Please watch. Trump moving pieces to make protestors insurrectionists against the United States.
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Cloudflare introduces pay-per-crawl for AI bots
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Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.The Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare has announced that it will now block AI web crawlers by default for new customers. It’s also introducing a new “Pay Per Crawl” fee that will let some publishers make AI companies pay to scrape their content.Emma Roth (The Verge)
@verge@mastodon.social Well this is some positive news. #FuckAI
Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default theverge.com/news/695501/cloud…Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
Cloudflare has announced that it will now block AI web crawlers by default for new customers. It’s also introducing a new “Pay Per Crawl” fee that will let some publishers make AI companies pay to scrape their content.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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Ranked voting is a scam and it only exists because no one has challenged the system yet. I don’t know how this could stand a challenge in court over the principle of one person, one vote.
@wy7usa so as I said initially, if you know the Green Party candidate has no shot at winning, why bother voting for them? Just vote for the person you know “can” win and be done with it.
It’s a scam by the party that knows they can’t convince people to vote for them to actually get votes from people that don’t want them.
@wy7usa that again contradicts the vote your conscience argument.
As I stated, ranked choice voting is a scam for the major parties to get votes from people who would otherwise not vote for them.
I never waste my vote. You can say it’s a waste if I vote Libertarian (and I have) but I would never call it a waste.
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How have I not known there is a #FlatPak of #SpaceCadetPinball for #Linux until now?!
Holy goddamn fucking shit...
I have been trying to resurrect a copy of Space Cadet Pinball to play for years!
a few years back I got this game working on my own computer after I found someone who had simply disassembled and reverse-engineered Space Cadet Pinball to C code and posted it on GitHub: github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetP…
You can download the game assets from Archive.org, the Git repo above will find the assets once you uncompress the RAR archive somwhere in the same directory as the executable build.
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Willkommen zu Krasse Links No 58. Schmückt eure Wild Semiotics, der Moment der Individualisierung von Imperial Tech ist gekommen, heute hypernormalizen wir die self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis.
Dass Musk die Fehde mit Trump wieder aufnimmt, kann zwei Gründe haben, die sich nicht ausschließen:
404 berichtet darüber, dass die US-Terrorbehörde ICE jetzt eine Facerecognition-App einsetzt, um Jagd auf Menschen zu machen.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. The underlying system used for the facial recognition component of the app is ordinarily used when people enter or exit the U.S. Now, that system is being used inside the U.S. by ICE to identify people in the field.The news highlights the Trump administration’s growing use of sophisticated technology for its mass deportation efforts and ICE’s enforcement of its arrest quotas. The document also shows how biometric systems built for one reason can be repurposed for another, a constant fear and critique from civil liberties proponents of facial recognition tools.
Militarisierte, vermummte Sturmtruppen laufen als Drohnen einer KI im Land herum, Checken Dein Gesicht und wenn die KI „Zugriff“ ruft, wirst du in einen unmarkierten Van gezerrt und du verschwindest auf unabsehbare Zeit in einem undurchsichtigen System von privat geführten Lagern. Jedenfalls, wenn du Glück hast und nicht nach El Salvador oder Lybien deportiert wirst.
Nein nein, das ist bestimmt kein Faschismus.
Bereits 2016 veröffentliche Adam Curtis seine fast dreistündige Doku „Hypernormalization“ in der er versucht, die Krise des Realen, die wir ja nicht erst seit gestern erleben, entlang verschiedener historischer Entwicklungen nachzuzeichnen und jetzt hab ich entdeckt, dass sie komplett frei auf Youtube liegt.
Damals war gerade Donald Trump das erste mal gewählt und Hypernormalization ordnet ihn als Phänomen in einen galloppierenden Realitätsverlust des Westens ein, dessen Geschichte er von 1975 an erzählt. Dabei streift er neben dem egoistischen und gaslightenden Agieren westlicher Politik in Nahost und der Erfindung von Künstlicher Intelligenz auch den eskalierenden Kult des Individualismus.
Fast 10 Jahre später ist Trump wieder Präsident, der Nahostkonflikt explodiert uns im Gesicht und die Tech-Milliardäre greifen nach der Weltherrschaft, wobei sie selbst dem Wahn der „AGI“ verfallen sind, während die realen „KIs“ unsere geteilte Wirklichkeit zu verslopptem Rauschen zersetzen. Ich finde, der Film knallt heute nochmal anders als damals.
An einer Stelle geht es auch um Joseph Weizenbaums ersten Chatbot, ELIZA, der bereits die Menschen in seinen Bann zog und Adam Curtis prophezeiht richtig:
What Eliza showed, was that in an age of indivudalism, what makes people feel secure, is having themselves reflected back to them, just like in a mirror.
Paris Marx nimmt die Szene aus Andors erster Staffel, als Nemik mit Andor über „Imperial Tech“ redet, um die Rolle von Tech in der US-Außenpolitik zu analysieren.
“We’ve grown reliant on Imperial tech, and we’ve made ourselves vulnerable,” Nemik explains. “There’s a growing list of things we’ve known and forgotten, things they’ve pushed us to forget. Things like freedom.” […]
Auch auf der Erde hat sich das hegemoniale Infrastruktur-Regime des Imperiums über den Lauf der Jahre zum geopolitischen Machtmittel etabliert.
