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Jailhouse lawyer wanted!

Crime doesn’t pay — so try politics instead.

The Democrat running to be Nassau County’s top prosecutor encouraged convicted criminals to apply for a job on her campaign that could pay them up to $7,000 a month.

District Attorney candidate Nicole Aloise’s campaign posted an ad seeking a “communications director” on job website indeed.com as she tries to unseat Republican incumbent District Attorney Anne Donnelly.

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Exclusive | Democrat running for NY district attorney 'encourages' criminals to apply for job on staff

Crime does pay, according to the Democrat running to become Nassau County’s top prosecutor. District Attorney candidate Nicole Aloise is welcoming convicted criminals to apply for a top paid …
Carl Campanile (New York Post)

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The Hierarchical Reasoning Model is a brain-inspired architecture with two recurrent modules: a slow, high-level planner and a fast, low-level one for computation. With only 27M parameters and ~1000 training examples, it excels at complex reasoning without pre-training or Chain-of-Thought.

HRM significantly outperforms larger models in benchmarks and solves complex Sudoku and mazes where CoT methods completely fail.

arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734

#technology #ai #llm


Hierarchical Reasoning Model

Reasoning, the process of devising and executing complex goal-oriented action sequences, remains a critical challenge in AI.
arXiv.org

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Belgium celebrates its National Day with a military parade and call to support the valiant struggle of Ukraine for its sovereignty and our defense! gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p…

Belgium celebrates its National Day with a military parade and call to support the valiant struggle of Ukraine for its sovereignty and our defense!

Today’s essay is divided into two parts.
Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)

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Billionaire-owned The Atlantic somehow can't afford to let you read this article, so here's the archived version.

Do you want more things to be privatized and controlled by wealthy folks so they can enrich themselves at everyone else's expense?

Here's a bit about the possibility of that happening to the TVA, the Tennessee Valley Authority, which has kept energy rates quite low for residents.

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Trump's Ultimatum for America’s Largest Public-Energy Provider

Earlier this week, the White House told the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority to fire the CEO, or be fired.
Alexander C. Kaufman (The Atlantic)

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who was best known for starring in "The Cosby Show" as Theo Huxtable, has died at age 54. Costa Rican National Police told @abc that Warner drowned. Here's ABC's news report, plus a tribute to Warner from @Variety.

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, former 'Cosby Show' star, dead at 54

Warner drowned off the coast of Costa Rica, local police told ABC News.
Angeline Jane Bernabe (ABC News)
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Smeetoo

She probably always blamed the subway for her being late and it wasn't her fault because she can't afford to live closer to work and is forced to live in a minority neighborhood that is far from her job.

Having worked in the subway I see it all the time. It should take 30 minutes door to door if everything goes perfect, so they leave 30 minutes before they're supposed to be at work.
Just 1 little delay, you're late.

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Duygular, ahlaki kararlarda “güvenilmez” midir?

  1. Kantçı Rasyonalizm: Duygular Güvenilmezdir
    Immanuel Kant, “Ahlak Metafiziğinin Temellendirilmesi” (1785) ve “Pratik Aklın Eleştirisi” (1788) eserlerinde, duyguları ahlak dışı saymasa da ahlaki kararlar için yetersiz bulur:

Heteronomi Sorunu: Duygular (sempati, nefret, korku) dışsal veya içsel uyaranlara bağlıdır; özerk iradeyi zedeler.
Evrensellik Eksikliği: Duygular kişiye ve duruma göre değişir, oysa ahlak yasası (kategorik imperatif) nesnel ve evrensel olmalıdır.
Çıkar Karışması: “İyilik yaparken mutlu olmak” bile, eylemi çıkara dayalı hale getirebilir.
Örnek: Birine sırf “acıdığınız için” yardım etmek, Kant’a göre ahlaki değildir; çünkü bu, duygusal bir rastlantıdır. Oysa aynı eylem, “insan onurunu koruma” ilkesiyle yapılırsa ahlakidir.

