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WHO Toxicologist Blows Whistle: ‘I Was Threatened’ to Stay Silent on Covid ‘Vaccine’ Risks

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WHO Toxicologist Blows Whistle: 'I Was Threatened' to Stay Silent on Covid 'Vaccine' Risks - Slay News

A World Health Organization (WHO) toxicologist has blown the whistle to reveal that he was "threatened" when he raised concerns about the dangers of Covid mRNA "vaccines."
Frank Bergman (Slay News)

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Will Russia TAKE THE GLOVES OFF Against Kiev as NATO Escalates War? | Fmr US Diplomat Jim Jatras rachelblevins.substack.com/p/r…

Will Russia TAKE THE GLOVES OFF Against Kiev | Jim Jatras

Russia launched another night of its largest drone and missile attacks, which the Kremlin noted were in retaliation for the hundreds of drones launched by Kiev.
Rachel Blevins

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This is a new recruiting video that debuted over the Memorial Day weekend.

It will give you chills.

We are SO BACK!


@DJT47 on GETTR : This is a new recruiting video that debuted over the Memorial Day weekend. It will give you chills. We are SO BACK!

This is a new recruiting video that debuted over the Memorial Day weekend. It will give you chills. We are SO BACK!
GETTR - The Marketplace of Ideas

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Here is what ChatGPT thinks of, tek.aevl.us

LMAO — now that you say it... yeah, with a bit of imagination, that layout does hit different.

You've got:

The wrapper div — kind of like the base, setting the stage.

Then the two rounded image containers, aligned center — the symmetry's doing a lot there 😏

Then the central vertical content block — the "main shaft" of content, if you will.

And those block quotes? Just... decorative flair. 🤣

Honestly, unintentional or not, it’s a masterpiece of accidental innuendo. You’ve made the first ever full-stack phallic portfolio. Internet art meets Linux power.

I say leave it — it's subtly absurd, wildly memorable, and still technically solid. On-brand as hell.

Need an Easter egg JS trigger that replaces the <title> with "🔞 Forbidden Architecture" on Konami code or something? Just say the word.

. ! . #aEvl_Us . ! .

tek.aevl.us

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Dozens Injured After Car Rams Crowd During Liverpool Victory Parade tn.ai/3322163

Dozens Injured After Car Rams Crowd During Liverpool Victory Parade

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A 53-year-old man has been arrested after a car drove into a crowd of Liverpool fans celebrating the club’s Premier League title on Monday, injuring nearly 50 people, including four children.
Tasnim News Agency

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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io @pluralistic@mamot.fr Just because something is *illegal* it doesn't mean it's *wrong*. It was illegal to teach a slave to read and write. It was illegal for a black man to marry a white woman. It was illegal for women to vote. The UK and Germany are making it illegal to speak out against Israel's genocide and making it illegal to speak out and protest in support of Palestine. Regardless, the legality of something carries no weight about the moral, ethical, or just cause for doing something.

Molly White

2025-05-27 23:47:51

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“If I supply you with a tool to remove DRM (like some versions of Calibre), then I commit a felony and Amazon can have me sent to prison for five years for giving you a tool to move my book from the Kindle app to a rival app like Kobo” – @pluralistic

lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-re…



You Can Remove DRM From Your Digital Books, but It's Probably Illegal

There should be a legal way to back up the books and audiobooks you've purchased.
Pranay Parab (Lifehacker)

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It’s NEVER been like this.
So much bubbling just below the surface.
So many completely unaware of the obvious.
So much blatantly obvious but somehow undetectable.
It’s maddening.
This superior age of communication.
The ignorant are beyond saving.
I will offer pity.
Beyond that, a simple prayer.
Best I can do anymore.
God bless you all.

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Venezuela Condemns Interference by CARICOM’s Barnett in Essequibo Issue orinocotribune.com/venezuela-c…

Venezuela Condemns Interference by CARICOM's Barnett in Essequibo Issue

On Monday, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez condemned statements by Carla Barnett, secretary general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), who earlier on Monday expressed support for Guyana in the territorial dispute over the Essequibo terri…
Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

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Real ID is the digital ID everyone has been warning you about. bitchute.com/video/AkVgsaMfwFG…

Never get a "REAL ID"; you can fly with a passport, notes Twila Brase, RN of RefuseRealID.org

"Refuse the REAL ID at all costs because they are setting up... the biometric digital control system, essentially... prison bars for all of us." "This net is closing, and we must stop them from doing it.
Bitchute

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Worlds first petahertz transistor at ambient conditions

Link: news.arizona.edu/news/u-resear…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