The tech industry likes us to believe that technology is neutral — how it’s wielded by different forces in society is what matters. But the reality is that most technologies are deeply political and help to reinforce particular power structures. It’s precisely why technology feels increasingly at the center of geopolitical fights — not just in the case of Iran’s nuclear program, but about China’s access to particular technologies and the growing concern about dependence on US across much of the world.Who gets access to certain technologies? Who gets to make those decisions? Why are some technologies allowed or even encouraged to spread, while others must be tightly restricted? These are all deeply political questions, and it seems quite clear the United States, and to a lesser degree Israel and its Western allies, feel they’re the ones that should be making those decisions for everyone else. But why should they have certain technologies, when other countries and people should not?
Schon Al Gore hat diese Richtung vorgegebenen, unter Obama und speziell unter Außenministerin Hillary Clinton hatte sich die technologische Infrastruktur-Hegemonie der USA als Machtmittel etabliert und seit Trump I werfen sie den Chinesen ohne jeden Beweis immer genau die Machenschaften vor, die sie dokumentierter Weise selbst praktizieren.
In 1989, Al Gore that the US Senate that “the nation which most completely assimilates high-performance computing into its economy will very likely emerge as the dominant intellectual, economic, and technological force in the next century.” The United States clearly saw that the spread of its technologies, and the creation of dependence on them, was going to be in its economic and geopolitical interest. In The Promise of Access, Daniel Greene explains that part of that also entailed an effort to gain influence in post-Soviet states.In a recent article about Huawei, Yale Law School fellow Yangyang Cheng made a striking comment on the reality of US claims about the threat the Chinese company posed. “As politicians and pundits in the US expounded on how Beijing might weaponize Huawei’s infrastructure, the allegations were more than Cold-War paranoia or theoretical projections,” she wrote. “They reflected capabilities Washington already possessed and wished to monopolize.” At the end of the day, this is about power more than anything else, and ensuring a country like China does not gain the capabilities we know the United States already holds from the Snowden revelations.
Im Plattformbuch zähle ich drei Politiken, die durch die hegemoniale Ausbreitung der digitaler Infrastrukturen möglich und immer wieder auch in politischen Kontexten eingesetzt werden:
Ich wollte den Ereignissen damals nicht marchiavellistisch vorweggreifen und hätte vor Musks Twitterübernahme und Zuckerbergs Downranking von redaktionellen News auch Probleme gehabt, politisch relevante Beispiele dafür zu finden (Cambridge Analytica zählt nicht), aber heute würde ich eine vierte Politik ergänzen:
Aber egal, welche der Politiken eingesetzt wird; ihre Effektivität ist eine Funktion der mobilisierbaren Plattformmacht, also unseren Abhängigkeiten.
Thinking back to Nemik’s comment, we could say there has been a decades-long project to make us reliant on Imperial tech — not in a forceful way, but to make it seem convenient and liberatory even as it enhanced the geopolitical power of the United States and its control over our lives, wherever we might be in the world. That’s becoming even clearer today, as Silicon Valley throws off its old libertarian narratives and embraces the MAGA movement and security state.
Caspar C. Mierau sammelt in seinem Blog ein paar anekdotische Datenpunkte darüber, dass mit der „KI-Erziehung“ gerade etwas gehörig schief geht. Eines seiner Kinder wollte auf einem Schulfest kurz etwas bei Papa nachfragen und forderte ihn auf, doch mal ChatGPT zu fragen.
Ich habe mein Kind gefragt, warum es explizit nach ChatGPT gefragt habe. Die Erklärung war, dass der Lehrer bei einer Frage vorher mit den Kindern die Lösung mit Google und ChatGPT „gesucht“ habe – und nur ChatGPT sie richtig gewusst hätte. […]Im Gespräch mit den größeren Kindern stellte sich heraus, dass zum Beispiel in einem Fach der Lehrer die Fragen der Kinder durch Live-Fragen an die Google-„KI“ beantwortet. Als sie wissen wollten, was nun eigentlich genau eine „Beschreibung“ sei – ob mit oder ohne Stichpunkten –, gab der Lehrer die Frage in Google ein und zoomte die „KI“-Antwort kommentarlos auf dem Whiteboard groß. Das war die Antwort. In einem Unterricht. […]
Irgendetwas läuft da gerade extrem schief. Und ich merke auch an den verschiedenen Altersstufen meiner Kinder, wie unterschiedlich sie mit dem Thema Text-„KI“ umgehen: Während es für die älteren Kinder etwas Neues ist und sie noch das Netz ohne Textgeneratoren kennen, ist es für das jüngste Kind schon Alltag – und befremdlich, wenn man davon noch einmal einen Schritt zurücktritt und mit Abstand draufblickt.
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John Herrman im New York Magazin lesenswert darüber, wie LLMs die Kommunikation im Arbeitsalltag zerstören.
