'Billions of dollars in overpayments are sent out the door because Washington is asleep at the wheel'Daily Caller News Foundation (WorldNetDaily)
Instead of the anticipated F-1 visa, a Chinese student received a green slip on Wednesday morning aten.people.cn
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No one talks about extreme centrists. They should, because they're the people who want to maintain the status quo when it's glaringly obvious that we need change.
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Feature: Despite 12 displacements, Gaza teacher continues music lesson-english.news.cn
The United States is imposing sanctions on four International Criminal Court (ICC) judges in connection with their involvement in prosecution of US or Israeli nationals, US Secretary of State Marko Rubio said.Sputnik International
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The West branded Viktor Bout as the ‘Merchant of Death’ and ‘Lord of War’. His image as a terrifying Russian arms dealer, which was shaped by American authorities, even inspired a Hollywood movie. USRumble
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Jamaica, known for its rich cultural heritage, reggae music, and stunning landscapes, is also home to a diverse array of tropical fruits that define itsteleSURenglish
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X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content
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Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform's content to train large language models.Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The president of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, has announced that mayoral and municipal council elections are going to be held on Sunday, July 27, 2025.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
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The Kremlin declared that Russia will respond to Ukraine's recent attacks on its military airports at a time and in a manner it finds appropriate.Iran Press
The “grand pact” for the Middle East will certainly mean a major shift in some international power dynamics. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact…Strategic Culture Foundation
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Die #USA haben einzelne Richter des Internationalen Strafgerichtshof #ICC auf die Sanktionsliste gesetzt
Damit eine offene Kriegserklärung gegenüber allen Staaten die Strafgerichtshof ratifiziert haben.
»The US has sanctioned four #ICC judges, PTC and AC, connected to the Netanyahu and Gallant arrest warrants: Hohler (Slovenia), Alapini-Gansou (Benin), Carmen del Luz (Peru), Bossa (Uganda). Notably, Guilou (France) and Tomoki (Japan) were not sanctioned.«
Alle Staaten müssten jetzt einspringen und das abblocken.
Behinderung der Arbeit von Richtern des ICC, Vergeltungsmaßnahmen gegenüber Richtern des ICC aufgrund deren Tätigkeit ist ein strafbares Delikt. Egal wer die Täter sind oder wo die Täter sitzen.
Die ersten EU Staaten melden sich und verurteilen die Sanktionen.
Slowenien, von dem eine Richterin betroffen ist, verlangt die sofortige Aktivierung des EU- Blocking Acts.
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Protecting EU operators, reinforcing European strategic autonomy.Finance
ich weiß nicht so recht, wenn man noch Abs. 2 Satz 2 und Abs. 4 dazu liest klingt es schon etwas schwammiger...
hier in deutsch: un.org/depts/german/internatre…
(nicht wundern, genau der direktlink zu Art. 70 funktioniert auf der Website nicht 😅)
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“They dressed me in military uniform, and asked me to search in homes for explosives.”Drop Site News
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Prostration is union.
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Prostration is union, communion, de-two-ification,un-ification,re-union,re-unification,The Kesa-UniverseThe cosmic monastery,in a disciple’s cloth.©FJ Jan 2025Recueils / Participation/ Groupe Disco…Notes & Silence
J’ai de ces promenades, baignées de grâce...
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J’ai de ces promenades, baignées de grâce, où chaque pas, chaque virageEst lieu d’émerveillement.Sur le chemin, pourtant, mille fois emprunté,Eclot une joie offerte,l’arbre aux feuilles traversées …Notes & Silence
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that his government is arming gangs in Gaza to “strengthen opposition groups in the Strip”. According toEditing Team (Quds News Network)
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Glasgow / PNN / by Roddy Keenan -Palestine striker Oday Dabbagh has become the first Palestinian to win a Scottish Cup,english.pnn.ps
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Nobody wins in the Trump-Musk breakup.Charlie Warzel (The Atlantic)
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Despite condemning Israel’s war on Gaza, EU nations are secretly signing billion-dollar "battle-tested" weapons deals with Israeli firms.Jessica Buxbaum (MintPress News)
Kim Jong-un declares readiness to continue supporting Russia in Ukrainian conflict Rossa Primavera News from the Far EastAvis Krane (Rossa Primavera International News)
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Title kind of says it all but it's still baffling. Running an old ass amd fx with 24 gig ram in the other computer. Work laptop is an i7 with 64 gigs of ram and is still slower in daily use. Both have ssd boot drives.
Granted im comparing desktop and laptop. But a 15 year difference is pretty crazy to me.
