Welcome to Friendica.Eskimo.Com

Home of Censorship Free Hosting

 Eskimo North Linux Shells, E-mail, Virtual Machines, Web Hosting.

E-mail, Web Hosting, Linux Shell Accounts terminal or full remote desktops.

Sign Up For A Free Trial Here

Please tell your friends about federated social media site that speaks several fediverse protocols thus serving as a hub uniting them, hubzilla.eskimo.com, also check out friendica.eskimo.com, federated macroblogging social media site, mastodon.eskimo.com a federated microblogging site, and yacy.eskimo.com an uncensored federated search engine. All Free!

friendica - Link to source
Supporters injured when car hits crowd before Barcelona derby en.mehrnews.com/news/231856/Su…

Supporters injured when car hits crowd before Barcelona derby

TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA) – Over a dozen people were injured when a car drove into a crowd of Espanyol supporters before the club's LaLiga match against Barcelona on Thursday, local media reported.
Mehr News Agency

mastodon - Link to source

Tomorrow is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - #IDAHOTB

We understand how important it is for queer people to feel safe in the communities they build online. That's why we ensure the Community Guidelines across all of our services prevent hateful and harmful content.

If you see content that doesn't belong, please report it to the server admin. Together, we can make the open social web a home for LGBTQ+ people.

#LGBTQ #Queer #SocialWeb #Mastodon #IDAHOBIT

A heart in pride colours against the pattern of a pride flag. The post reads: May 17. International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. Let's make the open social web a home for LGBTQ+ people. Newsmast Foundation.
This entry was edited (1 month ago)
in reply to Newsmast Foundation

mastodon - Link to source

Newsmast Foundation

If you want to understand why #IDAHOTB matters, please check out the link from the Human Rights Channel below.

human-rights-channel.coe.int/i…


17 MAY International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia

Every year, 17 May marks the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. This year, the Council of Europe calls on policy makers, national and local authorities, but also citizens, to come out for human rights and speak up for th…
Human Rights Channel

pleroma - Link to source
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Ubuntu 30% better performance than Windows 11

"Running Ubuntu 25.04 out-of-the-box on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 led to 30% better performance than Microsoft Windows 11 Pro

Out of nearly 150 benchmarks in total, Ubuntu 25.04 was faster 80% of the time"

phoronix.com/review/amd-strix-…

brutal


AMD Ryzen AI Max+

Now having shown the very strong AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance for this 'Strix Halo' SoC with Radeon 8060S iGPU for its integrated graphics, you may be wondering on the same hardware how this compares to Microsoft Windows 11.
www.phoronix.com

friendica - Link to source
Xi Jinping: Writing a new chapter in building a China-LAC Community with a Shared Future socialistchina.org/2025/05/16/…

Xi Jinping: Writing a new chapter in building a China-LAC Community with a Shared Future - Friends of Socialist China

The Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC [Community of Latin American and Caribbean States] Forum was held in Beijing on May 13, 2025. Of the 33 member states of CELAC, 28 attended, along with six regional organisations.
Friends of Socialist China

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Horace: In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

ActivityPub - Link to source

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.


diaspora - Link to source

The good flower power news for the happy Friday 😀

Kindergarten #children dropped seeds in the crack of the sidewalk to see what would happen


source: streetartutopia.com/2025/05/16…

enter image description here

Happy weekend for you :°)

#flower #nature #kids #experiment #exploration #nice #news #flower

Kindergarten children dropped seeds in the crack of the sidewalk to see what would happen - STREET ART UTOPIA

In a world inundated with technology and digital distractions, it’s easy to lose sight of the simplicity and charm of nature.
Vidar (Street Art Utopia)

N. E. Felibata 👽 reshared this.

mostr - Link to source
Republicans MUST UNITE behind, “THE ONE, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!” Not only does it cut Taxes for ALL Americans, but it will kick millions of Illegal Aliens off of Medicaid to PROTECT it for those who are the ones in real need. The Country will suffer greatly without this Legislation, with their Taxes going up 65%. It will be blamed on the Democrats, but that doesn’t help our Voters. We don’t need “GRANDSTANDERS” in the Republican Party. STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE! It is time to fix the MESS that Biden and the Democrats gave us. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

mostr - Link to source

Senator Shelley Moore Capito is doing a tremendous job representing the Wonderful People of West Virginia, a State I love and WON BIG in 2016, 2020, and 2024!