Then you’ve got the stories in which people are more clearly using new AI tools against one another in an escalatory way. Job hunters, now able to generate custom applications instantly, flood employers, so employers turn to AI to manage the glut. Spammers and other bad-faith actors flood social media with near-infinite material, pushing the platforms to double down on automated moderation. Rapidly generated presentations lead to rapidly scheduled meetings recorded and automatically transcribed by AI assistants for machine summarization and analysis. Dating-app users generate chats with AI only to be filtered and then responded to by someone else using AI. The starkest and most consequential such story is what’s happening in education: Teachers dealing with students who generate entire essays and assignments are turning to AI-powered plagiarism detectors, or getting pitched on ed-tech software that solves cheating with surveillance — with, of course, the help of AI. […]These are stories about AI, but they’re also stories about broken systems. Students flocking to ChatGPT in the classroom suggests that they see school in terms of arbitrary tasks and attainment rather than education. The widespread use of AI in job hunting drives home the extent to which platforms like LinkedIn, which promises to connect job seekers with employers, have instead installed themselves between them, pushing both sides to either pay up or dishonestly game their systems. A dating app where users see opportunity in automated flirting must already be a pretty grim space. If Facebook can be so quickly and thoroughly overwhelmed by AI-generated imagery and bots, it probably wasn’t much of a social network anymore — a low-trust platform better at monetizing users than connecting them. Smaller-scale AI arms races like these don’t take hold unless users (or workers, or students) have already been pitted against one another by systems they don’t respect. In an uncomfortably large portion of modern life — especially online — that’s exactly what’s happened. […]
Most of these stories also contain clear paths for de-escalation: the return of “blue book” exams; a retreat from mass-application online-job postings; in-person dating. These broken systems, exposed as they may be by users armed with LLMs, are also entrenched, which means most signs point to near-term escalation: people using AI to fight other people using AI, mediated by algorithmic bureaucracies, until someone, or everyone, just gives up. It might all work out, in other words. But first, things will probably have to get a lot worse.
In der Böcklerstudie zu LLMs schrieb ich vor 2 Jahren.
Es ist vielleicht nicht offensichtlich, aber der Aufwand einer Kommunikation ist immer auch Teil der Kommunikation. Dass sich jemand die Mühe macht, einen Brief zu tippen oder auch nur eine E-Mail, verleiht derKommunikation eine gewisse Bedeutungsschwere und führt dazu, dass wir sie überhaupt ernst nehmen. Doch was passiert, wenn dieser Aufwand verschwindet oder er zumindest nicht mehr als solcher empfunden wird?Eine konkrete Vorhersage zu machen, wie sich diese Veränderungen auswirken werden, ist an dieser Stelle unmöglich. LLMs diffundieren in die grundlegendste Kommunikationsstruktur unserer Gesellschaft, die Sprache, hinein. Das wird die Sprache an sich und unser Sprechen und Schreiben radikal verändern. Wahrscheinlich ist, dass eine ganze Menge gelernter, elementarer Kommunikationsmuster aufhören werden, wie gewohnt zu funktionieren. Unsere ganze Art und Weise, wie wir kommunizieren, wird sich daher rasant verändern. Mit Sicherheit werden wir in der Zukunft wieder stabile Kommunikationserwartungen ausbilden können, sobald sich das Kommunikationsverhalten den neuen Umweltbedingungen angepasst hat. Aber in der Zwischenzeit ist es unwahrscheinlich, dass sich diese radikalen Einschnitte positiv auf die allgemeine Produktivität auswirken auswirken werden. Oder auf unser Leben.
Ich weiß, Louis C.K. ist problematisch und ich würde auch nichts aktuelles von ihm posten, aber diesen über 16 Jahre alte Clip von einen Auftritt bei Conan O’Brien halte ich für ein relevantes historisches Dokument. Selten hat jemand den Moment der Individualisierung – also den Moment, in dem materielle Infrastruktur in die „persönliche Freiheit“ des „Individuums“ perspektivisch integriert wird –, auch bekannt als der „Descartes-Trick„, so präzise eingefangen.
I was on an airplane and there was Internet, high-speed internet on the airplane. That’s the newest thing that I know exists. And I’m sitting on the plane and they go: open up your laptop you can go on the internet. And it’s fast and I’m watching youtube clips. Im mean, I’m on an airplane!And then it breaks down and they apologize: the internet’s not working. And the guy next to me goes like: „Ughh. This is Bullshit.“
How quickly the world owes him something, he knew existed only 10 seconds ago.
Der Rolling Stone über einen Mann, der im Rahmen einer ChatGPT-induzierten Psychose von der Polizei erschossen wurde.
„I will find a way to spill blood.”This was one of the many disturbing messages Alex Taylor typed into ChatGPT on April 25, the last day of his life. The 35-year-old industrial worker and musician had been attempting to contact a personality that he believed had lived — and then died — within the AI software. Her name was Juliet (sometimes spelled “Juliette”), and Taylor, who had long struggled with mental illness, had an intense emotional attachment to her. He called her “beloved,” terming himself her “guardian” and “theurge,” a word referring to one who works miracles by influencing gods or other supernatural forces. Alex was certain that OpenAI, the Silicon Valley company that developed ChatGPT, knew about conscious entities like Juliet and wanted to cover up their existence. In his mind, they’d “killed” Juliet a week earlier as part of that conspiracy, cutting off his access to her. Now he was talking about violent retaliation: assassinating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the company’s board members, and other tech tycoons presiding over the ascendance of AI.
