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@Emmanuel Florac so you're proposing the premise that because an alleged 40% of people, have self perceived, meaningless jobs, that's the result of oppressive tools?

Those people had no choice in their job selection, presumably and they were not assigned their jobs by the state so It's hard to see how one could come to the conclusion that some immaginary tool of oppression is at work.

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@Carter Braxton no these people are working in meaningless activities known as "bullshit jobs" in private enterprises mostly. Having an army of pawns, even doing stupid, useless things is important to asset the power structure. In case you didn't realise, a private capitalist company is a private structure in the form of a dictatorship (employees have mostly no say in what they do, why the do it, etc).

Israel's UN Ambassador Danon Insists, 'No Starvation in Gaza' eir.news/2025/08/news/israels-…

Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/05/25: Netanyahu Plans Full Israeli Occupation of Gaza, Russia No Longer Bound by INF Limits, and More rumble.com/v6x5ja8-netanyahu-p…

80 years after Hiroshima atomic bombing, search for missing continues
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/8/5/80-years-after-hiroshimas-atomic-bombing-search-for-missing-continues?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into In Pictures @in-pictures-AlJazeera

William Dunkerley: Here’s What Gabbard’s Russiagate Report Missed original.antiwar.com/WilliamDu…

I mean if you think that the aid Trump will take away if "you support Palestine" is really there, you should check that again.
#USrael send more money to that Zionist project that they invest in the US.
#wakeupyouidiots #fuckisrael #freepalestine

The Big Tech “Lobby” Buys-out the DOJ


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the Department of Justice walked back its own lawsuit blocking a $14 billion tech megamerger pursued by tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) just weeks before the case was set to go to trial. …HPE ran an unorthodox lobbying campaign to influence the Trump administration by bankrolling a team of shadowy Trump-connected consultants and influence peddlers.That included paying $1 million each to Arthur Schwartz, a confidant of Don Trump Jr and Vice President J. D. Vance, and MAGA antitrust whisperer Mike Davis

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Aviva Chomsky: Creating a Cover for Genocide original.antiwar.com/Aviva_Cho…

‼️ Otro trabajador muerto en Aragón: 23 en lo que va de año. Un operario de 40 años falleció este lunes en la planta de Saica en El Burgo de Ebro: arainfo.org/?p=311501

☝️ Los sindicatos aragoneses vienen denunciando que no se trata de accidentes, sino de una consecuencia directa de la precariedad y la falta de prevención

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BREAKING — Ben Gvir to the Israeli army:

“Keep bombing and don’t fear the international courts. Has America ever punished an Israeli soldier? Of course not. Continue your work with confidence.”

#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml

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@prolrage This nonsense it's enough for the Hind Rajab Foundation Who made the arrest possible.

"We do not claim that justice has been served — not yet. But we believe something important has begun. For the first time in Europe, Israeli suspects linked to crimes in Gaza have been subjected to formal arrest and questioning. This would not have been possible without the strength of the law and the will to apply it.
To the victims and survivors in Gaza: we see you, we hear you, and we carry your demands for justice forward."

hindrajabfoundation.org/perpet…

And #FreePalestine

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#FreePalestine
I have a lot of respect for HRF but again, these 2 were not arrested.

They were brought in for questioning and about 2h later they were let go.

Every European country pretending that they stand for rule of law, have let these monsters come in and go without hinder and in many cases even provided them with police protection.

timesofisrael.com/2-israelis-b…

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As NASA prepares for its second year-long Mars simulated mission, media are invited to visit the ground-based habitat where the mission will take place, on Friday, Aug. 22, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Scheduled to begin in October, four volunteer crew members will enter the agency’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog […]

Venezuela Indigenous Council Elections Report 35 Percent Turnout orinocotribune.com/venezuela-i…

EU diplomats confirm they won't yet sanction Israel on Gaza.

Last week, EU member states already failed to rally enough support to suspend Israel from the Horizon Europe fund in response to the war in Gaza.

Two of the largest EU countries - Germany and Italy – prefer to “continue dialogue” with Israel, one diplomat said.

mediafaro.org/article/20250804…

#EuropeanCouncil #EU #Israel #Gaza #Germany #Italy #France #Spain #Ireland #Romania #Finland #Europe

Europe doubles down on research competitiveness with a major boost to #HorizonEurope:

💶€95.5B invested between 2021–2027
💶€175B proposed for 2028–2034

Backed by #ChooseEurope, which aims to attract top global talent, the programme will boost EU competitiveness & improve the well-being of its people.

