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A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. -- Lysander Spooner
“Please, do not have a panel called ‘Women in SF.’” wrote Ursula K. LeGuin to an organizer of the 1979 World Science Fiction Convention. “I will be on one called ‘Men in SF’ if you like.” manuscriptsandmore.liverpool.a…
During my work placement at the University of Liverpool’s Science Fiction Collections in April to May 2025, I came across a striking letter from Ursula K. Le Guin, dated 1979 and addressed to Briti…
As a former D.C. resident, I find it equally ludicrous and horrifying that Mad King Donald federalized policing the capitol over the teenager-enacted car jacking of a 19 y/o DOGE dude known as Big Balls.
Cannot fabricate this fvcking inanity.
Trump probably pumped Putin for pertinent strategy on how to build and deploy a “secret” police force. Which he’s definitely craved since the days of Bill Barr.
Pars Today – Lindsey Graham, the warmongering U.S. senator, has opposed any reduction in American aid to the Zionist regime, claiming that doing so would s...
• That Israel committed genocide in Palestine. • That “The West” allowed it to happen and many Western countries profited and were complicit in it. • The names of those who were complicit.
This isn’t a call to change your behaviour. At this point, we know very well who stands on which side of history.
This is just a reminder to be prepared because justice will be served.
Ce témoignage de James Elder, porte parole pour l' #Unicef (Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance), date du 18 juin 2025. Il y a donc presque deux mois.
Je ne suis normalement pas fan des UN, mais je sais qu'iels font un boulot formidable à Gaza. J'ai d'ailleurs un ami qui part bientôt en mission pour eux, à Gaza toujours.
Ce témoignage de James Elder, porte parole pour l' #Unicef (Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance), date du 18 juin 2025. Il y a donc presque deux mois.
Je ne suis normalement pas fan des UN, mais je sais qu'iels font un boulot formidable à Gaza. J'ai d'ailleurs un ami qui part bientôt en mission pour eux, à Gaza toujours.
In the age of unregulated surveillance capitalism, children are just another product segment to be spied and sold.
A new study (jmir.org/2025/1/e71998) finds out that, out of 14 companies actively marketing online surveillance on school devices:
86% monitors students 24/7, not just during school hours.
71% scans content posted by minors through AI.
Only 43% of them employs human reviewers.
36% admitted of spying kids not only on school-owned devices, but also on their own personal devices, although they didn’t clarify how they do that nor what kind of data (photos, texts…) they scrape.
50% scrapes content posted on those kids’ own social media profiles too.
29% admitted to use the scraped data to process “risk scores” on the level of schools, classes and individual children.
The companies involved in such large-scale surveillance campaigns usually prefer to remain as anonymous as they can. I believe instead that it’s a civic duty that as many people as possible know their names, publicly shame them, call them accountable, and threaten or intimidate their employees. It’s those morally bankrupt individuals who should feel afraid and ashamed for spying and selling the most sensitive data about our kids without our consent and without accountability. It’s by destroying the morale of their own employees that we can weaken this rotten system:
Note that some of those websites push marketing campaigns that justify their deeply immoral practices by advertising how many potential tragedies they prevented through their massive surveillance schemes - e.g. “18,000 cases of physical harm prevented thanks to our surveillance!”.
They don’t answer however:
What accounts for “evidence of physical harm” - does a teenager who writes “I hate my math teacher” on social media account as a credible threat? Does potential intent reflect actual crime - i.e. are we already in a Minority Report scenario?
If the benefit of preventing 18,000 cases of violence is worth the cost of spying on at least tens of millions of children and teenagers worldwide - would you accept the police to monitor each single picture, video or message you send so they can catch a potential criminal in your city?
In the meantime:
If you trust your own kids and you wouldn’t spy on each single piece of information they share (a principle of basic trust that IMHO every single good parent who wants to raise a healthy adult should agree on), then you shouldn’t let an opaque unaccountable American company spy on them more than you would do yourself. The best way to know your children is to sit next to them while they use digital devices, answer their questions and provide them with guidance. If you can’t do that, then any other less transparent methods of surveillance (which includes both parental control software and 3rd-party surveillance services provided by these companies) is a parental failure.
Avoid at all costs, unless really required, any phone, tablet or computer given by your kid’s school. Provide them yourself with a device if needed.
