Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Link: teenvogue.com/story/copaganda-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Alec Karakatsanis's new book Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News criticizes how the media covers — and enables — policing.Alec Karakatsanis (Teen Vogue)
Clashes are again taking place in several areas of the Libyan capital of Tripoli as the second night of unrest begins, Libyan newspaper Al Wasat reported on Wednesday.Sputnik International
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Covid Vaccine Genocide Update… Recipients of the ‘Covid Vaccine’ Pfizer Batch beginning with an ‘E’ (Excess Death Risk) were given batches that were the most lethal. EL0140, EL9261, EL3248, EN9581, EJ1686, EK4176, EK5730, EH9899.
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能抢到cp回流票的都是天选之子
我本来想，既然抢不到那就别去了
结果朋友把酒店退了，车票改签当天来回
行吧
这个杭州是非去不可
感觉自从，朋友的单位换了新的傻逼领导以后。她就特别想要出门玩
都是上班惹得祸
不上班什么破事都没有
Migrating to Postgres
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Since early 2022, Motion was on CockroachDB. Cockroach has many qualities going for it: effortless horizontal scaling, especially when dealing with multi-region set ups, extremely high availability…Sean Callahan (Motion Engineering Blog)
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Senator Mike Lee and Representative Mary Miller push IODA to redefine obscenity, bypassing the Supreme Court’s Miller test.Cindy Harper (Reclaim the Net)
Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin and Laura Loomer Warn of Foreign Influence... From Qatar
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America is being targeted by a foreign influence campaign that's buying off our politicians to support the interests of a foreign power, so warns Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin anInformationLiberation
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Dozens were killed in attacks on Wednesday morning after Israel carried out what it says was an assassination of top Hamas leader in Gaza, Mohammad Sinwarthecradle.co
Newsom seeks to short-cut process to build $20-billion Delta water tunnel
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-05-14/newsom-delta-tunnel-review?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Entertainment @entertainment-LATimes
Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking to short-cut permitting of a proposed $20-billion water tunnel project. Environmental groups condemn the plan as an attempt to bypass necessary procedures.Ian James (Los Angeles Times)
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Islam’s 3 Stage Strategy for Conquering Civilizations
1.) Cultural Jihad - Enter a civilization as minorities. Increase their population to form a voting bloc.
2.) Political Jihad - Take political office begin reshaping laws.
3.) Violent Jihad - Once political cover is attained begin violent Jihad. minds.com/newsfeed/17667754227…
...) Cultural Jihad - Enter a civilization as minorities. Increase their population to form a voting bloc. 2.) Political Jihad - Take political office begin reshaping laws. 3.) Violent Jihad - Once...Minds
Голос Кореи,Voice of Korea,Voz de Corea,صوت كوريا ,Stimme Koreas,공화국,vokwww.vok.rep.kp
Karl Marx: The simple circulation of commodities - selling in order to buy - is a means of carrying out a purpose unconnected with circulation, namely, the appropriation of use-values, the satisfaction of wants. The circulation of money as capital is, on the contrary, an end in itself, for the expansion of value takes place only within this constantly renewed movement. The circulation of capital has therefore no limits. As the conscious representative of this movement, the possessor of money becomes a capitalist. His person, or rather his pocket, is the point from which the money starts and to which it returns. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service states that the West wants to change the power in Russia and break it into pieces Rossa Primavera News from RussiaAlexey Krechetov (Rossa Primavera International News)
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In an era of shifting geopolitics and global climate imperatives, India and Russia stand at the forefront of a nuclear energy revolutionBRICS
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Rick Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization representative, said on Tuesday, citing the Palestinian Ministry of Health, that 57 children have died from the effects of malnutrition during the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip.Pepperkorn added, duDAILY YEMEN
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For nearly 19 months, Israel, with financial, technological and political support from the US and Europe, has attacked every single hospital in Gaza.The Isra...YouTube
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Colombian President Gustavo Petro in Beijing on Wednesday.eng.chinamil.com.cn
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I'm upgrading my builds and I decided to get a new monitor so I splurged on the Samsung G9 49" Curved OLED.
My personal and work ARM MBP's require significant tweaking to get the G9 working with a good DPI and font rendering.
