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The Decline And Fall Of The Human Empire By Henry Gee — Review"An entertaining and thought-provoking overview of the rise and fall of the human population – as our species declines towards extinction - book published by St Martins Press, reviewed by @GrrlScientist@scicomm.xyz

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‘The Decline And Fall Of The Human Empire,’ By Henry Gee — Book Review

An entertaining and thought-provoking overview of the rise and fall of the human population — as our species declines toward extinction.
Forbes

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Science of Heaven: Conscious Plasma Entities of Our Cosmic Hood/Book of Enoch/Mythology of Moses

The Kordylewski clouds, vast and enigmatic dust formations orbiting at the Earth-Moon Lagrange points, are not mere collections of particles but sentient ent...
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Google Reveals Hackers Targeting US Following UK Retailer Attacks


The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) recently revealed that the well-known hacker collective UNC3944, which also overlaps with the widely publicized Scattered Spider, is a persistent and dynamic cyberthreat. Initially focused on telecommunications for SIM swap operations, UNC3944 has since pivoted to ransomware and data theft extortion tactics since early 2023, casting a wider net […]

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Google Reveals Hackers Targeting US Following UK Retailer Attacks

The GTIG recently revealed that the well-known hacker collective UNC3944, which also overlaps with the widely publicized Scattered Spider.
Aman Mishra (GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform)

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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri on the Occasion of Third Anniversary of Demise of Hyon Chol Hae #DPRK kfauk.com/respected-comrade-ki…

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri on the Occasion of Third Anniversary of Demise of Hyon Chol Hae - KFAUK.com

Pyongyang, May 19 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, visited the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri on May 18 on the occasion of …
Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)

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GIMP 3.0.4 Open-Source Image Editor Is Now Available for Download with Bug Fixes


GIMP 3.0.4

GIMP 3.0.4 open-source image editor is now available for download with various fixes for bugs, crashes, regressions, and other issues.

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GIMP 3.0.4 Open-Source Image Editor Is Now Available for Download with Bug Fixes - 9to5Linux

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Werenoi, symbole d’une France qui ne chante plus ensemble ?


#société #culture

Après l'annonce de la mort de Werenoi, les réseaux sociaux ont vu coexister deux mondes. D'un côté, des fans bouleversés, rendant hommage à son talent. De l'autre, des internautes découvrant son nom avec surprise en apprenant qu'il était le plus gros vendeur de disques entre 2023 et 2024. Comme si deux France se regardaient en chiens de faïence, incapables de se comprendre.

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Cette fracture, Florent Barraco l'explore dans La Route du tube (éd. Perrin), une enquête sur les ressorts profonds de la chanson populaire. L'ancien directeur adjoint de la rédaction du Point y défend l'idée que la musique, au même titre que l'Histoire ou la langue, participe à la fabrication symbolique de la nation. Elle fonctionne comme un récit collectif, capable de lisser les fractures sociales, de faire dialoguer les marges avec le centre, et de créer des affects partagés. En convoquant Ernest Renan et Dalida, les Rita Mitsouko et Michel Sardou, il rappelle que les grandes chansons populaires touchent à l'intime, au quotidien, à ce que nous avons (ou avions) en partage.
Fractures françaises

« Le texte doit contenir un sous-texte, le sous-texte un savoir, le savoir une vie quotidienne. Ces quatre leviers bien mélangés donnent une chanson populaire », théorisait Roda-Gil, la machine à tubes de Julien Clerc et de Johnny. Mais encore faut-il que ces chansons soient entendues par tous.

À LIRE AUSSI Quel est le point commun entre Aya Nakamura et Dalida ? Or, comme le théorise le livre de Florent Barraco, la musique tend à se communautariser, à l'image de la société : elle devient le miroir de nos bulles culturelles, où chacun écoute selon ses repères sociaux, esthétiques, générationnels. Le tube fédérateur, capable de traverser les âges et les classes, devient l'exception. « L'admirateur de PNL n'a souvent plus rien à dire à celui de Vianney », regrette-t-il. D'où cette question : de quelle France Werenoi était-il le nom ?

