Pope Leo XIV’s MAGA-supporting brother Louis Prevost has defended his clerical record and said he is likely to govern the church as a centrist.
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Pope Leo XIV’s brother Louis Prevost has defended his clerical record and said he is likely to govern the church as a centrist.Ben Kew (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a Republican bill on Tuesday that would require public high schools to adhere to President Trump’s “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” executive order by including geography and instruction on the Gulf of America.
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Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a Republican bill on Tuesday that would require public high schools to adhere to President Trump’s “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” executive order by including geography and inst…Jordan Conradson (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Uber Targets Commuters With Cheaper Pooled Rides, Price-Lock Pass
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-14/uber-targets-commuters-with-cheaper-pooled-rides-price-lock-pass?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Iowa GOP Rep. Randy Feenstra on Monday filed paperwork to run for Iowa governor next year, as Republicans in the Hawk-eye state weigh who could replace Gov. Kim Reynolds.
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Reynolds, a popular Republican governor, announced last month that she was not seeking a third term in office, stating she wanted to spend more time with her family.Misty Severi (Just The News)
Richard Feynman: Keep an open mind – but not so open that your brain falls out. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- 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.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday reportedly dismissed two top officials on the National Intelligence Council, as part of her effort to curb the "politicization" of the intelligence community.
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The director relocated the council from the CIA, back to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and dismissed acting head of the council Mike Collins, and his deputy Maria Langan-Riekhof.Misty Severi (Just The News)
The US president said he wants Syria to have 'a chance at greatness' as government forces continue to carry out targeted killings along sectarian linesthecradle.co
The House Energy and Commerce Committee released its section of the Republicans' budget reconciliation bill Sunday evening. The legislation, which was marked up on Tuesday, includes provisions to scrap $6.5 billion in funding from parts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that funds climate-related issues.
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Coalitions wrote competing letters to the Ways and Means Committee chair, with 21 Republicans wanting to keep the green energy subsidies in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, and 38 Republicans seeking a full repeal.Kevin Killough (Just The News)
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Read together, multiple indicators suggest that the Trump economy defied expectations and that the trade policies did not adversely damage the nation’s overall economic health. If the trend continues, Trump will have fulfilled what politicians call "dinner table" issues for millions of Americans.
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The Spin and the Win: Opposition to Trump may have jumped the gun on the doom and gloom forecasts. Trump's string of deals and demands have moved markets to recovery. Major indices have since exceeded both their April 1 closes and predictions.Ben Whedon (Just The News)
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said poor safety culture, and a feud between employees that risked the leak of an unknown pathogen, prompted him to temporarily shutter the high-level biosafety laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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The incident sparked safety concerns that led the new NIH Director to order the lab temporarily closed and open a new probe over its safety practices.Steven Richards (Just The News)
What Is HDR, Anyway?
Link: lux.camera/what-is-hdr/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
It's not you. HDR confuses tons of people. In this post, we finally explain what HDR actually means, the problem it presents, and three ways to solve it.Ben Sandofsky (Lux)
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Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes
Link: store.steampowered.com/app/340…
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Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.store.steampowered.com
Seven decades after hosting a summit that birthed the Non-Aligned Movement, Indonesia prioritises pragmatic ties over grand gesturesBRICS
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Librem 5 protip: listening to music on a cheap pair of tiny in-ear headphones in a noisy environment? Enable HD Bass to wake the bass guitarist up:
amixer -D hw:L5 sset 'HD Bass' on
#librem5 #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #linuxphone #shotonlibrem5
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The Ministry of Health in Gaza condemned the heinous crime committed by the occupation forces against patients and the wounded, by directly targeting the surgical building at Nasser Medical Complex west of Khan Yunis.The Palestinian Ministry of HealDAILY YEMEN
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday announced the launch of five programs to advance shared development and revitalization with Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries.eng.chinamil.com.cn
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Lawmakers buried the provision in a budget reconciliation bill — and it could extend beyond AI.Emma Roth (The Verge)
1. B-İlişkileri ve A-Özellikleri Güncel analitik zaman felsefesindeki merkezi tartışmalardan biri de, zamanın yalnızca eşzamanlılık, öncelik ve sonralık ilişkilerden mi (B-ilişkileri) yoksa aynı zamanda gelecek, şimdi ve geçmişin (A-özellikleri) özel…Çağan Fırtına (Öncül Analitik Felsefe)
Heading to my first #PyCon tomorrow!
