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China emerges from the trade war chaos with record exports. Surplus Exports rose 5.8% in June from a year earlier to $325 billion, exceeding the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of analysts. Imports rose 1.1% to grow for the first time since February, according to data from the General Administration of Customs on Monday.
On May 12, 2025, the PKK announced its dissolution after more than four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish government. On July 11, PKK fighters participated in a ceremony signifying disarmament. What will this mean for Kurdish movements for liberation and for the Middle East in general?
"It is not just the fate of an armed group at stake, but of a political project that has redefined the parameters of struggle throughout the region."
It is not just the fate of an armed group at stake, but of a political project that has redefined the parameters of struggle throughout the Middle East.
Nvidia plans to resume H20 AI chip sales to China after Washington assured shipments will be approved, reversing an earlier Trump administration stance in April (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
Nvidia Corp. plans to resume sales of its H20 AI chip to China after securing Washington’s assurances that such shipments would get approved, a dramatic reversal from the Trump administration’s earlier stance.
"Animals react to sounds being made by plants, new research suggests, opening up the possibility that an invisible ecosystem might exist between them.
In the first ever such evidence, a team at Tel Aviv University found that female moths avoided laying their eggs on tomato plants if they made noises they associated with distress, indicating that they may be unhealthy."
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Despite receiving $10.2 million in federal aid from the Biden administration that could have funded a #flood warning system, Kerr County officials diverted most of the money to law enforcement projects.
Both left and right are peddling the same stale ideas in the 'productivity debate', with the same overheated rhetoric. But the economy isn't at the crisis point they claim. The post Usual suspects parade some shop-worn wares ahead of a roundtable to…
Plus The Canberra Times rewrites history. The post Unfortunate Tassie corflute, social media ban selfie fail, and who’s the Harvard man in Canberra? appeared first on Crikey.
Spotify has siphoned a decade's worth of profits from artists into the military tech industry. Is this the death of art? The post Spotify, the military industrial complex, and the future of art appeared first on Crikey.
@kaitaki Arch or Manjaro probably the most up to date but definitely blow up regularly, Ubuntu slightly less so but does have quarterly releases so you can stay reasonably current, still blows up but much less frequently than arch, debian even more conservative, less current but very stable. I would personally recommend staying away from Redhat, they got a bad case of lets fuck existing protocols and invent our own.
@katt @kaitaki arch works in some circumstances, but when you've got a lot of things installed and don't update frequenty you run into problems, mainly with changed signatures or moved repositories.
@katt @kaitaki As an example, the last time I tested, x2goserver did not work. And I never go six months between updates. And more often than not it's things in the AUR that are problematic. Also, if I build a kernel from mainstream kernel.org, I have to install totally by hand, install the kernel, install the modules, make the ramintfs, update grub, where as with redhat derivatives I can use make rpmbin-pkg or debian derivatives make debbin-pgk. and then use rpm or dpkg to install. It definitely takes more effort to keep up than other distros but you can keep right on the bleeding edge if you like.
In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira discusses Brazil’s role in the expanding BRICS bloc and whether the group is positioning...
A world-renowned microbiologist has issued a chilling warning over the unprecedented damage that Covid mRNA "vaccines" have caused to the brains of people who received the injections.
#GrahamLineham can fuck right off with his gaslighting. Not to be content with the #Nazis having the only #Holocaust, #Netanyahu and his #WarCabinet have created their own 21st Century Holocaust in #Gaza. And for what? So they can steal some beach-front property from #Palestine? ---
✊MUTU MEDIAS LIBRES✊ Ni de gauche, ni de droite, mais bien réac : Pourquoi la technocritique d'Anti-Tech Resistance n'est pas la nôtre manif-est.info/Ni-de-gauche-ni…
"Ce texte est issu d'un travail collectif entre des membres des collectifs l'AG Antifa Paris 20e, Extinction Rebellion, Désert'Heureuxses, le Mouton Numérique, la SAMBA (Section Antifasciste Montreuil Bagnolet et Alentours), Soin Collectif Île-de-France, Technopolice Paris Banlieue,
Ce texte est issu d'un travail collectif entre des membres des collectifs l'AG Antifa Paris 20e, Extinction Rebellion, Désert'Heureuxses, le Mouton Numérique, la SAMBA (Section Antifasciste Montreuil Bagnolet et Alentours), Soin Collectif Île-de-Fran…
The United States is now functionally equivalent to Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
As of today there is no more "it's going to happen" - it has now happened, fully and completely. The US government has been taken over by ultranationalist authoritarians intent on ethnic cleansing. That should be the headline of every newspaper and news program. Sound the alarm. Sound all the alarms.
The phrase "Remember your Homeland's Heritage" is textbook ethnonationalist language. 'Homeland' is meant to evoke 'blood and soil' ideology and "Heritage" is telling us that ONLY white Americans have any claim on American identity and history.
