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@BrahmaBelarusian No, no, if they were evil surely Mastodon gGmbH would never partner with them because that would amount to whitewashing them. So, no, either we have to believe that Mastodon gGmbH and Social Web Foundation don’t hold the values they purport to or that Meta must not be evil.
If you post about an ongoing event involving ICE, your post may be delayed from appearing in the general feed.
If you encourage people to assist those under threat from ICE, your account may be suspended or terminated, and your information may be forwarded to law enforcement.
Additionally, if you share any current information concerning Donald Trump and his associates, your post may be delayed from appearing in the general feed.
For example, if you saw Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eating a hamburger at McDonald’s and posted a selfie with him in the background, no one would see that you shared it for several hours.
Interestingly enough, if you shared the current whereabouts of someone who does not support Donald Trump — such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Jasmine Crockett — there would be no delay in Meta’s general feed.
This paints an awful image, especially since the justification for delaying posts about Donald Trump and his associates is "general safety."
could you provide some #evidence of #Meta doing what you just descripted? For example a #screenshot of what you are about to #post on #facebook or #whatsapp and a screenshot of you submitted post before and after it has been deleted by #meta
Martinez Clips' X - https://x.com/martinez_clipsSpencer's X - https://x.com/RichardBSpencerVideo Link - https://x.com/martinez_clips/status/1926339458250534941
Kentucky State Police Trooper James Cameron Wright has finally been indicted by the feds for multiple civil rights violations, which were not only known by h...
Molecular Breakdown in Plastic-to-Naphtha Conversion
The transformation of waste plastic into naphtha is a process defined by intricate molecular reconfiguration. At the heart of this conversion lies pyrolysis—a thermochemical reaction facilitated in an oxygen-deprived environment. Within a pyrolysis plant, polymers originally designed for durability and resistance undergo a fundamental decomposition, reverting to simpler hydrocarbon forms suitable for reintegration into the petrochemical value chain.
Polymer Disintegration Under Heat
Most post-consumer plastic waste comprises thermoplastics such as polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS). These polymers are characterized by long, saturated hydrocarbon chains with high molecular weights and strong covalent bonds. When subjected to plastic pyrolysis machine, typically between 400°C and 600°C, these macromolecules fragment into smaller hydrocarbon compounds via random scission, β-scission, and depolymerization reactions.
The absence of oxygen prevents combustion and facilitates controlled bond cleavage. The result is the formation of volatile hydrocarbons, which exit the reactor in vapor phase. The extent of chain breakdown depends heavily on residence time, temperature profile, and feedstock consistency.
Intermediate Hydrocarbon Species
As thermal cracking progresses, intermediate compounds such as alkanes, alkenes, and aromatic rings are generated. The molecular weight distribution spans a broad spectrum—from C5-C12 fractions to heavier waxes and gas-phase C1-C4 alkanes.
Polystyrene, for instance, primarily decomposes into styrene monomers and aromatic derivatives due to its phenyl-rich structure. Polyethylene and polypropylene, on the other hand, yield a wider variety of linear and branched hydrocarbons, owing to their aliphatic backbone. These intermediates are the precursors to the final liquid products, which can include fuel oil, wax, and most notably, naphtha.
Fractionation and Naphtha Recovery
Once vaporized, the hydrocarbon stream must be condensed and fractionally distilled. This step occurs downstream of the pyrolysis reactor in the condensation and separation units of the plastic into fuel machine. By controlling cooling rates and column configurations, operators can isolate naphtha-range compounds—typically C5 to C11 hydrocarbons with boiling points between 30°C and 200°C.
The recovered naphtha exhibits similar properties to fossil-derived light naphtha and can be further refined or directly used as a petrochemical feedstock, particularly in steam crackers to produce ethylene and propylene.
Chemical Composition and Suitability
Plastic-derived naphtha is predominantly paraffinic but may contain varying levels of olefins, isoparaffins, and aromatics, depending on process parameters and input resin type. Its hydrogen-to-carbon (H/C) ratio, viscosity, and sulfur content are critical for downstream integration.
