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For all those people who welcomed Threads to the fediverse, Meta is now literally the US military. Not just subcontractors.
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Big tech executives have been sworn in as high ranking officers in the US Army. Normally it takes around 2 decades of sacrifice to achieve such a high rank. ...YouTube
You must be mistaken, Meta are partners with Mastodon at the Social Web Foundation. Are you saying Mastodon would partner with such a horrible corporation? Or that the illustrious Social Web Foundation would allow them in if they were as bad as you say?
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La Cour des comptes vient d’annoncer ce lundi, dans « une première estimation », le coût pour l’argent public des JO de Paris 2024Gilles Varela (20 Minutes)
SANAA, June 22 (YPA) - The Sanaa-based government strongly condemned on Sunday the blatant and barbaric US aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.In a statement, the government considered the US strikes a blatant declaration of war against tاحسن (Yemen Press Agency)
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MAID: A National Scandal Unfolding Before Our Eyes Let’s cut to the chase: MAID isn’t the compassionate choice it’s sold as—it’s a runaway train of death, and it’s already claimed over 60,301 CanadianRumble
Henry Farrell
"In a world where the U.S. does not value commitment, few others will truly bargain with it, although they may go through the motions of pretending to. What is the point of making deals with a country that may renege unexpectedly on the president’s momentary whim" #auspol
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They're starting to finally say it out loud
Jerome Powell quietly warned there'd be places in the US where you ‘can’t get a mortgage’ — and he’s not wrong
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U.S. wildlife officials plan to kill nearly half a million “invasive” American owls over three decades, new documents confirm. Experts say the #cull is #needed to help protect two #native owl #species, which have been put under #threat from the #invaders. However, animal rights activists have condemned the plan as #cruel and unnecessary.Barred owls (Strix varia) are large owls native to eastern #NorthAmerica. In the early 20th century, these owls started moving west of the Mississippi River following “human-induced changes” to the Great Plains and northern boreal forest, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). As a result, the owls have gained a stronghold in #Washington, #Oregon and #California, where they are considered an invasive species.
The arrival of barred owls in the Northwest has adversely affected two native owl species — northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) and California spotted owls (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) — which are both much smaller than the #invaders and are being outcompeted for food and territory. Both native species have also been impacted by extreme logging activity over the last few decades, which has majorly reduced their range, according to California’s Santa Clara University.
Barred owls have also started mating with the spotted owls, creating hybrids that have the potential to reduce the gene pool of the spotted owl species.
The northern spotted owl population has declined severely over the past few decades, and the species is now outnumbered by barred owls across most of its range.
This, of course, is truly reprehensible. The barred owls aren’t even #foreigners! They’re just as #American as the northern spotted owl or the California spotted owl, and all they’re doing is chasing the American dream to make a better life for their children!
This Great Owl Replacement theory is just racism and spotted owl #supremacism. Any decent owl would reject it; no owl-refugee is “illegal” or “invasive”. And if the spotted owls are mating with the barred owls, obviously they are welcoming the #refugees.
Who cares about the gene pool of the spotted owl species? That’s just #eugenics and #Nazi #pseudoscience, right? All owls are the same under their feathers, and obviously there is no place for “pure gene pools” or Spotted Owl #supremacy in Owl #Democracy!
A Spotted Owl #supremacist seen protesting “the Great Owl Replacement.”
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a final proposal to kill around 450,000 invasive barred owls in the Northwest, in an attempt to save two native species.Harry Baker (Live Science)
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The world is up in arms and maybe even ending! What is going on. I’m frightened!First Dog on the Moon (The Guardian)
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Read The Argyle Sweater—a comic strip by creator Scott Hilburn—for today, June 23, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!www.gocomics.com
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The U.S. administration is aware of Belarus’ place and role in the region, Belarus’ UN Ambassador Valentin Rybakov told the media.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
# Download clipboard to tmp with yt-dlp
tmpv() {
cd /tmp/ && yt-dlp "$(wl-paste)"
}
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With how many new Linux users we get recently, I don't like this joke at all without a disclaimer. Yes yes, its your own fault if you execute commands without knowing what it does. But that should not punish someone by deleting every important personal file on the system.
