ID soldiers testify to systematic killing of Palestinians in Gaza via weaponized drones

[Warning: story contains graphic descriptions]

Testimonies from soldiers who served in Gaza reveal extensive use of weaponized commercial drones modified to drop grenades on Palestinians. The soldiers describe frequently targeting unarmed civilians, including women and children, often to force them out of their homes.

[...] S said he saw some of the bodies through drone cameras. According to him, because the killing is done far from where the soldiers are, "the bodies aren't collected. The dogs eat them. You can see it through the cameras. I wouldn't be able to see a dog eating a body at any moment. The people around me did. The dogs are already conditioned to run to places where there's gunfire or explosions, as they understand this means a chance of finding a body."

Videos of such attacks, originally shared by soldiers, show grenades being dropped on fleeing civilians. Survivors and residents attest to the use of drones to displace large populations in line with military objectives and policies of evacuation.
xcancel.com/ytirawi/status/194โ€ฆ (via Younis Tirawi)

IDF routinely denies allegations of targeting non-combatants.

Hebrew mekomit.co.il/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%โ€ฆ

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide (I'm aware the term genocide in the context of Gaza is very offensive to Jews, but that's what's happening in Gaza kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1148โ€ฆ)


Quoting Sergey Brin: "The use of the term genocide in the context of Gaza is very offensive to Jews, I would not rely on an anti-Semitic organization like the UN."

One might argue that companies profiting from genocide may react defensively... #ProjectNimbus is a $1.2 billion cloud and #AI contract between #Google, #Amazon, and #Israel that has been criticized internationally for enabling Israel's war on #Gaza, including surveillance and AI-driven tactics that contribute to the ongoing #genocide.

Google is to Israel what #IBM was to #Germany in the 1930sโ€”tech support. See kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1147โ€ฆ

@palestine
@israel
#Google #GenocideDenialism
#GazaGenocide #ProjectNimbus
#OatmealQuotes


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In the first months of the war, Israeli army units received ample donations from the general public, mostly in Israel and the United States. Alongside food and shampoo, drones were among the items that soldiers requested the most.

โ€œSoldiers independently launched crowdfunding campaigns,โ€ L. explained. โ€œOur company received around NIS 500,000 (approximately $150,000) in donations, which we also used to buy drones.โ€ C., another soldier, recalled being asked to sign thank-you letters to Americans who had donated EVO drones to his battalion.


#ComplicitInGenocide

in reply to oatmeal

"(I'm aware the term genocide in the context of Gaza is very offensive to Jews, but that's what's happening in Gaza)"

Correction: the term is offensive primarily to people who hold Zionist commitments, some of whom are also Jewish. It is the reality of ongoing genocide, apartheid, forced displacement, and other crimes against humanity that is offensive to the overwhelming majority of Jewish people I know who are not also committed to Zionism as a political project.



The Internet is a lot safer today than it was a decade ago, thanks to Let's Encrypt.

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Bien que verrouillรฉe, la posture de zazen est une clรฉ.

notesandsilence.com/2025/05/01โ€ฆ
#zen #silence #priรจre #pratique #spiritualitรฉ

Total energy supply (TES) by source, World, 1990-2022
iea.org/data-and-statistics/ [archive]
#energy #iea

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GUILLAUME MEURICE, LA SCIENCE ET NOUS
N. #Casaux
(En rรฉfรฉrence ร  l'apรฉro du Club de Vert avec Guillaume Meurice le 24 juin 2025)

En thรฉorie, la #science dรฉcrit le rรฉel, admettons.
Mais en pratique, la science nโ€™a jamais รฉtรฉ dissociable des intรฉrรชts ayant prรฉsidรฉ ร  son avรจnement et dรฉterminant encore aujourdโ€™hui ses fins et ses moyens.
Les pรจres fondateurs de la science moderne travaillaient ร  la solde de riches dirigeants. Galilรฉe, par exemple, fut soutenu par les Mรฉdicis. Newton fut anobli par la Couronne britannique et dirigea la Monnaie de Londres. Boyle et Bacon fondaient explicitement la mรฉthode scientifique dans le cadre dโ€™un projet impรฉrial de #domination de la #nature, dans une logique coloniale, marchande et extractiviste. Toute sa vie, Lรฉonard de Vinci chercha ร  plaire ร  de puissants mรฉcรจnes โ€” les Sforza ร  Milan, les Mรฉdicis ร  Florence, Franรงois Ier en France, etc. โ€” non pas seulement en peignant des Madones, mais surtout en proposant ses services dโ€™ingรฉnieur militaire, de concepteur de machines de guerre.