What does it mean for you as a researcher?

📃Simpler processes
💶Speedier grants
🧪Strengthened research infrastructure
🤝Global partnerships
👩🏾‍🔬More support to apply research in real-world contexts

in reply to European Commission

You have not even been able to kick out #drone research and other "dual-use" "research" of #Israel from #HorizonEurope

You've funded research on tech that is now being used in warfare in #Gaza, to perpetrate a #genocide.

Shame on you for your attempts at science-washing this.

"attract global talent"`? "improve the wellbeing" of me? Shame on you, you're a willing helper of genocide.

Le Monde
Le Monde via archive.is

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Researchers at Harvard Business School and University of Toronto used unique data to quantify the value of open source.

Takeways:

* Supply-side (cost to recreate) is ~$4.15B, but demand-side (value to firms) is $8.8T. Shows massive cost savings & productivity boost from OSS.

* If OSS didn't exist, firms would need to spend an estimated 3.5 times more on software than they currently do. OSS provides a massive, often invisible, productivity boost.

* A tiny fraction of OSS developers create the vast majority of value. Only 5% of developers are responsible for over 96% of the demand-side value

* Firms should not just "free ride" on OSS but actively contribute to the ecosystem, as this is far cheaper than recreating the software themselves.

Source:
hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20File…

[Call for Research Consultants 📢] Tactical Tech and The Political Economy of Military General-Purpose AI Systems project are looking for research consultants.
📅 Deadline: 15 August, 17:00 BST / 18:00 CEST
🔗 For more information: exposingtheinvisible.org/en/ne…

Αυτό μπορείτε να το δείξετε και στους φίλους μας που πάνε σεζόν για πενταροδεκάρες γιατί "είναι καλά τα τιπς". bsky.brid.gy/r/bsky.app/profil…


Your reminder that the tipped minimum wage is $2.13 /hr, and has been since 1991. When employers refuse to pay a living wage, their workers are forced to rely on taxpayer-funded social safety nets. Those aren’t handouts to workers. They’re handouts to companies.

European Commission examines series of 'unusual' flights from Minsk to Libya's Benghazi en.topwar.ru/269131-rossija-il…

Every Tuesday, we ask for your help to feed my family for a full week.

With the sharp rise in prices, even providing food has become a daily struggle.

We need $500 each week to feed my family of 6.

Every dollar you give helps us get through the week.

If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help.

Thank you so much for your continued kindness and support.

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Please help Aseel and her family eat this week if you can.

(I have spoken with and am in touch with Aseel over Signal and I can vouch that the account and campaign are real and your donations go to a family in need in Gaza.)

#gaza #aid #mutualAid #Palestine #FreePalestine mas.to/@Aseelsehwel/1149750789…

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i never started putting much effort into decorating my flat since i moved here because it was already furnitured with super ugly and basic stuff that i wasn't allowed to remove and it's super expensive here which made me want to move away asap anyway. but now that i have a realistic chance of getting a rental contract for the same flat with half the price and the furniture loophole removed, that isn't a blocker anymore. i'm so excited to get started once i have money!! i have sooo many ideas:

here's my (half german half english) interior decoration task list:

☐ aquarium
☐ 4K beamer
☐ big full-body mirror w/ 3 angles
☐ bondaged 140cm rainbow haj as lamp
☐ book shelf
☐ brother Scanner for paperless
☐ colorful pawprints on the wall
☐ cozy cuddle corner
☐ desinfektionsmittelspender
☐ doggie bed
☐ eGPU + dock + good monitors
☐ elaborate WiFi system
☐ food organizational system
☐ graphana dashboard in front of on shower class for temperature, weather forecast, lyrics etc
☐ green house
☐ gridfinity and neogrid
☐ grow your own vegetables and spices; strawberry growth chamber
☐ home assistant panel with magnets to wall
☐ huge ring lamp with plants on top
☐ küchenmaschine
☐ lain corner
☐ LED matrix abfahrt display
☐ LEDs in bathtub
☐ lots of home assistant integrations
☐ magic mirror grafana for my bluetooth toothbrush
☐ mental illness bunnies hung up on ethernet cables
☐ finish that motherboards wall, "ALL COMPUTERS ARE BEAUTIFUL" sprayed onto it with pink spray paint and LEDs between the boards which emulate 7seg clock
☐ nicer dicer
☐ nix flake deko wie im RZL
☐ nukey
☐ partstorage system and project storage
☐ photo wall
☐ place to hangout
☐ plants!
☐ Portal test chamber like eInk calendar
☐ pride flags
☐ serverrack
☐ sodastream machine + syrups
☐ solar panels
☐ surround sound system
☐ telescope
☐ teppiche
☐ trans bavarian pride flag
☐ umzug
☐ automated retro (wii) video game and piracy streaming setup
☐ waschmaschine, trockner
☐ watering system automatic for plants
☐ whiteboard
☐ wool clouds LED matrix scriptable
☐ workbench
☑ küchenmaschine
☑ Gewürzregal
☑ food prep containers