  1. Hume’cu Duyguculuk: Ahlak Duygular Üzerine Kuruludur
    David Hume, “Ahlak Üzerine Bir İnceleme” (1751) eserinde, Kant’ın tam aksine ahlakın temelinin duygular (sentiment) olduğunu savunur:

“Akıl, tutkuların kölesidir”: Hume’a göre ahlaki yargılar, mantıksal çıkarımla değil, sempati ve nefret gibi duygusal tepkilerle oluşur.
Yararlılık İlkesi: Bir eylemin iyi veya kötü olduğunu belirleyen şey, toplumsal fayda ve duygusal onaydır. Örneğin, adalet kavramı, insanların “haksızlığa öfke duyması” sayesinde gelişmiştir.
Evrensellik Duyguda Aranmalıdır: Hume, evrensel ahlakın insan doğasındaki ortak duygularla (örneğin, acıya sempati) temellendirilebileceğini savunur.
Örnek: Birini kurtarmak, “onun acısını hissettiğiniz için” ahlakidir; Kant’ın dediği gibi “soğuk bir ilke” gerektirmez.

  1. Aristoteles: Duygular ve Erdem Dengesi
    Aristoteles, “Nikomakhos’a Etik” (MÖ 4. yy) eserinde, duyguların kontrol edilmesi gerektiğini savunur:

“Altın Ortalama”: Öfke, korku, sevgi gibi duygular, aşırıya kaçmadan kullanıldığında erdemli hale gelir.
Pratik Bilgelik (Phronesis): Ahlaki kararlar, akıl ve duygunun dengelenmesiyle alınır. Örneğin, cesaret, korkaklık ile pervasızlık arasındaki dengeyle mümkündür.
Örnek: Adaletli olmak, öfkeyi bastırmak değil, hakkaniyetle yönlendirmektir.

  1. Modern Psikoloji ve Nörobilim: Duygular Olmadan Ahlak Mümkün mü?
    Kant’ın aksine, günümüz psikolojisi duyguların ahlaki kararlardaki kritik rolünü vurgular:

Antonio Damasio (“Descartes’ın Yanılgısı”, 1994): Duygusal hasarı olan hastalar (örn., ventromedial prefrontal korteks lezyonu), mantıklı kararlar alabilir ama ahlaki yargıları bozulur.
Jonathan Haidt (“The Righteous Mind”, 2012): Ahlaki yargılar önce sezgisel/duygusal olarak oluşur, sonra akıl gerekçe uydurur.
Ayna Nöronlar: Empati, başkasının acısını hissedebilme yeteneğiyle doğrudan bağlantılıdır.
Örnek: “Tramvay ikilemi” deneylerinde, insanların çoğu duygusal tepkilerle (örn., birini itmekten tiksinti) karar verir.

  1. Feminist Etik: Duyguların Ahlaki Değeri
    Carol Gilligan ve Nel Noddings, Kant’ın “soğuk evrenselcilik”ine karşı bakım etiğini (ethics of care) savunur:

İlişkisellik: Ahlak, soyut ilkelerden çok, insanlar arası bağlarla (sevgi, sorumluluk) şekillenir.
Duygusal Bağlar Önemlidir: Bir annenin çocuğuna sevgisi, “evrensel bir yasa” gerektirmez; doğal ve ahlaki bir tepkidir.
Örnek: Bir hasta yakını, “sevdiği insanın acısını dindirmek” için yalan söyleyebilir. Kant’a göre bu yanlıştır, ama bakım etiğine göre meşru olabilir.

  1. Sonuç: Duygular Güvenilmez mi?
    Filozof/Görüş Duyguların Rolü Temel Argüman
    Kant Güvenilmez Ahlak, akıl ve evrensel ilkelerle belirlenmeli.
    Hume Temel Ahlak, duygusal onay ve sempatiye dayanır.
    Aristoteles Kontrollü kullanılmalı Erdem, duygu ve aklın dengelenmesidir.
    Modern Psikoloji Kritik Duygusal hasar, ahlaki yargıyı bozar.
    Feminist Etik Merkezi Bakım ve ilişkisellik, duygularla şekillenir.