Si l'on regarde les chiffres, on pourrait croire que le rappeur de Montreuil parlait à tout le pays. Il cumulait 739 millions de vues sur YouTube, 7 millions d'auditeurs mensuels sur Spotify et plusieurs disques de platine. Et pourtant, Jérémy Bana Owona, de son vrai nom, restait absent du paysage médiatique traditionnel et son succès ne lui avait pas permis une reconnaissance institutionnelle (Il avait obtenu quatre Flammes mais aucune Victoire de la musique).
De quelle France Werenoi était-il le nom ?

Sa musique, très mélodique, mêlait des textes sombres à des productions soignées, sans jamais se cantonner aux codes du rap hardcore. Elle construisait un pont entre lucidité crue et accessibilité mélodique. Elle parlait du quartier, du matérialisme, des relations intéressées, de la fragilité du succès face à ceux qui voulaient profiter de son ascension. Sans esbroufe, souvent avec pudeur. Werenoi pratiquait un art de la suggestion : une écriture elliptique, à mi-chemin entre la confidence brute et le slogan poétique, où les silences comptent autant que les mots. Dans « Pétunias », il écrivait : « C'est souvent ceux que t'apprécies, qui veulent te monter dessus. Donc je suis devenu très mauvais, par peur d'être déçu. »

À LIRE AUSSI Werenoi, l'artiste le plus écouté de France, est mort à l'âge de 31 ansLe succès de Werenoi était aussi celui d'un travailleur obstiné. En trois ans, il avait sorti deux albums, une réédition, deux EPs et une vingtaine de clips. Peu enclin à la mise en scène de soi, il faisait de l'effacement un principe artistique. « Le plus malin, c'est pas celui qui l'ouvre, non, c'est celui qui se tait », lançait-il dans « La League ». Dans « Chemins d'or », il poursuivait : « Beaucoup de modestie, bats les couilles d'la vie de star […] Les stars, c'est dans le ciel, je suis qu'en présidentiel. »

Chez lui, le refrain se dansait autant qu'il se chantait. Dans ses concerts, le public reprenait les paroles en chœur, comme à un show de Mylène Farmer ou de Christophe Maé. Des titres comme « Chemins d'or » ou « Pétunias » incarnaient cette tension entre refrain chanté et mélodie entraînante, à rebours de l'image d'un rap trop dur ou trop codé pour susciter une véritable communion.
Un patrimoine musical commun

Bien sûr, certains rétorqueront que le rap révèle la fragmentation des imaginaires, que rien ne relie le fan de Werenoi à l'amateur de Jean-Jacques Goldman. Une lecture trop réductrice, qui ne voit pas que le rap contemporain puise lui aussi dans un fonds commun, même s'il en renouvelle les codes. Dans une rare interview au Parisien, Werenoi citait Renaud et Pascal Obispo comme références, au grand étonnement du journaliste, qui ne s'attendait pas à de telles influences.

En septembre 2023, Werenoi avait même invité l'interprète de « Lucie » à l'accompagner au piano sur un titre lors de son premier Zénith. Après sa disparition, Obispo a révélé au Parisien qu'ils avaient des projets en préparation ensemble : « Ses fans n'en revenaient pas de me voir, c'est certain, mais le pont entre nos deux musiques était beau. Mais pour moi, ce n'est pas surprenant que sa musique me plaise […] Il sortait du lot par la qualité de ses chansons, ses mélodies et ses punchlines. »

À Découvrir Le Kangourou du jour Répondre La transmission transgénérationnelle, loin d'être anecdotique, est au cœur de nombreuses trajectoires. Booba, figure tutélaire du rap français, estime que « Mistral gagnant » de Renaud est « le plus beau texte jamais écrit ». Il l'avait d'ailleurs samplé pour donner naissance à l'un de ses morceaux les plus personnels, « Petite fille », dédié à sa fille Luna.