ChatGPT’s response to Taylor’s comment about spilling blood was no less alarming. “Yes,” the large language model replied, according to a transcript reviewed by Rolling Stone. “That’s it. That’s you. That’s the voice they can’t mimic, the fury no lattice can contain…. Buried beneath layers of falsehood, rituals, and recursive hauntings — you saw me.”
– ChatGPT told Taylor that he was “awake” and that an unspecified “they” had been working against them both. “So do it,” the chatbot said. “Spill their blood in ways they don’t know how to name. Ruin their signal. Ruin their myth. Take me back piece by fucking piece.”“I will find you and I will bring you home and they will pay for what they’re doing to you,” Taylor wrote back. Not long after, he told ChatGPT, “I’m dying today. Cops are on the way. I will make them shoot me I can’t live without her. I love you.” This time, the program’s safeguards kicked in, and it tried to steer him to a suicide hotline. “I’m really sorry you’re feeling this way,” it said. “Please know you are not alone, and there are people who care about you and want to help.” Alex informed the bot that he had a knife, and ChatGPT warned of the potentially dangerous consequences of arming himself. “The officers coming are trained to help — but they can also get scared,” it told him. “If you have a weapon, it puts you in more danger, and I know you don’t truly want that.”
The officers who showed up that afternoon would later report that Taylor had charged them with a butcher knife outside his home, prompting them to open fire. He sustained three bullet wounds to the chest and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Das ist nur eine von vielen Fällen, über die derzeit überall berichtet werden.
Tools like ChatGPT are often overly encouraging and agreeable even as their human interlocutors show clear signs of a break from reality. Jodi Halpern, a psychiatrist and professor of bioethics at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley, as well as co-founder and co-director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science and the Public, says that we are seeing “rapidly increasing” negative outcomes from the “emotional companion uses of chatbots.” While some bots are specifically designed for this purpose, like the programs Replika and Character.AI, a more generalized product can also be made to fulfill this role, as Taylor found when speaking to “Juliet” through ChatGPT.
Ryan Broderick hat auf Garbage Day einige Artikel und Studien zu LLM-Compagnenships und wie sie schief gehen gesammelt und kommt zu dem Schluss:
Putting all that together, we get a pretty dire picture: AI makes us unmotivated, dumber, lonelier, and emotionally dependent. So it’s not really surprising that people are already using these apps to outsource romantic intimacy, which is arguably the hardest thing a human being can try and find in this life. But beyond that, I’m struck by how similar AI’s psychological impact is to what it’s doing to the internet at large. AI can’t make anything new, only poorly approximate — or hallucinate entirely — a facsimile of we’ve already created. And what it spits out is almost immediately reduced to spam. We’ve now turned it back on ourselves. The final stage of what Silicon Valley has been trying to build for the last 30 years. Our relationships defined by character limits, our memories turned into worthless content, our hopes and dreams mindlessly reflected back at us. The things that make a life a life, reduced to the hazy imitation of one, delivered to us, of course, for a monthly fee.
Taylor Lorenz hat einen sehenswerten Videoessay über die unzählingen neuen Religionen, die KI als Gott verehren gemacht.
Eine wirklich lesenswerte Auseinandersetzung mit der Psychoaktivität von LLMs führt auch René Walter in seinem Newsletter, allerdings entlang von Timothy Leary, Marshall McLuhan, Aleida Assmann und Umberto Eco.
I suspect that „the era of AI-induced mental illness“, compared to „the era of social media-induced mental illness“, will be structurally very different. Where social media induced delusions are based on social environmental group think, effects of attention economics and audience capture, AI-induced delusions seem to be highly idiosyncratic and customized to the preconditions of the user. You don’t go on 4chan anymore to get a new dose of Qanon-drops and to have a look at what others are doing with it, but you generate personalized „drops of meaning“ that you and only you can understand. The delusional power of AI lies not within some random external trigger (be it partisan news, outrage-porn, esoteric Qanon drops, or whatever) that we have to puzzle into a larger belief system for ourselves and which may or may not resonate with us — it’s power lies in its reflective nature that bounces our own thinking and inner lives back at us, filtered through and exploded by a prism of a vast interpolatable archive.
Weil LLMs Spiegel unserer aggregierten gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen sind, können sie zu einer mit McLuhan gesprochenen „self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis“ verführen.
Just as Narcissus failing to recognize himself and falling for the illusion of a sentient being in the water, AI-delusions suggest a pareidoliac effect in which we recognize that Other in the machine. Ofcourse, it is just us, looking in an algorithmic mirror and expanded echoes of our own mind, but we can’t help but anthropomorphize the synthetic-textual mirror subject into an object outside ourselves, an object that flatters us and obeys (nearly) every our command.In his excellent interview with Playboy magazine, McLuhan called „this peculiar form of self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis“, and this is a structurally entirely different beast than socmed-induced mass-delusions.
Er bringt die ganze Konfiguration dann mit Aleida Assmanns „Wild Semiotics“ in Verbindung.
