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"Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech... Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech..."
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John Trenchard (1662-1723) & Thomas Gordon (169?-1750)
Source: Letters, 1720
"Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech... Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech..." ~ CatoLibertyQuotes
ESPN reaches multi-year extension to air NFL Draft as well as additional rights for DTC service
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"I’ve heard many people say they’ve stopped reading, listening to, or watching the news because it makes them feel overwhelmed, alarmed, and ultimately powerless. Journalism shouldn’t just inform, it should connect people to resources and others who are already organizing in their communities."
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Journalism in the 1930s failed to communicate the danger of Hitler’s rise. Are we repeating the same mistake now?Columbia Journalism Review
Julian Langer - The Unique and Their Dis-Eases
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(Written on the 30th of July 2025)
“The opposition between the real and the ideal is an irreconcilable one, and the one can never
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“The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.”
~ Bill Clinton
[William Jefferson Blythe III] (1946- ), 42nd US President
10/15/95, University of Connecticut
"The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth." ~ Bill ClintonLibertyQuotes
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Eighty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, declassified records and military testimony reveal the atomic bombings were unnecessary.Alan Macleod (MintPress News)
Since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, US imperialism has driven nuclear proliferation worldwide. Current nuclear flashpoints, such as Iran, show how the US continues to use nuclear blackmail to reinforce its dominance.Rhonda Ramiro (Mondoweiss)
If you’re at #BlackHat and at or near the Cosmopolitan, @DomainTools has shuttles running from the Cosmo to the Mandalay Bay on Aug 6 & 7.
Gotta give up your deets, but otherwise free.
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Sign up for free shuttle rides with DomainTools at Black Hat 2025!DomainTools
@NosirrahSec I hear ya.
This week’s not great for it, but if there’s ways I can help, reach out and let’s find time to jump on a call or something.
Adolf Hitler made hatred of the Jews the central pillar of his ideology and the Nazi regime, leading the world into one of the most horrific crimes of the 20...YouTube
Study says ChatGPT giving teens dangerous advice on drugs, alcohol and suicide
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Beijing fast-tracked authorization of nearly 200 Brazilian firms after Washington slapped massive tariffs on the country’s productsRT
Credit card debt reaches $1.21 trillion — in line with last year's all-time high, NY Fed finds.
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Credit card balances rose by $27 billion in the second quarter to $1.21 trillion, according to a new report by the New York Fed.Jessica Dickler (CNBC)
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!cluesbysam.com
🇺🇸 USA: 3 dead and at least 67 sick from growing Legionnaires' disease cluster in New York City.
"The cases are clustered in 5 ZIP codes in central Harlem"
People in the area with flu-like symptoms—cough, fever, chills, aches, or breathing issues—should contact a health care provider immediately.
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The cases have been centered in the Harlem area of New York City.Jon Haworth (ABC News)
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"By 2030, fresh water demand is projected to outstrip the global water supply by nearly 56%, according to the World Resources Institute. At the same time, the growing development of artificial intelligence infrastructure—which depends on water for cooling systems and throughout its energy supply chain—is projected to consume 1.1 trillion to 1.7 trillion gallons of freshwater annually, roughly equivalent to the yearly water use of all households in California."
Mohawk Nation News 'Stop Redacting the Genocide'
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Posted on August 5, 2025 by Kan1enkehakaSTOP REDACTING THE GENOCIDEhttps://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2025/08/05/stop-redacting-the-genocide/MNN. Stop redacting Canada’s past and current genocide policy. Redact is to remove words or information from a text…
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At least 58 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while trying to get food from US- and Israeli-backed GHF aid sites in Gaza. Shocking footage shows bod...YouTube
Washington has declared a trade war on India, Brazil and China. Their response? Don’t rush into fight you can’t win.Sputnik International
Not celebrated by anybody who was paying attention. One of the key changes responsible for wrecking the housing market and ushering in austerity.
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A new report details the damage. This was an ideological ploy from which we have yet to recover, says LSE’s David MaddenDavid Madden (The Guardian)
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Diplomatic relations between Britain and Israel have plummeted in the past few months, as demonstrated earlier this year when Israel blocked two Labour MPs from entering the country.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
End to end encryption has many consequences. One of them, for better or worse, is plausible deniability about the use of a company's products.
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Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in EuropeHarry Davies (The Guardian)
Admission comes just days after Jeremy Ben-Ami denied it – but is ignored by western media Jeremy Ben-Ami, the head of liberal US Israel lobby group J Street has told his followers that Israe…SKWAWKBOX
Over £40 million of this mind-blowing amount was spent on notorious DWP health and Work Capability assessmentsSteve Topple (The Canary)
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Armenia might formally withdraw from the CSTO and then replace Russian troops with American PMCs.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
A lot of hand-wringing over RFK announcing they are winding down mRNA research funding.
What I'm noticing is that EVERY person who is outraged about this on X is some kind of research professor - in other words, they are simply worried about their grant funding, not the actual development of the technology.
@mhjohnson That's exactly what Kennedy said.