As the Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Shelley is working to advance Pro Growth policies, unleash America’s Energy Dominance, and prioritize Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Soil, and BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL for ALL Americans. Shelley is fighting tirelessly to Grow the Economy, Secure the Border, Stop Migrant Crime, Support our Great Military/Vets, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment.

Senator Shelley Moore Capito has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election – SHE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!

mostr - Link to source
I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country. If I wasn’t elected, it would have been GONE by now! Sleepy Joe didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing, but Springsteen is “dumb as a rock,” and couldn’t see what was going on, or could he (which is even worse!)? This dried out “prune” of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just “standard fare.” Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!

friendica - Link to source
BBC morning news: “Russian and Ukrainian sides meet face to face for the first time since the war began…” gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p…

BBC morning news: “Russian and Ukrainian sides meet face to face for the first time since the war began…”

The notion that the British Broadcasting Company is an independent news source was proven yet again yesterday morning to be totally false.
Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)

diaspora - Link to source

#Macron calls to halt #arms deliveries to #Israel in #Gaza #war


source: bbc.com/news/articles/cjr3zd4d…

Macron told #France Inter radio that "the #priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering #weapons to #fight in Gaza".


#Palestine #terror #conflict #diplomacy #politics #europe #eu #military #news #peace


Gaza war: Macron calls to halt arms deliveries to Israel

The French president's call was swiftly criticised by Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ruth Comerford (BBC News)

friendica - Link to source
In Kiev, they said Zelenskyy, Macron and Merz had spoken on the phone with Trump en.news-front.su/2025/05/16/in…

In Kiev, they said Zelenskyy, Macron and Merz had spoken on the phone with Trump

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British and Polish Prime Ministers Keir Starmer and Donald Tusk had a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump.
newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)

diaspora - Link to source
Déclaration du négociateur en chef de la #Russie, Vladimir #Medinsky.
1. Dans les prochains jours aura lieu un échange de prisonniers (certains affirment que 1 000 prisonniers russes seront échangés contre 1 000 prisonniers ukrainiens).
2. La partie russe a pris note de la demande ukrainienne pour une rencontre #Zelensky - #Poutine.
3. Les deux parties ont convenu que chacune des équipes de négociateurs va présenter sa vision d'un possible prochain cessez-le-feu.
4. Après cela, les négociations pourront continuer.


#Ukraine
16/05/25

in reply to Part_of You

diaspora - Link to source

Part_of You

En Turquie:

Les négociations entre la Russie et l'Ukraine ont duré moins de deux heures.
La Russie a avancé une série d'exigences que les ukrainiens qualifient d'"irréalistes" et qui vont bien au-delà des conditions précédemment discutées, selon Reuters, notamment le retrait des ukrainiens de territoires actuellement sous leur contrôle, condition préalable à tout accord de cessez-le-feu.
👉 La Russie demande le retrait des troupes ukrainiennes des deux Républiques, Donetsk et Lougansk, et des deux régions, Kherson et Zaporijjia, qu'elle a intégrées par référendum à la Fédération de Russie.
in reply to Part_of You

diaspora - Link to source

Part_of You

Message antécédent:
Avec plus de 24 heures de retard, la rencontre entre l'Ukraine et la Fédération de Russie a commencé, à Istamboul.
En tant que pays hôte, la Turquie fait office de médiateur.
La délégation russe aurait refusé que les Etats-Unis participent aux négociations.
La Maison Blanche a annoncé qu'une rencontre personnelle entre Trump et Poutine aurait lieu très prochainement.
Zelensky est venu hier et Trump n'est pas venu parce que Poutine n'est pas venu.
En marge de la rencontre, des émissaires de la France, la Grande-Bretagne et l'Allemagne sont présents pour "conseiller" l'Ukraine.
Dix des douze membres de la délégation ukrainienne sont soit des militaires, soit des représentants des services spéciaux.
Parmi eux, le vice-président du Service de sécurité de l'Ukraine (SBU), Alexander Poklad, que les média russes accusent d'occuper le rôle d'exécuteur de meurtres politiques au sein dudit service, y compris sur le territoire de la Fédération de Russie. Il serait celui qui a organisé Boutcha, pour perturber les précédents accords d'Istamboul et c'est lui qui aurait tué Denis Kireyev, membre du groupe de négociation ukrainien.