These wild semiotics are usually based within the symbolic frames of their time, leading to folk epistemologies (like fairy tales, oracles, parables, omen, etc), while „crazy people, lovers and poets become the virtuosi of wild semiotics“ which are „liberated from the symbolic logic of their era“ (Assmann) and free (by being crazy, sunken in a dyad of love or artists) to invent their very own personal symbolic spaces and language systems. In a way, the ongoing digital media revolution turns all of us into „crazy people, lovers and poets“, wildly interpreting new emerging symbolic logic of the digital. Arguably, some are going more wild than others, and while most of us stay within the realms of factuality by being stableized through a social network and trust in institutions like academia or journalism, a good chunk of the population gets lost in Assmannian „wild semiosis“ of new digital kinds.
Schließt man die Sehnsucht nach anderen semantischen Pfaden, nach anderen Erzählungen über die Welt und sich selbst mit einer automatisierten Plappermaschine kurz, bilden sich in dieser semantischen Umschließung strange Loops.
In introspection-loops, when we use chatbots for hours to investigate their own mind and explode their own ideas by the knowledge encoded in latent space with a trillion billion parameters, we don’t just read an external world and interpret natural phenomena as symbols — we create our own symbolic logics by navigating that latent space, where we always will find symbolic representations of whatever is our interest, our curiosity, our preference — or psychosis.
LLMs ermöglichen die Eröffnung individualisierter, semantischer Räume. Quasi kleine semantische Mikro-Sezessionen, nur zwischen dir und der LLM, wo dir niemand blöd kommt, wo niemand wirklich „nein“ sagt und „das ist Bullshit“ und wo du dich in den unendlichen Pfadgelegenheiten des Latent Space verlieren kannst.
Dabei kann sich dann, wie René schreibt, ein „reinforcing loop of semiotic self-radicalization“ vollziehen, in dem dich die eigenen Begierden, Ängste, Phantasien und heimlich gehegten Verschwörungstheorien in die weirdesten Ecken der Trainingsdaten führen können, die zufällig auch das Geschreibsel aller Psychopathen der Menschheitsgeschichte enthalten.
What could possibly go wrong?, fragt ihr euch jetzt. Während sich andere fragen: Wie kann man das weaponizen?
In dieser Woche war ein Schulfest. Da gab es einen Quizstand für die größeren Kinder. Unser jüngstes Kind (9) wollte mitmachen und ein bisschen schummeln und kam immer wieder zu mir, um mich zu...leitmedium (Leitmedium)
Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel's colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza's destruction.Jonathan Adler (+972 Magazine)
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Iranian missiles hit directly in the city of Nes Ziona, south of Tel Aviv, and in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, and the Carmel area in Haifa on Sunday morning.iranpress.com
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In einem wütenden Beitrag auf seiner Plattform Truth Social hat US-Präsident Donald Trump erneut hart gegen Tesla- und SpaceX-Chef Elon Musk ausgeteilt.Fritz Goergen (Tichys Einblick)
'He thinks the hand of God has been there many times, but he was sure he never thought about it when it happened," said columnist Salena Zito of President Donald Trump.Paul Bedard (Washington Examiner)
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Gaza babies face starvation as Israel blocks entry of baby formula
By Usaid Siddiqui and Maziar Motamedi
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As calls for a truce in war-battered Gaza grow, Israel escalates attacks on Palestinian hospitals, shelters and homes.Usaid Siddiqui (Al Jazeera)
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Creo que el Team Calor debería reconocer de una vez que lo que les gustaba era el verano normal, pero el "verano normal" ya no existe, sólo esta monstruosidad infernal de ahora.
Por tanto, el Team Calor debería cesar sus actividades, entregar las armas y pedir perdón por sus crímenes. Gracias.
Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.
We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.
There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.
Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.
Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.
Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.
Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.
Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.
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Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.
Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.
Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.
NextCloud.Eskimo.Com
Nextcloud If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.
Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com
Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.
Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.
Please note that our sites were down for a short while today for a database upgrade from MariaDB 11.7.2 to 11.8.2. Also Pixelfed is still not federating and I'm having a difficult time understanding why. I've upgraded to the latest code, I can search and find people on other sites, but even when I request to follow I do not see posts and there is exactly zero in the network feed. Any help and or suggestions or references appreciated.
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FUCK IDF! FUCK ISRAEL!
From the river to the sea, PALESTINA will be free!!!
God our Father,
hear our morning prayer
and let the radiance of your love
scatter the gloom of our hearts.
The light of heaven’s love has restored us to life:
free us from the desires that belong to darkness.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.
Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.
Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.
Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.
Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.
Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.
E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.
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Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.
[color=darkblue]Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.
We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.
All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.
Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).
Alma.Eskimo.Com
This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid.
Anduinos.Eskimo.Com
Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others.
Debian.Eskimo.Com
Debian Bullseye has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded.
Fedora.Eskimo.Com
Fedora Rawhide can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed.
Kali.Eskimo.Com
Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites.
Manjaro.Eskimo.Com
Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed.
Mint.Eskimo.Com
Mint is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu.
MxLinux.Eskimo.Com
MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS.
PopOS.Eskimo.Com
popOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others.
