China To Invest 4.7 Billion in Brazilian Technology Sectors: Lula da Silva telesurenglish.net/china-to-in…

Kurdish militant group announces disbandment in effort to achieve peace with Turkey en.irna.ir/news/85830478/Kurdi…

Greetings and good morning fellow web scrapers

"We have reports that DOGE has tried to enter the copyright office."

Open call for anyone who can scrape the copyright office's database.
This is the official access point: cocatalog.loc.gov/
And this is an experimental new entrypoint that looks to be a bit more enumerable: publicrecords.copyright.gov/

catch it on the hop! Put it on sciop.net

For everyone in the #USA:

Please contact your member and remind them that Library of Congress is a legislative branch agency and the president does not have authority over it.

Update: We have reports that DOGE/DOJ has tried to enter the copyright office.

This may be related:
copyrightlately.com/copyright-…
already safeguarded at: sciop.net/datasets/copyright-g…

More context:
politico.com/live-updates/2025…
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#LibraryOfCongress #DOGE

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Since CISA killed it's RSS feed[1], If anyone is interested, I created an account here that will allow anyone to subscribe both via the fediverse and via RSS using the mastodon RSS feed for that account. The account is @cisareflector

1. cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/20…

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Librewolf is exactly what Firefox should be.

To the point where I find in #Librewolf new features I was explicitly missing in #firefox (like clicking on the lock to enable/disable cookies for a specific website)

And, yet, it works perfectly in #debian thanks to extrepo. But, seriously, it should be considered as the default Debian browser.

Congratulations to the team!

Don’t wait on Mozilla, switch to Librewolf !

librewolf.net/

@librewolf

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Stalin: As far as I know in the CPC there is a thin layer of the proletariat and the nationalist sentiments are very strong and if you will not conduct genuinely Marxist-Leninist class policies and not conduct struggle against bourgeois nationalism, the nationalists will strangle you. Then not only will socialist construction be terminated, China may become a dangerous toy in the hands of American imperialists. In the building of socialism in China I strongly recommend you to fully utilise Lenin’s splendid work ‘The Immediate Tasks of Soviet Power’. This would assure success. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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#IoT #VPN #EdgeComputing

Palestinian Vice President: Only US Can Force Israel to End War en.topwar.ru/264455-vice-prezi…

#Pentagon spent at least $21 million on flights to #Guantanamo, which currently holds 32 #migrants


source: nbcnews.com/politics/national-…

#usa #politics #money #finance #migration #flight #omg #wtf

Malcolm X: They accuse us of what they themselves are guilty of. This is what the criminal always does. They’ll bomb you, then accuse you of bombing yourself. They’ll crush your skull, then accuse you of attacking him. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


Trump Confirms Hamas Deal to Release U.S. Soldier Edan Alexander, Hails “Good Faith Step” #Palestine qudsnen.co/trump-confirms-hama…

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (19/2025): Waking it up to wake you up

linmob.net/weekly-update-19-20…

#LinuxMobile #Phosh #postmarketOS #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #Mobian #Librem5 #PinePhonePro #FuriLabsFLX1

Germ-theory skeptic #RFK Jr. goes #swimming in sewage-tainted #water


source: arstechnica.com/health/2025/05…

In images shared on social media, #Kennedy can be seen getting fully underwater, including his head, and then splashing around with several of his grandchildren. Kennedy, who does not have any background in #medicine or #science, was a long-time anti-vaccine advocate before President #Trump appointed him to be #health secretary.


#news #problem #fail #risk #usa #knowledge #children #kids #security #warning #education #politics #government

Read this story in English here. ¿Sueñas con trabajar para la NASA y contribuir a la exploración y la innovación en beneficio de la humanidad? Los programas de pasantías de la agencia ofrecen a los estudiantes de secundaria y universitarios la oportunidad de avanzar en la misión de la NASA en aeronáutica, ciencia, tecnología y espacio. […]
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At least here in the US, lots of mobile phone plans have free or cheap international calls, depending on the countries involved. Example. Some home landline plans also have that. So far that has been enough for me on the few occasions when I've wanted to make an international call. If more frequent, I'd use a VOIP provider, maybe Twilio (I'm sure there are others too, but I know Twilio supports this and has a decent API).

VOIP providers will often also sell you inbound phone numbers in the destination country, if you want the other person to be able to call you from their landline without it getting rung up as an international call for them. Those aren't always so cheap, but there are obvious use cases.