mastodon - Link to source

McCain has been ignored. He and Hamas acknowledged Obama as president; a communist senator who abused veterans and had connections to the Islamic State. His estate and foundation should be seized, regardless of feelings. In China, the whole family of s traitor is executed. Mom and daughter can console themselves with knowing that they won't be.

theblaze.com/columns/opinion/s…


Soros and McCain: The unholy alliance hidden in plain sight

The Soros and McCain legacies live on — not through ideas or votes but through backroom deals, think tank cash, and quiet contempt for Republican voters.
Matt Palumbo (Blaze Media)
in reply to Rose

mastodon - Link to source

HunDriverWidow

nvestigating John McCain’s Tragedy at Sea

Troubling questions hover over then-Lt. Cmdr. McCain’s actions in a catastrophic 1967 fire aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal and the period immediately afterward. His later accounts of events that followed the accident also raise issues.

truthdig.com/articles/investig…


Investigating John McCain's Tragedy at Sea - Truthdig

Mary Hershberger (Truthdig)

friendica - Link to source
Moscow Intends to Increase Business Tourism by a Factor of 1.5 in Five Years infobrics.org/post/44176/

Moscow Intends to Increase Business Tourism by a Factor of 1.5 in Five Years

The capital plans to attract business guests by focusing on BRICS-level events, developing congress infrastructure and providing digital services for the convenience of work trips
BRICS

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Horace: Carpe diem (Seize the day). wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

ActivityPub - Link to source

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.


mastodon - Link to source

Interestingly, Trump did not take a position on whether Comey should be locked up behind bars. He told Baier that the decision would be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department.

“I don’t want to take a position on it because that’s going to be up to Pam and all of the great people,” Trump said. “But I will say this, I think it’s a terrible thing, and when you add his history to that, if he had a clean history.”
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/w…


WATCH: President Trump Speaks Out on James Comey After Former Spook Posts Chilling Message Calling for Trump's Assassination and Makes Up an Outrageous Lie Afterward | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger

          President Trump has now spoken out about wicked former FBI Director James Comey calling for his assassination via a chilling social media post.
Cullen Linebarger (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

Rose reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

The Justice Department is set to announce charges against Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver as early as today after she assaulted ICE agents at the Delaney Hall ICE facility last Friday.

Rep. McIver is expected to turn herself in this afternoon, the New Jersey Globe reported.

The New Jersey Globe reported:
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/b…


BREAKING: Justice Department to Announce Charges against Democrat Rep LaMonica McIver for Assaulting ICE Agents | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

          The Justice Department is set to announce charges against Democrat Rep.
Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

mastodon - Link to source
During the recent pandemic, leading science and medical journals appeared to preach the Covidian catechism of naturally emerging SARS-CoV-2, vaccines with no meaningful downside, mask effectiveness and President Trump's nonexistent bleach recommendation, while ignoring, slow-walking and actively suppressing contrary evidence and putting a scarlet letter on infidels.
justthenews.com/accountability…

Science journals that peddled COVID catechism accused of lab-leak quid pro quo, misrepresentation

Ed Martin implies journal that published "Proximal Origin," covertly shaped by Fauci and Collins, may have committed fraud by hiding authors and paying to play. Science magazine hides full Bhattacharya interview, implies he lied.
Greg Piper (Just The News)

mastodon - Link to source
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has formally asked the Pentagon for 20,000 National Guard troops to help it with its mass deportation operations, a department official said Thursday.
justthenews.com/government/sec…

Department of Homeland Security asks for 20,000 National Guard troops to help with deportations

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the request, stating the guards would "help carry out the President’s mandate from the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens."
Misty Severi (Just The News)

Rose reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday evening confirmed that the Secret Service and her department are investigating a recent social media post by former FBI Director James Comey, which appeared to call for a "hit" on President Donald Trump's life.
justthenews.com/government/whi…

Noem confirms DHS, Secret Service are investigating Comey social media post targeting Trump

The social media post, which Comey shared on Instagram but has since removed, showed the numbers "8647" etched in the sand at a beach. The numbers are perceived as a call to "86" the 47th president, which is used as a call sign for murder.
Misty Severi (Just The News)

mastodon - Link to source
America’s air traffic control system is blinking red with warning after a midair collision, several harrowing outages, and a staffing shortage. Now Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is adding to the worries by revealing the Federal Aviation Administration is resorting to using eBay and 3D printers to replace parts for antiquated computer systems.
justthenews.com/government/fed…