I finally booted up my desktop tonight and it just works. I literally didn't have to touch anything.
received the Windows 11 laptop. it looks like KDE?
do I have to save something Windows 11 license-wise before installing Lubuntu?
Napoleon Bonaparte: If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight like a lion. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Quotes
- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Live Updates: Israel has been bombarding Gaza, killing thousands of Palestinians, since Hamas launched a deadly offensive on Oct 7, 2023.DAWN.COM
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Coyote Ugly: there’s a coyote problem in downtown Toronto. The city’s response? Launch a PR campaign telling residents that coyotes are… “neighbours”?!
FULL REPORT by David Menzies: rebelne.ws/4jVsLuo
Coyote Ugly: there’s a coyote problem in downtown Toronto. The city’s response? Launch a PR campaign telling residents that coyotes are… 'neighbours'?!Rebel News
Trump’s “total reset” with China contextualizes everything.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
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As the Washington DC U.S. Attorney, Ed Martin was in position to address the known and documented activity of a variety of former DOJ officials.Sundance (The Last Refuge)
The war that broke out on June 22, 1941, was never just about territory or resources for the Nazis. It was a campaign to clear what they called ‘living space’. Under the Hunger Plan designed by HerberRumble
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well, i have good news and bad news. the good news is my shop press worked to press out the bearing out of the acura knuckle. bad news is, the bearing got ruined in the process.
apparently this is just how it's designed and you always have to replace it. when taking it apart. there seems to be no real way to remove it without destroying it
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday called on the international community to take uren.people.cn
The event was run by Oasis Youth Center, an organization that receives over $300,000 from Washington state taxpayers through grants from the Department of Health.Ari Hoffman (thepostmillennial.com)
This guy is a total fraud.
"Guy trying to impeach Trump doesn’t even know the names of the neighborhoods he represents"
x.com/Breaking911/status/19227…
In a joint declaration, the countries highlighted fruitful results in cooperation based on the principles of equality and sovereignty.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
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Issac Newton: I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Quotes
- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
In a rapidly evolving digital world, Ethiopia’s Hasab AI is emerging as a pioneer in voice intelligence platforms for low-resource and African languages.Sputnik Africa
SECURITY Fix a bug when uploading file via lfs ssh command (#34408) (#34411) Update net package (#34228) (#34232) BUGFIXES Fix releases sidebar navigation link (#34436) #34439 Fix bug webhook ...GitHub
Proton: GE-Proton rebased on top of Valve's Proton 10 Bleeding Edge Wine-Wayland has been enabled and patches from upstream wine backported for it. YMMV (Your mileage may vary). Thanks Etaash-math...GitHub
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Our narrative prison
Link: aeon.co/essays/why-does-every-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?Eliane Glaser (Aeon Magazine)
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Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents
Link: github.com/pig-dot-dev/muscle-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A cache for AI agents to learn and replay complex behaviors. - pig-dot-dev/muscle-memGitHub
MK-Ultra, CIA Mind Control & Brain Washing to Make Assassins
Ewen Cameron, Memory Thief - Part 1
List of 149 MKULTRA Subprojects
MKULTRA Subproject 1:
Isolate and characterize the alkaloids of ipomoea sidalia choisy (Rivea Corymbosa)
MORI ID: 17354
Contractor’s Clearance: TOP SECRET
Location: Princeton University
Years: 1953 ― 1954
CIA Monitor: Robert V. Lashbrook
MKULTRA Subproject 2: (See Subprojects 124 and 140)
Miscellaneous research and testing services in behavioral modification. 1. Study the possible synergistic action of drugs which may be appropriate for use in abolishing consciousness through animal experimentation. 2. Survey of methods to enable the administration of drugs to patients without their knowledge.
MKULTRA Subproject 3: (See Subprojects 16, 42, 132, and 149)
Realistic field testing of R&D items of interest to Technical Services Staff. This is the infamous safehouses known as Operation Midnight Climax.
MKULTRA Subproject 4:
Subprojects 4, 15, and 19 are to fund the contractor, a magician, to write a manual on the various aspects of the magicians’ art which could be useful in covert operations. The result was Mulholland’s Manual, declassified and published in 2009 as The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception.
