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At least 13 people were dead after flash flooding hit south-central Texas early Friday, officials said, with more than 20 girls at a summer camp still...AFP (Yahoo News)
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Man, Synth finds no joy in anything, lmao. I really can't help but disagree with his view of gaming this time, Death Stranding is garbage that's for sure, but I don't believe for one second you're "wasting your time" playing games you enjoy.
Death Stranding 2 is one of the most subtly disturbing games I've ever played, and a complete waste of everyone's time.#deathstranding2 Join this channel to ...YouTube
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Air Pollution May Contribute to Development of Lung Cancer in Never-Smokers
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A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic mutations that may contribute to the development of lung cancer in people with no or hardly any history of smoking.today.ucsd.edu
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Mongabay India won an excellence in audio reporting award recently from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA). The award was for the limited series podcast Wild Frequencies. SOPA, which promotes best practices and excellence in journalism, announced the winners of its 2025 Awards of Editorial Excellence during a ceremony in Hong Kong on June 26. Wild Frequencies, a three-episode series that follows researchers in India studying animal sounds to better understand wildlife, is hosted by Mongabay India’s Kartik Chandramouli and Mongabay’s Shreya Dasgupta. It features sound design and original music by Abhijit Shylanath. SOPA shared the judges’ comments on the series: “With a rich audio-scape and creative sound design, rigorous reporting and engaging storytelling, these reports from the field (and forests and wetlands) around India offer listeners a deeper understanding of how the sounds [are] made by creatures in the natural world, and what those creatures and their bioacoustics can tell us about whether an ecosystem is healthy or imperiled.” The series also won “Best Science and Medical” podcast at the Publisher Podcast Awards in June and the “Best Produced Show” in the science category for the India Audio Summit & Awards 2025. In 2023, Mongabay won SOPA’s Excellence in Bahasa Indonesian News Reporting Award for the story ‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom, which was a collaboration with The Gecko Project and BBC News. Find the Wild Frequencies episodes here: Episode 1: “Find Them” — introduces the science of…This article was originally published on Mongabay
The Court of History's Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz are joined by Conservative former judge, John Michael Luttig, who declares his independence from Tr...YouTube
Capitalism eats its regulators.
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I agree 100%. It hits harder now with having two young children and seeing what's happening in the world. Just heartbreaking.
But yes I agree. We can either give up or fight back somehow.
And giving up is not an option.
To be honest these interactions with people like your self help. Knowing you're not alone in how you're experiencing it all. 💚
P.s. I've changed accounts yet again to self host. I've prob chatted with you now from about 5 accounts.
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RFK, Jr. clarifies his position on wearables, and it's good stuff:
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poorly. “What I was trying to say is that I want this technology to be universally available as one of the ways people can get on top of their health,” he explained; "Of course I don’t want to mandateDr. Paul Alexander (Alexander News Network (ANN): Trump's War 2.0 for America)
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I have an apple watch by choice
Thing went off and advised I had low cardio fitness
I had a high fatty meal on vacation and my fitness was not good
I ate clean, low fat for three days and my cardio felt better
It helps me get feedback on staying active
Hamas responds to US-backed Gaza ceasefire proposal in a ‘positive spirit’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
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"But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to publicly endorse the plan."
Waiting for him to now walk it back, as he has done before.
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine
Palestinian group’s reply boosts chances of 60-day Gaza ceasefire, but Israel hasn’t responded publicly to the proposal.Al Jazeera
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Today in modern American Gleichschaltung: "My SAC informed me in a moment she described as “brutally honest,” that I would not be receiving any promotions; in fact, I needed to prepare myself for the likelihood of being demoted.Infosec Exchange
You mean Trump will stage a coup against himself so he can have an excuse to clean up the administration from anyone that dislikes him?
Do you think Trump has a trust base relationship with such a group who can stage a coup and be believable at least?
What would conspirators trust as return and what would they risk in case of failure?
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Death Stranding 2 is one of the most subtly disturbing games I've ever played, and a complete waste of everyone's time.#deathstranding2 Join this channel to ...YouTube
"The solution is not returning to some mythical state of pre-Trump administration American equality, but actually understanding and fixing what is broken," argues writer Joseph Lee.Joseph Lee (Teen Vogue)
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The Garland jihad was followed by a spate of ISIS-related attacks on American soil. Here is a list of the acts of jihad in the US since the Garland, Texas jihad shooting.Pamela Geller (Breitbart)
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You can even add a search like this to your browser's inbuilt search engines, with a string like this:
* searx.bndkt.io/search?q=filety… %s
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* duckduckgo.com/?q=filetype%3Ap… %s
&ia=web
The %s
is the placeholder string used by both Firefox, Chromium, and many of their derivatives like LibreWolf, ZenBrowser, and Vivaldi. You'll need to remove the spaces around it in the two URLs above (as Lemmy changed all my URLs without spaces to something different).
I'm on Caterpillar's email list. Sometimes they're links to white papers, sometimes relevant for other reasons. And sometimes it's just to announce sales or special offers.
