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From a friend of mine who is travelling to the UK from the US this summer:

Any help would be much appreciated by them!

"Hi, I'm Rebecca! I'm a disabled, nontraditional graduate student enrolled in two concurrent master's programs. After raising a kid as a single mom, I enrolled in the MSW program at UALR with a goal of helping to make the world a better place for people who struggle.

"I've posted an update on my GoFundMe describing the error the university made with my financial aid which totally destroyed my budget. Please share my fundraiser with anyone who may wish to support my project with this very worthy charitable organization.
I'm leaving this week and will post more, but for further details about the project, you can always check out my updated on my GoFundMe page.
Thanks for all the encouragement and support! It's been a long journey getting to this point"

(please boost)

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#Israël : mais d’ailleurs, à qui est ce pays ?
Andrea Dworkin

"Au milieu de la trentaine, j’ai commencé à lire des livres écrits par des Palestiniens. Ces livres m’ont fait réaliser que j’étais mal informée. […] Il y a peut-être 20 ans, j’ai appris qu’ils existaient. J’ai su qu’ils étaient lésés. J’étais en faveur d’une solution à deux États. Au fil des ans, j’ai appris que des Israéliens torturaient des prisonniers palestiniens. J’ai connu des journalistes juifs qui censuraient délibérément des informations afin de ne pas « causer du tort » à l’État juif. Je savais que les droits humains des Palestinien·nes étaient bafoués au quotidien. Comme mon papa, sur les questions sociales, les questions politiques, j’avais les opinions en vogue dans mon milieu. Ces opinions me valaient un conflit permanent avec la communauté juive, y compris avec ma famille, de nombreux ami·es et de nombreuses féministes juives. Pour autant que je sache, la communauté juive n’a que très récemment — mardi dernier, quelque chose comme ça — affronté les faits — les faits actuels. Je ne discuterai pas de la tortueuse histoire, de qui a fait quoi à qui et quand. Je ne discuterai pas du #sionisme, sauf pour dire qu’il est évident que je ne suis pas sioniste et que je ne l’ai jamais été. Ce débat rejoint celui que j’eus avec le directeur de mon école hébraïque ; ma position est la même — soit nous créons un monde juste, soit nous continuons à nous faire tuer. (J’ai également remarqué, entre-temps, que les Cambodgiens avaient eu le Cambodge et que cela ne les avait pas beaucoup aidés. Le sadisme social revêt de nombreuses formes. L’inimaginable se produit).

Mais il y a les questions de politique sociale, et il y a le racisme qui réside dans le cœur et l’esprit des individus sous forme d’un préjugé concernant tout un peuple. On croit aux stéréotypes, on croit au pire, on accepte une caricature selon laquelle les membres de tel groupe sont risibles ou menaçants, toujours méprisables. Je ne crois pas que les Juifs américains élevés comme je l’ai été soient exempts de ce préjugé. On nous l’a enseigné dès notre plus tendre enfance. Il a permis au gouvernement israélien de justifier auprès de nous ce qu’il avait fait aux Palestinien·nes. Nous avons été aveuglé·es, non seulement par notre besoin d’Israël ou notre loyauté envers les Juifs, mais aussi par un préjugé profond et réel à l’égard des Palestinien·nes qui s’apparente à de la haine raciale.

Le territoire n’était pas inhabité, contrairement à ce qu’on m’avait appris. Ah, certes, il y avait quelques tribus nomades, mais elles n’avaient pas de maisons au sens normal du terme — pas comme nous en avons dans le New Jersey. Il s’agit seulement de quelques individus inéduqués, primitifs et sales, qui ne veulent même pas d’un État. Il y avait des gens et même des arbres — des arbres qui ont été détruits par les soldats israéliens. Les Palestiniens ont raison de dire que les Juifs les considéraient comme des moins que rien. On m’a effectivement appris qu’ils n’étaient rien au sens le plus littéral du terme. S’emparer du pays et le transformer en Israël, l’État juif, était un acte impérialiste. Pour les Juifs, une telle affirmation est incompréhensible. Comment un peuple presque mort, presque éteint, un peuple qui n’était plus que cendres, aurait-il pu impérialiser qui ou quoi que ce soit ?
Eh bien, #Israël est un phénomène peu commun : des #Juifs, presque anéantis, ont accaparé la terre et contraint un monde très hostile à légitimer leur vol. Je pense que les Juifs américains sont incapables d’admettre qu’il s’agit d’un acte — du seul acte — d’impérialisme, de conquête, qu’ils soutiennent.

