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The Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, along with the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic, held referendums in September 2022 in which they voted to join Russia.
[ Glass Almanac: IBM laid off 8,000 employees to replace them with AI—what they didn’t expect was having to rehire as many due to AI ] glassalmanac.com/ibm-laid-off-… This is what happens when management doesn't fully understand what its employees do, or the value they bring to their organization. #HR #Corporatocracy #IBM #AI #LayOffs
In 2023, IBM made headlines with the announcement of nearly 8,000 layoffs, primarily from support roles such as Human Resources. The goal? To replace these workers ... Continue Reading →
the article states that they saved $3.5 billion and were able to invest those savings into hiring people for more specialized roles that require human creativity and ingenuity. This is an article about how pivoting to genAI for certain tasks actually created more and better jobs for humans. I don't see this applying to many other companies who would rather use the savings to "reward" executives and investors.
The Israeli Civil Administration’s Supreme Planning Council approved a decision this week that threatens to escalate displacement policies in “Firing Zone 918” in the South Hebron Hills. Under the new ruling, a military commander’s notice alone can now dismiss any planning or legal proceedings that Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta seek to pursue.
This precedent-setting change aims to preemptively block residents’ attempts to defend their homes, lands, and schools in villages including Sfai, al-Majaz, Jinba, Tuba, Thuban, al-Halawa, al-Markaz, and al-Fakhit. Legal sources anticipate a wave of court dismissals in coming weeks, with demolitions expected soon, similar to recent violent demolition operations in Khalet a-Daba that erased the village entirely.
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In a new phase of Operation True Promise III on Saturday morning, Iranian armed forces fired a barrage of missiles and drones at the occupied territories.
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ADP TV. Guest: Thierry Meyssan, journalist, writer, lecturer, and founding president of the Voltaire Network. Theme: Iran Special. Update on the situation. Are we on the brink of a global conflagration?
Fish Wallenbergs with new potatoes, a traditional egg sauce (bechamel based) and new season cabbage slaw with lemon, olive oil & dill.
Our fishing upstrairs neighbour who brings us fish in exchance for sourdough bread brought us some pike and perch last week. Had some zander in the freezer and so these three kinds of lake fish cakes were born. Panko crusted gourgeousness.😋
kitter is in here curled up enjoying the AC. he has never really known any environment other than climate control so it's gona be tough for him after we move
Iran says IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi facilitated Israeli aggressions by preparing a “biased” report on its nuclear program. It demands IAEA end actions against Israel as per the NPT and UN principles.
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Nothing says 'native people' like fleeing the land you claim is yours, the moment it gets uncomfortable, with passports from where you’re actually from 🙄
These 'indigenous' Middle Easterners are returning home...
ULKOPUOLISET – yhteinen blokki tasa-arvon politiikalle Helsinki Pridessa! Kulkueesta suljettiin pois eduskunnan ulkopuoliset puolueet. Emme hyväksy tätä. Se rajaa queer-ihmisten ja muiden poliittista itseilmaisua. Siksi marssimme Ulkopuolisina. Kutsumme mukaan kaikki, joille ei pelkkä karnevaali riitä. Teidät, joille Pride on protesti, tilaa olla näkyvästi queer, köyhä, vammainen, paperiton, työtön, radikaali. #Ulkopuoliset #Pride2025 #HelsinkiPride2025 TYKKÄÄ JA JAA! facebook.com/events/s/ulkopuol…
Selon les chercheurs de Qualys, l’exploitation fonctionne sur toutes les versions non patchées, donc si vous n’avez pas fait de mise à jour de sécurité depuis le 17 juin 2025, vous êtes vulnérables.
Le plus chiant dans cette affaire, c’est pas tant la faille en elle-même (on en découvre tous les jours), mais c’est surtout sa simplicité de mise en exploitation. Linux est quand même un système ultra-sécurisé où chaque privilège est accordé au compte-gouttes, et là, pouf, 2 services par défaut suffisent pour transformer n’importe qui en administrateur système.
Who started the sexual blackmail ? Who owns the central banks ? Who owns the media? Who controls Congress ? Who controlled the office of the US president? Who controls the oil companies? Who controls Hollywood ? Who controls the music industry? Who controls the TV industry ? Who funded the slave trade and slave ships? Who funded and created all terrorist orgs? Who controls 3 letter agencies? Who started the feminism movement ? Who started gangster rap industry ? Who started Planned Parenthood? Who started the LGBTQ movement ? Who funded and created the color revolutions? Who funded all sides of every war since at least 1500’s? Who owns the educational institutions? Who owns the textbook industry?
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It's official, Valve put The Last of Us Part 1 through Deck Verified and gave it an Unsupported status on Steam Deck. Not really a good look for either Valve or Naughty Dog.
I am writing to you with utmost urgency and deep alarm regarding a brazen and unlawful act of aggression perpetrated by the Israeli regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Human-like object concept representations emerge naturally in multimodal large language models. Embeddings showed human-like semantic clustering and interpretable dimensions.