In case any reader don't know, rm
is a command to delete files and with the option rm -r
everything recursively will be searched and deleted on the filesystem. Option -f
(here bundled together as -rf
) will never prompt for any non existing file. The /
here means start from the root directory of you system, which in combination with the recursive option will search down everything, home folder included, and find every file. Normally this is protected todo, but the extra option --no-preserve-root
makes sure this command is run with the root /
path.
Haha I know its funny. Until someone loses data. Jokes like these are harmful in my opinion.
\#Create predefined session with multiple tabs/panes (rss, bluetooth, docker...)
tmux-start
\#Create predefined tmux session with ncmpcpp and ueberzug cover
music
\#Comfort
ls = "ls --color=auto"
please = "sudo !!"
\#Quick weather check
weatherH='curl -s "wttr.in/HomeCity?2QF"'
\#Download Youtube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in playlist -> lectures, etc
ytPlaylist='yt-dlp -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"'
\#Download whole album -> podcasts primarily
ytAlbum='yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --split-chapters --embed-thumbnail -o "chapter:%(section_title)s.%(ext)s"'
# download video -> extract audio -> show notification
ytm()
{
tsp yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --no-playlist -P "~/Music/downloaded" $1 \
--exec "dunstify -i folder-download -t 3000 -r 2598 -u normal %(filepath)q"
}
# Provide list of optional packages which can be manually selected
pacmanOpts()
{
typeset -a os
for o in `expac -S '%o\n' $1`
do
read -p "Install ${o}? " r
[[ ${r,,} =~ ^y(|e|es)$ ]] && os+=( $o )
done
sudo pacman -S $1 ${os[@]}
}
# fkill - kill process
fkill() {
pid=$(ps -ef | sed 1d | fzf -m --ansi --color fg:-1,bg:-1,hl:46,fg+:40,bg+:233,hl+:46 --color prompt:166,border:46 --height 40% --border=sharp --prompt="➤ " --pointer="➤ " --marker="➤ " | awk '{print $2}')
if [ "x$pid" != "x" ]
then
kill -${1:-9} $pid
fi
}
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Check out who bans spinster
This war may lead to regime change, but more likely in Israel than in #Iran
Chas Freeman
retired US diplomat
The Baltic region has convinced itself that it will be the first target if a war breaks out on Europe’s eastern flank. Join us on…Strategic Culture Foundation
"This default position is so naked in its hypocrisy, so ignorant and parochial in its worldview, so clear in its disregard for human life, that it represents a colossal erosion of sophistication in political discourse, and a new low in contempt for the public. Support for Israel can only be defended by facile, logic-defying references to its right to defend itself even when it is the aggressor, and Iran’s “threat to the free world”."
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The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine MalikNesrine Malik (The Guardian)
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Government is violence...
"Because your fight has not been with flesh and blood, but with Principalities and The Rulers and The Powers of this dark world and with wicked spirits which are under Heaven." Ephesians 6:12
Huxley predicted today's world with uncanny accuracy...THINK WHILE YOU STILL CAN...
And breath...do not fear...it is all just scripted drama, designed to instill fear...and fear is how they rule over you.