The US government is explicitly promoting white settler mythology as the nation's defining 'heritage.' This romanticized pioneer imagery serves a specific ideological function. To establish white Europeans as the only true Americans.
"Yea we hate immigrants, but we love settlers...who are definitely not immigrants...and whose 'homeland' is definitely the place they were settling and not where they were coming from." 😵💫😡😫
Beyond all of the other brazen bullshit within this image that is pure propaganda... it might interest intelligent folks to know that "pioneers" in their wagons did not bring sewing machines with them, the main reason being that sewing machines (like the one in this shite image) were not yet invented or sold... but yeah homeland... you be you. 🤢
"A Brest, dans la nuit du 11 au 12 juillet une zone à défendre d'est installée à Maner Coz sur la zone de construction du futur Arkéa Park. Nous relaions ici le post insta de la zone qui revient sur les raisons de l'occupation et un article de Reporterre, média qui a suivit l'installation de la zone la nuit dernière."
A Brest, dans la nuit du 11 au 12 juillet une zone à défendre d’est installée à Maner Coz sur la zone de construction du futur Arkéa Park. Nous relaions ici le post insta de la zone qui revient (...)
With US support from both sides of the aisle, like Democrat Cory Booker, who sometimes raises feeble objections and often does not even do that, to Republican Lindsey Graham, who openly called for the evisceration of Gaza, as well as their respectively moribund political leadership, the dismemberment and starvation of innocent people continue unimpeded.
Before a multi-course dinner at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented President Donald Trump with a copy of a letter nominating him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
@It's All So Tiresome Yes they are a cultural thing, and I say this because I've lived in places where black people get along civilly and I've lived in places where white people brawl. Right now I live in a place where everybody brawls.
✊MUTU MEDIAS LIBRES✊ Abolition de la police et de la prison. Réfléchir autrement que par la punition. Pour des organisations collectives et un futur abolitionniste. basse-chaine.info/?Abolition-d…
Comment imaginer un futur sans prison sans police ? Comment abolir ces institutions qui ne font que rajouter de la violence à la violence ? Hors du système de la punition, de la torture, de la (...)
the only 3 acceptable tattoos are the womb/crotch tattoo, the between the tits slave tattoo, and the above the ass stamp tattoo. Any other tattoos on a female of anything else or in any other locations, is trash and she be cut off.
Only other acceptions are like the dots under the eye or a fake mole near the lip, on the tit, on the crotch near the pussy.
I can tell if a mosquito spray is going to work purely based on how cancerous the fumes smell. The scent of that shit better make me feel like it's taking an hour off my lifespan just by spraying myself or the mosquitos ain't gonna give a single fuck.
“No, gimme the shit that’s banned in China. The stuff Monsanto sprays on corn. Gimme the type of shit they use to keep ringworms out of Costa Rica. I want to smell it and get a WWI flashback from my grandads blood memory.”
@Griffith accidentally got wasp spray in my eye and was fine after washing, didn't even burn before i got it out. I looked at the bottle and went "how do bugs die from this..?"
I was told Raid hurts like a motherfucker if you get it in your eyes. Some people use it as a stand in for pepper spray in extra cucked jurisdictions where you can't even have that.
@f0x @Griffith Spraying someone with Raid instead of pepper spray sounds hilarious. Just start yelling about cockroaches like Tony Montana before you take that shit out.
the only "natural" stuff in my experience that works is Repel lemon eucalyptus spray which doesn't smell bad. i have no idea if it's any less harmful than deet. it's somewhat less effective, but actually does work. if the mosquitoes are really swarming and hungry you want deet
"Bandit d'honneur, Robin des Bois moderne, nouvel Arsène Lupin, ennemi public n°1 français, Roi de la cavale, Lieutenant de Mesrine, les surnoms et superlatifs n'ont pas manqué pour qualifier François Besse au parcours unique dans le grand banditisme. S'il fait partie des hors-la-loi les plus célèbres du XXe siècle, son parcours, tel qu'il est
Bandit d’honneur, Robin des Bois moderne, nouvel Arsène Lupin, ennemi public n°1 français, Roi de la cavale, Lieutenant de Mesrine, les surnoms et superlatifs n’ont pas manqué pour qualifier François Besse au parcours unique dans le grand banditisme.
Maria Kulinkovich, a seamstress at the Luch company, bakes a loaf of bread for each of her seven brothers who were killed in the war. Byelorussian SSR, 1982.
Nikolai Fomin - participant in the Battle of Kursk and the capture of Berlin. On Victory Day he came to the grave of his fallen fellow soldier. May 9, 1980
BREAKING: Through direct action, Palestine Action forces the permanent closure of 'Eagle Strategic Consulting Ltd'.
Owned by Elbit director and former Lieutenant General, the firm was set up by Richard Applegate to consult and lobby for Israel's biggest weapons firm.