Nous avons aidé, nous en sommes fiers, nous sommes là. Cela contredit toutes les idées que nous professons sur notre identité et sur ce que signifie être juif. Mais c’est un fait. Nous avons pris un pays aux gens qui y vivaient ; nous, les dépossédés, nous en avons dépossédé d’autres ; nous avons dit : « Ce sont des Arabes, qu’ils aillent dans un endroit arabe. » Lorsque les Israéliens disent qu’ils veulent être jugés selon les mêmes normes que le reste du monde, et non selon des normes spécialement conçues pour les Juifs, ils veulent en partie dire que c’est ainsi que va le monde. Il s’agit peut-être d’une première pour les Juifs, mais tout le monde a agi de la sorte au cours de l’ #histoire. Il s’agit du cours de l’histoire. J’ai grandi dans l’État du New Jersey, qui a la même taille qu’Israël ; il n’y a pas si longtemps, il appartenait aux Indien∙nes. C’est parce que les Juifs américains refusent d’affronter ce fait — que nous avons volé la terre — que les Juifs américains ne peuvent pas se permettre de regarder les Palestinien·nes en face."


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The Impact of Science on Society by Bertrand Russell 1953

"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology. Mass psychology is, scientifically speaking, not a very advanced study, and so far its professors have not been in universities: they have been advertisers, politicians, and, above all, dictators. This study is immensely useful to practical men, whether they wish to become rich or to acquire the government...

Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.

When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. This subject will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship. ." pdf page 33 text p 30 web.archive.org/web/2021070620…

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Other Russell quotes:
1) The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. [Sounds like fellow Fabian A.Huxley]

2) I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

3) Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

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Speaking of Bertrand Russell: youtube.com/watch?v=8o_ADPQDG7…
Full Analysis of Bertrand Russell - Scientific Outlook - Jay Dyer
Oct 10, 2017
My undergraduate and graduate work focused on a large degree of philosophy of science and analytics. Russell is an example of reductionistic, naturalistic determinism and the “evolutionary” process of societies toward a single new world order government where life is regulated from womb to tomb by cybernetics and mass genetic control and experimentation, as well as the extermination of much of the population. Russell was a fraud and a propagandist, not a philosopher.

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Man kann die Geschichte von Rama als Serie gucken .. bissel ungewohnt aber interessiert mich mal..

kann bloß nicht mehr liegen.. rumliegen und Videos gucken macht mich fertig nach einer Weile.. kommt man gar nicht mehr hoch.. kein Plan was das ist

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The LA Unrest Poses A Pressing National Security Threat To The US orientalreview.su/2025/06/09/t…

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US - #VAERS La plupart des décès par mort subite du nourrisson coïncident avec les premières #vaccinations du bébé, mais ne font jamais l’objet d’une enquête.
SMSN = syndrome de mort subite du nourrisson = SIDS en anglais
#médecine #santé #pharmacovigilance #vaccinovigilance #vaccins #vaccination

SIDS - is the unexplained death of a baby and every parent's worst nightmare. But is it a cover up for #vaccine injury along with shaken baby syndrome and Munchausen syndrome by proxy?
Most SIDS deaths 'coincide' with baby's first vaccinations but are never investigated.
Read on


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Israeli Strikes Hit Yemen’s Hudaydah Port in New Aggression tn.ai/3331644

🇩🇪 For all our German-speaking users:

Thank you to @ktn from c’t for /e/OS 3.0 launch coverage and interview with our CEO @gael in the latest issue of c’t Open Source!

“Because I didn’t want to give Apple and Google all my data — and basically my life — for free. And I thought: I’m probably not the only one in that situation.”

If that resonates with you, now is the perfect time to try the new version of /e/OS!

Read the full article: infoservice.heise.de/ct-openso…
#OpenSource #Privacy #DataPrivacy

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Russia’s tech company VK unveils WeChat clone built on Putin’s orders: the app has mic and camera access, gathers user data, and shares it with the state


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/36376926

Archived

On June 4, during a meeting with government officials, Vladimir Putin stated that all public services must be moved to the national messenger app called Max. According to Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev, the multiplatform system is already operational.

[...]

The Max app — a Russian equivalent of China’s WeChat — was unveiled by the tech giant VK in late March. At present, it features a messenger, a chatbot builder, a payment system, and mini-apps. On June 5, VTB’s digital bank launched on the platform.

To register, a Belarusian or Russian SIM card is required — which, as The Insider noted, foreigners can no longer obtain without submitting biometric data.

As stated in the Max app’s privacy policy, the platform will collect data on:

  • user devices
  • IP address
  • operating system
  • browser
  • location
  • internet provider
  • contacts from the address book
  • all user activity within the service
  • information obtained through the camera or microphone, if the user grants the app access (most users will, for example, in order to record voice messages)

Other messaging apps collect such data as well, but there's a catch. The Max app's privacy policy explicitly states that it may share this data with the “company's partners” as well as with “any government or local authority.”

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Drama on Fedi. Framasoft vs Firesidefedi.


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Episode 20 - Booteille - Framasoft - Livestream 2025-05-27


Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 20 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Booteille! Booteille was a volunteer to Framasoft for 3 years, then became a co-president, a volunteer position as well, and then got hired by Framasoft and stepped down from his volunteer position . Booteille seems to wear many different hats around Framasoft. From interviews, conventions, building donation campaigns, to sysadmin tasks, website tweaks, etc.