Strong alignment with neural patterns (e.g., fusiform face area, parahippocampal cortex) reveals that models share fundamental similarities that reflect key aspects of human conceptual knowledge.
I have a zero turn radius lawnmower. So today I cut the grass in spirals. Started in a section spun in place and worked my way out. It was fun but not very efficient. I had to go back and mow all the triangles between the spirals. My BIL came by to check on his garden. "You cut your lawn in circles?, he asked. I made my best bewildered look and asked "doesn't everybody?" He just shook his head and looked disgusted, like I had committed some terrible immorality. It amused me.
I do circles quite often as some years ago I plopped a large mound of soil in the yard for pumpkins or something.. I’ll work my way out from there and when I get to the edge of the woods I’ll start a new circle around the trampoline..
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Foreign ministers of Arab states have strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s recent strikes on Iran, calling them a dangerous violation of international law and a provocation that threatens to ignite a wider regional war.
in the past i've been skeptical about trump being involved in diddling kids, even though he was loosely associated with epstein, but his inexplicable flip on iran makes me think it's more likely that he's being blackmailed
it could also be explained by some combination of threats and extortion. or maybe he's just surrounded by neocon and mossad psyops agents and they have put all kinds of crazy ideas into his diet-coke-addled brain. something has changed.
We’ve been talking about Skrmetti all week. For better or worse, the name brings to my mind pasta. So in honor or the Supreme Court decision, I made Skrmetti Puttanesca.
Those who forget the pasta are doomed to repeat it, but I will be repeating it anyway. It’s tasty.
But I feel pretty certain that using God as a justification for a war of choice would fall into the “Thou shall not use the Lord’s name in vain” category.
My son (22) has just completed BSc "Cybercrime and IT Security" at SETU (Carlow). He doesn't have his final results yet but should get a decent honours grade.
Edit: He got a 2.1
He also has a bit of relevant work experience from a couple of placements.
He's in Ireland and would ideally like a post that's mainly WFH and full-time.
If anyone knows of any suitable vacancies or can suggest places he can punt his CV to, please let me know. Obviously he'll be exploring LinkedIn and the usual recruitment sites.
“Sirens continued to blare across Greater Tel Aviv as interception efforts were underway. Explosions were reportedly heard over #TelAviv, #Jerusalem, #Haifa, and parts of the coastal plain, according to multiple Israeli outlets”
TEHRAN, Jun. 20 (MNA) – Iran will not negotiate with no side until Israel regime stops attacks on Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister said after meeting with his counterparts from Germany, the United Kingdom, and France.
“Gentlemen, I stand before you simply to ask that you wash your hands, stained with our blood and the blood of our children, before claiming the right to judge us. Whoever tramples on the blood of 25,000 martyrs, killed during the imperialist-Zionist invasion of Lebanon in 1982, is nothing less than a direct accomplice of Reagan and Begin in their war to annihilate our people. Twenty-five thousand martyrs in three months, all for your so-called peace. Forty-five thousand wounded, all for your idea of justice. For ninety days, Beirut became a testing ground for U.S.-Israeli weapons. And yet, in your eyes, Reagan’s administration is the victim and the plaintiff. None of this is surprising, except, perhaps, to those still deluded enough to believe there’s a difference between imperial France and its notion of justice.”
— Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Paris, February 23, 1987
In Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault begins with the 1757 execution of Robert-François Damiens as a starting point for tracing the transformation of punishment from public physical torture to disciplinary surveillance. Damiens’ body was torn apart with red-hot pincers, his wounds filled with molten lead and sulfur before he was dismembered and burned. This was not merely a criminal punishment; it was a political ritual meant to reaffirm the king’s authority by instilling terror in the collective body.
Yet Foucault overlooks the colonial dimension of these disciplinary systems. While France transitioned to “reforming” modern prisons at home, it deployed the same techniques with even greater brutality in its colonies. In the detention centers of Algeria and Guiana, and the prisons of Vietnam, Syria, and Lebanon. The case of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah most starkly reveals this continuity, where the colonized body becomes a site of disciplinary and racial experimentation.
On June 19, 2025, the French Court of Appeals is scheduled to review the release request of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been held hostage in French prisons for 41 years without a fair trial or legal justification. Abdallah has been imprisoned since October 1984, despite a court ruling granting his release. His struggle has now stretched across four decades. From a public school teacher in the northern Lebanese village of Akroum, he became a global symbol of struggle. His journey began during the 1978 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, where he was wounded in battle. He soon after joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Lebanese Communist Party. Driven by PFLP’s slogan “Behind the enemy everywhere,” he chose to take the struggle into the heart of the empire backing the Zionist entity.