A friend was looking over my shoulder and noticed the subject line "See the latest deals on Cat parts" and had questions.
#cats
Speaking from experience: Taking a risk by calling things out can be a very isolating experience. Don't applaud people that do. Do as they did: Take a risk, speak up, call shit out.
Because the more people do so, the less risk everyone has to take. And eventually what was once daring to say has moved into the realm of ordinary again.
Interesting counterpoint to the stuff we sometimes talk about here. It's more for public chat rooms though. MLS (RFC 9240) still interests me and I've been wanting to try coding it.
Kris Köhntopp's blog (Fedi: @isotoppinfosec.exchange)Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp
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The White House confirmed that the U.S. has cut off some planned shipments of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, claiming they suddenly want to "to put America's interests first."Rachel Blevins
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Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites
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those icons are definitely AI made
the text and composition, that's by a human. but those icons, AI
Ah that’s fair, I can see where you’re coming from on that. Those icons could 100% be generated with AI given the right prompting.
In my book, they look way more like stock assets to me due to how generic the symbols are, and the consistent styling. The “army guard” icon is kinda sus because of the stick “gun”, but that can be read as deliberate ambiguity to appease potential corporate customers who don’t want gun depictions in their vector stock images, and same deal with the generic “six point star”.
You’d also think they’d have chosen some sort of more detailed depiction of “isolation & surveillance” than a megaphone, or a lightning head for “fear & control”. If any of the accompanying text was included in the prompt to generate these images, the output would’ve been completely different.
If you know anyone in the European Union who is seriously considering buying Meta's spyglasses, please remind them that using those privacy nightmares would make them a controller according to the GDPR. They'd be responsible for ensuring full compliance with our privacy laws, which - surprise, surprise - will be impossible.
Please tell them to save themselves and everyone around them the trouble and give the money to any NGO instead.
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#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #Meta #BanRayBan
When it comes to President Donald Trump, the "worst is yet to come," according to an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.David McAfee (Raw Story)
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Hercules scores winner in 70th minute, Fluminense beats Al Hilal 2-1 to reach Club World Cup semis
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The Colombian Navy announced its first seizure of an unmanned, remotely controlled narco-submarine in the Caribbean Sea, equipped with a Starlink antenna and with the capacity to transport 1.5 tons of cocaine.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Busch hits 3 homers and Cubs set club record with 8 in 11-3 rout of Cardinals
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Wimbledon: No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka holds off home favorite Emma Raducanu at Centre Court
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An incredible resource collated by the amazing team at #Israel Exposed. Historians and researches will be trawling through this for decades to come.
And a stark reminder of how craven and complicit #Australia, #UK, #US and other enabling governments are.
Also, imagine how dark and cynical you have to be now, 20 months in to this killing spree, to claim ignorance of these crimes against humanity?
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Based upon a memo issued by the Justice Department last month, Donald Trump's administration wants to ramp up efforts to purge the country not only of undocumented immigrants but also naturalized citizens.Tom Boggioni (Raw Story)
The New Republic reports members of the U.S. military are spending July 4 demanding answers about the consequences of following the orders of “Trump’s far-right authoritarian government.Adam Lynch (Alternet.org)
You know what one of the crazies things about the US is?
A cop can pull you over on the side of the road and be like "Please take this breathalyzer test" and you can say "no" because that's your right.
But he can also say "please step out of the car" and if you say "no" then he'll beat your ass and claim you're resisting, because that's not your right.
So the word "please", in US legal parlance, has 2 meanings:
1. Would you please wave your right not to do this?
2. By my authority I am compelling you to do this.
And they won't tell you which one it is, or they may lie about which one it is, and if you do it and you had the right not to then it's assumed you waved that right.
(AFAIK)
#géopolitique #impérialisme #guerre
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John Stockwell left the CIA when he decided that what they were doing was endangering national security not protecting it.John R. Stockwell (born 1937) is a ...YouTube
Today in Labor History July 4, 1910: African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocked out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round, leading to race riots throughout the U.S. 11 separate riots occurred in NYC, alone. There were riots in 50 cities, including New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, and St. Louis. At least 20 people died in these riots. Johnson, who was also known as the Galveston Giant, became the first black World Heavyweight champion in 1908, which made him unpopular with the predominantly white audience of boxing. He held that title from 1908-1915 and quickly became the most famous black man of the era. The racism against him was so intense that many, including socialist writer Jack London, called for a Great White Hope to fight him and take away his title. Jeffries, a former heavyweight world champ, came out of retirement specifically to prove “that a white man is better than a Negro.” Johnson’s victory in this fight earned him $65,000 ($2.1 million in today’s dollars).
