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The United States will double its tariff on steel imports from 25% to 50%, President Donald Trump said on Friday.Sputnik International
EU is getting more authoritarian by the day. Kill the beast !
In January 2025, The Economist delivered a devastating verdict: Romania had become the European Union's first "hybrid regime", downgraded from its previous "flawed democracy" status in the British newspaper’s yearly Democracy Index. The trigger was Romania's Constitutional Court annulling the first round of presidential elections based on what The Economist described as "murky intelligence reports" with evidence that was "at best, questionable".
francezul.substack.com/p/it-is…
Who better foreshadows Romania’s plummet in the democracy index than General Rog, head of the cyber division of the Romanian intelligence services, boasting of his executive overreach over a year ago?Stéphane Luçon
As one German commentator observed: “The planned ban on Russian gas imports has little to do with the war in Ukraine — and everything to do with the American trade war. The EU is capitulating to Trump. The cost of that capitulation will be devastating, especially for Germany”.
thomasfazi.com/p/full-ban-on-r…
This is not about “stopping Putin’s war machine” but about pre-empting any normalisation of EU-Russia relations — at the cost of deepening dependence on the US and accelerating deindustrialisationThomas Fazi
AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat, and condemn our future.
Your enemy is capitalism.
Your enemy is the corporation.
This is an existential battle against a cancerous ideology and an invasive species for the survival of our own.
#capitalism #corporations #corporatocracy #humanity #humanRights #personhood #democracy #AI #technology
I wanted to buy the last issue as Memorabilia, but their site is quite confusing.
When you try to buy it, the May 2025 issue on MagazinesDirect (where they point you to) shows the issue from two months earlier, (Make Linux Mobile) as the May 2025 issue, which I find confusing. If I buy, which one would I get?
Would I get "25 Years of Linux" or "Make Linux Mobile"?
My guess is that the paper editions get published late with a delay.
Edit: The June edition (published 29th April) has now appeared, so I guess that around the end of June, or beginning of July, the last issue will appear.
Beschreibungen darüber was die israelische Armee in #Gaza eigentlich macht, abgesehen von dem Bombardieren von Zivilisten - vor allem einfach alles zu zerstören was an Häusern noch übrig ist, damit ja nie jemand mehr zurückkommen kann. Viel davon mit Bulldozern, zum beträchtlichen Teil gesteuert durch Zivilisten, Extremisten aus Siedlerbewegung
»Pressed by Trump on Gaza and Iran, #Netanyahu Looks for Scapegoats in #Israel«
haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… (Paywall)
The White House aims to shift Netanyahu's Gaza and Iran policies but remains cautious, while Netanyahu targets senior officials at home.Amos Harel (Haaretz)
Es ist also auch eine komplette Fehleinschätzung so zu tun, als wäre nur Netanyahu das Problem.
Wenn wir irgendwelche Äußerungen Netanyahus in den deutschen Medien hören, dann sind das - so übel sie auch klingen mögen - das was ihm diplomatisch vertretbar erscheint, bei dem schon der Druck der US-Regierung und anderer Regierungen mit eingepreist ist.
Echtes Handeln in Gaza, der Westbank wird bestimmt und umgesetzt von Extremisten die noch viel weiter rechts sind als Netanyahus Äußerungen.
Deren Ziele sind auch nichts was irgendwie in einer Form unklar wäre: Komplette Vertreibung aller Palästinenser, oder eine Existenz ohne jede Menschenrechte, ohne jede Selbstbestimmung, ohne jede Bewegungsfreiheit.
Und diese Variante ist noch die freundlichere Variante der Extremisten in Israel. Wenn man der kürzlich in Haaretz veröffentlichten Umfrage glauben mag, dann ist ein beträchtlicher Teil der israelischen Gesellschaft noch deutlich extremer eingestellt.