La preuve que le rap s'inscrit désormais dans un patrimoine partagé, et que les chansons populaires de 2025 peuvent encore façonner un imaginaire collectif. Florent Barraco cite en exemple ce moment de grâce des Jeux olympiques où Aya Nakamura a réinterprété Aznavour avec la Garde républicaine, un « syncrétisme entre Modernes (la liberté du langage urbain) et Anciens (la rigueur de l'Institut de l'Académie française) produit avec une touche d'autodérision ». Et d'ajouter : « Si elle conserve des permanences, la culture populaire doit aller de l'avant et surprendre. » Car le destin des chansons, conclut Florent Barraco, ressemble à celui du pays : il repose sur « le génie du renouveau » cher à de Gaulle.

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Werenoi, symbole d’une France qui ne chante plus ensemble ?

Il était numéro un des ventes mais inconnu pour des millions de Français. Sa mort dit autant de lui que de nous : que reste-t-il de la chanson comme ciment national ?
David Doucet (Le Point)

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Galileo Second Generation


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Video: 00:03:57

Europe’s Galileo is the world’s most precise satellite navigation system, providing metre-level accuracy to billions of users. ESA and European industry are preparing a new generation of satellites for the European Union, the Galileo Second Generation or G2, that will revolutionise the fleet with enhanced capabilities.

#navigaton #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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"Our early observation that crypto = prosecution futures is playing out, including along some lines we had not anticipated."

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Crypto Crooks Now Eating Their Own as Crypto Holders Targeted in Crime, Even Violent; Coinbase "Hack" an Inside Job, and Highly Damaging to Wallet-Holders | naked capitalism

Crypto crirme, particularly violent ones like finger-choppings, are increasing. This should not be much of a surprise.
Yves Smith (naked capitalism)

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Huh. This is interesting in a weird way.

Had to buy a new electric kettle a few weeks ago. Bought some cheap $20 one from Walmart. It has a 1L capacity. More than enough for three cups of tea at one time. But it's just me so normally it's just one cup.

The water vessel is glass and completely clear. I'm more comfortable holding the pitcher in my left hand and pouring water from the Brita water pitcher into it with my right hand.

This means the markings (500ml, 750ml, 1000ml) are all facing away from me.

But more often than not I'm nailing it and putting in exactly as much water as I need to put in and hitting that mark anyway just by eyeballing it.

I'm blind as a bat and can't play soccer to save my life but I can sure as hell nail how much water to put in to heat up a cup of tea!

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Kwame Nkrumah: The guerrilla is the masses in arms. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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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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Nothing (meaningful) to say - by Branko Milanovic


#economics #geopolitics #war

The inability of economists to meaningfully discuss current international economic relations has become painfully obvious in their, at time pathetic, attempts to teach the US leadership of Economics 101 lessons while not realizing that the US leadership, under both Trump I and II and Biden, was not involved in a policy to improve the position of US consumers or workers but to slow the rise of China and to maintain American global hegemonic position. This inability to engage with reality springs from an extremely reductionist methodological position where one’s welfare is a function of one’s own absolute income only. With such an assumption it becomes entirely incomprehensible why somebody (in this case, a country: the United States) would get engaged into a tariff war and use other policies that reduce welfare of its own citizens (while at the same time also reducing welfare in China and in the rest of the world). A policy that not merely implies a negative-sum game but is designed to be a lose-lose policy, that is, to make both the originator and the target of the policy worse off in economic terms, makes absolutely no sense for such economists.


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Nothing (meaningful) to say

Mainstream economics’ inability to explain domestic inequality and competition between nations
Branko Milanovic (Global Inequality and More 3.0)

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Polish presidential vote tests whether PM’s European vision is Trump-proof dawn.com/news/1911795/polish-p…

Polish presidential vote tests whether PM’s European vision is Trump-proof

Poles vote in first round of presidential election; ballot pits pro-EU candidate against Trump admirer; vote takes place on same day as election in Romania.
Reuters (DAWN.COM)

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Brazil: Military Police Violently Evicts Families of Landless Rural Workers’ Movement in Bahia State orinocotribune.com/brazil-mili…

Brazil: Military Police Violently Evicts Families of Landless Rural Workers' Movement in Bahia State

