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The split in the Ukrainian government threatens an internal crisis – Economist en.news-front.su/2025/07/08/th…

The split in the Ukrainian government threatens an internal crisis – Economist

Political instability in Ukraine is exacerbated by military difficulties, according to The Economist.   According to the publication, Kiev is facing not only problems on the front lines, but also deep internal conflicts.
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Sometimes I have to remind myself that although humans are smart enough to have made the Internet and fancy gadgets and nuclear weapons, many, many people still believe there's a white bearded deity in the clouds who will make everything good once his hippie son turns everyone who ate his flesh once a week into zombies, so they can all do the Macerena in the sky for the rest of time-- and all simply because the reality of death and injustice are too much to bear honestly.

What a species!

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More than 100 people died in floods in Texas and our emergency management agency, FEMA, is being de-funded so that very expensive concentration camps-- which also flood--can be built.

For those in Texas? The Federal government had prayers.

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'Alligator Alcatraz' Already Ballooning Over $600 Million, Leaked Document Shows

DHS is redirecting FEMA money to create a slush fund for ICE detention centers.
Ka (Jessica) Burbank (Drop Site News)

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Labour’s plans for the #NHS risk another privatisation disaster

More than a risk, i think, with Starmer and Streeting involved

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Labour’s plans for the NHS risk another privatisation disaster

The involvement of the private sector in the NHS has already had awful consequences, but Labour seems determined to expand the failed privatisation model, explains Graham Kirkwood Last week’s publication of the ten-year health plan for England set…
Counterfire

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Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicisation of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.

wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/0…


Measles in the US reaches a 3-decade high

Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicization of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.
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Ferk

Is the data and public keys being replicated in the communication between instances? it's not made clear how the federation actually works, because "enabling users on different servers to share data with end-to-end encryption" (from foks.pub/) is something all services with TLS / HTTPS support already do...

Also.. one big plus for the OpenPGP HKP protocol is that technically you can self-host your own key in a static HTTPS server with predefined responses and be able to have it interact with other servers and clients without issue. I'm expecting the more complex nature of FOKS might make self-hosting in this way difficult. I'd rather minimize the dynamic services I expose to the outside publicly if I'm self hosting.

Federated Open Key Service (FOKS)

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Hey, please stop repeating the misinformation that corps are legally required to maximize profits or your shareholders can sue you. It's propaganda promoted by a handful of huge fund managers because they'd *like that* to be true.

Even SCOTUS agrees “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.” (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby)

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Firefox is fine. The people running it are not • The Register

Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there's wealth, there's a natural human desire to make more wealth. Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It's been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose. The Reg noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned five.
And as for that money — remember back in 2018? That's when Google dropped "Don't be evil" as its motto.
Mozilla's leadership is directionless and flailing because it's never had to do, or be, anything else. It's never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It's no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It's role-playing being a business.


This is a good summary of all the good they have done and also how they repeatedly throw out the baby but keep the bathwater.

And this interesting bit.

Mozilla is, sadly, far from alone in having faltering leadership. Around the industry, tech execs who couldn't tell an LLM bot from an MLM scheme if their lives depended on it are investing in AI. It's not just cool, it's a cult now. This isn't hyperbole. The phenomenon has a name – it's called TESCREAL, and it is without exaggeration on its way to becoming a religion.


#Mozilla #Firefox #TESCREAL


Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

Opinion: Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature
Liam Proven (The Register)

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Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future

Link: steveblank.com/2025/07/08/blin…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Steve Blank Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future

How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or di…
Steve Blank

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There is a massive CRISIS in farming and food: Door to Freedom is building a coalition and a campaign to educate the public and turn this looming crisis around.

The campaign will roll out in September. We are building the website and gathering "content," assets, allied organizations and staff right now. We were just featured on Zero Hedge.
Meryl Nass (Meryl’s CHAOS Newsletter)

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#way back
In only a moment we both will be old
We won't even notice the world turning cold
And so, in these moments with sunlight above
Ed Ames would be 98
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My Cup Runneth Over (From the Musical Production "I Do, I Do")

Provided to YouTube by RCA Records LabelMy Cup Runneth Over (From the Musical Production "I Do, I Do") · Ed AmesMy Cup Runneth Over℗ Originally released 1967...
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#haze
Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowin', blow my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
"Mitch" Mitchell, British drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience) would be 78
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze (Official Audio)