MKULTRA Subproject 5:
Successful demonstration of “potentialities of hypnosis as a tool of the clandestine services”. Research in hypnosis was to determine if: hypnosis could be used as a memory enhancer, a learning aid, a polygraph deceiver, etc. Also,research into susceptibility of certain personality types to hypnosis.
MKULTRA Subproject 6:
Develop reliable source of LSD within the United States and assist in the search for additional natural hypnotic products. Previously supplier, Sandoz, based in Switzerland.
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Complete list of all 149 MKULTRA subprojects. Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How, and links to FOIA documents available for each subproject.Illuminati Rex
New blog post:
GTK 4.18, the PinePhone and Megapixels linmob.net/gtk-418-the-pinepho…
#PinePhone #GTK4 #Megapixels #LinuxMobile #distrobox
LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.LINux on MOBile
Second attempt. 97daf3e switches panel to DSC, got artifacts - is DSC still broken or did i mess up? ad55461 "borrowed" from you, how shall i best apply authorship? The following p...GitHub
The US State Department's diplomatic activity has led to an intermediate result. Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement saying that he is ready to send representatives to negotiate directly with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15.Anonymous834 (South Front)
Estamos ao vivo conversando sobre realidade virtual e aumentada nas escolas.
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O Encontro de Aprendizagens e Tecnologias Digitais 2025: Programação e Robótica na Educação é uma realização do Grupo de Pesquisa Tecnologias Digitais na Edu...YouTube
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Wednesday is here and it brings the weekly teaser edition of Other People's Music! This thread will reveal the first line of each review, then link to the full review, the music and the artists' socials. Here's the link to the full thing, in case you didn't want to wait:
Brandon Invergo – Here, Beneath the Ash-Choked Sky
A gloomy, doomy portrait of humanity’s end painted in ambient, drone, spoken word, and soundscape.
moonatlas.bandcamp.com/album/h…
@brandoninvergo.bsky.social
The Liquid Clear – Appearance
A deep and thorough deconstruction of ambient and industrial elements into a minimal, haunting musical soundscape.
theliquidclear.bandcamp.com/al…
etherdiver.com/2025/05/09/opm-…
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A woman has a bone to pick after her mother-in-law told her she wasn’t a mother.Kidspot (New York Post)
Perverse incentives of vibe coding
Link: fredbenenson.medium.com/the-pe…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
I’ve been using AI coding assistants like Claude Code for a while now, and I’m here to say (with all due respect to people who have substance abuse issues), I may be an addict. And boy is this is an…fred benenson (Medium)
Harry Bridges: The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity". wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
SoundCloud Changes Policies on Training AI with Artists’ Music Following Furious Backlash
https://futurism.com/soundcloud-ai-policy-changed?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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SoundCloud has once again updated its policies around AI training for clarity following widespread user anger and conern.Maggie Harrison Dupré (Futurism)
@artificial-intelligence-Futurism it was still there in their terms 2-3 days back when I looked. Is this inthe past 24 huors?
..and when are they going to deal with all the scams and csam bots on there?
Israel says it targeted senior Hamas figure Mohammed Sinwar in a massive airstrike near a Gaza European hospital Tuesday night. Hamas denies the claim, as uncertainty swirls around his fate, and ongoing ceasefire negotiations.iranpress.com
The leftist press and their loyal dingbats are going to slam Qatar over and over.
Then Trump and the Emir will announce normalisation with Israel.
Then the same will happen with Syria.
Then the biggie behind them all, Iran.
And the press will be left behind the peacemakers, still bitching about the 747!
There’s my prediction for the day.
reshared this
I have 2 months to make a TempleOS game.
What the fuck, what a slacker. What the fuck am I supposed to make? I said I was gonna make a racing game but that seems too fucking hard in 2 months.
I considered for a moment making a stupid chud farming game to parody all those time management games like Schedule I and Money Washing Simulator.
Leaflet
in reply to Simon 𐕣he 🪨 Johnson • • •I use Silverblue and MacOS daily, I enjoy the former so much more.
Unfortunately my relatively new Lenovo laptop has a small but also major driver bug that hasn’t been fixed in all the time I’ve had it. Bad to the point I got the Mac to have actual working hardware. But I do not enjoy MacOS.
Simon 𐕣he 🪨 Johnson
in reply to Leaflet • • •