Arab Parliament calls for immediate UN action to save Gaza’s children #Palestine english.palinfo.com/news/2025/…

Ça y est, il est dispo 😀

IA↯NARCHIE - Ni data, ni maître Par Geoffrey Dorne.

IA-NARCHIE

Petite description de l'auteur:

Ce n’est pas tant la technologie elle-même qui m’inquiète, mais plutôt la manière dont ces infrastructures algorithmiques colonisent silencieusement nos espaces mentaux, nos choix, notre imagination même. Pour cela j’ai été observer les pratiques émergentes de résistance créative et j’ai choisi de vous raconter cet écosystème souterrain d’individus qui, plutôt que de fuir le numérique, choisissent de le subvertir, de le détourner.


J'ai flouté mon âme dans tes métadonnées
J'ai flouté mon âme dans tes metadonnées

Commande passée direct pour ma part.

140 pages d'hacktivisme philosophique et pratique, 20 balles !

#edition #lecture #livre #graphisme #essai #anarchie #philosophie #numerique #digitalmoncul #jaimecettepersonne

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Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s

Link: core77.com/posts/136773/Revivi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Lee esta historia en español aquí. Do you dream of working for NASA and contributing to exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity? The agency’s internship programs provide high school and college students opportunities to advance NASA’s mission in aeronautics, science, technology, and space. Claudia Sales, Kassidy McLaughlin, and Julio Treviño started their careers […]

"La meute", un livre hautement révélateur


#politique #propagande #désinformation #lacorde #guillotine2025

Le génocide fait rage à Gaza; le Pakistan et l'Inde, puissances nucléaires, sont au bord de la guerre totale; Trump sombre dans une hallucinante corruption; mais le sujet de la semaine dans les merdias, c'est ce bouquin sur le fonctionnement interne d'un parti. Tous les journalopes sont vraiment une sale race.

politicoboy.substack.com/p/la-…

"Pourquoi j'ai quitté l'armée" : le témoignage d'un réserviste franco-israélien


Soutenez Blast, nouveau média indépendant : blast-info.fr/soutenir

Pour la première fois de son histoire, l’armée israélienne se trouve confrontée à une vague de désengagements. Depuis le mois de mars, plusieurs dizaines de lettres émanant d’unités de réserves et de vétérans appellent à l’arrêt de la guerre à Gaza, remettant en cause la stratégie militaire du gouvernement de Benjamin Netanyahu.

Plus qu’un élan humaniste vis-à-vis des Palestiniens, ces lettres demandent surtout la libération des otages israéliens. Occultant ainsi les massacres perpétrés dans la bande de Gaza.

David Sellam, 28 ans, a quitté son unité de réserve. Né dans une famille de colons ultra-orthodoxe à Jérusalem-Est, il est l’un des rares signataires de ces lettres exigeant l’arrêt des crimes contre le peuple palestinien.

Journaliste : Quentin Müller
Montage : Colas Tran
Son : Baptiste Veilhan, Théo Duchesne
Graphisme : Morgane Sabouret, Margaux Simon
Production : Hicham Tragha
Directeur du développement des collaborations extérieures : Mathias Enthoven
Co-directrice de la rédaction : Soumaya Benaïssa
Directeur de la publication : Denis Robert

Le site : blast-info.fr/
Facebook : facebook.com/blastofficiel
Twitter : twitter.com/blast_france
Instagram : instagram.com/blastofficiel/
Mastodon : mamot.fr/web/@blast_info
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Twitch : twitch.tv/blastinfo
Bluesky : bsky.app/profile/blast-info.fr

#Armée
#Israel
#Tsahal

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Avril Lavigne - Young & Dumb (feat. Simple Plan) (Official Video)


Official music video for Young & Dumb by Avril Lavigne ft. Simple Plan

Lyrics


Woah, woah, woah
(Back when we were young and dumb and we knew everything)

2002, and I’m hangin’ on a tour bus
Leaving my hometown, Napanee (Bye)
Rockin’ a necktie, black eyeliner
White tank top and I’m chasin’ my dreams, yeah

Livin’ like a rockstar
Trashin’ hotel rooms (Oops)
Let’s get stupid tattoos (Okay)
‘Cause we’ve got nothin’ to lose (Ha)

I’ve been thinkin’ ’bout that summer when we had each other
Back when we were young and dumb and we knew everything
We said this would last forеver, can’t get any bettеr
Like when we were young and dumb and we had everything

(Woah) These are the best nights
(Woah) Livin’ our best life
(Woah) Like when we were young and dumb and we knew everything