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Duygular, ahlaki kararlarda “güvenilmez” midir? – insanokur

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EU Sanctions on Oil Refinery in India Violate International Law — Rosneft sputnikglobe.com/20250721/eu-s…

EU Sanctions on Oil Refinery in India Violate International Law — Rosneft

The European Union's decision to impose sanctions on the Nayara Energy oil refinery in India is groundless and in breach of international law, Russian oil giant Rosneft said on Sunday.
Sputnik International

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I do not understand how Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, and Blacks, and Hispanics and Asians and Arabs and Indians can all reproduce with White people and had ancestors that might have existed for a long time before meeting White people

But are claimed to be genetically predetermined to have a parasitic relationship with White people

How did they survive before meeting White people if they can not be self sufficient but biologically can only survive as Parasites

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On Monday, NASA announced Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is set to leave the agency on Friday, Aug. 1. As center director of Goddard, a role she has held since April 2023, Lystrup also was responsible for guiding the direction and management of multiple other NASA field […]

NASA Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup Set to Depart - NASA

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shortstories

If they wanted to fake Darwin's existence and if videos did not exist yet

Then they did not need animatronic robots

They could simply write books claiming Darwin existed within the books

And since people would not need to see a video of him, no robot was needed

They could hire a random stranger to pose for a photo of Darwin if they wanted to create someone for photos of what he is claimed to look like

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Caleb James DeLisle

I remember seeing fossilized footprints in rock formations, outside. Not entirely outside the realm of possibility that they may have been put there, but I think old records of fossil hunts strongly substantiates the claim that they were there before people.

That said, there is NO solid evidence linking oil to fossils. "Fossil fuels" is a forced meme, and based on first principles, it's more likely that oil is a natural formation resulting from carbon and hydrogen in the earth being squeezed together by tectonic pressure.

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shortstories

I start with the assumption that most news that has a large scale reach is fiction made by a propaganda writing team

And later people compile old news articles or now videos and audio to figure out history

So much of history is potentially compiled fiction that was called News in the past

Sometimes small scale news is real, but people are less likely to use the budget or effort to mass propagate news on a large scale unless it benefits them as propaganda

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Alexandre Blanc

2025-07-21 04:10:21

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Hard-Coded Credentials Found in HPE Instant On Devices Allow Admin Access


Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released security updates to address a critical security flaw affecting Instant On Access Points that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and gain administrative access to susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-37103, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "Hard-coded login credentials were found in HPE
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Hard-Coded Credentials Found in HPE Instant On Devices Allow Admin Access

HPE fixed two flaws in Instant On Access Points that could allow admin access and command injection. Patch now to stay secure.
The Hacker News

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Surveillance Firm Exploits SS7 Flaw to Track User Locations


A sophisticated surveillance operation has been discovered exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the global telecommunications infrastructure to track mobile phone users’ locations without authorization, security researchers have revealed. The attack leverages weaknesses in the decades-old SS7 (Signaling System No. 7) protocol that underpins international cellular networks. New Attack Method Discovered Security experts at Enea’s Threat Intelligence […]

The post Surveillance Firm Exploits SS7 Flaw to Track User Locations appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Surveillance Firm Exploits SS7 Flaw to Track User Locations

A sophisticated surveillance operation has been discovered exploiting critical vulnerabilities, to track mobile phone users' locations without authorization.
Divya (GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform)

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The Etsy hype machine is annoying AF.

ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE IS ON THE WAY!
Me: No, it's not. The label was created. Sometimes it takes a week for the shipper to actually ship it. Even eBay has stopped this misleading hype.

ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE IS ARRIVING TODAY!
Me: Bets? According to the shipping company's tracking page It's getting ready to depart *Poland*. It is NOT arriving today.

ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE HAS ARRIVED IN YOUR STATE!
Me: Again, label created. In my 760mi. long state. Yay... FFS!

