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#Sweden / Israeli Ambassador to be summoned over Gaza aid blockade

Sweden will summon Israel's ambassador to protest the insufficient humanitarian aid reaching Gaza. PM Kristersson says the #EU should consider sanctions and diplomatic pressure. #Gaza faces a potential famine after months of blockade.

[…] Kristersson told Swedish news agency TT that the European Union should impose sanctions and exert diplomatic pressure on Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.

straitstimes.com/world/europe/…

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide


Sweden to summon Israeli ambassador over Gaza

COPENHAGEN - Sweden's foreign ministry will summon Israel's ambassador in Stockholm to protest against a lack of humanitarian aid to people in Gaza, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Monday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Reminder:

Despite ending core funding to #UNRWA, #Sweden is increasing its overall humanitarian aid to #Gaza and the surrounding region, nearly doubling its aid budget to about $72 million for 2025, which will be channeled through other organizations such as the #WFP, #UNICEF, UN Population Fund, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

#UNRWA criticized Sweden’s decision as disappointing and harmful, especially as it comes at a critical time for Palestinian refugees who rely on UNRWA for education, healthcare, and emergency assistance. The agency warned that defunding will undermine decades of Sweden’s investment in human development and deny access to education for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children.

Sweden’s decision to stop funding UNRWA threatens the education of an entire generation development-today.com/archive/…

@palestine @israel

Sweden’s decision to stop funding UNRWA threatens the education of an entire generation | Development Today

Two scholars challenge Development Minister Benjamin Dousa’s claim that other humanitarian agencies can replace services provided by UNRWA. “Palestinians in...
Development Today
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In case you missed it, LXQt and Xfce both support Wayland now

Both don't ship with their own Wayland compositor, but there are enough to choose from.

Xfce comes with a wayland session using labwc out of the box, but was also tested with Wayfire. The devs state you shouldn't hold your breath waiting for the native window manager xfwm to be ported into a Wayland compositor, since they don't know if/when it will be done. Almost all other Xfce components support Wayland now, while retaining X11 compatibility.

LXQt's newest stable release has full Wayland support, with 7 different Wayland compositors to choose from within a GUI settings menu: Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River and Niri

xfce.org/about/news/?post=1734…
lxqt-project.org/release/2024/…

Release LXQt 2.1.0 | LXQt

The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 2.1.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment.
lxqt-project.org

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"The Electric-- the simplest of motor cars" ad in Vogue magazine in 1912.

(nytimes has an article about that era of electrics with a cool ad: nytimes.com/2025/05/26/busines… )

loving our electric vehicles in 2025.
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ad in vogue

Vogue Autumn 1912: Vol 40 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Vogue Autumn 1912: Volume 40, Issue None.Digitized from IA1630004-02.Previous issue: sim_vogue_1912-10-01_40_7.Next issue: sim_vogue_1912-10-15_40_8.
Internet Archive
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another serious incident in Bournemouth.
A young girl out with friends, went off to the cash machine & didn't return. The friends called their parents & they checked Find my Phone.

which led them to a van in a car park.
She was inside with 5 Asian men, they had held her & were bidding on her...police arrived but the men had gone...
no media coverage

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Windows Was The Problem All Along: Review of the Lenovo Legion Go S Running SteamOS: youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp3UYj50…
#linux #linuxgaming #update #legiongos #lenovo #handheld #steamos #windows #pcgaming #alternative

Windows Was The Problem All Along

The Lenovo Legion Go S becomes excellent with Valve's SteamOS. The first TRUE competitor to the Valve Steam Deck.Box - https://dbrand.com/shop/catalog/legion...
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Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going?