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At least 202 Palestinians were killed and 1,037 others were injured in the Gaza Strip over the last 48 hours as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocide in the region, according to medical sources.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
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Expectations for a restrained foreign policy by a Trump administration were naïve. We now have strong evidence.Antiwar.com
with their censorship of free speech
and moslem stabbings and rapes of whites
great plan
Ironically, Iran is a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Israel shuns. As shown by The Fall of Israel (2025), the US/Israeli path to the carnage across the Middle East was paved almost 60 years ago.Antiwar.com
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Twenty years ago, one day in June 2005, I talked with an Iranian man who was selling underwear at the Tehran Grand Bazaar. People all over the world want peace, he said, but governments won’t let them have it.Antiwar.com
I guess everybody wants everybody else genocided these days
it's go-to solution for all problems
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. U.S. messaging to Iran, courtesy of President Trump, is quite simple: We slugged you (with our bombing attacks on three nuclear sites in your country), and if you don’t like it, we’ll slug yo…Antiwar.com Blog
By Dae-Han Song | June 17, 2025Dae-Han Song (Korea Policy Institute)
While global diplomats were still exchanging draft terms to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran, the United States launched airstrikes on Iranian nuclear infrastructure.Antiwar.com Blog
#Esther #Bockwyt & #Raphael #Bonelli
RPP Institut
#Wokismus = #Religion
#Woke #Wokeness = #NAZI #NoNazi #Gender #Gendern #Linke
*Wokismus, Tabus und das Ende der Vernunft*In diesem Gespräch analysieren Esther Bockwyt und Raphael Bonelli die psychologischen Hintergründe des Wokismus: D...YouTube
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Slowly but surely everyone is now exposing the ridiculous lies of the orange clown's "successful mission".
How hard it is to understand that being a lying clown is far worse than being just a clown.
#WashingtonPost | In the two days before #US strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, satellite images revealed "unusual truck and vehicle activity" at #Iran's #Fordow enrichment facility, according to a senior Maxar analyst.
Rutgers University
Eine Studie ließ Studenten vermeintlich „antirassistische“ Aufsätze lesen – danach sahen die Probanden Rassismus, wo nach objektiven Kriterien keiner war. Die Studie soll so aufzeigen, dass Diversitätsprogramme vor allem mehr Vorurteile verursachen.
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#Woke #narrative #diversity #monomyth #hero #journey #hollywood #movie #storytelling #influence #imagination #hope #coping
#Wokismus = #Religion
#Woke #Wokeness = #NAZI #NoNazi #Gender #Gendern #Linke
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Wir sind jetzt in #Israel bei einer neuen Deutung des 7.10.2023 angekommen:
7.10.23? Der hat Israel gerettet, sonst hätten wir den Iran nicht bombardieren können.
So ein Vertrauter von Netanyahu heute.
»💥Aryeh Dery, ostensibly a man of faith and one of the people closest to Netanyahu, just said "The massacre of October 7th saved the people of Israel." 1200 citizens killed. Almost 1000 soldiers killed. Some 50,000 Gazans killed. 50 hostages still held.«
(Noga Tarnopolsky)
By Arnold August and Luis Toledo Sande Despite the US blockade, Cuba, like many other countries worldwide, has a high level of mobile telephone users. In a population of nearly 11 million (this pop…Network in Defense of Humanity-Cuba
#Gaza changed us - now let's change the world
by Yasmeen Daher, University of Potsdam
But Gaza has changed us, and I found myself in a frenzy of uninterrupted speaking since the genocide began. In November 2023, I found myself mentioning my father for the very first time in a political writing.
Perhaps because, after a month of carpet bombing in Gaza, I finally admitted what I had refused to admit until then—that we might be living (in the Palestinian lexicon, “reliving”)
a horrendous moment, worse
than the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba in 1948, that my father lived.
This, in addition to the fact that when we are invited to speak, we often need special permission to narrate, to use Edward Said’s words.
(Said 1984). And when such permission is granted, after we have paid a tormenting and excruciating price- through considerable destruction both in actual and potential lives—the permission is limited to what is
acceptable, in tone, and does not upset the audience.
These directions vary according to context, geography, and language. I have often felt the need to perform a certain identity of Palestinianism, for better or for worse, which I was not always successful in inhabiting
through my political practice.
