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Europe's first deep-space optical communication link
The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometres away, using two optical grounds stations developed for this purpose in Greece.
#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Trump plans to tour Texas flood damage as the scope of the disaster tests his pledge to shutter FEMA
https://apnews.com/article/trump-texas-floods-fema-phase-out-b77d9681d2d39f8c201351b54ecf944f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ursula von der Leyen étrillée par Valérie Hayer, les macronistes furieux contre la présidente de la Commission
Que des traîtres, des vendus, des couilles molles et des putes.
huffingtonpost.fr/politique/ar…
Ursula von der Leyen étrillée par Valérie Hayer, les macronistes furieux contre la présidente de la Commission
Le rapprochement du Parti populaire européen de Manfred Weber avec l’extrême droite ulcère les macronistes, pourtant alliés.Lucie Oriol (Le HuffPost)
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/194… (via Younis Tirawi)
IDF routinely denies allegations of targeting non-combatants.
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@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/1148…)
חיילים מעידים: תקפנו ברחפנים ילדים ומבוגרים לא חמושים בעזה - שיחה מקומית
הצבא משתמש באופן נרחב ברחפנים אזרחיים מתוצרת סינית, שמותקנים עליהם רימונים לצורך תקיפת פלסטינים בעזה, כך עולה משיחות עם שבעה חיילים וקצינים ששירתו שם.יובל אברהם (שיחה מקומית)
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Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones
Israeli soldiers tell +972 they deliberately target Palestinian civilians with drone strikes so others will ‘learn’ not to return.Ben Reiff (+972 Magazine)
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.“Soldiers independently launched crowdfunding campaigns,” L. explained. “Our company received around NIS 500,000 (approximately $150,000) in donations, which we also used to buy drones.” C., another soldier, recalled being asked to sign thank-you letters to Americans who had donated EVO drones to his battalion.
"(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.
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Bien que verrouillée, la posture de zazen est une clé.
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#zen #silence #prière #pratique #spiritualité
Zazen T’emporte Au-Delà
Bien que verrouillée, la posture de zazen est une clé.Elle ouvre la porte de ta conscience aux réalités qui te dépassent.Bien que statique, le zafu t’offre le voyage par-delà les espaces cloisonnés…Notes & Silence
iea.org/data-and-statistics/ [archive]
#energy #iea
IEA – International Energy Agency - IEA
The International Energy Agency works with countries around the world to shape energy policies for a secure and sustainable future.IEA
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Awakening is forever free.
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#zen #silence #meditation #prayer #practice
Clear Light
Neither knowledge,nor merit, clear light, satori,immediate gift,infinite grace. ©FJ Fev 2025Recueils / Participation/ Horaires des SéancesGroupes De Pratique (Audio, Sessions)Notes & Silence
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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.
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I'll Just Leave This Here
I'm on my way back upstairs to recline in my comfy bed.
Fragrant Fourth Fuels Fascism Fears - Shower Cap Blog
I’ve watched Trump defile a lot of holidays, but this might just be the defiledest holiday yet!Shower Cap (Shower Cap Blog)
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At least 15 Palestinians, incl. 8 children and 2 women, have been killed in an Israeli strike while queuing for nutritional supplements in front of a clinic in central Gaza, a hospital says.
Video from al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah showed the bodies of several children and others lying on the floor.
US-based aid group Project Hope, which runs the clinic, said the attack was a blatant violation of international law.
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says
Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed when a queue for nutritional supplements was hit in Deir al-Balah.David Gritten (BBC News)
Another Palestinian journalist was killed by Israeli army fire in Gaza, bringing the death toll since October 2023 to 229, local authorities said on Thursday.
Ahmad Abu Aisha lost his life after being directly hit by an Israeli drone in front of his home in the Sawarha area, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the government media office said in a statement.
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
Israel kills another Palestinian journalist in Gaza, death toll rises to 229
Journalist Ahmad Abu Aisha killed in Israeli strike in central Gaza Strip, government media office says - Anadolu Ajansıwww.aa.com.tr
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Report: "Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'"
Piraeus workers "will refuse to unload the Ever Golden, a container ship carrying military-grade steel to Israel, when it arrives in Greece."