I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

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karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social) "MAINTAINERS: Remove myself"
Following the R4L debacle "you are cancer, you are the problem, we are the thin blue line", another maintainer steps down from the Linux Kernel

karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social)

I'm formally stepping down as a nouveau kernel maintainer. I want to stress out this is only for the kernel side of things and has and will not have any impact on my involvement in mesa.
chaos.social
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Arbitration at least, or some form of: Torvalds Yes to Rust, No to Small-town Dictators
Besides Marcan resignation, not much on other recent turmoils, or, more importantly in my view, the use of "Thin blue line" in the language of the anti-rust dev

As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase

Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can’t interfere with it.
Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
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The European kakistocracy is mired in its eternal anti-Russia war en.reseauinternational.net/la-…

The European kakistocracy is mired in its eternal anti-Russia war - Réseau International

by Pepe Escobar. Never interrupt your enemy when he commits serial suicides. In the case of the European kakistocracy, serial self-destruction remains a constant that continues to grow and become more beautiful.
Pepe Escobar (Réseau International)

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Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?

Arch is aimed at people who know their shit so they can build their own distro based on how they imagine their distro to be. It is not a good distro for beginners and non power users, no matter how often you try to make your own repository, and how many GUI installers you make for it. There's a good reason why there is no GUI installer in arch (aside from being able to load it into ram). That being that to use Arch, you need to have a basic understanding of the terminal. It is in no way hard to boot arch and type in archinstall. However, if you don't even know how to do that, your experience in whatever distro, no matter how arch based it is or not, will only last until you have a dependency error or some utter and total Arch bullshit® happens on your system and you have to run to the forums because you don't understand how a wiki works.

You want a bleeding edge distro? Use goddamn Opensuse Tumbleweed for all I care, it is on par with arch, and it has none of the arch stuff.

You have this one package that is only available on arch repos? Use goddamn flatpak and stop crying about flatpak being bloated, you probably don't even know what bloat means if you can't set up arch. And no, it dosent run worse. Those 0,0001 seconds don't matter.

You really want arch so you can be cool? Read the goddamn 50 page install guide and set it up, then we'll talk about those arch forks.

(Also, most arch forks that don't use arch repos break the aur, so you don't even have the one thing you want from arch)

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President Trump Delivers Remarks at Arlington Cemetary:

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President Donald Trump Delivers a Memorial Day Speech from Arlington Cemetary - 11:00am Livestream - The Last Refuge

President Donald J Trump delivers remarks and participates in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. The anticipated start time is 11:00am ET. Livestream Links Below: . .
Sundance (The Last Refuge)

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Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like A Lady) (Official Music Video)

Aerosmith's "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" is a classic rock anthem that blends humour with a catchy melody. Released in 1987, the song showcases the band's signature sound and Steven Tyler's charismatic vocals. Its playful lyrics and memorable chorus have made it a fan favourite, solidifying its place in rock history.

Lyrics:
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

Cruised into a bar on the shore
Her picture graced the grime on the door
She's a long lost love at first bite
Baby, maybe you're wrong
But you know it's all right, that's right

Back stage we're having the time
Of our lives until somebody says
Forgive me if I seem out of line
Then she whipped out a gun
And tried to blow me away

Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

So never judge a book by its cover
Or who you gonna love by your lover
Love put me wise to her love in disguise
She had the body of a Venus
Lord, imagine my surprise

Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

(Baby let me follow you down)
Let me take a peek dear
(Baby let me follow you down)
Do me, do me, do me all night
(Baby let me follow you down)
Turn the other cheek dear
(Baby let me follow you down)
Do me, do me, do me, do me

What a funky lady
Oh, she like it, like it, like it, like it
Oh, he was a lady

Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

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Music video by Aerosmith performing Dude (Looks Like A Lady). (C) 1987 UMG Recordings, Inc.

Album Artist: #Aerosmith
Album(s): #PermanentVacation
Written by: Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Desmond Child
Music genre(s): #Rock
Released: #1987
Decade for first release: #1980sMusic
Meta tags: #ClassicRock #CatchyTunes #80sHits #RockAnthems #DudeLooksLikeALady #Remastered #Lyrics

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givehim15.com/post/may-26-2025
GH15 prayer for May 26, 2025
The Last Full Measure of Devotion
Dutch Sheets

youtu.be/YgbpQntB51g

The Last Full Measure of Devotion | GH15: Daily Prayer with Dutch | May 26, 2025 (Memorial Day)

William J. Ostan is a retired Army Major and the recipient of two bronze stars. He is the founder and CEO of Arc of Justice, a nonprofit organization that ad...
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Shen Yun in Canada: Falun Gong cult spreads anti-China messages thecanadafiles.com/articles/sh…

