Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the militarism of the declining Western hegemony and the rise of BRICS to accommodate multipolar realities.
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⚠️ Cavete: A view of the #damascus skyline following Israeli air strikes that hit the Syrian defence ministry, amid growing regional escalation involving #syria, iran, and (of course) Israel
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⚠️ Cavete #Sweida / #suweyda is under #siege: sniper fire, drone strikes, and shelling continue as #civilians remain trapped without power, internet, or access to medical aid
🔹 🕯️Death toll 248 (Source: SOHR)
🔹 🕯️ 👨🏾⚕️ One doctor killed
🔹 🏥 ❌ The National Hospital in Sweida is currently out of service due to the siege it is facing
📰 Report: Al Mayadeen JUL-16 15:00 Beirut-t
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Sweida is under siege: sniper fire, drone strikes, and shelling continue as civilians remain trapped without power, internet, or access to medical aid.Al Mayadeen English (Syrian Observatory: Field execution toll in Sweida rises to 248)
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Free online chess server. Play chess in a clean interface. No registration, no ads, no plugin required. Play chess with the computer, friends or random opponents.lichess.org
Last year, when the Dems were in the majority of the Senate, they did not allow him to hold an official hearing, with an official report that will be forever available. Now he can.Meryl Nass (Meryl’s CHAOS letter (Critical Health Analysis and OpinionS))
When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops: pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inh…
A very good article on awful Google AI search results and how Google have ruined their own reputation by wrecking their workforce, by @pluralistic. A quote:
'Publishers and advertisers have more concentrated money than readers, but the dominant theory of antitrust since the Reagan administration is something called "consumer welfare," which holds that monopolistic conduct is only to be condemned if it makes consumers worse off. If a company screws its workers or suppliers in order to deliver better products and/or better prices, then "consumer welfare" holds that the government should celebrate and protect the monopolist for improving "efficiency."
But all that is true only if Google AI Overviews are good. And they are very, very bad.'
Don't use Google for search.
#google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #CoryDoctorow #search #slop
Reading this article now. "Housefresh released its latest report on Google's enshittification, this time with an emphasis on the "AI Overviews" that now surmount every search results page."
It also strikes me that that AI overview is also likely an attempt to supplant Wikipedia's place in the digital landscape, since that's the actually-somewhat-reliable thing that would come up in that position otherwise.
Which I'm sure Google would be •just fine• with....
Syrian Presidential Palace bombed by Isreal. Unbelievable!
Isreal has gone rogue!
NETANYAHU using WAR to stop his corruption trial!
Finished reading Tress of the Emerald Sea, and was good, even if not what I was expecting. How much is a Cosmere book? I don't know; if it wasn't written as a fairy tale, may be it would have landed better. 3/5 for me.
My 7th book of 2025, but no way I'll read 24 like previous years.
Next one in the queue: Attack Surface by @pluralistic -- looking forward to it, loved Little Brother and Homeland.
@doragasu not an expert on @pluralistic but so far Little Brother and Homeland are two books I can recommend with perhaps the caveat that are very real in current Trump's USA.
They are positive and optimistic, but I would say it may not be for everybody.
Today’s news is brought to you by psychiatric medications.Chris Bray (Tell Me How This Ends)
SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop !
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"SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! SYRIE / ROJAVA – Après avoir massacré délibérément les Alaouites sur la côte syrienne, les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas ont massacré des centaines de civils druzes à Soueïda ces derniers jours. Comme sur la côte syrienne, un bain de sang vient d’être commis par des […]
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SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! SYRIE / ROJAVA – Après avoir massacré délibérément les Alaouites sur la côte syrienne, les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas ont massacré des centaines de civils druzes à Soueïda ces derniers jours.Kaf1 (Kurdistan au féminin)
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A look inside a lab making the advanced fuel to power growing US nuclear energy ambitions
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2026 World Cup's contingency plans for wildfire smoke risks remain unclear
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Accused of Conspiracy, Bioterrorism, and Crimes Against HumanityDr Margaret Aranda (The Rebel Patient™)
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Just 15 minutes of fully clothed infrared sunlight exposure triggered systemic effects and measurable improvements in vision — even with eyes completely covered.Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse))
Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations
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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Article explaining simulation algorithms that produce complex organic behaviours, starting with the classic physarum algorithm from Jeff Jones.bleuje.com
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"This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons…
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'Recession pop' and new Christian music surge in the US as streaming growth slows
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J'ai honte d'être Français. J'ai honte d'être européen
« Côté français, l’impunité d’Israël s’est aussi traduite par celle de son premier ministre Benyamin #Nétanyahou, qui a survolé l’Hexagone pour se rendre à Washington le 7 juillet, malgré le mandat d’arrêt de la Cour pénale internationale contre lui.»
