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The Palestinian Authority said on Thursday that internet and fixed-line services are down throughout the entire Gaza Strip following an Israeli attack on the last fiber-optic line in the enclave, AFP reports. Communications had already been cut off from northern Gaza the previous day.
“The southern and central Gaza Strip have now joined Gaza City and the northern part of the Strip in experiencing complete isolation for the second consecutive day,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that Israeli forces are preventing repair teams from reaching the site of the attack.
“Only people who have e-sims have access to the internet across Gaza,” Gaza journalist Hind Khoudary said on Twitter. “It takes you more than an hour to connect, and another hour to post. But why did Israel bomb the main internet fiber route? Why is Israel insisting on isolating Gaza from the world? So we are now deprived from food, water, electricity, and internet.”
“Think of all the horrific images you’ve seen from Gaza. Now think of what worse carnage and murderous depravity Israel must be inflicting now to cut off the internet,” tweeted journalist Sam Husseini of the news.
Indeed, this latest move comes amid a particularly egregious spike in mass atrocities from the Zionist entity. Israeli forces just killed 120 people in a single 24-hour period and injured hundreds more, with scores massacred while seeking food from Israel’s notorious “death trap” aid distribution sites. Israel has been massacring starving civilians desperately seeking aid on a near-daily basis in Gaza over the past two weeks.
Israel is continually seeking out new ways to obstruct the world’s visibility into what’s happening with Gaza. That’s why they’ve been assassinating journalists who live in Gaza at a historically unprecedented rate while banning journalists outside Gaza from entering. It’s a nonstop war against visibility and truth, because Israel thrives on lies and darkness.
It has driven the Israelis mad that their global support is being eroded by Palestinians recording their own genocide and broadcasting the footage to the world. If they think they can get away with keeping Gaza in the dark they absolutely will do so, while continuing to seek out further ways to hide the truth from the world.
[…] (They didn't explain how) half a million equipped soldiers can’t defeat 40,000 terrorists without tanks and without planes. The answer lies in Vietnam, in Algeria, in Ireland, and also in the Land of Israel [Palestine] 1948: since World War II, no invading country has defeated a nation fighting for its land—except for one. Since then, there hasn't been a democratic country that wanted to exile millions from their land—except for one. Our country.
Klein argues invading forces historically lose to native populations fighting for their land: #Vietnam, #Algeria, and #Ireland. Israel thus far is a unique exception and also singular as a self-proclaimed “democracy”, which is actively seeking mass expulsion of the indigenous Palestinians of their homeland.
[…] The state created a guiding myth, and it's been with us since childhood. In the name of this "fighting for our home" ethos, thousands of young people sacrificed their lives. This ethos has been erased. Not only erased, but transferred to the enemy. *They* are "fighting for their home," not us.
[…] A war for your home is fought near your home. Maybe near your neighbors. But certainly not by going into their home, not by expelling the owners, and not by settling family and friends there for 57 years. Nobody will admit it, but even #Hamas—despicable and condemned as they may be—is fighting for their home.
[…] The inhabitants of a home always defeat the invader. They know their home better, and their motivation is higher. They have no other land. When you're not fighting for your home, you try to find another reason for the war. Amit Segal recommends the war for destroying the tunnels (exposing the tunnels is worth 20 dead hostages). Others believe it's meant to wipe Gaza and its residents off the face of the earth.
A group of international activists, including Sweden’s Greta Thunburg, attempted to reach Gaza by boat this week to deliver humanitarian supplies on a vessel named the Madleen before being stopped, rerouted, and then deported by Israeli authorities.
I've seen some criticism that the Freedom Flotilla initiative was "silencing Palestinian voices" but she☝️doesn't seem to feel that way--she says it gave her hope. (Also keep in mind that there were Palestinians involved in organizing this, including Rima Hassan, the French-Palestinian MEP who is still being held by Israel after being kidnapped off the boat)
One of the first heretical thoughts I entertained—the first time I realized young women like the young woman I was at the time were transitioning—was that we were seeing the next iteration of anorexia, a new and improved escape route for girls and yo…
I finally had time to play with the Pinephone! It was a hard video to make: the Pinephone is nos by any means ready to be shipped to the general public, but it’s still a very interesting device.
The Pinephone is, for now, mostly aimed at developers. It’s a device that will run Linux based OSes. Not Android, but full blown Linux. I’m talking Ubuntu touch or Plasma Mobile, and why not the same OS as the Librem 5, Pure OS.
The PinePhone is made by ThePine64, a company that produces a bunch of Linux hardware, such as the PineBook and Pinebook Pro, the PineTime (a prototype smartwatch running Linux), and the PineTab, a tablet, running, you guessed it, Linux.
The phone comes in a nice white box, with minimal branding, very reminiscent of Apple packaging. Once you open it, you get a little warning card thanking you and letting you know it’s not a consumer-ready device yet, and you get the phone itself, with a charging cable. It doesn’t come with a charging brick, but that’s not really an issue, since I don’t think anyone needs another one of these.