Teach your children to use surveillance-proof instruments - decentralized social networks like Mastodon rather than Facebook/TikTok/Instagram, your own Searxng instance instead of Google, a private Nextcloud instance instead of Google Drive, a self-hosted LLM model instead of ChatGPT, Firefox with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger everywhere, and no browser extensions provided by the school, a VPN that uses your PiHole or other privacy-aware DNS servers to filter malicious traffic, etc. I wish I could provide a silver bullet that doesn’t require parents to be expert sysadmins who know how to run their own services, but the truth is that I can’t. Kids’ digital footprint is so sensitive that the best way to handle it is to run your own hardened private services, and in today’s surveillance-based economy not trusting any 3rd-party is usually the best option.
If teachers object that it’s their right to surveil the activities of your child, please remind them the existence of the following laws:
(For American parents): COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act): websites and online services are required to obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13, and FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act): parents have all rights regarding their children’s educational records, including the right to inspect records and consent to disclosure.
(For European parents): GDPR: requires parental consent for processing children’s data (typically under 16, though member states can lower to 13).
If your kids’ school uses American cloud services in the class (usually either Google’s or Microsoft’s services for email, calendar, files, messaging, video conference etc., for example most of the schools in the Netherlands use the Google suite) express your concerns over the privacy of your children and lobby them to move away from them. Some of the companies I mentioned earlier purchase data from Google or Microsoft, either directly or through intermediate data brokers. Raise awareness with other parents and push your school to use open-source transparent privacy-respecting alternatives like Nextcloud, Jitsi or Mattermost instead.
A recent article in the UK’s Financial Times got very excited about the rise of intangibles. The author Tek Parikh said that “50 years go, the assets held by top 500 US companies were predomin…
A new Nakba with the unconditional support of USA and EU!!!
The former head of Israel's military intelligence, who resigned last year for failing to prevent the 7 October attacks, has said Palestinians need to face a Nakba "every now and then" and that the spiralling death toll in Gaza is "necessary" and will serve as "a message for future generations."
The former head of Israel's military intelligence, who resigned last year for failing to prevent the 7 October attacks, has said Palestinians need to face a Nakba "every now and then" and that the spiralling death toll in Gaza is "necessary" and will…
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Well, Hitler and most of society 80-90 years ago were absolutely convinced the ethnic cleansing they started was necessary.....!
Yes, an unacceptable statement, certainly in the light of 'Never again'..... But, we're only not yet seeing the industrial process devised back then repeated. But, I guess that's only because the World is inconveniently still getting info. Even while most are just looking away.
Link to play: https://gamaverse.com/underwheels-game/Underwheels is a parody game based on the Asgore meme. Get behind the wheel as Asgore Dreemurr himself a...
Το είπε, το εφαρμόζει. Φιλελεύθερος ψόφος δεξιά ταγάρια
«Η κυβέρνηση της Ν.Δ. προχωράει ακάθεκτη στην εφαρμογή του σχεδίου της περαιτέρω εμπορευματοποίησης και ιδιωτικοποίησης του ευαίσθητου χώρου της Υγείας, αυτή τη φορά με μία ΚΥΑ, η οποία δίνει τη δυνατότητα στους ιδιώτες γιατρούς όλων των ειδικοτήτων να κάνουν ιδιωτικό επάγγελμα εντός του Εθνικού Συστήματος Υγείας.»
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Díaz-Canel led the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japanese aggression and the global anti-fascist war
Palestinian Resistance strikes Occupation command posts across Gaza
Palestinian resistance factions led by al-Qassam and al-Quds Brigades launched coordinated attacks across Gaza, striking Israeli command centers in Khan Younis, Rafah, and Gaza City.
Unpaid labour you are required to give your employer to keep your position is straight up exploitation. It’s very simple and should not be allowed under any circumstances. If a business or industry claims it just can’t make ends meet without exploiting its workers, then our answer should be the same as when southern plantation owners made the same ‘economic’ argument.
He goes through awaken everything he touchs becomes rubber becomes rubber than rob lucci second round because he obtain awakening but the five elders powers are insane king Imu power is just crazy
@BleachChan you really ought to think why oda sent the most jewish looking guy to fight luffy and then proceeded to mix his design with so much satanic symbolism
Hell ya! Always makes me feel safe every time I see “Orange Man Bad” strolling with Heads of State. He may be callous in voice at times but don’t think he won’t quietly follow it up with a kick in the ass.
#Hurricane #Erin is now a Category 5 storm with wind speeds near 160mph. Pressure at 917mb & continuing to lower. Since 1924 a total of 43 hurricanes have reached Category 5 status. The last Category 5 was Hurricane Milton (2024). #wx
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) says more than 83% of Palestinians with disabilities in Gaza are deprived of basic assistive devices as Israel’s ongoing assault deepens the humanitarian catastrophe.
