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At least 15 Palestinians, incl. 8 children and 2 women, have been killed in an Israeli strike while queuing for nutritional supplements in front of a clinic in central Gaza, a hospital says.

Video from al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah showed the bodies of several children and others lying on the floor.

US-based aid group Project Hope, which runs the clinic, said the attack was a blatant violation of international law.

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Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says

Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed when a queue for nutritional supplements was hit in Deir al-Balah.
David Gritten (BBC News)

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Another Palestinian journalist was killed by Israeli army fire in Gaza, bringing the death toll since October 2023 to 229, local authorities said on Thursday.

Ahmad Abu Aisha lost his life after being directly hit by an Israeli drone in front of his home in the Sawarha area, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the government media office said in a statement.

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Israel kills another Palestinian journalist in Gaza, death toll rises to 229

Journalist Ahmad Abu Aisha killed in Israeli strike in central Gaza Strip, government media office says - Anadolu Ajansı
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Report: "Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'"

Piraeus workers "will refuse to unload the Ever Golden, a container ship carrying military-grade steel to Israel, when it arrives in Greece."

“We will not unload a single inch of this murderous cargo. The dock workers of Piraeus will not be complicit. We will not unload military steel from the Ever Golden - no to Greece’s involvement - freedom for Palestine."

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Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'

Dock workers at the port of Piraeus have said that they will refuse to unload the Ever Golden, a container ship carrying military-grade steel to Israel, when it arrives in Greece.
Oscar Rickett (Middle East Eye)

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Protesters detained for participating in the peaceful July 2021 protests in #Cuba have been subject to serious abuses in prison, including beatings, solitary confinement, and lack of medical care.
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Cuba: Protesters Detail Abuses in Prison

Protesters detained for participating in the peaceful July 2021 protests in Cuba have been subject to serious abuses in prison.
Human Rights Watch

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Israeli far-right Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has established a new police unit consisting of armed settlers who are operating illegally, with analysts suggesting this step could further entrench "Israel's" de facto "annexation" of the occupied West Bank.

The newly formed "First Response Unit," composed of more than 100 illegal settlers from Israeli settlements, will operate under the West Bank police division.

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New settler police force tightens Israeli grip on occupied West Bank

Israeli Police Minister Ben-Gvir forms an armed settler unit in al-Khalil, raising concerns over "Israel's" further occupation efforts in the occupied West Bank.
Al Mayadeen English (New settler police force tightens Israeli grip on occupied West Bank)

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Denying Coverage with AI: CMS’s New Medicare Model
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"The Trump Administration is bringing prior authorizations (PAs), the mandatory preapproval before insurance covers health care services, to Traditional Medicare. The government plans on using contracts with perverse incentives for companies that use artificial intelligence (AI) to carry out the work. On June 27, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid


Denying Coverage with AI: CMS’s New Medicare Model - CounterPunch.org

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“Muslim terrorists.”

That’s what newly elected Republican congressman Randy Fine called Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, as well as New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

The comments sparked a rare condemnation from House Democratic leadership.

“The Hamas Caucus is upset. Boo hoo. I guess they weren't listening when I said the Hebrew Hammer was coming,” Fine said in response to the condemnation.

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Republican Lawmaker Calls Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Zohran Mamdani 'Muslim Terrorists' – Will He Be Censured?

I reached out to every Democrat who voted to censure Tlaib in 2023. Here’s what they said about Randy Fine’s vicious, Islamophobic comments.
Prem Thakker (Zeteo)

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"The Fourth Amendment forbids “exploratory rummaging”—in fact, it was drafted in direct response to British colonial soldiers’ practice of indiscriminately searching people’s homes and papers for evidence of their opposition to the Crown."

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EFF Tells Virginia Court That Constitutional Privacy Protections Forbid Cops from Finding out Everyone Who Searched for a Keyword

This post was co-authored by EFF legal intern Noam ShemtovWe are in a constant dialogue with Internet search engines, ranging from the mundane to the confessional.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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In this report, Palestinian journalist Maha Hussaini interviews Palestinian freelancers working from a shared workspace provided by the local initiative Taqat Gaza.

What began as a small co-working space in Deir al-Balah has evolved into a vital network supporting more than 500 displaced freelancers, many of whom have lost their homes and loved ones, yet continue to create, code, and build from the heart of Gaza.