Following the judicial-political notion of “the right to have rights,”
which Hannah Arendt offers us, I want to offer an understanding of the German hegemonic public discourse around Palestine
Historian DESTROYS #NATO War Lies About #Yugoslavia
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You can’t understand the Ukraine War unless you understand the neocon poster-child which was the Yugoslav Wars. The way the US-NATO establishment managed not...YouTube
London (Quds News Network)- Israel’s continued prevention of international journalists from entering Gaza appears to be motivated less by concerns for their safety and more by a desire to avoid properEditing Team (Quds News Network)
actually rather meaningless
"rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge" silly pipedream
When Emperor Hadrian visited Alexandria, the poet Pancrates presented him with a beautiful lotus flower. Awestruck by the magnificent rosy-red petals, Hadri...YouTube
A gender equality study shows that gender inequality is worsening financial hardship in deprived regionsKate Bermingham (Byline Times)
The government’s attempt to brand non-violent direct activists as “terrorists” has already backfired ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ This was the week when language in the UK temporarily gave up.anarchy (Freedom Press)
Iran’s president says Tehran’s decisive response to the Israeli regime’s acts of aggression forced US to “step in” and attack the peaceful nuclear sites.PressTV
Is there any legitimacy to hit whoever has (alleged) nuclear, putting at risk millions of people, animals and the nature as a whole?
Hands off Iran now.
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"For those of you who are “nuclear curious”, the attack on Iranian nuclear sites could have resulted in trace amounts of radioactive material getting kicked into the atmosphere. The Earth’s atmosphere is a river that flows across the globe, and other places will “see” those isotopes with sensitive enough instruments."
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#nuclear #imperialism #USa #uspol #ClimateCrisis #pollution #warcrimes #crimesagainsthumanity #usimperialism #deathtoamerica #Iran
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Wolfbrigade - HIDE AND SEEK
Conscious killing
World on hold
No reaction made
Worldpolice in control
Still they get to play their game
Hide and seek
Weapons of mass destruction
Create your terrorists
Bloodspill for oil
Their dirty dollars
Try to keep the truth untold
Still they get to play their game
Hide and seek
Weapons of mass destruction
Suck the earth dry then soak in with blood
Pass the blame on something else
Cover up what's corrupt
Still they get to play their game
Hide and seek
Weapons of mass destruction
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#warmongers #imperialism #music #crust #dbeat #Iran #FuckUSImperialism
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World leaders, including the EU and the UK, have called on Iran to engage in negotiations with the US and Israel.TheJournal.ie
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#geopolitics #imperialism #war
After Israel's genocide became untenable for even Israel's staunchest allies to support, the West needed a more “perfect villain” to keep backing Israel. And there was no better villain for an indoctrinated mind than Iran.
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After Israel’s genocide became untenable for even Israel’s staunchest allies to support, the West needed a more “perfect villain” to keep backing Israel. And there was no better villain for an indoctrinated mind than Iran.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
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Bonjour à tous. Ici le juge Andrew Napolitano pour Judging Freedom.Bienvenue dans cette édition spéciale du dimanche — nous sommes le vingt-deux juin deux mi...YouTube
Trump has announced a successful attack on the Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan facilities using B-2 bombers and submarine-launched missilesRT
Wow Linus Has Gotten Really Old.
Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time, have dinner — 'No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner'
It is quite a surprise that the kingpins behind Windows and Linux never met previously.
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A "sulfide-based solid-state battery that offers driving ranges of up to 3,000 kilometres and ultra-fast charging in just five minutes" has been patented by Huawei.
"The patent outlines a solid-state battery architecture with energy densities between 400 and 500 Wh/kg, potentially two to three times that of conventional lithium-ion cells. The filing also details a novel approach to improving electrochemical stability: doping sulfide electrolytes with nitrogen to address side reactions at the lithium interface, a long-standing obstacle to the commercialisation of sulfide-based batteries. Huawei's design aims to boost safety and cycle life by mitigating degradation at this critical junction."
"China's EV and tech sectors are aggressively exploring solid-state battery technologies to reduce reliance on established battery suppliers such as CATL and BYD."
