Wherever you live these days, you’re likely seeing plenty of evidence that political polarization is increasing all around you. Some of this polarizationWill Snell (CounterPunch.org)
Israel has killed more than one child per hour, on average, for over a year and half.
That's a perfectly normal genocide.
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Global labour leaders warn that proposed changes could leave millions of workers exposed.Social Europe
📢 🔥 #wildfires continue to expand in northwestern #syria after burning 10,000 hectares of forest, officials said on Sunday
🔹 New fire hotspots broke out in Qastal Maaf town in the countryside of #latakia, the state news agency SANA said
🔹 Civil Defence: Over 100 teams, including those from #turkiye and #jordan, are currently operating on the field with helicopters, 160 firefighting vehicles, 12 heavy engineering vehicles to extinguish the fires
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Why’d they call it “agentic AI” when Russian roulette was right there?
(Ah, because Russian roulette doesn’t destroy our habitat, drink all our water, and doom our species. I get it now, my bad.) front-end.social/@ariel/114675…
Attached: 1 image “Cursor […] tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself.” 😶🌫️ https://forum.cursor.Front-End Social
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What kind of left party do we need?
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Michael Lavalette discusses the need for a socialist alternative, its relation to the movement and the tasks ahead.Counterfire
Can socialists break the political mould?
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Lindsey German on the lure of the ballot box and Starmer the statal bullyboy Labour’s dreadful week came crashing to a close with the declaration on Thursday evening from Zarah Sultana MP that she was leaving Labour and joining the Independent MPs…Counterfire
Death toll from Texas floods rises to 82, dozens still missing | Floods News | Al Jazeera
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At least 41 people still missing as officials face questions about why warnings did not reach hard-hit Kerr County.Al Jazeera
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It will be no surprise (in fact it was predicted by many) but as Chinese exports to the US dropped (due to Trump's new tariffs) so exports to other countries (primarily Asian & the EU) rose, partly to find 'new' markets for these good & partly to use third countries to disguise the origin(s) of imports to the US.
Of course, shippers will do well out of this but the impact of (further) competition from cheap(er) Chinese good will be unwelcome in these countries!
>no crime took place and a jew died from unlawful imprisonment
He's basically Leo Frank. We need a new ADL.
An Israeli media platform reports that there are currently 14,000 individuals classified as draft dodgers or military service evaders, one-third of whom are from the "Haredi" community.
An international coalition for phasing out fossil fuels says it told the government after the election it would have to quit the group if it re-started looking for new oil and gas, contradicting what the climate change minister told the media.Eloise Gibson (RNZ)
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A quick description of what a TLS 1.3 Hybrid Key Exchange using X25519Kyber768 / ML-KEM looks like in practice.www.netmeister.org
The British ship on the way to #Israel via the #RedSea that was hit by Yemeni resistance is about to sink.
The crew of the ship planning to abandon it shortly.
#Yemen is the last country trying to stop the ongoing genocide in #Gaza. The rest of the world is either silent or helping the genocidal regime of #Netanyahu.
Obesity drug prices are dropping, but getting a steady supply remains a challenge
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So, for my Independence Day celebration, I went looking for Brits to confront.
What did you do?
America has always called it redemption:
Men wept for Lee but left the freedmen to starve.
They built statues to defeat but none to repair.
They praised the Union, then walked away from Reconstruction, as if justice had already spoken.
We are a nation that learns through fire and then forgets the flame.
Not all pain is redemptive. Not all suffering is equal.
Image: Flooding, Kerrville, TX, July 4, 2025. Eric Vryn/ Getty.
Image: Detention Camp, Everglades, FL. AP/R. Blackwell.
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Am in Texas, and agree.