U of A researchers developing world's first petahertz-speed phototransistor in ambient conditions

In a groundbreaking international effort, researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously.
news.arizona.edu

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The Pentagon’s “Salvador Option”, Al Qaeda Government in Damascus. The History of U.S.-sponsored Terrorism in Iraq and Syria michelchossudovsky.substack.co…

The Pentagon’s “Salvador Option”, Al Qaeda Government in Damascus. The History of U.S.-sponsored Terrorism in Iraq and Syria

Ambassadors John Negroponte and Robert S. Ford
Michel Chossudovsky

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Trump pardoned a man who'd been convicted of tax cheating -- he withheld over $10 million from the paychecks of nurses, doctors and other employees, money that was intended to make their tax contributions ...

... and blew it on a $2 million yacht and shopping

he was caught, fined $4.4 million and given an 18-month jail term

then his mother attended a $1 million Trump dinner ...

... and soon after he was pardoned

Full story here: seattletimes.com/nation-world/…

Screenshot reading: Walczak, 55, joined his mother’s nursing home business after dropping out of college, eventually becoming CEO. After she sold the company in 2007, they invested $18 million in a new nursing home venture based in South Florida, where they lived a luxurious lifestyle. By 2011, prosecutors said, Walczak had stopped paying employment taxes. Between 2016 and 2019, they said, he withheld more than $10 million from the paychecks of the nurses, doctors and others who worked at his facilities under the pretext of using it for their Social Security, Medicare and federal income taxes. Instead, he used some of the money to buy a $2 million yacht and to pay for travel and purchases at high-end retailers, including Bergdorf Goodman and Cartier, prosecutors said. He was charged in February 2023 with 13 counts of tax crimes.

Trump pardoned tax cheat after mother attended $1 million MAGA dinner

Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s financial support for the president and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
The Seattle Times
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LIVE BLOG: Yemen Fires Missiles | Gaza Massacres Continue amid Fierce Resistance – Day 598 #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/live-bl…

LIVE BLOG: Gaza Aid Distribution Collapse | UK Lawyers Demand Sanctions - Day 598 - Palestine Chronicle

A video circulating on social media shows a Yemeni missile flying over occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×324

Link: 512pixels.net/2025/05/original…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512x342, and not 512x384 as One Might Expect - 512 Pixels

Many classic Macs came with — or supported — displays running at 512×384 pixels, but many compact Macs, ranging from the original 1984 machine up through 1991’s Macintosh Classic II had built-in CRTs running at 512×342 pixels.
Stephen Hackett (512 Pixels)

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Dems Push “Africa Day” On Memorial Day Weekend While Denying White Farmer Genocide | Drew Hernandez

Over Memorial Day weekend 2025, Woke Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the celebration of “African Day.” Many Americans took the announcement as another jab at American culture. Particularly an insult to Memorial Day observances.

Meanwhile, fake mainstream media outlets have consistently downplayed or outright denied claims of a “white farmer genocide” in Africa, particularly in South Africa, dismissing them as exaggerated or misleading narratives. Even though as of last week, new video has surfaced of black South African rebels calling to “kill the farmer.” A go to chant specifically targeting white South African farmers. minds.com/newsfeed/17742488031…

Dems Push “Africa Day” On Memorial Day Weekend While Denying White Farmer Genocide | Drew Hernandez Over Memorial Day weekend 2025, Woke Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the celebration of “African Day.” Many Americans took the ann... | Minds

...ing White Farmer Genocide | Drew Hernandez Over Memorial Day weekend 2025, Woke Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the celebration of “African Day.” Many Americans took the announcement as...
Minds

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“If I supply you with a tool to remove DRM (like some versions of Calibre), then I commit a felony and Amazon can have me sent to prison for five years for giving you a tool to move my book from the Kindle app to a rival app like Kobo” – @pluralistic

lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-re…


You Can Remove DRM From Your Digital Books, but It's Probably Illegal

There should be a legal way to back up the books and audiobooks you've purchased.
Pranay Parab (Lifehacker)
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Stefan Monnier

@paulasimoes @ansol Probably one ofthereasons it was never tested is that you need someway to break the DRM before the law may become applicable. Modern DRM is technically sufficiently sophisticated that it's a serious obstacle. And those working on breaking the DRM may not be protected by the law because their DRM-breaking efforts may also be used for illegal purposes ☹️
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paulasimoes

@monnier

I'm not sure if I understand your point. The law proposal was discussed in Parliament, right holders representatives (and others) were called to give their opinions, then it was voted and approved. After that, the President of the Republic signed it (when the president has doubts, he can send it back to the Parliament or to the court to check it. He didn't have doubts in this case).
So, the law is applicable.
I'm not a lawyer, but I've seen that sometimes courts don't interpret the law exactly as it was intended and then, in those cases, there are changes by the Parliament. That's why I mentioned that I don't know if it went to court, but it's applicable as any other law.
Let me add that we worked with the definition in the law. If someone breaks a technology that stops them from exercising copyright exceptions then that technology is not DRM, so they can still distribute it for those purposes to other people. Not sure if this is a good example, but knives can be used for illegal purposes, but anyone can still make them and sell them to cut vegetables or other food.