La science moderne nโ€™a pas รฉtรฉ crรฉรฉe par les volontรฉs dรฉmocratiques des populations du monde, dans une volontรฉ dโ€™exprimer le vrai, de dรฉfendre le juste et de faire le bien. Elle est nรฉe au cล“ur des empires, dans des sociรฉtรฉs hautement hiรฉrarchiques, au service dโ€™intรฉrรชts marchands et de la course ร  la puissance. Depuis son avรจnement, ce sont des logiques de puissance, de rentabilitรฉ et de contrรดle qui orientent les axes de recherche, les choix technologiques, les prioritรฉs รฉpistรฉmiques.
Et aujourdโ€™hui encore, sous ses dehors prรฉtendument neutres, la science est financรฉe par des budgets dโ€™ร‰tat fixรฉs par une oligarchie de dรฉcideurs, mais aussi par lโ€™industrie militaire, pharmaceutique, numรฉrique ou รฉnergรฉtique. On nโ€™รฉtudie pas nโ€™importe quoi, de nโ€™importe quelle maniรจre, au nom dโ€™un amour abstrait de la vรฉritรฉ.
Et donc la science dรฉcrit le rรฉel, certes, mais dans les limites que lui imposent les structures de #pouvoir dont elle รฉmane.


Par ailleurs, la science est une cause majeure de la catastrophe sociale et รฉcologique en cours. La science a produit les machines ayant permis et permettant toujours dโ€™extraire le pรฉtrole du sol, et tous les engins ร  moteur thermique, de la locomotive au porte-conteneurs, de la moissonneuse-batteuse au char de combat. Elle a conรงu les procรฉdรฉs de raffinage, les circuits logistiques, les techniques de fracturation hydraulique, les plastiques, les pesticides, les OGM, les armes atomiques et les LBD. Elle a permis aux sociรฉtรฉs humaines hiรฉrarchiques, dรฉjร  axรฉes sur la puissance, dโ€™exploiter le monde plus vite, plus intensรฉment, plus profondรฉment. Sans la science, pas de rรฉacteur nuclรฉaire, pas de climatiseur, pas dโ€™ordinateur, pas de smartphone, pas de rรฉseau 5G. Pas dโ€™Amazon, pas de Facebook, pas de Google. Pas de chaรฎne de production robotisรฉe, pas de police algorithmique, pas de biomรฉtrie. La science nโ€™a pas seulement permis lโ€™avรจnement de lโ€™enfer techno-industriel : elle lโ€™a fabriquรฉ.

La science repose sur une importante division spรฉcialisรฉe et hiรฉrarchique du travail, laquelle nโ€™est rendue possible que par la dรฉpossession des รชtres humains, lโ€™existence de classes sociales, de rapports de domination, dโ€™infrastructures centralisรฉes et dโ€™un appareil dโ€™ร‰tat capable dโ€™imposer, de financer, dโ€™orchestrer une rรฉpartition autoritaire des rรดles et des savoirs. Elle repose sur une architecture sociale profondรฉment hiรฉrarchisรฉe : ร  la base, des techniciens invisibles ; au sommet, une aristocratie de chercheurs, de ยซ penseurs ยป et dโ€™experts, sรฉparรฉs du reste de la population par un langage รฉsotรฉrique, des diplรดmes inaccessibles, des institutions opaques. Lโ€™immense majoritรฉ des humains ne peut ni comprendre ni discuter ce que produit la science, encore moins dรฉcider de ses orientations. Elle doit croire. Paradoxe : la sociรฉtรฉ qui se prรฉtend ยซ rationnelle ยป repose sur une foi absolue dans la parole de ses nouveaux prรชtres, les scientifiques.

