The Netherlands is about to introduce a new law that makes helping supposedly illegal migrants/refugees a criminal offence. So yes. The Netherlands is reintroducing the Nazi law that made hiding Anne Frank illegal. As a Dutchie I am ashamed, angry and powerless (as I live in Germany). Geert Wilders, and every single Dutchie who voted for his PVV, may you burn in hell.

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Microsoft Lays Off โ€œHundredsโ€ Of Gaming Division Employees, Cancels Multiple Projects Including โ€˜Perfect Darkโ€™ And โ€˜Everwildโ€™

"Microsoft previously cut six-thousand jobs in May this year, hitting product and engineering-focused positions. Employees in the gaming division had been expecting layoffs ever since. Some outlets and social media posts have claimed Microsoft is attempting to re-open these positions later, and offer them to H-1B workers for cheaper pay.

Another case is the Perfect Dark reboot, which was already had troubled development and little progress. Not only is it cancelled, but one of its development studios, The Initiative, has shut down."

boundingintocomics.com/video-gโ€ฆ

:keku: hope Fable gets canceled too

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany is considering the purchase of up to 2,500 GTK Boxer armored vehicles and 1,000 Leopard 2 tanks, following NATOโ€™s request for Berlin to form seven new combat brigades over the next decade amid growing threats from Russia, Bloomberg reports.

The estimated cost of the program could reach โ‚ฌ25 billion, making it one of the largest defense contracts in modern German history

#ParkrosePermaculrure

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#US Deports son of US soldier - born on US base in #Germany - to #Jamaica. - YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCb9g3y6โ€ฆ o

#RacistUSA #FascistUSA

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USA has been a shithole country for a LONG time. This is fucking ghastly. Now the killings will begin in earnest. I'll be quite surprised if I see another spring on this planet.

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/from-coโ€ฆ

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Houthi: Iran's might forced Israel to halt aggression, set new equation presstv.ir/Detail/2025/07/03/7โ€ฆ

โ€œAnti-fascism today must also be anti-imperialistโ€: Conference in Berlin Calls for Resistance ipa-aip.org/europe/anti-fascisโ€ฆ

europesays.com/uk/238307/ Most Economically Stable Countries In The World: UAE Tops, US Not In Top 10; Check Indiaโ€™s Rank | News #Business #Economy #India #Japan #MostStableEconomies #SaudiArabia #Switzerland #UAE #UK #UnitedKingdom #WorldsStableEconomies

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...and the original:

Heifetz made it his iconic encore piece. Although I feel this recording isn't his best, was made a bit late in his career, and he maybe was a bit jaded about doing it yet again, you can still appreciate the mastery. When I was a kid I would lie under my mother's piano listening to Heifetz playing the Bach unaccompanied stuff on the old LP.

Listen about 25 seconds in to hear him play a melody line sounding as though that were the only thing he was playing despite all the stuff going on around it. Listen for variety of volume and tonal quality in different sections. IMO he distinguishes the effects better than anyone else before or since.

Heifetz' playing was unique in many ways. I have read interviews with famous violinists who said that when listening to recordings of other top violinists playing they were not really sure who it was but with Heifetz there was never any mistake.

youtu.be/vhOaS_Cy8_8?si=2Cf31iโ€ฆ

Here is a more contemporary and perhaps more accessible version by the wonderful Hilary Hahn. Where Heifetz frequently played Bach at what most performers would consider high speed, Hahn's rendition is probably slower than average.

If you have 16:47 available do yourself a favor. It'll grow in you as it goes.

youtu.be/ngjEVKxQCWs?si=YYUMobโ€ฆ

Hilary playing in the background as I write this and I have tears in my eyes. Say what? With Bach?

Und der Witz ist ja, dass Grรผne und SPD Israel schon derart skrupellos gedeckt haben, unter Bruch sowohl nationaler Gesetze als auch Vรถlkerrecht, dass Deutschland unter ihrer Fรผhrung buchstรคblich dafรผr vor Gericht steht.

