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GUILLAUME MEURICE, LA SCIENCE ET NOUS N. #Casaux (En référence à l'apéro du Club de Vert avec Guillaume Meurice le 24 juin 2025)
En théorie, la #science décrit le réel, admettons. Mais en pratique, la science n’a jamais été dissociable des intérêts ayant présidé à son avènement et déterminant encore aujourd’hui ses fins et ses moyens. Les pères fondateurs de la science moderne travaillaient à la solde de riches dirigeants. Galilée, par exemple, fut soutenu par les Médicis. Newton fut anobli par la Couronne britannique et dirigea la Monnaie de Londres. Boyle et Bacon fondaient explicitement la méthode scientifique dans le cadre d’un projet impérial de #domination de la #nature, dans une logique coloniale, marchande et extractiviste. Toute sa vie, Léonard de Vinci chercha à plaire à de puissants mécènes — les Sforza à Milan, les Médicis à Florence, François Ier en France, etc. — non pas seulement en peignant des Madones, mais surtout en proposant ses services d’ingénieur militaire, de concepteur de machines de guerre.
La science moderne n’a pas été créée par les volontés démocratiques des populations du monde, dans une volonté d’exprimer le vrai, de défendre le juste et de faire le bien. Elle est née au cœur des empires, dans des sociétés hautement hiérarchiques, au service d’intérêts marchands et de la course à la puissance. Depuis son avènement, ce sont des logiques de puissance, de rentabilité et de contrôle qui orientent les axes de recherche, les choix technologiques, les priorités épistémiques. Et aujourd’hui encore, sous ses dehors prétendument neutres, la science est financée par des budgets d’État fixés par une oligarchie de décideurs, mais aussi par l’industrie militaire, pharmaceutique, numérique ou énergétique. On n’étudie pas n’importe quoi, de n’importe quelle manière, au nom d’un amour abstrait de la vérité. Et donc la science décrit le réel, certes, mais dans les limites que lui imposent les structures de #pouvoir dont elle émane.
Par ailleurs, la science est une cause majeure de la catastrophe sociale et écologique en cours. La science a produit les machines ayant permis et permettant toujours d’extraire le pétrole du sol, et tous les engins à moteur thermique, de la locomotive au porte-conteneurs, de la moissonneuse-batteuse au char de combat. Elle a conçu les procédés 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 sociétés humaines hiérarchiques, déjà axées sur la puissance, d’exploiter le monde plus vite, plus intensément, plus profondément. Sans la science, pas de réacteur nucléaire, pas de climatiseur, pas d’ordinateur, pas de smartphone, pas de réseau 5G. Pas d’Amazon, pas de Facebook, pas de Google. Pas de chaîne de production robotisée, pas de police algorithmique, pas de biométrie. La science n’a pas seulement permis l’avènement de l’enfer techno-industriel : elle l’a fabriqué.
La science repose sur une importante division spécialisée et hiérarchique du travail, laquelle n’est rendue possible que par la dépossession des êtres humains, l’existence de classes sociales, de rapports de domination, d’infrastructures centralisées et d’un appareil d’État capable d’imposer, de financer, d’orchestrer une répartition autoritaire des rôles et des savoirs. Elle repose sur une architecture sociale profondément hiérarchisée : à la base, des techniciens invisibles ; au sommet, une aristocratie de chercheurs, de « penseurs » et d’experts, séparés du reste de la population par un langage ésotérique, des diplômes inaccessibles, des institutions opaques. L’immense majorité des humains ne peut ni comprendre ni discuter ce que produit la science, encore moins décider de ses orientations. Elle doit croire. Paradoxe : la société qui se prétend « rationnelle » repose sur une foi absolue dans la parole de ses nouveaux prêtres, les scientifiques.
Certes, la science a aussi produit les antibiotiques, les vaccins, certaines connaissances médicales précieuses. Mais ces acquis, souvent brandis comme justification globale de la science moderne, sont l’arbre qui cache la forêt de ses ravages. Parce que les bienfaits de la science sont indissociables des désastres écologiques et sociaux qu'elle produit, et d'une #société de classes, et d’une vaste division spécialisée et hiérarchique du travail, où la quasi-totalité des individus sont privés de tout pouvoir sur le cours des choses, réduits au rôle de simples exécutants, de consommateurs passifs ou de cobayes involontaires d’innovations qu’ils n’ont ni souhaitées ni décidées.
Se lamenter d’attaques contre la science et prétendre 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 alliés. Certes, certains scientifiques s’indignent. Ils signent des tribunes, dénoncent l’inaction face au réchauffement climatique, alertent sur la perte de biodiversité 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 lancé à toute vitesse, qu’ils ont eux-mêmes (ou leurs collègues, et leurs prédécesseurs) contribué à construire. De la même manière, les appels naïfs à « mieux orienter » la science, à « faire bon usage » de la technique, à « écouter les chercheurs », ne sont que des incantations impuissantes. Le réel est ailleurs : dans les structures de pouvoir, les flux de capitaux, les chaînes d’approvisionnement, les intérêts d’État et les impératifs industriels.
Sans prendre trop de risques, on peut prévoir qu’au cours des prochaines décennies, la science produira une multitude de nouveaux outils au service de la #surveillance, du #contrôle, de la #rentabilité, de la #puissance et de la #destruction du monde.
