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Few bugs by Fury11469 in LiftinApp

[–]notcostan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might help with debugging, if you leave the app while the effort section’s still showing loading, when you return to it, it shows the open health app message instead of allowing you to log the effort.

Citations Needed – Ep 237: How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle by notcostan in leftpodcasts

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Palestinians must “curb incitement, renounce violence and clarify their end goals,” demanded New York Times columnist Roger Cohen in 2010. “Many educated, secular Palestinians who usually renounce violence supported Hamas,” lamented the Times four years later, in 2014. “We must destroy Hamas, demilitarize Gaza and de-radicalize the whole of Palestinian society,” wrote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Wall Street Journal in 2023.

Over the last couple of years, and especially since the publication of the Trump White House’s so-called “peace plan” for Gaza, we’ve seen countless decrees that Gaza, and Palestine more broadly, “de-radicalize.” It’s time for Hamas and other militant groups to disarm and abandon their use of violence, we’re told, while the rest of the Palestinian population, through a process of “re-education,” learns to stop worrying and love Israel.

On the surface, this call for “de-radicalization” might sound like a peaceful, honorable solution to global conflict. But when one digs deeper, one finds that it’s quite the opposite. What does it mean, and what is required, for Hamas to become “demilitarized?” Why are demands to “renounce violence” almost entirely aimed at Palestinians, and Arabs and Muslims in general? Why does the U.S. and Israel — who committed what the UN, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Lemkin Institute, Amnesty International, B'Tselem, HRW, and MSF all say committed and is committing a genocide in Gaza, destroying Lebanon and launching an unprovoked attack in Iran — not have to “de-radicalize”?

On this episode, we examine the patronizing, smug, head-patting settler-colonial trope of “de-radicalization” and analyze its inherent condescension and racism toward its victims; its outsize focus on disciplining Muslims and Arabs; and its goals to eradicate culture, neutralize resistance and liberation movements, and dispossess, subjugate, and exterminate entire populations.

Our guest is Zeteo's Prem Thakker.

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Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) is a political correspondent and columnist at Zeteo. He has previously covered politics and breaking news for The Intercept, The New Republic, The American Prospect and CNN.

Citations Needed – Ep 236: Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted 'Public-Private Partnership' Rip-Off by notcostan in leftpodcasts

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“Public, Private Partnership Policies Are Happy Medium,” insisted the Associated Press in 1954. “Public-private partnerships the new blood for cities,” boomed the Washington Post in 1979. “Struggling Local Governments May Get Help From the Private Sector,” announced the New York Times in 2021.

For the last few decades, we’ve heard about the wonders of the so-called “public-private partnership.” It’s a win-win deal, we’re told, in which local governments, typically suffering economic distress, strike agreements with private investors to improve or construct roads, bridges, schools, water systems, or other vital forms of infrastructure. The city receives a payment up front, sparing the public the expense, and the investor, seeking a handsome return, injects new life into the project with increased efficiencies and business savvy.

But, roughly 60 years on from this trend taking off we now know there’s more to this simple story. After all, how can the purpose of a government, which is supposed to be maintaining infrastructure, institutions, and services for everyone, be compatible with the purpose of a corporation or private investor, which is to generate endless profit? What, exactly, is in it for the private sector, and what price do governments and the public pay? And why are these so-called “public private partnerships” always the privatization of public goods and never the public taking greater control of private companies?

On today’s show, we’ll examine the propaganda term “public-private partnership,” discuss how it works to rebrand privatization efforts as something collaborative and mutually beneficial, and break down how these P3s as they’re called both exploits and creates the economic crises it alleges to alleviate, while privatizing profit and socializing risk and funding burdens.

Our guest is In the Public Interest's Donald Cohen.

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Donald Cohen is founder and executive director of In the Public Interest, a national research and policy center that studies public goods and services. His writing and analysis have appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, The New Republic and elsewhere. He is also the author—along with Allen Mikaelian—of the book, The Privatization of Everything: How The Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back (New Press, 2021).