To meet the stringent quality demands of refineries or petrochemical plants, further hydrotreatment may be required. This step removes unsaturates and stabilizes the naphtha, reducing gum formation and enhancing storage characteristics.
Role of Catalytic Pyrolysis
Advanced pyrolysis plants integrate catalytic reactors to enhance product specificity and quality. Zeolite-based catalysts, for example, promote selective cracking, favoring the formation of naphtha-range molecules while minimizing heavy tar formation.
Catalytic systems not only lower the required activation energy but also improve the control over isomerization and aromatization reactions. This results in a more consistent naphtha yield with a tighter carbon number distribution and fewer contaminants.
Molecular Circularity in Practice
By reverting complex polymer chains to their hydrocarbon origins, pyrolysis enables true molecular circularity. Plastic, once destined for landfill or incineration, is molecularly deconstructed and reincarnated as a feedstock for new polymers, synthetic fuels, or solvents.
This closed-loop process not only diverts waste from the environment but also reduces dependence on virgin fossil inputs. The deployment of a pyrolysis plant thus bridges the gap between environmental responsibility and petrochemical demand, turning plastic waste into a resource with strategic industrial value.
The ten suspects, some of them women each face three counts of attempted murder and three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Why is Antifa not considered a Terrorist group classification?
@Stahesh Antifa has some organized branches or cells because it has paid government agents & their employer could find sime of them however some people might not be paid agents and if they started a branch or cell on their own they might be more difficult to track down
Anyway Shayne Hunter has some really good videos making fun of rent and he used to be a part of Antifa
They interviewed him on AttackTheSystem dot com after he decided to leave Antifa
Also CrimeThinc and the Curiois George Brigade published a really good book called Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs
Some of them might be associated with Antifa or at least be accused of havomg been associated with Antifa somehow but their book is actually really good
It is possible that someone can write a good book and do horrible things at the same time without that making all the contents of the book untrue
Quoting Rogel Alpher on Israel’s plans to establish a “humanitarian city” in Gaza:
[…] They say – don’t say Nazis, don’t make comparisons. It’s no longer shocking. It’s clear to me that from my current position on the margins of Israeli society, I can only be shocked, not shock others. Most Israelis don’t see a connection between obsessive education about concentration camps from the Holocaust era and establishing a concentration camp for another people under brutal Israeli military control. What can even be done in the face of this tragic pathology?
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced plans to establish what he termed a “humanitarian city” in Gaza to house the entire population of over 2 million people. Katz clarified that there would be no exit from the camp while promising an “emigration program” would be implemented.
Alpher acknowledges this is actually a concentration camp - a fenced compound of tents where the only way out would be through emigration from Gaza entirely - a moral horror that facilitates forced displacement and ethnic cleansing, noting the tragic irony that Israelis who were educated about #Holocaust now support creating concentration camps for another people under Israeli military control.
Israeli journalist Arad Nir faced backlash after describing the Israeli-planned “city of refuge” 🙄 in #Rafah for Gazans as a "concentration camp". He later apologized on social media, clarifying his intent was to criticize the plan as immoral rather than to offend. Other broadcasters present during the original remarks suggested the comparison was inappropriate and historically insensitive.
What’s really disgusting here is the fact that Israeli media now refers to the proposed Rafah concentration camp as a “city of refuge”, a facility being built to shelter and provide food to Palestinians whom they intend to isolate from Hamas. Interestingly, the same people who up until recently claimed that “there are no uninvolved” in Gaza... Gaza has been a concentration camp with severely limited food supply for the past two decades, since Israel withdrew and imposed a relentless blockade. The blockade has created a cycle of poverty and dependence on the underground tunnel economy, which Israel then used against the Palestinians after October.
עורך חדשות החוץ של חדשות 12, העיתונאי ערד ניר, עורר סערה כשכינה את עיר המקלט שישראל מקימה ברפיח עבור תושבי רצועת עזה מחנה ריכוז. לאחר מכן הגיעה ההתנצלות
Voté à l’unanimité, le rapport de la commission d’enquête sénatoriale sur les aides publiques aux sociétés apporte un chiffrage officiel très attendu, mais aussi 26 préconisations pour apporter plus de transparence, de rationalité et d’efficacité à c…
• Fixed regression: Since we switched the h() render function to return a generator (for seamless async support in html templates), two other methods that were calling h() directly – `kitten.safelyAddHtml()` and `kitten.js()` – had begun to fail. This was also affecting the fetchiverse, streamiverse, and kitten-chat family of examples.
