Zohran Mamdani was never supposed to win. Up against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo – a well-funded candidate backed by real estate interests andHamza Shehryar (CounterPunch.org)
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crazy to think, but all AI actually works like this
the data trained on is inherently biased because we live in an incredibly unjust world
this is just an incredibly obvious showing of what has always been the inherent limitation of AI techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok…
Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
an AI doesn't have to be made by a fascist in order to be fascist
its trained on a culture and history deeply rooted in western centered white supremacy
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Nextcloud update! 31.0.7
Owncloud stores files in their own format, nextcloud stores them natively
You are locked in owncloud forever
Nextckoud can do the same if you use s3 as the main storage backend
President Trump started his second term exactly where he left off in 2021, waging an everyday psychological and physical war on immigrants. Joe Biden'sAbraham Márquez (CounterPunch.org)
Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
Link: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an answer. …Simon Willison’s Weblog
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An American president, a convicted felon, welcomed, for the third time this year, an indicted Israeli war criminal to the White House; further sullying what remains of America’s standing in the world.
What should we make of Mamdani's stunning victory? Much of the commentary —regardless of vantage point— is grandiose, highly speculative, and withoutRichard Moser (CounterPunch.org)
The international community is placing enormous expectations on the proposed Gaza ceasefire, viewing it as a potential turning point in a conflict thatAmeer Al-Auqaili (CounterPunch.org)
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My PewDiePie Linux challenge is complete;
1. use Hyprland (but on Debian
2. Switched to GrapheneOS
3. Nextcloud (for a while now)
US President Donald Trump has threatened heavy tariffs on BRICS, claiming the organization is "dead", but it is actually growing in size and influence. 10 me...YouTube
A small price to pay for having billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations, wouldn’t you say?
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Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists sayAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
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damn. got fediblocked by mastodon dot art, and they think im someone else ig mastodon.art/@jase/11483168301…
how about. #fediblock @jase for false accusations of "harassement" shall I? xP
Content warning: Nya.pub, freedns, fediblock, open for all free subdomain service that you guessed it dav1d makes use ofMastodon.ART
Thinking for no particular reason today* about the peculiar genius of Stanislaw Lem
A Jew, a doctor, a Pole, in the resistance against Hitler & Stalin & capitalism, an SF legend, feared by PK Dick, lauded by UK Le Guin
…& one of the earliest AGI skeptics
>… held that information technology drowns people in a glut of low-quality information, and considered truly intelligent robots as both undesirable and impossible to construct.
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*seriously, this is not a subtoot
AI coding tools can reduce productivity
Link: secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-coding-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate GainsSteve Newman (Second Thoughts)
Голос Кореи,Voice of Korea,Voz de Corea,صوت كوريا ,Stimme Koreas,공화국,vokwww.vok.rep.kp
Olive leaf extract effective in patients with stage-1 hypertension
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A double-blind, randomized, parallel and active-controlled clinical study was conducted to evaluate the anti-hypertensive effect as well as the tolerability of Olive leaf extract in comparison with Captopril in patients with stage-1 hypertension.PubMed
The Trump administration’s sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese show how far the U.S. is willing to go to ensure impunity for Israel as it commits genocide.Craig Mokhiber (Mondoweiss)
A senior US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official on Wednesday told a federal court judge that its investigation of pro-Palestinian student protestors has been largely informed by a pro-Israel website that blacklists academics and studen…Syma Mohammed (Middle East Eye)
We are about to get screwed again! This time with the New World Screwworm!
US Orders "Immediate Shutdown" Of Mexican Cattle Trade After Cross-Border Parasitic Fly Threat
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
Golly, I hope your mom is home tonight...
So I can drain these balls.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally ordered the Israeli military to create plans for the creation of a giant concentration camp on the ruins of Rafah, where the population of Gaza would be moved in preparation for their forcible ex…World Socialist Web Site
The Internet is a lot safer today than it was a decade ago, thanks to Let's Encrypt.
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Over the last ten years, more than 600 million websites have been secured with free certificates from Let's Encrypt. Here's how it all began and why.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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In an extraordinary act of imperialist intimidation, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the imposition of 50 percent tariffs on all products exported by Brazil to the United States.World Socialist Web Site
'Hand To God, I Know The Names': Alan Dershowitz Says He Knows Who's On The Epstein List
(He ought to. He's one of them!)
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’William Christou (The Guardian)
Good thing he doesn't go on You Can't do That on Television.
Donald Trump hasn’t been happy with Vladimir Putin lately, and he took out his frustrations with Russia’s president this week by announcing that the United States would resume sending military aid to Ukraine. When he was asked on Tuesday who ordered the aid to be paused in the first place, Trump delivered what has become one of his go-to responses whenever he’s pressed about the chaos his administration is unleashing on the nation and the world.“I don’t know,” he said.
The pause on aid to Ukraine was apparently ordered last week by beleaguered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who reportedly neglected to tell the White House about the move, leading to internal scrambling. Trump was asked whether he approved the pause while sitting next to Hegseth during a Cabinet meeting. The president only offered that the U.S. needs to keep sending “defensive weapons” to Ukraine because “Putin is not treating human beings right.” When asked who ordered the pause, Trump said he didn’t know. “Why don’t you tell me?” he added.
This would be far more amusing if he got slimed every time he said that.