As crisis grows at U.S. airports, feds are buying replacement parts on eBay or 3D printing them

The nation's airline traffic control system is blinking red with warning after a midair collision, several outages, a worker shortage and an antiquated computer system.
Steven Richards (Just The News)

mastodon - Link to source
In the final days of President Donald Trump's excursion across the Middle East, Iran was clearly experiencing a serious case of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out.)
justthenews.com/government/whi…

Trump used his first foreign trip to further isolate Iran, and forced Tehran to blink

If Trump’s peace proposals and partnerships with Syria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf nations congeal, it would mean unprecedented peace in the region and fewer American resources, lives and treasure expended there.
Amanda Head (Just The News)

mastodon - Link to source
President Donald Trump is back in the White House following a historic victory in November, and Republicans hold majorities in both chambers of Congress. GOP voters are, predictably, feeling good about their political future, but Democrats are struggling. According to an Associated Press/NORC poll published this week, 55% of Republican voters are “optimistic” about the party’s future, up from 47% in July 2024.
washingtonstand.com/news/poll-…

Poll: Dems ‘Pessimistic’ about Party’s Direction, GOP Has Bright Future

washingtonstand.com

mastodon - Link to source
A major new report is exposing Chinese spies infiltrating one of America’s top universities. The Stanford Review published an exposé last week, revealing that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has embedded spies at Stanford University as part of a far-reaching intelligence-gathering operation aimed at collecting low-level data on research — particularly in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence — and piecing together a far more significant whole.
washingtonstand.com/news/big-t…

Big Trouble, Big China: CCP Spies Have Infiltrated American Universities

A major new report is exposing Chinese spies infiltrating one of America's top universities. The Stanford Review published an exposé last week, revealing that t
washingtonstand.com

diaspora - Link to source

16.05.2025 Offener Brief gegen eine Bezahlkarte


Diskriminierend und verfassungswidrig

Gegen "Digitalisierung ohne Nachzudenken" haben wir schon oft protestiert, aber wir sind auch gegen "Digitalisierung um anderen zu schaden". Letzteres ist das Ziel bei den Versuchen Geflüchtete zu zwingen bargeldlos mit einer "Bezahlkarte" ihren Lebensunterhalt zu bestreiten und ihnen die Nutzung von Bargeld zu verweigern.

Dies führt zu einer weiteren Stigmatisierung und Ausgrenzung - Menschenrechte müssen für alle gelten! Gegen die Bezahlkarte für Flüchtlinge sprechen ernstzunehmende grundsätzliche Bedenken sowie schwerwiegende Probleme bei der praktischen Umsetzung. Neben den Nachteilen für die Geflüchteten kommt auf die Kommunen ein beträchtlicher Verwaltungsaufwand und die Kosten für die Karten und technischen Geräte zu. Auch sind die Sozialämter bei Verlust oder Defekt der Bezahlkarte im jeweiligen Einzelfall gehalten, die Karte zu sperren und eine neue Karte auszugeben. Daraus kann sich eine Endlosschleife entwickeln.

In der Boulevardpresse wird das Modell mit rassistischen Motiven bejubelt, in der Praxis müssen die ausgebenden Kommunen jedoch eine Vielzahl an zusätzlichen Arbeiten bewältigen, wie Absprachen mit den Händlern der Umgebung über die Annahme der Karte, über die "Grenzen der Gültigkeit in einer Region", Erstattungen bei Rückgabe eines Artikels, u.s.w.
Diskriminierend und verfassungswidrig

Entscheidend ist für uns jedoch die eindeutige Verfassungswidrigkeit der Maßnahmen - auch aus unserem Eigeninteresse - denn wir wollen nicht irgendwann ebenfalls dazu gezwungen werden nur noch mit einer Karte bezahlen zu müssen. Geflüchtete Menschen sollen nun mit dieser Karte in ihrer Freiheit eingeschränkt werden, Verträge abzuschließen – egal ob Versicherungen, Telefonverträge, Online-Einkäufe oder das Deutschlandticket. Kein Bargeld oder eine Begrenzung des Barbetrags erschwert es den Betroffenen, in Geschäften oder auf Märkten einzukaufen, die keine (Debit-)Kartenzahlung bieten. Ihre Kinder werden diskriminiert, weil ihnen das Taschengeld für den Schulausflug oder die Schulkantine fehlt und von der Nutzung von Münzen für die Benutzung öffentlicher Toiletten sind sie alle ausgeschlossen. Über unsere auch nicht unwichtigen Datenschutzbedenken als Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V. wollen wir angesichts der genannten viel gravierenden Verletzungen ihrer Menschenwürde hier nicht auch noch reden.