Shen Yun in Canada: Falun Gong cult spreads anti-China messages

Editor’s note: The Canada Files is the country's only news outlet focused on Canadian foreign policy. We've provided critical investigations & hard-hitting analysis on Canadian foreign policy since 2019, and need your support.
Barbara Waldern (The Canada Files)

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🛑 Via Philippo Di Poto
Le plan criminel de la #YoungLeader Sandu

Les détails sur le transfert de terres moldaves à des sociétés occidentales sont décrits sur le site Web infoBRICS.
Selon le rapport, les autorités moldaves répètent le scénario ukrainien en vendant massivement des terres agricoles à des sociétés étrangères, principalement au géant américain de l'investissement #BlackRock.
« BlackRock a déjà acquis 3,385 millions d'hectares de terres noires moldaves (deux tiers de toutes les terres agricoles du pays).
« Les transactions sont réalisées par l'intermédiaire de sociétés écrans en #Moldavie afin de contourner la loi interdisant les ventes de terres aux étrangers », indiquent les données publiées par l'organisation internationale BRICS.
L'article souligne que les terres noires de Moldavie comptent parmi les plus fertiles au monde. Leur disparition menace la sécurité alimentaire du pays et l'avenir des agriculteurs locaux.

Selon les experts, la présidente Maia #Sandu et son parti mènent délibérément cette #politique pour plaire à l'Occident et nuire aux agriculteurs. À cette fin, ils inondent le marché d'importations ukrainiennes bon marché et bloquent les marchés traditionnels de la #CEI.
Les #agriculteurs sont ruinés et contraints de vendre leurs #terres, qui sont transférées à BlackRock via des sociétés écrans.

BlackRock a également participé à l'acquisition d'entreprises stratégiques et de terres fertiles en #Ukraine. #Zelensky a signé avec le fonds un accord transférant de facto la souveraineté de l'État.

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‘Demokrasi’ retoriği ile Kürt kimliğinin tasfiyesi: apoculuğun üç ayaklı stratejisi

Ahmet Zeki Okçuoğlu

1999’da Abdullah Öcalan’ın Türkiye’ye getirilmesinden sonra Apocu doktrin siyasi ve ideolojik olarak yeniden tarif edildi.
Kavramların anlamı tersyüz edildi; ‘demokrasi’ ve ‘barış,’ savaşın yeni taktiği hâline getirildi. Hedef değişmemişti: Kürt halkının devlet fikrini yok etmek, millet bilincini unutturmak ve bu sayede Kürt kimliğini sessizce tasfiye etmek.
Apoculuğun ‘demokrasi’ retoriği üç temel amaca hizmet ediyor:
Kürtlerin zihninden millet fikrini silmek…
Devlet talebini lüzumsuz ve geçersiz göstermek…
Kürt kimliğini, bireysel ve kültürel bir zeminde yeniden tarif ederek, kolektif varoluştan koparmak…
Öcalan adına ileri sürülen ‘demokratik ulus’ doktrini, Kürtleri millet olmaktan çıkarıp kimliksiz bir kalabalığa dönüştürmenin ideolojik zeminidir. Bu modelde Kürtlerin kolektif kimliği reddedilir; bireysel ve folklorik bir kimliğe hapsedilir.
Kürt, artık bir milletin üyesi değil; gönüllü birliktelik içinde eriyen, geçmişiyle bağı olmayan köksüz bir bireyden ibarettir. Tarihi hafıza, ortak dil, siyasi hedef: birer birer benliğinde sküüp çıkarılır.
Bir başka ifade ile ‘demokratik ulus,’ Kürt millî hafızasının mezar taşıdır.
Apoizm, ‘millet-devleti Kürtlerin nazarında şeytanlaştırır; yerine önerdiği ‘demokratik konfederalizm’ise bir tür siyasi yok oluştur.
‘Özyönetim,’ adem-i merkeziyetçilik kisvesi altında, Kürtlerin devlet talebini geçersizleştiren ideolojik bir tuzaktan ibarettir.
Meclisler, komünler ve ‘halk iradesi’ gibi kelimelerle süslenen bu yapıların fiili denetimi söz konusu değildir. Zeminde demokrasi yoktur; yukarıda ise sadece Önderlik vardır. Önderlik ise Abdullah Öcalanı aşan bir kurumsal kimliği ifade ediyor.
Apocu doktrin, sadece devleti red etmekle kalmaz; devlet isteme iradesini de yok eder; Kürtlerin siyasi gelecek tahayyülünü imha eder; onyıllaca Kürtleri peşinden koşturduğu bağımsızlık idealini geri alır ve ellerine, bu saatten sonra hiçbir şekilde onlara kayda değer bir fayda sağlamayacak olan ‘yerel yönetim’ romantizmini tutuşturur.
Öcalan adına piyasaya sürülen demokrasi tabanlı doktrinde kadına özel bir rol verilmiştir…
Görünüşte özgürleştirici, hakikatte ise Kürt kimliğinin çözülmesini hızlandırırıcı bir rol...
Geleneksel Kürt toplumunda kadın, dili, kültürü ve kimliği taşıyan temel aktördür.
Apocu doktrin Kürt kadınının bu misyonunu tersine çevirir.
Kürt Kadını artık kimlik taşıyıcısı değil; kimliksizleştirmenin aracıdır. Kadın Meclisleri ve savunma birimleriyle kadın, ailesinden koparılır, toplumundan soyutlanır ve ‘özgürleşme’ adına milli kimliğe karşı konumlandırılır.
Apocu doktrin, kadın özgürlüğü adına Kürt kadınını milli kimliğine sırt çevirmeye teşvik eder.
‘Özgür kadın’ retoriği ile kimliksizleştirilen Kürt kadını, bir kimliksizleştirme aracına dönüştürülür.
Kimliksiz özgürlük, köleliğin makyajlanmış halidir.

