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Federal Report Simulates July 4th 2025 Bioterror Attack as the FDA Goes Rogue

​In April 2024, the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense released The National Blueprint for Biodefense: Immediate Action Needed to Defend Against Biological Threats, a little-known but deeply alarming federally commissioned report. It outlines a simulated bioterror attack on July 4, 2025, using a genetically engineered Nipah virus that kills 280,000 Americans in a single day and devastates livestock. The virus, in the scenario, is modified for high transmissibility and retains a fatality rate exceeding 40%.​

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No one talks about extreme centrists. They should, because they're the people who want to maintain the status quo when it's glaringly obvious that we need change.

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Ich habe so meine Probleme mit beiden Bildern. Inzwischen.
Zunächst muß "I stand with Israel" nicht gleichbedeutend mit "Ich finds geil, was die Israelische Politik und die IDF gerade so treibt", sondern schlicht und einfach für das Existenzrecht Israels zu stehen.
Im Gegensatz geht es um "Free Palestine". Was heißt das? Waren die Palästinenser unter der Hamas frei? Unter der Fatah? Ich bezweifle das.
Mindestens die Hamas ist eine Terrorgruppe, vom Iran bezahlt, die zum Unterjochen und Indoktrinieren der Palästinenser eingesetzt ist.
Daß im Gegenzug die IDF ihren eigenen Anspruch als "moralischste Armee der Welt" total aufgegeben zu haben scheint, macht die Gemengelage nicht besser. Auch nicht, daß Israel weiterhin einfach Land im Westjordanland klaut. Geht nicht. Punkt. Ganz klar. Auch nicht, was im Gazastreifen mit den Menschen passiert - mit anscheinend offenkundigen Genozidplänen seitens Netanjahu - und nicht zuletzt das Unterdrücken der israelischen Demokratie.

Die #USA haben einzelne Richter des Internationalen Strafgerichtshof #ICC auf die Sanktionsliste gesetzt

Damit eine offene Kriegserklärung gegenüber allen Staaten die Strafgerichtshof ratifiziert haben.

»The US has sanctioned four #ICC judges, PTC and AC, connected to the Netanyahu and Gallant arrest warrants: Hohler (Slovenia), Alapini-Gansou (Benin), Carmen del Luz (Peru), Bossa (Uganda). Notably, Guilou (France) and Tomoki (Japan) were not sanctioned.«

J’ai de ces promenades, baignées de grâce...

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#zen #mind #silence #prière #méditation #spiritualité

»Die deutsche Freundschaft gilt in der Regel irgendeinem imaginierten Israel. Die Spezifika variieren je nach Einstellung, der Wahrheitsgehalt bleibt aber immer bescheiden.«

»In his press conference with Israeli FM Sa'ar, German FM @ aussenminister.diplo.de said that support for the annexation of the West Bank is an opinion held by "some" in Israeli politics - but that this view is not the majority view.
Well, it is a majority opinion within the Israeli leadership.«
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Caitlin #Johnstone

This is #Israel. This is what the Zionist project looks like. The dead kids. The blown-out hospitals. The desperate, starving civilians. This is it.

There is no alternate version of Israel where these things are not happening. The liberal Zionist vision of a two-state solution and a just and peaceful Israel exists solely in the imaginations of the people who envision it. Nothing like it has ever existed. Everything about the modern state of Israel is unyieldingly hostile to that vision.

You either support the existence of the Israel you see before you, or you support the end of the apartheid Zionist entity. There is no hidden third option. There are no other positions on the menu. To pretend otherwise is to live in a fantasy land.

You either want to burn children alive, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately starve civilians, or you don’t. You either want to bomb hospitals, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately assassinate Palestinian journalists while forbidding foreign journalists entry into Gaza, or you don’t.
You either want to deliberately #massacre civilians and systematically destroy civilian infrastructure in order to force the removal of Palestinians from a Palestinian territory, or you don’t.

And if you don’t, you must oppose the state of Israel.
That’s Israel, the state. Not just Netanyahu. Not just extremist settlers. Not just “far right elements within the Israeli government”. Israel itself. Because everything we are seeing Israel do is the result of everything Israel is as a state.

Everything Israel is doing is the result of everything it has always been. As soon as the west decided to drop a settler-colonialist state on top of a pre-existing civilization wherein the new immigrants would receive preferential treatment over the indigenous inhabitants who were already living there, it became inevitable that Israel would wind up in the condition it’s in today.

Because there was no way to uphold that status quo without mass displacement and nonstop tyranny, violence and abuse. There was no way to set up a tiered society where one tier is placed above the other without indoctrinating the public to accept that apartheid system by systematically dehumanizing the members of the disempowered group.

Set up a status quo of dehumanizing a group of people and manufacturing consent for violence and abuse against them, and you will inevitably wind up with a far right #apartheid state which is committing #genocide, as surely as dropping a stone off a building will result in a stone falling to the ground.