“We will not unload a single inch of this murderous cargo. The dock workers of Piraeus will not be complicit. We will not unload military steel from the Ever Golden - no to Greece’s involvement - freedom for Palestine."
middleeasteye.net/news/greek-d…
Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'
Dock workers at the port of Piraeus have said that they will refuse to unload the Ever Golden, a container ship carrying military-grade steel to Israel, when it arrives in Greece.Oscar Rickett (Middle East Eye)
hrw.org/news/2025/07/11/cuba-p…
Cuba: Protesters Detail Abuses in Prison
Protesters detained for participating in the peaceful July 2021 protests in Cuba have been subject to serious abuses in prison.Human Rights Watch
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/po…
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#Press #News
New settler police force tightens Israeli grip on occupied West Bank
Israeli Police Minister Ben-Gvir forms an armed settler unit in al-Khalil, raising concerns over "Israel's" further occupation efforts in the occupied West Bank.Al Mayadeen English (New settler police force tightens Israeli grip on occupied West Bank)
Denying Coverage with AI: CMS’s New Medicare Model
counterpunch.org/2025/07/11/de…
"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
Federal officials say a prominent Georgia Republican was running a $140 million Ponzi scheme
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-first-liberty-brant-frost-investigation-0145233ce6b7ec489c568b6deec5c0b5?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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UN investigator and critic of Israel's actions in Gaza tells AP she was shocked by US sanctions
https://apnews.com/article/un-us-albanese-gaza-sanctions-israel-ceda1adc8e2a1a4511c24da87b0d2342?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“Muslim terrorists.”
That’s what newly elected Republican congressman Randy Fine called Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, as well as New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
The comments sparked a rare condemnation from House Democratic leadership.
“The Hamas Caucus is upset. Boo hoo. I guess they weren't listening when I said the Hebrew Hammer was coming,” Fine said in response to the condemnation.
zeteo.com/p/republican-lawmake…
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
Republican Lawmaker Calls Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Zohran Mamdani 'Muslim Terrorists' – Will He Be Censured?
I reached out to every Democrat who voted to censure Tlaib in 2023. Here’s what they said about Randy Fine’s vicious, Islamophobic comments.Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
Brazil vows retaliatory tariffs against US if Trump follows through on 50% import taxes
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-trump-tariffs-bolsonaro-lula-us-d45722a041324a732fe0435000360745?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Rubio to meet China's foreign minister in Malaysia as US-Chinese tensions mount
https://apnews.com/article/us-china-russia-asean-82467600bcf2b97b5729f34676ceeb2a?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"The Fourth Amendment forbids “exploratory rummaging”—in fact, it was drafted in direct response to British colonial soldiers’ practice of indiscriminately searching people’s homes and papers for evidence of their opposition to the Crown."
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/eff-…
EFF Tells Virginia Court That Constitutional Privacy Protections Forbid Cops from Finding out Everyone Who Searched for a Keyword
This post was co-authored by EFF legal intern Noam ShemtovWe are in a constant dialogue with Internet search engines, ranging from the mundane to the confessional.Electronic Frontier Foundation
#Music on #Red-Overtone-Moon
#PorlThompson 11/8/1957 #Birth British musician (The #Cure)
#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
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#Music on #Red-Overtone-Moon
#RonnieSpector 8/10/1943 #Birth US singer (The Ronettes)
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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Krav Maga
Knife defense drills
Multiple simulated attackers in a row
Inside fighting
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This Krav Maga Master Blew Me Away!
Special thanks to Joel Gelfand for this episode. If you are in Toronto check out House Of CombatCheck out my collagen brand to help with injuries, health iss...YouTube
In this report, Palestinian journalist Maha Hussaini interviews Palestinian freelancers working from a shared workspace provided by the local initiative Taqat Gaza.
What began as a small co-working space in Deir al-Balah has evolved into a vital network supporting more than 500 displaced freelancers, many of whom have lost their homes and loved ones, yet continue to create, code, and build from the heart of Gaza.