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Palestinian initiative provides workspace for young freelancers in Gaza

In this report, Palestinian journalist Maha Hussaini interviews Palestinian freelancers working from a shared workspace provided by the local initiative Taqa...
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#Israel
#Gaza
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#Activism

>Direkte Aktion ist kein Terrorismus

"Einstufung der antimilitaristischen Gruppe Palestine Action als terroristische Organisation ist eine Bedrohung für alle sozialen Bewegungen"

"Der „Kampf gegen den Terror“ ist seit dem 11. September 2001 das gängige und einende Narrativ der westlichen Staaten, das militärisches Eingreifen auf fernen Kontinenten rechtfertigt. Auch die Zivilbevölkerung nicht-angreifende islamistische oder andere Kämpfer werden seitdem immer wieder „Terroristen“ genannt, um Legitimität für ein Vorgehen gegen sie zu bekommen. Beispielsweise referieren israelische (und teilweise auch US-amerikanische oder gar deutsche) Vertreter:innen immer wieder einfach zu Palästinenser:innen als „Terroristen“ – obwohl das israelische Vorgehen sowohl in Gaza als auch in der Westbank der Definition von Terror, als ein in Angst und Schrecken versetzen der Bevölkerung, ebenso entspricht – durch ständige Enteignung, Tötungen, Folter, nicht-Aufklärung von Morden durch sogenannte Siedler etc.
Somit darf man kaum noch überrascht sein von der jüngsten Begriffsverdrehung, als in Großbritannien kürzlich eine Protestgruppe als Terrororganisation gelabelt wurde.

Sie sind vielleicht die bekannteste militante antimilitaristischen Gruppe: Palestine Action, die besonders in den USA und Großbritannien aktiv sind. Wie der Name bereits andeutet, richten sie sich hauptsächlich gegen Rüstungskonzerne, die an der Besatzung und Unterdrückung der Palästinenser:innen verdienen – attackieren aber auch mal deren Zulieferer, Dienstleister oder Versicherer. Und dabei ging auch öfter mehr als nur eine Scheibe zu Bruch. Auf sozialen Medien, wie ihrem allerdings Ende 2023 eingestellten Telegram-Kanal,i veröffentlichten sie Videos von Aktionen, bei denen immer wieder Feuerlöscher voller roter Farbe zum Einsatz kamen, sie auch mal in Produktionshallen einstiegen und Einrichtung und Elektronik zerstörten. Sogar Teile von mehrere Hunderttausende Euro kostenden Drohnen des größten privaten israelischen Rüstungsunternehmens Elbit Systems, dessen Niederlassungen in den USA und Großbritannien die Gruppe hauptsächlich attackierte, seien bei so einem Einbruch schon beschädigt worden. Durch Besetzungen von Produktionshallen von Elbit, aber auch Leonardo und anderen, stoppten sie mehrfach deren Produktion für teilweise mehrere Tage. Zuletzt wagten sie es sogar, in einen Militärstützpunkt einzusteigen und zwei Voyager-Militärflugzeuge der Royal Airforce mit roter Farbe zu besprühen.2 Von Personenschäden bei einer ihren Aktionen wurde jedoch bisher nicht berichtet."

-Direkte Aktionen = gewalttätige Nazigruppen?

"Letzte Woche votierte das britische Unterhaus (die Abgeordnetenkammer des Parlaments) dafür, die aktivistische Gruppierung als terroristische Organisation zu verbieten. Diese Einstufung auf einer Ebene mit al-Qaida oder ISIS führt nicht nur zu viel stärkeren Strafen für Mitglieder oder Aktivisti, die im Namen der Gruppe Aktionen durchführen. Selbst Solidaritätsbekundungen, wie das Tragen eines T-Shirts, Solidaritätskundgebungen oder unterstützenden Posts auf sozialen Medien, können somit mit drakonischen Strafen von bis zu 14 Jahren Haft geahndet werden.

Neben Palestine Action (PA) wurden auch die rassistische Gruppe Maniacs Murder Cult und die ethnonationalistische Russian Imperial Movement zu Terrororganisationen klassifiziert. Palestine Action wehrte sich in einem Statement noch einmal extra dagegen, als „Protestgruppe des zivilen Ungehorsams mit zwei gewalttätigen Neonazi Milizen in einen Topf geworfen“ worden zu sein.3 PA gab sich auch zuversichtlich, dass das Verbot bzw. die Klassifizierung als Terrororganisation nicht haltbar sei und juristisch zurückgenommen werde. Der High Court of Justice in London wies jedoch am vergangenen Freitag, kurz bevor das Verbot am Wochenende in Kraft trat, einen Eilantrag zur Aussetzung der Klassifizierung bis zum Ende des Gerichtsverfahrens ab."

>UN-Menschenrechtskommissariat für Recht auf Protest

"Sehr klar gegen die Klassifizierung als terroristische Aktion positionierte sich hingegen das Menschenrechtskommissariat der Vereinten Nationen (OHCHR) am 1. Juli 2025, noch vor der Abstimmung im britischen Parlament. Die UN-Expert:innen „drängen“ Großbritannien in einer Pressemitteilung, die „Terrorismusgesetze nicht zu missbrauchen“ und weisen daraufhin, dass „nach internationalen Standards Akte des Protests, die Besitz beschädigen aber nicht auf eine Verletzung oder Tötung von Menschen ausgerichtet sind, nicht als Terrorismus zu behandeln sind.“4 Dies sei in der Resolution 1566 des UN-Sicherheitsrats so festgehalten worden, die das Vereinte Königreich auch unterschrieben habe."