With his winnings, Johnson opened a multi-racial restaurant and nightclub, Club Deluxe, which he ran with his white wife. Because of this, the authorities arrested him for violating the Mann act (transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes). President Trump pardoned him in 2018, something Reagan, both Bushes and even Obama refused to do. Johnson fled the country to avoid arrest, but continued boxing abroad. Eventually he turned himself in and served time at Leavenworth Prison.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #boxing #jackjohnson #racism #trump #obama #reagan #riots #prison #socialism #jacklondon #jimcrow #BlackMastadon
Frédéric LORDON interviewé par Judith Bernard.
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"The rich and powerful don’t care if you dye your hair or pierce your nose or kiss a member of the same sex or say Hail Satan. They don’t care if you support one mainstream political faction over the other, or if you yell empty words about anarchy and revolution that aren’t pointed toward any real material goals. They care very much, however, if you are undermining public consent for military and geopolitical agendas they’ve worked very hard to propagandize the public into accepting.
The establishment never dropped the hammer on Marilyn Manson. Lady Gaga never ran into trouble with the state for singing that gay people are Born This Way. Ozzy Osbourne is living in the lap of luxury with an estimated net worth of $220 million. But groups like Kneecap and Bob Vylan are being subjected to police investigations and visa revocations for taking a stand on Palestine.
Which, of course, is only going to make their position more popular among young people with a defiant streak in them."
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#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #BobVylan #Kneecap #CounterCulture
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
These guys are actually very, very good ->
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I wouldn't mind going to a live show of them... Extremely well produced sound.
Today in Labor History July 4, 1977: The George Jackson Brigade planted a bomb at a power station in Olympia, Washington, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary. They were a revolutionary group founded in the mid-1970s, based in Seattle, named after George Jackson, a prisoner and Black Panther who was shot and killed during an alleged escape attempt at San Quentin Prison in 1971. The Brigade was composed of both communist and anarchist veterans of the women's liberation, LGBTQ and Black Nationalist movements.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #racism #liberation #nationalism #georgejackson #lgbtq #anarchism #communism #feminism #prison #incarceration #strike #blackpanther #bomb #solidarity #BlackMastadon
Synthetic Man takes on the latest piece of Woke Soyny slop that the game journos try to pass off as a masterpiece:
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Death Stranding 2 is one of the most subtly disturbing games I've ever played, and a complete waste of everyone's time.#deathstranding2 Join this channel to ...YouTube
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"It just increasingly affirms your bullshit and blows smoke up your ass so that it can get you f*cking hooked on wanting to engage with it"
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OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises
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OpenAI said it's hiring a forensic psychiatrist to help research the effects of its AI products on users' mental health.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
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A clinic in Republican southwest Nebraska announced it’s closure this week due to anticipated Medicaid cuts from President Donald Trump’s new budget — approved by its own Republican lawmakers.Adam Lynch (Alternet.org)
Dr. Anthony Fauci may have to testify about COVID-19 origins, Rand Paul wrote on X. RFK Jr. said a pandemic “truth commission" could investigate Fauci and others.The Defender
This July 4th, revisit the Declaration as a strategic guide to legitimacy, separation, and cognitive warfare.Mark McGrath | OODA Strategist (The Whirl of ReOrientation: Escape the Script. Win the War.)
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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Can someone explain to me why did we read the diaries of Ann Frank in school?
Was it to learn that defiance of inhumane laws is an obligation of all those with dignity and empathy?
Or just to Nazi bad, Jews good?
President Donald Trump is preparing a massive U.S. troop withdrawal from Europe, planning to pull out up to 20,000 soldiers. The move comes just weeks after ...YouTube
SHAME on these California Republican Congressmembers who voted yes on the #MAGAmurderBudget today
Don't EVER let them forget this community betrayal
From: @kellyromanych
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Fellow Californians, if these are your GOP congressmembers, get on the phones NOW The House is stalled on pushing through the reconciliation budget bill Let's make sure the bill is trashed TODAY & never sees the light of day Tell your reps public…Mastodon
Now, Jews are doing to the US what they tried to do to Germany. Currently, 89% of our Senators and Congress hold dual citizenship citizenship with Israel. He...YouTube
On the 4th of July, NBC News reported that the U.S. Department of Defense under Secretary Pete Hegseth "held up a shipment of U.S. weapons for Ukraine this week over what officials said were concerns about its low stockpiles.Alex Henderson (Alternet.org)
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"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."
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Microsoft announce massive layoffs, including Xbox. Multiple games are cancelled, and rumors claim Phil Spencer won't remain at the company.Ryan Pearson (BoundingIntoComics.com)
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Trump plans to sign his tax and spending cut bill at the White House July 4 picnic
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🇩🇪 Germany is considering the purchase of up to 2,500 GTK Boxer armored vehicles and 1,000 Leopard 2 tanks, following NATO’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 €25 billion, making it one of the largest defense contracts in modern German history
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in reply to DarkMahesvara • • •@DarkMahesvara I don't know about spending money, I uh, just don't, but I would never focus less on gaming.
A NEED to focus less on gaming is different from a WANT to focus less on gaming. I won't let my kids die of fucking hunger because I have to get to 99 mining on Runescape, lmao. But this is such a vapid argument.
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