WATCH: CN Live! — ‘US Bombs Iran. What Next?’ consortiumnews.com/2025/06/22/…

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."

(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

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"It's the Christians' fault!" Lol. What's funny about it is religion is not even needed to base an argument on. It's common sense. I never use it that way. It's automatically rejected without a 2nd thought. I know atheists who think the same as I do. It makes for great discussion and we lead by example.

Defense Secretary Hegseth hails U.S. strikes in Iran as 'overwhelming success'; VP Vance: Open to diplomacy haaretz.com/us-news/2025-06-22…

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#Israel
#TheScarsOfDavid

The level of evil and cruelty with Israel is boundless.

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"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."

-- Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker
Source: Attributed, not found in any of his writings, originally mistakenly appeared in Barlett's Familiar Quotations

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“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

~ Abba Eban
[Aubrey Solomon Meir] (1915-2002) Israeli diplomat and politician
Speech in London, 16 December 1970

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Osint as a fad has been completely coopted.
Osint as a function is still going strong on this side. It's just a fancy word for what /cow/boys were doing a decade ago, while /sg/, kiwifarmers and similar are doing nowadays.

Their online Ukraine psyop has been their most successful this far. They have been trying to copy GG and Trump2016 type of online organization for years and they were finally successful.
An irl friend of mine was completely mind broken by it.

Do you know when the mice abandon ship?

“If there’s nothing to hide, let the journalists in.”

Speaking on the BBC, British journalist Piers Morgan delivered a scathing critique of Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza and its refusal to grant access to international media.

He condemned the humanitarian crisis, accusing Israeli forces of starving a civilian population already devastated by war, and targeting people queuing for limited food aid.

#Gaza #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #PiersMorgan

Sankoré, the famous medieval mosque-university at Timbuktu (in present-day Mali), was set up around the 12th century and is proof that Africans have always pursued knowledge.
(I remember a senior professor who was quite shocked to discover that Timbuktu exists...)

folukeafrica.com/timbuktu-site…

I know I'm late to the party to be finishing @karenhao's Empire of AI Now. But now that I've finished the book, I can tell you that it is nothing short of a masterpiece. It needs to be required reading for everyone in the tech industry, or anyone who wants to be in the tech industry.

The book also articulates why I've had such an aversion to OpenAI since its inception in 2015, more so than any other tech company.

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7…

in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her).

I even said that there is a higher chance of me wanting to go back to Google, the company that fired me, than OpenAI. I've never been to fully articulate why I had such an aversion to them, but once you read Empire of AI, you'll understand.

Now, Anthropic is being sold as the benevolent alternative to OpenAI, just like OpenAI was sold as the benevolent alternative to Google back in 2015. Don't buy it.

Please read the book which is based on years of meticulous reporting by Karen.

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A lot of games are going to work without you having to do anything and some will need some tinkering. In that case, protondb.com/ will be your best friend, telling you exactly what you need to do to get things running.

That being said, some games simply can't be run under Linux. They might work in the future as compatibility improves but some won't. If it's an issue for you, you might want to dual boot windows as a workaround.

I’ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so it’s time for an update on how it’s all going.

No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.

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#tech #digitalsovereignty #email #socialmedia #streaming

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One of anthropology’s great cautionary tales involves the American anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead travelled to Samoa in the 1920s and described in her book Coming of Age in Samoa a society totally free of the Western world’s sexual taboos, to its great benefit. The book captivated Western audiences and seemed to suggest a happy alternative to our damaging complexes and hangups, a world of joyful love and sex without guilt and shame — until it was revealed, decades later, by Derek Freeman, that Mead’s informants had been systematically lying to her about their sexual lives because she was an outsider and a woman. The whole thing was a dream. Mead’s Samoa didn’t exist and never had.

Critics of liberalism and multiculturalism, especially critics of the postmodern variety, see them both as a kind of Western imperialism, whilst denying that they are such. These people are right. Presented as neutral political and interpretive frames that allow the world’s great multitude of peoples to live happily side by side and “be who they really are” in peace and harmony, liberalism and multiculturalism are nothing of the sort. They smuggle in values, not least of all a commitment to moral universalism, to individual over group, to law over custom, that are utterly partial in their origin and force, and to which the vast majority of people throughout history have not subscribed and probably couldn’t even if they wanted to.

The multicultural experiment forced on Britain and other Western nations by their ruling classes is not a genuine encounter with the Other. It’s a dangerous fantasy, a delusion of shared humanity that ends in disaster. We’ve been told these people are just like us, though they may wear a different skin colour and worship a different god — but they’re not. Just how different they are is a lesson our rulers still have yet to learn, if they even care to learn it at all, but one tens of thousands of young white girls will never be able to forget.