What we are seeing in #Gaza today was baked into the state of Israel ever since its inception.

All those dead kids on your social media feed are the fruit of a tree whose seed was planted after the second world war. That tree has been bearing more and more fruit, and it will continue to for as long as it remains standing. Because that’s just the kind of tree it is. The only kind of tree it ever could have been.

Saying “I support Israel but I don’t support the actions of #Netanyahu in Gaza” is like saying “I like this apple tree but only when it sprouts coconuts instead of apples.” That is not the kind of tree it is. The apple tree will only produce apples, and the genocide tree will only produce genocide.
Israel’s supporters avoid confronting obvious truths like these. Support for Israel depends on mass-scale psychological compartmentalization. Everything about it revolves around avoiding unpleasant truths instead of deeply and viscerally reckoning with them.

Averting the eyes from the video footage of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. Averting the eyes from the contradictions between the values they purport to hold and everything Israel is as a state. Averting the eyes from the mountains upon mountains of evidence staring us all in the face. That’s the only way support for Israel is able to continue.

In order to become a truth-driven species, we need to stop hiding from uncomfortable truths. And one of our favorite hiding places for uncomfortable truths at this point in #history is the modern state of Israel, and the western empire’s support for it.

Hot take one: calling legislation "big" and "beautiful" is branding for simpletons. So it's gonna be insanely effective for its target audience.

Hot take two: trying to ju jitsu it into "big ugly" or whatever language Schumer Dems are using is a nitwit strategy. You can't out-insult Trump. And, it only reinforces Trump branding.

This needs to be attacked with mockery. Couch fucking levels of mockery. Did Dems learn nothing from the election?

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🚨#CUPE Ontario, representing 290,000 union members, calls on the Government of #Canada to join #SouthAfrica’s International Court of Justice genocide case against #Israel.

The union has previously called for boycott, divestment and sanctions and an Arms Embargo.
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Les bénévoles de l’association seront à Rodez les 5 et 7 juin pour lancer leur tournée citoyenne de sensibilisation aux enjeux de la corruption ! Un voyage en camionnette de 4 mois qui passera par 45 départements.
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Deutschland hat ein massives #Justizproblem.

In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt

"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."

Very insightful post on #GenAI by Glyph

(Original title: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now)

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I read a strongly pro-parrot-programming article recently that boiled down to "the computer does the hard work, all you have to do is review the code!" and that was the moment I lost all respect for the author's ideas and opinions forever. Very few people like doing code review, and even fewer people do it well, so "now you're *just* doing code review" seems like a terrible job that will be overwhelmingly done badly. Great outcome. No notes.
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@glyph thank you for sharing this. I am not surprised given that, at the foundation, an LLM is just a large linear correlation machine with randomeness sprinkled on top (some intentional, some not). Reading the article did help locate my own negative response to the technology as adjacent to that of reading a particular fantasy book series where the plots were gamed out using D&D. The first book was fresh as an early spring morning, but each succesive volume asymptotically approach an imagination killing level of ineffable sameness.

盲猜老登一看女的不乐意进入婚姻拉磨了搞事。

bl捅了虚拟男人的菊花就等于给老登的脸上打了一巴掌,bg写的男的大概率比活男像人要么至少有钱有势jj好用衬托的活男怪不像样,gl更是俩女的交往了乐意和男的交往得更少了。

女的可以只看小说不谈恋爱精神世界好就很好,男的小头控制大头嘛,找不到兜底的搞事概率可高了。

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was it worth 2 days of suffering and about $300 in parts and tools? absolutely cause the other day i realized how scorching hot the all black interior of that thing is going to get after parking it outside in the sun for a short time.

as a bonus i ended up with some new sets of snap ring pliers, and a dedicated serpentine belt tensioner tool and some stubby sockets. also fixed that last ugly little bumper sag in the front, cleaned some gunk off the alternator and the engine block, and mitigated a bit of rust in the frame while i was in there.

all in all not a bad result. just really glad i didn't screw something up and have to take stuff apart again which has definitely happened before

Bernard Manin : Les ambiguïtés du gouvernement représentatif

🗳️ Bernard #Manin analyse le #GouvernementReprésentatif : plasticité, biais aristocratique de l’ #élection, absence de #MandatImpératif. Un système qui n’est ni #DémocratieDirecte, ni #autogouvernement du peuple. #politique #démocratie #représentation Dans Principes du gouvernement représentatif, Bernard Manin propose une analyse lucide et nuancée des fondements et des limites du régime représentatif, en…

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Après avoir réalisé un excellent film sur Edmond Goupil, notre ami Jean-Pierre Gaché nous parle, dans sa nouvelle vidéo, de son frère Léon, François Goupy qui est aussi engagé politiquement que son cadet.

