Texas leads nation in flood deaths due to geography, size and population
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There is something seriously wrong with a society that arrests demonstrators for holding signs reading ‘I oppose genocide.'
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For the second week running, demonstrators have been arrested for defying proscription by holding signs in Parliament Square. Other actions are planned in Bristol, Manchester, Cardiff and Derry.Novara Media
Tel Aviv is moving forward with plans to force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into the ruins of Rafah, with those left outside reportedly set to be identified as 'Hamas terrorists' and eliminatedthecradle.co
https://hypersclub.com/ - Dave Chappelle wants it to be known that he's not a fan of DJ Khaled's silence while his fellow Palestinian's struggle in Gaza to d...YouTube
Firas Al-Tirawi is a Palestinian political activist and writer &Member of the General Secretariat of the Arab Networenglish.pnn.ps
A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man
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“Northern Lights” at 30
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"Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy taught me to distrust authority, and that we live in just one of many possible worlds ~ Taib Hayat ~ Set in a steampunk-themed alternate universe, the orphan girl Lyra grows up among scholars in a venerable British college. Reformation and Enlightenment never happened in her world, and the
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Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy taught me to distrust authority, and that we live in just one of many possible worlds ~ Taib Hayat ~ Set in a steampunk-themed alternate universe, the orphan girl Lyra grows up among scholars in a venerable…anarchy (Freedom Press)
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Trump's sudden shifts make his policies baffling to countries trying to negotiate lower tariffs
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Trump announces 30% tariffs against EU, Mexico to begin August 1
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Nasser Hospital, the last medical center still operating in southern Gaza, is threatened with shutting down as the Israeli army tightens its siege on the area. The hospital warns that fuel shortages will turn the facility into a "silent graveyard."
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Nasser Hospital, the last medical center still operating in southern Gaza, is threatened with shutting down as the Israeli army tightens its siege on the area. The hospital warns that fuel shortages will turn the facility into a “silent graveyard.”Tareq S. Hajjaj (Mondoweiss)
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The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which oversaw the development of the GBU-57 bombs, still has no data on whether these munitions were able to achieve the estimated destruction depth necessary to completely destroy Iran's underground nuclear …Ahilles86 (Военное обозрение)
One huge impact mass FOSS adoption would have is that there would be a lot less software and hardware churn. Commercial nature of proprietary technology is the main driver for constant upgrade cycles we see. Companies need to constantly sell products to stay in business, and this means you have to deprecate old software and hardware in order to sell new versions of the product.
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They're sadists, so they like sadism. They enjoy making people suffer. They also enjoy making money and having sex.
So if there's something that will cause others to suffer, make them money, and get them aroused, they'll go for it no matter what laws they have to break.
Well....not that laws are binding us as a society any longer.
US-backed aid group denies that it submitted proposal, says slides “are not a GHF document".Reuters (DAWN.COM)
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i have had a tremendously long break from client work, which is really nice in some ways but number is going way down 📉
checking what sort of dev jobs are available on the job boards it's not looking too great for human employment. i think it's going to continue imploding until AI basically does everything and no jobs even exist
the it'll be eat bug live in pod time
as AGI approaches then it'll just be shareholders, executives, boards of directors, and their AI agents
obviously there will have to be systemic changes cause on this trajectory the whole concept of a job will be obsolete, for the vast majority of human labor
my main client has basically been saying "Yea i have some updates for you to do" for like 6 months and we never do them. so it's an extremely minimal amount of system admin stuff that an AI agent could probably take over within a year or two.
don't get me wrong i am definitely taking advantage of this pause in work to deal with other stuff like getting moved onto my property (thus reducing expenses) but still it's rather disconcerting
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A new satellite constellation called SWIFT aims to predict dangerous space weather events up to 60 minutes before they hit Earth, giving more time to protect vulnerable technologies.
A heliophysicist and space weather expert explains:
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As more satellites are launched into orbit, space agencies are looking at how to predict space weather events that could harm them.The Conversation
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Ukraine, with support from Turkey, the U.S., and Europe, serves as a springboard for promoting separatist ideas in Russia.Arina KORSHUNOVA (Oriental Review)
It is very important that you view this list of celebrities and public figures all with a left black eye and come to the conclusion that conspiracy theorists are crazy for wondering why.
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Also, there was never an Epstein list.
Elizabeth Hurley, Boy George and Robert Downey Jnr are among the A-listers who have been photographed with bruising in the eye area in recent years.Jacqui Deevoy (Daily Mail)
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I remember each one. Harry Reid was a nasty POS. When asked if he felt remorse, he said, "I would do it all again. It's about power by any means necessary."