To fully understand Georges Abdallah’s case as the longest-held political prisoner in Europe, one must go beyond his 1984 arrest. Defined by his legendary resilience in the face of imperialist violence in its most brutal forms inside prisons, Abdallah’s defiance also manifests through his unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. Over the years, he has launched several hunger strikes in support of their collective actions: in February 2012, August 2016, April 2017, and most recently, October 2022. He has also sent numerous solidarity letters, most notably to Ahmad Saadat, Secretary-General of the PFLP, and to the martyred commander Walid Daqqa, whose death struck Abdallah deeply, despite the geographic distance and the absence of any organized prisoner movement inside Lannemezan Prison in southwest France.
In his letters, Georges Abdallah addresses a wide range of grassroots and protest movements, feeding them with intellectual and moral support. During the Arab uprisings, he voiced solidarity with protesters across the region, most notably in a message to the Lebanese people during the October 2019 revolution. To him, the uprising was a revolt against impoverishment and corruption, a rejection of the banking system’s dictates and the IMF’s prescriptions, and a stand against the violence of imperialist economic policies. During the ongoing al-Aqsa Flood battle, Abdallah issued multiple messages to the people of Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. To follow his case as a symbol of political steadfastness now requires a timeline, not for simplification, but to begin to grasp the depth and continuity of his journey.
Following in the footsteps of Wadie Haddad
Wadie Haddad, the historical leader of external operations in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), can be seen as the foundational figure behind the theoretical and practical framework that Georges Abdallah would later adopt. In 1968, Haddad established the External Operations branch, known for its high-profile international operations; the creation of the Revolution Airport in Jordan; drawing in revolutionaries from global movements, among them, the Japanese Red Army, Nicaraguan fighter Patrick Arguello, and Venezuelan militant Carlos.
At the core of Haddad’s doctrine was a rejection of transforming the Palestinian armed revolution into conventional urban warfare, as happened in Amman. Instead, he favored the establishment of training centers in Yemen and Iraq and emphasized the importance of international operations. The defeat of this doctrine was not solely due to Zionist attacks and assassinations, but also due to internal Palestinian rifts and the failure to further develop the model. It was instead replaced with an exclusive focus on guerrilla warfare tactics and the formation of urban militias.
This article cannot fully explore the complexities of revolutionary combat theory, but the brutal assaults on guerrilla bases in Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank, and the geopolitical constraints during al-Aqsa Flood, highlight the cost of abandoning transnational revolutionary movements capable of striking imperial powers in their own capitals. Throughout the current war, even as the US, UK, and Germany have launched direct military operations against resistance forces in Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen, resistance beyond the region has remained sporadic and individual, such as the operation carried out by Elias Rodríguez in May.
Regarding the continued imprisonment of Georges Abdallah as a political prisoner, journalist Ghassan Charbel notes in Secrets of the Black Box that no definitive link has ever been established between Abdallah and the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Factions, which he was accused of leading as part of the External Operations unit. Charbel emphasizes that, despite the chaos of the Lebanese Civil War and the complexities of the European environment in which the group operated, it remained notably resistant to infiltration.
Anis al-Naqqash adds that his own case was grouped with Abdallah’s, even though no concrete connection existed between the two. He recalls meeting Georges Abdallah during their shared time at Moulin Prison in France, where they engaged in extensive political and ideological discussions about Lebanon and the resistance movement. Al-Naqqash insists that Abdallah’s life sentence was deeply unjust, not only because the assassinations he was accused of were never conclusively linked to him, but also because a prior agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Algeria with France to cease operations by the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Factions had already been reached before Abdallah’s arrest. This strongly suggests that the ongoing imprisonment is less about legal grounds and more a result of political pressure and a punitive response to his unwavering ideological convictions.
“Knowing that you’ve gathered today, just beyond the barbed wire and watchtowers, only meters from my cell, fills me with strength and warms my heart.”
— Georges Abdallah, October 2024
The case of Lebanese prisoner Georges Ibrahim Abdallah stands as an extension of France’s colonial legacy, where punishment is weaponized as a tool of domination. Refusing to release him while turning his 41-year imprisonment into a slow execution embodies the shift from public bodily torture to contemporary methods of annihilation. Through the use of time, imprisonment becomes a systematic dismantling of the human self, depriving both body and consciousness of freedom.
France’s refusal to implement the 2013 release order issued by its own Court of Cassation under US and Israeli pressure—reveals how colonial hegemony operates as a panoptic system, reproducing control and violence under the guise of legality. Through legal and media discourse, labeling the prisoner a “terrorist” strips him of rights and personhood, echoing the very logic of colonial domination.
Seul le Guyana, un pays sud-américain d’environ 800.000 habitants, est capable de fournir entièrement à sa population les sept catégories d’aliments essentiels sans recourir aux importations. Immédiatement après, la Chine et le Vietnam se classent au deuxième rang, ces deux nations pouvant s’approvisionner de manière autonome pour six des sept catégories d’aliments essentiels mentionnées.
Alors que de nombreuses nations dépendent largement des importations alimentaires, le maintien d’une production intérieure conséquente confère au Vietnam un avantage crucial en matière de sécurité alimentaire face aux situations d’urgence.
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in reply to George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ • • •I don't see this applying to many other companies who would rather use the savings to "reward" executives and investors.