(Siehe:norden.social/@stephie_hamburg…)
Attached: 1 image Den Artikel gibt's jetzt auch auf Englisch: »Yes to Transfer: 82% of Jewish Israelis Back Expelling Gazans« https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.norden.social
Yemeni President Mahdi al-Mashat warned Israel of a ‘hot summer’ after it destroyed the last civilian plane at Sanaa airport earlier this weekthecradle.co
#society #slop #misinformation #collapse
A pretty sure sign of a dying civilisation if you ask me.
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot [...]The writer didn't care. The supplement's editors didn't care. The biz people on both sides of the sale of the supplement didn't care. The production people didn't care. And, the fact that it took two days for anyone to discover this epic fuckup in print means that, ultimately, the reader didn't care either.
It's so emblematic of the moment we're in, the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.
Israel threatens Hamas with ’annihilation’ as Trump says Gaza ceasefire 'very close'United Kingdom
A Russian missile strike kills a child and injures another, a Ukrainian official says
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If you want to know how Farage's plan will work out, then get a dog or a cat and then deal with the vets bills. It quickly gets eye watering. His plan only works for the rich who can afford private healthcare.
Fasters are demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under U.N. authority and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel, Marjorie Cohn reports.Consortium News
Wes Moore, Tim Walz urge for a fiercer Democratic party at famed Jim Clyburn Fish Fry
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Both governors have denied any plans of seeking the presidential nomination.Brittany Shepherd (ABC News)
Over 100 killed as torrential rain unleashes floods in northern Nigeria
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Floodwaters submerged large parts of the market town of Mokwa, with officials predicting the death toll would grow.Emma De Ruiter (Euronews.com)
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. - A local organization that has spent four years distributing fresh, nutrient-dense foods to families in need is partnering with theEUROPE SAYS
The country that made smoking sexy is breaking up with cigarettes
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Family and friends of escaped New Orleans inmates arrested for aiding in jail breakout
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The escaped inmates have been provided food, cash, transport and shelter according to court documentsJack Brook (The Independent)
Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs
Link: pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/rev…
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Erstaunlich.
"Der frühere Wehrbeauftragte des Bundestages hält Beck „ein einseitiges Nachbeten dessen, wie Netanjahu seine Kriegsführung rechtfertigt und das Völkerrecht missachtet, weil keine Rücksicht auf die Zivilbevölkerung in Gaza genommen wird“ vor."
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Ex-DIG-Präsident Reinhold Robbe attackiert seinen Nachfolger Volker Beck und wirft ihm „fehlendes Mitgefühl für zivile Opfer im Gazastreifen“ vor.Daniel Friedrich Sturm (Der Tagesspiegel)
Julia Klöckner steht fest an Becks Seite.
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Ist Volker Beck, Präsident der Deutsch-Israelischen Gesellschaft, ein „Sprachrohr“ der Regierung Netanjahu? Das behauptet sein Vorgänger Reinhold Robbe.Daniel Friedrich Sturm (Der Tagesspiegel)
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"Your next job will be asking if your want fries with that."
"Got mashed taters?"
Or do a Bubba Gump but with Potatoes!
Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine
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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine for learning purposes. Endorsed by Linear's CTO. - wzhudev/reverse-linear-sync-engineGitHub
"..according to Israel’s own army, not a single example of 110 aid looting incidents was perpetrated by Hamas. The whole claim by Israel of Hamas stealing aid, used by Israel to justify mass starvation is a lie"
Owen Jones
#Israel #Gaza #Starvation #Genocide
Israel's 'aid' programme is genocidal
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This isn't about feeding Gaza. It's just another means to facilitate genocideOwen Jones (BattleLines with Owen Jones)
#society #health #surveillance #control
We need to act fast or there'll be a whole generation of lobotomised morons...
I sighed and went around the room getting a quick read on how much screen time each student had accumulated. The class average neared 11 hours.
I said, “Guys. Guys. Let’s suppose you sleep 8 hours a day. That means you're awake for 16 hours a day. If you’re on your phone for 12 hours, that means you only spend 4 hours not looking at a two by four inch screen…Is that really how you want to spend your life?”
Most of the kids just shrugged.