Le mythe de la science, très courant dans la société, et qui va de pair avec nombre d’autres mythes – le mythe de l’école comme invention émancipatrice, le mythe de la #technologie comme vecteur d’un progrès ayant glorieusement extirpé l’être humain d’une infâme condition quasi-animale, etc., – perpétue une mystification générale et l’asservissement fasciné des populations aux institutions qui les dominent et les exploitent.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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-p…
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.
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.
"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
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.
"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."
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.
#TheCure - #Lovesong (Official Music #Video) 8 Jul 2010 … Watch the official video for The Cure’s “Lovesong” from their eighth studio album ‘Disintegration’ in #1989. The song was covered by 311
RONNIE SPECTOR (HIGH QUALITY) - DON'T WORRY BABY . #Ronnie-Spector's #cover of Brian Wilson's 'Don't Worry Baby' Originally written for the Ronettes but they didn't end up recording it.
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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.
In this report, Palestinian journalist Maha Hussaini interviews Palestinian freelancers working from a shared workspace provided by the local initiative Taqa...
Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used AI police tool is designed to avoid accountability, watchdog says. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
There's a lot of beauty in this VNC screenshot by @vncresolver The longer I look, the more details I see, it's a little like a "Where's Waldo" picture.
Prices are starting to rise in the US because of #tariffs, as previously stocked inventories are depleted. Economists say it will only get worse. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/10/economy/tariffs-higher-prices-inflation
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...
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
I’m glad I’m not doing “serious” systems anymore, can you imagine trying to maintain code that does important things like paying people’s pensions in this environment
Having worked through a few buyouts, I suspect that the problem is more down to business strategy and human nature than tech.. The objective of most companies is to be eaten by a larger company, and the objective of the technical management of the larger company is to eliminate any internal competition - irrespective of how well written the product is. Cue multiple rewrites of the same product by teams with no knowledge of the original decisions / requirements that lead to it's form.
context matters. In a professional setting with expected software lifespans of several years/decades and teams working on it, your point stands.
However, as a hobbyist learning the ropes, lowering the initial hurdle makes a lot of sense. At that stage motivation and momentum count more than the final result (which is measured in lessons learned instead of features delivered). So there is a good reason for low friction green field project support.
sometimes we're developing the software as a product, and we don't no if it has enough demand or fits the market or etc. So we need to develop it fast to know even we might maintain that software or not.
Most contempory app have zero support and maintenance. When was the last time you could even rely on being able to open an app and having it work the same way as the last time you used it...
having now seen a bit of vibe-coding in the wild, i’m convinced that ballooning support and maintenance costs are going to put a lot of companies out of business — and pretty quickly, too
the absolute banger is that every single person that has done work in the field for any amount of time knows this. I mean developers and engineers. Managers and such stay clueless.
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?
It has been longer. They literally taught me as undergraduate that Waterfall model would be replaced by Rapid Prototyping by the time I graduated in 1995.
And it was.
Seems often the only software available is someone's new prototype.
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?
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…
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 democracynow.org/2025/7/10/fra…
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.
As with all things: context matters. Specifically the lighting in your environment. That’s why I have mine switch from a light to a dark theme with the rest of my system. Which, really, should be the default.
@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.
"It's fascinating that you managed to write a letter, but haven't been able to read what climate scientists have been writing for the past 50 years..."
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.
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 🗑️.
Ausbauen, weiter verwenden, oder überschreiben zb. mit dem hier und entsorgen. openssl enc -aes-128-ctr -pass pass:"$hier_random_pw" -nosalt </dev/zero 2>/dev/null |pv > /dev/sdX(^ist sehr schnell, aber gibt ja auch andere Programme dafür oder einfach cat /dev/urandom >/dev/sdX .)
Haven't treated myself to an #icecream in years so it was nice to obtain some the other day, compliments to the giver of icecream and I hope your #birthday was fantastic that day.
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.
Websites are often taken for granted. You visit one, glance around, find what you’re looking for—or not—and move on without much thought.
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This is where great web design steps in. A skilled website designer doesn’t just make your site look good—they create an experience that builds confidence and keeps people engaged.
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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.
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Web design isn’t just about colors or fonts. It’s about creating a site that feels effortless to use. A website designer focuses on how visitors move through your site—what they click, what they read, and what keeps them exploring.
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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.
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…
'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”.'
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
But who is this petition directed at? It can't be the prize committee directly, because that's not how the nomination process works, and there is are proscribed categories of people eligible to nominate, such as parliamentarians. Is the petition directed at some specific parliament to make •them• nominate her? 🤔
🚨BREAKING: Al-Qassam Brigades show uncensored footage killing an Israeli soldier:
📍Abasan Al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis city, south of the Strip.
#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.“
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.
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.
I finished watching “Pluto” today. Another Netflix Anime, was really good. A bit sad overall but definitely interesting and the hour long episodes were insane lol.
Definitely recommend giving it a watch, hopefully they will do a season 2 sometime in the future.
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…
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.
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 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/…
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.
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…
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
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…
Six Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to Canada’s ambassador calling for action on the wildfires sending smoke billowing across the international border into their states. ctvnews.ca/canada/wildfires/ar…
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
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...
"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." bird.makeup/users/yousefmunayy…
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.
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.
- 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
Amid global military overstretch and weapons shortages, the U.S. is employing strategies like “division of labor” and “strategic sequencing” to prolong
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.
Dr Susi Arnott
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