Steve Witkoff: “We put 12 bunker buster bombs on Fordow. There's no doubt that it breached the canopy...and there's no doubt that it was OBLITERATED. So, the reporting out there that in some way suggests that we did not achieve the objective is just completely preposterous!”
ooh, new dark pattern I discovered today.
Stuck with MS Teams at $DAYJOB, I continue to hold onto the thick-client instead of succumbing to the heavy-weight web client.
Just about every time I switch to the app after a couple hours of not using it, it pops up a "This is unsupported" interruption with a link to learn more, HUGE, colorful "Try it on the web" button, and a smaller light "continue using this antiquated unsupported piece of junk" type button.
As if that wasn't bad enough, as dark patterns go, when you tab through the controls, focus lands on the "more information" link and on the "try it on the web" button, but the "continue using this" simply won't focus with the keyboard. You HAVE to reach for the mouse to click the "continue using this"
Have I mentioned how much I loathe using MS products, and Teams in particular?
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Steve Witkoff on the 12 Day War ceasefire: "The proof is in the pudding, no one's shooting at each other. It's over.”
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"61% of Canadians don’t answer unknown numbers anymore."
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Telus is implementing a new technology on its network that will allow for businesses to prove they're legitimate so people don't think they're spam.Brad Bennett (MobileSyrup)
The German automotive industry wants to develop open-source software together
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Automotive industry signs Memorandum of UnderstandingVDA - Verband der Automobilindustrie e.V.
Trying to save $$ on wireless/ cable? This is interesting:
A Fight Between Cable and Wireless Providers Means Cheaper Home Internet for You
In fierce competition, Verizon, Comcast and T-Mobile all recently launched long-term price-lock deals
From its very inception, Palantir's selling point has been that it provides advanced AI-driven data mining and big data-driven surveillance and analytics programs for the deep state.
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"BREAKING: The British government is now warning that people must prepare for "wartime scenario" on British soil.
What's going on? " WTH?
Sweden is preparing to go after Russia in Baltic, said they have plenty of allies. It's touting a mighty military and said, "We 're banking on the fact that Putin won't attack them back." SMH.
Agents burst into Peter Sweden's house, too, and trashed it.
Bethlehem / PNN/The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education announced today that 16,802 students have beeenglish.pnn.ps
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All it took was one bombing of #Iran and suddenly the whole #DemocratParty is cool with literally #Hitler
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The House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines to crush Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green's bid to impeach President Donald Trump.Elizabeth Elkind (Fox News)
Here’s a movie pitch but say people started dressing up like ICE agents everywhere and “assist” with deportations but during mid transfer they knock out the so called real agents and release the citizens into a safe zone and recruit them into the resistance….
“Band of Bandidos”
Again, in no way should anyone attempt such an operation… just….an….idea….
So, a few months back, someone posted about using #biochar as an ingredient in seed starter. It seems biochar has a lot of potential good uses -- including #PFAS remediation!
"This project aims to investigate whether biochar can be used as a soil amendment to immobilize PFAS in the soil and reduce its bioaccumulation in the edible parts of vegetable crops, such as lettuce and tomatoes. The study will address several key questions: the optimal application rate of biochar in the soil, the frequency with which additional biochar should be applied after the initial amendment, and low-cost modification techniques to enhance biochar's ability to adsorb short-chain PFAS from the soil. This research will involve both laboratory and field studies. The findings will contribute to developing practical guidelines for farmers on the use of biochar in PFAS-affected soils."
Thousands of people demonstrated on Monday June 23 in Athens and other cities of Greece against the escalation of the imperialist war and the participation of Greece in it.pameadmin (Πανεργατικό Αγωνιστικό Μέτωπο (Π.Α.ΜΕ.))
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The new missile attack by the murderous Israeli state on Iran and the ongoing massacre in Palestine are at the heart of trade union action in Greece.pameadmin (Πανεργατικό Αγωνιστικό Μέτωπο (Π.Α.ΜΕ.))
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218 Christians were just massacred by islamists in Nigeria.
And the mainstream media is covering it up because it doesn't fit their narrative.
Pass it on - Let the world know.