Can't wait to see some of the fantastic #Python folks I know, and meet many more that I haven't yet met in person.
And, after the keynote from @pluralistic on Friday morning, come see my talk "Diving into the Deep End: A Python Journey in Water Management" in Room 301-305!
I'll be talking about my unconventional journey into building a SaaS for utilities district management with #Django (and, of course, Python).
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See you @ #PyConUS
Every blocked aid convoy, every broken truce, and every rejected peace offer underscores Israel’s true objective: erasing Palestinians from Gaza.Amos Brison (+972 Magazine)
Aujourd'hui, la Cour de justice européenne se prononcera sur le refus d'Ursula von der Leyen de divulguer les messages WhatsApp avec le PDG de Pfizer, Albert Bourla, au sujet d'un accord de 35 milliards d’Euros sur un vaccin COVID pour 1,8 milliard de doses.
Des allégations de corruption, de manque de transparence et de contournement des règles de l'UE en matière de marchés publics ont hanté son mandat de présidente de la Commission européenne. Ancienne ministre allemande de la Défense, von der Leyen a été mise en examen pour avoir « attribué » plus de 100 millions d’euros de contrats par SMS privés, supprimé des messages lors d'enquêtes et contourné les procédures d'appel d'offres publiques.
Le scandale du «Pfizergate», associé aux 4 milliards d’euros de vaccins gaspillés, illustre sa mauvaise gestion de notre argent et un conflit d’intérêts manifestement grave.
Voyons si l'UE conserve un peu de conscience et de dignité. Ou si la Cour se laisse faire.
Ernest Hemingway: There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- 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.
#France
#Macronie : on s’enfonce toujours plus, Diasp sera visé un de ces jours…
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Nous apprenons, grâce au Figaro ce matin, que l’ #Arcom (Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique) vient de confier le statut de « signaleur de confiance » au #CRIF (le Conseil représentatif des Institutions Juives de France). Ce dont s’est aussitôt réjoui son président : « Ce travail de signalement fait partie de l’ADN du Crif sur l’antisémitisme, le négationnisme et par extension sur toutes les formes de haine que les internautes peuvent être amenés à rencontrer sur les réseaux sociaux ». Le règlement de l’Arcom précise que ces « signaleurs » sont des « organisations reconnues pour leur expertise dans la détection, l’identification et la notification de contenus illicites ». Jusqu’à présent, ils étaient six et tous centrés sur la protection des mineurs, la lutte contre la piraterie audiovisuelle, la cybercriminalité, la cyberviolence ou les addictions et la défense des consommateurs.En confiant cette mission à une association religieuse et aux prises de positions controversées, en particulier alignée sur la protection du gouvernement d’extrême droite génocidaire d’ #Israël, l’Arcom franchit une borne et ouvre une sérieuse brèche dans ce qui lui restait d’impartialité. Pour le Crif, l’ #antisionisme est un #antisémitisme. Ses prises de positions, surtout depuis le #7octobre 2023, ont constamment évolué quant à la définition de l’antisémitisme et du #négationnisme. En confiant à ses militants qui criminalisent plus vite qu’ils ne défendent les journalistes qui tentent d’informer sur Gaza, l’Arcom manque à la plus élémentaire des sagesses. Ceux qui vont maintenant remettre en cause la doxa qui voudrait que tout palestinien et par extension tout soutien à la cause palestinienne soit devenu un antisémite ont du souci à se faire. Question : à qui s’adresser à l’Arcom si on pense que le Crif attise la #haine en ligne ?
Earlier: Approving this bill would do a disservice to the families who value their own children’s curiosity and education, including their kids’ ability to access books needed for assigned reading or for research using nonfiction sources more advanced than those found in the children’s or teen sections of the library.
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#censorship #Texas #politics #USpol #news #books #library
Public libraries are for the public—and that means access for all.Chris Barton (The Texas Observer)
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Mark Ciccone flew missions in Vietnam and in 1985 worked as a traffic spotter helicopter pilot in Philadelphia. During the altercation between the MOVE organ...YouTube
Sanctions imposed on more than 20 companies that US claims sent Iranian oil to China.Reuters (DAWN.COM)
« La Meute » anti-LFI est lâchée…et souligne les contradictions croissantes de LFI.