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#CommuneDeParis1871
#ViveLaCommune
#AmiesetAmisdelaCommunedeParis
#Lacommunenestpasmorte
#commune1871

Der Shitter-Kindergarten zwischen dem Milliardär mit den nuke-codes und dem Milliardär mit dem Privatsatellitennetzwerk & dem Zugang zu allen Daten ist jetzt ernsthaft bei "Er hat angefangen - Nein, er hat angefangen!" angekommen,

und jetzt wäre mal wieder ein prima Zeitpunkt darüber nachzudenken, ob man solche Typen oder sonst irgendwen mit so viel Macht & Geld ausstatten sollte.

#KapitalismusEndstadium

There is a judicial coup underway in this country. The presidency cannot remain functional — and the Republic cannot remain sovereign — if its core powers are subject to the whims of rogue, lawless judges.
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Nous lançons aujourd’hui cinq nouveaux services en ligne ! 🎉
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Sites web, hébergement de vidéos, newsletter, cloud partagé… Que vous soyez un particulier, une association ou une entreprise, La Contre-Voie propose désormais un ensemble de services « à la carte », sur mesure, pour répondre à vos besoins.
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Vous souhaitez faire évoluer les pratiques numériques de votre structure vers des solutions plus éthiques que #Google ou #Microsoft, mais ne savez pas comment vous y prendre ? Ou alors, vous vous sentez perdu·e avec le numérique ?

Pas de problème : nous proposons un programme d’accompagnement numérique pour vous former et vous suivre tout au long de votre parcours, afin de faciliter l’adoption des nouveaux outils libres.
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De septembre 2024 à mai 2025, une dizaine de structures volontaires ont participé à bêta-tester notre programme d’accompagnement numérique et nos services… Retrouvez une présentation de ces nouveaux services dans notre dernier article :
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Au cours des semaines à venir, nous allons vous faire découvrir en détail ces nouveaux services et commençons à accueillir ouvertement les demandes d’hébergement de structures ou de particuliers… Restez au jus 🍹
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»Ein gutes Beispiel aus dem RIAS-Jahresbericht 2024, wie die Beschreibung realer Äußerungen in Israel als antisemitischer Vorfall in Deutschland gilt. Es gibt mehrere Aufrufe von Rabinnern, die religiös begründet Gaza mitsamt der gesamten Bevölkerung vernichten wollen.«

»Der Fall von Rabbi Mali aus Jaffa wurde auch international berichtet - er wurde für seine Äußerungen, IDF sollte alle Kinder und Frauen in Gaza töten, auch nicht angeklagt.«
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Boiling distilled water in my new borosilicate glass stove-to-fridge pitcher. Sometimes I live on the edge and do nasal lavage with distilled water STRAIGHT FROM THE GALLON JUG!!! But if I wanna be really anal like other people trying to stay on top of their bronchiectasis, I gotta boil it for 11 minutes first, because technically even bottled distilled water isn't sterile.

Bronchiectasis makes one vulnerable to infections of otherwise "friendly" bacteria in the air, soil, and water, so we're supposed to sterilize everything all the time. It's of course impossible to sterilize one's environment and I wonder how hard I should try. It's like acquired OCD. Trying to balance mental health with physical.

Anyway I got this pitcher you can boil water in on the stove, which is weird and fascinating and I keep imagining it shattering but so far so good.

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@polariseraYeah that's not for sterilizing.
You're supposed to boil water, even bottled distilled water, for 10 minutes at sea level plus another minute for very thousand feet above sea level.
Then you can store it for up to 48 hours in the fridge.
Then you do it agin.
I will probably use it beyond 48 hours. I live on the edge, high risk.
I'm doing this mostly to see if I can stand it, make it part of my daily routine. If not, I'll just use distilled water straight from the grocery store jug and hope for the best. I figured I should at least try. This borosilicate pitcher at least simplifies the process as you don't need to pour from vessel to vessel. But it is very weird to heat it on the stove! It makes strange sounds, different from stainless steel pots.
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We hope to see you Sunday afternoon on our monthly call. Want to learn about being a campaign treasurer?
from DC, we'll be joined by Howie Hawkins' 2020 presidential campaign treasurer, who will tell us all about it. & if you've been one, we'd love to hear from your experience, too.

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Erst seit Ende März ist Julia Klöckner (#CDU) Präsidentin des Deutschen Bundestags. In dieser Zeit hat sie sich aber schon eine stattliche Anzahl an Fehltritten geleistet. Eine Auflistung.

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Dans le connasses' competition challenge, Laurence Ferrarie prend la tête devant sa copine Crétine Kelly

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Même ce connard de Collard n'en peut plus :
- "apportez lui un tranxene"

Croix gammées, inscriptions nazies : 6 cas de dégradations haineuses, visant des tombeaux de « gens du voyage » ont été recensées en Isère depuis 2019 👉 basta.media/inscriptions-nazie…

« Des actes antitsiganes », disent les proches, dont les plaintes ont été classées sans suite. Ce phénomène, difficile à cartographier, touche l'ensemble du territoire. Enquête.

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