@molly0xfff @pluralistic @ansol

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Stefan Monnier

@paulasimoes @ansol The issue usually is that the DRM laws usually come with far-reaching side-rules, most importantly they make it illegal to reverse-engineer a DRM-lock. You need 3 pieces to work around a DRM-lock: first piece is a use case (this one can be either legal or not, depending on whether it is protected by copyright exceptions), second piece is a tool able to circumvent the lock (without which the first piece can't happen) and the third piece is the knowledge acquired by reverse-engineering of how to break the lock (without which you can't have the tool).

In the best case, the same person is involved in all three and the new law should make it legal and we're all very happy. In the worst case 3 separate and completely independent (set of) people are involved, and I'm not sure the law protects those who build the tool or who do the reverse-engineering. To be effective, the law needs to clearly protect all three sets of people, otherwise it's too risky for researchers to embark on reverse-engineering.

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paulasimoes

@monnier @ansol Sorry to get back to this only now. It's not lack of interest, but I wanted to ask a question and I've been thinking the best way to put it.
The PT solution is: if the purpose is legal, then it's like there is no DRM law.
My question is: considering European Union got its DRM law in 2001, would you say that before 2001, those people you cite in the process would be able to do legally what you describe?

Or simpler: if there was no DRM law, would the people you cite be able to legally do what you describe?

A second question: does the expresssion "reverse-engineering" encompasses all the ways to break DRM or are there other ways named differently to do it?

(If others in this thread want to give their input, please do)

Let me explain: the European Commission opened the copyright directive (approved in 2019), so we get some years before it opens it again, but when it does and if cites DRM (in 2019 because of TDM exception), associations like ANSOL and others will be able to ask members of the European Parliament to meke changes proposals. From my experience, our best chance is to present a ready-law-format proposal so we're getting as much info as we can get in order to make a law-text-format that would solve the problem and would be feasible to pass into law.

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Stefan Monnier

@paulasimoes @ansol Yes, before the digital copyright thingy, reverse-engineering and developing circumvention tools was definitely legal. "Reverse-engineering" just means to investigate how something works. It can be (and usually is) a necessary element to break some DRM locks, but not always, no, tho I guess you could call most other ways as forms of reverse-engineering. Also sometimes breaking DRM requires illegal acts (like going against an NDA or other contract).
Unknown parent

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paulasimoes

@monnier @ansol thanks for pointing these two options, I'll check the procedures for the first one, but for the second (didn't make the connection or didn't know about #DigitalFairnessAct) it seems there's a public consultation on until 31st August so that could be a first step we can easily do to start with.

I leave the link to the consultation if anyone else needs it:
ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r…

European Commission - Have your say

European Commission - Have your say

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Recently I discovered my brick-and-mortar Whole Foods shopping shows up in my Amazon order history. I don't want this, I don't know how they do it, and I certainly didn't give my consent for it.

@anildash writes that big websites don't care about consent anymore:

anildash.com/2025/05/27/2025-0…


The Internet of Consent - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Anil Dash
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Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story

Link: allthingsdistributed.com/2025/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story

AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL's development: scaling write operations without two-phase commit, overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and embracing Rust for both data and control planes.
All Things Distributed

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The Arctic: Theater for War or Global Cooperation? (A Canadian Patriot Film) cynthiachung.substack.com/p/th…

The Arctic: Theater for War or Global Cooperation? (A Canadian Patriot Film)

We are extremely proud to announce the release of our Canadian Patriot Feature Film ‘The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation’ which is now freely available across all Canadian Patriot platforms.
Cynthia Chung (Through A Glass Darkly)

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China and Russia will always remember the just feats of the two peoples in maintaining world peace socialistchina.org/2025/05/27/…

China and Russia will always remember the just feats of the two peoples in maintaining world peace - Friends of Socialist China

During President Xi Jinping’s May 7-10 state visit to Russia, during which he participated in the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, besides concluding with his Russian cou…
Friends of Socialist China