We’re back again, now it’s twenty years later (Hey, boys)
Somehow it feels like nothing’s changed (Haha)
I’m just a kid, still a pop-punk skater
They told me, “Get a job,” but I said, “No way”

Livin’ like a rockstar
Trashing dressing rooms (My bad)
Smashing Fender guitars (Woo)
‘Cause we got nothin’ to lose

I’ve been thinkin’ ’bout that summer when we had each other
Back when we were young and dumb and we knew everything
We said this would last forever, can’t get any better
Like when we were young and dumb and we had everything

(Woah) These are the best nights
(Woah) Livin’ our best life
(Woah) Like when we were young and dumb and we knew everything
(Woah) These are the best nights
(Woah) Livin’ our best life
(Woah) Like when we were young and dumb and we knew everything

I’ve been thinkin’ ’bout that summer when we had each other
Back when we were young and dumb and we knew everything

Crew

Director - Brad Bischoff
Producer - Kyle Bullington
Producer - Taylor Stone
Associate Producer - Sam Persall
Director of Photography - Jimmy Liu Nyeango
B Cam Operator - Jordan Temkin
Skate Unit Operator - Johnny Campos
1st Assistant Camera - Mark Villa
2nd Assistant Camera - Michelle Alanis
Camera Utility - Michael Nerud
DIT Rafaele - Vesco
VFX Supervisor - Jose Quintero
Gaffer - Kevin Kim
Best Boy Electric - Rodolfo Martinez
Key Grip - Matt Toledo
Best Boy Grip - Edwin Allen Richards IV
Swing - Phil Sanchez
Production Designer - Sarah Lund
Art Director - Joanna Cabalquinto
Set Dresser - Gavin Sullivan
Wardrobe Stylist - Ilona Howe
Hair and Makeup - Phil Nathaniel
PA - Skyler Piltch
PA - Matt Berry
PA - Elliot Cockayne
Social Media Manager - Jaclyn Moy
Drum Tech - Sage Weeber
Stage Tech - Crishia Peet
BTS Photographer - Travis Allen

Post

Editor - Brad Bischoff
Post Production Supervisor - Kyle Bullington
Post Production Supervisor - Jose Quintero
Colorist - Sam Howells

Talent

Cheerleader - Savannah Coffee
Jock - Chris Albano
Prom King - Jasesan Emeret
Prom Queen - Kiera Ann Morris
Avril Lavigne - Cami Ritzler
Bellhop - David Moskowitz
Skater - Nadia Fleenor
Skater - Michelle Steilen
Skater - Jordan Cramer
Skater - Matt Jones
Tattoo Artist - Cory Hackbarth
Tattoo Design - Emmanuel Facio

Avril

Hair - Gabe Pandero
Hair - Lauren Bates
Makeup - Autumn Skibinski

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New quantum theory of gravity brings long-sought 'theory of everything' a crucial step closer


Although the theory is promising, the duo point out that they have not yet completed its proof. The theory uses a technical procedure known as renormalization, a mathematical way of dealing with infinities that show up in the calculations.

So far Partanen and Tulkki have shown that this works up to a certain point—for so-called 'first order' terms—but they need to make sure the infinities can be eliminated throughout the entire calculation.

"If renormalization doesn't work for higher order terms, you'll get infinite results. So it's vital to show that this renormalization continues to work," explains Tulkki. "We still have to make a complete proof, but we believe it's very likely we'll succeed."

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ToE is generally taken to mean a theory that accounts for all four fundamental forces in physics, 1) strong nuclear force, 2) electromagnetism, 3) weak nuclear force (unified in some way with electromagnetism now), 4) gravity. The "standard model" only handles the first three, with gravity being separate and very mysterious. I'm skeptical of this new paper on various grounds but who knows.

Release of Israeli prisoner "Alexander" set for today saba.ye/en/news3479985.htm

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald: There is no life anywhere without struggle; those who want to move forward must fight... There is no doubt that the new and young will win. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


RIP Usenix ATC

Link: bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/05/1…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

RI Zap of May 12, 2025: De Gaulle and the new French prestige en.reseauinternational.net/ri-…

@ILoveAmericaNews just blocked me because I said he sounded vaccinated for defending the mRNA "vaccines"

He definitely accepted the spike of the jab into his heart.

I'm not even mad. Just shocked he would block me for such a very light ribbing.

Really says something about his character.

And, while we're at it. He sure does travel abroad a lot for someone to claims to be a poor student.

Suspicious.