„Protestaktionen, die nicht wirklich terroristisch sind, aber vorgebliche Sachbeschädigung beinhalten, sollten ordnungsgemäß als solche normalen Verbrechen oder anderen Vergehen ermittelt werden,“ so die Expert:innen der UN. So wurden Aktivist:innen von PA auch schon mehrfach mit Haftstrafen belegt. Besonders beunruhigend finden die Menschenrechtsexpert:innen der UN deshalb auch, dass so auch „legitime Aktivitäten von unschuldigen Mitgliedern der Gruppe, die in keiner Art zu der Beschädigung von Eigentum durch andere Mitglieder der Gruppe beitragen,“ kriminalisiert wurden. Sie könnten „für die friedliche Ausübung ihrer Rechte zur Freiheit der Meinung und des Ausdrucks, der Versammlung, Vereinigung und Teilhabe am politischen Leben verfolgt werden.“

>Widerstand – jetzt erst recht!

"Natürlich wollen die Aktivist:innen von PA, wie auch andere Gruppen der Palästinasolidarität – aber auch Klimagruppen und andere linke Gruppen, dies nicht einfach hinnehmen. Schon im Juni verabschiedeten 60 linke und palästinasolidarische Gruppen eine gemeinsame Resolution, in der sie sich gegen das Verbot wendeten. Letzten Freitag versammelten sich dann hunderte Demonstrierende vor dem Londoner High Court. Als dieser dann die Entscheidung im Sinne der Unternehmen und der militärischen Unterstützung Israels und gegen den Aktivismus fällte, zeigten am nächsten Tag trotzdem noch rund 30 Protestierende öffentlich ihre Unterstützung und ließen sich dafür festnehmen. Sie kamen vorerst gegen Kaution wieder frei.

Für das Network for Police Monitoring NetPol ist die Klassifizierung als Terrororganisation nur die neuste Eskalation eines repressiver werdenden Vereinigten Königreichs, das im August 2024 schon die Filton18, die die Drohnenteile von Elbit zerstörten, trotz normaler Anklagen unter Terrorgesetzen in Gewahrsam nahmen und Klimaaktivist:innen zu mehrjährigen Haftstrafen für Blockaden verurteilte.5
Die multiplen Krisen der menschen- und lebensfeindlichen Kapitalakkumulation scheinen die konterrevolutionären Kräfte zu vorauseilender Härte auch gegen die Menschen im eigenen Land zu mobilisieren. Nur Zusammenstehen wird dagegen helfen."

>Palestine Action fordert Einhaltung des Völkerrechts

"Der traurige Witz an dem Verbot von PA ist auch, dass das, wofür die Aktivist:innen mit ihren Aktionen Druck auf ihre Regierung aufbauen möchten, genau das ist, was das Völkerrecht und die für dessen Einhaltung verantwortlichen Organisationen, der Internationale Gerichtshof (IGH) und der Internationale Strafgerichtshof (IStGH), auch von ihr fordern: Eine Einstellung jeglicher Unterstützung für die israelische Besatzungspolitik und den mutmaßlichen Genozid. Ein Ende der Waffenlieferungen und militärischen Unterstützung wäre dafür der erste und einfachste Schritt.

Letztendlich ist es schon lange nur eine, von den westlichen Leitmedien teilweise immer wieder mit Feigenblättern beworfene und relativierte, Gewissheit, dass sich das Vereinigte Königreich, die USA und verschiedene EU-Staaten bei schweren Völkerrechtsbrüchen mitverantwortlich machen – seit Jahrzehnten durch die Unterstützung von Israels Besatzungspolitik (die jedoch natürlich mit Lippenbekenntnissen stets abgelehnt wurden) und in den letzten zwei Jahren – oder zumindest seit den Verfahrensbeginnen im IGH und IStGH, durch die Unterstützung des Genozids.
Deutschland ist deswegen auch vor dem IGH angeklagt.6 Der IGH ist das oberste Gericht der UN und eröffnet keinen Fall, wenn es nicht sehr plausible Gründe für die Anklage und Indizien, die zu einer Verurteilung führen können, gibt."

>Auch in Deutschland: Aktivismus ist kein Terror, die Repression ist es

"Und auch in Deutschland wird die Bewegung, die die Regierung zu einem Ende der Waffenlieferungen an Israel und einem Ende der Unterstützung von Besatzung und Genozid bewegen will, mit außerordentlicher Repression überzogen, Proteste verboten und kriminalisiert.7 Die BRD wurde dafür auch mehrfach von verschiedenen NGOs und im UN-Menschenrechtsrat kritisiert.

Auch das Einsetzen von Anti-Terrorismus-Gesetzen gegen Protestgruppen geschah ebenso schon in Deutschland: die in Bayern (trotz Verfassungsklage noch) praktizierte Präventivhaft wurde bisher besonders gegen Aktivisti der Letzten Generation eingesetzt. Man will nicht, dass Klimakleber der wirtschaftlichen Normalität irgendwelche Knüppel zwischen die Beine, bzw. ihre Beine vor die Räder, schmeißen.