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Hello! I posted yesterday asking questions about which distro to pick, so first of all, thank you to everyone who responded. I wanted to thank you all there but lit cafe is down, so I'm on my other lemmy acc and can't edit that post. As you can tell from the title, I ended up picking Kubuntu, mostly because the touchpad didn't work on Mint (thank goodness I have a mouse handy) and Kubuntu has a nice little welcome walkthrough that made exploring it really easy and comfortable. So I went to install it, but I'm confused about this part of the installation. For reference I'm doing this on a Lenovo Ideapad and it has "128GB eMMC and 256GB PCIe." (honestly I don't exactly know what the PCIe means). There's two options for storage devices at the top.
The prior picture is with the first storage device selected. The following picture is with the second storage device selected.
Are there two options because there's technically two different hard drives in the laptop? Does it matter which one I choose? And I have no idea if I should erase disk (there's literally nothing on this laptop, so no worries about deleting documents or pictures) or do a manual partition? And if so, how do I do a manual partition because even if I click that I don't seem to be able to do anything (also what does manual partition mean)? And would Kubuntu take up all the storage space on the drive like it looks like it will? Because that would be a problem?
I had a lot of fun checking out the distros and trying out all of the customization options in Kubuntu and taking a look at everything in the software center, but I'm starting to feel like this might be too advanced for me. I'm sick of windows, but maybe I should just not risk messing with operating systems I don't understand? (Also I really hope those screenshots don't doxx me or something)
Background The clinical trials used to approve COVID-19 vaccines excluded pregnant women, and existing safety assessments of COVID-19 vaccination, particularly during early stages of pregnancy, are limited to observational studies prone to various ty…medRxiv
A group of leading researchers has uncovered explosive evidence buried in health data showing that failed pregnancies have surged dramatically among women who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.”Lioness of Judah Ministry (Exposing The Darkness)
> “This boy was speared on the man like an animal, like a pig, and the boy was saying nothing. But on his face—fear. The old man [looked at me] without any fear, as if this was common practice. He didn’t stop. I was so angry, I confronted him. He removed the boy from his penis, and I took the boy aside.
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Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg—who is 63 with a long, graying beard—recently sat down with me to explain what he described as a "child-rape assembly line" among sects of fundamentalist Jews.Christopher Ketcham (VICE)
Observers fear world body "may become a bit of ghost" and "vanish slowly".AFP (DAWN.COM)
#AI is stoopid, and it's gonna make you stupid too, whether you like it or not.
"Researchers from MIT Media Lab, Wellesley College, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design conducted a four-month study titled "Your Brain on ChatGPT" and found users of large language models (#LLMs) like #OpenAI's #chatbot "consistently underperformed at neural, #linguistics, and behavioral levels"."
Using #ChatGPT to write essays may harm #criticalthinking
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The 'Your Brain on ChatGPT' study will make you consider the consequences.Cecily Mauran (Mashable)
Kennedy was asked to retract his statement, and only did so with a smirk.Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
This is the news in Iran. It is obvious propoganda, just like the American press.
www.tehrantimes.com, Tehran times is the first English daily newspaper printed after 1979 Islamic revelution in iran.Tehran Times
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched Operation Rising Lion in mid-June to target Iran's military and nuclear facilities, including Tehran, Natanz, and Fordow.Sputnik International
"Wind of Change" by Scorpions is a poignant rock ballad that captures the essence of hope and transformation during a pivotal moment in history. Released in 1990 as part of the album "Crazy World," this iconic track, written by Klaus Meine, reflects the political changes in Eastern Europe and has become a timeless anthem for peace and unity, resonating with audiences worldwide.
🎵 L Y R I C S 🎵:
I follow the Moskva down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change
An August summer night, soldiers passing by
Listening to the wind of change
The world is closing in, and did you ever think
That we could be so close like brothers?