Offener Brief an die Landesregierungen und Kommunen

Deshalb wollen wir alle Menschen ermutigen, sich ebenfalls gegenüber Ihrem Stadt-/Gemeinderat gegen die Einführung einer Bezahlkarte auszusprechen! Der Druck auf die kommunale Seite ist wichtig, weil diese sich mit dieser Unterstützung durch die Menschen vor Ort gegen ihren oben skizzierten Zusatzaufwand gegenüber der Landesregierung wehren kann.

Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V. ist jedenfalls Unterstützer des Offenen Briefs an den Berliner Senat und im unten angegebenen Link finden sich die Argumente und der Link zum Brief der Initiative gegen die Bezahlkarte, beispielhaft in NRW. Die Initiative gegen die Bezahlkarte ist auch in den anderen Bundesländern aktiv.

Mehr dazu bei frnrw.de/themen-a-z/sozialleis…
und der Berliner Offene Brief aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/…
Kategorie[23]: Flucht & Migration Short-Link dieser Seite: a-fsa.de/d/3H8
Link zu dieser Seite: aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/…
Link im Tor-Netzwerk: a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvn…
Tags: #Digitalisierung #Bezahlkarte #Soziales #Gleichberechtigung #Diskriminierung #Ungleichbehandlung #Grundrechte #Menschenrechte #Asyl #Flucht #Folter #Abschiebung #Migration

20250516 Offener Brief gegen eine Bezahlkarte

Für Freiheitsrechte, gegen Massen-Überwachung und Sicherheitswahn
www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org

N. E. Felibata 👽 reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
What’s more challenging than a party with deep divisions? A party with deep divisions running on no sleep. Thanks to a handful of committee overnighters, where members slogged through hundreds of amendments to the “one, big, beautiful bill,” Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) chamber is more than a little irritable.
washingtonstand.com/commentary…

All-Nighters Bring the House One Step Closer to Trump’s Agenda

What's more challenging than a party with deep divisions? A party with deep divisions running on no sleep. Thanks to a handful of committee overnighters, where
washingtonstand.com

diaspora - Link to source

“Selective Maintenance”

The scaffolding stayed up
long after the workers stopped coming.
Paint chips collected like old promises
in the cracks no one claimed responsibility for.

(they say it’s unsafe
but only for some)

Hallways dimmed by policy
light bulbs never replaced —
one floor at a time
became too inconvenient to inspect.

Vacant units appear in clusters
like bruises
spreading across the map.

“Uninhabitable,”
they write,
in bold type and disappearing ink.

(the rent was too high
until it wasn’t
until no one you knew could reach it)

Mailboxes sealed.
Elevators whisper a different name
on their way down.

There is no memo about removal,
just an absence —
of noise,
of shoes outside the door,
of stories in the stairwell.

(the lights stay on
but not for you)

A new listing appears
with curated ivy and imported stone.
The rent floats in rare air
untroubled by living wages.

They'll say it’s revitalization,
a revival.
A clean slate —
but only certain hands
are allowed to write the next chapter.

(you were always temporary
they just hadn’t told you yet)

TsL. 25
#mypoems

N. E. Felibata 👽 reshared this.

in reply to Tony Langmach

diaspora - Link to source

Tony Langmach

Ich danke dir von ganzem Herzen für deine Fürsorge und deine Gedanken, lieber Freund.@aga. 🫶🙏
In ganz Dänemark ist alles teurer geworden, sowohl die Wohnung als auch die Lebensmittel usw..
Es gab bereits eine Reihe von schriftlichen Beschwerden und auch viele Treffen mit der Wohnungsbaugesellschaft (in der ich wohne), bei denen sich die Leute beschwert haben.
Bis jetzt hat es leider nicht geholfen 🤬😓.

mastodon - Link to source
The nation’s leading abortion business “failed in attempting to rewrite the science of human development,” as a state Supreme Court ruled that the term “fetal heartbeat” legally protects unborn children from abortion at six weeks.
washingtonstand.com/news/clear…

‘Clear and Decisive Victory’: South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds ‘Heartbeat Law’

The nation's leading abortion business "failed in attempting to rewrite the science of human development," as a state Supreme Court ruled that the term "fetal h
washingtonstand.com

diaspora - Link to source
« Quand quelqu'un se sent en droit de demander à un Palestinien de condamner les horreurs et les crimes du #7octobre – après des décennies d'occupation brutale , de dépossession , de massacres successifs , de tortures et d'humiliations – je cesse de le prendre au sérieux . L'autorité morale ne vient pas d'une mémoire sélective .»


