in reply to Sarah W

There's a lot of interesting detail in the book.
One that stands out is that SOCA - Serious Organised Crime Authority reported that the NPOIU (the spycops unit) "lacked any form of operational impact or outcome assessment....."
And "lack of any real measure of success or otherwise of the operation makes proportionality in its widest sense difficult to justify to the public"
#spycops
#katewilson
#ukpolitics
in reply to Sarah W

This is an issue close to me but there were revelations that still surprised me. Notably the constant communication between the spycop and his handler, who was never far away. There's no way they really believed the UCO was in any danger. There were calls several times a day with the minutiae of people's daily lives being recorded.
Also the level of intrusive personal reporting, a family trip to IKEA and attending an activist's father's funeral.
#spycops
#katewilson
#ACAB
#ukpolitics

Ahir vam estar a la inauguració de la Biennal de Gaza que va nàixer d'un grup d'artistes gazatís, que enmig del genocidi, van proposar que les seues obres pogueren viatjar arreu del món.

"Esta exposició convida a observar amb atenció, no només l'art sinó també allò que subjau: vides interrompudes i refetes, veus que persisteixen . Ens convida a veure Gaza no com una abstracció de la guerra, sinó com a lloc de gent, cultura i imaginació. En fer-ho, afirma el poder perdurable de l'art per travessar fronteres, transmetre memòria i connectar-nos a la nostra humanitat compartida"

L'art ací no decora, denúncia; no escapa, confronta.
En cada traç i en cada imatge, Gaza resistix.

La Biennal de Gaza es presenta a The Grapa Gallery, una galeria d'art de denúncia i de caràcter polític en el mateix cor del barri de Russafa a València.

Moltes gràcies a les comissaries Salma Alhakim @salma.h.o.b. i Veronica @Theactivistcurator, per esta proposta tan commovedora i necessària.

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China Evacuates Nationals from Occupied Territories tn.ai/3338844

« La #dissolution fait partie du répertoire de l’ #autoritarisme » - Basta!

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> Bruno #Retailleau a annoncé vouloir dissoudre Urgence Palestine et le mouvement #antifasciste Jeune garde. Alors que le nombre de dissolutions n'a jamais été aussi élevé, le #sociologue Pierre Douillard-Lefèvre retrace l'histoire de cette procédure.

in reply to monarchist

@monarchist Populism in America can't be mono-ethnic — because America never was. The Irish, Italians, Poles, Jews, and Slavs weren’t “white” until recently. And today, to be American is just as likely to mean Black, Vietnamese, Persian, or Mexican as anything else. “Diversity” isn’t the cause of our low self-esteem — pretending we were ever homogeneous is. That’s European thinking, not American reality.
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@monarchist
I grew up in Hawaii in the ‘70s and ‘80s where everyone was proud to be a mix — Japanese-Chinese-Filipino-Hawaiian, etc. It wasn’t rude to ask what someone “was.” Kids would rattle off their blend. So I did too: Irish, English, German, Czech, Hungarian. Every piece came with its own story. That’s what I grew up seeing as normal — not a flaw to fix, but something to carry.
in reply to monarchist

@monarchist before you "Jew!" me, I'm not even Jewish — just the usual American mix: Irish, Czech, German, Hungarian, maybe some Slavic thrown in. But to the mono-ethnic crowd, that's already too much. These purity spirals always eat their own. You think you're in the club until someone decides your nose is too wide or your name ends in a vowel. America isn’t great despite its mix — it’s great because of it.
in reply to monarchist

@monarchist
No it's only from from Mastodon trauma where anytime I go ahead and say America's not an ethno State and that I don't believe it is 100% innately white even though it might be like white by proportion I don't believe it's white self-identified and then when I say anything like that someone always comes in here and slurs me and puts those curly brackets and then Jew or curly brackets and Abraham and I was just preemptive It's not you it's me!
in reply to monarchist

@monarchist I think the moment that "ebonics" movement hit America, there was a lack of interest (I blame the commies) in assimilation and so forth... it was Pride this Pride that Pride the other.

Zero Hawaiians gave any fucks about Hawaiiana the entire time I lived there... middle aged and old white ladies kept the flame.

I think it was an intentional "reintroduction of the native Mastodon into the wild" kind of racial and sexual and gender bullshit that happened in Marxist Uni philosophy.

