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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The United Nations said the number of Gaza children facing acute malnutrition has soared since February, with more than 2,700 now suffering from it.
Not far away, anti-aircraft guns begin to fire — every blast is a sign that brave people are trying to defend the city. But every shot feels like a lightning bolt of anxiety that unfurls from your heart to your head.
What it felt like overnight in Kyiv as the Russian dictator lashed out in response to Ukraine's sneak attacks on military targets. This morning, we awoke to Journalist's Day in Ukraine.
“I heard the drone flying around, but my roommate Sashka and I are really used to that sound, so we just tried to sleep. Suddenly, the sound became unbearable and louder with every second..."
RUSSIA AIMS TO CUT UKRAINE OFF FROM BLACK SEA: Russia is planning to create a 'buffer' zone in northern Ukraine and then move south to completely cut off Ukraine's access to the Black Sea, according to a top official in Ukraine’s Presidential Office, Politico reported.
UKRAINE LAUNCHED PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGAINST RUSSIA: Ukraine struck several Russian airfields overnight before Russia launched one of its most powerful air attacks, the Kyiv Independent reported.
Ukraine attacked Engels and Diagilevo airfields. Both are key to conduct air attacks.
Ukrainian strikes reportedly targeted Engels and Dyagilevo airfields — two key hubs for Russia's long-range bomber fleet, as well as logistics sites in Russia's Kursk Oblast.
GERMANY SCRAMBLES PLANES OVER RUSSIAN INTEL: A Russian reconnaissance plane was spotted in the Baltic Sea yesterday, prompting Germany to scramble two fighter jets, the European Truth reported with reference to DPA.
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy.
FERRET OF WAR: Today we have an unusual animal of war – a ferret! His name is Stitch: just like the cartoon character, he cannot sit in one place and bites a lot.
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy.
A good YouTube channel #ThinkUkraine documents some of the life of an average Ukrainian.
"Widow of a military pilot, I'm an ordinary teacher in Kyiv sharing the truth about life during the War. With two kids by my side, your donation to #ThinkUkraine fuels my mission. Help me amplify the voices of those living through the chaos. "
This one is from 25 May 2025, the day Kyiv turned (approximately) 1543 years old.
The price will not be cheaper than the Ben Gurion Airport-Rhodes flight, and renovation of the Haifa Airport's tarmac will be completed by the end of the month
@timkmak@journa.host > Follow along through the link in bio! Dude... It's #Substack. Substack profits from and provides material fucking support to #NAZIs and Neo-Nazis. ***No thank you.*** #JustSayNoToSubstack
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy.
A mystery pigeon lady is snatching “weak” birds from outside the Met and storing them for days at a time inside her car – leaving neighbors disturbed over the strange behavior. The birdnapper, who …
Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.
"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect — which is where you read what’s actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."
"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time."
"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and they’ll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send ’em a copy of this post."
You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Döpm…
Couldn't resist so I asked #AI if your post was written by AI and honestly I wasn't prepared for the critique:
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That excerpt does not appear to be written by AI—it reads very much like the work of a human author with a distinctive voice, strong opinions, and a flair for biting, satirical commentary.
Here’s why it almost certainly wasn’t AI-generated:
1. Authorial Style: The tone is snarky, sardonic, and rhetorically sharp—hallmarks of a practiced writer with a clear worldview and a human-like sense of irony. AI tends to struggle with sustained sarcasm and tightly controlled satire without explicit prompting.
2. Cultural Referencing & Analogy: Comparing LLMs to carnival psychics, invoking the Barnum Effect, referencing the Hook Model, and equating AI enthusiasm to religious zealotry—these are layered cultural critiques typical of polemical essayists, not AI text.
3. Narrative Framing & Voice: It uses deliberate pacing, rhetorical repetition ("just a glimpse of Him again"), and personal/colloquial flourishes ("Send ’em a copy of this post")—stylistic touches that feel authored, not synthesized.
4. David Gerard Reference: David Gerard is a real-life tech critic known for his skeptical takes on crypto and AI. Referencing his writing and mimicking his voice is something a human poster might do, especially if they’re quoting or paraphrasing him.
It’s very likely this came from a blog, a Mastodon post, or something like a Substack article—not AI. If it was AI-generated, it would have had to be very tightly prompted and heavily edited by a human afterward.
Let me know if you want help tracing the original source or adapting the tone for something of your own.
