Aldous Huxley ~ Slavery by consent You're being made to enjoy your servitude.From Aldous Huxley - Speech at UC Berkeley, The Ultimate Revolution 1962 Aldous...YouTube
England und Wales machen vor, wie mit anachronistischen Gesetzen umzugehen ist. Schwangerschaftsabbrüche sollen dort entkriminalisiert werden.
Abtreibungen im Vereinigten Königreich: Frauen für Frauenrechte
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The Belarus-Kenya cooperation in trade, economy and humanitarian field, interaction on international platforms were in the focus of the meeting.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
From 1992 to 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly warned the world that Iran is on the verge of building a nuclear weapon. But after more than 30 years of countdowns, some arEditing Team (Quds News Network)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Programs
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Candidates for the municipal elections scheduled for July 27 visited the National Electoral Council offices across Venezuela this Tuesday to finalize their official registration.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
They Asked Me To Cut My 6-Year-Old Son's Hair. I Taught Them About Native Cultural Erasure.
In February, my 6-year-old Waccamaw Siouan son was told that he must cut his long hair to continue attending a public charter school in North Carolina — and our world stopped.
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Despite the US blockade, Cuba, like many other countries worldwide, has a high level of mobile telephone users. In a population of nearly 11 million (this population figure includes those below the…Network in Defense of Humanity-Cuba
Andrej Karpathy's YC AI SUS talk on the future of the industry
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Transcript of Andrej Karpathy's YC AI SUS talk at Y Combinator on June 17th, 2024.Donna Mägi
Held annually since 1997, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) is one of the world’s leading business events. It serves as a key platform for global dialogue and partnership, with over 1,000 experts and speakers from...Sputnik Africa
Alahednews - Fastnews - Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Committee: We do not want to expand the war to the Gulf.english.alahednews.news
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Two false flag scenarios are being cooked up in the Baltic Sea to this end according to Russian spies.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
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WTI futures with the settlement in this August added 4.14% and reached $73.51 per barrelTASS
IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) fired early Wednesday new waves of heavy missiles, hitting ...Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Russian forces advanced west of Grigorovka and reportedly approached Serebryanka;Clashes continued near Vyimka village;Clashes continued in Pereezdnoye village.Anonymous834 (South Front)
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Des dizaines de médias britanniques ont publié des articles reposant sur des témoignages d' « experts » qui n'existent pas.Jean-Marc Manach (Next)
Framework Laptop 12 review
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A sturdy, thoughtful, cute design that just can’t compete in its price range.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
Locally hosting an internet-connected server
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Merz ließ sich das Stichwort »Drecksarbeit« vom ZDF geben und ließ seinen rassistischen Mordgelüsten freien Lauf. Sein verantwortungsloses Geschwätz richtet im Innern begrenzten Schaden an, nach außen heißt es: Krieg.Arnold Schölzel (junge Welt)
Israel setzt seine Massaker an der ausgezehrten Bevölkerung ungebremst fort. Auch Panzer sollen dabei zum Einsatz kommen.Jörg Tiedjen (junge Welt)
Unter der Überschrift »Stoppt das Töten, beendet den Krieg jetzt!« veröffentlichten die linke Tudeh-Partei des Iran und die Kommunistische Partei Israels am Dienstag eine gemeinsame Erklärung.junge Welt
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In the past several days, I have listened with chagrin to the characterizations of Donald Trump given on major interview programs aired on youtube by widely followed and respected colleagues.Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)
By Pepe Escobar. The spell of limitless Western diktat has finally been broken: all that will survive is "the loud wailing of the desolate chimera." It took shock and awe—which failed—to break the camel's back.Réseau International
"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.
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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
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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)
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Introduction to the A* Algorithm
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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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The only way I could justify the demand was to assume that maybe they just don’t know that my son’s hairstyle is an important expression of our culture.
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in reply to wordglass • • •For over a century, the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe has been living on and caring for the land that the school currently occupies. Long hair, as a style, is traditional for boys and men.
I want my son to be strong, self-possessed and proud of who he is.
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in reply to wordglass • • •My son loved his teachers and his friends. How could I look him in the eyes and tell him that he is not wanted at school as his most authentic self?
I chose not to do this — and so we set out to educate the school’s administrators.
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in reply to wordglass • • •We must resist these attacks on our culture and call them what they are. We’re not trying to move backward here.
In the moments I was processing all of this, I remember dropping to my knees and collapsing into the arms of my elders.
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in reply to wordglass • • •The school gave us two weeks to cut his hair before he could return to class — and we both knew we wouldn’t touch a hair on his head.
So, I called on every person of influence I knew in North Carolina.
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in reply to wordglass • • •began, so did the looming cloud of another attack on our culture.
This will be an ongoing battle, not just for me but for all Native Americans who face similar attempts at cultural erasure. So how do we fight back?
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in reply to wordglass • • •We all process this trauma differently. Just as it’s in my DNA to fight back against oppression, it is in others’ DNA to uphold it.
The first thing to remember, especially if you want to be an ally, is that rules for rules’ sake
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Some people don’t want to find meaning behind rules, further solidifying their core values as oppressors of Indigenous people. It takes courage to speak out against a society that was designed to destroy your existence.
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in reply to wordglass • • •We can end the continued and failed attempts of colonized minds, by basking in the clarity that comes from appreciating and celebrating another person’s culture. This is how we can change the world for the next generations and stop the pain.
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They Asked Me To Cut My 6-Year-Old Son's Hair. I Taught Them About Native Cultural Erasure.
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