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15 July 1966: Colour bar scrapped
Mini-podcast about an event on this day in working class history. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on https://patreon.com/wSpreaker
Mini-podcast about an event on this day in working class history. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on https://patreon.com/wSpreaker
World Championships open water swimming postponed due to poor water quality
https://apnews.com/article/swimming-open-water-world-championships-singapore-3bfbff53966e05b4183aa6826b983f66?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Asia @asia-AssociatedPress
Fixed my Automatic Debian install script to handle btrfs snapshots better
It now creates the systemd-boot file so you can boot into a snapshot when your machine starts and deletes snapshots more than 5 days old. New snapshots are triggered when you apt install or apt remove.
Have a script now for the perfect GNOME or Hyprland Desktop
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says any attempt to trigger the so-called snapback mechanism to reimpose UN sanctions amounts to a confrontational move.PressTV
Trump and Sen. Dave McCormick team up to promote energy investments in Pennsylvania
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pennsylvania-energy-innovation-summit-b11f7f4053bac2603664ffbd1dc4c6da?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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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.
Making Sense of the PKKโs Self-Dissolution
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.CrimethInc.
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)
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Nvidia Corp. plans to resume sales of its H20 AI chip to China after securing Washingtonโs assurances that such shipments would get approved, a dramatic reversal from the Trump administrationโs earlier stance.Mackenzie Hawkins (Bloomberg)
Animals react to secret sounds from plants, say scientists
bbc.com/news/articles/c8e4860nโฆ
"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."
#Nature #Plants #Animals #Communication
It opens up the possibility that an invisible ecosystem might exist between plants and animals.Pallab Ghosh (BBC News)
The gleaming new generation of [self loading mixer concrete](aimixconcretesolution.com/selfโฆ
) presents operators with spaceship-worthy cabins featuring orthopedic air-ride seats, multi-zone climate control, and panoramic digital displays. While these amenities dramatically improve working conditions, they introduce complex trade-offs that ripple through equipment budgets, maintenance schedules, and operational efficiency. Beneath the surface of these comfort upgrades lies a web of unintended consequences that savvy fleet managers must navigate to maintain profitability in an increasingly competitive market.
## The Illusion of Increased Productivity
Manufacturers often justify premium-priced comfort packages with promises of enhanced operator productivity. The reality reveals a more nuanced picture. While ergonomic improvements reduce fatigue during extended shifts, the **cognitive load** imposed by multilayer touchscreen interfaces actually slows decision-making in time-critical mixing operations. Studies of mixer crews in Qatar's extreme climates showed operators in basic cabins maintained 7% faster cycle times than those navigating complex control ecosystems.

Modern vibration-damped cabins isolate operators so effectively that they lose tactile feedback about mixture consistencyโa sensory connection veteran drivers traditionally relied upon to adjust water content instinctively. Some European contractors now install supplemental vibration actuators in steering wheels to artificially restore this lost feedback channel, creating an ironic solution to an over-engineering problem.
## Maintenance Complexity Behind the Luxury Facade
That sleek 12-inch capacitive touchscreen represents a **single point of failure** more vulnerable to concrete dust infiltration than traditional tactile controls. Repair costs for climate control systems in [mini concrete mixer](aimixconcretesolution.com/concโฆ) cabins run 300% higher than standard HVAC units, with specialized particulate filters requiring replacement every 250 operating hours in dusty environments. The sealed, pressurized cabins that protect operators from external noise introduce new failure modesโa single damaged door gasket can disable the entire air filtration system.
Electro-hydraulic control systems underpinning these comfort features demand proprietary diagnostic tools unavailable at most rural job sites. A survey of Australian mining operations revealed that mixer downtime increased by 22% after adopting full-comfort models, primarily due to waiting periods for specialized technicians. The very systems designed to improve uptime through operator satisfaction ironically create new dependencies on manufacturer support networks.

## The Training Gap No One Anticipated
Transitioning veteran operators to these technologically advanced [concrete mixers South Africa](aimixconcretesolution.com/selfโฆ) requires surprisingly extensive retraining. The intuitive interfaces prove anything but instinctive for workers accustomed to mechanical levers and analog gauges. One Indonesian contractor documented a 40-hour learning curve before operators achieved their former efficiency levelsโa hidden cost rarely factored into procurement decisions.
Younger operators drawn to the high-tech cabins often lack the **material science intuition** developed through years of hands-on mixing. The industry sees growing instances of perfect slump readings on digital displays coinciding with poor field performance, as operators become over-reliant on sensors rather than visual-tactile assessment. Some forward-thinking companies now run parallel training programs teaching both traditional judgment skills and new interface navigation.
The comfort revolution in mixer cabins isn't inherently misguidedโit simply demands more thoughtful implementation. Smart fleets balance these upgrades with robust maintenance protocols and hybrid training approaches. Others opt for selectively equipped units, reserving full-comfort models for extreme environments while maintaining simpler machines for routine operations. The most successful operators recognize that true efficiency comes not from chasing every available comfort feature, but from strategically integrating enhancements that genuinely improve outcomes without introducing unsustainable overhead.