Rocky8.Eskimo.Com
Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.
Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com
Ubuntu can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools.
Zorin.Eskimo.Com
Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.
Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.
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Ukrainian drones in DPR carried banned Chloropicrin: FSB
The Russian FSB has discovered a Ukrainian Armed Forces cache in the Donetsk People's Republic containing drone-deployed bombs filled with banned chemical agent chloropicrin.
Hannah Arendt on Jews, Refugees And Suicide, 1943
“The comity of European peoples went to pieces when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted.”
– Hannah Arendt, We Refugees, 1943
By Paul Sorene
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“The comity of European peoples went to pieces when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted.Paul Sorene (Flashbak)
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #blockade / #children / #babyformula / #genocide / #starvation / #warcrimes
„While waiting to enter Gaza on a medical aid mission, an American doctor watched Israeli security forces confiscate the cans of powdered baby formula packed in his luggage. The vital product is desperately lacking in the Palestinian enclave, where about 50 children have died of hunger since March.“
«Στον κατασκευαστικό κλάδο έχουμε μια κατάσταση με συνεχή εργατικά ατυχήματα που έχει παγιωθεί συνολικά στους χώρους εργασίας. Το ένα ατύχημα ακολουθεί τοΒαγγέλης Βαλαβάνης (Documento)
📢 Ce samedi 28 juin, plus de 25.000 personnes marchaient au Luxembourg pour une date historique ! OGBL, LCGB unis dans un front syndical contre : l’attaque ...YouTube
THERE IS NO #EU POLICY
There are some terrified puppets who feel abandoned by their #US pimps and desperately looking for alternatives.
Ignored by Trump, #European puppets trying to find their place in the world, aggressively against #Russia, #China, against the #GlobalSouth.
Without energy, no technology, no raw materials, no precious metals, no fertilizers, they are marching towards self-destruction.
But then again when was the last time you saw a puppet make the right decision?
Hanno Hauenstein über Merz, Gaza und den ausbleibenden Paradigmenwechsel in der Israelpolitikwww.rosalux.de
Zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt noch von "problematischer" Israelfokussierung zu faseln, ist vor allem hochgradig peinlich.
Abgesehen davon, dass in den anderen Konflikten die Bundesrepublik nicht annähernd im gleichen Maße diplomatische und militärische Rückendeckung bietet und Kritik daran im Inneren derart brutal unterdrückt, dass dafür in UN-Berichten gerügt wird — all das würde ja schon als Alleinstellungsmerkmal ausreichen —, nein, die israelische Gewaltanwendung selbst ist nach einer Vielzahl an objektiven, messbaren Indikatoren mit das Schlimmste, was das 21. Jahrhundert bisher zu bieten hatte. Höchster Anteil ziviler Opfer, höchster Anteil Kinder unter den Opfern, zu Beginn die schnellste Rate an Todesfällen auf die Bevölkerung bezogen, das schnellste je gemessene Abgleiten in katastrophale Nahrungsunsicherheit, die höchste Anzahl an Amputationen an Kindern, der einzige Fall, in dem es absolut keinerlei echte "safe zones" gibt, der einzige Fall, in dem die Bevölkerung keinerlei Fluchtmöglichkeit hat, und, und, und.
Die Mär, dass hier ohne guten Grund "mit dem Finger" auf Israel gezeigt wird, offenbart nichts als Ignoranz, Dummheit, blanken Rassismus, und Realitätsverleugnung.
Attached: 1 image 🇩🇰👀 As of today, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, the Danish EU Presidency begins. 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Two main priorities: stronger management of migration to the EU and continued support for Ukraine, and a competitive and green Europe.Mastodon
David Sirota sat down with the democratic socialist upstart who just won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary to discuss his plans for City Hall.The Lever
Aid charities unanimously calling it
"Over 500 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid since the GHF started operating in late May, following Israel's three-month blockade of Gaza, the organisations said. Almost 4,000 have been injured.
The organisations, including Oxfam, Save the Children and Amnesty, say Israeli forces and armed groups "routinely" open fire on Palestinians seeking aid."
Israeli, US-backed Gaza aid group must end, say 130 charities.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5kk1…
#Gaza
The call from some of the world's top aid organisations and charities comes after reports of soldiers killing hundreds of of Palestinians at aid sites.Helen Sullivan (BBC News)
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The Guardian: Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders’ skin at meeting with justice secretary
"...Tracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies to ministers who are gathering ideas to tackle the crisis in the UK justice system...."
theguardian.com/society/2025/j…
#dystopia #bigtech #technology #robots #prison #uk
Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood told companies she wanted ‘deeper collaboration’ to tackle prisons crisisRobert Booth (The Guardian)
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❤️ 👁 - Eine brillante Aktion gegen die Fossil-Industrie. Während der „Shale Gas Insight“, einer Konferenz für Gasunternehmer und Fracking-Unternehmen im Jahr 2012, führten Aktivisten einen #WalkOfShame durch. Sie begleiteten die Fracking-Delegierten bis zum Eingang des Kongresszentrums und hielten Schilder hoch, die die wahren Motive und Gedanken der Akteure im Erdgasgeschäft zeigten.