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The fact that AI apparently seems to know what makes it's writing "appear to be AI" is what I found the most interesting.
How long before the AI companies tweak the settings and throw in more cultural references?
Die vorübergehende Schließung der Verteilzentren in Gaza, die von der ominösen Stiftung Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) verwaltet werden, sei ein weiterer Schritt seitens Israel und den USA, Hunger zur Waffe zu machen, kommentiert nd-Redakteur Cyrus Salimi-Asl.
Nach den tödlichen Schüssen an den Hilfszentren im Gazastreifen hat die umstrittene GHF-Stiftung die Verteilung von Hilfsgütern gestoppt. Wegen »Renovierung« und »Arbeiten zur Effizienzsteigerung«. Eine Farce im Krieg.
Congressional Request for Thousands of Private Records of Pro-Palestinian Students at Columbia University Must Be Denied #Palestinepalestinelegal.org/news/2025/6…
Palestine Legal today announced the filing of a "friend of the court" brief in the lawsuit filed by detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and other Columbia students against the Committee on Education and Workforce and the Trump Administ…
Just a thought: Maybe the planes are attacking the big Shroom because it can provide better insights & that's dangerous for the people in control .. Really nice artwork..👌
“All questions of power, arising under the constitution of the United States, whether they relate to the federal or a state government, must be considered of great importance. The federal government being formed for certain purposes, is limited in its powers, and can in no case exercise authority where the power has not been delegated. The states are sovereign; with the exception of certain powers, which have been invested in the general government, and inhibited to the
"All questions of power, arising under the constitution of the United States, whether they relate to the federal or a state government, must be considered of great importance.
Kaity has just spun up a PieFed instance, which is open to anyone that wants to try it out.
PieFed is part of the "Threadiverse" along with lemmy and mbin. If you are already reading this in lemmy, then you already know what PieFed is about.
If you're curious to try it out, or if you're just looking for a way to avoid lemmy, you can find it at piefed.blahaj.zone/
Like our lemmy instance, we have set PieFed applications to require manual approval, but if you're already a member of our lemmy instance, you can get auto approved by our modbot by quoting your registration code somewhere in your application.
“The province of the Court is solely to decide on the rights of individuals... . Questions, in their nature political or which are, by the Constitution and laws, submitted to the Executive, can never be made in this court.”
~ John Marshall (1755-1835) US Supreme Court Chief Justice Marbury v. Madison, February 23, 1803
"The province of the Court is solely to decide on the rights of individuals... . Questions, in their nature political or which are, by the Constitution and laws, submitted to the Executive, can never be made in this court." ~ John Marshall
I'm in my cushy office, minding my own business, considering taking a nap on the couch. Two guys from the warehouse come bargin in. We had a container arrive from Japan and they were both talking at once telling me that there's no way we can unload it. I had to walk all the way to the warehouse and across it. They had nailed 2x4s to the floor of the container in front of each pallet, to prevent shift. We don't have a loading dock, just a huge bay door and no crow bar. each skid weighed 650lbs...
The pallets were stacked to high to clear the top of the door from the bottom of the contaner. They had tried to get the boards up with a hammer, but werent' able to. I got a second hammer and used it to hammer the claws of the first hammer under the boards and pried them up. Then I stayed in the container and positioned one skid at a time with the pallet jack at opening where our forklift could read them, had the forklift guy pick up a skid and hold it, then had the driver pull forward 2/3
~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist Civil Disobedience (1849)
On 5 June Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov hosted delegations from three African countries - Botswana, Ghana and Mozambique - headed by the agriculture ministers.
Sometimes people talk about how expensive something they own is simply because they're proud that they could afford it and even when they're being tone-deaf, there's no benefit to getting offended when you could just move the conversation along instead. (Although you might have to listen to them talk about watches.) If they were trying to brag, now they're stuck trying to explain why the watch is actually worth what they paid and you're the one judging them.
Cars (and watches) aren't so expensive that a middle-class person can't plausibly already own the one he would buy even if money was unlimited. You can act like that's true about you. My status-conscious former mother in law was bothered by the fact that I owned an old car, but when she would bring it up I would just say "I really like the 2008 model." She couldn't argue with that.
Nice one. If it's only a status thing he'll scrabble to find something to say about it other than it's price. And on the very very low chance that it's not, he'll have an excuse to explain. Who knows, he might be a watch nerd who's really proud that he could afford that watch because it's a special watch to watch nerds for watch related reasons and he'll tell you all about it.
