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JUST IN: The National Park Service announced it will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which was TORN DOWN and vandalized during the 2020 BLM riots
And finally, dear family in Hungary., Thank you for sending me home with a couple of bottles of Palinka made with fruit you grew in the backyard. Those tell-tale -tall slender bottlers hide what Hungarians consider the national drink.
Rocket fuel you drink.
It cures stomach ailments, stops a cold from progressing, separates boys and girls from men and women, and peels paint from automobiles.
США та НАТО запускають новий механізм підтримки України через ініціативу Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL).
Метою цього механізму є забезпечення швидкого постачання Україні систем і...
#Ukraine already has interceptors for jet-powered drones, which are harder to detect and intercept, according to the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation. It is a vital upgrade, as #Russia increased their use in recent attacks, posing a new challenge to air defense. t.me/akovalenko1989/9600
Від реактивний шахедів також є перехоплювачі, тому коли ширяться в пабліках різні історії про «все пропало» - нічого не пропало. Є певні розробки, про які думаю повідомлять у слушний момент.
Russia’s Ryazan oil refinery cut operations by nearly half after it was attacked by Ukrainian drones.
An earlier strike also disabled Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, highlighting Ukraine’s attempts to attack Russia’s energy sector as a way of attacking its economy.
Ukrainian beer has turned out to be a surprisingly strong connection between the two countries. We saw it in Lviv, where Veronika oversaw brewing with Americans who’ve adopted Ukrainian recipes.
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy.
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy.
South Africa calls for global recognition of Palestine rt.com/africa/622331-south-afr… Pretoria’s foreign minister has said there cannot be peace with Israel’s continued “genocidal actions” in Gaza Read Full Article at RT.com #news #press
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still believe that what we are seeing in Gaza is not a genocide.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still believe this mass atrocity is about self-defense.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still believe that people in Gaza are not being deliberately starved by Israel.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still believe that Israel destroyed Gaza’s entire healthcare system because there were Hamas bases in every part of that healthcare system.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still believe that Israel is banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza because it is concerned for the journalists’ safety.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still believe that Israel has been killing a record-shattering number of journalists in Gaza because all of those journalists were Hamas.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still believe that Israel has been killing a shocking number of civilians in Gaza because Hamas is using civilians as human shields.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still believe that unproven claims made by Israeli officials about what’s happening in Gaza should be considered plausible until proven false.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still believe that this mass atrocity is about hostages, or is about Hamas, or is about October 7, or is about anything besides the long-sought agenda to remove Palestinians from a Palestinian territory.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still believe this is a very complicated issue.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still believe that this all started on October 7.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still frame an active genocide as a moral gray area with bad actors on both sides.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still say you don’t know enough about Gaza to have an opinion one way or the other.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still support Israel.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still support Donald Trump.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and still support the western power alliance.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and not be outraged at what you are seeing.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and not be doing everything you can to end this nightmare.
It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and not be doing everything you can to make sure that nothing like this can ever happen again.
Here's a fantastic article about Ilhan Omar's family's role in the Marxist genocide in Somalia. Her family are not refugees. They are war criminals who fled justice in their home country. somalilandchronicle.com/2025/0…
Between 1987 and 1989, the Somali military in which Colonel Nur Omar Mohamed, Ilhan Omar’s father, served as a senior officer executed a brutal and systematic campaign of genocide targeting the Isaaq people of the modern day Republic of Somaliland.
Awdah Hathaleen was killed by Israeli settler Yinon Levy in broad daylight. The perpetrator walks free, while Awdah’s body has been held hostage by the Israeli army. The village of Umm al-Khair is going on hunger strike to recover his body.
GOP lawmakers are so afraid of being held accountable that they're silencing critics like Isaiah Martin, who was arrested for refusing to yield the microphone during a redistricting hearing. #MessWithTexas
Repudiating the debt and making the US government too capricious to risk lending to is the only way to actually enforce balanced budgets on congress. The fed buys our debt cheap, sure, but those snakes in congress would just as soon sell it dear if the fed went away.