Zukünftiges Leben, wie auch die, denen der Klimawandel besonders im globalen Süden jetzt schon die Existenzen kosten, werden in dieser wirtschaftlichen Normalität und Verwertungslogik als genauso unwichtig gerendert, wie diejenigen Palästinenser, die mit ihrer bloßen Existenz den (geo-)politischen Zielen, für die Israel steht, im Weg stehen.

Zu erkennen, dass der Terror von dieser Logik der wirtschaftlichen und militärischen Vorherrschaft kommt, und nicht von denen, die es wagen sich dagegen zu stellen, würde die Menschheit (und auch so manche Individuen) ein ganzes Stück weiter in Richtung einer friedlichen Welt bringen."

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Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) » Direkte Aktion ist kein Terrorismus

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Over the past weeks, there have been no exceptions to the statement ‘today Israel committed a massacre against Palestinians queuing for aid/food’ 10 children murdered yesterday alone. Israel’s genocide continues. Most Western states maintain normal relations. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israeli strike kills at least ...


Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza

Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’
William Christou (The Guardian)

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It makes me laugh/cry that we spent decades trying to get the software industry to internalise that it takes far more effort to support & maintain systems than it does to write them in the first place, and yet seemingly every trendy development in the last 5-10 years has been about making that initial stage faster & sloppier at the expense of everything else
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I partially wonder if this is because of who and what determines what's "trendy". When I drive the adoption of a tool, it's usually a small tool that fits in a small place in the workflow. (Massive benefits from it - the tool tends to do that one thing that was giving me problems really well. GitVersion is the most recent. Before that, it was an NPM package that makes it WAY easier to pull in unpublished NPM packages.)

Thing is... Those tools don't need marketing beyond minor SEO optimization. If you need them, you will probably find them or hear about them, and their users will tend to be quiet about them because those packages are not doing anything flashy. They are doing their jobs and taking care of a pain point in a workflow that doesn't highlight them.

Trendy development though, is a lot more about advertising. You need visibility to be trendy. Obvious impacts rather than subtle ones. Quick adoption rather than a slow adaption. It also tends to be the kind of thing that makes Managers excited rather than Developers.

And you also need these new technologies in flashy developments, not stable ones. Would you really notice if your bank made a backend refactor to adopt a technology that encouraged a smoother integration between their servers and databases? If your accounting software was modified to be more testable via automated means during the build stage, with the goal of more reliably finding and stopping bugs before release?

Probably not.

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When truth departs – as it is doing from the political field – we are in very deep trouble taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0… Politicians used to spin, but now they just lie. And the trouble is, they lie on big issues like genocide, the fact that it is going on, and that our country is complicit in it. How long can this go on for before trust breaks down completely?

When truth departs – as it is doing from the political field – we are in very deep trouble

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has written this on X when referring to the sanctions put on United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese by the United States of America: The attack against Albanese presages a world without ru…
Funding the Future

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Interesting response and analysis of Francesca Albanese regarding profiteering in the siege of Gaza and settlements of Palestinian land, annexed to Israel. She’s been studying this for over 2 years, revealing particular capitalist entities like Maersk. She notes that young activists undertook the research and now established media refuses to acknowledge their authority. 2nd part of interview yet to be recorded and posted.
#FrancescaAlbanese #UN #Gaza #sanctions
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“Economy of Genocide”: U.S. Sanctions U.N. Expert Who Reports on Corporate Profits from Israel’s Gaza War

We speak with United Nations expert Francesca Albanese, one day after the Trump administration announced it is imposing sanctions on her over her advocacy for Palestinian rights. Albanese has served as the U.N.
Democracy Now!

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I want to talk terminal colours, in advance of some self-paced learning I'm launching.

In IRL workshops and lectures with a projector, I've always found black on white seems to sit best for folk given long-haul tolerance and legibility.

But how about hours of UNIX commands, shell scripts and config editing in recorded video, and on your screen?

Which terminal colour combo would be easiest on your eyes in long episodes of video?

(Not in the list? Drop your pref combo in the replies)

  • green on black (29%, 14 votes)
  • white on black (43%, 21 votes)
  • white on aubergine (Ubuntu default) (14%, 7 votes)
  • black on white (12%, 6 votes)
48 voters. Poll end: 2 weeks ago

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Julian Oliver

@aral Thanks! This is solely in the context of screen-recorded video, of me working in the shell as a function of some new training I'm launching.

Further, some of my students will be on poor quality connections, and so how a terminal theme fares across differing video quality settings is a significant factor.

Finally, talking to some I realise that what is a low-fatigue colour space for me, may be quite the inverse for them! A fascinating topic, that leads me to look for a good compromise.

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Lisa #Pratta

“I worked for #BigPharma. What I saw will shock you”

  • 5 day snorkeling vacations to doctors
  • California Big Pharma reps giving doctors $15,000 Birkin handbags
  • $6,000 Armani suits and expensed it on their expense reports
  • Strip clubs, lap dances, you name it
  • Rent a box for a big concert to Phillies games, Eagles games
  • Extravagant Golf trips
  • “They received it as gifts and bribes”

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1943205851872755891

#BigPharma #Pharma #corruption

#medicine #health

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"Trapping AI" – Operational Progress! 🕳️

Following the last update (tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/1147426…), we’re transitioning from planning to practice — amplifying both the scale and operational ferocity of our approach through the deployment of a new, more radically interventionist layer of complexity.