(Run `kitten update` to immediately install the latest version on your development machines. Your production machines will automatically update in the next few hours.)
Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/09/25: Trump Holds Second Meeting With Netanyahu, US To Send More Weapons to Ukraine, and More youtube.com/watch?v=4itjzkC0pi…
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Reprinted from TomDispatch. Hey, you remember that guy, right? You know, the candidate who, in his third campaign for president in 2024 insisted that he was the one who would remove this country’s “warmongers and America-last globalists” and that ret…
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: In a bizarre day in which we learned that there actually is no Epstein client list after being promised its release, Trump one-upped his hapless administration and announced that he was turning his back on one of t…
Socially-acceptable forms of social change entail:
1) Refusing to question structures of power, leaving them exactly as they are
2) Asking those with power within those structures to behave a certain way.
3) When that fails, then adhering to the (rigged) rules of the game, to try to acquire official power oneself, which is costly, time-consuming, and likely to fail.
That's it. And given the fascism of the 2020s, those forms of social change will fail.
Additionally, there's no creativity or innovation in doing a SWOT analysis around how power dynamics are shifting, and where there are opportunities for taking new or timely forms of action to compel, incentivize, or scare official power into behaving differently.
My critique of democratic socialism) and how I see my democratic socialist friends trying to engage with social change) is this:
There is an inherent belief that the power of the people is an effective force for change *only because* the people can affect or take over the state apparatus.
Thus, in this theory-in-action there is not a belief in the power of the people as an ends in itself. The power of the people is a means to the real source of power, which is state power.
But what happens when the best-funded and most violent (violence is a form of power) levels of the state--the federal level--works to destroy that the mechanisms by which others can take over the state?
That's where state-centered theories of power and social change fall apart.
I think a lot of people feel helpless right now because they understand, even if they haven't articulated it, that these theories are kaput.
We need to be building and leveraging other forms of power.
One set of antidotes to this powerlessness, this broken theory of social change, would be anarchist lenses on power.
The power of the people is inherent. The were many millenia when the people maintained societies without nation states.
The state is a necessarily-problematic power dynamic; it creates and enacts socially-accepted violence against minority populations and those who stand in the way of the state's conception of progress.
The nation state is not essential to human civilization.
The nation state as an entity and the nation state system itself is an iteration of empires and the colonial system, respectively.
The underpinning philosophies and theories of value that enabled slavery, colonial theft, genocide, and land theft were all left intact when we became nation states. The ruling class just patched it up with things like human rights, workers rights, protections for migrants, and other things that have clearly fallen by the wayside since.
So there are two ways forward: Colonialism 3.0, where we try to patch the whole thing together yet again.
Or we could actually build a new system which emerges from the wreckage of the old, which pulls people and resources in, electively, as nation states fail further.
This, however, would require imagination and a historical and anthropological lens on how humans could organize themselves, and how they have organized themselves.
Our schooling, work, and all major institutions punish those with this type of imagination, and ignore, sideline or kill this with this type of knowledge.
cURL’s file:// protocol handler is enabled by default, allowing access to local files on the system. This behavior enables an attacker with the ability to run cURL commands to read arbitrary files...
Really? But finally it's the same shit as last week...🤷♂️ But even then I couldn't motivate Linus to fix the "root is able to mess up something" bug...🤪
We should fix "su" and "sudo" by adding 10 random questions about sensible terminal commands and their syntax - before asking for the password...🙈
this is so dumb… it still has the same access rights as the user executing it. Next we get a security flaw in cat because it can access local files too or what? Omg…
Politique des transports - Le changement d'actionnaire majoritaire est désormais effectif chez Transdev. L'opérateur de transport public a en effet annoncé le
Minerals for peace? How to make the Rwanda-DRC deal stick.