"'When you walk into a place that’s been sprayed, it’s dead silent,' says university professor, who's a Grand River First Nation member. 'No birds. No insects. Just loneliness'"
COLUMN: Ecological, safety concerns grow as glyphosate spraying begins in northern Ontario - North Bay News baytoday.ca/local-news/column-…
'When you walk into a place that’s been sprayed, it’s dead silent,' says university professor, who's a Grand River First Nation member. 'No birds. No insects. Just loneliness'
**Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm**
> The activists caused extensive damage to the factory which is run by Teledyne, a US multinational that sells technology for military, aerospace and other applications. Lord Dannatt has been a paid adviser to the company since 2022.
Denaturalization based on the obvious fact that SO many of these millions have a distasteful amount of melanin in their flesh! Why, they don't even have to put on baby-shit orange pancake just to hide the underlying ghoul-zombie death mask of ugly... truthdig.com/articles/the-next…
L’ancien député israélien Moshe #Feiglin cite ouvertement #Hitler : "De même qu’Hitler a juré d’éliminer tous les Juifs et a affirmé qu’il ne pourrait vivre tant qu’il en resterait un seul, je dis : nous ne pouvons pas vivre sur cette terre tant qu’il restera un seul musulman à #Gaza. Ils doivent être éliminés."
Prussian blue or Berlin blue is the oldest modern synthetic color. It has been in use since its discovery in Berlin in 1704. The pigment is made from ferric ferrocyanide.
CASE STUDY. The history of the use of Prussian blue in Japan is an illustrative example of a process of rapid acceptance. The effects of the use of this synthetic pigment in Japan is a case study in the history of technology.
This hue of blue was used by Katsushika Hokusai in 1831 in his most famous woodblock print, "Under the Wave, off Kanagawa," also known as "The Great Wave." Hokusai's popular artwork was the first to exploit the pigment, which had recently become cheaply available from China.
QUESTION: Does the story of the introduction and expanding use of Prussian blue provide a good example of STEM-focused evolution? Is it possible that this could become a teaching tool?
QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?
Editor's Note : This blog post is being prepared to celebrate the research work of our fellow QOTO.org user Chikara, @Chikara@Qoto.org , who has been sharing the fruits of his curiosity and study of the evolution of Technology, Arts and Science in Japan.
I had meant to suggest to him that his posts would look wonderful in a Blog format, and be preserved, made easier to find for anyone interested in following them.
Upon seeing his post of the Prussian Blue history, and the beautiful gravure of the Great Wave, I knew the moment was now.
Thank you, Chikara, for sharing with us all of your findings.
チカラ、私たちとあなたの調査結果のすべてを共有していただきありがとうございます。
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Grassroots groups say racial bias in Scotland’s child protection system is an ongoing problem. The Promise Scotland says it needs to do more theferret.scot/promise-must-ta…
Given emotional toddler crumple trump has never evinced a shred of evidence he cares about ANYONE but himself, one interpretation of his haranguing RFKrap wondering why "people aren't healthier yet" is that it is projection over his concern about his own dying, corrupt mass of scheißefleisch and its ongoing deterioration toward his demise. huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-dona…
@HarriettMB Agreed--and indeed, he may just be slamming RFK for not fucking up HHS fast enough or hard enough. However, I'm not so sure there's anything "deep" inside that shallow, self-centered passel of nasty neurons of RFK though karmic justice would see him getting a cocktail of infections and a stage IV pancreatic cancer diagnosis. Sadly, such justice doesn't exist.
Across continents and millennia, what truly unites humanity is our need to be left the fuck alone at home. From “The shortest history of China” by Linda Jaivin.
Beste behin ere dianan jo du @pluralistic k. "Adimen artifizialaren fenomenoan, alderdi teknologikoa bigarren mailakoa da. #AA fenomeno finantzieroa da batez ere. Milaka milioi dolarreko inbertsioa etekinaren bila". Ttak! Horrek ere gauza asko azaltzen ditu.