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@Java @monarchist My naive 2 cents:

An ethnostate is a country where citizenship, culture, and identity are closely tied to a shared ethnicity—like Japan, which has a largely homogeneous population and strong cultural continuity. A nation-state, like the U.S., is built around shared civic ideals, not shared ancestry—uniting many ethnicities under one national identity based on laws, values, and institutions rather than bloodline.

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#Agriculture | Depuis 1980, le modèle productif français s’est transformé. Cela se traduit notamment par un hausse du recours au capital.
👉 insee.fr/fr/statistiques/85916…
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#Agriculture | Depuis 1980, l’emploi agricole, en équivalent temps plein (ETP) a chuté de près de 1,3 million d’ETP, soit une baisse de 63,8 %.
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TRUMP SHOULD WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

Barack Obama authorized between 373 and 542 drone strikes, mostly in Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, those strikes killed between 2,514 and 4,023 people — including up to 969 civilians.

Apparently, killing a thousand Muslims at weddings or family gatherings in their own countries is enough to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

By that standard, Trump has more than earned it. He authorized the killing of at least 20 times that number in Gaza alone.

And he should share the prize with Joe Biden and Egypt’s General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

(Collected)

#Iran #Israel #Trump #War #Gaza #UN #USA #Hyprocrites #Europe #FreePalestine #SaveGaza #Genocide #Uk #EU #West #Palestine #USPol #Zionism #nobelprize

#CraigMurray | War With Iran

"It is worth noting – and a prime example of how the neoliberal world works – that the [previous] head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, is now an executive of British Petroleum. That company controlled Iran for decades."

"[A] new Head of MI6 was chosen and installed ... The appointment was made by David Lammy. Blaise Metreweli ... who spent much of her career in the Middle East – is a fanatical Zionist."

"The notion that the UK may go to war on the basis of a Treaty of Alliance that is secret from the British people, is so morally abhorrent it ought not to be able to be mooted, let alone acted upon. But democracy is dead in the UK, to the extent that people have forgotten its meaning."

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#BlaiseMetreweli #Lammy #Iran #TheIsrael #MI6

Oops.

The Czech data reveals the truth about the COVID vaccine. Is that why no epidemiologist or infectious disease expert will touch it?
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It’s Not a Broken System: From Food to Development, It’s a Masterpiece of Control off-guardian.org/2025/06/20/it…

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Urgent IADL statement condemning illegal Israeli aggression against Iran, warning against further U.S. escalation iadllaw.org/2025/06/urgent-iad…

Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA

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

IADL Statement on the “Urgent Request for Interim Release” of Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte iadllaw.org/2025/06/iadl-state…

European ministers to hold talks with Iran in Geneva as conflict with Israel continues
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The END of DISTRO HOPPING? All Linux distros in one single system with VanillaOS


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It's one of the very few Ubuntu based distributions that is immutable, and atomic.
Apart from that, VanillaOS uses GNOME, the most Vanilla GNOME they could ship on Ubuntu, and if you're looking for all the apps, you have access to containers that run other distros at native speeds, and give you access to all their packages.

The installer is something I had never seen before, it looks super good, just like a GNOME app, and will take you through the basic steps, and it even has a nice legible GUI to set up your disk layout.

After installing and rebooting, you're right into your user session, and you can pick between dark and light mode, if you want to enable support for Flatpak and AppImages, you also get to pick the apps you want to install: you have 3 sets of apps, the core ones, Office apps, and common utilities.

After that, you get the GNOME 43 desktop, which doesn't have any customization or extension.

Now the main point of VanillaOS is to offer the ability to run multiple distros on just one system, with distro containers, using Distrobox. And to manage that, you have the VanillaOS control center.

You can add an Arch subsystem to get access to the AUR, a Fedora subsystem with DNF as the package manager, you get an OpenSUSE container, plus a VOid Linux one, and one for Alpine. Or you can create your own with any other distro you want.

APX is VanillaOS all in one package manager. It lets you install applications for any source that you have access to, including all your distro containers.

The syntax is pretty easy: you just type apx install, followed by the package manager that will perform the actual install, and the package name.

For example, if I wanted to install davinci Resolve from the AUR, I could type:

apx install --aur davinci-resolve

And APX will automatically start my Arch container, and use the arch package manager to install Davinci Resolve from the AUR.

And on top of that, apps installed this way will still show up in your GNOME overview and app grid, just like if they were installed on the base system itself.

And, if you absolutely need to install something to the base system, you can, there's a preinstalled tool called ABRoot, that lets you execute a command, like running apt, since the system is Ubuntu based.