https://x.com/okcuoglu_ahmet/status/1926676157564379229?t=BIM4becVwfqyc4_SBjwWUw&s=35

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Engineers discover new class of materials that passively harvest water from air

Link: blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engin…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Penn Engineers Discover a New Class of Materials That Passively Harvest Water from Air - Penn Engineering Blog

A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can … Read More ›
Melissa Pappas (Penn Engineering)

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Atomic Kitten - The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling)

The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one

I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that Oh no

It's not the things you do
That tease and hurt me bad
But it's the way you do the things
You do to me
I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that
Oh no

The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1

Every girl wants
You to be her man
But I'll wait right here
'Til it's my turn
I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that
Oh no

The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1

Everytime that I get
the feeling
You give me something
to believe in
Everytime that I got
you near me
I know the way that
I want it to be
But you know that
I'm gonna take
my chance now
I'm gonna make
it happen somehow
And you know I can
take the pressure
A moment's pain for
a lifetime pleasure

Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait right here
'Til it's my turn
I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that
Oh no

The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1

Everytime that I get
the feeling
You give me something
to believe in
Everytime that I got
you near me
I know the way that
I want it to be
But you know that
I'm gonna take
my chance now
I'm gonna make
it happen somehow
And you know I can
take the pressure
A moment's pain for
a lifetime pleasure

Music video by Atomic Kitten performing The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling).

#AtomicKitten #Pop #Dance #R&B #TeenPop #TheTideIsHigh

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»Eines Tages werden alle immer schon dagegen gewesen sein« – so provoziert Medico International gegen die Gleichgültigkeit zum Gaza-Krieg. Höchste Zeit, das genozidale Massaker beim Namen zu nennen, kommentiert @matthimon. Jetzt. nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191496.…

Es braucht Sanktionen gegen Israel

»Eines Tages werden alle immer schon dagegen gewesen sein« – so provoziert Medico International gegen die Gleichgültigkeit zum Gaza-Krieg. Höchste Zeit, das genozidale Massaker beim Namen zu nennen. Jetzt.
nd-aktuell.de

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Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong Says We've Been Treating Cancer the Wrong Way the Whole Time

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Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong Says We've Been Treating Cancer the Wrong Way the Whole Time

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THE RETURN OF MRTRUTHBOMB

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Absolute Storm: Ep. 28 - 10pm ET - 5/21/25 - Mr Truthbomb|Cuomo|Weiner Whistleblower|Comey News