Nations to try again to confront world's 'spiraling' #plastic #pollution
Nations gather in Geneva Tues to try to complete a landmark #treaty aimed at ending the #PlasticPollution crisis that affects every #ecosystem & person on the planet.
It’s the 6th time negotiators are meeting & they hope the last. A key split is whether the treaty should require cutting plastic production, w/powerful #oil-producing nations opposed; most plastic is made from #FossilFuels.
#UnitedNations #Environment Programme Executive Director Inger Andersen said the issues are complex but the crisis is “really spiraling” & there’s a narrow pathway to a #treaty. She said many countries agree on redesigning #plastic products to be #recycled & improving #waste management, for example.
Between 19 million & 23 million tons of plastic waste leak into #AquaticEcosystems annually, that could jump 50% by 2040 without urgent action, according to the #UN.
Any agreement that relies on recycling is destined to fail. The only way to reduce plastic pollution is to reduce the production of plastic and to place the financial burden of cleaning up plastic pollution on plastic manufacturers.
About 300 businesses that are members of the Business Coalition for a Global #PlasticsTreaty — companies such as Walmart, the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, & L’Oréal—support reducing production along with increasing recycling & reuse. The coalition includes major food & beverage companies & retailers who want an effective, binding treaty with global rules to spare them the headaches of differing approaches in different countries.
Den Artikel sollten wirklich alle lesen. Gerade auch aus Sicht des israelischen Genozidforschers, der sich mit dem deutschen Holocaust eingehend beschäftigt hat ist es für ihn halt sehr leicht die Mechanismen zu sehen und zu beschreiben.
»Omer Bartov: „Ein Land, das Völkermord begangen hat, trägt diesen Makel über Generationen hinweg“« fr.de/kultur/gesellschaft/gaza…
Wenn der Artikel von allen gelesen werden sollte, dann sollte er auch frei zugänglich gemacht werden ohne Zustimmung zu Werbetracking. Sonst: Nein - Danke für nichts.
»Ja – in gewisser Weise hat man die Erzählung übernommen, die Netanjahu seit Jahren verkauft: Die Besatzung lässt sich „managen“. Man müsse den Status quo nur administrieren, ohne politische Lösung. Diese Haltung hat sich verfestigt – in der israelischen Öffentlichkeit, aber auch international. Und genau das muss sich ändern, wenn man nicht möchte, dass sich diese Gewaltzyklen immer wiederholen.«
»Seit 1967 besetzt Israel große Teile der palästinensischen Gebiete. Und eine langandauernde Besatzung bringt fast zwangsläufig eine Dehumanisierung mit sich. Man hört in Israel gern: Wir sind weltoffen, reisen nach Italien, nach Südamerika, wir sind kosmopolitisch. Aber Palästinenser gehören nicht zu dieser Kategorie. Es ist nicht nur ein Gefühl der Überlegenheit – es ist, als wären sie eine andere Gattung. «
»Diese Sichtweise hat sich über Generationen hinweg verfestigt. Ich erinnere mich immer wieder an junge Israelis, die ich im Café treffe, sie sind weltoffen und kosmopolitisch. Wenn sie eine Uniform anziehen, ändert sich alles, sie brechen um vier Uhr morgens in die Häuser der Palästinenser ein, treiben alte Frauen raus und zerstören das Spielzeug der Kinder. Es ist ein und dieselbe Person, die beides tut. Aber sie sehen das nicht und verstehen es auch nicht, das ist für sie natürlich.«
»Aber es wäre dennoch ein zentraler Schritt. Denn so dringend ein Waffenstillstand ist – er wird keine der grundlegenden Probleme lösen: nicht die katastrophalen Lebensbedingungen in Gaza, nicht die schleichende ethnische Vertreibung im Westjordanland & schon gar nicht die strukturellen Ursachen dieses Konflikts. Was es braucht, ist ein Paradigmenwechsel – & der beginnt mit der Erkenntnis, dass die internationale Gemeinschaft sich über Jahre aus der palästinensischen Frage zurückgezogen hat.«