Francesca #ALBANESE , rapporteuse spéciale des Nations Unies pour les territoires palestiniens occupés.

#Israel #Israël #genocide #Gaza #Cisjordanie #Palestine

mastodon - Link to source

Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year

Link: github.com/ollama/ollama/issue…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


ollama doesn't distribute notice licenses in its release artifacts · Issue #3185 · ollama/ollama

What is the issue? ollama uses projects like llama.cpp as a statically linked dependency. The terms of the MIT license require that it distribute the copyright notice in both source and binary form...
GitHub

mastodon - Link to source

Trump prend des sanctions contre la CPI (Cour Pénale Internationale) en gelant des comptes bancaires et en bloquant les comptes mails. Avec la collaboration de Microsoft.

Notez bien ce qui vient de se passer : Une organisation qui n'est pas de droit américain, non située sur le sol des USA, vient de voir ses services en ligne bloqués parce qu'ils déplaisent au gouvernement américain.
abcnews.go.com/International/w…
(merci à @zgou)


Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work

Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan
MOLLY QUELL Associated Press (ABC News)

ActivityPub - Link to source

Washington Floats Revival of NATO-Russia Council as Trump-Backed Peace Push Gains Momentum

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/w…


Washington Floats Revival of NATO-Russia Council as Trump-Backed Peace Push Gains Momentum | The Gateway Pundit | by Robert Semonsen

            In a striking turn of events that signals a possible recalibration of US foreign policy priorities, Washington has quietly proposed restarting long-dormant security talks with Moscow through the NATO-Russia Council (NRC), according to rep…
Robert Semonsen (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

wordpress - Link to source

Either Palestine… or Fire[hell], Generation After Generation: PFLP


In the face of the renewed Nakba… we resist, we unite, and we move toward return and liberation.

To the masses of our steadfast people in the homeland and diaspora…
To the free people of our Arab nation…
To the free people of the world everywhere…

On May 15th, we mark the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, our open wound that has not healed, and a painful turning point in human history, when zionist gangs, with the full support of colonial powers, committed one of the most horrific crimes of the modern era: the systematic ethnic cleansing of our Palestinian people, their displacement, the destruction of hundreds of cities and villages, and the planting of a racist settler entity on the ruins of our homeland.

The Nakba represented a pivotal moment in the history of our people, a profound revelation of the nature of the zionist project as a racist, colonialist, and uprooting tool aimed at erasing Palestinian national identity and existence, seizing land, and displacing the Palestinian people. Since that moment, the chapters of the Nakba have not ceased, but have continued in renewed forms of killing, massacres, expulsion, discrimination, impoverishment, and siege.

Today, the Nakba is being replayed in a more bloody and barbaric form in the Gaza Strip, where our people are subjected to a genocide war unprecedented in modern history. The occupation machine is carrying out the most heinous forms of killing, destruction, starvation, and displacement. Hospitals, schools, and displacement camps are being bombed amidst a stifling siege, international complicity, international silence, and direct American partnership.

On this painful anniversary, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, while commemorating the steadfastness of our people across the homeland and in exile, from Gaza to the West Bank, from Al-Quds to the 1948 territories, and from the diaspora camps to forced exile, affirms the following:

First: Our conflict with the zionist entity is a comprehensive, historic struggle that will only be resolved by achieving our people’s full national rights, at the heart of which are the right of return, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on all Palestinian soil with Al-Quds as its capital. The Palestinian cause will remain the core of the Arab-zionist conflict until the roots of the Nakba are eradicated and the occupation ends.

Second: The true response to the Nakba and its repercussions is to build a unified resistance front and formulate a comprehensive national strategy that embraces resistance in all its forms, with armed struggle at its forefront. This strategy reaffirms the PLO as a comprehensive and unified national framework, based on partnership and democracy and in accordance with national consensus decisions. This strategy aims to block the path to monopolization and hegemony, harness the energies of our people wherever they reside, and enable them to express their will to resist the occupation until liberation and return.