Certes, la science a aussi produit les antibiotiques, les vaccins, certaines connaissances mรฉdicales prรฉcieuses. Mais ces acquis, souvent brandis comme justification globale de la science moderne, sont lโ€™arbre qui cache la forรชt de ses ravages. Parce que les bienfaits de la science sont indissociables des dรฉsastres รฉcologiques et sociaux qu'elle produit, et d'une #sociรฉtรฉ de classes, et dโ€™une vaste division spรฉcialisรฉe et hiรฉrarchique du travail, oรน la quasi-totalitรฉ des individus sont privรฉs de tout pouvoir sur le cours des choses, rรฉduits au rรดle de simples exรฉcutants, de consommateurs passifs ou de cobayes involontaires dโ€™innovations quโ€™ils nโ€™ont ni souhaitรฉes ni dรฉcidรฉes.

Se lamenter dโ€™attaques contre la science et prรฉtendre que les dominants auraient peur de la science est donc idiot. La #science sert la #domination depuis ses origines. Elle est un de ses meilleurs alliรฉs.
Certes, certains scientifiques sโ€™indignent. Ils signent des tribunes, dรฉnoncent lโ€™inaction face au rรฉchauffement climatique, alertent sur la perte de biodiversitรฉ ou la surveillance de masse. Mais leurs plaintes ne changent rien. Elles ne peuvent rien contre les logiques profondes de la civilisation industrielle. Elles ne sont que des soupirs hypocrites dans un train lancรฉ ร  toute vitesse, quโ€™ils ont eux-mรชmes (ou leurs collรจgues, et leurs prรฉdรฉcesseurs) contribuรฉ ร  construire. De la mรชme maniรจre, les appels naรฏfs ร  ยซ mieux orienter ยป la science, ร  ยซ faire bon usage ยป de la technique, ร  ยซ รฉcouter les chercheurs ยป, ne sont que des incantations impuissantes. Le rรฉel est ailleurs : dans les structures de pouvoir, les flux de capitaux, les chaรฎnes dโ€™approvisionnement, les intรฉrรชts dโ€™ร‰tat et les impรฉratifs industriels.

Sans prendre trop de risques, on peut prรฉvoir quโ€™au cours des prochaines dรฉcennies, la science produira une multitude de nouveaux outils au service de la #surveillance, du #contrรดle, de la #rentabilitรฉ, de la #puissance et de la #destruction du monde.

Le mythe de la science, trรจs courant dans la sociรฉtรฉ, et qui va de pair avec nombre dโ€™autres mythes โ€“ le mythe de lโ€™รฉcole comme invention รฉmancipatrice, le mythe de la #technologie comme vecteur dโ€™un progrรจs ayant glorieusement extirpรฉ lโ€™รชtre humain dโ€™une infรขme condition quasi-animale, etc., โ€“ perpรฉtue une mystification gรฉnรฉrale et lโ€™asservissement fascinรฉ des populations aux institutions qui les dominent et les exploitent.


#technopush

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.

bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd01g1โ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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.

aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeโ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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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."

โ€œWe 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 Greeceโ€™s involvement - freedom for Palestine."

middleeasteye.net/news/greek-dโ€ฆ

#USPol #EuroPol @palestine .

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.
hrw.org/news/2025/07/11/cuba-pโ€ฆ

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.

english.almayadeen.net/news/poโ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Denying Coverage with AI: CMSโ€™s New Medicare Model
counterpunch.org/2025/07/11/deโ€ฆ

"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

โ€œMuslim terrorists.โ€

Thatโ€™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.

โ€œThe Hamas Caucus is upset. Boo hoo. I guess they weren't listening when I said the Hebrew Hammer was coming,โ€ Fine said in response to the condemnation.

zeteo.com/p/republican-lawmakeโ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

"The Fourth Amendment forbids โ€œexploratory rummagingโ€โ€”in fact, it was drafted in direct response to British colonial soldiersโ€™ practice of indiscriminately searching peopleโ€™s homes and papers for evidence of their opposition to the Crown."