MechaHitler got a job with the Trump administration.
They had to fire a thousand government storm watchers to afford this.
But sure, keep telling me both parties are the same.
Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI - CBS News
cbsnews.com/news/grok-elon-musโฆ
The announcement comes just days after Grok generated antisemitic responses and praised Hitler, which were later deleted.Patrick Maguire (CBS News)
Usual suspects parade some shop-worn wares ahead of a roundtable to nowhere
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/15/productivity-debate-left-right-arguments
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 toโฆ
Unfortunate Tassie corflute, social media ban selfie fail, and whoโs the Harvard man in Canberra?
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/15/tasmania-liberal-corflutes-harvard-zachary-rolfe-gambling
Plus The Canberra Times rewrites history. The post Unfortunate Tassie corflute, social media ban selfie fail, and whoโs the Harvard man in Canberra? appeared first on Crikey.
The Australian government keeps giving money to Harvard, a social media selfie fail, and an absolutely stellar corflute placement.Cochon Truffier (Crikey)
Spotify, the military industrial complex, and the future of art
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/15/spotify-military-industrial-complex-daniel-ek-helsing-streaming
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.
RT correspondent Marina Kosaraeva's plot about a 25-year-old Crimean woman who became one of Kiev's accomplices.Odysee
Nvidia's CEO says it has approval to sell its H20 AI computer chips in China
https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-china-ai-chips-h20-trump-91588c36559bc881b8e010a9ed95cf0a?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology @technology-AssociatedPress
NeuralOS: An operating system powered by neural networks
Link: neural-os.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4โฆ
ill try out fedora i think โโ i've broke arch too many times and tumbleweed broke really badly once โ
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alpine seems cool though but it suffers the same issue as nixos where you have to port binaries since its linked differently โโ
red hat it is โโ
Brazilโs FM on BRICS, US dominance, and a new world order | Talk to Al Jazeera
youtube.com/watch?v=EiSvz7qhfEโฆ
In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira discusses Brazilโs role in the expanding BRICS bloc and whether the group is positioning...YouTube
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.Frank Bergman (Slay News)
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was injured during Israeli strikes last month, Fars News Agency reportsRT
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#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? ---
Washington must kick diplomacy into overdrive to save it and avert another endless conflictTytti Erรคstรถ (Responsible Statecraft)
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Ni de gauche, ni de droite, mais bien rรฉac : Pourquoi la technocritique d'Anti-Tech Resistance n'est pas la nรดtre
manif-est.info/Ni-de-gauche-niโฆ
"Ce texte est issu d'un travail collectif entre des membres des collectifs l'AG Antifa Paris 20e, Extinction Rebellion, Dรฉsert'Heureuxses, le Mouton Numรฉrique, la SAMBA (Section Antifasciste Montreuil Bagnolet et Alentours), Soin Collectif รle-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, Dรฉsert'Heureuxses, le Mouton Numรฉrique, la SAMBA (Section Antifasciste Montreuil Bagnolet et Alentours), Soin Collectif รle-de-Franโฆmanif-est.info
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.
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The painter left out all the big piles of slaughtered Native Americans
*you know, the people with the right to call this their Homeland
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A Brest, une ZAD s'installe au Froutven
expansive.info/A-Brest-une-ZADโฆ
"A Brest, dans la nuit du 11 au 12 juillet une zone ร dรฉfendre d'est installรฉe ร Maner Coz sur la zone de construction du futur Arkรฉa Park. Nous relaions ici le post insta de la zone qui revient sur les raisons de l'occupation et un article de Reporterre, mรฉdia qui a suivit l'installation de la zone la nuit derniรจre."
A Brest, dans la nuit du 11 au 12 juillet une zone ร dรฉfendre dโest installรฉe ร Maner Coz sur la zone de construction du futur Arkรฉa Park. Nous relaions ici le post insta de la zone qui revientย (...)expansive.info
Huffed too much spray paint today
There's a tension between Progressives efforts to delegitimize the courts and hopes the judiciary to constrain executive power.Jonathan H. Adler (Reason.com)
๐ข Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, is being held under extremely alarming conditions after being detained and taken to an ISR prison in December following a brutal military campaign on the key #gaza hospital
๐น His lawyer, Ghaida Qasem, detailed Abu Safiya's state, reporting that he had lost 40 kilograms. Dr. Abu Safiya is held in an underground cell with no exposure to sunlight #warcrimes #torture
๐ฐ Report Al Mayadeen JUL-14
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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya suffers severe abuse, starvation, and medical neglect in Israeli custody, according to a report by his lawyer, Ghaida Qasem.Al Mayadeen English (Dr. Abu Safiya enduring severe abuse in Israeli prison: Lawyer)
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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.