"Purple Haze" by The Jimi Hendrix ExperienceListen to Jimi Hendrix: https://jimihendrix.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the official Jimi Hendrix YouTube Channel...
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Ansarullah Bureau praises Beit Hanoun operation made against Israeli soldiers en.ypagency.net/362208

Ansarullah Bureau praises Beit Hanoun operation made against Israeli soldiers

SANAA, July 08 (YPA) - Ansarullah Political Bureau praised on Tuesday the heroic operation Palestinian resistance fighters had carried out in Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip, which left dozens of Zionists dead or wounded.In a statement, the offi
احسن (Yemen Press Agency)

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Rolling Stone - Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot goes full Nazi, calls itself ‘MechaHitler’ rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…

Grok Calls Itself 'MechaHitler,' Spouts Antisemitic Comments

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'
Miles Klee (Rolling Stone)

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Google continues the industry-wide trend of jamming AI down users' throats, making it difficult or impossible to opt out, and potentially endangering the privacy of communications: neowin.net/guides/google-can-n…

Google can now read your WhatsApp messages, here's how to stop it

Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.
David Uzondu (Neowin)

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I want this for the retrofuturist movie I will never actually make.

It is currently up for _free_ on #seattle Craigslist and would make one hell of a set piece if you are that sort of person.

seattle.craigslist.org/see/zip…

#set #retrofuturism #prop #WhatEvenIsIt

An Allen Syncrograph Model E135 automotive distributor testing machine in a shop, consisting of a red and black trunk-like base with wheels and aluminium (maybe) trim, a large red boxlike device with a light and a needle display atop of it, and atop of _that_ a tryptich of three large vertical panels connected together with deco metalwork, the outer pair being some sort of collection of printed data and the centre panel being large panel displays with physical needle indicators presumably showing... Centred above that is some sort of projecting bronze part, kind of T-shaped, but with bell-shaped cones on the end. What are they for? I've no idea. it is a device of great mystery.

FREE Allen Syncrograph Model E135 automotive distributor testing machine - free stuff - craigslist

FREE Allen Syncrograph Model E135 automotive distributor testing machine. What an antique! I have no idea if it works but it would sure look great as a display piece once cleaned up. You haul, no...
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khm

it's a device for tuning automotive distributors. looks like it's missing the chuck? you clamp the distributor onto that arm, and then a chuck is supposed to go from the plate up to the distributor. you put the wires on it and the thing spins the distributor at various speeds (see the 'engine speed' gauge) and the firing points show up on the plate at the bottom. the charts are various ignition timing information for various engines, so you can see how far off your distributor is and figure out what you need to change.

I haven't seen anyone use one of these things since I was a little kid, and I'm old as hell

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shortstories

It is actually very difficult to externally rotate the hips as much as they do in ballet for some people that have never trained in it even if they can do the splits and had a lot of yoga

Balancing on only the toes instead of the whole foot is also challenging

These two features make ballet exercise unique compared too many other common types of exercise and uniquely different than many other types of dance

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shortstories

Princess Tutu is a Japanese Anime that goes into great detail about ballet style when people move

Even when they are running or dance fighting they run with the hips externally rotated like in ballet

If you like ballet I strongly reccommend watching Princess Tutu if you can watch the whole series for free

m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aahl1dP…


Princess Tutu - Trailer (Upscaled HD) (2002)

Princess Tutu follows Duck, a duck who was transformed into a young girl and takes ballet at a private school. She becomes enamoured of her mysterious school...
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@shortstories My sister did ballet for years. She did not pursue it. She was remarkably fit and lithe.
We are estranged...
This reminded me of her.
Sorry for rambling. Perhaps it was just cathartic release.

Aside: yoga is not a fitness regime. It is a spiritual practice to be grounded with Nature. Western ideas have subverted it. Unfortunate.

Also: The Russians were clearly better at this performance of Swan Lake. Synchronization and smoothness of movement.

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Trump did not specify whether the US intends to continue the proxy war against Russia after exhausting Biden's aid to the Ukrainian Armed Forces en.topwar.ru/267684-tramp-ne-u…

Trump did not specify whether the US intends to continue the proxy war against Russia after exhausting Biden's aid to the Ukrainian Armed Forces

After the resumption of arms supplies to the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced by US President Donald Trump and the Pentagon, a natural question arises: are the Americans planning to supply Kyiv with the remainder of the military aid packages allocate…
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