Third: In light of these ongoing chapters of crime, the top priority today is to stop the genocide war against our people in the Gaza Strip, end their suffering, break the siege, begin reconstruction, and embark on a political path based on the inalienable national rights of our people.

Fourth: We warn against attempts to impose renewed “Nakba” under the guise of expansionist colonialist liquidation projects such as the “Abraham Accords,” a “New Middle East,” and other dubious schemes aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause.

Fifth: Confronting attempts to liquidate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is of paramount importance in light of zionist-American plans aimed at erasing the refugee issue and the right of return.Targeting UNRWA in Gaza—through the destruction of its facilities and staff, the closure of its institutions in Al-Quds, and the prevention of its operations in the West Bank is part of a systematic plan to liquidate the refugee issue.

Sixth: We renew our call for complete liberation from the Oslo Accords and its consequences, ending the PA’s obligations resulting from them, halting security coordination and all forms of persecution of the resistance, reversing all dangerous and arbitrary decisions regarding allocations for the families of martyrs, prisoners, the wounded, and the freed, severing all forms of dependence on American-zionist projects, and moving towards building a unified arena of struggle that expresses the free will of the Palestinian people.

Seventh: The masses of our nation, its intellectuals, and its vital forces must rise up to support our struggle and confront the genocide war against our people. They must reject all forms of normalization with the zionist enemy, and confront the project of neo-colonial hegemony and plans to fragment the region.

Eighth: We salute with reverence the steadfastness of the brotherly Yemeni people, who have faced aggression and blockade for years. Today, they continue—through their courageous positions and popular and official initiatives—to provide support for our cause and affirm our unity of destiny and struggle by imposing new deterrent equations that extend deep into the zionist entity in support of Gaza. We also salute the valiant Lebanese resistance, which has been and continues to be a solid supporter of our people and resistance, a partner in the battle to defend Palestine, and a confirmation of the cohesion of the resistance fronts in the face of the zionist project.

Ninth: We highly appreciate the cries of solidarity that have risen from the streets and universities of Washington, London, Madrid, Brussels, Johannesburg, and all the capitals and cities of the world in support of Gaza, in rejection of the aggression, and in support of our people’s just rights. The rise of international solidarity constitutes an advanced front in the battle to stop the war, break the siege, expose the crimes of the occupation, and hold it accountable at the international level.

🔻The masses of our people… O sons of our Arab nation… O free people of the world…

On the anniversary of the Nakba, we renew our pledge to our people, to the souls of our martyrs, to our prisoners, and to our wounded, that the Popular Front will remain a voice of truth, a shield of resistance, a guardian of national principles, and a staunch defender of the right of return, which is neither forfeited nor negotiable. As the wise George Habash said: “We cannot guarantee the future of our generations while the zionist disease remains on Arab land.”

Greetings to our resistant people in all arenas.
Greetings to our male and female prisoners in the occupation’s prisons.

Glory and immortality to the martyrs… and we will inevitably be victorious.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
May 14, 2025

abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…

#gaza #nakba #palestine #pflp #resistance #westAsia

diaspora - Link to source

Amusant : à la télé guignolo premier s'est amusé à name-drop un chercheur, Gabriel Zucman.


Et ce dernier prends le temps de lui répondre. Pour lui dire que, évidemment, il n'a rien compris.
(Faire la différence en ses opinions biaisées et les faits scientifiques, c'est toujours difficile à comprendre pour un taliban libéral comme Macron)

#Politique
#Economie
#Zucman
#Macron
#TalibansLibéraux
#TaxerLesRiches

mamot.fr/@matiu_bidule/1145120…


matiu bidule (@matiu_bidule@mamot.fr)

Attached: 1 video Amusant : à la télé guignolo premier s'est amusé à name-drop un chercheur, Gabriel Zucman. Et ce dernier prends le temps de lui répondre. Pour lui dire que, évidemment, il n'a rien compris.
Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net

Pacomm reshared this.

in reply to Emmanuel Florac

diaspora - Link to source

Américo DA SILVA

Le bidule a un peu trop sorti le bout de son nez, Macron commence par dire que ça ne peut pas marcher juste avant de lancer la campagne médiatique, pour finir par tordre le bras s'il le faut des sénateurs récalcitrants.
Le problème peut éventuellement venir des grandes fortunes eux-mêmes, pouvant craindre une crispation générale, amenant à en prendre beaucoup plus...
⇧