On this day in 1968, the May 68 Rebellion, the largest general strike in French history, began when school officials shut down the University of Paris after months of student protests, escalating to nationwide unrest.
In mid-March, leftist students had occupied an administration building there, although they left peacefully after their demands were published. On May 6th, more than 20,000 students, teachers, and supporters engaged in a protest march. The march was attacked by police and devolved into a riot.
The state repression of protesters caused two major left union federations, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) and the Force Ouvrière (CGT-FO), to call a one-day general strike on May 13th. More than one million people demonstrated that day.
By the middle of May, demonstrations had extended to factories, though their demands were different from the students'. Across France, students occupied university structures and up to one-third of the country's workforce was on strike.
The protests were so widespread and energetic that many political leaders feared civil war or revolution. President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France to Germany at one point, and the national government at times ceased to function.
Revolution was averted when de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly and scheduled an election that the left dissidents agreed to participate in. Revolutionary fervor subsided and the government banned a number of leftist organizations in the following months.
In the election, de Gaulle's party won the greatest victory in French parliamentary history, taking 353 of 486 seats versus the Communists' 34 and the Socialists' 57.
How Beautiful It Was - Jacobin https://jacobin.com/2018/05/how-beautiful-it-was/
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this is a repost since i posted this thing a little toooooo fuckin' late. hope you all enjoy, was proud of how this drawing turned out
day 2 of work, woke up with a splitting headache. while at work i was watching some random minecraft scary videos for some reason and found one where a cute anime girl ai assistant thing infected a pirated copy of minecrap and killed people with seizures because a guy was fired from mojang because reasons.
that kill method reminded me of pivot stickfigure videos i used to watch as a kid that had the punchline of "yea have strobe lights", hence the seizure time thing. imagined her just asking "are you dead yet? this should've killed you, i killed 5 people with this!"
the design was too cute for me to ignore so LELKINS ART DROP, YOU ALL KNOW I AM STILL AROUND.
i actually forgot the character's name but look i drew something cute i know you all like my stuff here ya go
the reply i made for that post to explain more shit:
i know i don’t post much. i don’t have much to post and i don’t have much time for anything. i try really hard to calm myself down after work so you’ll see me do stuff very rarely.
i am just tired of everything sadly, like i am burned out from work and many other factors that i can’t put my finger on.
i am in the hexbear matrix server and it’s really chill so yea. you’ll see me a ton there
Cute chara
holy shit kuroppi! hey!! it's been ages, how's it been?
work is killing me still
It's been alright :) i missed seeing your art around, some of the characters just had a nostalgic, sometimes goofy, style that really has the right vibe
lemmygrad got anubis now so i can basically do drawing posts no probalo
but life got in the way so i can't do much. glad you're okay
Ooooh! So this cute fox is anubis?
I wondered why I kept seeing her around. I made a grad acct too a short while back, that's good that they have the blocker
yes that's anubis from the well known open source anti-ai system "anubis"
it's the best we can have. if lemmygrad can have it set up, so can hexbear! i
HIGHLY
recommend it's set up, knowing all the anti-ai stance i know that hexbear has
federation makes preventing ai scraping a challenge. and I don't know about recently, but in the past I've noticed a lot of pushback to anything making the site less accessible to older devices, browsers, non-typical software configurations, etc. (hence the creation of diethex.net).
But if it makes the site more stable maybe that's worth it.
there were attempts at no-js anti ai scraping things. i just wish we never had to have this shit but here we are
i fucking love low spec stuff. it'd be cool if i can still use my ps3 for the internet
looks like anubis even has one. https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challenges/metarefresh/. I think this is how the antibot used for xcancel, etc is implemented under the hood?
My point is mostly about the reasoning though. like if the point is to prevent our content from being scraped for LLM training, anubis doesn't solve that problem, because we are federated with non-anubis instances, and because anubis doesn't protect the API, which is pretty wide open. If the point is just to protect the servers from the undue load generated by aggressive dumb scrapers, then anubis makes sense, but its not the only tool that can do that certainly
yea i thought about the fact that since there's the lemmy api and defederation, i asked the kind souls over at lemmygrad since they know how to talk to the main devs. took a few months but we got anubis support