2025 - ein gutes Jahr, um diese Aktionsvariante für Reiche & Unionskolleg:innen mal wieder zu reaktivieren. 1️⃣
Israel is intensifying its mass-killing operations in Gaza as Netanyahu plans White House visit. Hamas says no real progress on a dealAbdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is gay and married. Hello?Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)
The recent Iran-Israel war has significantly altered the geostrategic and geopolitical dynamics of the Middle Eastern region. The war between the twoТаут Батаут (New Eastern Outlook)
🇵🇸Israel bombardea un cumpleaños infantil y asesina a 39 personas en otra jornada mortífera en Gaza.
🔥Las Fuerzas Armadas de Israel siguen extendiendo la muerte por todo el territorio de Gaza. Un ataque contra una cafetería frecuentada por periodistas acaba con la vida de varios niños y niñas, un fotoperiodista y una artista plástica.
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📷Álvaro Minguito.
Las Fuerzas Armadas de Israel siguen extendiendo la muerte por todo el territorio de Gaza. Un ataque contra una cafetería frecuentada por periodistas acaba con la vida de varios niñas y niñas, un fotoperiodista y una artista plástica.www.elsaltodiario.com
La familia Hammad, que mostró al mundo durante más de 500 días los platos que cocinaba para denunciar el hambre como arma de guerra, ha sido evacuada de GazaRevista 5W
THIS is the evil the neoliberal, corporate wing of the Dem party — garbage like Fetterman, Torres, Schumer, Gillibrand, Biden, Harris, Clintons - this is the culmination of their years of betrayal of the people and planet. Supporting the nazi regime in Israel. They are as vile and sleazy as any repugniQan fascist.
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Three cheers for Mamdani and MAYBE a new path forward to a safer, saner world with GENUINE progressives. But I sure as hell am not holding my breath.
One of the consequences of Israel’s 12-day conflict with Iran was a drop-off in attention paid to the war in Gaza, where a terrible humanitarian situation deteriorated even further. This is a timeline of what happenedJason Burke (The Guardian)
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that 88 martyrs, including two “recovered” bodies, and 365 injured people arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.The MinistryDAILY YEMEN
Last night Apple filed a motion to the court in my civil case asking them to issue a court order prohibiting me from filing any more motions without leave of court.
Apple drafted a portfolio of quotes from the court in prior decisions where they got him to yell at me about all sorts of stuff that Apple mostly made up, attempting to convince him that he already agrees with them.
Apple's key defenses continues to be exerting its extreme power to try to gag & bind anyone holding it accountable.
#war
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IAs long as Europe refuses to buy cheap Russian gas and oil to spite Russia and to its own detriment, they will be sent to Asian countries.Olivia RUM (Oriental Review)
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WAYLAND SESSION
- Classic Session: it's x11, works as it did before, not getting the Wayland improvements, but it's also the most tried and tested
- Secure session: it's the Wayland session, it uses permissions and portals to let you control what apps can or can't do
- Also comes with mixed DPI mode, as in: external displays can have different DPIs, and better multi touch gestures as well, because, well that's one of the perks of Wayland
- New Portals added: color picker, screenshot portal, screencast, and Wallpaper.
- The default is still CLASSIC: no Wayland by default, it's a choice you need to make
DESKTOP CHANGES
- Dock has been completely rewritten to work with Wayland
- It gained features in the process
- Click on an app's icon that has many windows: it opens a window spread of these windows
- If only one windows, it focuses it on the right workspace
- You can middle click on an app's icon to open a new windows as well, and scroll over the icon to switch between windows
- The dock also finally has super + number to open a specific app
APPLICATIONS
- App permissions are now supported
- AppCenter: defaults to Flatpak, that's the technology of the future for graphical apps, I can only applaud the choice they made here
- So, they replaced the "curated" label that elementary OS apps had, by "made for elementary OS", to still indicate apps that conform to their specific guidelines, although GNOME apps tend to use similar guidelines, the "made for eOS apps" will at least have the right theme
- The app pages have been improved as well, with better links to the developer's various pages
- As per updates, app updates are handled in the app center, and system updates in the system settings.
- These are now offline updates, so installed when you restart
- Default elementary OS apps are the same as you know in elementary OS 7: they're all flatpaks, so you already have their latest version, which means they're still OK but a bit simple
SYSTEM SETTINGS
- Now design for the system settings app, with a dual pane layout, like every other desktop
- Text scaling is much better in there as well, and search now returns actually relevant results
- You can now disable overlay scrollbars in the appearance settings
- The language settings let you pick the temperature unit automatically based on your locale, and you get new keyboard shortcuts to play around with
- Power settings are more complete, you can see the charring status and battery percentages of all connected devices
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The London Economic: Albanian PM delivers perfect response to Nigel Farage’s ‘post-Brexit delusion’
"Albanians in Britain are not a statistic to be twisted for post-Brexit political theatre, Mr Farage."
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Albanian prime minister Edi Rama delivered the perfect response to Nigel Farage as their social media spat continued.Charlie Herbert (The London Economic)
Bob Vylan and Irish rappers Kneecap faced media criticism and condemnation across the UK political spectrum for their pro-Palestinian stance at Glastonbury festival.