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
Palestinian initiative provides workspace for young freelancers in Gaza
In this report, Palestinian journalist Maha Hussaini interviews Palestinian freelancers working from a shared workspace provided by the local initiative Taqa...YouTube
AI police tool is designed to avoid accountability, watchdog says.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
The longer I look, the more details I see, it's a little like a "Where's Waldo" picture.
24 year old immigrant who was a high school student at 24 years old was arrested
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24 Yr old high school student gets arrested wait what?
Immigrant get arrested for being stupid.24 Yr old high school student gets arrested wait what? (www.mgtow.tv)
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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-inflationGirlcock.club
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Over the past weeks, there have been no exceptions to the statement ‘today Israel committed a massacre against Palestinians queuing for aid/food’ 10 children murdered yesterday alone. Israel’s genocide continues. Most Western states maintain normal relations. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israeli strike kills at least ...
Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza
Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’William Christou (The Guardian)
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.
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.
Cc: @kevin
When truth departs – as it is doing from the political field – we are in very deep trouble
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has written this on X when referring to the sanctions put on United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese by the United States of America: The attack against Albanese presages a world without ru…Funding the Future
Wildfires force evacuations at Grand Canyon's North Rim and Colorado's Black Canyon national park
https://apnews.com/article/grand-canyon-north-rim-evacuate-wildfire-gunnison-5d3e0a391a650d74f837f80cd9eb573c?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Justin Bieber releases 'Swag,' his long-awaited seventh album
https://apnews.com/article/justin-bieber-new-album-f9fe39b007132b3e005e87fe7d222862?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#FrancescaAlbanese #UN #Gaza #sanctions
democracynow.org/2025/7/10/fra…
“Economy of Genocide”: U.S. Sanctions U.N. Expert Who Reports on Corporate Profits from Israel’s Gaza War
We speak with United Nations expert Francesca Albanese, one day after the Trump administration announced it is imposing sanctions on her over her advocacy for Palestinian rights. Albanese has served as the U.N.Democracy Now!
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)
@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
“I worked for #BigPharma. What I saw will shock you”
- 5 day snorkeling vacations to doctors
- California Big Pharma reps giving doctors $15,000 Birkin handbags
- $6,000 Armani suits and expensed it on their expense reports
- Strip clubs, lap dances, you name it
- Rent a box for a big concert to Phillies games, Eagles games
- Extravagant Golf trips
- “They received it as gifts and bribes”
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1943205851872755891
My one line reply:
"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..."
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"Trapping AI" – Operational Progress! 🕳️
Following the last update (tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/1147426…), we’re transitioning from planning to practice — amplifying both the scale and operational ferocity of our approach through the deployment of a new, more radically interventionist layer of complexity.
This intensified escalation — as outlined in the last update — is concretized in fakejpeg
, which is now fully live and operational. From this point onward, every page generated by our standalone LLM crawler-tarpit embeds a garbage JPEG. Notably, within just a few hours of operation, this deployment has already yielded over 40,000 such images.
The integration of fakejpeg
constitutes a critical deepening layer that amplifies both the strategic offensiveness and subversive ardor of our approach by enabling the ongoing targeted poisoning and coordinated dissemination of systematically crafted junk data within the operational workflows of AI systems.
fakejpeg
repo: github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg
See the tarpit in action: content.asrg.site/
Context and rationale: algorithmic-sabotage.github.io…
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They Denied #Disclosure — Until 3 #Whistleblowers Blew the Lid Off Galactic Secrets (2:02:12)
Wendelle C. Stevens & #JimMarrs
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Wenn ihr alte Laptops entsorgt, wie macht ihr das mit den Festplatten? Wie stellt ihr sicher, dass die Daten nicht in andere Hände gelangen?
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 .)
#RichardDolan | #Disclosure #News Updates, USO Cases, & Enochian Symbols
Source:
The #Higherside Chats #Podcast with #GregCarlwood.
#THC
Gregg always has such has incredibly subtle and
brilliant introductions of his guests.