Depuis des années – et particulièrement depuis la perquisition du siège de LFI en 2018 -, les médias aux ordres, relais de la #Macronie et de l’extrême droite réactionnaire et fascisante, s’en donnent à coeur joie pour taper sur LFI. Le positionnement courageux de cette dernière sur le #génocide en cours en terre palestinienne a débouché sur un torrent de haine et d’insultes, à l’image de la dernière saillie d’Alain #Jakubowicz, ancien président de la #LICRA qui n’a rien trouvé de mieux, jeudi 8 mai 2025 (une pure coïncidence ?), de comparer « toutes proportions gardées » (on en salive déjà…) Jean-Luc #Mélenchon à… Joseph #Goebbels. De quoi même pousser Apolline de Malherbe (très timidement…) à se désolidariser de ces propos, après les avoir laissés être débités.Il est vrai que l’occasion était belle de matraquer LFI du fait de la sortie de l’ouvrage La Meute, relatant une enquête de deux années de la part de Charlotte Belaïch (Libération) et Olivier Pérou (Le Monde) sur l’organisation interne de LFI. Un livre publié quelques jours après la diffusion d’un « Compléments d’enquêtes » sur France 2, là aussi à charge. Depuis, la meute éditocrate et journaleuse est lâchée et LFI sommée de répondre non pas à des questions, mais à des interrogatoires en règle à l’image de Manuel Bompard questionné sur BFM-TV par les euro-atlantiques Yves Thréard (Le Figaro), l’homme-lige de Macron Bruno Jeudy (Tribune du Dimanche) et l’épouse de Jean-Michel Blanquer, Anna Cabana. Indépendance et déontologie assurées…. Et les coups sont bien rôdés : « dictature », « antisémitisme », « terreur », sous-entendus avec le « stalinisme », etc.
Et quoi de mieux pour porter les coups que de s’appuyer non pas sur la droite et l’extrême droite haineuses, mais sur les « alliés » de LFI qui multiplient les attaques dans tous les sens, de Jérôme Guedj à François Ruffin, d’Olivier Faure à Fabien Roussel. Il est vrai qu’on n’est jamais mieux trahis que par les siens – n’oublions pas les « historiques » Simonnet, Garrido ou Corbière qui, dorénavant, avec la complicité de Clémentine Autain, animent l' »APRES » et, pour bien marquer leur différence, espèrent une… « union de la gauche » sans Mélenchon en 2027. De quoi ravir Lucie Castets (portée disparue) et Marine Tondelier.
Pour autant, il est assez cocasse de voir des militants insoumis crier à la « trahison » de la part de la prétendue « gauche ». Car la trahison ne peut valoir qu’une fois, pas vingt fois : dans ce cas, ce n’est plus un traître mais un ENNEMI (et de classe, de surcroît). Quand LFI décide de remettre en scelle le Parti « socialiste » au bord de la mort clinique dans le cadre du NFP en 2022, cela s’appelle du sado-masochisme politique… et l’assurance de ressusciter la « social-démocratie » (dont se réclame désormais explicitement François Ruffin). Une « social-démocratie » qui, de 1914 (a minima) à 2025, passe son temps à trahir : guerre mondiale, « pause » de Blum en 1937, pleins pouvoir à Pétain en 1940 par ¾ des parlementaires SFIO, guerre d’Algérie, « tournant de la rigueur » de 1982/83, record de privatisations, application du traité de Maastricht et soutien au bombardement otanien de la #Yougoslavie par la « gauche plurielle » (à laquelle ont appartenu Mélenchon et le PCF), mandat calamiteux de Hollande, etc. Et à chaque fois, après le désastre, le même cirque : « union de la gauche ». De quoi redonner de l’oxygène à des personnes carbonisées… et renier la ligne de masse qui assurerait le succès.
Car au-delà des pratiques internes de LFI sur lesquelles nous n’avons pas à nous prononcer (même si certains cas comme ceux de Charlotte Girard ou François Cocq ont de quoi interpeler), le vrai problème affaiblissant LFI est l’abandon de la ligne de masse de 2017 qui lui permettait d’être franchement insoumis : « l’Europe, on la change ou on la quitte ! ». Un abandon qui ne peut être compensé par le seul positionnement courageux sur #Gaza et la #Cisjordanie, surtout quand dans le même temps s’accumulent les contradictions : s’allier à des partis soutenant l’ #OTAN et le régime pronazi de Kiev jusqu’à exiger les livraisons d’armes ; critiquer l’ #UE et célébrer Robert #Schuman (comme Manon #Aubry le 9 mai 2020 !) ; exiger une « autre Europe » sans rompre avec une UE totalement irréformable et offrant un boulevard à la fascisation sur tout le continent. Autant de contradictions dont raffole la Meute qui peut désormais fondre sur LFI, renégats à l’appui.