Aber diesen Fanatikern ist es nie genug. Das war noch so sehr zu wenig Enthusiasmus fรผr tote palรคstinensische Babys, dass er sie abstrafen und Merz wรคhlen "musste". Israelunterstรผtzung 2025 ist eine lupenreine Sekte. bird.makeup/users/keremschambeโ€ฆ


Nรคchster Take: in meiner Verzweiflung habe ich dann AfD gewรคhlt. bird.makeup/@xileffff/19408316โ€ฆ

โ™ฒ @xileffff@bird.makeup:

Es ist nicht leicht, unter Linken zu Israel zu stehen. Mein Freundeskreis ist geschrumpft, ich meide Diskussionen รผber Nahost. In meiner Verzweiflung habe ich sogar Friedrich Merz gewรคhlt.
Bekenntnisse eines Israel-Verstehers

spiegel.de/politik/israel-wie-โ€ฆ via @derspiegel



Italy: Anti-Anarchist Police Operation in Massarosa


At dawn on Wednesday, June 25 in Massarosa (in the province of Lucca), there was a search at the home of an anarchist, in connection with the investigation carried out by the Bologna prosecutorโ€™s office for the burning of two railway police cars, which took place in Rimini on April 20, 2023 (see here). The action was carried out in solidarity with Chilean anarchists Monica and Francisco, who were soon to be tried for several bombings in Santiago, Chile, and with Alfredo Cospito, who had just ended a six-month hunger strike.

The charges are articles 423 (arson), 270 bis para. 1 (subversive association with the purpose of terrorism), 110 (participation in a crime or misdemeanor) and 635 (damage). Fifteen anarchists, from different regions of Italy, are under investigation. The next day, the police showed up, still at dawn, at the home of another anarchist for a search in connection with some tags that had appeared in the Massa court during one of the hearings of the Scripta Scelera trial under art. 639 of the Penal Code (slight damage and defilement).

Source: secoursrouge.org/italie-operatโ€ฆ

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#anarchist #europe #italy #repression

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The US Congress promised to stop funding the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church en.news-front.su/2025/07/04/thโ€ฆ

โ€œLe coupable est celui ร  qui le crime profite. โ€ Sรฉnรจque

#Israรซl est responsable de ยซ lโ€™un des #gรฉnocides les plus cruels de lโ€™histoire moderne ยป, a dรฉclarรฉ jeudi la rapporteure spรฉciale de lโ€™ #ONU sur le territoire palestinien occupรฉ, Francesca #Albanese, accusant Tel-Aviv dโ€™utiliser #Gaza comme un terrain dโ€™expรฉrimentation militaire et appelant ร  une action internationale forte, incluant un #embargo total sur les #armes ainsi que la suspension des relations commerciales et des investissements.

ยซ La situation dans les territoires palestiniens occupรฉs est apocalyptique ยป, a-t-elle affirmรฉ devant le Conseil des droits de lโ€™homme, oรน elle a prรฉsentรฉ son dernier rapport. ยซ ร€ Gaza, les Palestiniens continuent de souffrir au-delร  de lโ€™imaginable. Israรซl est responsable de lโ€™un des gรฉnocides les plus cruels de lโ€™histoire moderne. ยป

Francesca Albanese a soulignรฉ que si les chiffres officiels font รฉtat de plus de 200 000 Palestiniens tuรฉs ou blessรฉs, les experts mรฉdicaux estiment que le bilan rรฉel est bien plus lourd. Elle a รฉgalement qualifiรฉ de ยซ piรจge mortel ยป la ยซ Fondation humanitaire ร  Gaza ยป โ€“ nouveau mรฉcanisme dโ€™aide mis en place par Israรซl ยซ conรงue pour tuer ou forcer ร  fuir une population affamรฉe, bombardรฉe, รฉmaciรฉe et vouรฉe ร  lโ€™anรฉantissement. ยป

Elle a mis en lumiรจre les profits rรฉalisรฉs pendant la guerre : en vingt mois, les entreprises dโ€™armement ont engrangรฉ des bรฉnรฉfices record en fournissant ร  Israรซl des armes utilisรฉes pour bombarder Gaza. ยซ Ces sociรฉtรฉs ont fait des profits proches des records en รฉquipant Israรซl avec des armes de pointe qui ont permis de larguer 85 000 tonnes dโ€™explosifs, soit six fois la puissance dโ€™Hiroshima, pour dรฉtruire Gaza ยป, a-t-elle dรฉclarรฉ.

Selon son rapport, la Bourse de Tel-Aviv a enregistrรฉ une hausse de 213 % depuis octobre 2023. ยซ Un peuple sโ€™enrichit, un autre est effacรฉ ยป, a-t-elle rรฉsumรฉ.

Elle a accusรฉ Israรซl dโ€™avoir transformรฉ cette guerre en laboratoire dโ€™expรฉrimentation militaire, testant de nouvelles armes, systรจmes de surveillance personnalisรฉs, drones lรฉtaux et radars.