The PinePhone itself is a big device, with a 5.95 inches display It’s not the crispest, at 1140 by 720p, but it’s bright, colors look good, and it doesn’t detract from the experience of using the phone. It weighs in at 190 grams, and it feels pretty nice in the hand, although I’m not a fan of such big phones. The screen is protected by glass, and the back plate is made of black plastic. You get a power button and volume rocker on the right side, the audio jack on the top, a usb-C port on the botton, and a frontal camera and speaker at the top, with an RGB LED.
The back of the device is very simple as well, with the camera and its flash, inlaid with a little “Pine” Logo, which is a nice touch.
All in all, the phone feels pretty good for a device that costs less than 200$, it definitely punches above its weight in terms of look and feel.
Now, in terms of specs, the PinePhone is definitely on the low end of the spectrum, as far as phones go. It uses an AllWinner Quad Core CPU with a Mali 400 graphics chip, 2Gb of RAM and has a 5Mpx camera on the back, and a 2mpx one on the front. It’s not far off from what the Librem 5 offers, but it’s definitely no flagship device either. Still, for the price, it’s a pretty good value.
Connectivity wise, the modem should support 4G and LTE networks from most carriers in the world, and the phone also has support for Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and GLONASS, and WIfi, although it’s only single band.
The back cover is removable easily, just by popping out the lower right corner. It gives you access to a 3000Mah battery. Once you get the battery out, you can insert your Sim card, which is a micro sim format.
Now, even more interesting, is a set of switches on the back. These are hardware kill switches for the Modem, Wifi and Bluetooth, The Microphone, the Rear and front cameras and the headphone jack.
In terms of software, the PinePhone doesn’t come with any OS preinstalled. It does have PostMarket OS running a series of hardware tests.
It was a bit underwhelming, although I’ll still give UBPorts a fair shake in the future. The cameras and the speaker don’t seem to work yet, and you shouldn’t let the phone go to sleep unless you know the default passphrase is “phablet”. The OS runs… alright, even though it exhibits problems when scrolling and navigating; it’s definitely not quite optimized yet for that hardware yet, and you can tell that performance wise, there is still some work to do.
Now, while the OS itself works pretty well apart from some slowdowns in animations, the application situation is still problematic, and will probably be the main issue for most users. A lot of webapps are available, but nothing official. Still, judging from the interest the Pinephone and Librem 5 are gathering, and seeing the progress of libhandy, I’d be surprised if a lot of open source apps didn’t make the switch to the smartphone form factor.
Battery life wasn’t fantastic, but I won’t judge that too harshly yet, since it’s very early days for this combination of hardware and software.
I obviously didn’t find the apps I use everyday, like Spotify or Freeletics, or my bank’s applications, but these are probably a long way off, if they ever come. The Anbox project seems to let people run Android apps on Linux based systems , though, so it could be a nice path to try and explore later.
Other software initiatives are also available, such as Plasma mobile, or postmarket OS running Phosh, the phone optimized gnome shell developed by Purism for the Librem 5. I tried both, and found them less advanced than UB Ports.
More operating systems are also supported, like Sailfish OS, LuneOS, Alpine OS, or even Manjaro ARM running Plasma Mobile. I’ll need to take some more time to explore each one of these and see how they fare.
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We return to the Digital Autonomy series to take a close look at our role in participating in today's information landscape. It is an honor and a pleasure to be joined by James Corbett of the Corbett Report to dig into this topic in detail. James brings his vast experience as an independent researcher and alternative media voice. We discuss the evolving digital landscape as well as the pressing concerns around artificial intelligence tools. Independent voices and audiences themselves face unprecedented challenges to make the most of the opportunities of our time.
“I think in a lot of ways, under the Biden administration, people weren’t paying attention. People thought things were fine, and actually so much of what happened during those years set us up for where we are now,” —@silky13. truthout.org/audio/the-authori…
The US is now evacuating non-essential personnel from embassies across the Gulf, has deployed bombers to Diego Garcia and Qatar, and the Pentagon’s pizza index is rising, preparing for possible military action.
@Aethelstan I expect that it will be Israel that initiates the attack, but there's expectation that Iran will do a massive retaliation which will force the US to become involved
»Menschen, die Israel seit Merz' Kritik getötet hat: 1.268 Maßnahmen, die Merz seit seiner Kritik ergriffen hat, um das Morden zu beenden: 0« bsky.app/profile/goldi.bsky.so…
“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”
~ Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977) American educational philosopher, president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929) Time magazine, 8 December 1952
“Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.”
~ Pope John Paul II [Karol Józef Wojtyła] (1920-2005) Polish-born Roman Catholic Pope (1978-2005)
"Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable." ~ Pope John Paul II
The White House maintains a list of US President Donald Trump's investment deals, claiming over $10tn in commitments.
However, the lack of clarity over tariffs and other limiting factors significantly reduces the chances of successfully pulling off new building plans or hiring sprees. Even if projects do occur, they may not deliver the desired results.
For now, Trump's investment deals are largely a mirage.
A British passenger miraculously survived the deadly Air India plane crash that killed more than 200 people Thursday, according to local officials and video.