1. This was an unusual storm that parked over the region.
2. Austin built up in 100miles every direction and runoff areas went away.
3. The water level rose 26 feet in forty-five minutes. Not much anyone could do.
4. NOAA alerts went out on time as usual.
Drop Site obtained Hamas’s amendments, which zero in on increasing aid, defining Israeli withdrawal, and getting U.S. guarantees to end the war.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Poster.place is now on Tor. Just setup Onion Federation
Picture 1: Trump is gutting the federal disaster response agency.
Picture 2: Instead the administration sends prayers and perpetual light to the Texas flooding disaster.
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Over 740 starving civilians have been killed by Israeli forces while seeking aid near distribution sites run by the US- and Israeli…Quds News Network (Countercurrents.org)
Typhoon Danas crosses Taiwan, killing 2 and injuring more than 300
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The former Greens candidate has been warned she is unlikely to ever regain full vision in her eye after suffering an injury when police broke up an anti-Israel protest.Michael McGowan (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano erupts, sending ash cloud 18 km in the air
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When teaching people about digital security for everyday people & organizers, is there are tool that anyone can recommend **for threat modeling, specifically?**
Folks can often fall into security nihilism or an extreme belief that anything technically possible, even if resource intensive, is likely to come to pass with them as a target, so I'd like to start by getting people grounded in likely threats they should be thinking about.
threat modeling tools seem focused on building ever more complicated taxonomies and that's a waste of time and attention. A simple risk register on paper or in a spreadsheet is much better than a fancy tool. Build up a list, using a formula like this, just fill in the ones you know and figure out the others later:
ACTOR-TYPE is HOW-LIKELY to do ACTION to SUBJECT because MOTIVATION, and this would cause IMPACT to me, so I'd better do MITIGATIONS to bring about OUTCOMES.
Any time you have an "oh shit!" realization, add it to the risk register filling in what you know so far. Every so often, meet with others and compare your assessment to theirs. Rank risks by HOW-LIKELY * IMPACT and then see what MITIGATIONS you can think of, you're looking for OUTCOMES that either reduce MOTIVATION or IMPACT, or at least give you some detection of ACTION.
I use ACTOR-TYPE because you can somewhat predict the MOTIVATION of e.g. corporations or abusers or ransomware groups, and many risks are reusable between models when done this way, but feel free to name specific actors if it makes sense for a given risk.
I include SUBJECT because you can still be hit by the IMPACT when you're not the direct target of an ACTION, and it gets you thinking about what vulnerable components you may have and how all the parts talk to each other and the outside world.
You can start with the risk register, or with a system decomposition, whichever makes it easier, but the goal is getting used to enumerating and dissecting risks, writing them down and sharing them with peers.
"More than 300 hospitals across the country are now at risk of closing according to the Sheps Center at the University of North Carolina, which tracks hospital closures.
Two of those hospitals are here in Maine."
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Now that President Trump's big tax bill has passed, analysts are taking a closer look at what major Medicaid cuts will mean for rural hospitals.WGME Staff (WGME)
If you're still on X11, I want to know why, I don't want theoretical things you could do but don't actually care about. But the actual real reasons that X11 is keeping you on it.
Why are you still an X11 user in 2025?
Dalam pesatnya pertumbuhan zaman digital maupun bertambahnya kebutuhan atas akses internet stabil, keberadaan pusat internet maupun game center kembali menjadi sorotan, terutama bagi para gamer dan pemain e-sports. Tangerang, sebagai sebuah kota penyangga Jakarta, dengan kemajuan signifikan, juga menyediakan aneka sarana digital, termasuk pusat game yang tidak hanya menyediakan akses internet, namun juga menjadi pusat komunitas gaming aktif.
Satu dari warnet yang tengah menarik perhatian para gamer di Tangerang adalah ComebackNet, sebuah game center modern yang mengusung konsep warnet game online dengan kelengkapan maksimal.
comebacknet hadir sebagai jawaban terhadap permintaan pemain game akan lokasi bermain yang tidak hanya nyaman, namun juga menghadirkan hardware dan software premium. Di era saat permainan daring seperti Valorant FPS, game Dota 2, Counter-Strike 2, PUBG, dan juga Mobile Legends menjadi bagian dari budaya digital anak muda, eksistensi warnet yang mengedepankan performa sangatlah penting. ComebackNet menjawab kebutuhan tersebut dengan menghadirkan unit gaming unggulan, monitor refresh rate tinggi, akses internet tinggi, serta ruangan ber-AC yang nyaman dan bersih.