»Der 7. Oktober. Dieser Tag war für viele Israelis ein Schock – auf vielen Ebenen. Plötzlich schlugen Palästinenser, die man für machtlos hielt, brutal zu. Sie töteten nicht nur Zivilisten, sondern auch Hunderte israelische Soldaten. Sie überrannten Armeestützpunkte. Es dauerte Tage, bis die IDF die Kontrolle zurückgewann. Diese Erfahrung hat zu einem tiefen Gefühl der Unsicherheit, des Hasses und der Rache geführt – und zu einer Bereitschaft, extreme Gewalt zu akzeptieren.«
»Sie sagen: Für viele Israelis ist das Töten inzwischen normal?«
»Etwa 30 Prozent der Bevölkerung, würde ich sagen, sind offen dafür – sie sprechen von Zerstörung, Auslöschung, ohne Umschweife. Die Mehrheit dagegen will einfach nicht genau hinsehen. Wenn sie morgen hörten, dass die Palästinenser nach Kanada „ausgewandert“ seien, würden viele nicht einmal fragen, wie das passiert ist. Das ist das Ergebnis jahrzehntelanger Dehumanisierung.«
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“#Trump is ceding the great game in the global south to #China. The destruction of #USAID and Trump’s tariff war on the world’s poorest countries in #Africa and Latin America are pushing those continents closer to China.” on.ft.com/41mJDD6
I’m sorry for all the Palestine posts, but you’ll understand how difficult it is for everyone in Gaza, including the few who can post a go fund me or a chuffed account.
It’s overwhelming, but if you have anything to give, please do, & if you don’t, please pass these on to someone who might. 🙏
En seulement trois jours, le pouvoir israélien a annoncé avoir « pris la décision d’occuper entièrement la bande de Gaza », tenté de limoger illégalement la procureure générale Gali Baharav-Miara, jugée trop critique de Benyamin Netanyahou, et continué de souffler le chaud et le froid sur l’avenir de l’aide humanitaire dans la bande de Gaza, en proie à une famine de masse. Le premier ministre poursuit ainsi son entreprise génocidaire dans les territoires palestiniens et autoritaire en Israël.#autoritépalestinienne #génocide #guerreàgaza #israël #palestine
En seulement trois jours, le pouvoir israélien a annoncé avoir « pris la décision d’occuper entièrement la bande de Gaza », tenté de limoger illégalement la procureure générale Gali Baharav-Miara, jugée trop critique de Benyamin Netanyahou, et contin…
Dieses lange Interview mit Omer Bartov sollten alle lesen, vor allem diejenigen, die sich noch irgendwie hinter Israel stellen. Es geht um Genozid, warum das Sprechen von "Krieg" irreführend ist und warum Deutschland und die USA nach wie vor bedingungslos hinter ihrem Verbündeten stehen.
We spend a lot of time talking about AI's technical capabilities: what it can do now, what it might do tomorrow, what it will never do. But AI is only secondarily a tech phenomenon; it is primarily a *financial* phenomenon, hundreds of billions of dollars in investment capital in search of a return.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
The return on that capital only comes from one place: workers' wages. AI - as a financial phenomenon - represents that AI will a) replace, and/or; b) frighten workers to the point where more of the revenues generated by firms that buy AI tools will be returned to executives and shareholders, at the expense of their workforce.
This is why AI bosses are so eager to cite statistics - conjured out of thin air, without any backing - about how AI is about to replace *the majority* of workers:
After all, tech workers were - until recently - the princes of labor. Despite infinitesimal union density in the tech sector, tech workers were in such high demand that they could tell their bosses to go fuck themselves - and keep their jobs. Those bosses knew that a worker who quit during the morning scrum could have a better job with a rival firm before evening cocktails.
While tech bosses cultivated a chuminess with these workers, treating them as peers (temporarily embarrassed founders, not employees) and sitting down for "town halls," they clearly *hated* this and wanted nothing more than to put these arrogant pismires in their place.