China is putting a six-month limit on rare-earth export licenses for U.S. automakers and manufacturers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter.
Some liberal Democrat governors are starting to roll back state (taxpayer) funded healthcare for people who are in the country illegally. Why is the left not protesting them? Could it be simply because the left gives Democrats a pass? Do they even know this is happening?
The CIA released 1,450 additional pages of documents related to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on Thursday, including 54 previously classified documents.
Ce que font les Houthis en Mer Rouge est sidérant. Voilà des types en sandale, armés de kalachnikov, de missiles balistiques, qui arrivent à perturber gravement le commerce international en bloquant des navires marchands et en mettant en échec les bâtiments de guerre occidentaux
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Is schön da! Ein paar km haben wir gemacht, leider war das #Wetter am #Sonntag doch so feucht, dass wir nur eine kleine Runde gedreht haben und klatschnass und mit einem #Sattelrohrbruch bei meiner #Herzallerliebsten nach Hause gekommen sind. Dies hat die #Laune ein wenig getrübt.
Nun aber auf, in die neue wunderbar kurze Woche. 11°C, geschlossene #Wolkendecke, kaum #Wind. Prima Voraussetzungen zum #Radeln.
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Cornelius Oettle hat da ein Gedicht in der #taz geschrieben und der junge Storch fühlte sich angesprochen: Scheißt eiskalt auf diesen Mann, so scheißt, bis er sich häutet! Scheißt! Vielleicht versteht er dann, was „Vogelschiss“ bedeutet.
„Scheißt ihn voll, den alten Sack"
Scheißt eiskalt auf diesen Mann,
so scheißt, bis er sich häutet!
Scheißt! Vielleicht versteht er dann,
was „Vogelschiss“ bedeutet.
Cornelius Oettle
Vorge
Shit ice-cold on this man, shit until he sheds his skin! Shit! Maybe then he'll understand what “Vogelschiss” means.
Vogelschiss -> Birds Poop: In 2018, the founding member of the German far-right party AfD, the right-wing populist Alexander Gaulandsaid "Hitler and the Nazis are just a speck of bird poop in more than 1,000 years of successful German history"
Gauland wanted to express with his sentence Hitler und der Nationalsozialismus seien in 1000 Jahren deutscher Geschichte nur ein „Vogelschiss“ (Hitler et le national-socialisme ne sont qu'un « épiphénomène » en mille ans d'histoire allemande) that Germany had achieved so much glory in its 1000 years of history that one could forget the 12 years of Nazi terror, forget the millions of dead and the destruction... and in response to this trivialization Cornelius Oettle wrote the poem which I quoted and illustrated with stork gif...
Il y a 40 ans déjà, ils nous sortaient déjà le même bobard : l'Iran serait sur le point d'acquérir l'arme nucléaire. Comme je l'ai rappelé , le mensonge et la manipulation font partie des trois piliers (avec le chantage à l'antisémitisme) du sionisme.
Watch the replay of the media information session where ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun (CH) brief journalists on the key decisions made during the ESA Council meeting held at ESA Headquarters in Paris on 11–12 June 2025.
Ex-Gesundheitsminister Spahn rechtfertigt Vorgehen bei Maskendeals
Ex-Gesundheitsminister Spahn hat sich gegen den Verdacht gewehrt, unter dubiosen Umständen Maskendeals während Corona in die Wege geleitet zu haben. In einem Interview betonte er, in einer "Jahrhundertkrise" unter Handlungsdruck gestanden zu haben.
Niemand wirft Spahn vor, in der Eile ein paar teure Fehler begangen zu haben.
Ich denke, dafür haben wir alle Verständnis.
Problematisch war stets, dass er gegen die ausdrücklichen Warnungen seiner Mitarbeiter (die ja schließlich im Gegensatz zu ihm Profis waren) gehandelt hat und vor allem, dass er freihändig und eigenmächtig viel Geld an CDU/CSU-Spezis verteilt hat.
Unfähigkeit ist verzeihlich, Korruption ist es nicht.
“Standing before you today, I am more confident than ever that in the days ahead and every generation to come, the U.S. Army will heap glory upon glory. You ...
> Castillo’s account echoed concerns from 2 #Democratic members of #Congress who showed up at the building at 26 Federal Plaza on Sunday to inspect the 10th floor after reports of overcrowding & unsanitary conditions. They were denied access by #ICE. You would think that Congress, of all people, would pass a law granting them unfettered access to any government facility in the US that wasn't Classified or Top Secret. Idiots. #USpol
In his book 1984, the government, encapsulated in the persona of “Big Brother,” knew everything about everyone; where they were, what they were doing and even what they were thinking much of the time. This was used to keep control of people to an extreme that even the now defunct Soviet Union couldn’t reach. Yet with modern technology, the reality of such a government could very well be forming around us and we don’t even see it happening.
Back in 1949 the world was still recovering from World War II. The Korean War wouldn’t start for another year, but George Orwell was already focused on the dangers of communism and the totalitarianist government it builds.
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Titel: \"Kanzler Merz kritisiert Militäroperationen im Gaza-Streifen«
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