By Lewis Mudge 🟦 HRW JUL-07
"A #US.-brokered peace deal, signed on June 27 between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, will link economic integration and respect for territorial integrity with the promise of Western investment. It is a mineral deal first, an opportunity for peace second. (...)"
A U.S.-brokered peace deal, signed on June 27 between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, will link economic integration and respect for territorial integrity with the promise of Western investment.
Rome Statute countries must explain why Netanyahu flights allowed in airspace
“Italian, French and Greek citizens deserve to know that every political action violating the international legal order, weakens and endangers all of them.”
Francesca Albanese
The countries, which are all parties to the Rome Statute, are obligated to arrest the Israeli prime minister.
"Palestinian man who worked for the EU in #Gaza has appealed to the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, after the closure of his office left him in Cairo without a job or residency rights.
He was “not consulted or warned” that he would be let go after nearly two decades of working for the EU."
Remember this when they want your money and kids to defend European values! Be the diplomat, who has intervened on his behalf!
Germany's government giving a f... about its own promises:
Bundesregierung: Aufnahmeprogramm der Vorgängerregierung beenden.
Gericht: Die Bundesregierung muss einer afghanischen Staatsangehörigen und ihrer Familie Visa zur Einreise nach Deutschland erteilen, nachdem entsprechende Zusagen gemacht wurden. #Afghanistan deutschlandfunk.de/gericht-bun…
Well, that page says "Briar’s core protocol, threat model, development process, and user experience design began development in 2011 by Michael Rogers and Eleanor Saitta" 😀
Hallo @Friendica Support ich habe da eine Verständnisfrage: Wenn ein Benutzerkonto gelöscht wird, dann dauert es ja 7 Tage, bis dieses endgültig gelöscht wird. So weit, so gut. Wieso werden mir aber dann unter "/moderation/users/deleted" die gelöschten Benutzerkonten immer noch angezeigt, obwohl die 7 Tage vorbei sind? Hat dies einen bestimmten Grund?
Weil das Löschen aus der Datenbank sehr wahrscheinlich noch nicht abgeschlossen ist. Wenn viel Content gelöscht werden muss, dauert das je nach Anzahl von Accounts gerne mal mehrere Wochen. Erst wenn alles gelöscht ist, wird ganz zum Schluss der Nutzer selbst gelöscht.
Es kann aber auch sein, dass es ein Problem beim Löschen gibt. Stichwort: foreign key constraints - dann siehst du aber entsprechende "DB error" Meldungen im Log.
@Steffen K9 🐰 @Steffen K9 🍮 Danke dir. Da erscheinen (zum Glück) keine Einträge im friendica.log.
Dann warte ich mal noch ab. Seltsam nur, dass ich das bisher noch nie hatte, dass das so lange gedauert hat. Okay, es sind insgesamt ja auch 30 User. Vielleicht deswegen?
Wahrscheinlich ja. Kommt natürlich auch darauf an, wie viele Daten die Nutzerkonten in der DB gespeichert haben.
Habe zuletzt ca. 1200 Accounts in einem Rutsch gelöscht. Das hat 2 Monate gedauert. 😀 Während der Zeit sieht man auch ständigt DELETE FROM ... Queries, die teilweise sehr lange laufen.
Musst du was manuell in 'post-engagement' löschen. Ist nicht ganz trivial rauszufinden, was genau.
Grundsätzlich betrifft es die id 5468731 in der Tabelle contact. Dieser Datensatz kann nicht gelöscht werden, weil er noch eine Referenz in post-engagement hat.
Ohne jetzt nachgesehen zu haben, hat wahrscheinlich der 'contact' mit id 5468731 auch eine owner-id. Die musst du per SELECT ... FROM contact WHERE ... rausfinden. Diese owner-id müsste sich auch in der Tabelle 'post-engagement' wiederfinden lassen.
Dann musst du erst in post-engagement die Datensätze löschen, die diese owner-id haben. Dann löst sich der Rest von selbst.