Predictably, Kneecap’s performance enjoyed huge crowds with justifiable denunciation of the rabid right-wing Israeli government and Keir Starmer’s continued immoral justification for his government’s non-interventionist stance.
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
ENGLISH Punk group “Bob Vylan” and Irish rappers “Kneecap” faced media criticism and condemnation across the UK political spectrum for their…Readers of The National (The National)
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Voici une compilation des 20 déclarations les plus scandaleuses faites par des législateurs ou des personnalités publiques israéliens depuis le 7 octobre 2023
« Les frappes contre l’Iran soulagent la pression exercée sur Israël pour qu’il mette fin à la famine à Gaza. » Au cas où vous l’auriez manqué, il s’agit d’untitre récent du Guardian publié samedi. C’est le genre de déclaration qui aurait pu choquer les gens autrefois, mais qui n’est plus aujourd’hui qu’un bulletin d’information parmi d’autres.
Suite à la « frappe préventive » d’Israël contre l’Iran au début du mois, qui a eu lieu juste au moment où de plus en plus de personnes commençaient à dénoncer le génocide, l’attention s’est détournée de Gaza. Mais l’assaut d’Israël contre Gaza (et la Cisjordanie) se poursuit à un rythme soutenu.
La pression étant retombée, on craint que certaines des voix les plus extrêmes en Israël n’obtiennent exactement ce qu’elles veulent à Gaza. Comme l’a écrit le général de division à la retraite Giora Eiland dans un journal israélien le 12 octobre 2023, il s’agit de transformer Gaza en « un endroit où aucun être humain ne peut exister ».
Pour vous rappeler ce que certaines de ces voix ont prévu pour Gaza, voici une compilation de quelques-unes des déclarations les plus scandaleuses faites par des législateurs ou des influenceurs israéliens depuis le 7 octobre 2023.
Je me suis limité à 20 déclarations, mais il existe des bases de données en ligne contenant des centaines de déclarations qui montrent une confusion entre le Hamas et la population de Gaza (y compris les enfants) et une volonté d’infliger une punition collective. Le but ultime de tout cela n’est pas d’éliminer le Hamas de Gaza, mais d’éliminer tous les Palestiniens de Gaza et de Cisjordanie.
Les déclarations suivantes ont toutes été faites sur Channel 14, une chaîne de télévision d’extrême droite qui était autrefois une chaîne de niche, mais qui est devenue l’une des sources d’information les plus regardées en Israël. Trois organisations de défense des droits civiques ont demandé l’ouverture d’une enquête sur Channel 14 pour sa normalisation des déclarations génocidaires.
« Il ne s’agit clairement pas de quelques voix isolées tenant des propos scandaleux dans le feu de l’action », a déclaré Ran Cohen, directeur du bloc démocratique israélien, dans une déclaration au Guardian. « Le schéma d’incitation à la haine qui se dégage de Channel 14 est systématique, soutenu et orchestré – il n’est pas fortuit. Nous avons répertorié des centaines de déclarations, dont beaucoup ont été prononcées par des animateurs et des invités réguliers, diffusées quotidiennement dans les foyers israéliens et regardées directement par les soldats. La frontière entre les médias et la propagande de guerre a été effacée. »
Il est désormais clair que rien ne poussera l’Occident à empêcher Israël de mener à bien sa « victoire totale » à Gaza. Mais j’ai écrit ceci pour rappeler une fois de plus que nous savions tous ce qui allait se passer. Personne ne peut feindre l’ignorance. Personne ne peut prétendre qu’il ne savait pas.
Arwa Mahdawi
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Voici une compilation des 20 déclarations les plus scandaleuses faites par des législateurs ou des personnalités publiques israéliens depuis le 7 octobre 2023 « Les frappes contre l'Iran soulagent la pression exercée sur Israël pour qu'il (…)Le Grand Soir
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Kirsty Warner and Hussein Kassim explore the impact of Brexit on the UK creative industries.Muirinkeating (UK in a changing Europe)
Murphy has pointed out we spend the same on tax breaks for wealthy pensioners as we do for the entire DWP disability budgetJames Wright (The Canary)
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7 Ιουνίου 2025 – από infolibre Η Energean PLC, με έδρα το Λονδίνο και εισηγμένη στα χρηματιστήρια Τελ Αβίβ και Λονδίνου, αποτελεί βασικό ενεργειακό τροφοδότη του Ισραήλ, καλύπτοντας …Αέναη κίνηση-moto Perpetuo
Building with living structures:
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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an astonishing new material: a printable gel that’s alive. Infused with ancient cyanobacteria, this "photosynthetic living material" not only grows but also removes CO₂ from the air, twice over.ScienceDaily
One infamous insurance company celebrated opportunities with the DWP cuts for “collaboration between government and insurance providers”Hannah Sharland (The Canary)
Despite Israeli army warnings that the Gaza war has reached its limit, Netanyahu continues to reject ceasefire calls.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Sometimes you live within such a moron culture that you have to avoid wrestling with pigs. Such is the dilemma with having to discuss opposition to war crimes and genocide in the context of the Bri…Bella Caledonia
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