Then one kid said, “What else is there to do?”
That’s how I know we’re in deep trouble.
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I didn't have to say, "get off your phone," once...Fit To Teach (After Babel)
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My thoughts on the idiotic idea that one particular group of people is superior to any or all other groups
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Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude
Link: techcrunch.com/2025/05/27/anth…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Anthropic has begun to roll out a "voice mode" for its Claude chatbot apps.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
#politique #UE #corruption #lacorde #guillotine2025
Hallucinante corruption. Il faut tout cramer, envoyer tous les gens au pouvoir à Cayenne à 8 par cellule, et repartir sur des bases saines.
Ivana Maletić et Jorg Kristijan Petrovič n’en démordent pas : à peu près rien ne va dans le “plan de relance” européen géant de 723 milliards d’euros décidé par les chefs d’Etat européens en 2020. Publié le 6 mai dernier, son 17ème document (rapport, note, évaluation divers) de la Cour des comptes européenne sur la “Facilité pour la relance et la résilience” (FRR) est sévère, comme les précédents. Manque de “surveillance des réformes annoncées”, “responsabilité des décideurs publics” vis à vis des contribuables et “transparence” insuffisantes, telles sont les “lacunes” pointées par les deux auditeurs lors d’une récente conférence de presse.
florenceautret.substack.com/p/…
Cinq ans après l'annonce du grand emprunt européen décidé en pleine pandémie, les auditeurs des comptes dressent un bilan sévère de l'utilisation de ces 650 milliards d'euros.Florence Autret (Chutes)
#politique #corruption #lacorde #guillotine2025
L'analyse de l'excellent Marc Endeweld.
marcendeweld.substack.com/p/ju…
Mercredi dernier, la Cour de cassation examinait de nouveau la demande de prescription des avocats de l'ancien secrétaire général de l'Élysée. La décision sera rendue le 10 septembre.Marc Endeweld (The Big Picture)
Russian attack helicopters appear to be taking a more active role in repelling Ukraine’s repeated drone attacks on the country’s...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
Organisation founded today with Pakistan, Indonesia, Cambodia and Serbia among countries attending signing ceremony.Reuters (DAWN.COM)
#commonLisp #emacs #smallweb #kitten screwlisp.small-web.org/kitten… #webdev
Eev (and lisp secret alien technology) made it /really/ easy and convenient to generate a kitten matching @aral's Tutorial 2: dynamic pages, kitten.small-web.org/tutorials… serve it and visit it inside emacs (just press F8 over and over again and it happens on its own).
I guess you can do it too...? What do you think? How much of a Hurkle itch is this giving you Aral ;p. It seems /really/ easy to get a fancy! #tls site up like this.
A point-by-point breakdown of how the U.S. and Israel changed the deal Hamas said it made with Trump's envoysJeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
Fremdwahrnehmung und Eigenwahrnehmung sind ja oft unterschiedliche Dinge.
Bei Carolin Kebekus war Anna-Lena Baerbock zu Gast & wurde zur "feministischen Außenpolitik" befragt, auf die Baerbock sichtlich stolz ist.(Ab min 16)
Aber irgendwie war die "feministische Außenpolitik" nirgendwo zu finden wenn es um Gaza ging, als sie dafür plädierte dass zivile Gebäuden den Schutzstatus verlieren - eine Einladung dazu Frauen und Kinder zu töten & Lebensgrundlagen zu vernichten ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDov…
Als Ministerin musste Annalena Baerbock viele Entscheidungen treffen, doch auf diese Prüfung war sie sicher nicht vorbereitet. Carolin Kebekus stellt sie vor die Qual der Wahl.www.ardmediathek.de
Ich weiss nicht wie man darauf kommen kann von feministischer Außenpolitik zu sprechen, wenn es ihr während der eigenen Amtszeit so völlig egal war wenn es wirklich darauf ankommt und sie stattdessen aufmunternd auf die Schultern geklopft hat wenns darum ging gerade die Leben der vulnerabelsten Menschen zu gefährden, verletzten und zu töten.