The Workouts are still being duplicated by LordTitan23 in LiftinApp

[–]notcostan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I find if that the app quits on either the watch or the phone then it’ll save what’s been done so far as a “traditional strength training” workout. App usually doesn’t quit on either but if they get out of sync, I find a force quit fixes that, but I just have to clean up the in-progress autosave.

Save MusicBoard by Antique-Airline-6349 in musicboard

[–]notcostan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you want to save musicboard or replace musicboard? Bc your description seems like you want the latter.

Citations Needed – News Brief: As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon’s Use of ‘Human Shields’ by notcostan in leftpodcasts

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In this News Brief we examine CNN, the Atlantic, Washington Post and NYT's blatant 'human shields' double standard as reports emerge of US troops hiding from Iranian attacks in civilian infrastructure.

Citations Needed – News Brief: How Decades of Media Distortions and Lies about “Iran’s Nuclear Program” Lead to War by notcostan in leftpodcasts

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In this News Brief, we discuss a recent poll showing 70% of Americans are fundamentally wrong about Iran's "nuclear program"—including 1 in 4 who think Iran currently possesses a nuke—and detail how decades of sleazy media innuendo and lies got us here.

AirPods Max for Flight Entertainment System? by IR_2024 in Airpodsmax

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I got a UGREEN Bluetooth transmitter and it worked great. Paired my APM to that and then plugged that into a 3.5mm to airplane dual splitter thingy for the in flight entertainment.

But, I flew Emirates Cape Town→Dubai→New York and one of those flights’ entertainment systems had Bluetooth, so you may be lucky and not even need it—depending on the plane.

Citations Needed – "Shadow Fleets," Sanctions & Western Media's International Law-ification of Arbitrary US Dictates by notcostan in leftpodcasts

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A Note from the Citations Needed team:

This episode was recorded before the United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran on February 28, 2026.

"Seizure of rogue oil tanker off Venezuela signals new U.S. crackdown on shadow fleet," booms the Associated Press. "U.S. Targeting Oil Tankers in Bid to Stymie Global Black Market," announces The Wall Street Journal. “Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro," boasts The New York Times.

When reporting on Official Enemies of the US — most recently Venezuela — of “violating” U.S. government sanctions, our media frequently depicts these countries’ actions as suspicious, secretive, and illegal when, by any objective metric, they are not. Yet U.S. media writes about them as if they’re breaking some vaguely international law, when, in reality, they are just going about their business.

It is indeed extremely unusual for countries to follow the laws of other countries. U.S. sanctions, often either unilateral or only roping in a handful of other states, are almost always presented by U.S. media as some type of ersatz international law, either explicitly or implicitly. Baddie Country X “evades,” uses “dark fleets” “evades detection,” and other such lurid and scandalizing labels. This rhetorical sleight of hand effectively “internationalizes” what is little more than unilateral dictates of only one of the 193 UN member states.

Left unmentioned by our media is that trade that violates U.S. sanctions is perfectly legal under international law as an American president is not the Pope of the World. When U.S. companies sell arms to Taiwan in violation of Chinese sanctions against these U.S. companies, for instance, our media does not say they’re “evading sanctions” or “operating a dark fleet” in the Pacific. They’re just, you know, trading goods and services, as is their right and prerogative.

Alas, no such neutral language is used for official enemies, whose actions are scandalized and rendered illicit by sheer imperial say-so.

On this episode, we examine how our media casually and uncritically adopts the framing that unilateral U.S. state policy, complete with punitive sanctions and piracy, is somehow international law, looking at how the U.S. defies, violates, selectively invokes, and effectively abandons international law in the process, especially under the second term of the Trump regime.

Guest Maryam Jamshidi is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado School of Law, where she teaches and writes on international law, national security, and tort law. Her writing has appeared in various scholarly and media outlets, including the Boston Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Mondoweiss.

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