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Why Your Website Is Your Business’s First Voice
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.
But when you’re the one running the site, those brief moments are critical. They’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 doesn’t just make your site look good—they create an experience that builds confidence and keeps people engaged.
First Impressions Are Instant
Visitors judge your website in seconds. They don’t read every word or analyze the design—they scan and form a quick opinion. That snap reaction decides whether they stay or leave.
A clean, modern, fast-loading site signals reliability. A cluttered, slow, or outdated one pushes people away. They might not know why they left—just that something felt off. Good design captures those fleeting moments and turns them into trust.
Design Is About Usability, Not Just Style
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.
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 business’s credibility. That brief pause can send them to a competitor. A poorly designed website doesn’t just frustrate—it risks losing customers before they engage with your work.
Your Website Defines Your Brand
Your website is often the first thing potential customers see. It’s your digital front door, setting expectations for what it’s like to work with you. Does it feel current? Professional? Trustworthy?
If not, you’re sending the wrong message. Web design services help align your site with your brand’s reality, whether through updated visuals, streamlined navigation, or mobile optimization. It’s about ensuring your online presence matches your real-world quality.
The Risk of "Good Enough"
It’s tempting to stick with a website that’s "fine." It’s online, it functions, it’s there. But a mediocre site can quietly hurt your business. Low engagement, high bounce rates, or fewer inquiries often trace back to user experience issues.
Good design guides visitors toward action with clear calls-to-action, intuitive layouts, and fast performance. When these elements work together, visitors trust your brand and are more likely to take the next step.
Choosing a Website Designer Who Gets It
When selecting web design services, look for someone who starts with your goals. They should ask about your audience, your challenges, and what you want to achieve. A great website designer Singapore focuses on purpose, not just visuals.
A website isn’t a showpiece—it’s a tool to connect and convert. The right designer builds a site that’s both functional and credible, working as hard as you do.
Final Thought
Your website doesn’t need to be a work of art. It just needs to feel right. When it does, visitors linger, engage, and trust you more. That’s the subtle power of good design—shaping perceptions and driving results without drawing attention to itself.
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International institutions are simply sticks with which to intimidate and beat countries run by Black and Brown people. That's all they are, but remember, the colonizers don't have to obey the rules. They never have and never will.
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US threatens ICC: Drop Israel war crimes probe or 'all options on the table'
A senior legal adviser to the US State Department has issued a dramatic threat to the International Criminal Court's oversight body, warning that "all options are on the table" if the court does not drop investigations and arrest warrants against the…Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
'The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”.'
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#TonyBlair #Blair #ElonMusk #Musk #TrumpRiviera #DonaldTrump #Trump #Gaza #politics
Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG
Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hubStephen Foley (Financial Times)
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Nominate Francesca Albanese for the Nobel Peace Prize!
📍Abasan Al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis city, south of the Strip.
As part of the "Stones of David" operations series: Scenes from the raid on enemy soldiers and vehicles that were convening.
Hamas attempted to capture two Zionist vehicles and two military bulldozers.
Hamas struck the bulldozer and disabled it, and when the IOF bulldozer driver tried to flee, they shot him and took his weapons.
The end of the video they show two rifles and a handgun they took from the terrorist.
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🚨BREAKING: Al-Qassam Brigades show uncensored footage killing an Israeli soldier: 📍Abasan Al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis city, south of the Strip.UpScrolled
#Polizeigewalt bei propalästinensischer Demo in #Berlin. Ihr erinnert Euch: "ein schwer verletzter Polizist, in die Masse hineingerissen"?
Videoauawertung: Polizisten betreten pro-aktiv die Menschenmenge.
Ausbilder: „Der Beamte mit der Rückennummer 24111 ist mir den ganzen Tag über aufgefallen“, sagt Clemens Arzt. „Ich empfand ihn als ziemlich aggressiv, er ist immer wieder in die Menge rein und hat zugeschlagen.“
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Palästina-Demo: Was geschah mit Polizist 24111?