"CATL aims to begin pilot production of a hybrid solid-state battery by 2027. Going High-Tech's 'Jinshi' battery -- featuring 350 Wh/kg energy density and 800 Wh/L volume density -- has entered small-scale production. At the same time, Beijing WeLion has begun manufacturing a 50 Ah all-solid-state cell with national certification."
Keep in mind, this is a patent. Nothing happens with most patents. They get filed, but the idea is never commercialized. Sometimes they get involved in patent lawsuits or threats of patent lawsuits. Or they just sit around as part of a corporations "war chest" that protects it against patent lawsuits.
Huawei's 3,000km solid-state battery patent with 5-minute charge ignites industry race
Huawei’s patent filing describes a sulfide-based solid-state battery targeting higher energy density and reduced charging timeAdrian Leung (CarNewsChina.com)
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Probably -- that would be the norm these days I guess.
Still nothing about this on electrek, though I do see three stories from back in Feb about, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, and Nissan announcing things about all-solid-state EV batteries. Dunno how those differ from hybrid solid-state batteries.
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#US officials admit they don't know the fate of #Iran's uranium reserves - #NYT
And yet that doesn't stop them from gloating over some shity hits on some rocks.
Iran had proactively moved enriched uranium and now has every reason to build nuclear weapons to defend itself against #US aggression.
With the support of the whole world.
Now US will never be able to add Iran to the pile of countries they have destroyed.
This is what the orange clown has achieved.
Cheers morons
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in reply to Katherine Bond • • •"Nonhuman animals (and maybe plants) are a lot more sentient than we like to give them credit for."
Definitely @John Hummel
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in reply to Katherine Bond • • •@John Hummel I wondered for a long time about the "hierarchy of intelligence" set by humans where put themselves at the top of the "intelligence hierarchy". They understand so little about how other animals and plants operate and from my own observation, the animals and plants always know way before humans when something is going to go down eg cyclones or when a particular fruit is fruiting 5,000 or more kms away. How do they know these things???
So I've inverting the pyramid (symbolically speaking) and putting the animals and plants at the top, there is so much we can learn from them.
Maybe, there is no hierarchy of intelligence, except within the human psyche?
Thanks for opening this wondering again...💚☮️🐸
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in reply to Katherine Bond • • •Comparative cognition (the study of the relative cognitive abilities of different species) is indeed deceptively tricky, @iam-elegance.
At the risk of over-simplifying, one lesson seems to be that whereas most animals are specialists who are extremely good at a relatively small number of things, humans are generalists who can learn to be fairly good at almost anything.
Another generalization, related to the previous one, is that most species change themselves over evolutionary time in order to adapt to the environment in which they find themselves. Humans, by contrast, change the environment in real-time (building homes, irrigation, farms, factories, etc.) in order to suit their needs.
@mc is also right that cetaceans (whales and dolphins) and corvids (crows, ravens, jays, and magpies) appear to have a kind and degree of general intelligence that is comparable to (and perhaps in some cases, superior to) human intelligence in many ways.
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in reply to Katherine Bond • • •John Hummel
in reply to Katherine Bond • • •"Animals don’t kill each other for fun." I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, @Katherine Bond, but at least in the case of cats (and I'll bet this principle extends to most animals) the instinct to hunt/kill is entirely separate from the instinct to eat. Basically, cats kill whenever they get the opportunity. And if they happen to be hungry (which, in the wild, they probably are most of the time), then they eat the kill. I don't know what they do with the kill if they don't happen to be hungry. Or maybe I do: My own cat has presented me with several dead mice; perhaps when they're not hungry, they share.
It's unclear whether "killing when the opportunity presents itself" is the same as "killing for fun", but even if they're not the same, it seems to me that they're cousins.
But this doesn't make cats or other predators psychopaths. (Although this behavior in a human would definitely make them a psychopath.) It probably just means that selection pressure favored predators who hunted even when they weren't hungry. After all, waiting until you're hungry before you hunt means you'll always be hunting on low blood sugar, which is not a good plan if you want to be a successful hunter.
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