Tout progressiste ne peut qu’apporter son soutien à LFI face au torrent de haine et boue dont elle est la cible. Mais tous les insoumis doivent se poser d’urgence les questions sur lesquelles ne cesse de les interpeler les militants franchement communistes et franchement insoumis du PRCF depuis des années au sujet du positionnement sur l’UE-OTAN et des alliances électoralistes. C’est indispensable pour éviter un nouveau désastre en 2027…
Fadi Kassem, secrétaire national du PRCF – 12 mai #2025
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Glenn experts highlight NASA’s Stirling engine and how radioisotope power systems use nuclear power to reach distant regions.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
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NASA Glenn played significant role in research for Hubble Space Telescope missions.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
A delegation of Slovenian government officials and representatives from the Ohio Governor’s Office tour.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
The lessons from Trump’s Yemeni debacle could inform his future decisions on Ukraine.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
Today is the Wednesday of Mid-Pentecost, marking the midpoint between Easter and Pentecost.
Today's gospel reading is John 7:14–30, in which Jesus goes into the temple and teaches “in the middle of the feast.” In his teaching, Jesus reaffirms his unity with the Father.
The middle of the days has come,
beginning with the Savior’s Resurrection,
and sealed by the holy Pentecost.
The first and the last shine with splendor.
We rejoice in the union of both feasts,
as we draw near to the Lord’s Ascension:
the sign of our coming glorification.
In a stunning display of journalistic malpractice, CNN recently aired an interview with a member of Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa cartel, a group designated as a terrorist organization by the Trump Administration.Brian Lonergan (Breitbart)
Databricks and Neon
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Databricks agrees to acquire Neon, a serverless Postgres database company, to bring speed and flexibility to production workloads.Databricks
Show your pride with specialty license plates showcasing NASA Glenn.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
GH15 prayer for May 14, 2025
Make It Serve You
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Unitika Schlawenger: I've heard that revealing the truth is like lighting a match-stick. They say it can either bring light, or actually set your world on fire. I lit my own match-stick. I had enough light to see my reflection in the mirror and finally get to know who I am and what I am capable of, but soon, I was also the one who set my world on fire. Within the fire, I did not burn, but I danced inside the heat, just like a flame. I was soon the Girl on Fire, someone, who was just ready to do anything to help the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- 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.
Students discover how NASA uses water to regulate the body temperatures of astronauts during spacewalks.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
RIYADH, May 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday secured a 600-billion-U.S. dollaren.people.cn
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A story of the inhabitants Palace of the Earth Spirits before the events of Subterranean Animism. Told with humor and feeling in a unique drawing style.MangaDex
Glenn supports the 26th annual FIRST Robotics Competition Buckeye Regional at Cleveland State University.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
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Q&A from a talk I gave last week.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
During his first official visit to China as president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro confirmed that he will authorize Colombia's participation in the Belt and Road Initiative, sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
The Cybertruck was supposed to be apocalypse-proof. Can it even survive a trip to the grocery store?
Thanks to poor engineering and Elon Musk, Tesla’s road rage-inducing street tank can’t even win over its core demographic: doomsday preppersAndrew Lawrence (The Guardian)
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Très bonne émission 😀
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How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip
Link: ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Israeli army killed my colleague Hassan Eslayeh in his hospital bed. He predicted his death before it happened, because he knew journalists in Gaza are the only people in the world bearing witness to the greatest crime of our times.Tareq S. Hajjaj (Mondoweiss)
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“People want government to do all manner of things, things that if done privately would lead to condemnation and jail sentences. Some want government to give money to farmers, poor folk, college students, senior citizens and businesses. There’s no Santa Claus or tooth fairy. The only way government can give money to one person is to forcibly take it from another person. If I privately used the same method to raise money for a “deserving” college student, homeless…
"People want government to do all manner of things, things that if done privately would lead to condemnation and jail sentences. Some want government to give money to farmers, poor folk, college students, senior citizens and businesses.LibertyQuotes
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