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Testo iencli : un guide pour choper de la T sur internet à moindre risque
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"« Qu'on soit trans, trans-adjacent ou autre, qu'on refuse le cadre et les conditions dans lesquelles on prétend nous faire accéder aux soins, qu'on y ait de toute manière jamais eu accès ou bien qu'on s'inquiète de s'en voir priver, il existe tout un tas de raisons de s'intéresser à l'automédication et au do-it-yourself h­ormonal. Ici, on va parler de testostérone sous

Testo iencli : un guide pour choper de la T sur internet à moindre risque - infokiosques.net

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About once a month I am struck by how useful the way we categorize political beliefs is to the people in power, and how damaging it is to political discourse otherwise.

Are you right wing? Wait - conservative? Or are you a liberal? Are you a "leftist" - or is that a liberal? Are centrists liberals? Or are they right wing? Or conservative?

Your answer may determine what other people assume you want, based on their *own* biases, no matter what else you tell them explicitly.

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John

This is most obvious in the "liberal" or "left" debacle that routinely bamboozles otherwise smart people, but has been used for decades to conflate "conservative" and "far right" as well.

Other examples include things like "terrorist" and "criminal", which are so flagrantly used as to have no real meaning beyond "bad because we said so".

You can see it with the political class' selective use of "protester" and "rioter", as though these two words have no substantive difference in meaning.

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Ambiente de trabalho privativo ou de software livre: seria apenas o primeiro suficientemente bom?
🇬🇧 English version


Discordo fortemente quando alguém afirma equivocadamente que “Linux” — querendo frequentemente dizer GNU — seria projetado para ser utilizado apenas pela linha de comando. Alegam que, por isso, usuários finais seriam melhor satisfeitos por um ou dois sistemas operacionais não livres para computadores pessoais, especialmente o que domina o mercado.

Há, de fato, um enorme esforço de GNU/“Linux”/etc. no lado do servidor (back-end). Isso felizmente, já que é o tipo de sistema operacional que tem dado sustentação à sociedade da informação global, executando a maioria dos servidores da Web, a infraestrutura de telecomunicações em geral, os maiores supercomputadores, projetos científicos de variadas áreas. Seu núcleo está em dispositivos móveis e embarcados, incluindo veículos automotores. Os ditos interpretadores de comandos, na realidade, tornam a vida de quem aprende a usá-los mais fácil e rápida. Isso não é uma fraqueza, e sim uma vantagem muito poderosa.

Dito isso, também tem havido grande desenvolvimento, por décadas, do que chamamos de ambientes de área de trabalho livres (Free Desktop), com diversas implementações, algumas menos e outras mais orientadas ao usuário final leigo.

Captura de tela do Pantheon desktop, do Elementary OS. Apresenta fundo com uma foto de paisagem, barra superior transparente com letras e ícones brancos, destacando-se a ativação de um item responsável pela abertura de uma janela de escolha com vários ícones para lançar aplicativos e uma barra de texto por onde pode ser pesquisado algum aplicativo. Na parte inferior, há uma barra tipo dock com ícones pelos quais aparentemente também podem ser iniciados programas ou abertos aqueles que estejam em execução.

Usuários comuns de navegadores Web e aplicativos em geral não têm necessidade de saber muito sobre o que o computador faz por trás da interface gráfica humano-máquina. Eles contam com outras pessoas para suporte técnico, e os ambientes desktop livres não mudam esse fato. A maior diferença é que oferecem mais opções e liberdades, dando a impressão de uma escolha mais difícil. Contudo, independentemente da categoria de software envolvida, quando solicitados a instalar ou dar manutenção em uma máquina dessas, faz parte do trabalho de profissionais de TI levantar o que seus clientes precisam no computador, conhecer as opções disponíveis ou pesquisá-las, para satisfazer essas necessidades. Não precisa ser tratado como uma religião que tenha algum dogma inquestionável para todas as situações, mesmo que isso infelizmente pareça ser o caso com frequência. Ao contrário, a idéia, aqui, é empoderar os usuários para que consigam exercer sua liberdade tecnológica e mantê-la sustentável.