Das Ganze ohne Garantie. Bitte doppelt prüfen, ob du auch den richtigen Zusammenhang zwischen beiden Tabellen erwischst, sonst löscht du was falsches. 😀
@Steffen K9 🐰 @Steffen K9 🍮 Sagen wir es so: Da ich in Sachen DB nur rudimentäre Ahnung habe, würde ich es lieber lassen. Solange es keine Fehler bzw. Probleme an sich erzeugt.
@m0xEE @romin I don't even post about most shows I watch on here, let alone write reviews, but usually I'm at around 15 to 20 shows a season. 25 is a bit much, even for me.
15-20 is still formidable! In my most active years I could pick like… seven, and drop 4 more after 3 episodes 😅 I was referring to reviewers at Anime News Network because they cover every episode of 25 shows each season. Not sure they still do it, but they used to — and those were reviews from the point of view of 3-4 editors, so I assume they do watch every show. Maybe they indeed do it at x15 speed like @romin@shitposter.world said — hardly enjoyable this way, but their reviews win them bread so at least that would be understandable.
Israel's Israel Katz says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.
Décidemment dans tous les domaines les stupidités et les délires criminels sortent à flot si tendu qu'il devient impossible de tout collationner. Ça finit par donner le tourni, ce qui est sans doute voulu. Les priorités deviennent difficiles à gérer, l'UE qui achève de se transformer en tyrannie, les guerres immondes un peu partout, les délires civilisationnels, les tentatives d'annihilation du réel... Impossible d'élaborer une réflexion, tout semblant changer le lendemain.
@jill No, it isn't. But that doesn't make something part of the #Fediverse, does it? Try following someone with a Peertube-account for example. I dind't find a way, yet it's still a part of the #Fediverse..
Because it does. And I am already following people on PeerTube, works just fine!
I've to say, reducing the Fediverse, its development, its history and many supporting different software and diverse communities to a protocol, is, to be frank, just ignorant for an editor of an on tech focused online magazine. You should know better in 2025.
@jill And if it's not "just" about the protocol: Who gets to decide about the definition? The people on #Mastodon? The ones on #Misskey? Or Lemmy? And why not the ones on #Threads, which could be soon the biggest part of it (the protocol, I mean)?
We are getting off track. I'd say, don't call it "Fediverse" in your original post, but e.g. "software using activity pub", if that is what you are referring to and if you don't want to be misunderstood.
Regarding the Fediverse and what it stand for as its self-conception built over the years by so many individuals and communities which widely agree upon, my above mentioned remarks still apply.
In a perfect world, all media organIationa would have their own instances (tied to their domains) for each network type (threadiverse, micro logging, video, short form video) and these instances would be used for both content distribution (official NYT mastadon feed) and for validation of journalists.
The non-profit foundations that manage these networks could provide managed services to raise more money for development (beyond donations).
This is the part of the internet that we have forgotten. Everyone is supposed to be their own little island but they all connect. If I want news I shouldn’t have to go to Facebook, I should have to go to the news org.
This is why the Fediverse has been thriving by imitating monolithic platforms like Reddit or Twitter but doing so in a way that domains (aka “sites” are still all their own.
I shouldn’t have to go to Reddit to get to CNN, I should have to go to CNN to get CNN. CNN should not join Lemmy, CNN should host a Lemmy instance and have communities for topics and programs, and its users should only be people who work there. And that should all be federated out for the rest of us to interact with.
(CNN was the quickest news org name to type and I wasn’t about to use Fox as an example)
It's funny how Americans technology oligarchs love propaganda copytext that includes terms like innovation, change and disruption, yet they are all vapid and lacking any imagination.
This is why RSS is/was so important. RSS readers curate what a user wants to catch up on or follow, right from the sources. Having your own reader (not Feedly, its too big really) means you choose who to directly follow. You click through to them. Back in the day Technorati provided what was trending and big headlines r busy hashtags. So a kind of watchtower. All links went directly to the original content.
@Volker Weber Wenn du nicht selbst eigene Photos bei Pixelfed veröffentlichen willst, ist ein eigener Account nicht nötig. Deinem Lieblingsfotografen kannst du von Mastodon aus folgen und auch kommentieren.
Genau so mit den anderen Projekten, mehr wurde nie versprochen.