I remember 2 official explanations about his bruises and getting beat up. One was he fell off the treadmill. The 2nd was that his brother beat him up. I don't know if this black eye picture is that or a separate time.
people hate on translators a lot for reasons that seem obvious, but completely forget about editors, chief editor, simply censors, and others who will and do impose on perfectly fine beautiful text with their own failed writer ambitions while bragging about not even knowing the language of the source material
and speaking of hate, graphic designers also get a ton of unwarranted hate, when it's their clients who choose the final result
Oh look, Israel's OWN experts say the Rafah concentration camp plan would be a war crime, crime against humanity, and potentially by itself an act of genocide.
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Israeli airstrikes killed at least 17 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn, with dozens more killed in recent days, including aid seekers. The UN reports nearly 800 Palestinians have died while seeking food at GHF-run sites.ABNA English
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> Psalms 46:6-10 📖
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms are overthrown.
God gives a shout, the earth dissolves.
The Lord who commands armies is on our side!
The God of Jacob is our protector! (Selah)
Come! Witness the exploits of the Lord, who brings devastation to the earth!
He brings an end to wars throughout the earth;
he shatters the bow and breaks the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.
Stokes runs out Pant as India reaches lunch at 248-4 in 3rd test against England
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So if you've installed Windows 11 recently, you're familiar with the very lengthy setup process where you can uncheck a lot of toggles to try and limit what the OS collects.
What the OS will collect is the following:
- Microsoft Store Logs
- Network data
- Hardware information
- Accessory data
- Application-related data
- Event metrics
You'll also send complete words that you typed or wrote, not just statistics. You'll also send speech recognition data, and activity history, so every document you opened, website you visited...
But that's just what Microsoft tells you about. Recently, a youtuber called "The PC Security channel" analysed a completely fresh Windows install, using Wireshark, and what they found was is that Windows makes a few connections to third parties it never really told you about.
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So what exactly can Microsoft do with all this data?
Well, they have more than enough to completely fingerprint your device, they can reliably tell what you use in terms of apps, and what type of content you watch, and they also basically can have a keylogger on your computer. And finally, Windows sends some data to third parties.
Fortunately, you can disable all the option stuff straight from the settings.You can go to the privacy and security options, and go into each category and disable everything there.
You can also completely disable the telemetry service. Just hit Windows + R, and in the run dialog, type services.msc. In there, look for something called "Connected user experiences and telemetry", double click that, and in the "General tab", you can set "startup type" to "disabled".
Apple talks a big game when it comes to privacy, but in the end, is it really true?
Out of the box, macOS sends to Apple your IP address, location, and some usage patterns, like all the apps you run, and when you run them. Other telemetry data, out of the box, includes browsing history, search history, crash data, performance and diagnostic data, location information, health information if you use that on an iPhone for example, all the info you entered in your AppleID, the device serial number, payment information, everything you bought using that Apple ID, and potentially your government ID.
Fortunately, macOS lets you disable virtually everything that's being collected. You can just head over to the Security and Privacy settings, and in analytics and improvements, uncheck everything.
Now, how about Linux? Well, Linux based operating systems, or at least desktop Linux distributions don't collect any data out of the box, with a few exceptions.
The first one is Ubuntu, who will collect telemetry data out of the box, with no personal information at all. It's just hardware data, but it could still be used to fingerprint your device. Canonical doesn't currently have any ad server that I know about, so they probably only really use this to know what their users actually use and focus their efforts on that, but if you're uncomfortable with that, you can disable it at install.
Some Ubuntu derivatives that use the same installer might also have that kind of telemetry. On top of that, you have the ability to turn some entirely optional telemetry on in KDE's settings; and GNOME also has a telemetry tool that you have to install manually.
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.Discord
Not that anyone's counting, but Israel has now killed as many starving Palestinians queuing for food alone as civilians were killed on Oct 7.
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UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian FoundationWilliam Christou (The Guardian)
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Dict Unpacking in Python
Link: github.com/asottile/dict-unpac…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
can we have dict unpacking in python? Contribute to asottile/dict-unpacking-at-home development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I live in Chicago and this city feels so full of energy in the summer. There are constant festivals, events, people are hosting cookouts, everyone's outside. It feels like a constant party. You pay for it in the winter though.
I lived most of my life in South Carolina. Last year, I made the mistake of visiting SC in the summer. I had to say no to so many plans in Chicago and leave beautiful weather to visit the hottest, muggiest, no-wind-est place on earth. In Columbia, SC the pride festival is held in October because if it was held in June, people would just die. I told my friends and family that they visit me during the summer and I'll be around for the holidays.
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A recent announcement that Israel intends to “concentrate” Gaza’s population into camps built on Rafah’s ruins before forcibly displacing them has elicited international condemnation. But Israel has already been rolling out this plan for months.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
"Dismiss all anger and look into yourself a little. Remember that he of whom you are speaking is your brother, and as he is in the way of salvation, God can make him a saint, in spite of his present weakness."