Meu pai (com mais de 70 anos) que, felizmente, é saudável, embora nunca tivesse usado um computador antes, acabou se tornando um usuário final de Xfce e Firefox praticamente sem treinamento. Ele sabe como ligar, colocar sua senha, iniciar o navegador por um ícone na tela, abrir alguns sites que deixei na Barra de Favoritos, como de notícias, correio eletrônico, instituições financeiras etc. Eventualmente, aprendeu como digitar outros endereços simples, fazer buscas, e até a iniciar uma sessão de assistência remota e me chamar quando precisa. Isso teve início antes de ter começado a usar celulares inteligentes. É como o usuário idoso médio de outros sistemas, ou melhor. Há alguns docentes pós-doutores que, mesmo utilizando o sistema operacional dominante, chegam a ter dificuldade para fazer isso tudo, talvez por falta da vontade necessária. Ele, na realidade, até chegou a experimentar, sem minha interferência, o sistema privativo que veio instalado em um então novo laptop, já há vários anos. Não demorou até me pedir para “consertá-lo”, para que deixasse como já estava acostumado. De vez em quando, atualizo para ele o GNU que, então, permanece estável, eficiente em uso de recursos, seguro, possuindo o que ele precisa, sendo que, com outro sistema, provavelmente a máquina já estaria obsoleta. Então, como poderia ele não estar feliz com isso? Reclama quando um site não faz o que ele quer, o provedor de Internet cai ou a impressora trava, como qualquer outro usuário. Por tudo que é tão elogiado naquele típico sistema operacional privativo, dito intuitivo, era para ser bem fácil para todas as pessoas se acostumarem a ele, certo?

A lição é que qualquer mudança de hábito é muito difícil para a maioria das pessoas, que costumam ser teimosas. Se tivessem sido ensinadas desde o princípio a usar algum ambiente desktop, ferramentas e aplicativos livres, mesmo que diferentes de seus equivalentes privativos com funcionalidades semelhantes, elas estariam acostumadas e provavelmente evitariam a situação oposta. Assim como as massas têm sofrido lavagem cerebral para acreditarem que existe apenas uma maneira de usar o computador. É por isso que elas mantêm tudo na mesma, ainda que estejam sujeitas a obsolescência programada, aprisionamento tecnológico, práticas monopolistas, comprometimento de privacidade e segurança, ou algum outro tipo de dependência pesada das maiores corporações de tecnologia, preferindo isso a aprender qualquer coisa que pudesse torná-las capazes de exercer mais liberdade perante o software.

#SoftwareLivre #GNU #Linux #GNULinux #GNOME #KDE #Xfce #LXDE #Pantheon #Budgie #Firefox #desktop #POSIX

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Se alguém disser que "Linux é apenas para servidores", isso é uma mentira.

O Linux hoje não tem nenhuma limitação técnica para uso em computadores pessoais, e é inclusive muito eficiente para este propósito.

Linux não é um sistema "só para servidores", e sim um sistema de propósito de uso geral.

As "limitações" são mais na parte de suporte para programas e drivers proprietários, e também tem o fato de que você geralmente não está pagando pra ter suporte técnico profissional.

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The next phase of AI greatness: Privacy
'Meta AI chatbot bug could have allowed anyone to see private conversations'
malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…

Meta AI chatbot bug could have allowed anyone to see private conversations | Malwarebytes

A researcher has disclosed how he found a—now fixed—vulnerability in Meta AI that could have allowed others to see private questions and answers.
Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)
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The industry firing more shots at Ross, and they're slowly getting less subtle with increasingly less plausible deniability.

Can't wait for the shills that normally are out there hyping up the latest slop to start talking about how SKG is totally bad you guys.

Makes me wonder if the ancaps and lolberts who have been trying to steer the initiative towards fighting IP law were just industry shills all along.