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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.

youtube.com/watch?v=DtiU3M89k1โ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

#UK
#PalestineAction
#Israel
#Gaza
#Repression
#Activism

>Direkte Aktion ist kein Terrorismus

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

"Der โ€žKampf gegen den Terrorโ€œ ist seit dem 11. September 2001 das gรคngige und einende Narrativ der westlichen Staaten, das militรคrisches Eingreifen auf fernen Kontinenten rechtfertigt. Auch die Zivilbevรถlkerung nicht-angreifende islamistische oder andere Kรคmpfer werden seitdem immer wieder โ€žTerroristenโ€œ genannt, um Legitimitรคt fรผr ein Vorgehen gegen sie zu bekommen. Beispielsweise referieren israelische (und teilweise auch US-amerikanische oder gar deutsche) Vertreter:innen immer wieder einfach zu Palรคstinenser:innen als โ€žTerroristenโ€œ โ€“ obwohl das israelische Vorgehen sowohl in Gaza als auch in der Westbank der Definition von Terror, als ein in Angst und Schrecken versetzen der Bevรถlkerung, ebenso entspricht โ€“ durch stรคndige Enteignung, Tรถtungen, Folter, nicht-Aufklรคrung von Morden durch sogenannte Siedler etc.
Somit darf man kaum noch รผberrascht sein von der jรผngsten Begriffsverdrehung, als in GroรŸbritannien kรผrzlich eine Protestgruppe als Terrororganisation gelabelt wurde.

Sie sind vielleicht die bekannteste militante antimilitaristischen Gruppe: Palestine Action, die besonders in den USA und GroรŸbritannien aktiv sind. Wie der Name bereits andeutet, richten sie sich hauptsรคchlich gegen Rรผstungskonzerne, die an der Besatzung und Unterdrรผckung der Palรคstinenser:innen verdienen โ€“ attackieren aber auch mal deren Zulieferer, Dienstleister oder Versicherer. Und dabei ging auch รถfter mehr als nur eine Scheibe zu Bruch. Auf sozialen Medien, wie ihrem allerdings Ende 2023 eingestellten Telegram-Kanal,i verรถffentlichten sie Videos von Aktionen, bei denen immer wieder Feuerlรถscher voller roter Farbe zum Einsatz kamen, sie auch mal in Produktionshallen einstiegen und Einrichtung und Elektronik zerstรถrten. Sogar Teile von mehrere Hunderttausende Euro kostenden Drohnen des grรถรŸten privaten israelischen Rรผstungsunternehmens Elbit Systems, dessen Niederlassungen in den USA und GroรŸbritannien die Gruppe hauptsรคchlich attackierte, seien bei so einem Einbruch schon beschรคdigt worden. Durch Besetzungen von Produktionshallen von Elbit, aber auch Leonardo und anderen, stoppten sie mehrfach deren Produktion fรผr teilweise mehrere Tage. Zuletzt wagten sie es sogar, in einen Militรคrstรผtzpunkt einzusteigen und zwei Voyager-Militรคrflugzeuge der Royal Airforce mit roter Farbe zu besprรผhen.2 Von Personenschรคden bei einer ihren Aktionen wurde jedoch bisher nicht berichtet."

-Direkte Aktionen = gewalttรคtige Nazigruppen?

"Letzte Woche votierte das britische Unterhaus (die Abgeordnetenkammer des Parlaments) dafรผr, die aktivistische Gruppierung als terroristische Organisation zu verbieten. Diese Einstufung auf einer Ebene mit al-Qaida oder ISIS fรผhrt nicht nur zu viel stรคrkeren Strafen fรผr Mitglieder oder Aktivisti, die im Namen der Gruppe Aktionen durchfรผhren. Selbst Solidaritรคtsbekundungen, wie das Tragen eines T-Shirts, Solidaritรคtskundgebungen oder unterstรผtzenden Posts auf sozialen Medien, kรถnnen 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 โ€žProtestgruppe des zivilen Ungehorsams mit zwei gewalttรคtigen Neonazi Milizen in einen Topf geworfenโ€œ worden zu sein.3 PA gab sich auch zuversichtlich, dass das Verbot bzw. die Klassifizierung als Terrororganisation nicht haltbar sei und juristisch zurรผckgenommen 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 fรผr 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 โ€ždrรคngenโ€œ GroรŸbritannien in einer Pressemitteilung, die โ€žTerrorismusgesetze nicht zu missbrauchenโ€œ und weisen daraufhin, dass โ€žnach internationalen Standards Akte des Protests, die Besitz beschรคdigen aber nicht auf eine Verletzung oder Tรถtung von Menschen ausgerichtet sind, nicht als Terrorismus zu behandeln sind.โ€œ4 Dies sei in der Resolution 1566 des UN-Sicherheitsrats so festgehalten worden, die das Vereinte Kรถnigreich auch unterschrieben habe."