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Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council alleged on Thursday that sexual and gender-based violence by Israeli security forces against Palestinians – including children - have been increasingly used “as a method of wa…UN News
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> Loretta Swit, star of 'M*A*S*H,' dead at 87
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Loretta Swit led a decades-long celebrated acting career where she advocated for animal rights. The actress passed away on May 30 at her home in New York City.Stephanie Nolasco (Fox News)
I'm sure all the students will survive all the social media scrutiny!
> ‘A fear campaign.’ Students around the world are shocked, scared and saddened by US visa pause
Early signs of magnesium deficiency that are sometimes ignored
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/early-signs-of-magnesium-deficiency-that-are-sometimes-ignored/articleshow/121457147.cms?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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One of the most common early signs is muscle cramps or twitches. Magnesium helps muscles relax after they contract. Without enough magnesium, musclesTOI Lifestyle Desk (Times of India)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Seven people were shot and wounded Wednesday evening at Harry Todden.people.cn
Project managers said it's getting closer to being done, but the road and its infrastructure needed a massive overhaul.Matt Gregory (WUSA)
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Starving civilian populations is a long-standing strategy of war, used to break morale, force surrender, or weaken resistance—seen in sieges, blockades, and scorched-earth tactics throughout history.
> LIVE: Israel kills 2 Gaza aid seekers as UN warns of ‘catastrophic hunger’ aje.io/3tqtdr
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UN says Gaza’s population is being subjected to one of the ‘most obstructed aid operations’ in recent history.Stephen Quillen (Al Jazeera)
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Would anyone have cared if this were happening against conservative judges by antifa?
> Sharp spike in threats to judges prompts calls for more security
Ivan Krastev (FT) argues:
'The current wave of anti-liberalism is a revolt against double standards. In a society governed by mistrust the cynic is the only one to be trusted'...
He thinks voters have become fed up with the hypocrisy of the (declared) liberals, who manage to enrich themselves & their families when in Govt. & so prefer people who are at least open about their conflicts fo interest...
Its unlikely to be the full story, but it could be a contributory factor?
US defence chief warns of China threat as Beijing’s top brass skip summit
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/31/us-defence-chief-warns-of-china-threat-as-beijings-top-brass-skip-summit?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Global News @global-news-AlJazeera
China’s Defence Minister Dong Jun was noticeably absent from the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.Adam Hancock (Al Jazeera)
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Baba Vanga chilling prediction on 2030 COVID comeback goes viral as India reports spike in cases
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Zodiacs & Astrology News: India faces renewed COVID-19 anxiety in 2025 amid a sudden case surge, sparking both medical and mystical concerns. A resurfaced prophecy by JapaneseTOI Astrology (Times of India)
The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.The Boston Globe
You don't have to almost die to be happy at work, but it helps
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How much does your gut health impact your overall health? A lot, doctors say
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/fecal-transplants-1.7547096?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Under Ben-Gvir’s call for total war, Israel ramped up attacks on shelters and residential areas, killing scores and deepening the crisis.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Tandiwe Thelma Mgxwati has emphasized that Africa seeks equal partnerships, not dependency, especially in its growing ties with RussiaOdysee
More train and bus trip editing capabilities, a new departure view, #OpenRailwayMap integration and a ton of new features in #Transitous - the past two months around #KDE Itinerary: volkerkrause.eu/2025/05/31/kde…
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The past two months since the last update have been busy again around KDE Itinerary, with additional train and bus trip editing capabilities, a new departure...volkerkrause.eu
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On Thursday, the human rights organization Tutela Legal "Maria Julia Hernandez" (TLMJH) denounced that at least 415 people have died in Salvadoran prisonsteleSURenglish
»U.N. officials have also criticized Israeli limitations on what kind of aid they can provide.