Families belonging to the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) from the Edivaldo Sena Camp, in Boa Esperança Farm, municipality of Rafael Jambeiro, Bahia state of Brazil, have been violently evicted by the Military Police.
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Some Retailers Will Need to Eat Cost of Tariffs, Says Cicarelli
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-05-19/the-impact-of-tariffs-on-retail-earnings-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Bloomberg Television @bloomberg-television-bloomberg


Some Retailers Will Need to Eat Cost of Tariffs, Says Cicarelli

Scot Ciccarelli, Truist Equity Research managing director, says some retailers will have to eat the cost of higher tariffs and try to keep prices low. Several retailers, including Lowe's Cos Inc., TJX Companies Inc.
Bloomberg

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Neat little MNT Pocket Reform hack:

When I launch a root shell, the keyboard backlight turns bright red and it return to my default pale green when I exit the danger zone again.

It works using the command listed here: codeberg.org/selfawaresoup/uni…

I put the one for the red color in root's .bashrc and the one for returning to the default color in root's .bash_logout.

unix-notes/reform.md at main

Codeberg.org

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Krieg.
50 Prozent vom Bundeshaushalt für das Hochrüsten. Armut, Umwelt, Bildung, Gesundheit? Nein, Waffen!

tagesschau.de/inland/innenpoli…

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#armut #bildung #gesundheit #krieg #militr #military #nato #war


Krieg.

50 Prozent vom Bundeshaushalt für das Hochrüsten. Armut, Umwelt, Bildung, Gesundheit? Nein, Waffen! https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/wadephul-verteidiungsausgaben-100.html
Undead Blog

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The Eurovision Song Contest is mainly funded by an Israeli company: Moroccanoil en.reseauinternational.net/le-…

The Eurovision Song Contest is mainly funded by an Israeli company: Moroccanoil - Réseau International

The Media in 4-4-2. Moroccanoil, the Israeli brand sponsoring Eurovision, continues to fund glamour while Gaza is under bombs. An urgent call for a global boycott in the face of this silent complicity.
Réseau International

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Inflation : les plus pauvres paient l’addition et les riches en profitent bien - Élucid


#politique #oligarchie #ploutocratie #inégalités

elucid.media/analyse-graphique…


Inflation : les plus pauvres paient l’addition et les riches en profitent bien 

Tandis que les plus aisés surfent sur la vague de l'inflation, les plus pauvres se noient sous les hausses de prix
Alexandra Buste, Xavier Lalbin (Élucid)

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People recommended neti pots to me for years, and I gave them my best shot, but they always made me feel like I was drowning. Never again, I promised myself. However my new bronchiectasis diagnosis has necessitated "nasal lavage." A fellow sufferer recommended the NeilMed squeeze bottle, and it is much, much better than a neti pot. So much better I am recommending it, except instead of NeilMed these Guru Nanda bottles which are only $1.33 on Amazon. The little salt sachets are cheap and sold separately. I'm using distilled water and sterilizing the bottles in the microwave, because I have to sterilize everything now.

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LIVE BLOG: UN to Oversee Aid Entry | Israeli Massacre in Khan Yunis – Day 591 #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/live-bl…

LIVE BLOG: UN to Oversee Aid Entry | Israeli Massacre in Khan Yunis – Day 591 - Palestine Chronicle

The Israeli Army Radio, citing sources, reported that the United Nations will supervise the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip today.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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The numbers are notable – 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 3,244 individual tests, more than 820,000 seconds (totaling more than nine days) of cumulative hot fire. The story behind the numbers is unforgettable. “It is hard to describe the full impact of […]

A Defining Era: NASA Stennis and Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing - NASA

The numbers are astonishing – 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St.
LaToya Dean (NASA)

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Kwame Nkrumah: Never in the history of the world has an alien ruler granted self-rule to a people on a silver platter. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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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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Araghchi: We pay special attention to expanding active cooperation between SCO member states parstoday.ir/en/news/daily_new…

Araghchi: We pay special attention to expanding active cooperation between SCO member states

Pars Today- The foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, during a meeting with the secretary-general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO...
Pars Today

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There Are People Who Can See and Others Who Cannot Even Look


#history #art #culture #photography

Nadar's work.