During a campaign event on Monday, New York City communist and Democrat nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani was quickly whisked off camera by an aide when a reporter asked him to clarify his remarks about globalizing the Intifada.
"Rami Abou Jamous écrit son journal pour Orient XXI. Fondateur de GazaPress, un bureau qui fournissait aide et traduction aux journalistes occidentaux, il a dû quitter en octobre 2023 son appartement de Gaza-ville avec sa femme Sabah, les enfants de celle-ci, et leur fils Walid, trois ans, sous la menace de l'armée israélienne. Réfugiée depuis à Rafah, la famille a dû ensuite se
Rami Abou Jamous écrit son journal pour Orient XXI. Fondateur de GazaPress, un bureau qui fournissait aide et traduction aux journalistes occidentaux, il a dû quitter en octobre 2023 son appartement…
The teacher didn't do a fucking thing while the monkey was chirping or when he spit. But as soon as a white kid stood up, the teacher ran in... minds.com/newsfeed/17916875646…
@Gary Bussy I guess I'm kind of old fashion, I believe in innocent until proven guilty and guilt should be decided on a court of law not by internet memes.
Why is setting up a new phone such a dystopian fucking nightmare, EVERY DAMN TIME?
Should it REALLY take an hour or more of my time to set up a brand new phone with a brand new number and absolutely nothing special about it?
My youngest is getting his first phone tonight, and I am very grateful that he is my youngest, which hopefully means I'll NEVER have to do this nonsense again.
I'm kidding myself, obviously--he'll need at least one more phone before he leaves the house. Damn it.
@Christiaan @adrinux @relentless_eduardo @Jim Salter Until fairly recently I was still using one with Android 6 from 2012. The touch display became less and less sensitive and finally reached a point where I had to apply so much pressure that I broke it.
✊MUTU MEDIAS LIBRES✊ Justice pour Mehdi : une cagnotte pour soutenir la famille face à la condamnation de 18 000 euros stuut.info/Justice-pour-Mehdi-…
"Le 24 juin dernier, les proches et la famille de Mehdi, tué par la police six ans plus tôt, apprenaient qu'aucune charge ne serait retenue contre les policiers responsables de son décès. En plus de cette nouvelle injustice, ils et elles ont été condamnés à verser la
Le 24 juin dernier, les proches et la famille de Mehdi, tué par la police six ans plus tôt, apprenaient qu’aucune charge ne serait retenue contre les policiers responsables de son décès.
En (...)
@Faelyn I think we should do as Iceland did, get rid of the Jewish compound interest scam known as the Federal Reserve, create a true national currency, throw all the corrupt bankers in prison (some 16,000 in Iceland, imagine how many here), and move on.
"Une grande partie de l'existence de Noëlle Besse est faite d'évasions, de cambriolages, de lutte dans les prisons et de solidarité. Pourtant, elle est bien moins connue que son frère, François Besse, gangster français légendaire. Paradoxalement, elle incarne à la fois la femme qui va aider, soigner et suivre sans faillir les hommes de sa
Une grande partie de l’existence de Noëlle Besse est faite d’évasions, de cambriolages, de lutte dans les prisons et de solidarité. Pourtant, elle est bien moins connue que son frère, François Besse, gangster français légendaire.
The US has been locking up more people than any other nation on earth for MUCH longer than one decade.
Getting rid of Trump's extra dramatic fascism will only leave us patting each other on the back all relieved to get back to the much more solid, real thing.
@violetmadder I've been jailed in the U.S., 7 days once was the worst. But beyond my personal experience, I've known a fair number of people who served long sentences.
What's happening today is different from what happened then. It's not "dramatic fascism," it's death camps.
@violetmadder have you heard of the "Trail of Tears?" Do you know what happened in Philadelphia in May of 1985? Have you ever heard of "The Red Summer?"
@nazokiyoubinbou Most of them are probably too depraved to ever comprehend anything beyond their own egos.
All the rest of us really need to learn, honestly, is that we don't need them. We don't need their lies, their toys, or the stupid prizes from their stupid games. The minute people stop feeding their power, it crumbles. That takes finding better things to believe in.
✊MUTU MEDIAS LIBRES✊ L'armée tente de coloniser les esprits - Rompre le lien Etat-citoyen pour délier aussi les chaînes Capital-Travail ricochets.cc/L-armee-tente-de-…
Dans la continuité de la guerre économique totale, la mégamachine, par la voix du tyran Macron, s'arme à mort pour accentuer ses guerres et porter la guerre militaire un peu partout en embringuant…
Relations between Russia and Belarus are truly kindred and brotherly, St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said during a meeting with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Minsk on 14 July.
The Trump Administration’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit has arrested the owner of a Phoenix-based taco restaurant for employing — and allegedly smuggling — illegal aliens.
preferably with up to date packages and doesn't blow up when you update 
i've broke arch too many times and tumbleweed broke really badly once 
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