Muss man überhaupt nicht, das ist tatsächlich der große Vorteil. Trotzdem gibt es Argumente dafür, zum Beispiel, weil verschiedene Dienste unterschiedliches ermöglichen: Zum Beispiel die hüpfenden Emojis von @heiseBotti
komisch. Wieso fragst du dann nach Accounts von Medien auf anderen Services? Das müsste dann doch der gleiche sein. Kann ich mit @vowe einfach Peertube-Videos posten oder muss ich dazu einen neuen Account einrichten?
Nein, das sind unterschiedliche Dinge. Du kannst von deinem Mastodon-Account kein Peertube-Video veröffentlichen, dazu brauchst du den Account. Aber du kannst damit interagieren (linken, in der Timeline gucken, per P2P teilen etc.) und das ist der Vorteil. Wer vorwiegend Bilder postet, sollte dafür keinen Mastodon-Account nutzen, bei Kurznachrichten dagegen schon. Das Tolle ist, dass alle trotzdem verknüpft sind. Die Softwares sind aber untereinander nicht austauschbar.
wir reden aneinander vorbei. Der Geburtsfehler ist, dass Identity nicht funktioniert. Anstatt eine eindeutige ID zu haben, hast du auf jeder Instanz eine andere. Und deshalb suchst du dir einen Wolf nach Medien im Fediverse. In atproto ist meine ID did:plc:k5ybhnnyl4zwq7ey3q3fogzt und sie kann beliebige Namen haben. Egal welcher Service, diese ID bleibt gleich.
@Volker Weber Die Grundidee damals war meines Wissens auch eine andere. Nämlich eine eigene Instanz für eine Community. Community meinte in dem Fall eher die eigene Familie, der lokale Sportverein usw. Diese Communities können sich dann untereinander verbinden.
Bluesky uses the AT protocol, not the ActivityPub protocol and I don't think Bluesky is connected in any way to the Fediverse. Threads, however, is connected to the Fediverse.
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It's occurred to me that the only real application, in theory, for blockchain-enforced "smart contracts" would be something like international security guarantees.
For instance, if you want a Palestinian state to agree to be demilitarised, sure, if there's a system such that an attack by Israel would ⋅immediately and automatically⋅ trigger a comprehensive sanction regime, stop all international bank transfers in and out of Israel, invalidate all trade licences, etc.
Apart from political feasibility, it's not practical, of course. What ⋅exactly⋅ would be the triggers? Who gets to decide whether and when to roll back? Besides, whatever anyone tries to tell you, blockchain's are NOT safe from manipulation, even in principle, especially when we are talking about state actors.
Just in terms of if there WERE a use case, that's what it would be.
This was not a proposal. We can flush all "blockchain technology” down the toilet today and lose nothing, as far as I'm concerned.
I was trying to work with the premise of people who try to make the case for "smart contracts" (that are predicated on a system where, yes, certain actions are algorithmically ⋅enforced⋅) to see what might conceivably be a valid use case at least in theory.
In other words: the fundamental premise of "smart contracts" is that there are situations where you need an agreement between parties who you cannot ask to trust each other, so they can instead trust the algorithm. And I was just noting that asking a Palestinian state to be demilitarised fits that description. But since, as you correctly note and I also pointed out, it wouldn't work even then, that just shows that actually there is no use case.
Depuis la fin du XXe siècle, le terrorisme d’extrême droite s’organise et fait de plus en plus de victimes dans le monde. Comment cette #violence #raciste se nourrit-elle et comment la contrer ? Une série #documentaire qui s'appuie sur de riches témoignages (de victimes, de repentis, d’enquêteurs...) recueillis sur quatre continents.
Court ruling: Stickers with political warnings must be removed from books The Münster Higher Administrative Court has ruled that a sticker with political warnings must be removed from a book in the Münster City Library. Library users are "responsible citizens" who should not be manipulated.
The Higher Administrative Court in Münster ruled on Tuesday that stickers reading "This is a work with controversial content. This copy is provided due to freedom of censorship, freedom of opinion, and freedom of information" must be removed from two books in the Münster City Library. One of the affected authors had filed an urgent appeal against the decision of the Münster Administrative Court, which had permitted the stickers.
