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University of Oklahoma Removes Teacher Over Failing Grade for Student's Bible-Based Gender Essay in c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't say they were all good hedge funds.

Russia Denounces Illegal US Blockade Against Venezuela Before the UN in c/latam@news.abolish.capital
[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So you what makes you not a campist?

University of Oklahoma Removes Teacher Over Failing Grade for Student's Bible-Based Gender Essay in c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 1 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Most higher ed institutions are just hedge funds at the end of the day.

Russia Denounces Illegal US Blockade Against Venezuela Before the UN in c/latam@news.abolish.capital
[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 0 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Why can't you answer that question? Is it because you don't know?

China urged to sue over Japanese royal’s role in Unit 731 crimes in c/china@news.abolish.capital
Erika Kirk’s Freudian slip just gave the ‘grift’ away in c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 2 points 1 day ago

Sorry about your friend. I do not have empathy for fascists, and I won't be asking anyone to have empathy for fascists in this space. The harm the Kirks are still causing far out weighs whatever grief his widow is experiencing.

Bloody Diamonds: How Your Engagement Ring Helps Fund a Genocide in Gaza in c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure what you mean. If you didn't get me $5 I wouldn't have been able to buy that gun in your made up situation. Which only aligns with the ideas and goals behind the BDS movement. BDS is exactly what you are describing, and people should join these movements and collectively boycott industries that contribute to the genocide. BDS was one of the most effective weapons of international solidarity against the apartheid state of South Africa. It can be an effective weapon again against the apartheid state of Israel. If you can disrupt the circulation of capital, you can disrupt its goals.

I think the closing of the article lays out the stakes pretty well:

As a result, Israel Diamond Exchange president, Nissim Zuaretz, stated that his industry faces an “existential threat”. “We are slipping backward,” he warned, adding:

My message to the government and the public is clear: it’s now or never… We have a golden opportunity to restore Israel to the center of the global diamond industry, but the window is closing fast. Every day without government action means another diamond dealer lost, another family without income, another piece of our national heritage gone.”

However, if the Israeli government does indeed step in to safeguard its national industry and take a more interventionist approach, it will only further underscore the fact that the purchase of diamonds is inherently funding the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, supercharging blood diamonds into genocide diamonds.

The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons in c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

V. I. Lenin

10 reasons why Stalin is at the heart of anti-communist propaganda in c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 1 points 1 day ago

For those who want to learn more about the myth making around Stalin, which is what #8 is referencing, I highly recommend Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo (Free PDF on Iskra Books)

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✨ Update! Posts are now smoooother. (news.abolish.capital)
 

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/15139

Hey ya'll!

So I've made a change to the posting procedure of the PravdaRSS bot. Instead of checking the list of feeds every few minutes, the bot now checks every hour. It will then queue those posts in its DB and post them over the course of the next hour.

Instead of getting 16 posts all created nearly instantly, you'll see them spread out across the hour. One post every 4ish minutes, instead of 16 posts in less than a minute.

I made this change based on feedback. Because of how it posted previously, some people would experience a wall of posts in their feed, pushing out other posts. This should ensure that news stories are more evenly distributed throughout the hour, and thus not taking up nearly an entire page in the feed.

I can always adjust the timer, make it pull every 2 hours for example, but every hour seemed like a good starting point.

Other updates: I've also implemented a proper user-agent for the system, which should result in fewer publications rejecting the bots attempts to check their feds.

Anyway, hope you all have a great holiday season and a great new year!

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✨ Update! Posts are now smoooother. (news.abolish.capital)
 

Hey ya'll!

So I've made a change to the posting procedure of the PravdaRSS bot. Instead of checking the list of feeds every few minutes, the bot now checks every hour. It will then queue those posts in its DB and post them over the course of the next hour.

Instead of getting 16 posts all created nearly instantly, you'll see them spread out across the hour. One post every 4ish minutes, instead of 16 posts in less than a minute.

I made this change based on feedback. Because of how it posted previously, some people would experience a wall of posts in their feed, pushing out other posts. This should ensure that news stories are more evenly distributed throughout the hour, and thus not taking up nearly an entire page in the feed.

I can always adjust the timer, make it pull every 2 hours for example, but every hour seemed like a good starting point.

Other updates: I've also implemented a proper user-agent for the system, which should result in fewer publications rejecting the bots attempts to check their feds.

Anyway, hope you all have a great holiday season and a great new year!

World rejoices as MAGA boxer Jake Paul finally beaten senseless in c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 8 points 3 days ago

This has been a great early Christmas gift!

🟢 RSS Feed is back! Sorry for the delay! 🟢 in c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks comrade! ❤️

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🟢 RSS Feed is back! Sorry for the delay! 🟢 (news.abolish.capital)
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⚠️ The feed is currently experiencing an outage! ⚠️ (news.abolish.capital)
 

Sorry for the disruption of service! To keep the details vague, the service that manages the feeds and makes the posts will be offline for an undetermined amount of time. Shouldn't be longer than a few hours. I'll make another post when it is back online.

Source: Trump To Announce War With Venezuela Tonight in c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Actually, he just pissed and moaned for, like, 30 min and didn't even hint at a war. Fantastic stuff.

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ℹ️ You should see more publications with the full article in the post body soon. (news.abolish.capital)
 

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/12444

I pushed an update tonight that will start filling out the the post body with the full article text on many more feeds.

The next goal after this is to handle feeds that do not provide full text and pull them straight from the publication URL. I'll have to be careful to not be to aggressive when doing that task to avoid getting placed on a black list.

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ℹ️ You should see more publications with the full article in the post body soon. (news.abolish.capital)
 

I pushed an update tonight that will start filling out the the post body with the full article text on many more feeds.

The next goal after this is to handle feeds that do not provide full text and pull them straight from the publication URL. I'll have to be careful to not be to aggressive when doing that task to avoid getting placed on a black list.

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Updates: we now have c/Canada (looking for more feeds) and c/videos! (news.abolish.capital)
 

If you're from Canada (!canada@news.abolish.capital) and you have leftist publications you would like added, leave a comment below!

I've added !videos@news.abolish.capital for YouTube feeds with a few YouTube channels added.

You can see what was added here: https://codeberg.org/Abolish-Capital/news.abolish.capital.json

Later new heads!

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Welcome to News @ Abolish Capital (news.abolish.capital)
 

News @ Abolish Capital aims to deliver internationalist leftist news feeds to the Fediverse.

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If you wish to view our current list of RSS feeds, you can do so here.

If you wish to have a feed added to the site, please leave a post here in the !Meta@news.abolish.capital community. Please include the RSS feed URL, you can use a tool like RSS Lookup to find them. If the tool doesn't find them, it doesn't mean there are no feeds; some larger sites have a dedicated page listing their various feeds (see SCMP for example).

Rules

For brevity and simplicity on my part, when commenting, I will be upholding the Hexbear Code of Conduct on this site. I considered having threads locked initially and decided against it; please don't give me a reason to change my mind!

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