Nilai lebih penting ComebackNet sebagai pusat game online di kawasan Tangerang adalah perhatian mereka pada performa dan kenyamanan. Para pengunjung tidak hanya datang untuk bermain game, namun juga menikmati suasana komunitas yang sehat dan penuh semangat. Cukup banyak gamer yang kerap datang untuk berlatih bersama tim e-sports lokal ataupun mengikuti kompetisi yang diadakan secara berkala oleh manajemen warnet. Ini menunjukkan bahwa ComebackNet tidak hanya sekadar tempat bermain, tetapi juga wadah berkembangnya komunitas gaming untuk kawasan Tangerang.
Layanan yang dimiliki oleh ComebackNet ikut mengakomodasi beragam tipe kebutuhan user. Selain untuk bermain game online, tak sedikit pengguna memanfaatkan fasilitas ini bagi aktivitas produktif, seperti streaming, editing video, atau bahkan menyelesaikan tugas atau pekerjaan profesional yang membutuhkan jaringan cepat dengan atmosfer kerja mendukung. Kondisi ini menambah daya tarik yang membuat ComebackNet mampu menjangkau lebih banyak kalangan, bukan semata bagi para gamer.
Lokasinya yang menguntungkan di tengah kota Tangerang juga menjadi daya tarik tersendiri. Akses yang mudah dari segala arah menjadikan ComebackNet favorit utama banyak pelajar, anak kuliahan, termasuk para profesional yang hendak menikmati waktu senggang melalui aktivitas gaming atau sekadar bersantai di ruang gaming yang nyaman. Dengan harga sewa yang kompetitif dan promo keanggotaan yang atraktif, ComebackNet dapat memberikan keunggulan tambahan dibandingkan kompetitor sejenis.
Soal kebersihan dan proteksi, ComebackNet turut menunjukkan keseriusan. Tiap perangkat komputer selalu dibersihkan dan protokol kebersihan diterapkan dengan baik guna memastikan kondisi yang higienis. Sistem keamanan data pengguna merupakan fokus penting, terlebih karena banyak gamer yang menggunakan akun game pribadi berharga. Pengelola menjamin perlindungan privasi serta menjunjung etika penggunaan teknologi secara sadar dan amanah.
Inovasi layanan dan sarana pun terus digalakkan secara berkelanjutan. ComebackNet senantiasa mencermati arus teknologi terbaru serta permainan mutakhir, sehingga terus memperbarui hardware secara berkala. Termasuk dengan upgrade GPU dan CPU supaya bisa memainkan permainan kelas berat terbaru tanpa hambatan. Hal ini menjadi bukti bahwa mereka tidak sekadar mengejar profit, namun juga menjunjung komitmen jangka panjang untuk membangun dunia gaming yang positif di wilayah Tangerang.
Di mata para gamer Tangerang dan sekelilingnya, ComebackNet adalah lebih dari sekadar warnet. Ini adalah rumah kedua tempat mereka bisa berkumpul, berdiskusi, bertanding, dan tumbuh bersama. Tidak sedikit kisah sukses para gamer profesional yang mengawali langkahnya di warnet semacam ini. Berbekal sarana lengkap, atmosfer yang mendukung, dan juga staf yang ramah, ComebackNet sudah menunjukkan eksistensinya sebagai tempat main game daring unggulan di Tangerang.