counterpunch.org/2025/07/14/whโฆ
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.Michael Slager (CounterPunch.org)
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WASHINGTON, July 14 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration toen.people.cn
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Abolition de la police et de la prison. Rรฉflรฉchir autrement que par la punition. Pour des organisations collectives et un futur abolitionniste.
basse-chaine.info/?Abolition-dโฆ
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Comment imaginer un futur sans prison sans police ? Comment abolir ces institutions qui ne font que rajouter de la violence ร la violence ? Hors du systรจme de la punition, de la torture, de laย (...)basse-chaine.info
Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project
Link: blenderstudio.itch.io/dogwalk
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4โฆ
Play as a big adorable dog and explore a hand-crafted winter forest with a little kid in tow.itch.io
What's so clever about KleverNotes? Find out:
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Franรงois Besse, un flamboyant rebelle si discret
lagrappe.info/?Francois-Besse-โฆ
"Bandit d'honneur, Robin des Bois moderne, nouvel Arsรจne Lupin, ennemi public nยฐ1 franรงais, Roi de la cavale, Lieutenant de Mesrine, les surnoms et superlatifs n'ont pas manquรฉ pour qualifier Franรงois Besse au parcours unique dans le grand banditisme. S'il fait partie des hors-la-loi les plus cรฉlรจbres du XXe siรจcle, son parcours, tel qu'il est
Bandit dโhonneur, Robin des Bois moderne, nouvel Arsรจne Lupin, ennemi public nยฐ1 franรงais, Roi de la cavale, Lieutenant de Mesrine, les surnoms et superlatifs nโont pas manquรฉ pour qualifier Franรงois Besse au parcours unique dans le grand banditisme.La Grappe
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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.
Source: USSR Pictures, on telegram
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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
Source: USSR Pictures, on telegram
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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.
--- @Pal_action, on x/twitter
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Zohran Mamdani Gets Whisked Off Stage by an Aide When Asked to Clarify His Remarks About โGlobalizing the Intifadaโ (VIDEO)
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ย ย ย ย ย ย 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.Mike LaChance (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Journal de bord de Gaza 98
ricochets.cc/Journal-de-bord-dโฆ
"Rami Abou Jamous รฉcrit son journal pour Orient XXI. Fondateur de GazaPress, un bureau qui fournissait aide et traduction aux journalistes occidentaux, il a dรป 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'armรฉe israรฉlienne. Rรฉfugiรฉe depuis ร Rafah, la famille a dรป ensuite se
Rami Abou Jamous รฉcrit son journal pour Orient XXI. Fondateur de GazaPress, un bureau qui fournissait aide et traduction aux journalistes occidentaux, il a dรป quitter en octobre 2023 son appartementโฆRicochets
Some months ago, I authored an 8 part series introducing the real story behind the Whitechapel murders of 1888.Matthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)
According to Newscum, 35% of all Anaheim residents are immigrants.
Come see for yourself at the next meetup. Join us at Brewery X, in Anaheim California.
Public statement on the Australian govt's intention to "adopt a definition of antisemitism that mendaciously defines criticism of Israel as a form of antisemitism."
"The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) calls on the Australian government to remove Special Envoy for Antisemitism Jillian Segal from her position"...
... "following revelations that Segalโs family donated to.. a far-right group that has promoted.. anti-Palestinian racism."
Some point, they will render the term "antisemitism" meaningless.
As they are also doing with "terrorism".
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...s chirping or when he spit. But as soon as a white kid stood up, the teacher ran in.... Subscribe to @MuhDindu on MindsMinds
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.
some apps require OS updates, and smartphones have limited updates
when a phone runs out of updates, you have to buy a new one
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Justice pour Mehdi : une cagnotte pour soutenir la famille face ร la condamnation de 18 000 euros
stuut.info/Justice-pour-Mehdi-โฆ
"Le 24 juin dernier, les proches et la famille de Mehdi, tuรฉ par la police six ans plus tรดt, apprenaient qu'aucune charge ne serait retenue contre les policiers responsables de son dรฉcรจs.
En plus de cette nouvelle injustice, ils et elles ont รฉtรฉ condamnรฉs ร verser la
Le 24 juin dernier, les proches et la famille de Mehdi, tuรฉ par la police six ans plus tรดt, apprenaient quโaucune charge ne serait retenue contre les policiers responsables de son dรฉcรจs. Enย (...)stuut.info
Chinese economy grows at a 5.2% annual pace in April-June quarter despite trade war
https://apnews.com/article/china-economy-tariffs-trump-jinping-366d7a4a8a652f1a4aa536728439f5aa?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Kevin Hasset (WH) reports the New Federal Reserve Building is to cost the taxpayer $2.5B dollars - includes a $700 million over-run..
No wonder why Jerome Powell is considering resigning as Fed Chair.
Great episode!
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian pioneer of evolutionary theory Alfred Russel Wallace
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace.BBC
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This is all bundled together as an installer to snapshots.
Build the perfect debian system from a live cd or build a deployable image thatt you can deploy anywhere
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Especially with BTRFS and Encrypted Hard Drive.
The Debian Installer is trash