Also, what kind of strongman doesn't know what's going on in his loyal junta?
Donald Trump has responded by shrugging his shoulders to questions about everything from posting AI-generated images to military aid to Ukraine.Ryan Bort (Rolling Stone)
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Public accounts committee warns UK infrastructure risked becoming ‘stony ground’ for investors without major overhaulJoanna Partridge (The Guardian)
There have been modest redistributive reforms, but the party still daren’t admit that Britain’s rampant inequality needs to be addressed, writes Guardian columnist Andy BeckettAndy Beckett (The Guardian)
What Albanese’s report tries to do is not merely name and shame Israel’s genocide partners but to tell us, as civil society, that we now have a comprehensive frame of reference.admin (Politics For The People)
While offering his “thoughts and prayers” for the families of those drowned in the Texas floods, JD Vance referred to the killer torrents that swept awayJeffrey St. Clair (CounterPunch.org)
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Extermination tactics are chillingly familiar – and aim to murder more than a million people Wanted Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has outlined his plan for the next escalation of Is…SKWAWKBOX
As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the Gala’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope in the face of oppression and hatred.
A year into the new Labour Government, key hardship measures show no improvement - over 7 million low-income families are still going without essentials.Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Mahmoud Khalil says he’s willing to throw away the lawsuit on one condition.The New Republic
Take a closer look at what the Justice Department memo says—and doesn’t say—about the sexual predator’s “client list.”Philip Rotner (The Bulwark)
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The fossil-fuel profits behind Trump’s Texas disaster
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Trump’s denial that the death toll from the Texas floods is the fault of his cuts feeds into adangerous new recklessness of the fossil-fuel sector, argues John Clarke This week’s disastrous flooding in Texas has raised questions about the degree t…Counterfire
How the Bank of England is enforcing austerity | Counterfire
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The central bank’s quantitative tightening programme is not much discussed, but is central to the government’s cuts and failure to invest in public services, argues Dominic Alexander Starmer’s government shows no sign of letting up from its war ag…Counterfire
Desperate measures: Why the clampdown over Palestine can be made to fail | Counterfire
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Attacks on the Palestine movement are backfiring argues Chris Nineham In the last couple of weeks, state harassment of the Palestine movement has turned into a cackhanded clampdown.Counterfire
Gute Morgen, die Nacht war gut. Ich bin gestern um 20.00 Uhr ins Bett gefallen. Einfach fertig.
Ich wünsche Euch allen einen guten Start in den Freitag!
Ach ja, eine News, die ich gut fand: Der Carlsen Verlag geht endlich gegen die Conny Memes durch. Richtig so.
Turd Flinging Monkey
1 Is on a omnivore diet because he flavors his meat with plants
2 Is on a carnivore diet and does not flavor his meats with plants
3 Is on some other diet
4 TFMonkey does not exist
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The empire depends on ignorance, says Caitlin Johnstone. The more stupid, racist, gullible, and easily distracted we become, the nastier agendas the empire can roll out.Consortium News
Speaking of Wired's excellent coverage:
They just reported on a Department of Homeland Security memo that went out to local police forces ...
... urging them to consider even the most innocuous and bog-standard protest activity as dangerous ...
... like skateboarding, or walkigng around "on foot"
no joke
The story: wired.com/story/dhs-tells-poli…
Unpaywalled: archive.is/4Dgw5
An excerpt:
By Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. Earlier statements by Benjamin Netanyahu in 2011 shed surprising light on his policy toward Iran. It could be that revisionist Zionists see themselves as protectors of the West.Réseau International
Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street closes higher and edges to more records
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"I've tried for years to get a member of the Squad to take up the issue of Israel's nukes and use that to try to cut off funding to Israel, and none have done so.
Here's MTG raising Israel's nukes more than any member of congress has before, but it's got serious problems . . ."
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@samhusseini: 🧵Fascinating thread. I've tried for years to get a member of the Squad to take up the issue of Israel's nukes and use that to try to cut off funding to Israel, and none have...threadreaderapp.com
Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels
Link: github.com/fosrl/pangolin
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Identity and Access Control and Dashboard UI - fosrl/pangolinGitHub
"ICE hasn’t published any official deportation data since Trump took office.
It has been over 6 months since we got the most recent removal figures for December 2024.
Mass deportations are a lie. They are not happening."
Nick Fuentes on X
Until recently, discussions focused on a new stage in defining the line of demarcation between Russia and the NATO camp. Now, however, we can speak of theМихаил Гамандий-Егоров (New Eastern Outlook)
Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh: All-Star closer Andrés Muñoz was tipping pitches against Yankees
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Son of ‘El Chapo’ expected to plead guilty in drug trafficking case in rescheduled hearing
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The Yemeni army has escalated its maritime blockade against Israel, targeting and sinking two ships headed to Israeli ports within a couple of daysthecradle.co
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He closed his store after years of threats. Why Mexico's extortion problem is getting worse
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I was going to criticize her but honestly who hasn't NDed because hot brass got into the thigh high boot?
Happens to the best of us.
President Joe Biden’s immigration bill will put virtually all illegal ...Taki's Magazine
The liberation of Zelenaya Dolina and most of Karpovka in the north of the DPR by our troops could have far-reaching consequences for the enemy's defense.novosti (Военное обозрение)
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