text for their own batch file. If that didn’t work I’d probably throw a space and a “>nul” at the end of each line to grab the output and throw it into neverneverland.

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And David Cameron is back from the politically dead as foreign secretary.

Note that I am not equating him with the list of bald-ass liars you just named; his is a different crime. It was Cameron’s fucking arrogance that got the UK into Brexit to begin with.

No list of Brexit facilitators is complete without his name at the top, IMO. Whatever Johnson, Gove, Hunt and the rest did with it, Cameron gave them the platform with that referendum.

Cameron meant for it to be meaningless – “non-binding” – an easy way to grandstand and show the backbenchers who was still boss. The Leavers just said, “Hold my beer.” And here we are.

Thank you for taking the time to write this and link your sources, much appreciated. Excellent comment.

Your guess is as good as mine. Closest I’ve been able to come is sonorism, and a similarity to composers like György Ligeti, but this work was entirely vocal: no instruments, no band, not even SATB, just people making strange mouth noises, lol.

Forty-plus years ago, when I was in high school, the teacher doing chorus was crazy. Mostly for things not involving music, but there was this one time he pulled out new sheet music, told us we were going to learn it for some recital, and it was pictures of someone’s impressions of sound waves; literally, line drawings of what someone’s idea of that sound would be.

Not actual sine waves, artistic impressions of . . . something. Like, ten pages of little illustrations like nested circles or interlocking triangles that we were supposed to look at, understand by sight, and then reproduce vocally.

He then played a recording of this . . . work, and that left us all even more horrified than we were by the sheet music. I would not care to hear it again. An orchestra tuning would have had more structure and melody; this was like someone playing a busted theramin.

He tried and tried to get everyone excited and onboard with it, and honestly, we just didn’t get it. Mercifully, he gave up after a few days.

I actually saw a reference to it several years later, back in the 90s, so it wasn’t just something he pulled out of his ass (did I mention he was crazy?) but I couldn’t tell you the name of it, or what it was supposed to be; a musicologist could. It was like vocal exercises without any reference to musical notation.