"poline" is an enigmatic color palette generator using polar coordinates
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poline is lightweight, dependency free and fast JavaScript function written in TypeScript. It draws lines between anchors over polar coordinates to generate pleasing color palettes.meodai.github.io
Die Bundesregierung plant 2025 weitere Kürzungen bei der Entwicklungshilfe. Experten sehen darin ein Risiko für globale Stabilität und humanitäre Versorgung.
Entwicklungshilfe: Deutschland spart bei den Ärmsten
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President Trump is making it clear that the U.S. is fully involved in the unprecedented attacked carried out by Israel, which included strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and ballistic missile facto...Odysee
After millions of years, why are carnivorous plants still so small?
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The Israeli Shin Bet security agency admitted on Tuesday that one of its officers was killed after being targeted by an explosive device east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.www.saba.ye
TEHRAN, Jun. 18 (MNA) – Austria plans to tighten its gun control rules after a 21-year-old man killed 10 people then killed himself in the country’s worst school shooting by far, the conservative-led government said on June 18.Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (Mehr News Agency)
In June 2025, the world witnessed the outbreak of a full-scale war between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Zionist regime of Israel. This conflict,Пейман Салехи (New Eastern Outlook)
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Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs
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Homomorphic encryption allows a computer to run programs on encrypted data. Learn how homomorphic encryption works through interactive examples, build a homomorphically encrypted CRDT and see whether it has promise for local-first software.jakelazaroff.com
Is There a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?
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Building on the recent empirical work of Kwa et al. (2025), I show that within their suite of research-engineering tasks the performance of AI agents on longer-duration tasks can be explained by an extremely simple mathematical model — a constant rat…Toby Ord
A report by Axios says regime change is not an official war goal, but Israeli officers confirm rising internal pressure to remove Tehran’s ruling governmentthecradle.co
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Spread of anti-Iranian disinformation in Russian media raises the question: who benefits? Russia and Iran are countering Western hegemony.Arina KORSHUNOVA (Oriental Review)
Around 1.1 million visitors came to Hong Kong during the just-concluded May Day holiday, marking a year-on-year increase of 22 percent.www.globaltimes.cn
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LOS ANGELES, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday lifted the curfew that hasen.people.cn
Introduction to the A* Algorithm
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Interactive tutorial for A*, Dijkstra's Algorithm, and other pathfinding algorithmswww.redblobgames.com
As American involvement in Israel's war appears imminent, Tehran faces an urgent choice: strike first while it can, or risk being wrong about Trump's intentions – againAmir Tibon (Haaretz)
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The G7 did not agree on a joint statement on the Ukrainian crisis, as the US delegation refused to see “sharp attacks” against Russia in the communique as part of the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. This was reported on the BBC TV channel.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
Sihanoukville Guide 2025 brings you into one of the most bizarre and beach-battered corners of Cambodia. Towering casinos loom over motorbike repair shops,Gareth Johnson (Young Pioneer Tours)
Based on the 1985 Soviet-U.S. citizen's summit, the 2025 version with Russians in St. Petersburg and Americans in Kingston, N.Y., kicked off Tuesday night with a panel discussion featuring Dennis Kucinich, Scott Ritter, Garland Nixon and Joe Lauria.Consortium News
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Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
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🏋 Modern open-source fitness coaching platform. Create workout plans, track progress, and access a comprehensive exercise database. - Snouzy/workout-coolGitHub
Iranians know the logic of Zionism, underwritten by the American empire, is what has naturally led to the devastation they are now experiencing. Palestinian liberation from Zionism can bring the entire region, including Iran, closer to freedom.Rameen Javadian (Mondoweiss)
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I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning
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Heavy shelling is replaced by a different kind of suffering: survival away from home.The Electronic Intifada
Monday, 9 June 2025 The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) notes the recent call by Minister Gayton McKenzie and the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC)effonline.org
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – In one of the bloodiest attacks on besieged Gaza in recent weeks, the Israeli occupation forces killed at least 70 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more in Khan Younis on Tuesday, targeting desperate civilians seeking food assistan…Tasnim News Agency
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Live Updates: Israel has been bombarding Gaza, killing thousands of Palestinians, since Hamas launched a deadly offensive on Oct 7, 2023.DAWN.COM
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Terpstra Keyboard
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In the latest episode of the Sanchez Effect, Rick travels through the beautiful and strategically important cities of Crimea, the pearl of the Black Sea.Odysee
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Iran has killed "a significant number" of officers and commanders in strikes on Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and military intelligence centers, the Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday.Sputnik International
Over a period of three days, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from numerous African countries in the margins of the Ministerial Meeting of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Follow-up Actions of th…Friends of Socialist China
Israel fails to detect Iran’s latest missile before impact Rossa Primavera News from the Middle East and Central AsiaAvis Krane (Rossa Primavera International News)
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.BRICS
Let us dispense with illusions: Israel’s foreign policy is not defensive. It is expansionist and supremacist.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Israel says it struck deep inside Iran, vows to continue military campaign-english.news.cn
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has issued a stark warning that Sudan is now experiencing a full-scale famine, marking one of the worstteleSURenglish
TEHRAN – Dozens of Palestinians have been killed and many others injured while attempting to access food in Gaza.Tehran Times
Alastair Crooke- Confidence is everything. And that ‘capital’ is being eroded rapidly.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
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Britain’s health secretary, who wants to shake up the NHS, was tight lipped about his encounter with AI moguls at elite conference.HANNAH BORNO (Declassified Media ltd)
Two days ago, the Telegraph headlined… Britain’s enemies could dim the sun and weaponise weather Warning in the subhead… Experts warn hostile states could use solar geoengineering appro…OffGuardian
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Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers
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Time series forecasting is a cornerstone in modern business analytics, whether it is concerned with anticipating market trends, user behavior, optimizing resource allocation, or planning for future growth.kumo.ai
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Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixCaitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
Austria, after Slovakia and Hungary, has become the third European country ready to resume imports of Russian gas.Chris Lewis (EIR News)
On Friday, Israel launched a full-scale military operation against Iran, carrying out strikes across the country that killed at least 224 people by Sunday afternoon.Drop Site News
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Israeli occupation forces have detained Palestinians and raided towns across the occupied West Bank, while settlers escalated attacks on Palestinian propertyAl Mayadeen English (IOF raid West Bank towns, detain Palestinians amid settler violence)
In January-May 2025 Belarus’ passenger traffic totaled 10,422.4 million passenger-kilometers, up by 6.8% year-on-year.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
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in reply to Acta Populi • • •We can certainly wait a long time for reliable verification or falsification from the Western media.
As Aron Maté has already commented (see link below), #Israel passes on very few (rather none) details of Iranian attacks and targets, whether on infrastructure or military and civilian personnel.
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To push war on Iran, Trump sides with Israel over US intel aaronmat...
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IDF censor updates restrictions on reporting missile, drone impact sites
"Any person who prints or publishes printed matter or a publication regarding the location of a strike or hit by enemy war materiel," must submit to the military censor for approval.
Israeli censor updates restrictions on reporting impact sites | The Jerusalem Post
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