This intensified escalation — as outlined in the last update — is concretized in fakejpeg, which is now fully live and operational. From this point onward, every page generated by our standalone LLM crawler-tarpit embeds a garbage JPEG. Notably, within just a few hours of operation, this deployment has already yielded over 40,000 such images.

The integration of fakejpeg constitutes a critical deepening layer that amplifies both the strategic offensiveness and subversive ardor of our approach by enabling the ongoing targeted poisoning and coordinated dissemination of systematically crafted junk data within the operational workflows of AI systems.

fakejpeg repo: github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

See the tarpit in action: content.asrg.site/

Context and rationale: algorithmic-sabotage.github.io…

Example of a garbage JPEG.

ASRG

2025-06-25 06:49:15

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"Trapping AI" – Slight Update! 🌀

Activity in the "Trapping AI" project is accelerating: in just under a month, over 26 million requests have hit our tarpit URLs 🕳️. Vast volumes of meaningless content were devoured by AI crawlers — ruthless digital leeches that relentlessly scour and pillage the web, leaving no data untouched.

In the coming days, we’ll roll out a new layer of complexity — amplifying both the intensity and offensiveness of our approach. This escalation builds on fakejpeg, a tool developed by @pengfold.

🖼️ fakejpeg generates fake JPEGs on the fly. You "train" it with a collection of existing JPEGs, and once trained, it can produce an arbitrary number of things that look like real JPEGs — perfect for feeding aggressive web crawlers junk 🗑️.

Explore fakejpeg: github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

Learn more about "Trapping AI": algorithmic-sabotage.github.io…

See the tarpit in action: content.asrg.site/

A captured screenshot of a page generated by a tarpit (built on babble, a standalone LLM crawler-tarpit binary), deployed as part of the ongoing ‘Trapping AI’ operation — an endless stream of deterministic bollocks that traps crawlers on a single site and forces them to endlessly navigate a constantly expanding sea of pages 🌊. Each new page spawns additional layers of meaningless text and dozens of links, dragging them ever deeper into the tarpit 🕳️.

GitHub - gw1urf/fakejpeg: Generate files that are almost JPEGs with random data. Possibly useful in feeding aggressive web crawlers.

Generate files that are almost JPEGs with random data. Possibly useful in feeding aggressive web crawlers. - gw1urf/fakejpeg
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Why Your Website Is Your Business’s First Voice


 Your website doesn’t need to be a work of art. It just needs to feel right. When it does, visitors linger, engage, and trust you more. That’s the subtle power of good design—shaping perceptions and driving results without drawing attention to itself.

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First Impressions Are Instant


Visitors judge your website in seconds. They don’t read every word or analyze the design—they scan and form a quick opinion. That snap reaction decides whether they stay or leave.

A clean, modern, fast-loading site signals reliability. A cluttered, slow, or outdated one pushes people away. They might not know why they left—just that something felt off. Good design captures those fleeting moments and turns them into trust.

Design Is About Usability, Not Just Style


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A Poor Website Sparks Doubt


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If your site feels unprofessional, people might question your business’s credibility. That brief pause can send them to a competitor. A poorly designed website doesn’t just frustrate—it risks losing customers before they engage with your work.

Your Website Defines Your Brand


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If not, you’re sending the wrong message. Web design services help align your site with your brand’s reality, whether through updated visuals, streamlined navigation, or mobile optimization. It’s about ensuring your online presence matches your real-world quality.

The Risk of "Good Enough"


It’s tempting to stick with a website that’s "fine." It’s online, it functions, it’s there. But a mediocre site can quietly hurt your business. Low engagement, high bounce rates, or fewer inquiries often trace back to user experience issues.

Good design guides visitors toward action with clear calls-to-action, intuitive layouts, and fast performance. When these elements work together, visitors trust your brand and are more likely to take the next step.

Choosing a Website Designer Who Gets It


When selecting web design services, look for someone who starts with your goals. They should ask about your audience, your challenges, and what you want to achieve. A great website designer Singapore focuses on purpose, not just visuals.

A website isn’t a showpiece—it’s a tool to connect and convert. The right designer builds a site that’s both functional and credible, working as hard as you do.

Final Thought


Your website doesn’t need to be a work of art. It just needs to feel right. When it does, visitors linger, engage, and trust you more. That’s the subtle power of good design—shaping perceptions and driving results without drawing attention to itself.

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International institutions are simply sticks with which to intimidate and beat countries run by Black and Brown people. That's all they are, but remember, the colonizers don't have to obey the rules. They never have and never will.