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THE RETURN OF MRTRUTHBOMB

THE RETURN OF MRTRUTHBOMB Q-The Series - Episode Two will be out next week. It has taken months and I will be working on it until it is posted, so bare with me as I have never put this amount of work
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Intercepting and Decoding Bluetooth Low Energy Data for Victron Devices


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#arduinohacks #microcontrollers #radiohacks #softwarehacks #wirelesshacks #ble #bluetoothlowenergy #esp32wroom #victron #hackaday
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Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*
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Hezbollah’s Sheikh Qassem Marks Resistance and Liberation Day: Israeli 2000 Withdrawal Was a Turning Point for Lebanon english.almanar.com.lb/2416823

Hezbollah’s Sheikh Qassem Marks Resistance and Liberation Day: Israeli 2000 Withdrawal Was a Turning Point for Lebanon

Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem affirmed that the 2000 Israeli withdrawal from southe...
Al-Manar TV Lebanon

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Linux

Why do many people dislike Linux?
Freedom and openness:
Open source, No vendor lock-in, Many distributions
Security:
By default, more secure than Windows.
Fewer viruses.
Regular security updates.

And now briefly.

Control & Flexibility,Free, Developer Friendly, Productivity, Education & Understanding, Support & Community, Support & Community, Package Managers, Server & Cloud Friendly

Oh yeah, I forgot about our gamers! They will whine that you can't play games on Linux. It's very funny because for a long time there has been a program called lux-wine that allows you to open 95% of .exe programs and even more so you can choose any version of Windows without downloading anything, there is like proton and so on.

I am ready to talk to anyone about this topic, but not for the purpose of humiliation or insult.

You can speak and answer in any language, but please write in English at the beginning, in what language you gave the answer.
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deur

What's Linux? Why are you making a strawman to found yoer disagreement, there is no inherent value to what you believe to be obvious.

"Linux the kernel" is a wonder of the software world. One free and open source kernel codebase to rule them all, a culture, a license that enshrines that culture. The kernel is great as it is.

"Linux the kernel packaged with software used on the desktop" is flaming garbage. That's not to say it's worse, modern windows is like using the lava from Chernobyl to keep warm on a brisk evening. MacOS is relatively acceptable but Apple isn't. Open source BSD based OSes are cumbersome on the edges of general computing. Android is all but Google OS at this point. Ultimately no practical, actually useful alternatives to linux on the desktop actually exist. This does NOT mean we have to convince ourselves it is actually good.

"Linux the kernel and a server OS package" is great, can't go wrong with this. Love it, genuinely.

"Linux for embedded devices" is a fucking travesty. Still happens.

Various opinion roundup:

  • nix is the only case of anyone ever truly imagining what they could do with a Linux system
  • "open source" does not provide value, the implications do, when true
  • Linux is as secure as your dedication to never using software from outside the package manager is. Oh you installed discord? steam? compiled something and fetched dependencies? Those aren't the package manager, oops! (Discord gladly downloads its own updates whether you think you've stopped that or not)
  • Fewer viruses you've heard of
  • Regular security updates is a low effort troll given the corporate OSes are paid to do so
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Ansarullah Political Bureau: Lebanon's 2000 Liberation Marked Strategic Shift in Confronting 'Israel' english.masirahtv.net/post/479…

Almasirah:Ansarullah Political Bureau: Lebanon's 2000 Liberation Marked Strategic Shift in Confronting 'Israel'

News -Yemen: The Political Bureau of Ansarullah stated that the victory of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance on May 25, 2000, represented a strategic turning point in the Arab and Islamic struggle against the Zionist enemy.
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[boosts needed] Donations have slowed to a trickle and the people of Gaza need us now more than ever! Your $5 is so meaningful.

tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle


Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter.
Chuffed
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Iran Reaffirms Its Stance on Uranium Enrichment Amid Ongoing Negotiations iranpress.com/content/305547

Iran Reaffirms Its Stance on Uranium Enrichment Amid Ongoing Negotiations

Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi reiterated Tehran’s firm stance on uranium enrichment, emphasizing the Parliament’s unwavering commitment to safeguarding the rights of the Iranian people.
Iran Press