The money will still be funding research, just it will go to other vaccine research, not mRNA
I recently published a new extension for installing VSIX extensions from the VSCode Marketplace straight from any VSCodium based IDE that uses open-vsx.org for the extensions marketplace. Bear in mind that extensions like “ms-vscode.cpptools” won’t work anyway, since they are proprietary binaries that only work on MS VSCode. Other than that, any extension that is in the VSCode marketplace but not in open-vsx will be available for download.
You can find the extension from the extensions manager under “VSCode Marketplace Extensions Installer” or download the VSX file from open-vsx.org/extension/cooligu…
This extension is still very new, so expect some bugs here and there (especially when making very generic queries like “theme” instead of being specific like “One Dark”).
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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"Even before the AI boom, water industry professionals worried about the massive amounts of water data centers required for cooling and how that demand impacts water scarcity issues worldwide. The rise of AI is now making this worse. But the problem goes well beyond just consuming water for cooling. Challenges associated with wastewater, chip manufacturing, and even efforts to produce cleaner energy are all exacerbating AI’s water consumption problem."
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There’s little doubt that AI is quickly becoming a powerful if not essential tool in our society. It’s being used to help boost efficiencies and productivity in myriad ways –– including for the research portion of this article.www.wateronline.com
While I was watching last night's DEFCON ZERQ podcast on Rumble with Alpha Warrior & Josh Reid.
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Someone posted this in the Chat:
"They need to start Spray-Painting Deep State Kills/Convictions on the side of the Whitehouse, like they did on the fighter planes in WWII."
In Episode 004 of DEFCON ZERQ, Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid dissect the return of high-signal drops, drawing connections between Scavino’s posts, Trump’s recent statements, and coordinated comms pointiRumble
ACIP 17 replaced with incompetent dipshits.
Kulldorf? May he die of a preventable infection.
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday appointed eight new members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises CDC on vaccines, two days after he fired all 17 members from the committee. Here's who's on the panel.www.advisory.com
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There’s little doubt that AI is quickly becoming a powerful if not essential tool in our society. It’s being used to help boost efficiencies and productivity in myriad ways –– including for the research portion of this article.www.wateronline.com
Too many good talks scheduled at BlackHat and I’m mad about it!
(Also, reach out if you want to grab coffee and talk shop. No sales pitches in either direction, please.)
Japan is gripped by an unprecedented political crisis that has been entirely obscured in the media around the globe.Emanuel Pastreich (CovertAction Magazine)
No surprises here. The neolib/corporate Dems are worthless shit when they're not just crooks or worse, evil assholes arming and funding nazi Israel's genocide while screwing workers, the people and planet. Fuck all these MFs and EVERY goddamned nazi repugniQan POS.
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A new analysis shows that if you give $100 to an appeal run by a leading Democratic Party vendor, only $1.60 will actually go to the campaign.Nation Magazine (The Nation's Substack)
Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package – is set for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 August 2025 at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time).
Watch live on ESA Web TV One.
#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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ESA’s Hera mission has captured images of asteroids (1126) Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft operations that could prove useful for planetary defence.
Hera is currently travelling through space on its way to a binary asteroid system. In 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft impacted the asteroid Dimorphos, changing its orbit around the larger asteroid Didymos. Now, Hera is returning to the system to help turn asteroid deflection into a reliable technique for planetary defence.
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In a detailed social media post on Tuesday, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned that "Israel’s" standing in the United States “has never been so bad” and that it is increasingly viewed as a “leper state.”
He noted that “the Democratic party hasn’t been with us for some time” and added, “we’re also losing the Republican party, whose support for Israel could once be counted on,” while crediting US President Donald Trump with maintaining support for "Israel" during his term.
#Gaza
“Even those who have been our friends are having a hard time defending the State of Israel,” Bennett wrote, adding that “Israel is being seen more and more as a liability and burden on the USA and Americans.”
Bennett attributed the worsening situation to the current Israeli government, which he has long criticized. He accused it of pursuing a chaotic and self-defeating foreign policy and claimed it is causing “terrible damage” while still failing to grasp “the magnitude of the disaster.”
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@GossiTheDog the biggest cooperations take bad decisions, with perhaps IBM in WWII as a similar example...
In the platform economy, it's hard to stay clean from others running software for purposes you would not agree with. But, taking on as a client the army of a country that is suspected of war crimes and has been summoned to stand trial at international court, that would be easy to avoid.
By choosing to take on these huge contracts, M$ has become a player in modern arms industry.
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Let's not forget they killed the supposed "shooter" too over that. Someone died that day. Someone that was probably approached by someone in the Trump campaign and offered money if he'd go up onto a roof and aim an air rifile at Trump and pull the trigger. Someone who was probably told don't worry you'll be fine. That he'll be okay. Ignore the fact that he was a stupid son-of-a-bitch. But he still died that day. And Trump didn't. Because there was no bullet. It was all special effects. ---
Microsoft AI employee has interrupted Microsoft’s big 50th anniversary event to accuse Microsoft of using AI for war crimes by arming Israel. Powerful email included too.
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A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
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