โ€žProtestaktionen, die nicht wirklich terroristisch sind, aber vorgebliche Sachbeschรคdigung beinhalten, sollten ordnungsgemรครŸ als solche normalen Verbrechen oder anderen Vergehen ermittelt werden,โ€œ 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 โ€žlegitime Aktivitรคten von unschuldigen Mitgliedern der Gruppe, die in keiner Art zu der Beschรคdigung von Eigentum durch andere Mitglieder der Gruppe beitragen,โ€œ kriminalisiert wurden. Sie kรถnnten โ€žfรผr die friedliche Ausรผbung ihrer Rechte zur Freiheit der Meinung und des Ausdrucks, der Versammlung, Vereinigung und Teilhabe am politischen Leben verfolgt werden.โ€œ

>Widerstand โ€“ jetzt erst recht!

"Natรผrlich wollen die Aktivist:innen von PA, wie auch andere Gruppen der Palรคstinasolidaritรคt โ€“ aber auch Klimagruppen und andere linke Gruppen, dies nicht einfach hinnehmen. Schon im Juni verabschiedeten 60 linke und palรคstinasolidarische 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 militรคrischen Unterstรผtzung Israels und gegen den Aktivismus fรคllte, zeigten am nรคchsten Tag trotzdem noch rund 30 Protestierende รถffentlich ihre Unterstรผtzung und lieรŸen sich dafรผr festnehmen. Sie kamen vorerst gegen Kaution wieder frei.

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

>Palestine Action fordert Einhaltung des Vรถlkerrechts

"Der traurige Witz an dem Verbot von PA ist auch, dass das, wofรผr die Aktivist:innen mit ihren Aktionen Druck auf ihre Regierung aufbauen mรถchten, genau das ist, was das Vรถlkerrecht und die fรผr dessen Einhaltung verantwortlichen Organisationen, der Internationale Gerichtshof (IGH) und der Internationale Strafgerichtshof (IStGH), auch von ihr fordern: Eine Einstellung jeglicher Unterstรผtzung fรผr die israelische Besatzungspolitik und den mutmaรŸlichen Genozid. Ein Ende der Waffenlieferungen und militรคrischen Unterstรผtzung wรคre dafรผr der erste und einfachste Schritt.

Letztendlich ist es schon lange nur eine, von den westlichen Leitmedien teilweise immer wieder mit Feigenblรคttern beworfene und relativierte, Gewissheit, dass sich das Vereinigte Kรถnigreich, die USA und verschiedene EU-Staaten bei schweren Vรถlkerrechtsbrรผchen mitverantwortlich machen โ€“ seit Jahrzehnten durch die Unterstรผtzung von Israels Besatzungspolitik (die jedoch natรผrlich mit Lippenbekenntnissen stets abgelehnt wurden) und in den letzten zwei Jahren โ€“ oder zumindest seit den Verfahrensbeginnen im IGH und IStGH, durch die Unterstรผtzung des Genozids.
Deutschland ist deswegen auch vor dem IGH angeklagt.6 Der IGH ist das oberste Gericht der UN und erรถffnet keinen Fall, wenn es nicht sehr plausible Grรผnde fรผr die Anklage und Indizien, die zu einer Verurteilung fรผhren kรถnnen, 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 Unterstรผtzung von Besatzung und Genozid bewegen will, mit auรŸerordentlicher Repression รผberzogen, Proteste verboten und kriminalisiert.7 Die BRD wurde dafรผr 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 Prรคventivhaft wurde bisher besonders gegen Aktivisti der Letzten Generation eingesetzt. Man will nicht, dass Klimakleber der wirtschaftlichen Normalitรคt irgendwelche Knรผppel zwischen die Beine, bzw. ihre Beine vor die Rรคder, schmeiรŸen.

Zukรผnftiges Leben, wie auch die, denen der Klimawandel besonders im globalen Sรผden jetzt schon die Existenzen kosten, werden in dieser wirtschaftlichen Normalitรคt und Verwertungslogik als genauso unwichtig gerendert, wie diejenigen Palรคstinenser, die mit ihrer bloรŸen Existenz den (geo-)politischen Zielen, fรผr die Israel steht, im Weg stehen.

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

imi-online.de/2025/07/09/direkโ€ฆ

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

Israeli strike kills at least ...