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US threatens ICC: Drop Israel war crimes probe or 'all options on the table'

A senior legal adviser to the US State Department has issued a dramatic threat to the International Criminal Court's oversight body, warning that "all options are on the table" if the court does not drop investigations and arrest warrants against the…
Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)

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'The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”.'

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#TonyBlair #Blair #ElonMusk #Musk #TrumpRiviera #DonaldTrump #Trump #Gaza #politics


Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG

Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub
Stephen Foley (Financial Times)
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(((chaospunk)))

Die Palette unserer Gefühle ist reichhaltig, und alle sdiese Gefühle sind auch valide, als Signal, wie wir uns (mit etwas/jemandem) Leider haben viele Menschen keinen Bezug mehr zu ihren gefühlen, weil sie "gefährlich" sind und damit auch schambesetzt. Ein klassisches Beispiel dafür wäre: ein Kind ist zornig auf einen Elternteil und wünscht ihm den Tod. Das geht ja gar nicht, zum einen aus gesellschaftlichen Gründen, zum anderen aus Überlebensnotwendigen Gründen (je nachdem, wie alt das kind ist) Deswegen man packt sie weg, wie auch immer. Der Gedanke alleine ist ein Tabu! Wut, Freude und Angst schaffen es noch durch diesen Deckel/Wattekokon. Daher auch diese wirklich doofe aussage. Wut lässt sich nicht deckeln, und sie muss auch raus. Aber dann besteht auch gefahr, dass die Gesellschaft sich damit beschäftigen muss. Man ächtet also als Gesellschaft wieder einen Wütenden, was den Wütenden dan mit Scham erfüllt. So der Mechanismus, wie man den Kontakt verliert. Wenn man Wut verpacken kann, dann sind "zartere" Gefühle wie nervöse. Anspannung, freudige Aufgeregtheit etc. Chancenlos

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📍Abasan Al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis city, south of the Strip.

As part of the "Stones of David" operations series: Scenes from the raid on enemy soldiers and vehicles that were convening.

Hamas attempted to capture two Zionist vehicles and two military bulldozers.

Hamas struck the bulldozer and disabled it, and when the IOF bulldozer driver tried to flee, they shot him and took his weapons.

The end of the video they show two rifles and a handgun they took from the terrorist.

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Quinn LeClair ‪@veteranforpalestine‬

🚨BREAKING: Al-Qassam Brigades show uncensored footage killing an Israeli soldier: 📍Abasan Al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis city, south of the Strip.
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#Polizeigewalt bei propalästinensischer Demo in #Berlin. Ihr erinnert Euch: "ein schwer verletzter Polizist, in die Masse hineingerissen"?

Videoauawertung: Polizisten betreten pro-aktiv die Menschenmenge.

Ausbilder: „Der Beamte mit der Rückennummer 24111 ist mir den ganzen Tag über aufgefallen“, sagt Clemens Arzt. „Ich empfand ihn als ziemlich aggressiv, er ist immer wieder in die Menge rein und hat zugeschlagen.“

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Palästina-Demo: Was geschah mit Polizist 24111?

Bei propalästinensischen Protesten in Berlin soll ein Polizist von den Demonstranten schwer verletzt worden sein. Eine Videoanalyse der Rechercheagentur Forensis, die SZ und NDR einsehen und prüfen konnten, zeigt ein anderes Bild.
Jan Heidtmann (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

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War doch alles ganz anders? Neues Video von Forensic Architecture zeichnet anderes Bild von Gewalt auf Palästina-Demo:
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Zweifel an Darstellung der Polizei nach Pro-Palästina-Demo in Berlin 

Bei einer Pro-Palästina-Kundgebung in Berlin wurde am 15. Mai ein Polizist schwer verletzt. Laut Polizei wurde er zu Boden gebracht und getreten. NDR und SZ liegt ein bisher unveröffentlichtes Video vor, das sich mit dieser Darstellung nicht deckt.
tagesschau.de

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Netanyahu says anyone who doesn’t enter Israel’s #Gaza concentration camps will be killed as a terrorist

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Netanyahu says anyone who doesn’t enter Israel’s Gaza concentration camps will be killed as a terrorist

Extermination tactics are chillingly familiar – and aim to murder more than a million people Wanted Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has outlined his plan for the next escalation of Is…
SKWAWKBOX

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are refusing to implement a government plan to move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a what it calls a "humanitarian city" in #Rafah on #Gaza’s southern border with Egypt.

Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, chief of the #IDF general staff said the plan was not part of the military’s operational plan for destroying Hamas and freeing the remaining hostages.

juancole.com/2025/07/concentra…


Plans to Concentrate Gaza Palestinians in Rafah Camp a Crime against Humanity

By James Sweeney, Lancaster University (The Concversation) - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are refusing to implement a government plan …
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XaetaCore

I turned it on while monitoring its usage, because i havent used this prior i had to measure its impact, good thing that storage is something i have in abundance, but still something that grows with 100GB a week with the only plus point being slightly faster images and videos is not worth it in my book, at least not in its current implementation.