Die Tatsache ist, dass, wenn man anfängt, diese Art von Prävention zu betreiben, alle politischen und historischen Bücher betroffen sein müssen, da Objektivität in diesen Bereichen unmöglich ist.
Stadtbücherei Münster - Gerichtsurteil: Sticker mit politischen Warnhinweisen müssen von Büchern entfernt werden
Das Oberverwaltungsgericht Münster hat entschieden, dass ein Sticker mit politischen #Warnhinweisen von einem #Buch in der #Stadtbücherei Münster entfernt werden muss. Bibliotheksnutzer seien „mündige #Staatsbürger“, die nicht gelenkt werden sollen.
A Palestinian carries children as wounded Palestinians receive treatment at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, after an Israeli airstrike on a house, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
Canada needs to reduce its dependence on US tech companies — and cloud infrastructure is a perfect place to start.
For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the threat posed by our dependence on US-owned data centres and why we need a public cloud that isn’t shaped by the pressure for shareholder profits.
Malik Lutfi contemplated which of his family's belongings to salvage in the few moments he was given while Israeli troops carried out home demolitions in the Tulkarm refugee camp where he grew up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Now 51, the father of six has rented a small room in the nearby city of Tulkarm, but without access to his electronic repair shop in the cordoned-off camp, he has no income to meet the rent.
In the town of Raba, in the Jenin Governorate of the northern occupied West Bank, Palestinians are fearful of an Israeli decision to seize the summit of Mount Salama, a move that would strip the town of an important economic resource.
Last Wednesday, the town’s residents received an Israeli order to seize 600 acres for the purpose of establishing a military zone that includes Mount Salama and its surrounding fields.
Watan-In the town of Raba, in the Jenin Governorate of the northern occupied West Bank, Palestinians are fearful of an Israeli decision to seize the summit of Mount Salama, a move that would strip the
Netanyahu, with the most morally repugnant army in the world and the avaricious Israeli population display themselves to the world as abusive psychotics relentlessly raping an enclosed captive society they are intent on exterminating
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
Video source (with music from Hans Erdmann) : • "Nosferatu" (1922). HD (720p). HANS ERDMAN... Picture : Marco FontaniliFrench translation : Loop Ar VroM...
if you're a #diaspora #podmin and your pod saw an usually high amount of http traffic between 2025-07-05 17:00 UTC and 2025-07-06 08:45 UTC and you have webserver access logs, please email me (mail@dennis-schubert.de).
Tāds tīkams sīkums: vietējā ieleja piedāvā bezmaksas autobusa biļetes, ja esi paņēmis naktsmājas reģionā. Pat kempingā. Autobusi kursē bieži, var no viena Dolomītu miestiņa ceļot uz otru. Laikam mēģina mazināt sastrēgumus. Kempings uz vakaru piepildās. Bet pagaidām vēl pa brīvai vietai ir. Cena: 24eur auto, 10 par personu un kaut kādi laikam 10 par telti. Vēl 5 eur jāpiemaksā, ja gribi auto turēt pie telts. WiFi un elektrība jāpērk atsevišķi. #artaceļo #irKalni
The current regime ruling the United States is trafficking people to various countries against their will.
But people seem to have quite bad memories and seem to believe that it's Trump that's just a bad actor.
Let me remind you that under the Bush regime, the CIA created a network in which it trafficked people, with no due process, for the express purpose of having them tortured.
Trump is not an aberration. The Empire is rotten, and it is dying.
After the 9-11 attacks against the United States, the CIA conspired with dozens of governments to build a secret extraordinary rendition and detention program that spanned the globe.
Wild guess, ja par mērogu paņem pedāli - 24'', priekš 20'' izskatās par lielu. IMHO vidējam eiropietim par mazu un nav arī TIK kompakts, lai būtu jēga ražot lielus rāmjus ar tādiem ratiem, kā tas ir ar 20'' saliekamajiem ričukiem. Principā bērnu ritenis Eiropas izpratnē, veloveikalos bērnu nodaļā visiticamāk kaut ko šādu var atrast.