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
in reply to The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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.

When truth departs โ€“ as it is doing from the political field โ€“ we are in very deep trouble taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0โ€ฆ 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?

Interesting response and analysis of Francesca Albanese regarding profiteering in the siege of Gaza and settlements of Palestinian land, annexed to Israel. Sheโ€™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
democracynow.org/2025/7/10/fraโ€ฆ

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

in reply to Aral Balkan

@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.

Lisa #Pratta

โ€œI worked for #BigPharma. What I saw will shock youโ€

  • 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
  • โ€œThey received it as gifts and bribesโ€

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

#BigPharma #Pharma #corruption

#medicine #health

"Trapping AI" โ€“ Operational Progress! ๐Ÿ•ณ๏ธ

Following the last update (tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/1147426โ€ฆ), weโ€™re transitioning from planning to practice โ€” 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 โ€” as outlined in the last update โ€” 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.ioโ€ฆ


"Trapping AI" โ€“ Slight Update! ๐ŸŒ€

Activity in the "Trapping AI" project is accelerating: in just under a month, over 26 million requests have hit our tarpit URLs ๐Ÿ•ณ๏ธ. Vast volumes of meaningless content were devoured by AI crawlers โ€” ruthless digital leeches that relentlessly scour and pillage the web, leaving no data untouched.

In the coming days, weโ€™ll roll out a new layer of complexity โ€” amplifying both the intensity and offensiveness of our approach. This escalation builds on fakejpeg, a tool developed by @pengfold.

๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ 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 โ€” perfect for feeding aggressive web crawlers junk ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ.

Explore fakejpeg: github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

Learn more about "Trapping AI": algorithmic-sabotage.github.ioโ€ฆ

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


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Why Your Website Is Your Businessโ€™s First Voice


Your website doesnโ€™t need to be a work of art. It just needs to feel right. When it does, visitors linger, engage, and trust you more. Thatโ€™s the subtle power of good designโ€”shaping perceptions and driving results without drawing attention to itself.

Websites are often taken for granted. You visit one, glance around, find what youโ€™re looking forโ€”or notโ€”and move on without much thought.

But when youโ€™re the one running the site, those brief moments are critical. Theyโ€™re when visitors decide if your brand feels trustworthy, professional, or worth their attention. That quick interaction shapes how your business is perceived.

This is where great web design steps in. A skilled website designer doesnโ€™t just make your site look goodโ€”they create an experience that builds confidence and keeps people engaged.

First Impressions Are Instant


Visitors judge your website in seconds. They donโ€™t read every word or analyze the designโ€”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 leftโ€”just that something felt off. Good design captures those fleeting moments and turns them into trust.

Design Is About Usability, Not Just Style


Web design isnโ€™t just about colors or fonts. Itโ€™s about creating a site that feels effortless to use. A website designer focuses on how visitors move through your siteโ€”what they click, what they read, and what keeps them exploring.

Navigation should be intuitive. Buttons should be clear. Text should be readable on any device. Pages should load quickly. These details create a seamless experience that encourages visitors to stay. Web design services prioritize function over aesthetics, ensuring your site works as well as it looks.

A Poor Website Sparks Doubt


You might not pinpoint why a website feels wrong, but you notice. Slow performance, clunky mobile layouts, or a dated look can create hesitation. And online, hesitation often means a lost visitor.

If your site feels unprofessional, people might question your businessโ€™s credibility. That brief pause can send them to a competitor. A poorly designed website doesnโ€™t just frustrateโ€”it risks losing customers before they engage with your work.

Your Website Defines Your Brand


Your website is often the first thing potential customers see. Itโ€™s your digital front door, setting expectations for what itโ€™s like to work with you. Does it feel current? Professional? Trustworthy?

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

The Risk of "Good Enough"


Itโ€™s tempting to stick with a website thatโ€™s "fine." Itโ€™s online, it functions, itโ€™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 isnโ€™t a showpieceโ€”itโ€™s a tool to connect and convert. The right designer builds a site thatโ€™s both functional and credible, working as hard as you do.

Final Thought


Your website doesnโ€™t need to be a work of art. It just needs to feel right. When it does, visitors linger, engage, and trust you more. Thatโ€™s the subtle power of good designโ€”shaping perceptions and driving results without drawing attention to itself.

