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White Hats from coast to coast are fuming mad at the Trump administration for allowing the FDA’s approval of a lower-dose mRNA clot shot for senior citizens and people 12-65 with at least one underlying medical condition.
Last week, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said his agency was greenlighting Moderna’s potentially lethal jab, which the company said would be broadly advertised and publicly available ahead of the 2025-2026 “respiratory ailment season.” According to Moderna, the new mNEXSPIKE is one-fifth as potent as its original vaccine. It claims that 11,500 people participated in clinical trials, with few experiencing mild side effects like injection site pain and headaches. realrawnews.com/2025/06/white-…

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U.S. MILITARY CONTRACTOR BACKING AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP declassifiedaus.org/2025/05/31…

U.S. MILITARY CONTRACTOR BACKING AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP - Declassified Australia

A US military mega-contractor assisting an Australian company to develop a proposal for a nuclear waste dump in Central Australia has a flawed safety record in handling nuclear waste storage.
Jorgen Doyle (Declassified Australia)

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The beginning of the end? Haredi parties crank up threats to bolt Netanyahu's coalition haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

The beginning of the end? Haredi parties escalate election threats, rocking Netanyahu's coalition

Astonishingly, a year and a half of mass killing and hostages being tortured in the Gaza Strip didn't bring Netanyahu's government to its knees; it was instead brought on by one sect's stubborn refusal to serve in the IDF
Ravit Hecht (Haaretz)

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Turkey engages in secret talks with Syrian Kurds to normalize ties english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

Turkey engages in secret talks with Syrian Kurds to normalize ties

Turkey and Syrian Kurdish officials are engaged in secret negotiations to normalize ties and end decades of conflict.
Al Mayadeen English (Turkey engages in secret talks with Syrian Kurds to normalize ties)

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#Norway / Divestment from occupied territories rejected

Norway rejects call to divest wealth fund from Israeli-occupied territories. Despite emotional debates and protests, Norwegian MPs voted against proposals to stop the country's sovereign wealth fund from investing in companies contributing to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories. The decision maintains Norway's position as the largest European investor in #Israel's occupation.

Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg stated that Norway has "an established ethical regime for the fund" and that they "divest from the companies that contribute to Israel's breach of international law, but we do not divest from all companies that are present on the ground".

theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide


Norway MPs reject call to stop wealth fund investing in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories

Parliament votes against divestment proposal after tearful speeches in chamber and protests outside
Miranda Bryant (The Guardian)
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Did Trump Know About Ukraine’s Strategic Drone Strikes In Advance? korybko.substack.com/p/did-tru…

Did Trump Know About Ukraine’s Strategic Drone Strikes In Advance?

What follows are five relevant points, each accompanied by brief arguments about why they either do or do not prove that he really was aware, which’ll help readers make up their own mind.
Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)

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I've been climbing to the tops of my Leyland Cypress trees in order to prune the tops of them off since they've begun to get tall enough to block a lot of our view. They are currently dumping a lot of pollen, and I think I may be allergic to it, as I feel pretty freaking awful after climbing up one over my lunch break today. Ever had your tongue feel itchy?

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Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison off-guardian.org/2025/06/04/tr…

Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.” Ayn Rand Call it what…
OffGuardian

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I guess I haven't been paying enough attention, but Intel's APX is a really big update to their ISA:
- 32 GP registers
- setting flags is optional in many cases
- instructions take 3 operands instead of 2

intel.com/content/www/us/en/de…


Introducing Intel® Advanced Performance Extensions (Intel® APX)

These extensions expand the x86 instruction set with access to registers and features that improve performance.
Intel

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AGI is not multimodal

Link: thegradient.pub/agi-is-not-mul…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


AGI Is Not Multimodal

"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent.
Benjamin A. Spiegel (The Gradient)

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Xi Jinping: Friendship and trust between Belarus and China are growing stronger eng.belta.by/politics/view/xi-…

Xi Jinping: Friendship and trust between Belarus and China are growing stronger  

Long-standing friendship between Belarus and China is growing stronger, so is mutual trust at the political level, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Aleksandr Lukashenko, BelTA has learned.
Belarusian Telegraph Agency

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Es können (und sollten) alle von der republica halten, was sie wollen, aber es gab ein paar Talks, die würde ich Euch gern empfehlen, weil ich sie wirklich gut fand.