The future's in the air, I can feel it everywhere
I'm blowing with the wind of change
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away (dream away)
In the wind of change
Mm-mm
Walking down the street
And distant memories are buried in the past forever
I follow the Moskva and down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change
Take me (take me) to the magic of the moment
On a glory night (a glory night)
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams (share their dreams)
With you and me (with you and me)
Take me (take me) to the magic of the moment
On a glory night (a glory night)
Where the children of tomorrow dream away (dream away)
In the wind of change (the wind of change)
The wind of change blows straight into the face of time
Like a storm wind that will ring the freedom bell for peace of mind
Let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants to say (say)
Take me (take me) to the magic of the moment
On a glory night (a glory night)
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams (share their dreams)
With you and me (you and me)
Take me (take me) to the magic of the moment
On a glory night (a glory night)
Where the children of tomorrow dream away (dream away)
In the wind of change (the wind of change)
Album Artist: Scorpions
Album(s): Crazy World
Written by: Klaus Meine
Music genre(s): Rock
Released: 1990
Decade for first release: #1990sMusic
#Scorpions #CrazyWorld #windOfChange #rock #1990sMusic #anthemsOfHope #Remastered
"Stone In Love'' by Journey from Escape Tour 1981: Live In HoustonListen to Journey: https://journey.lnk.to/listenYDWatch more Journey videos: https://Journe...YouTube
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ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry
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Microsoft is struggling to sell its Copilot AI assistant to corporations because many of their employees want ChatGPT.Brody Ford (Bloomberg)
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Jello Biafra discusses Israel, Hamas, Gaza, the plight of the Palestine people, and America's reaction to it. What Would Jello Do? is an informal spoken word...YouTube
National Archives to restrict public access starting July 7
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We hold permanent records created by Federal agencies that include: Textual records from civilian agencies Army unit records dating from WW1 Navy unit records dating from WW2 Still pictures Electronic records Cartographic and architectural holdings …The National Archives at College Park, Maryland
We are happy to share that 62 projects will receive grants from the NGI Zero Commons Fund. We congratulate the selected projects and look forward to their contributions to increasing society's digital autonomy.
Ranging from browser-based cellular networking to decentralised social media, and professional print, these projects are showing that a bright digital future is not only possible but already being built.
Come over and meet the projects!
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@carolen when Israel and Iran steal your limelight, make a defense deal!🤗
The vast majority of the Republican party and a number of hawkish Democrats are rallying around Trump’s war on Iran.
“The regime deserves it. Well done, President Trump,” tweeted Senator Lindsey Graham. “To my fellow citizens: We have the best Air Force in the world. It makes me so proud.”
Node Wars Redux
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Join me today for Episode 1121 of Bitcoin And . . . Topics for today:Bitcoin Knots node count surges, reigniting fears of a chain split and ideological rift over Core policy.Fountain
I should probably do some proper promo for my latest DJ mix on mixcloud.
Several Israelis were killed and wounded in a series of Iranian missile attacks reported after Trump announced a ceasefire agreement.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Millions Killed For Profit - Covid Was State Sponsored Genocide - Dr. David Martin To EU Parliament
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Millions Killed For Profit - Covid Was State Sponsored Genocide - Dr. David Martin To EU Parliament July 4, 2023 London Real with Brian Rose THE PLANDEMIC - FOLLOW THE MONEY Dr. David Martin, addressiRumble
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[On the night of Monday to Tuesday, June 17 in Berlin, 36 vans of the war collaborators Telekom and Amazon went up in flames: 17 vehicles of the first company in the Lichtenberg neighborhood, and 19 vehicles of the second in the Britz neighborhood, a few minutes apart, around 3 a.m. Below we reproduce the statement of this antimilitarist attack published in de.indymedia on the same day].
Antimilitarist attack against collaborators with the army, Amazon and Telekom
Last night, several vans of Amazon and Telekom were set on fire in the south (Britz district) and east (Lichtenberg district) of Berlin. Neither the fences nor the cameras managed to prevent the antimilitarists from attacking these two army collaborators. Both companies benefit greatly from widespread militarization and wars. That is why it is right to sabotage them.
Instead of a champagne reception, we opted to celebrate the opening of Amazon-Tower with charred shells. But we find this gruesome building repulsive not only because of its impact on the neighborhood, but also because of all the other dirty tricks of this tech giant, and in particular because of its active participation in war and genocide. Amazon’s servers and cloud services are used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to store the massive amounts of data resulting from mass surveillance of the Palestinian population. Through its subsidiary Amazon Web Systems (AWS), Amazon is one of the IDF partners. In 2021, AWS, Google, and Microsoft signed contracts with the IDF to use their servers (Project Nimbus). Since the Israeli invasion and the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip that it caused, the IDF needs much greater computing capacity to be able to use its military AI programs.