Sounds like your organizations Windows 11 image is bloated and or your adnin didn't set much in the way of group policy. It could also be one of those shit corporate security products eating up resources.
Talk to your admins to see if you can speed it up. One of my work machines has a 8th gen Intel i5 with 48gb of ram and it is quick and snappy.
Low birth rates among indigenous Brits and mass migration are driving the trend, an analysis showsRT
AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto
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An ambitious company that claimed to make apps using AI has been exposed as hundreds of human workers based in India.Virginia Glaze (Dexerto)
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Today, Paraguay and Uruguay will face each other at the Defensores del Chaco stadium in this capital city, in the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup in North America.Javier Pérez Jimenez (Radio Habana Cuba)
»Die deutsche Freundschaft gilt in der Regel irgendeinem imaginierten Israel. Die Spezifika variieren je nach Einstellung, der Wahrheitsgehalt bleibt aber immer bescheiden.«
»In his press conference with Israeli FM Sa'ar, German FM @ aussenminister.diplo.de said that support for the annexation of the West Bank is an opinion held by "some" in Israeli politics - but that this view is not the majority view.
Well, it is a majority opinion within the Israeli leadership.«
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In FPF webinar, journalists discuss past administrations’ surveillance of their source communications and what Trump may do nextFreedom of the Press
As a life long dev, even I was offended by "Learn to Code."
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It looks like the "learn to code" push is backfiring spectacularly for those who majored in computer science in college.Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
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The yuan’s growth had slightly decelerated to 11.03 rublesTASS
The actual ground war in Ukraine is increasingly favoring the Russians, who are slowly tightening the noose on Kiev’s forces.Stephen Bryen (Oriental Review)
Caitlin #Johnstone
This is #Israel. This is what the Zionist project looks like. The dead kids. The blown-out hospitals. The desperate, starving civilians. This is it.There is no alternate version of Israel where these things are not happening. The liberal Zionist vision of a two-state solution and a just and peaceful Israel exists solely in the imaginations of the people who envision it. Nothing like it has ever existed. Everything about the modern state of Israel is unyieldingly hostile to that vision.
You either support the existence of the Israel you see before you, or you support the end of the apartheid Zionist entity. There is no hidden third option. There are no other positions on the menu. To pretend otherwise is to live in a fantasy land.
You either want to burn children alive, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately starve civilians, or you don’t. You either want to bomb hospitals, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately assassinate Palestinian journalists while forbidding foreign journalists entry into Gaza, or you don’t.
You either want to deliberately #massacre civilians and systematically destroy civilian infrastructure in order to force the removal of Palestinians from a Palestinian territory, or you don’t.And if you don’t, you must oppose the state of Israel.
That’s Israel, the state. Not just Netanyahu. Not just extremist settlers. Not just “far right elements within the Israeli government”. Israel itself. Because everything we are seeing Israel do is the result of everything Israel is as a state.Everything Israel is doing is the result of everything it has always been. As soon as the west decided to drop a settler-colonialist state on top of a pre-existing civilization wherein the new immigrants would receive preferential treatment over the indigenous inhabitants who were already living there, it became inevitable that Israel would wind up in the condition it’s in today.
Because there was no way to uphold that status quo without mass displacement and nonstop tyranny, violence and abuse. There was no way to set up a tiered society where one tier is placed above the other without indoctrinating the public to accept that apartheid system by systematically dehumanizing the members of the disempowered group.
Set up a status quo of dehumanizing a group of people and manufacturing consent for violence and abuse against them, and you will inevitably wind up with a far right #apartheid state which is committing #genocide, as surely as dropping a stone off a building will result in a stone falling to the ground.
What we are seeing in #Gaza today was baked into the state of Israel ever since its inception.
All those dead kids on your social media feed are the fruit of a tree whose seed was planted after the second world war. That tree has been bearing more and more fruit, and it will continue to for as long as it remains standing. Because that’s just the kind of tree it is. The only kind of tree it ever could have been.Saying “I support Israel but I don’t support the actions of #Netanyahu in Gaza” is like saying “I like this apple tree but only when it sprouts coconuts instead of apples.” That is not the kind of tree it is. The apple tree will only produce apples, and the genocide tree will only produce genocide.
Israel’s supporters avoid confronting obvious truths like these. Support for Israel depends on mass-scale psychological compartmentalization. Everything about it revolves around avoiding unpleasant truths instead of deeply and viscerally reckoning with them.Averting the eyes from the video footage of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. Averting the eyes from the contradictions between the values they purport to hold and everything Israel is as a state. Averting the eyes from the mountains upon mountains of evidence staring us all in the face. That’s the only way support for Israel is able to continue.