La vulnรฉrabilitรฉ de la Palestine en ferait un ยซ laboratoire idรฉal pour le complexe militaro-industriel israรฉlien ยป.

Albanese a nommรฉ 48 acteurs รฉconomiques, fabricants dโ€™armes, banques, entreprises technologiques, multinationales de lโ€™รฉnergie et institutions acadรฉmiques quโ€™elle accuse dโ€™รชtre directement liรฉs ร  ยซ une รฉconomie de lโ€™occupation ยป qui soutient les actions israรฉliennes.

ยซ Des armes et des systรจmes de donnรฉes brutalisent et surveillent les Palestiniens. Des colonies sโ€™รฉtendent, financรฉes par les banques et les assureurs, alimentรฉes par les รฉnergies fossiles, et normalisรฉes par des plateformes touristiques, des chaรฎnes de supermarchรฉs et des institutions universitaires ยป, a-t-elle dรฉnoncรฉ.

Elle a rappelรฉ quโ€™en droit international, mรชme un lien minime avec ce systรจme implique une responsabilitรฉ claire. ยซ Il existe une responsabilitรฉ prima facie pour chaque ร‰tat et entitรฉ commerciale de sโ€™abstenir totalement ou de mettre fin ร  toute relation avec cette รฉconomie de lโ€™occupation. ยป

Francesca Albanese a appelรฉ les ร‰tats ร  des mesures audacieuses : ยซ Les ร‰tats membres doivent imposer un embargo complet sur les armes ร  Israรซl, suspendre tous les accords commerciaux et relations dโ€™investissement, et garantir que les entitรฉs impliquรฉes soient tenues lรฉgalement responsables de leur participation ร  de graves violations du droit international. ยป

Elle a รฉgalement exhortรฉ les entreprises ร  agir : ยซLes entitรฉs commerciales doivent immรฉdiatement cesser toute activitรฉ et rompre tout lien contribuant directement aux violations des droits humains et aux crimes internationaux contre le peuple palestinien. ยป

Albanese a conclu en sโ€™adressant ร  la sociรฉtรฉ civile: ยซ Les syndicats, avocats, ONG et simples citoyens doivent encourager les entreprises et les gouvernements ร  changer de comportement, en exigeant des boycotts, dรฉsinvestissements, sanctions et poursuites judiciaires. La suite dรฉpend de nous tous. ยป

Traduit de l'anglais par Sanaa Amir

aa.com.tr/fr/monde/francesca-aโ€ฆ

La France, รฉtat de #droit ? Lโ€™expression ยซ รฉtat de droit ยป est un oxymore. Lร  oรน il y a รฉtat, il nโ€™y a de droit que celui que lโ€™on mendie auprรจs de ceux qui se sont unilatรฉralement et par la force emparรฉ du pouvoir exclusif de le dire. Autrement dit lโ€™รฉtat peut, et est le seul ร  pouvoir, dรฉcider qui, dont lui-mรชme, peut bafouer la loi, laquelle nโ€™est quโ€™une promesse tenue que tant que le respect des apparences importe.


Amira #Zaรฏter a รฉtรฉ condamnรฉe ร  6 mois de port de bracelet รฉlectronique, un an de sursis et une amende de 6 000 โ‚ฌ pour un tweet dรฉnonรงant un soldat franco-israรฉlien.
Amira #Zaiter, militante propalestinienne, a vu sa peine, pour "apologie du #terrorisme" rรฉduite en appel, ร  Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhรดne), ce mercredi.
En premiรจre instance ร  Nice, la cofondatrice de lโ€™association #Nice ร  #Gaza, avait รฉtรฉ condamnรฉe le 4 novembre ร  3 ans de prison, dont un an ferme
Amira Zaiter a รฉtรฉ condamnรฉe ร  6 mois de bracelet รฉlectronique, 1 an de sursis pendant 2 ans, et ร  verser prรจs de 6000 euros, dont 1500 ร  un soldat franco-israรฉlien de Tsahal basรฉ ร  Nice, pour lโ€™avoir publiquement dรฉnoncรฉ.
Son tort : avoir soutenu la Palestine, dรฉnoncรฉ les crimes commis ร  Gaza et pris position contre le soutien #politique affichรฉ par Christian #Estrosi.