Turns out everything we've been told about the state of Russian army for the past three years was a lie.
• It's now twice as large as in 2022, and continues to grow • Production of arms and munitions has soared • Exposure to the advanced Western weaponry allowed the Russians to figure out how to neutralize it • The Russian air force, built to fight NATO, is modern and has been preserved intact • In terms of drone and electronic warfare, Russia is probably ahead of NATO
"#RFKJr threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals. The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with #pharma." politico.com/news/2025/05/27/r…
Note that two of the three have published editorials criticizing the #censorship of science under the #Trump admin:
Several other journals have published comparable editorials but are not yet Trumpist targets. Are they next? See the list maintained by the #DefendResearch team. docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5…
This is a list of public statements supporting research and higher education against threats from the Trump administration. It includes a list of projects that track or monitor Trump administration actions on the same topics.
Update. The Dept of Veterans Affairs has done what #RFKJr merely threatened to do at the Dept of Health and Human Services. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
"Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump."
Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say
Very Lysenko vibes. This kind of supression of objective factual data and those who produced it brought Russia and China to huge famines back in the ‘50s and ‘60s. I hope the scientists and researchers are packing up, and arranging to relocate.
looks like i can get away with just welding a broken part in the old stock RSX exhaust and i don't have to replace the whole thing... which is good cause this is getting ridiculous
SANAA, June 05 (YPA) -President of the Supreme Political Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, delivered a speech on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, in which he extended congratulations to the Leader of the Revolution, to the Yemeni people, Armed Forces, Security,
"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."
tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part. So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.
Recently VE3NEA has released a new Windows program called 'SkyRoof'. SkyRoof is both a satellite tracking and SDR receiver program. It supports the RTL-SDR as well as Airspy and SDRplay devices.
Im Interview berichtet Amy Kit-Mei Low von @MSF_ch: „Gaza ist das Schlimmste, was ich je gesehen habe.“ Das Nasser-Spital steht kurz vor dem Aus – die Not ist riesig. Ihre Familie sorgt sich, doch sie hilft, wo Hilfe am dringendsten ist. 💔🕊️ #Gaza #MSF #HumanitäreHilfe 👉 srf.ch/news/international/msf-… #newz
President Trump isn’t ruling out cutting Elon Musk’s government contracts, saying it’s on the table—if it’s fair for both him and the country. t.me/GeneralMCNews/13751
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Professor Postol explains that the Golden Dome is a political idea with no technical value, designed to appeal to Trump's supporters by giving the impression that it would protect the US from nuclear threats.
A big worry is that the imbeciles in charge of the US might actually think these defenses work and act more recklessly in a crisis, which could lead to a world ending miscalculation.
MIT Professor and Pentagon advisor Ted Postol presents the dangers of Trump's Golden Dome.Follow me:Substack: https://glenndiesen.substack.com/X/Twitter: htt...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, said it was not surprising that the United States used its veto in the Security Council regarding the Gaza Strip, calling for the delivery of humanitarian aid via UN peacekeeping forces
I used to really enjoy sites like this. I know there's joke accounts on Twitter and other sites here and there, but I haven't seen anything lately that has the whole site as one big running gag.
A Q&A website is a website where the site creators use the images of pop culture icons, historical figures, fictional characters, or even inanimate objects or abstract concepts to answer input from the site's visitors, usually in question/answer format. This format of website, most popular in the early 2000s, evolved from the much older Internet Oracle. The original progenitor of this type of site was the now-defunct Forum 2000. The Forum 2000 claimed to have run the site by means of artificial intelligence, and the personalities on the website were called SOMADs, or "State Of Mind Adjointness pairs". However, later Q&A sites usually dispensed with this pretense, with the most extreme example being Jerk Squad!, on which the administrators of the site provide many of the answers.
While two man-babies in the US throw their tantrums and transfix the profit driven drama machines of the US corporate media, a group of courageous and compassionate human rights activists are confronting Israel head on in an attempt to bring aid and draw attention to the ongoing genocide.
Our attention should be focused on Gaza, not the drama of the two US man-babies (apologies to babies everywhere).
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
AUSTIN, TX—Stressing that the billionaire’s completely erratic behavior had strained the already fraught relationships, sources confirmed Thursday that a rift was widening between Elon Musk and anyone who had ever met him.