Es ar šiem baigi izbraukājos pa pilsētām, ērtākais pilsētas velo kāds jebkad ir braukts, tas izmērs ir perfekts. Man pašam ir lielo riteņu pilsētas velo, tagad neliekas forši vairs, kad ar to mazo izbraukājos
Ja Tev augums atļauj un pa sūdīgu ceļu nebrauc, tad 24'' labāk ieskrienas un manevrē. Skaidrs, ka patīk.
Man pilsētas velo ir vecs 26'' MTB ar nebūt ne vieglām riepām un ratiem un var sajust starpību starp 29'' MTB, kam ir labi rati un vieglas riepas. Ar 26'' pilsētā foršāk, kur daudz jāapstājas un jāuzsāk, kaut "uz papīra" MTB ir daudz labāks. Nav vairs forši, kad jābrauc pa sliktu trotuāru.
Tāpēc jau tas ir pilsētas velo, lai gan, protams, Rīgā ļoti daudz kur nav labs asfalts, lai gan tā it kā ir pilsēta 😀 Par augumu, nu man ir 183cm, es pieļauju ka ilgi braukt nebūtu vairs tik labi, bet uz īsiem braucieniem baigi forša tā vertikālā poza likās
ir ir, man tādi mājās ir vairāki, bet ar šiem mazajiem riteņiem viss bišķi mainās, jo riteņi mazāki un ērti gan manevrēt, gan ļoti ātri uzsākt braukt (kā Kārlis jau rakstīja). Pēc tā, mani lielo riteņu pilsētnieki šķiet kā smagi tanki
X’s AI (in other words, X Corp.) is spewing blatant antisemitism. Will you do something about it or is your defense of the Jewish people limited to your members legitimising, censoring criticism of, arming, and profiting financially from the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people?
A propos the “white genocide” in South Africa, wasn't Grok's obsession explaining that there was none, or do I remember that wrong, or Grok was doing both?
for what it's worth, from what I can tell, even quite pro-Israel Jewish news sources are calling it for what it is (Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Arutz Sheva, Jewish Chronicle) and so are more mixed/unknown sources (Forward, Yeshiva World News--I don't know if they're antizionist Orthodox or very Zionist or carefully offending everyone). ...I wish there was a way to forcibly educate people that's not presumably illegal for kidnapping or trespassing or something.
❞ Kirsch sees “the concept of settler colonialism” as activist “nonsense”… By highlighting [his] text’s many elisions and obfuscations, Khalili makes clear that Kirsch has no clue what he’s talking about. That’s no surprise: He is, after all, a literary critic with zero expertise on Israel/Palestine or the discipline his book attempts to invalidate. Khalili’s review rigorously deconstructs Kirsch’s arguments before turning to a virtuosic micro-history of Zionist settler colonialism, drawn from the very primary sources and scholarship, especially by Palestinians, that Kirsch neglects. It’s a harrowing account—and a persuasive argument, for anyone willing to face the facts. ❝
Francesca Albanese, the #UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has demanded answers from #Italy, #France, and #Greece over their decision to grant airspace and safe passage to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—despite an active arrest warrant request from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Get cozy and fall asleep with this collection of snowy sleepy stories in winter settings. Enjoy cabins and cottages as the winter wind howls and snow falls a...
Une recette efficace pour éteindre son âme et causer la souffrance consiste à faire de l’étranger l’intime, et de l’intime, l’étranger. Ainsi, détournez-vous brutalement de …
When tradition locks up the disciple,it is because in reality, the disciple has once again allowed himself to be locked up by his own atrophies of the heart, Tradition, however, does nothing.I feel…
The Israeli genocide in Gaza, along with the escalating regional wars it has ignited, has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the security and stability of the entire Middle East and,…
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@tom s — 2025-07-09 07:38:29
highly principled invertebrate
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to highly principled invertebrate • • •@BrahmaBelarusian No, no, if they were evil surely Mastodon gGmbH would never partner with them because that would amount to whitewashing them. So, no, either we have to believe that Mastodon gGmbH and Social Web Foundation don’t hold the values they purport to or that Meta must not be evil.
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