"#Israeli authorities have not allowed us to bring in a single ready-to-eat meal. The only food permitted has been flour for bakeries. Even if allowed in unlimited quantities, which it hasn't been, it wouldn't amount to a complete diet for anyone," said Eri Kaneko, U.N. humanitarian affairs spokesperson.«
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Raul Portales
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Raul Portales • • •Raul Portales
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •So if you're growing at 60%, it's ok to have a 20% negative profit.
That is one of the reasons we are where we are.
Adél Kučera
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •maybenot
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •there's also this "funny" framing that corporations themselves *are* functionally agi paperclip-maximizers, only they run on human workers instead of sillicon.
"funny" because the various ai doomer talking points, are already shown to be true for corpos:
-(microtargeted) mass manipulation
-(occasional) warmongering
-government/regulatory capture
-the "alignment" issue (mostly on climate)
-convert all available matter into rent-seeking
-gaslighting opponents (a'la the basilisk wager)
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I fundamentally disagree with this characterization of capitalism. Capitalism is not an entity. It has no meaningful intentional stance. It is a model of interaction only. It is not the enemy.
The enemy is those who wish to apply this model upon us no matter what the costs to us. This enemy consists of people. And these people have names and addresses.
Use them.
Ariel
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Hard disagree.
Generative AI intrinsically alters the political landscape in ways that put fascists at an advantage. The way people are using it to cognitive offload pretty much any given workload is crippling their own ability to engage in critical thought. Assuming access to a sufficiently advanced model, malicious actors in positions of power can use it to fabricate evidence of crimes and weaponise the state's violence against opponents. It's eroding people's trust in the authenticity of literally all online communication that's not coming directly from an already trusted source.
Surely you understand how a tool that's pretty much purpose-built to flood the zone with shit is inherently beneficial to a political project that's been relying on exactly that tactic for its entire existence, right? It's not a coincidence that this technology's most vocal proponents in the political sphere are all basically Hitler.
Aral Balkan
in reply to Ariel • • •@Walk_blesseD I’m not saying “AI” as branded and developed by Silicon Valley/Big Tech isn’t *a* problem. I’m saying the socioeconomic system that leads to it being developed in the manner in which it is developed is the problem.
Machine learning doesn’t have to be planet-scale. In fact, it’s more effective when it’s not.
At its core, there isn’t anything that evil about iterative matrix multiplications used for pattern matching in data sets.
But yes, of course, AI as it exists today is a problem. But it’s a symptom of the core malady which is capitalism/corporatism.
All that said, I really don’t think we’re stating different things 😀
Soldier of FORTRAN
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •instead of a rogue AI turning evil to "protect humans", instead it destroys corporations and the financial system.
Here's hoping.
Vassil Nikolov
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Capitalism came to be after a long chain of developments starting with the Neolithic Revolution and the latter was a consequence of climate change.
Deconstructing this thesis is left as an exercise...
Marquise de What 🇨🇦
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •It is a cancer that has funding & direction from individuals.
These bigoted billionaires have names.
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024…
usatoday.com/story/news/politi…
politico.com/news/2024/11/24/b…
opensecrets.org/elections-over…
Elon Musk
Timothy Mellon
Miriam O. Adelson
Richard & Elizabeth A. Uihlein
Kenneth C. Griffin
Jeffrey S. & Janine Yass
Paul E. Singer
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Timothy M. Dunn
Rob Bigelow
Diane Hendricks
John Joe Ricketts
Shirley W. Ryan
Warren A. Stephens
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Trump says he wasn't aware of Musk reportedly using drugs during the 2024 campaign
Zac Anderson (USA TODAY)Aral Balkan
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Aral Balkan
Unknown parent • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •There's a long history linking substance abuse, alcoholism, and fascism, that is then used in excuse-making narratives whitewashing their conduct.
Musk may be an addict, but it in no way diminishes what he has done.
He is sane and culpable. He's trying to evade trials & lawsuits by claiming he was under the influence.
Richard J Evans "The Third Reich in History and Memory" and "The Pursuit of Power 1815-1914"
theguardian.com/books/2016/nov…
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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler review – a crass and dangerously inaccurate account
Richard J Evans (The Guardian)