Sebagai penutup, hadirnya ComebackNet menunjukkan jika warnet masih relevan meski diterpa perkembangan internet rumah dan mobile gaming. Dengan menyesuaikan tuntutan masa kini, mengusung konsep pusat game masa kini, serta membangun komunitas yang kuat, ComebackNet telah menjelma menjadi salah satu pionir kebangkitan kembali dunia per-warnet-an di era digital. Bagi kamu yang tinggal di Tangerang yang ingin tempat game berkualitas, ComebackNet patut kamu coba.
Jetzt brennen sie schon Kirchen an.
m.bild.de/regional/bayern/bran…In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #GrundgesetztBrandstiftung in Kirche in Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Altäre angezündet | Regional
Ein Mann (28) soll in der Sankt-Martin-Kirche in Garmisch mehrere Altäre angezündet haben. Eine Familie griff ein, die Feuerwehr rettete das Inventar.Sascha Wimmer (BILD)
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Australian woman Erin Patterson is convicted of 3 murders for poisoning her in-laws with mushrooms
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Fuck the New York Times. Let's not forget the pro-genocide disinformation known as Screams Without Words, also.
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The paper reported that the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee marked himself as both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on an admissions form.Max Tani (www.semafor.com)
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As a consummate Beach Boys fan, I am looking forward to the release of this "lost" country western album Brian Wilson tried to put together.
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Bill DeMain talks about Brian Wilson's lost country album from 1970.Bill offers the absolute best walking tour of Nashville. Do yourself a favor and take his...YouTube
It's Brodie Robertson v Lunduke.
I am really hating the open source space. It's nothing like it was when I started in the late 90's.
My observations of the deep sea glass sponge lil' guy that moved in with me in 2020, after it was dug up from an ancient hydrothermal system, first made me concerned I'd finally gone insane.
However, after insanity was unfortunately ruled out, and I looked closer, I quickly realized that glass sponges are amoeba-animals. I did an extensive molecular investigation & the data confirms my theory, specifically pointing to Slime Mold (!) as an ancestor.
Read the paper here:
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Comprehensive molecular analysis of Lyssacinosida glass sponge Oopsacas minuta with bidirectional BLAST searches produced long-alignment, 80–85% sequence identity matches with nucleariid amoebozoans (Nuclearia thermophila, N. simplex, N.Zenodo
@zillion I don't understand what you're asking.
It's closely related to basal glass sponges, yes.
However, the paper discusses there's no evidence is uses silica, which would remove it from the "glass sponges" as defined by silica use. Its spicules are also 4pt, not 6pt. I suggest prioritized testing of its spicules to confirm.
However, that's a different matter then its apparent slime mold and Nuclearia ancestry, which is discussed in detail.
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Asian shares are mostly down as Trump’s tariff deadline looms and pressure steps up
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Deep-blue Arizona congressional district is up for grabs. Who will fill Raúl Grijalva's shoes?
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Risk of further floods in Texas during desperate search for missing as death toll tops 80
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Trump administration's crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists faces federal trial
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Leftist Techie Seething at Lunduke
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A point-by-point rebuttal to the latest revision of Bryan Lunduke's anti-GNU/Linux talks, which he repeats every time he runs out of material and craves trafficDr. Roy Schestowitz
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Trump and Netanyahu may take a victory lap on Iran, but the Gaza war looms over their meeting
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The Leftist NPCs have a new script for attacking The Lunduke Journal. One of them, Brodie Robertson, says he is "spending all day trying to reign in Lunduke'...YouTube
Sugar Ray Rayford--No LImit to My Love:
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Sugaray Rayford performs "No Limit To My Love" live at WXPN's NON-COMM 2022. Recorded at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia on 5/4/2022.YouTube
This is only the first paragraph:
"The wholesale American cannibalism of one of its own crucial appendages—the world-famous university system—has begun in earnest. The campaign is predictably Trumpian, built on a flagrantly pretextual basis and executed with the sort of vicious but chaotic idiocy that has always been a hallmark of the authoritarian mind."
It gets even better from there on.