Face aux crimes israéliens, l’UE choisit l’inaction et le déshonneur
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#IsraelTerroristState #gaza #freepalestine
Le conseil européen des affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne n’a finalement rien statué sur son accord d’association avec Israël, pourtant bafoué. Les 27 se contentent d’un accord sans garantie sur l’aide humanitaire à Gaza.Clothilde Mraffko (Mediapart)
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As talks stall in Doha, the Palestinian resistance warns that no deal will proceed without a full guarantee of aid entrythecradle.co
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📢 The Israeli Central Court issued a ruling rejecting the appeal submitted by the Jerusalemite Al-Basha family, which sought to overturn the decision to evict them from their historic home in the Old City of #jerusalem
🔹 The home, built before 1930, consists of three floors and directly overlooks 🕌 #AlAqsa Mosque. It occupies a strategic location connecting key streets in the Old City
#westbank #palestine #civilrights #law
📰 Report: WAFA JUL-16 14:00 Ramallah-t
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USA Bobsled and Skeleton signs endorsement deal with Honda through 2030 Olympics
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“A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.”
~ William Ralph Inge
(1860-1954) English author, Anglican prelate
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Will RFK Jr.'s push for psychedelic therapy help or hamper the emerging field?
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“If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.”
~ Sidney Hook
(1902-1989) American Marxist philosopher
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Trump’s ICE directive is a repudiation of the very principles invoked in the Declaration of Independence, reinstating the royal prerogative of arbitrary imprisonment.
Trump administration bans bond hearings, paving way for mass indefinite detention of immigrants - World Socialist Web Site
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Millions of workers and their family members face imprisonment for months or years as part of the fascistic assault on democratic rights.World Socialist Web Site
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"A single Google search requires half a millilitre of water, while ChatGPT consumes 500 millilitres for every five to 50 prompts. Multiply these figures by billions of daily interactions, add streaming services and cloud storage, and the result is staggering: data centre water consumption has reached crisis levels, with some facilities using more water annually than entire cities."
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Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.Dashveenjit Kaur (Cloud Computing News)
"According to industry data, a 1-megawatt data centre can consume up to 25.5 million litres of water annually just for cooling – equivalent to the daily water consumption of approximately 300,000 people. To put this in perspective, a medium-sized 15-megawatt data centre consumes as much water annually as either three average-sized hospitals or more than two 18-hole golf courses."
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Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.Dashveenjit Kaur (Cloud Computing News)
"Hyperscale facilities operated by companies like Google demonstrate the true scale of the challenge. Google’s data centres average 550,000 gallons (2.1 million litres) daily, totalling approximately 200 million gallons (760 million litres) annually per facility. Microsoft’s global operations consumed nearly 6.4 million cubic metres of water (approximately 1.69 billion gallons) in their most recent reporting year – a 34% increase from the previous year."
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Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.Dashveenjit Kaur (Cloud Computing News)
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#gaza #palestine #civilians #parents #pain #killings #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #bibi #netanyahu #childmurder #famine #hunger #starvation
Israel is using starvation as an additional weapon against #Palestinian #children and babies.
Almost starved to death - Yazan Abu Fool, a boy from Gaza.
Democrats wanted files; files they will get.
>hacked bangs
>pin cushion face
>neck tattoos
I don't think she has any room
to be telling ppl how to live. 
In new book, Ellen Burstyn reveals the secret that fueled her award-winning career: poetry
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US producer prices unchanged with wholesale inflation remaining under control
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LLM Daydreaming
Link: gwern.net/ai-daydreaming
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Proposal & discussion of how default mode networks for LLMs are an example of missing capabilities for search and novelty in contemporary AI systems.gwern.net
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The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the new US sanctions against Cuba, reaffirming its opposition to the blockade and calling for the nation to be removed from the list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.en.granma.cu
Sylvie Crowell has received a NASA Early Career Initiative award for lunar dust mitigation research.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
Cat Eccles, Kevin McKenna and Peter Prinsley joined a delegation to Israel in May, where they met the country’s president Isaac Herzog.Martin Williams (Declassified Media ltd)
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Over 30 states from around the world convened in Bogota on Tuesday for a two-day summit to declare “concrete measures against Israel’s violations of international law”.
The “emergency summit” is co-hosted by the governments of Colombia and South Africa as co-chairs of The Hague Group, to coordinate diplomatic and legal action to counter what they describe as “a climate of impunity” enabled by Israel and its powerful allies.
