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The Republican governor of Louisiana is jumping on the Supreme Court’s evisceration of voting rights to cancel the state’s upcoming primary elections to help avert a humiliating defeat for Donald Trump at the midterms.

The high court ruled 6-3 along partisan lines on Wednesday to strike down Louisiana’s voting map, with the conservative majority finding that lawmakers had unlawfully factored in race when creating a new majority-Black district in the state.

The decision prompted a quick response from Gov. Jeff Landry, who is determined to redraw the voting maps to grab his party another seat in Congress.

It said Landry, a MAGA favorite who also serves as Trump’s envoy to Greenland, told House Republican candidates he is planning to suspend next month’s primary elections in order to give state lawmakers enough time to pass a new congressional map, according to two people with knowledge of the calls.

The primaries are currently scheduled for May 16. People familiar with the plans said that Landry’s announcement could come as early as Friday, one day before early voting was set to begin.

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The moniker, a reference to “Donbas” and “Donald,” was described by four people familiar with the negotiations, who all spoke about it on the condition of anonymity because of the secrecy surrounding them.

When a Ukrainian negotiator first mentioned the term, partly in jest, it was as part of an attempt to convince the Trump administration to push back more against Russia’s territorial demands, according to three of the people familiar with the talks. President Vladimir V. Putin has vowed to keep fighting until Russian forces reach a key administrative boundary on the edge of the Donbas, the industrial region in eastern Ukraine where the Kremlin first started waging war in 2014.

That a name evocative of Disneyland has been applied to a depopulated, decimated swath of Ukrainian coal-and-steel country could appear jarring as Europe’s deadliest fighting since World War II continues to rage. But it also reflects a global reality in which governments appeal to Mr. Trump’s vanity in order to get American might on their side.

A misconfigured server linked to the carding marketplace Jerry’s Store exposed 345,000 stolen credit cards after an AI coding error caused a major security flaw.

It's not just "fake news" or just crude propaganda. It's something more subtle and more dangerous:

It is the art of making the exploited end up defending the exploiters.

It is to numb our class consciousness so that, instead of uniting against the exploitative system, we fight amongst ourselves for a few crumbs.

The bourgeoisie no longer needs to censor exclusively with bayonets. It suffices for them to shape what we feel, what we see, what we believe is possible. And for that, they use science, data, and above all: the platforms we use every day.

Networks are not neutral: they are factories of meaning.

If the owner of any factory decides what is produced, how, and for whom... why would it be any different with digital platforms?

The algorithm is not an impartial device: it is a social relationship crystallized in code. Its job is to keep us hooked, not well-informed.

Your attention is their raw material: every like, every scroll, every minute on screen generates value for them. We all work for free so they can gain money and power.

Polarization is at the heart of the business: if we are divided, angry, and confused, we cannot organize. And if we cannot organize, the system will remain unchanged.

Class consciousness does not "appear" on its own.

Lenin stated it clearly: revolutionary consciousness does not arise spontaneously from discontent. It requires study, organization, and political leadership.

Today, the digital environment makes that transition more difficult:

• It shows you a thousand injustices, but it takes away the tools to understand their common root: capital.
• It invites you to "activate" with a click, but it distances you from collective, radical, strategic construction. It offers you fragmented identities ("I am from this side", "I hate that group") so that you forget the fundamental belonging: we are the working class.

And what about the "zone of proximal development"? Is it useful to us?

Vygotsky spoke of how we learn with the help of more expert individuals. In revolutionary terms, this translates as follows: The gap between what we understand today and what we need to understand to transform reality is not crossed alone. It is crossed through organization, with theory, with practice, with colleagues who lend us a hand.

The problem is that today, on social media, the "expert" who guides you is not a trained professional who challenges the system, but an algorithm designed to sell you something or mislead you.

But be aware: the tool doesn't have the final say. What matters is who controls it and for what purpose.

• Under bourgeois leadership: platforms fragment us, tire us, adapt us.
• Under popular direction: they can serve to connect struggles, share analysis, organize actions.

Technology is not the enemy. Capitalism is.

So what do we do?

Simply "disconnecting" isn't enough. The battle is for awareness, and that's where we need to be. Some key points:

1. Study to avoid being manipulated: read, discuss, train cadres. Theory is not a luxury: it is a weapon.
2. Organize, don't just voice opinions: indignation without strategy is fleeting. Let's defend our real structures: unions, assemblies, the party.
3. Contest the means of "mental production": let's not allow platforms to be just enemy territory. Let's create counter-information, popular networks, and revolutionary digital pedagogy.
4. Uniting struggles without erasing differences: the cognitive war wants us to be pitted against each other (worker vs. migrant, woman vs. man, urban vs. rural, white vs. black). Our real strength lies in anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist articulation.

Source -> https://t.me/LaManiguaRevolucionPaRato/4993

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• Putting The PS5 DRM Claims To The Test

For those wondering why PC gaming on Linux is the best both all worlds here's probably the best example that could ever exist.

Thanks Sony, you really showed Sony Playstation fans why either self-building a gaming PC or buying a SteamCube is the way to go.

For PS5 Owners

Please don't lose hope and despair as jailbreaks are still possible💪:

• State of PS4/PS5 Jailbreak 2026

You may however; not want to procrastinate and delay jailbreaking because the currently known processes will inevitably be patched out and future JB steps might become more complex than its current form.

Would you rather fight the Radroach now or fight it after it becomes a Deathclaw? Your choice🤷‍♀️.

Anyways I hope this is useful to you guys🙌 cause I personally find the anti-consumer enshitification behavior from companies as really juvenile and barbaric🖕.

For Sony

Sony please reconsider this.
Sacrificing your consumer base for your investors and stakeholders is LITERALLY how you get a repeat of: Free entertainment for the general populace, needless tragedy for no reason unless you have a sudoku fetish🤷‍♂️
you do you I guess.

Honestly, do you want someone to break into your home and assassinate you in bed? Cause shit like this is how you can piss someone off enough to motivate them to do this. I'm not even a PS5 owner and this pisses me off.

Waking up everyday to see new shit like this is tiring as it feels like an endless fight against the irrationality that these corpos dump onto anyone that isn't a fucking billionaire. I hate to say it but this type of corporate backseating on ownership of people's devices might eventually create riots.

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/34862275