The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative

The "Stop Destroying Videogames" initiative has received official accusations of it (and myself) of violating EU rules! These would be serious charges, exce...
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An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency’s Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that experience high radiation. The mission team of NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian moon Io. Results from the long-distance […]

NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter - NASA

Anthony Greicius (NASA)

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Si sabéis holandés, podéis leer este reportaje de Oumaima Abalhaj en holanda sobre las resistencias a los Centros de Datos en España:

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‘Je cloud droogt mijn rivier op!’ Op het Spaanse platteland woedt een strijd tussen boeren en datacenters over water

Water: In de Spaanse regio verrijst het ene na het andere datacenter van techgiganten als Amazon en Microsoft. Milieuactivisten en boeren maken zich grote zorgen.
Oumaima Abalhaj (NRC)

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»Israeli Disregard for the Deaths in Gaza Cannot Obscure the Magnitude of the Horrors

Whether in line for water or food for babies, at homes, in tents, or at a church – this week, again, hundreds of innocent people were killed in strikes on #Gaza. The IDF doesn't feel the need to explain this policy to the public« #Israel #Genocide
haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… (Paywall)

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Israeli disregard for the deaths in Gaza cannot obscure the magnitude of the horrors

Whether in line for water or food for babies, at homes, in tents, or at a church – this week, again, hundreds of innocent people were killed in strikes on Gaza. The IDF doesn't feel the need to explain this policy to the public
Nir Hasson (Haaretz)
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stephie

»The growing alienation of segments of Israeli society towards the military (this week, boys and girls set their draft orders on fire in Tel Aviv); open and covert boycotts against the State of Israel, the security system, academia, and Israeli industry; the slogan "Death to the IDF" that was born at a concert in England is spreading on social networks, and the patience of foreign journalists for the explanations Israel gives them – is getting shorter. «
Unknown parent

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stephie

»The IDF apparently long ago ceased to see the death of unarmed children, women, and men as a moral, ethical, or professional problem. Still, the citizens of Israel are entitled to know if anyone is considering the other damages caused by this relentless killing. «

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yt-dlp command on debian to download highest available video and audio, provided that resolution is no higher than 1920 x 1080 p

debian 12.11, yt-dlp stable@2025.06.30.

I used this argument: "-f bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4]"

and it works: it downloads the best available video, audio and ffmpeg merges both in a single file. Automatically.

Except that the maximum resolution I need is 1920 x 1080 p. Best available video is oftentimes 4096 x 2160 p, too much for the target hardware.

Using -F to check different resolutions to then select one (like -f 299 or -f 148) is tiresome.

How do I do that? Ideally for whole playlists involving between 25 and 50 videos.

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darcmage

Taken from github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp. Replace 480 with 1080. Multiple options in the documentation to choose from.

Download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 480p, or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p


$ yt-dlp -S "height:480"


GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader - yt-dlp/yt-dlp
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anamethatisnt

The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons <, <=, >, >=, = (equals), != (not equals):

filesize: The number of bytes, if known in advance
filesize_approx: An estimate for the number of bytes
width: Width of the video, if known
height: Height of the video, if known
aspect_ratio: Aspect ratio of the video, if known


So a height<=1080 should be it.


GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader - yt-dlp/yt-dlp
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AP quoting US envoy Tom Barrack: The ceasefire announced on Saturday between Syria and 'Israel' is an agreement limited to Suwayda only. english.alahednews.news/fastne…

AP quoting US envoy Tom Barrack: The ceasefire announced on ...

Alahednews - Fastnews - AP quoting US envoy Tom Barrack: The ceasefire announced on Saturday between Syria and ’Israel’ is an agreement limited to Suwayda only.
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Wolf480pl

you're forgetting a lot of things:

2. discount on public transport tickets

3. the friends you make when discussing latest assignment at the watercooler

4. the discussions about wildly speculative things that feel just barely possible (without any pressure to actually implement them)

5. the ability to work on one task for a whole week, get dopamine when your code passes tests / gets max score, and then work on sth completely different the next week

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Caleb James DeLisle

Yeah, you would at least have to negotiate with a friend inside of the university to be able to join in the context of a specific project. Maybe make a donation to the univ that pays for the materials for the project or something. But then again, those are materials you were going to buy anyway.