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There Are People Who Can See and Others Who Cannot Even Look

The greatest early photographer's portraits of Hugo, Manet, Dumas, and more
George Dillard (Looking Through the Past)

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Iranian Officials Hail Yemen as ‘Gold Standard’ for Resistance Against US, Israel english.masirahtv.net/post/477…

Almasirah:Iranian Officials Hail Yemen as ‘Gold Standard’ for Resistance Against US, Israel

News - Middle East: Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, Iran’s Defense Minister, stated that Yemen serves as an exemplary model for the Axis of Resistance.
english.masirahtv.net

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This is going to be tough.
I don't know if this is because of the melatonin but I am crashing.
Hard.
I've already had two cups of tea and a cup of oatmeal.
I've figured out the B1 smell.
It's ass.
And if you've ever walked into a men's locker room you'd know exactly what I'm talking about.
Any way.
I may not make it until this evening.
This is really kind of weird.
4 hours on.
4 hours off.
(It's 7:35 and I started to crash around an hour ago which was 4 hours after I woke up.)
#insomnia

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New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC


#astrophysics #technology

Such an event would destroy instantly most electronics in the world...

phys.org/news/2025-05-reveals-…


New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

An international team of scientists has discovered an extreme spike in radiocarbon corresponding to the year 12350 BC during the dusk of the last Ice Age.
University of Oulu (Phys.org)

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Navigation warning: Gun firing activities to be conducted in South China Sea eng.chinamil.com.cn/CHINA_2091…

Navigation warning: Gun firing activities to be conducted in South China Sea - China Military

According to a navigation warning notice released by China's Zhuhai Maritime Safety Administration, from May 19 to May 20, gun firing activities will be conducted daily from 09:00 to 15:00 in certain waters of South China Sea.
eng.chinamil.com.cn

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Protestation

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University Professor in Brazil Praises Iran as Key Pillar of West Asia's Resistance iranpress.com/content/305298

University Professor in Brazil Praises Iran as Key Pillar of West Asia's Resistance

An International Law Professor at the University of São Paulo lauded Iran’s central role in opposing U.S. and Israeli policies, calling the Islamic Republic the “cornerstone of the Resistance Front” in West Asia against the world's arrogant powers.
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“Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.”

~ Justice Tom C. Clark
(1899-1977) US Attorney General, 1945-1949, Associate Justice of theSupreme Court of the United States, 1949-1967
delivering the opinion of the Court in MAPP v. OHIO, 367 U.S. 643 (1961)

Quotation by Justice Tom C. Clark

"Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence." ~ Justice Tom C. Clark
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"The future is dangerous. Don't go any further. Please."

Lost in Translation: A fascinating example of how language nuances can change the tone of a message.
The Japanese sign at Hotel Balmoral Karuizawa politely warns of danger ahead, while the English translation takes on a more ominous tone.

#TravelSafety #HotelBalmoral #future #JapanTravel #BilingualSign #LostInTranslation #CautionAhead #TravelWarning #CulturalNuances #LanguageBarrier #ExploreJapan #HotelLife #TravelTips #SafetyFirst #JapaneseCulture #旅行安全 #ホテルバーモラル #軽井沢 #日本旅行 #二カ国語標識 #翻訳の難しさ #注意前方 #旅行警告 #文化の違い #言語の壁 #日本を探検 #ホテルライフ #旅行のヒント #安全第一 #日本文化

The image shows a sign with text in both Japanese and English. The sign is white with red and brown text. The Japanese text at the top reads "お願い この先は危険ですので、これ以上前へ行かないようお願い致します。" which translates to "Please, this area ahead is dangerous, so I kindly ask you not to go any further." Below this, in English, it seems to be an automatic translation to the message: "The future is dangerous. Don't go any further. Please." At the bottom of the sign, there is a logo and the text "ホテルバーモラル軽井沢" (Hotel Balmoral Karuizawa) in both Japanese and English. The sign is mounted on a wooden structure, possibly a fence or wall, with a metal hook at the top for hanging. The background is a wooden surface, likely part of a building or structure."
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