Bei propalästinensischen Protesten in Berlin soll ein Polizist von den Demonstranten schwer verletzt worden sein. Eine Videoanalyse der Rechercheagentur Forensis, die SZ und NDR einsehen und prüfen konnten, zeigt ein anderes Bild.Jan Heidtmann (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Da würden mich die Gründe interessieren... Hand immer noch kaputt? Ptbs? Entzug? Politische spielchen?
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Zweifel an Darstellung der Polizei nach Pro-Palästina-Demo in Berlin
Bei einer Pro-Palästina-Kundgebung in Berlin wurde am 15. Mai ein Polizist schwer verletzt. Laut Polizei wurde er zu Boden gebracht und getreten. NDR und SZ liegt ein bisher unveröffentlichtes Video vor, das sich mit dieser Darstellung nicht deckt.tagesschau.de
Netanyahu says anyone who doesn’t enter Israel’s #Gaza concentration camps will be killed as a terrorist
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Netanyahu says anyone who doesn’t enter Israel’s Gaza concentration camps will be killed as a terrorist
Extermination tactics are chillingly familiar – and aim to murder more than a million people Wanted Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has outlined his plan for the next escalation of Is…SKWAWKBOX
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are refusing to implement a government plan to move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a what it calls a "humanitarian city" in #Rafah on #Gaza’s southern border with Egypt.
Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, chief of the #IDF general staff said the plan was not part of the military’s operational plan for destroying Hamas and freeing the remaining hostages.
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Plans to Concentrate Gaza Palestinians in Rafah Camp a Crime against Humanity
By James Sweeney, Lancaster University (The Concversation) - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are refusing to implement a government plan …Informed Comment
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
Mastodon is even worse, it has to cache everything!
MIsskey probably still lacks support for deleting old feerated posts.
Sad.
welp...
we did say long and loud for decades of our own lives, that palestine must be freed, or the the same would happen to thee.
are you awake yet?
...#palestine still needs liberating...
"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/…
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.
Y se ha cambiado, y ahora las fiestas son mejores e igual de divertidas.
Tauromaquia NO.
#SanFerminesRTVE #Sanfermines
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Locuras Lógicas (@LocurasLogicas@mastodon.social)
Exigimos a RTVE que retransmita imagenes sin toros de las fiestas. El maltrato animal no debe ser televisado. Debe ser abolido. https://mastodon.social/@LocurasLogicas/114785298772322468Mastodon
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.
In the Last Thirty Months of Human Climate Collapse
In the last 30 months Canada has burned 30 million HECTARES of forest
A Hectare is 2.7 Acres
🇨🇦 Burned 80 million acres in 30 months
🇨🇦 Is the single largest producer of CO2 on Earth 👈
🇨🇦 Has NO MAJOR program to build the new energy
NO major program to build the new energy
Canada NEEDS JOBS, because Trump is ATTACKING, destroying, CANADIAN JOBS
Canada must build the new energy
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»
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Un hostelero echa de su restaurante a un grupo de turistas israelíes en Vigo: «Si matáis en Palestina, os vais a comer a Gaza»
La Policía Local enviará a la Nacional un informe por un posible delito de odio, tras la denuncia de un ciudadano de MadridM.A. (La Voz de Galicia)
In 1985, the French government bombed the Rainbow Warrior.
It wasn’t just trying to sink a ship - it was attempting to sink a movement, to attack activism, and to silence the voice of hope.
They failed. They blew wind in our sails.
Greenpeace and the movement refused to back down and continued to campaign against nuclear testing.
And in 1996, we won.
To learn more >> bit.ly/40J3MTu
You can’t sink a rainbow and you can’t silence hope - Greenpeace International
40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.Greenpeace International
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I would like to see the farms in Ventura California, which has been raided by ICE, demand that these agents come out and pick the crops.
I don’t think they’ll be able to do it competently but the crop is lost anyway because there’s no one to harvest it..
Let us see how these guys manage in their military gear harvest pot, and all the other crops that are tended and harvested by hand.
Maybe we can see them work in the meat packing facilities, or the food packing facilities
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normis 👹
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