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.

middleeasteye.net/news/united-โ€ฆ

'The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclaveโ€™s economy with a โ€œTrump Rivieraโ€ and an โ€œElon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zoneโ€.'

ft.com/content/0b1bc761-c572-4โ€ฆ

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

in reply to Birne Helene

Die Palette unserer Gefรผhle ist reichhaltig, und alle sdiese Gefรผhle sind auch valide, als Signal, wie wir uns (mit etwas/jemandem) Leider haben viele Menschen keinen Bezug mehr zu ihren gefรผhlen, weil sie "gefรคhrlich" sind und damit auch schambesetzt. Ein klassisches Beispiel dafรผr wรคre: ein Kind ist zornig auf einen Elternteil und wรผnscht ihm den Tod. Das geht ja gar nicht, zum einen aus gesellschaftlichen Grรผnden, zum anderen aus รœberlebensnotwendigen Grรผnden (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 lรคsst sich nicht deckeln, und sie muss auch raus. Aber dann besteht auch gefahr, dass die Gesellschaft sich damit beschรคftigen muss. Man รคchtet also als Gesellschaft wieder einen Wรผtenden, was den Wรผtenden dan mit Scham erfรผllt. So der Mechanismus, wie man den Kontakt verliert. Wenn man Wut verpacken kann, dann sind "zartere" Gefรผhle wie nervรถse. Anspannung, freudige Aufgeregtheit etc. Chancenlos

๐Ÿ“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.

share.upscrolled.com/en/post/8โ€ฆ

#Polizeigewalt bei propalรคstinensischer Demo in #Berlin. Ihr erinnert Euch: "ein schwer verletzter Polizist, in die Masse hineingerissen"?

Videoauawertung: Polizisten betreten pro-aktiv die Menschenmenge.

Ausbilder: โ€žDer Beamte mit der Rรผckennummer 24111 ist mir den ganzen Tag รผber aufgefallenโ€œ, sagt Clemens Arzt. โ€žIch empfand ihn als ziemlich aggressiv, er ist immer wieder in die Menge rein und hat zugeschlagen.โ€œ

sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikโ€ฆ

archive.ph/8wk6m

War doch alles ganz anders? Neues Video von Forensic Architecture zeichnet anderes Bild von Gewalt auf Palรคstina-Demo:
tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndrโ€ฆ

Netanyahu says anyone who doesnโ€™t enter Israelโ€™s #Gaza concentration camps will be killed as a terrorist

skwawkbox.org/2025/07/10/netanโ€ฆ

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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 #Gazaโ€™s southern border with Egypt.

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

juancole.com/2025/07/concentraโ€ฆ

in reply to verita84

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

"The dismantling of Harvardโ€™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 โ€” which houses the College, Harvardโ€™s undergraduate school โ€” 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/โ€ฆ

Steel holds the memory.
Concrete holds the weight.
Together, they become structure.
Not just walls โ€” 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 โ€” like a spell.
Layer by layer.
Bond by bond.
And if you listen closelyโ€ฆ
youโ€™ll hear it curing.

En Espaรฑa 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/@LocurasLogicaโ€ฆ

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

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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
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Burned 80 million acres in 30 months

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Is the single largest producer of CO2 on Earth ๐Ÿ‘ˆ

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ 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

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Esto no es racismo.
Es derecho a protestar.
Un hostelero echa de su restaurante a un grupo de turistas israelรญes en Vigo: ยซSi matรกis en Palestina, os vais a comer a Gazaยป
lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigoโ€ฆ

In 1985, the French government bombed the Rainbow Warrior.

It wasnโ€™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

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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 donโ€™t think theyโ€™ll be able to do it competently but the crop is lost anyway because thereโ€™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

thereโ€™s another bundle being organized to support Gaza: Games for Palestine Charity 2025
itch.io/jam/games-for-palestinโ€ฆ
โ€œWe'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 toโ€
๐Ÿ™ if you can, please consider joining, and donating your work!!
#GameDev #Charity #game #games #indiedev

"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-eโ€ฆ

#Climate

"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 โ€” 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."
bird.makeup/users/yousefmunayyโ€ฆ

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@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 โ€œsourcesโ€ were known Zionist propaganda.

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@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 โ€œequal rights for allโ€ 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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