Maybe if you built the reactor to the point where you can heat and flow inert salt then you could convince the univ to take on the project, move the reactor to their research lab, and switch to using FUN SALT.

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1011 words (7152 total) on The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to AI (a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) #DailyWords

Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

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Clarion Write-a-Thon | Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …
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#HindRajabFoundation #IsraelWarCrimes
@palestine

"The arrests were made during the Tomorrowland music festival following a legal complaint filed by the Hind Rajab Foundation"
"Belgian federal police have arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers credibly accused of war crimes in Gaza"
“After being taken into custody, they were formally interrogated and released. The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed that a criminal investigation is now underway”

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Belgian police arrest Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes in Gaza

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We want Accountability...Finally. Do It, Do It!

LOCK THEM UP -- LOCK THEM UP -- LOCK THEM UP

"You don’t see this every day.

On Sunday, President Trump posted a video of Anonymous breaking down the Obama Treason Crime as the Biggest Scandal Ever!

According to Britannica – Anonymous is a decentralized international movement of digital activists and hackers known for conducting high-profile cyberattacks against governments, corporations, and other institutions. The group typically uses a white mask with a grin symbolizing that anyone can be part of the collective.

On Sunday, President Trump posted their video on Barack Obama’s treasonous acts.

The video was first posted at DeepFakeQuotes, an anonymous account on X."

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/t…


Trump Posts 'Anonymous' Video to Break Down Barack Obama's Treasonous Crime of the Century | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

           You don’t see this every day.
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HunDriverWidow

When calling for someone to go to jail for the major crimes we're discussing like corruption against We The People, treason, sex & child trafficking, Covid & Covid jab genocide, crimes against humanity, etc., please keep this in mind:

"Jail and prison are often used interchangeably as places of confinement. If you want to be specific jail can be used to describe a place for those awaiting trial or held for minor

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Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign

[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025

Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.

One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.

“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”


Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign

A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rations
Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)

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Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33477630

[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025

Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.

One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.

“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”



Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign

A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rations
Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)

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Selling the Public Lands
[quote][Senator Mike Lee has been making waves recently with his support of new potential legislation that would mandate sale of a small amount of land which is currently owned and managed by the federal government. The idea behind the proposal is to free up space for housing development in states where the federal government currently owns large shares of the land. In Senator Lee’s words, “...turning federal liabilities into taxpayer value.”

The appeals made in support of this proposed legislation correctly identify a number of key issues. For one, it is obviously true that any federally-owned land which currently serves no productive purpose would be transformed from a liability into an economic asset if its sale were to result in new productivity. It is also true that the housing market in the Western part of the country could benefit from freeing up some of the government-owned land for development. Utah—Senator Lee’s home state—has seen a continual and substantial increase in housing prices over several decades. There is little doubt that this rise in price is to some degree a result of the fact that roughly 68 percent of Utah’s land is owned by the federal government, preventing its utilization in the meeting of demand for housing in the state./quote]


Selling the Public Lands

Some in Congress are floating the idea of selling government land—especially in the West—as a way to pay down federal debt and free more land for housing. While
Ryan Wardle (Mises Institute)

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Meta is hosting ads on Facebook, Instagram and Threads from pro-Israel entities that are raising money for military equipment, including drones and tactical gear, for Israeli Defense Force (IDF) battalions.

This is what people enable when they continue to use Meta's platforms!

theguardian.com/technology/202…


Meta allows ads crowdfunding for IDF drones, consumer watchdog finds

Paid ads hosted on Facebook, Instagram and Threads seem to violate Meta’s stated policies yet remain active
Johana Bhuiyan (The Guardian)

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On June 16-17, 2025, 50 students at Camp Young in Chesapeake, Virginia traded their usual summer routines for microscopes. The NASA eClips team from the National Institute of Aerospace Center for Integrative STEM Education (NIA-CISE) taught two engaging lessons focused on macroinvertebrates and plankton, with a surprising star of the show – mosquitoes! Camp Young, […]

GLOBE-Trotting Science Lands in Chesapeake with NASA eClips

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