From someone who was blessed enough to see on television the #ColdWar, the #GulfWar, the invasion of #Iraq (with Saddam Hussein hanged in #Baghdad to mark a job well done, take note, #Khamenei), #911, the #Afghanistan campaign, more intifadas and Gaza wars than one could possibly remember, and all kinds of raghead dictators firing AK-47s in the air for the cheer of their loyal supporters, here's how all of this is going to play out unless #Iran backs down: the #USA is going to go in there, they're going to be kicking in doors in #Tehran by the time you can say mid-term elections, and for the next 25 years they'll be there trying to have free elections and make decent people out of religious fanatics who they end up calling the Iranian Police Force.

R&D Successes Onboard Biomass


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Radio eye on forest mission Biomass

For any space mission to launch, thousands of hours must have been spent iterating new technologies to make the spacecraft fly. The Biomass satellite, which today shared its first science data, is no exception. The probe, which carries just a single instrument on board, will perform a five-year census of all the trees on Earth to teach us more about how climate change and pests are affecting the world’s forests than we’ve ever learnt before.

#engineering #technology #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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U.S. enters war on Iran, strikes nuclear facilities #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/06/u-s-ent…

"Senior officers in London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have accepted invitations to address an Israeli think tank linked to its government and intelligence service, Mossad..

A number of high-ranking MPS officers have also accepted gifts or hospitality from the Israeli embassy in London, despite MPS guidance stating that such offers be refused"

#Israel #MPS #MetPol #Palestine

Met Police linked to Israel as it gears up for pro-Palestine protests
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While the world’s got its eyes on the war between Israel, the US, and Iran, the Zionist death machine keeps grinding on in Gaza. Our friend Hamza just dropped a gut-wrenching piece showing the brutal desperation of Palestinians trying to grab aid while dodging bullets. Reposting the video from @dropsitenews so y’all can see what that nightmare actually looks like.

#Gaza #FreePalestine #GenocideInGaza #ZionismIsTerrorism #PalestinianLivesMatter #CeasefireNow #EndTheOccupation #Solidarity #DropsiteNews #Hamza

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Portland, OR, everyone. This is DHS not only starting the violence but escalating it. This is what Trump and his thugs want, the entire west coast up in flames, and they, and they alone, are inciting it. It's why they have nearly 30 tanks now stashed at the Port of LA.

Trump's trade deal with China is a rollback to the pre-trade war status quo, but with Americans paying a higher tariff rate.

Trump's tariffs will cause more economic pain to the US than China, with the World Bank projecting US growth to slow significantly. China, as the world's largest goods exporter and leader in processing critical materials, has leverage in the global economy and can respond to US restrictions with its own.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…

#usa #china #economics #tradewar

Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.

Rules:

1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.

This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.

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My daily driver for most of my personal computer touching these days is a ClockworkPi DevTerm. The photo doesn't really convey scale, but it's about the size of an A5 sheet of paper.

Inside the hardware is nothing special, it's a raspberry pi CM4 module on a custom carrier. But I really enjoy the form factor. The keyboard is OK for four-finger typing on the couch, but I do frequently connect an external keyboard and display.

The screen is 1280x480. I'm usually running emacs full screen and split in to two windows side but side. That gives me enough to comfortably read and write text.

I use mastodon.el in emacs. It's not as good as tusky on my phone, but it does the job.

A small flat rectangular computer, with a beige case. It's arranged landscape orientation, the top half occupied by a very thin and wide screen, the bottom half with a compact, dark grey keyboard.

The screen is split in two windows. One showing lines of text (recognisable as this thread if you zoom and squint). The other features ASCII art saying "emacsOS".

#Zionists OWNS America
Professor #JeffreySachs once again reveals the whole truth about the illegal and unprovoked #USA attack on #Iran.
He ridicules the current administration and irreparably exposes the deep state and the #CIA.
Is he saying anything new?
Certainly not, but it is quite satisfying to hear it from a recognized #US professor.
Enjoy

youtube.com/watch?v=hrwGNN0qNg…

in reply to Spartacus

Cites on mqy claim that Zionists ARE NOT Jews. They're apostates.

meridian.allenpress.com/awg/ar… Academic paper

huckmag.com/article/zionism-is… Ilan Pappe

Ps. When I told my mother my zionist weapons smuggling post wwii father was teaching Comparative Religion at UNC Asheville in the 90s, she lol and said: "He never had a religious bone in his body!". Any questions?

LIVE: Iran vows to retaliate over US attacks; Trump warns of regime change | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20…

- ‘Trump doesn’t want to quit while he’s ahead’
- Iran to observe holy month of Muharram under shadow of war
- Israel promises to continue Iran attacks until ‘all goals achieved’
- Israel says it is striking military sites in western Iran
- Two supertankers make U-turn in Strait of Hormuz after US strikes on Iran: Report

#Iran #Israel #USA