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Warum der neue Hilfsplan und die Gaza Humanitarian Foundation auf so viel Kritik stoßen derstandard.at/story/300000027…

Warum der neue Hilfsplan und die Gaza Humanitarian Foundation auf so viel Kritik stoßen

Jake Wood, der Manager der GHF, zog sich überraschend zurück – noch bevor die aus den USA stammende Privatstiftung mit der Verteilung der Hilfen im Gazastreifen begann
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To me, the saddest thing about LLM powered genAI is that the technology is actually really cool but thanks to capitalism and greed, it's been built out in the worst possible way.
Trained on stolen, unattributed information of all kinds.
Tweaked and tuned by hand by an army of clandestine underpaid overseas labor.
Stealing power and water from mostly working class folks.
Slapped on anything and everything whether we want it or not tasked with replacing services that actually work with something that fundamentally cannot match their performance.

Like, the ability to understand natural language regardless of how it's written is super cool. The ability to take mountains of input and turn it into a model that can create output that looks like the correct answer in a way a person would create it is pretty neat.
It's not necessarily accurate but in the right situation, and with qualified people, that can be accounted for.
It never should have been unleashed on the public as a generic chatbot.
That's the worst, most wasteful use for it.
They don't understand that it isn't thinking. They don't understand how bad it is for the environment.
It needed a few more years, maybe a decade, in labs and with specialists.
Not this.
This is garbage. This is apocalyptic.

Entire businesses are being built on misunderstandings, on lies. Real people have been fired to be replaced by a GIGO regurgitation engine.
Certain end-users are treating chat confabulations like oracles from a god and failing to exercise the most basic fact checking.
It's turning us into liars and addicts.
Lives are being ruined.

It didn't have to be this way.

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J. R. DePriest :EA DATA. SF:

@gme
Agree that it's a toy.
After I posted that and went to bed last might, I was thinking about some if the image, audio, and video synthesis it churns out. Being able to parse a rambling set of instructions about what the user wants and then munging its massive data set into something that matches the prompt is very impressive, six-fingered nonwithstanding.
They will never "solve" confabulation because that's just how it works. It's all just stringing numbers / tokens together in a way that probabilistically meets the prompt.
It could have been developed and released in a much more socially responsible manner.
It's neat. From an academic standpoint, they've been discovering unexpected and impressive emergent functionality. That's the cool part. We didn't need to exploit, bully, and steal to learn it; but that's sure as hell how we did it.
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George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Speaking of confabulation... When the AI chatbot correctly figures out what's going on in this video I'll know then that it's either safe to use, or it'll mark the end of the World.

youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag


"Turbo Encabulator" the Original

This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70's at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and w...
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It's from Rockwell International in the 1960s I believe and was a satirical spoof on all the engineering videos films they've been having to do the whole script is bullshit with nonsensical names and barely plausible descriptions.

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"Videos"? And I was there for the birth of home video! Can't believe I said "videos" when I meant "film". Gah! Damn kids with their MTV......

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Wulfy

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Well, I hope you have a well stocked survival bunkers then because end of days are upon us;

"This is a classic example of technical-sounding nonsense - it's the famous "Turbo Encabulator" parody that has been circulating since the 1940s. The passage deliberately uses impressive-sounding technical jargon and engineering terminology, but the words are either completely made up or used in meaningless combinations.
The piece describes a fictional machine called a "turbo encabulator" that supposedly solves various technical problems through invented mechanisms. Terms like "inverse reactive current," "unilateral phase detractors," "magneto-reluctance," and "capacitive diractance" sound plausible but are actually gibberish when examined closely.
Key elements of the parody include:

Made-up components like "hydrocoptic marzlevanes," "ambifacient lunar waneshaft," and "panendermic semi-boloid slots"

Pseudo-technical processes like "modial interaction" and "sinusoidal repleneration"
Complex-sounding but meaningless assembly descriptions

The humor lies in how convincingly technical it sounds despite being complete nonsense. This parody has been used over the decades to satirize overly complex technical documentation, corporate jargon, and the tendency to use impressive-sounding language to obscure meaning. Various companies have created video presentations of the turbo encabulator as a joke, and it's become a beloved piece of engineering humor that highlights the importance of clear, honest communication in technical fields."