The *instant* tech labor's supply caught up with demand, these bosses mass-fired their precious tech workers, canceled town halls ("Not a good use of my time" -M. Zuckerberg), and told workers that the "sweet spot" was a 60-hour work-week:
Facebook announced a 5% across-the-board layoff and doubled its executives' bonuses - *on the same day*. They fired thousands of workers and then hired a single AI researcher for $200m:
Whatever else all this is, it's a *performance*. It's a way of demonstrating the efficacy of the product they're hoping *your* boss will buy and replace you with: *Remember when techies were prized beyond all measure, pampered and flattered?*
*AI is SO GOOD at replacing workers that we are dragging these arrogant little shits out by their hoodies and firing them over Interstate 280 with a special, AI-powered trebuchet. Imagine how many of the ungrateful useless eaters who clog up your payroll *you* will be able to vaporize when you buy our product!*
Which is why you should always dig closely into announcements about AI-driven tech layoffs. It's true that tech job listings are down 36% since ChatGPT's debut - but that's pretty much true of *all* job listings:
And the major decline in tech hiring isn't the result of hiring far fewer programmers - the tech companies have mostly cut back on hiring marketers, administrative assistants, and HR staff.
The whole fucking economy is in freefall. It's so bad that Trump just fired the country's head labor statistician and pledged to replace her with a flunky who wouldn't produce numbers "that made him look bad":
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) joins CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss her reaction President Trump's firing of BSL chief, whether Congress is able...
The tech industry has changed. During the lockdowns, tech companies trumpeted their hiring sprees a performance of growth, staged for pandemic-panicked investors. Now, tech companies trumped their layoffs as a performance of AI's technical excellence, aimed at potential AI customers *and* credulous investors stampeded by FOMO.
Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
How much of tolerance FIBA Europe has in order to accept the participation of Israeli team on the coming #eurobasket? Hope the games will be disrupted in #Cyprus which is the military base for British and US UAVs who help #IsraelTerroristState. todon.nl/@prolrage/11345848024…
So #Parliament was #manipulated. Makes sense. There's obviously some deep-state shit going on here regarding #Israel and #Gaza. Normal human-beings do not act like what we're seeing regarding #Palestine. Normal human-beings don't support #genocide, let alone take concrete steps to enable it to continue to happen. Definitely some deep-state cabal bullshit going on somewhere. Either that or Netanyahu has so much dirty laundry on the West's politicians that it would put Game of Thrones to shame. ---
No veo una gran diferencia entre "si me dicen que pueden impedir que mis hijos nazcan con una discapacidad diría que sí" y "tengo una discapacidad hereditaria y por eso elijo no tener hijos, porque no quiero que pasen por lo que yo he pasado" pero con lo segundo estamos socialmente ok
Lo digo porque he visto a dos personas por mi TL poner lo segundo tal cual y gente venir a decirles que claro, que es lógico y comprensible, y a mucha gente ir a cantarle las 40 a gente que dice lo primero. Y no sé, en esencia viene a ser lo mismo.
porque el segundo se acaba ahí, pero el primero de los ejemplos puede ser el primer paso de una pendiente resbaladiza que termina en algo llamado eugenesia, y de ahí al nazismo hay un paso.
The European Union's attempt to use trade policy as leverage to shift China's stance on Russia is faltering, as Beijing firmly resists linking economic
"Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide. It’s a crime against humanity. It’s a war crime. I have been repeating it and repeating it and repeating it" - Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food
"We have never seen a civilian population made to go so hungry so quickly and so completely, that is the consensus among starvation experts … Intentionally depriving people of food is clearly a war crime. Israel has announced its intention to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, simply for being Palestinian … this is now a situation of genocide." (quote from February 2024)
📎 The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
"Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding starvation."
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2025 verkündet das Bundesverfassungsgericht Urteile zu zwei Verfassungsbeschwerden, die wir initiiert haben und von vielen Menschen mit Unterschriften und Spenden unterstützt wurden:
*gegen den Einsatz von Staatstrojanern *gegen das Polizeigesetz NRW
Für die Staatstrojaner muss es in allen Smartphones und PCs Hintertüren geben, durch die staatliche Hacker und Kriminelle nach Lust und Laune in unsere Geräte
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