#macronie #Israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine

During the Holocaust IBM was tasked by the Nazis in Poland to โ€œcalculate exactly how many Jews should be emptied out of the ghettos each day.โ€ Thereโ€™s always an American company huh www.theguardian.com/world/2002/m...
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:evgc4โ€ฆ


Boston Consulting Group is consulting on how to ethnically cleanse hundreds of millions of Palestinians. Genocide is done through consulting firms now.
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7wzyyโ€ฆ

Internal microphone not being detected pleaseee helppp


Hello all- I am seeking help trying to figure out why my internal microphone isn't being detected. I have followed a lot of troubleshooting audio guides such as this one and none of it has worked.

I'm on Pop_OS, with wayland, on an Asus laptop,

Here is more info if anyone could by chance help me

arecord -l

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC294 Analog [ALC294 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

systemctl --user status pipewire
โ— pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-07-03 15:19:48 EDT; 24h ago
TriggeredBy: โ— pipewire.socket
   Main PID: 2192 (pipewire)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 18486)
     Memory: 16.4M
        CPU: 15.088s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
             โ””โ”€2192 /usr/bin/pipewire

Jul 03 15:19:48 pop-os systemd[2182]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Jul 03 15:19:48 pop-os pipewire[2192]: mod.jackdbus-detect: Failed to receive jackdbus reply:>
lines 1-13/13 (END)

some more info: pastebin.com/embed_js/6vR5ZEXw

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Okay, so this is one of Asus's consumer models that fits in the "Windowstop" category, meaning a lot of the hardware is going to be windows-only for various reasons.

It's got an ALC272 which IS supported, but that doesn't mean the microphone will be, especially if it's on the USB bus for whatever reason.

Couple questions:

1) Do other microphones work, just not internal?
2) Does your volume control work as expected
3) Does the webcam work, and does the internal microphone work only when the webcam is engaged?
4) What do apps like Discord or Zoom detect as available for your inputs?

As a test, install pavucontrol and qasmixer. Open pavucontrol, and check ALL the input settings (there are many combos). If nothing there shows activity, launch qasmixer, select the 'hw' view on the right, then try selecting different mixers and see if one finally clicks.

If any of these are successful, your mic is detected, and your mixer settings are messed up so it's not being enabled as an input sink.

If none of these work, you're going to have to dig restart, then run sudo dmesg and grep through looking for information regarding audio devices, or similar errors to see if it can't detect it.

From the product specs, it looks like it might have Harmon Kardon speakers, which may also tie into the microphone, and that's going to be problematic if it's a USB device for a number of reasons I won't dive into. Overall, this model just seems to be problematic from digging around. Example: reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/160โ€ฆ

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  1. other microphones work but the quality is bad
  2. volume control works as expected
  3. Webcam works just no sound.
  4. when i go on zoom or discord there is no available inputs

the internal mic used to work but then I had to do some update and now its not.

Is there a chance that there is some config file that is blocking something? like i made some kind of setting in a config file that is making this happen?

Internal microphone not being detected pleaseee helppp


Hello all- I am seeking help trying to figure out why my internal microphone isn't being detected. I have followed a lot of troubleshooting audio guides such as this one and none of it has worked.

I'm on Pop_OS, with wayland, on an Asus laptop,

Here is more info if anyone could by chance help me

arecord -l

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC294 Analog [ALC294 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

systemctl --user status pipewire
โ— pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-07-03 15:19:48 EDT; 24h ago
TriggeredBy: โ— pipewire.socket
   Main PID: 2192 (pipewire)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 18486)
     Memory: 16.4M
        CPU: 15.088s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
             โ””โ”€2192 /usr/bin/pipewire

Jul 03 15:19:48 pop-os systemd[2182]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Jul 03 15:19:48 pop-os pipewire[2192]: mod.jackdbus-detect: Failed to receive jackdbus reply:>
lines 1-13/13 (END)

some more info: pastebin.com/embed_js/6vR5ZEXw

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I am new to linux so please don't make fun of me too much if what i'm sharing doesn't make any sense!!

in reply to Crash

Audio devices can have multiple modes or "profiles" that determine what they do.

For my headset I have:

For my internal sound card I have:

If I set my headset to one of the options that doesn't have "+ Mono Input" the mic stops working and doesn't even show up in settings and apps anymore. Same if I use the "Stereo Output" mode on my internal sound card. They must be set to a mode with both output and input enabled to work.

I can see this from "Sound" in my KDE settings, but you can also configure this in the "Configuration" tab of pavucontrol.

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