In order to become a truth-driven species, we need to stop hiding from uncomfortable truths. And one of our favorite hiding places for uncomfortable truths at this point in #history is the modern state of Israel, and the western empire’s support for it.
Worrying new COVID variant NB.1.8.1, wreaking havoc in China, is now in Victoria.
COVID cases in Victoria spiked 55% in late May as the NB.1.8.1 variant, which is wreaking havoc in China, hit the state. Flu cases rose 45% and RSV infections jumped 19.3% in the same week.
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Hot take one: calling legislation "big" and "beautiful" is branding for simpletons. So it's gonna be insanely effective for its target audience.
Hot take two: trying to ju jitsu it into "big ugly" or whatever language Schumer Dems are using is a nitwit strategy. You can't out-insult Trump. And, it only reinforces Trump branding.
This needs to be attacked with mockery. Couch fucking levels of mockery. Did Dems learn nothing from the election?
(Don't answer that.)
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In the face of genocide and global inaction, the Tribunal recognizes that the challenge of justice falls to people, to legitimate resistance, to acts of solidarity, to civil society, to social movements, and to people of conscience everywhere.Craig Mokhiber (Mondoweiss)
How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy
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Deutschland hat ein massives #Justizproblem.
In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt
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I didn't think they made shirts that big but recently the large people I've seen....
They do make them
"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."
Very insightful post on #GenAI by Glyph
(Original title: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now)
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Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.blog.glyph.im
Well crap. Foxglove popped up in my yard.
Why is there more info on how to cultivate it than remove it? The AI bloat is not helping me sort through actual risk in touching it to rip it out.
I assume it should not be composted, am I incorrect? If drinking the water from a vase of foxglove can kill a small child, it would follow that you shouldn't put it in your compost, right?
I get that it's pretty, but why would anyone want to have digitalis growing in their yards? It's a literal heart stopper. Used in heart medications.
I love foxglove! So beautiful.
NOT SURE THIS IS A GOOD IDEA, but I have a friend who has a vendetta against jimson weed. Every time he sees it, he layers up a bunch of plastic bags, and rips it out using said bags to cover his hands. Then he uses the bags as a receptacle and just throws it in the trash.
EDIT: Now that I've typed that in and submitted, it sounds like a bad idea, and I think I'm going to check on my friend.
Sounds like that could actually work though. Digitalis can be absorbed through the skin (not super likely, but with my history of reacting to plants, I take no chances with poisonous ones), and I don't think it's like a pineapple that will eat through plastic.
盲猜老登一看女的不乐意进入婚姻拉磨了搞事。
bl捅了虚拟男人的菊花就等于给老登的脸上打了一巴掌，bg写的男的大概率比活男像人要么至少有钱有势jj好用衬托的活男怪不像样，gl更是俩女的交往了乐意和男的交往得更少了。
女的可以只看小说不谈恋爱精神世界好就很好，男的小头控制大头嘛，找不到兜底的搞事概率可高了。
“I think the things that people are afraid of are what separate a great, long-term focused company from just any other company.”Igor Bonifacic (Engadget)
Wrong, this is a lie. Discord still fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software. Do not let them scam you.
The best way you can combat Discord is to expose their scam, like this, to those around you. Then, teach them how to explain it. Make them a better teacher than you.
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Take pay before pushing slop no one asked for, skill issue.
When we do not control it, we cannot end its abuse.
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in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •Zunächst muß "I stand with Israel" nicht gleichbedeutend mit "Ich finds geil, was die Israelische Politik und die IDF gerade so treibt", sondern schlicht und einfach für das Existenzrecht Israels zu stehen.
Im Gegensatz geht es um "Free Palestine". Was heißt das? Waren die Palästinenser unter der Hamas frei? Unter der Fatah? Ich bezweifle das.
Mindestens die Hamas ist eine Terrorgruppe, vom Iran bezahlt, die zum Unterjochen und Indoktrinieren der Palästinenser eingesetzt ist.
Daß im Gegenzug die IDF ihren eigenen Anspruch als "moralischste Armee der Welt" total aufgegeben zu haben scheint, macht die Gemengelage nicht besser. Auch nicht, daß Israel weiterhin einfach Land im Westjordanland klaut. Geht nicht. Punkt. Ganz klar. Auch nicht, was im Gazastreifen mit den Menschen passiert - mit anscheinend offenkundigen Genozidplänen seitens Netanjahu - und nicht zuletzt das Unterdrücken der israelischen Demokratie.