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Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.Ars Staff (Ars Technica)
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I share a lot of @timbray’s feelings here. (He doesn’t mention training data sourcing, but that’s on my mind too.)
There’s a layer of ethics and social impact that hangs, as Tim put it, as a stench over all the thinking about whether and how the tech is useful. I am actually willing to discuss the utility questions, but they are secondary.
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In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs. Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it. https://www.tbray.CoSocial
So by now I assume you've heard that the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has issued a 72-hour strike notice, effective tomorrow. Our posties could walk out in the morning, if Canada Post doesn't lock them out, like they did last Christmas.
Keep in mind that our postal workers have been fighting to keep postal services accessible to all. When they gave strike notice last Christmas, they proposed a rolling strike which would not have disrupted services. Canada Post responded with a lockout, which shut the whole operation down. Our posties went on to volunteer their time to ensure vital government assistance cheques were still delivered - for free. Our government responded by ending the strike with a Back to Work order, extending the current contract to May 22, 2025 (today), taking away the postal worker's position of leverage over the Christmas season.
Looking over the current offers on the table, Canada Post is dead set on increasing workload and occupational hazards, while resisting an increase in pay that comes close to making up for inflation and cost of living increases over the course of the last contract, while suspending benefits and hiring out part-time staff over the stability of full-time positions, demanding two-tiered wages so that newer employees can be paid even less.
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Now I've heard a lot of talk about "Canada Post should operate like UPS/FedEx/Purolator" (the latter of which is owned by Canada Post, I might add). This is based on a gross misconception that Canada Post fails to be profitable because of mismanagement or waste. That is not the case. What makes Canada Post different than the others is a guarantee of coverage and accessibility, which they have taken on as a crown corporation. This is why Canada Post loses its profitability, because of guaranteed service which private operations (including Purolator) do not have to abide by.
Canada Post is a national service and SHOULD be nationally funded.
When people say that "Canada Post should operate like a business", I don't think they realize what that means. It means that rural locations should not be allowed access to parcel delivery, period. It means that seniors should have no access to mail delivery that they can pick up themselves. It means that if servicing your area is not profitable, you don't get mail. Period.
My union conducts business all over Alberta, with locals in the big municipalities of Edmonton and Calgary, as well as locals in smaller communities all across the province. When Canada Post was shut down last Christmas, that meant that we had to switch to Purolator (FedEx has crossed strike lines and are not an option). That meant that we could not deliver to any of our locals in more rural communities. That meant that the only way they got mail was from a union member or staffer PERSONALLY delivering it to them.
This, on a permanent and national level, is what it would mean for Canada Post to "run like a business". No, that is not the answer. The answer is publicly funding Canada Post, and/or implementing solutions which the CUPW have proposed, such as implementing a postal banking system used in a number of other countries throughout the world.
The only answer that Canada Post corporate can come up with? Cut services until profit margins appear.
Stand with CUPW and our postal workers, and save our national postal service.
#cdnpoli #abpoli #onpoli #solidarity #union #unionstrong #labour #canadapost
Today, May 21, our negotiation committees received global offers from Canada Post for both the Urban Postal Operation (UPO) and the Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMCs) bargaining units.CUPW
American Republicans: “We’ll slash funding to the National Weather Service because they are a bunch of fearmongering socialists who believe in climate change”.
Also American Republicans: “Why didn’t the National Weather Service warn us that the rain over Texas would have been this bad?”.
A reminder that these are the same folks who, during the 2021 Texas blizzard, when people literally froze to death in their homes, took a private flight and escaped to Cancun to sip mojito on the beach instead of coordinating the emergency response.
How can anyone still expect them to do anything other than the only thing they can do - find scapegoats, blame and point fingers, so they can escape accountability a little bit longer?
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Whether central Texas floods were more lethal because of a DOGE-gutted NWS or local officials’ negligence, or both, the gist is the same: competence and elections are a matter of life and death.NewsHound Ellen (Crooks and Liars)
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