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Over 30 states from around the world convened in Bogota on Tuesday for a two-day summit to declare “concrete measures against Israel’s violations of international law”.Laura Gamba (Middle East Eye)
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Glenn joins in the celebration of Omaha’s Diamond Anniversary hosting the NCAA Men’s College World Series.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
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Retenu sous contrôle judiciaire avec interdiction de quitter le pays depuis plus d’un an en Algérie, le journaliste français spécialiste de football Christophe Gleizes a été injustement condamné à sept ans de prison ferme pour n’avoir fait que son tr…rsf.org
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“If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament of the Eucharist, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.”
-St. Teresa of Avila - Teresa of Jesus
The Latest: 20 die in stampede at Gaza food distribution site as Israeli strikes kill 41 others
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France’s Strategic National Review predicts a large-scale military conflict with Russia in Europe by 2030, despite Russia repeatedly rubbishing the scenario.Sputnik International
This is getting to be the norm:
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This is the second time I’ve seen a family torment the ducks at Congress Park in Saratoga Springs. The kids were chasing and trying to stomp on ducklings as an adult in a burqa stood and watched. I yelled at them and the entire group moved on. I’m rattled. Sick people.
NASA Glenn technicians test student experiments during the 2.2 Second Drop Tower Challenge.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
Bipartisan support helps foundations avoid tax increase in new Trump legislation
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I've been having electrical issue with my 94 Suburban. Batteries going bad (but under warranty) - 3 replacements in a year. Eventually the starter, distributor and alternator also went bad...
With each fix the "slow-start" issue remained - like the battery was low. It finally dawned on me that I must have an issue with the ground wire either to the engine block or chassis. I checked both and they were secure...
Then I called a friend who is a automotive savant - he asked if I had disconnected the ground wire to check for corrosion?
Me: duh! Why didn't I think of that?
Anyway, I pulled them apart and sure enough they were heavily corroded. I cleaned them and re-installed. Then turned the key and no slow start issue! (I'll be ordering new battery cables to replace both since they are original from 1994)
So if you have older vehicles, try cleaning the ground wire connections to avoid these issues.
I wonder how many cars are in junk yards because of this simple problem?
an once of prevention...
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They were also bad... Caused by the intermittent ground. If special note: the voltage regulator is inside the alternator that was allowing the alternator to put out 14.4 to 14.7 volts. The circle of life in electrical form.
Not to mention the water pump was leaking from the weep hole... And by "leaking" I mean gushing.
Also, let me add a "fuck you" to the chevy engineer who thought the voltage regulator inside the alternator was a good idea.
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@Otto Pureblood That's true. I usually opt for third party alternators myself, I usually use Leece-Neville's. There was a time when I had a setup where I had two alternators running with dual pulleys.
The original alternator would charge up the battery up front and the second one would charge up the batteries in the back, that run the other electronics such as inverters and such. I'm sort of a mad scientist or at least I once was. I'm not a scientist any longer but I may still be mad.
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A wave of unexplained fires and explosions has struck industrial areas across Israeli-occupied territories since the onset of the 12-day war, highlighting growing instability in the regime’s critical infrastructure.Tasnim News Agency
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If you think it's as simple as "ships carry boats", you need to watch this video, because it's #NotWhatYouThinkMusic:Acid Ways - Martin KlemLast Move - White...YouTube
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My OP observed that Jolani tried to please Israel and was bombed regardless.
You can ⋅infer⋅ whatever the hell you want from that, but the words on the page if anything were a comment on what everyone ELSE should do, namely, not bother trying to befriend Israel, not a comment on what Israel should do.
If you want a comment on what Israel should do:
Get the fuck off its neighbour's territories, stop bombing everyone, stop mass murdering people, extradite your own mass murderers to The Hague, disavow ethno-supremacism, pay reparations, etc.
@lax
Now you’re just embarrassing yourself.
I think it's fair to say this conversation has run its course.
It's clear now why you can't see the parallel universe: you're inside it. In the actual, empirical reality experience by everyone else, literally not one of those claims is even remotely true, as even a passing familiarity with the facts would make obvious.
Bye now.
Au Portugal, la criminalité a reculé mais sa couverture médiatique a explosé.
Une étude s’est penchée sur le traitement de la criminalité par les cinq principaux journaux portugais, entre 2000 et 2024. L’important décalage entre la réalité et la perception de l’insécurité qu’elle révèle interroge la presse.
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Une étude s’est penchée sur le traitement de la criminalité par les cinq principaux journaux portugais, entre 2000 et 2024. L’important décalage entre la réalité et la perception de l’insécurité qu’elle révèle interroge la presse.Courrier International
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