As far as i know Misskey is lacking 2 essential features for this:
- The ability to set a expire date on cache items
- Max cache size setting

If i had these two there would not have been much of an issue

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"The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.

The quiet removals came as FAS — which houses the College, Harvard’s undergraduate school — announced internally on Wednesday afternoon that it would shutter its diversity office and replace it with an Office for Academic Culture and Community." thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/…


Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Replace Diversity Offices Amid DEI Purge | News | The Harvard Crimson

www.thecrimson.com

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Steel holds the memory.
Concrete holds the weight.
Together, they become structure.
Not just walls — but intention made solid.
Rebar is the skeleton.
It resists tension,
bends, but never breaks.
Concrete is the muscle.
It bears the load,
ages in silence,
and hardens like truth.
A bunker isn't just built.
It's cast — like a spell.
Layer by layer.
Bond by bond.
And if you listen closely…
you’ll hear it curing.

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En España habia pueblos cuyas fiestas giraban en torno al maltrato animal: desde tirar cabras del campanario, hasta arrancar la cabeza a distintas aves...
Y se ha cambiado, y ahora las fiestas son mejores e igual de divertidas.
Tauromaquia NO.
#SanFerminesRTVE #Sanfermines
mastodon.social/@LocurasLogica…

Locuras Lógicas (@LocurasLogicas@mastodon.social)

Exigimos a RTVE que retransmita imagenes sin toros de las fiestas. El maltrato animal no debe ser televisado. Debe ser abolido. https://mastodon.social/@LocurasLogicas/114785298772322468
Mastodon

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WHY.

Why are these the top four stories on CBC, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation?

One reason is the CBC has never had a top story on building the new energy.

Top Four Stories on CBC are:
1st) an ALARM that CO2, carbon fuel driven climate collapse, is already TAKING our forests,

2nd) an unfolding human tragedy

3rd ) a MASSIVE INCREASE in climate driving CO2

4th) an economic atomic bomb

5th) a mark of CBC FAILURE.

@cbcnews

#CBC #Climate #klima #climat #wildfires #publicBroadcaster

TOP FOUR National Stories, front page CBC.CA July 10, 2025 Evacuation ordered for Garden Hill Anisininew Nation after wildfire breaches Manitoba fly-in community Canadian Armed Forces assisting with evacuation of 4,500 residents ______ Snow Lake residents ordered to evacuate for second time due to fires _____ Manitoba's largest northern city Thompson declares state of emergency amid wildfires _____ Northern fires force another evacuation of Lynn Lake, Man.
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Kevin Russell

In the Last Thirty Months of Human Climate Collapse

In the last 30 months Canada has burned 30 million HECTARES of forest

A Hectare is 2.7 Acres
🇨🇦 Burned 80 million acres in 30 months

🇨🇦 Is the single largest producer of CO2 on Earth 👈

🇨🇦 Has NO MAJOR program to build the new energy

NO major program to build the new energy

Canada NEEDS JOBS, because Trump is ATTACKING, destroying, CANADIAN JOBS

Canada must build the new energy

ciffc.net

#Climate #CDNpoli

CIFFC

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Esto no es racismo.
Es derecho a protestar.
Un hostelero echa de su restaurante a un grupo de turistas israelíes en Vigo: «Si matáis en Palestina, os vais a comer a Gaza»
lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigo…

Un hostelero echa de su restaurante a un grupo de turistas israelíes en Vigo: «Si matáis en Palestina, os vais a comer a Gaza»

La Policía Local enviará a la Nacional un informe por un posible delito de odio, tras la denuncia de un ciudadano de Madrid
M.A. (La Voz de Galicia)

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In 1985, the French government bombed the Rainbow Warrior.

It wasn’t just trying to sink a ship - it was attempting to sink a movement, to attack activism, and to silence the voice of hope.

They failed. They blew wind in our sails.

Greenpeace and the movement refused to back down and continued to campaign against nuclear testing.

And in 1996, we won.

To learn more >> bit.ly/40J3MTu

#Greenpeace #RW40

You can’t sink a rainbow and you can’t silence hope - Greenpeace International

40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
Greenpeace International

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I would like to see the farms in Ventura California, which has been raided by ICE, demand that these agents come out and pick the crops.

I don’t think they’ll be able to do it competently but the crop is lost anyway because there’s no one to harvest it..

Let us see how these guys manage in their military gear harvest pot, and all the other crops that are tended and harvested by hand.

Maybe we can see them work in the meat packing facilities, or the food packing facilities

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there’s another bundle being organized to support Gaza: Games for Palestine Charity 2025
itch.io/jam/games-for-palestin…
“We're looking for the following for the charity bundle:
* Digital games (finished or jam-style)
* Game assets, tools, tilesets
* Soundtracks, music packs
* Zines, artbooks, short fiction, comics
* Any digital content you own the rights to”
🙏 if you can, please consider joining, and donating your work!!
#GameDev #Charity #game #games #indiedev
the artwork from the play for peace title page. it shows the palestinian flag as a puzzle and hands assembling it.