NIGGER DOWN! thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/s… His sister, Shamika Watson, who was with him just an hour before the shooting, believes the attack was no random act of violence but a targeted betrayal by someone her brother knew.
“My brother trusted too many people,” she told NBC News. “My brother kept himself up, he loved to dress, he loved to look nice, and a lot of people hated on him for that.” \\\\\\\\\\\\ So...kill him for dressing nice? Niggers.
In yet another shocking example of the extreme violence plaguing Chicago, 42-year-old Kevin Watson was fatally shot while livestreaming on from his car.
It really makes me feel ill to see the Democrats seemingly lining up behind transphobic politicians years before the first primary. It seems like we're heading rapidly towards becoming just as backwards as the UK. I want to be wrong about this.
I don't think some of y'all realize how disenfranchising it is to be told asking for comprehensive human rights for #trans people is an impossible "purity test." It just feels like you don't want trans votes or want to preload someone to blame when your shitty centrist candidate loses.
Tncesito ayuda urgente de ciegos con perro guía. Me han robado el arnés de mi perra guía. La gente es una cerda de mierda y se lo he quitado sentada en un banco, porque estaba mojada la perra y me lo han robado aprovechando que soy ciega. Tengo que volver hoy a Madrid. Me van a dejar entrar al tren sin arnés? tengo la documentación... Madre mía estoy agobiadísima. Como la gente es tan mala?
Censorship thugs in London arrested 522 protesters for "supporting Palestine Action" by nonviolently holding signs to that effect. I don't know precisely what Palestine Action stands for, so I can't judge
Human-rating is a critical certification process that validates the safety, reliability, and suitability of space systems—including orbiters, launch vehicles, rovers, spacesuits, habitats, and other crewed elements—for human use and interaction. This process ensures that systems are designed not only to protect human life but also to accommodate human needs and effectively integrate human capabilities. Human-rating requires […]
We were there to show refugees are welcome in Scotland. The far right racist rabble who gathered outside a hotel in Falkirk that accommodates asylum seekers are the ones who are not welcome. Proud to have stood in solidarity with asylum seekers and with other decent Scots .
I should have said the racist crowd used obscene language often directed at elderly women who were there to support asylum seekers, they threw a smoke bomb into our group and an egg at one of us. The police did not arrest them
Thank You For Everything, Georges! — International Red Help
The release of Georges Abdallah was decided on July 17, after more than 40 years of detention. And even if we will only be truly relieved when Georges arrives in his native Lebanon, the event compels us to say a few words.
When the campaign for Georges Abdallah’s release was launched over 20 years ago, the various structures of the International Red Help could not have imagined the length of a struggle that would become formative for us, although it began with just a few modest actions aimed simply at making Georges and his cause known.
The mobilization campaign seemed to follow the usual pattern. First spreading within revolutionary circles, it eventually reached broader forces of the reformist and democratic left. This expansion, reflected in hundreds of demonstrations and thousands of initiatives, can be explained by three elements:
Firstly, by the obviously political nature of Georges’s detention. We won’t revisit every episode in which the French justice system trampled on all the values, rules, and principles it claims to uphold—starting with the separation of powers—in order to prolong this detention as an expression of the French state’s support and complicity for Zionist and imperialist aggression.
Secondly, by those very Zionist and imperialist aggressions, those endless massacres of which the ongoing genocide in Gaza is only the latest example. This string of tragedies constantly reminded us over the years of the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance to which Georges belongs.
Lastly, by Georges’s own resistance—by the way he rejected every form of blackmail for repentance, by the way he endured every hardship of an interminable detention, and by the way he kept alive the historical propositions of the Arab revolutionary left: a free, secular, and democratic Palestine from the river to the sea. Moreover, he has always defended the liberation of Palestine as an integral part of the struggle for a communist and internationalist perspective.
This courage and determination were not only an encouragement to the movement demanding his release. Georges has offered multiple generations of militants a tremendous example of resistance—an active, daily resistance that not only stood firm in its positions but also knew how to connect with the struggles that emerged after his arrest.
Throughout all these years, Georges has nourished and inspired our struggles. So for all of that, with all our heart, thank you Georges Abdallah, thank you and welcome home.
Japan’s defense industry is undergoing a historic shift from pacifism to realpolitik, FT columnist Leo Lewis states. highlighting the lack of battlefield medical readiness after decades without combat as a prime reason.
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