— St. Thomas of Villanova
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Lord,
we praise you with our lips,
and with our lives and hearts.
Our very existence is a gift from you;
to you we offer all that we have and are.
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.
El Salvador may have just exposed Trump's charade for all to see
Trump's Justice Department has said Venezuelans deported to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison are out of U.S. reach. A new United Nations report says otherwise.Hayes Brown (MSNBC)
Yesterday was the remembrance day for the genocide of Srebrenica. War criminals Radic & Karadžić were convicted by the International Court of Justice and are serving life sentences in jail. icty.org/en/press/radovan-kara…
A similar massacre is taking place in Gaza, with 800 hungry civilians recently killed while searching for food. It won't be too early until the #ICJ also convicts Netanyahu & Gallant, currently charged with war crimes & crimes against humanity.
theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian FoundationWilliam Christou (The Guardian)
I just created an account on the newly-launched social media platform UpScrolled.
First impression: clean, really easy to sign up to and get going. Format looks like a mix between Twitter and Instagram.
I like the core ideas behind this platform. It's based in Australia, with servers in Ireland. Created by Issam Hijazi, an Australian-Palestinian, and backed by Tech For Palestine incubator.
So, unlike Instagram, Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, Palestinians and Arabs will not constantly have to deal with shadowbans or suspension.
It promises to be activist, artist, and organiser friendly. Will be interesting to see how the community develops.
Download on Google Play Store or Apple App.
This is my account
share.upscrolled.com/en/user/d…
More info:
upscrolled.com/en/about-us/
updates.techforpalestine.org/u…
You can now download UpScrolled. The new place to speak up, share your work, share your life and actually be seen. If you’ve been waiting for a real alternative to Instagram, this is it. Why we needed UpScrolled Let’s be honest.Afzal (Tech for Palestine)
Pars Today – The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex has warned of catastrophic conditions in the Gaza Strip, citing widespread famine and disease.Pars Today
A software conference that advocates for quality
Link: bettersoftwareconference.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Software is getting worse, we are here to make it better.bettersoftwareconference.com
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Some Dems are terrified to be blamed for shutting down the government. What leverage do we have, they whine. THE PURSE:
1. The budget on offer is going to be absolutely horrific; reject it and OFFER BETTER.
2. MusktRump has already shut the government down by firing so many thousands of people.
3. DEMANDS:
a. no budget until he rehires all those people they were illegally fired;
b. a SANE budget; and, most importantly,
c. FIRE MUSK & RATS AND ELIMINATE DOGE.
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www.rsn.orgCongressional Democrats have been front and center at recent rallies, blasting the Trump administration's slash-and-burn
Clearly an option many are considering. A few may have the wherewithal? Or maybe Trump will surprise everyone and change into something more decent and rational.
(Who knew a laugh tastes bitter.)
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and this guy--
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The San Antonio man was arrested Thursday night ahead of the president’s visit to TexasSamantha Beech (The Independent)
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Look at how Candace Owens edited the promo of her interview of Nick Fuentes to portray him as a Jew hater!
New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
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Trump defends Texas flood handling as disaster tests vow to shutter Fema
Since disaster that has killed at least 120 people, US president has remained quiet about promises to axe relief agencyKira Lerner (The Guardian)
Vladimir Putin has sent a message to DPRK Chairman Kim Jong-un, expressing hope for continued direct contact in the near future. The message was delivered by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.Sputnik International
The Democratic Party establishment would do well to embrace a big tent that duh, includes liberals. Via @nomoremister
crooksandliars.com/2025/07/may…
When Joe Walsh, yes, THAT Joe Walsh, understands the Big Tent strategy better than some Dems.Steve M. (Crooks and Liars)
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Attached: 1 image The NAS #FaggotTourney entrants are slowly moving to poast.NAS
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
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Osprey came back from the brink once. Now chicks are dying in nests, and some blame overfishing
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Is it possible to have a national class action suit to remove Trump and Krew due to his acts of sedition (destroying the US government), treason (same), murder, fascism or any other litany of CRIMES these nazi shits are committing? WE MUST RID OURSELVES OF HIM.
"But a new Washington Post report reveals quite the opposite — that Florida officials are relying in large part on minor traffic stops to find immigrants to throw in the facility."
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When Florida Republicans unveiled a makeshift detention camp site for migrants in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz," they characterized it as a facility for hardened criminals who needed to be deported in the interest of public safety.Matthew Chapman (Raw Story)
ASEAN aims to strengthen regional trade, RCEP utilization to counter tariffs, trade tensions-english.news.cn
Sibel Edmonds first interview in five years last night.
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This country needs therapy.