Now for updates, Vanilla OS is not a rolling release, it has fixed releases that follow the Ubuntu release convention.

Flatpaks you installed through GNOME software or the command line will be updated through the same methods. System updates are handled by VSO, for Vanilla System Operator.

This does mean you'll need more disk space: at least 50 gigs to install the system, and the root partition you don't use. Containers and applications installed in them can be updated by running apx update in a terminal.

But there are issues: as I mentioned, if you need more software from multiple sources, then you need multiple containers. This takes up a lot of space. And if your container dies, so do all your installed applications, and related user data.

The second problem is the disk space usage of the main system: sure having 2 root partitions is great for stability, but it also consumes a LOT of disk space you'll never use.

I also noticed that apps installed from containers sometimes don't show up in the GNOME app grid, and you have to run an APX command to actually add them.

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Israel keeps ignoring International Law though

According to Antonio Cassese (1937-2011)
Preventive pre-emptive strikes

1) you must be able to provide the United nations with solid proof (of Iran’s intent to use a nuclear weapon)

2) your pre-emptive attack must be aimed solely at ‘dangerous targets’ not the Iranian government or its administration system

3)when you realize later that you were wrong to have attacked Iran, you must agree to be tried in an international court

If the pre-emptive strike did not meet those three conditions ,
“that’s an act of aggression “.

#Israel
#Internationallaw

@israel

@iran

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Wartime Cafe with Laith Marouf EP 30: Ali Jezzini “5th night of Iran's Truthful Promise” #Palestine freepalestinetv.substack.com/p…

Maybe, just maybe, western leaders are not the spineless creatures they seem to be. Maybe they're just afraid that there are mossad agents in their towns, ready to launch drones to assassinate them and their families if they don't follow Netanyahu's dictates. The last two years taught us that Israel was a nation of blood-thirsty assassins who operate with little to no moral or ethical constraints.

Unlikely, but less depressing than believing that we're ruled by monsters in suits and ties.

Of course it was 🙄

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Chatgptnederlands.gratis – De Beste Gratis Toegang tot ChatGPT in het Nederlands


Wat is Chatgptnederlands.gratis?
Chatgptnederlands.gratis is een online platform dat gratis toegang biedt tot ChatGPT, volledig in het Nederlands. Gebruikers kunnen zonder registratie of kosten gebruikmaken van de kracht van kunstmatige intelligentie. Of je nu teksten wilt genereren, informatie zoekt of hulp nodig hebt bij je werk of studie, deze tool biedt directe ondersteuning in je eigen taal.

Waarom kiezen voor Chatgptnederlands.gratis?
Het gebruik van Chatgptnederlands.gratis biedt diverse voordelen voor Nederlandstalige gebruikers:

Volledig gratis
Er zijn geen abonnementen of verborgen kosten. Iedereen kan het platform vrij gebruiken, ongeacht ervaring of doel.

Nederlandstalige ondersteuning
De chatbot begrijpt en verwerkt Nederlandse vragen en opdrachten nauwkeurig, wat het toegankelijk maakt voor zowel jong als oud.

Geen installatie nodig
Je hebt geen app of software nodig. Alles werkt rechtstreeks via je browser.

Wat kun je doen met Chatgptnederlands.gratis?
Met Chatgptnederlands.gratis kun je onder andere:

Teksten schrijven, herschrijven of verbeteren

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Deze tool is ideaal voor:

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Iedereen die slim en snel met AI wil werken in het Nederlands

Hoe werkt het?
Het gebruik van Chatgptnederlands.gratis is eenvoudig:

Bezoek de website

Typ je vraag of opdracht in het tekstveld

Klik op verzenden en ontvang direct een antwoord

Pas het resultaat aan of stel vervolgvraag

Veiligheid en privacy
Chatgptnederlands.gratis vereist geen persoonlijke gegevens en maakt geen gebruik van gebruikersaccounts. Je werkt anoniem, zolang je geen gevoelige informatie deelt in je berichten.

Conclusie
Chatgptnederlands.gratis is dé oplossing voor iedereen die de kracht van AI wil benutten in het Nederlands, zonder te betalen of in te loggen. Het is snel, eenvoudig en nuttig voor uiteenlopende toepassingen – van studie tot zakelijk gebruik. Probeer het vandaag nog en ontdek hoe toegankelijk en effectief kunstmatige intelligentie kan zijn.

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