« La #gauche est devenue aussi mensongère et hypocrite que la #bourgeoisie parce qu’elle continue à proclamer sa vertu, la défense des pauvres. Elle continue à s’affirmer comme le représentant des classes misérables. Mais elle ment. Elle défend et soutient exclusivement ce qui peut la servir, ceux qui sont utilisables soit pour sa propagande, soit pour l’action directe. Elle utilise les pauvres exactement comme le capitalisme. Elle les exploite. Elle les fait marcher sans leur dévoiler ses vrais objectifs. Elle leur ment jour après jour. » « On n’avait pas en 1936 ou en 1945 le droit de dire que le communisme stalinien était une dictature sanguinaire et que les camps de concentration y étaient équivalents à ceux du nazisme. On n’a pas le droit aujourd’hui de dire que la Chine est une dictature de fer et que les camps de concentration y sont florissants. Chutt… cela servirait les ennemis de la révolution. La gauche est engagée jusqu’au cou dans le mensonge. Elle ne représente en rien les pauvres. Elle ne les défend en rien. Elle a substitué pour eux, à l’illusion religieuse du paradis céleste à venir, l’illusion politique du paradis terrestre à venir. La gauche est l’exact équivalent de l’Église bourgeoise du XIXe siècle, à l’égard des pauvres. Elle en présente les mêmes caractères et mérite le même mépris. Parmi les pauvres, exactement comme pour les bourgeois chrétiens du XIXe siècle, il y a les bons pauvres, ceux qui marchent dans la combine, ceux qui sont les bons moutons de la révolution, ceux dont la situation peut être exploitée comme facteur de propagande. Et puis les mauvais pauvres, ceux qui refusent, dans un régime communiste, de se trouver bien ceux qui se révoltent à tort et à travers simplement parce qu’ils sont malheureux et sans tenir compte des plans de la révolution mondiale, ceux qui représentent des valeurs et une culture traditionnelles. Tous ceux-là il faut simplement les réprimer, les refouler. » « Il est vrai que la gauche ne prétend plus le moins du monde être révolutionnaire. Elle a enterré la révolution, et s’apprête paisiblement à occuper le pouvoir pour continuer. Mais il faut aller plus loin. Non seulement elle n’est plus révolutionnaire, mais elle occupe maintenant un rôle tout à fait précis : sa fonction dans la société moderne est de bloquer la révolution. La gauche, des radicaux jusqu’au PC, PSU compris, a reçu délégation tacite du corps social entier pour que la révolution ne puisse pas avoir lieu. Les meilleurs gardiens de l’establishment ce sont les partis de gauche et les syndicats. Pensez donc, si ces partis arrivent au pouvoir ce ne peut être que grâce au jeu des institutions mêmes ! Comment ne les garderait-on pas avec le plus grand soin ? Bien entendu, je ne dis pas qu’il y a une connivence explicite, et une formulation claire de ce rôle. Les bourgeois font toujours semblant d’avoir très peur du PC. Mais combien il est rassurant, ce brave PC ! Il ne fait plus peur à personne, et la bourgeoisie sait très bien que l’on pourra dorénavant s’entendre avec lui. Il faut seulement avoir l’air d’avoir peur pour que l’idée de son opposition et de sa révolution soit « crédible », c’est-à-dire pour que les forces de révolte qui existent dans la société puissent être fixées, catalysées, bloquées sur le PC et de ce fait ne s’exercent pas en tant que forces de révolte, ailleurs, sur un autre point et de façon incontrôlable. La gauche est le grand paratonnerre anti-révolutionnaire. » Jacques #Ellul, Le naufrage de la gauche. #politique #pipolitique
Washington DC is desperate to include the troubled F-35 in arms deals with Delhi, but India is reluctant to waste money on a jet with such a disastrous track record.
I've been taking modafinil off and on for the last 10 years now, usually with a prescription, sometimes without, and it's been very helpful. I get about 6 hours of good use out of it as far as ADHD symptoms and such, it'll keep me awake for about 8 hours.
armodafinil kicks in a little quicker, lasts longer (I can get a good 10 hours out of it, and it can keep me up for 12), and makes me sweat a lot less than either Provigil or ephedrine. I had been waiting for it to come off patent in the states, and it did over the last 2 years so now I can play with it.
I'm not going to sit here and talk about sources, but test your shit. something I got from an overseas vendor tested positive for methamphetamine once (might have been mdma, my test can't tell the difference but either way, test your shit}
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