AWS servers are mainly used for this. The IDF and AWS work very closely together and consult on specific airstrikes. This means that the annihilation and starvation of Gaza that is taking place before our very eyes, the planned forced displacement of the entire population, and the AI-based slaughter and maiming of hundreds of thousands of people, many of them children, are calculated and stored on Amazon Web Services servers. But Amazon is also militarily active in other areas: as a major trading partner of the U.S. military, for example, and as a generous sponsor of King Trump’s military parade in Washington last Saturday. The State and Capital moving in the same direction towards fascism.
War, militarization, genocide, and the policy of genocide and imperialism are now based on high technology. To function, the state and the global military system need a very complex technological infrastructure. In Germany, it is managed and developed by the state-owned company Telekom. No war works without technology, and the German Federal Armed Forces benefit greatly from the militarization taking place around the world. Telekom supports the Federal Army in the field of cyber defense and trains soldiers in IT. Companies like Telekom benefit from rearmament, the $400 billion government budget to make people “fit for war” and the reintroduction of military service.
Similarly, Telekom is making money as a computer provider to border authorities, police and intelligence services, in the war against refugees at Europe’s external borders and in the growing militarization at home. Nor have we forgotten that, as one of the world’s largest telecommunications providers thanks to its acquisition of the Greek telephone operator OTE as part of the Troika’s measures, Telekom has made a name for itself as one of the world’s leading telecommunications providers. Telekom was one of the main beneficiaries of the wave of massive privatizations during the Greek crisis. For this reason, the company has already attracted criticism, both here and elsewhere, becoming the target of numerous attacks.
In addition, through T-Systems, Telekom is doing business with techno-fascist Elon Musk’s Starlink company. T-Systems offers the U.S. and other countries a service that uses thousands of Starlink satellites to send text messages into space despite white areas. Elon Musk is not just a shining fascist, he is the richest man in the world, and with his megalomaniac projects he wants to colonize not only Earth, but also space and the planet Mars. In the race to see which macho has the most satellites and the most power, he is closely followed by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos with his Project Kuiper satellite project (which will soon include 3,200 satellites). These two companies now resemble non-state empires that are also increasingly important in military terms: Starlink not only supports Ukraine and Israel in their military attacks with data – Musk also has the power to prevent these same attacks by making Starlink data available. So Musk and Bezos, with their network of technocratic companies, not only benefit from the war, but can now also determine its course.
We believe that today, as yesterday, it is right to attack the collaborators of the army. What is surprising is not that antimilitarists attack military enterprises, but that not all those who abhor wars and massacres attack military enterprises. What is surprising is not that the antimilitarists want to sabotage the war, but that all those who are against militarization and rearmament do not do their bit to contribute to disarmament. What is surprising is not that people are deeply affected by the genocide and the war of extermination in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians from the West Bank, but that half the world has apparently become accustomed to seeing a far-right government commit genocide. What is surprising is not that so many people are trying to stop this genocide, but that so few are trying to burn to the ground the homes, businesses, warehouses and infrastructure that benefit from this ruthless bloodbath and make it possible.
Whether in Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Ukraine or Myanmar, it is the ruling classes that benefit from wars.
Sabotage and revolt are legitimate, it is legitimate to vindicate life against militarism and the technologies of death, just as it is legitimate to vindicate and defend antimilitarism against nationalism.
It is right to liberate life from all militarism and war, from the state and patriarchy.
Against all wars and armies.
Love and strength for Maya on hunger strike and for all the others imprisoned in the Budapest case, for Nanuk, Daniela and the anarchists N and M.
A hug and warm greetings to Athens where Marianna, Dimitra, Dimitris, Nikos and AK are imprisoned in Korydallos prison.
In memory of the struggle of Kyriakos Ximitri
Excerpted from Sans Nom and translated by Informativo Anarquista
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in reply to Tim Chase • • •I agree with you.
But I don’t have the energy to object after my day.
So a resounding “+1” from me.