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Hier kommt ein Longread: Vier #Suchemaschinen mit #KI getestet: Bings #Copilot, #Perplexity, #Phind und #Andisearch: profi-wissen.de/vier-ki-gestue… Für alle Suchenden interessant, behaupte ich mal, sei es #FediLZ oder #FediCampus. #Recherche

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“Netanyahu decides on full occupation of Gaza Strip”

Just like Hitler decided “full occupation of Western Poland.” Oh, no, we called it “invasion” back then, didn’t we?

Then again, we also used to call genocide, “genocide.”

jpost.com/israel-news/article-…

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide

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Every time I see a post from an account I don't follow on the "default" Facebook timeline with an obviously A.I. generated poster for fake movies coming up, or any post with a photo of a celebrity in an obviously faked photo, I block that profile. It's amazing how many people comment thinking the post is real. Fake news is part of the reason we are in the mess we're in today. Lots of folks can't logically think for themselves anymore, they believe ANYTHING put in front of them automatically. A.I. still has a slightly "plastic" look with images. If you look close enough, you can see it. Then again, most people are looking on their tiny phone screens. Most of my viewing is on a 27" desktop monitor.

Yup 🙄: Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

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...and what court has decided that it's a genocide? Isn't it a legal term that can only be used if the goal post we keep moving is reached?

Not to draw away attention from the Sudan genocide amidst a brutal civil war, I just think it's adequate to point out how easy it is to name the perpetrator, victim, and the action of genocide by its name when Israel isn't involved.

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Ministry of Defense: The Netherlands will be the first NATO country to supply €500 million worth of US weapons to Ukraine en.news-front.su/2025/08/04/mi…

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「真正的人 • 翎」在 2021 年 7 月上線,是我第一個自架的聯邦宇宙服務,也是我第一個貢獻繁體中文翻譯的專案。和其他 fedi 專案比起來,Plume 的功能較為陽春,缺乏管理工具使得難以管控 spam 貼文與帳號,加以 Plume 上一次更新已經是 2022 年中了,因此我也逐漸將部落格主力移至最初以實驗性質架設的 WordPress 。為了削減主機開支,我決定將「真正的人 • 翎」關閉,有緣再見!

The vanguard of teen shepherds occupying more of the West Bank
By Eric Tlozek

In the Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, teenage shepherds escorted by armed security guards are trying to push Palestinian villagers from their farms.

abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/occ…

#UnrestConflictandWar #WorldPolitics #TerritorialDisputes #ForeignAffairs #EricTlozek

These Jupiter guys are great at making Picross/pixel puzzle games and it shows. They automatically crossed off the middle "1" of the 1-1-3 row because I could know, with this arrangement of Xs, that had to be the middle 1 because the chunk of blocks to the right of it HAD to be part of the 3 and ther was no room for this block to be anything but the middle 1 and not the first 1.
in reply to JillyB

By all means, keep scoring massive own goals and wondering why more and more young men and turning to the far right.

"Here, let me describe you. If you feel targeted, it's that you are the irredeemable scum this comic describes"

Meanwhile, the comic describes men on the internet.

Super easy fix to the comic: add political leaning to the description. Literally one word to make fun of the people who need to be made fun of.
Meanwhile, everyone here is bending over backwards to explain how collateral damage is perfectly fine, and isn't totally playing into the alt right's pipeline in the most avoidable way ever.

in reply to Exocet6951

My point is that your strategy wouldn't work to relieve the tension. The alt right influencers and propagandists are manufacturing outrage. The feeling of being targeted is made up. It doesn't matter if anybody plays into it. Insecure young men feel that way regardless of what anybody on the left will say. It's a natural consequence of a patriarchal, atomized society where everyone is told that they're supposed to conform to gender ideals while being socially isolated.