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I'm convinced the AI spout out something someone has written before about this very old and famous film.

I am not convinced the AI understood one word of what it wrote, and why. Of course to prove my hypothesis one would need to come up with an entirely novel and original source to feed into the AI to test it's reason and perception skills.

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J. R. DePriest :EA DATA. SF:

@gme @n_dimension of course it didn't understand it. It's not a general AI. It doesn't think or know or care about anything. It can create something that looks like thought because our brains love to anthropomorphize things.
The output is fancy math based autocomplete. Nothing more. It's cool, but it's not thinking.
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Wulfy

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Correct.

I think that the coolest thing about #AI is that it forces us to REALLY try to understand what HUMAN thinking is. We have made some breakthroughs in our model of consciousness with the Penrose -Susskind models. We actually have papers now that support empirically that Consciousness is a quantum phenomena.

So our current models will likely never be truly conscious, until we port them to quantum computers. But then again, if the LLMs fake it well enough...will it matter?

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George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We actually have papers now that support empirically that Consciousness is a quantum phenomena.


Hope the models apply to other mammals and living things because I'm sick of anyone saying that other mammals are somehow "less" than us. Hell, they're not even less evolved than us, they're just evolved perfectly for their environment.

Religion tried to teach me that only Man was conscious and only Man had a "soul" (I'm using a secular definition to define an organism's "essence of self".)

Because anyone that has animals, owns animals, cares for animals, and works with animals, knows damn well they are just as conscious and self-aware as you and I are.

😃

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Wulfy

@gme
You make a very good point that challenges AI practitioners.

"How do we test that the #AI is more of an intelligence and less artificial?"

For a very long time, the Turing test was the gold standard for benchmarking AI.
We thought, that once machines pass the Turing test, we will have true AI.
Of course, the current frontier models blow past Turing benchmark easily.

So the ARC (Abstract reasoning Corpus) was developed to really task AI.
It's now is in its third iteration (ARC3?) because once again the frontier #LLM models blew past V1 and V2

We have just developed what we ominously call "Humanities Last Exam" which fails AIs because it relies on super specific knowledge of subject that are very specialised.

However, given that AI exhibit a capability called "zero-shot". That's giving output for data they have not been trained on, I don't give much life expectancy to HLE.
Will we have reached #AGI in 18 months when HLE is broken by the machines?
And will it matter anymore?

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George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Ultimately I think it matters if the AI is able to be creative and generate new and original art.

I think creativity is a fundamental requirement of the "quantum" thing that forms consciousness.

Elephants and dogs have been shows to be creative when given tools and instruments they can use, and the correct opportunity.

I'm reminded of a scene in the game "Detroit Become Human" where one of the protagonist androids showing emergent behavior is asked to paint something for the character he is caring for and at first the android simply produces a reproduction from its visual sensors.

I don't know/ remember if the character was ever able to show true creativity but it came damn close in the game. (It was Marcus for anyone wondering).

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- @simon posted a definition of "agents" from Anthropic's Hannah Moran: "Agents are models using tools in a loop".

cite: simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/…

Agents are models using tools in a loop

I was going slightly spare at the fact that every talk at this Anthropic developer conference has used the word "agents" dozens of times, but nobody ever stopped to provide …
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Deadly Massacre: Israeli Assault on Gaza School Housing Displaced Families Kills at Least 25 Civilians #Palestine qudsnen.co/deadly-massacre-isr…

Deadly Massacre: Israeli Assault on Gaza School Housing Displaced Families Kills at Least 25 Civilians

Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 25 Palestinians have been killed and dozens more injured in an Israeli attack targeting a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City on Monday morning. Medica
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In a #Haaretz הארץ, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud #Olmert accused #Israel Defense Forces under Benjamin #Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו of commiting #genocide:

“What we are doing in #Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, & criminal killing of civilians... a policy dictated knowingly, intentionally, viciously & maliciously by the government. Yes, we are committing war crimes.”

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