Games for Palestine Charity 2025

A game jam from 2025-06-15 to 2025-07-13 hosted by Junch & seagamesforgood. NOTE: This is not a game jam. We are only using the Jams functionality to receive game and content submissions. Please read below for more info. The p...
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"Volkswagen reports electric vehicles sales surge in 2025"

"The Volkswagen Group reported an almost 50% surge in electric vehicles sold worldwide, total global deliveries also up"

The transition cannot be stopped, but it could be slow enough to kill us

Excess CO2 in the atmosphere has ALREADY dried world forests to kindling

Canada has burned 30 MILLION HECTARES in 30 months

30 MILLION HECTARES in
30 months

We must stop adding CO2
We must build New Energy

dw.com/en/volkswagen-reports-e…

#Climate


Volkswagen reports electric vehicles sales surge in 2025

The Volkswagen Group reported an almost 50% surge in electric vehicles sold worldwide, with total global deliveries also up over 1%
Amy Stockdale (Deutsche Welle)

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"In an American discourse so heavily imbued with anti-Palestinian racism and so rife with Islamophobia, Palestinians or those who dare see them as human are not allowed to have legitimate intentions or legitimate grievances. They are to be constantly seen as suspicious. Even if they speak of human rights, equality, dignity, they can never really be trusted to mean those things because of who they are — sneaky shapeshifters with deeply held, murderous, ulterior motives. It is quite remarkable how much this echoes antisemitism throughout history, and that should surprise no one. All forms of racism are connected."
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Pauline von Hellermann

@yousefmunayyer

Of course, not just in America. Just the same in Europe. You see it everywhere. I remember an exchange here with a lovely environmentalist who was a good Mastodon friend before, who was so suspicious of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitah (the rector of Glasgow university) when he was denied entry into France that she tried to prove that he was lying on twitter and was a Hamas sympathesiser. She unfollowed me when I tried explain that her “sources” were known Zionist propaganda.

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Bilal Barakat 🍉

@pvonhellermannn

With the caveat that to some extent it's not even about impugning suspected ulterior motives. There have been examples of Israel-apologists complaining that a literal and sincere call for “equal rights for all” is somehow offensive. Not because of being a supposed front for malicious intentions, but because the actual concept of equal rights per se is objectionable to them.

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LIVE: Israel pounds Gaza, Netanyahu says deal could be ‘few days’ away | Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20…

- Eight Palestinians reported killed in Israeli air attack in northern Gaza
- Doctors at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital vow not to abandon patients
- More on Netanyahu’s interview with Newsmax about possible deal on Gaza
- Israeli military announces death of officer in southern Gaza
- WATCH: Family speaks to man in burning rubble in Gaza but cannot save him

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine


LIVE: Israel pounds Gaza, Netanyahu says deal could be ‘few days’ away

Netanyahu says he hopes to reach a deal in a few days for the release of more Israeli captives.
Alastair McCready (Al Jazeera)

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US Still Dangerous Despite LImits of Military Production
Brian Berletic, July 09, 2025
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#usa #war #berletic

US Still Dangerous Despite LImits of Military Production

Amid global military overstretch and weapons shortages, the U.S. is employing strategies like “division of labor” and “strategic sequencing” to prolong
Брайан Берлетик (New Eastern Outlook)

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2025-07-11 02:27:06

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Elina Bakunova aka "Eli from Russia" visited Iran before the military conflict between Iran, Israel, and the US began. Before she left, her friends were like, "You're going to Iran? It's so dangerous!" But she found once she arrived in Iran, she never felt in any danger. The Iranian people were kind and curious. She feels the reality of Iran is different from how the media portrays it. She explores the city of Shiraz, visits geographic and historical landmarks, tries the local food, and so fourth. Her English-speaking guides (the whole video is conducted in English) are very good. Officially, Iran is an Islamic country with many restrictions, but many people have little interest in the religion and the restrictions, especially young people. People comply more in public but often in private people ignore the restrictions all the time. There is a difference between the government and the politics and the regular people. The video has very good music.

#geopolitics


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An honor student with no criminal record who followed steps to legally migrate to the United States is now in a detention center. Make America Racist Again.

abc7ny.com/post/ice-detains-su…


Long Island community outraged after 'stellar' SUNY college student detained by ICE

Honors student Sara Lizeth Lopez Garcia was detained by ICE agents and sent to a Louisiana detention facility, despite having no criminal record.
Eyewitness News (ABC7 New York)

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Juzgan a dos altos cargos del Ayuntamiento y la Comunidad de Madrid por el derribo de una vivienda en la Cañada Real.
La defensa asegura que el Consistorio de Almeida ordenó la demolición basándose en un informe del comisionado de Ayuso que mintió.
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Juzgan a dos altos cargos del Ayuntamiento y la Comunidad de Madrid por el derribo de una vivienda en la Cañada Real

La defensa del  afectado asegura que el Consistorio de Almeida ordenó la demolición basándose en un informe del comisionado de Ayuso para la zona que aseguraba falsamente que la casa estaba ab...
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