Booteille describes their goal with Framasoft is "to help as much as I can the organisation in our goals: raising awareness about digital issues and helping to build a society fitting our values."

I'm very excited to finally have this show as we've had to reschedule numerous times. Schedule conflicts, then I was sick for weeks, and booteille is finally getting over being sick as well.

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Episode 20 - Booteille - Framasoft - Livestream 2025-05-27


Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 20 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Booteille! Booteille was a volunteer to Framasoft for 3 years, then became a co-president, a volunteer position as well, and then got hired by Framasoft and stepped down from his volunteer position . Booteille seems to wear many different hats around Framasoft. From interviews, conventions, building donation campaigns, to sysadmin tasks, website tweaks, etc.

Booteille describes their goal with Framasoft is "to help as much as I can the organisation in our goals: raising awareness about digital issues and helping to build a society fitting our values."

I'm very excited to finally have this show as we've had to reschedule numerous times. Schedule conflicts, then I was sick for weeks, and booteille is finally getting over being sick as well.

framasoft.org
Donation Link - support.framasoft.org
Framasoft Mastodon - framapiaf.org/@Framasoft
numerethique.fr/
blog.dreads-unlock.fr/
Mastodon - framapiaf.org/@booteille
degooglisons-internet.org/en/
support.joinpeertube.org/en/

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HEMA tournament in Poznan, Poland that happened just this weekend. The fighter on the left in green & purple thrusts his rapier into the fighter's arm on the right in black, but the blunted tip managed to still pierce through their jacket. The rapier thrust was so powerful that it collapsed his bicep muscle, with just the force of the hit causing a chest contusion

this has a lot of people in HEMA questioning the safety standards of our fencing jackets and bringing back the old argument over whether to add a rubber tip or not to the end of the sword point.

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BBC Pidgin delivers like UPS

> Seed oils dey bad for your health?
> Some critics don give some seed oils nickname as 'di hateful eight' - dis dey refer to di eight popular seed oils canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soy, rice bran, sunflower and safflower - and dey blame dem say na dem dey cause heart diseases and type 2 diabetes.

bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c14ky8…

Oh, boo, am I irrationally angry about genocide?

Do gently fuck off. autistics.life/@VulcanTourist/…


The latter two responses imply malignant animus. That is pretty much the same emotional state that many Israelis are demonstrating toward Palestinians. Do people truly not see how that is the root problem? This limbic-brain "reasoning" needs to stop.

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📬 Bu hafta @newslabturkey n okuyoruz bültenin odağında tıklanmaya dayalı ekonominin yıllardır süren zayıflamasının YZ teknolojileri ile hızlı bir çöküş sürecine girmesini ve bunun medya açısından anlamını ele aldım.

“Ne Okuduk” bölümünde ise haber bildirimlerini arşivleyen bir proje, haberin değişen anlamı ve daha fazlası var.

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Didier #Maïsto | A. #Poulin
youtu.be/x4eFUtdU-As

#maisto #politique #pipolitique #UE #france #macron #macronie #propagande #censure #médias #médiavers #csa #réseaux-sociaux #france-inter #franceInter #RadioFrance

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Same word in german and english texts. Basically in my opinion nothing wrong. We do not write texts for the purpose of not expessing something we do want to express. It's a problem even in political discussions. Here in germany we do have strong words for things - if they where used in Nazi-context, it could be, even a far left may use it without knowing this context. Here we do have some problems to make emphasized words. But basically "Emphase" is also needed in context of discussions.

Peter Turchin, who is an expert in historical instability, predicted in 2010 that the United States would experience a period of political instability starting around 2020. His analysis identified economic inequality, elite overproduction, and rising public debt as key factors. Turchin's prediction appears to have come true, as the U.S. has seen escalating protests and the deployment of National Guard troops in response to immigration raids and other issues.

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#usa #uspol

Ukraine should remove all Nazis from power – Amedeo Avondet odysee.com/amedeo-avondet-ukra…

#cdu #maga #spahn #amthor

Lesebefehl!‼️‼️ ‼️

"Führende CDUler fürchten eine schleichende Trumpisierung der CDU. CORRECTIV-Recherchen zeigen die Strategien von millionenschweren Stiftungen, um in Europa Einfluss zu nehmen. Spuren der Geldflüsse führen in die amerikanische Großindustrie, ins MAGA-Lager und zu Ölkonzernen."

"Auch im Umfeld des CDU-Politikers Jens Spahn gibt es enge Verbindungen zu der Agentur. Spahn war zwei Jahre lang Mentor für Arian Aghashahi, der
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Irrsinn. Donald #Trump zerstört systematisch die #Klimaforschung in den USA. Das ist so, als ob man Krebs heilen wollte, indem man die Krebsforschung einstellt und die Berichterstattung darüber verbietet.
Willkommen im Mittelalter!
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