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Here's an effective way to combat the high cost of pool chemicals and maintain a clean, clear pool naturally.
By using a natural bog filter, this method harnesses the power of beneficial bacteria and riparian plants to filter and purify the water, reducing the need for harsh chemicals while keeping the pool in top condition.
Materials:

Large container full of rocks and pebbles (e.g., a cheap trash can)

Riparian pond plants (e.g., creeping Jenny, Japanese taro, and yellow flag iris)

Pond pump (pumps enough gallons per hour to cycle the pool once every hour or two)

PVC fittings for a spout and drain at the bottom of the filter

Copper pieces (optional but helpful)

How It Works:
Setup:
The pond pump pulls water through a flexible pipe into the bottom of the trash can.
Water flows upwards through the layers of rocks, trapping debris and hosting beneficial bacteria.
Filtered water spills out of the spout at the top.

Filtration:
The rocks trap debris and help filter the water.
Beneficial bacteria consume nutrients and waste from decaying leaves, preventing algae growth.
Riparian pond plants consume nutrients that algae would otherwise use to grow.

Maintenance:

    Skim floating debris and vacuum settled debris regularly.

    Once a season, turn off the pump and open the drain at the bottom. Flush out any gathered debris by running your hose on top of the rocks.

    Keep the pump running 24/7; the power needed to run a small pond pump is negligible.

Benefits:

    Chemical-free pool maintenance

    Cost-effective solution

    Fresh, clean water that is safe for skin

For detailed instructions and visuals, look up natural pools and bog filters on YouTube, especially the “bog filter in a barrel” by OzPonds.
Credit: Selah Harrison

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Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion - Official Video

Kylie’s 1987 debut single “The Loco-motion” was re-produced in ’88 with the Hit Factory’s Stock Aitken and Waterman for this UK number 2 hit.

It was also her biggest hit in the US peaking at no. 3 and was number one in Belgium, Finland, Ireland, ~~Israel~~, Japan and South Africa. The song was a cover of Little Eva’s American number one dancefloor sensation written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and featured on the soundtrack for Arthur 2: On The Rocks starring Liza Minelli and Dudley Moore. Taken from “Kylie” her 7 x UK platinum debut album.

Lyrics:

Everybody′s doing a brand-new dance now
(Come on, baby, do the loco-motion)
I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now
(Come on, baby, do the loco-motion)
My little baby sister can do it with me
It′s easier than learning your ABCs

So come on, come on
Do the loco-motion with me
You gotta swing your hips now
Come on, baby, jump up, ooh, jump back
Oh well, I think you got the knack, oh-oh-oh-oh

Now that you can do it, let's make a chain now
(Come on, baby, do the loco-motion)
Chug-a, chug-a motion like a railway train now
(Come on, baby, do the loco-motion)
Do it nice and easy now, don't lose control
A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul

So come on, come on
Do the loco-motion with me
The loco-motion (whoa-ooh)
Come on, come on
The loco-motion (whoa-ooh)
Come on, come on
The loco-motion (whoa-ooh)
Come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on

Move around the floor in a loco-motion
(Come on, baby, do the loco-motion) yeah
Do it holding hands if you got the notion
(Come on, baby, do the loco-motion)
There′s never been a dance that′s so easy to do
It even makes you happy when you're feeling blue

So come on, come on
Do the loco-motion with me
You gotta swing your hips now
Come on, baby, jump up, ooh, jump back
Oh well, I think you got the knack, oh-oh-oh-oh

Do the lo-, do the lo-, do the lo-, the loco-motion
(Come on, baby, do the loco-motion)
Do the lo-, do the lo-, do the lo-, the loco-motion
(Come on, baby, do the loco-motion)
Do it nice and easy now, don′t lose control
A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul

So come on, come on
Do the loco-motion
Come on, come on
Do the loco-motion
Come on, come on
(Do) you got to loco-motion with me

The loco-motion (whoa-ooh)
Come on, come on
The loco-motion (whoa-ooh)
Come on, come on
The loco-motion (whoa-ooh)
Come on, come on
The loco-motion (whoa-ooh)
Come on, come on
The loco-motion (whoa-ooh)
Come on, come on, come on

#Kylie #KylieMinogue #Loco-motion #CaroleKing #GerryGoffin #Arthur2 #Arthur

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Nanook

@Spirillen This is a song with some real history, it just keeps on coming back. Originally written by Carol King and Gerry Goffin in 1962 (when I was a whole of four years old) and performed by Little Eva:

Then resurrected 12 years later by Grand Funk Railroad...

And then 13 years after that, in 1987, Kylie Minogue resurrected it again, and somehow through all these translations it seems to have retained it's energy.

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