Es gab ganz sicher auch noch andere, die sehr gut waren, aber diese habe ich (bisher) gesehen. Vielleicht ergänze ich später noch.

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Digitaler Faschismus: Wie KI-Ideologie die Demokratie untergräbt und wie wir sie verteidigen können

Von @alineblankertz und @RainerMuehlhoff

youtube.com/watch?v=R07XoKGi6X…

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re:publica 25: Digitaler Faschismus: Wie KI-Ideologie die Demokratie untergräbt und wie wir ...

Digitaler Faschismus: Wie KI-Ideologie die Demokratie untergräbt und wie wir sie verteidigen könnenIn dem toxischen Bündnis von Trump und Musk zeigt sich akt...
YouTube
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Anne Roth

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Autoritäre Strategien entlarven, um die Demokratie zu verteidigen

Von Anna-Mira Brandau und Max Steinbeis vom @verfassungsblog

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re:publica 25: Autoritäre Strategien entlarven, um die Demokratie zu verteidigen

Autoritäre Strategien entlarven, um die Demokratie zu verteidigenLange vor der Bundestagswahl war klar: Die AfD wird gestärkt daraus hervorgehen. Viele frage...
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Anne Roth

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Verlorenes Medienvertrauen, gefährdete Demokratie? Analyse, Auswege und Zukunft der deutschen Medienberichterstattung zu Nahost.

Von @nadia_z

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re:publica 25: Nadia Zaboura - Verlorenes Medienvertrauen, gefährdete Demokratie?

Verlorenes Medienvertrauen, gefährdete Demokratie? Analyse, Auswege und Zukunft der deutschen Medienberichterstattung zu NahostMedienvertrauen ist der Kern d...
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'An app is just a website that we've wrapped in the correct DRM that makes it a felony to protect your privacy while you use it'

@pluralistic keynote speech at PyCon

youtube.com/watch?v=ydVmzg_SJL…


Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow

Note: This video contains strong language that may offend some viewers. The opinions and perspectives within this video should not be considered official sta...
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Eine neue Recherche von +972 & Local Call über die aktuelle Kriegsführung deckt auf, dass die israelische Armee crappy Algorithmen, die auf falschen Annahmen basieren, verwendet, die angeben sollen, dass ein Nachbarschaft evakuiert sei.

Wenn der Algorithmus "grün" sagt wird bombardiert, angegriffen - auch wenn klar ist, dass dort noch jede Menschen drin sind.

»#Israel is falsely designating #Gaza areas as empty in order to bomb them«
972mag.com/israel-gaza-empty-n…


Israel is falsely designating Gaza areas as empty to bomb them

The army is using a crude algorithm to declare neighborhoods cleared of residents and carry out airstrikes, a joint investigation reveals.
Jonathan Adler (+972 Magazine)
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stephie

Es wird dabei von einer Belegung einer Nachbarschaft mit Personen ausgegangen. Wenn anhand von Mobilfunkdaten der Algorithmus berechnet dass nur noch 0-20% der erwarteten Personen anwesend sind - "grün" genannt, wird angegriffen.

Die israelische Armee macht es sich einfach & definiert die Gebiete dann als evakuiert. Theoretische 80% weniger anwesende Menschen reichen ihnen dann völlig aus als Abschätzung.
In der Realität sind meist noch jede Menge Personen vor Ort.
Wo sollen sie auch hin?

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stephie

»Before designating a neighborhood as “green,” the intelligence algorithm calculates the number of residents in each house according to the area’s estimated evacuation rate. If the algorithm estimates that 80 percent of residents have left, then the expected number of casualties per house is reduced by 80 percent, often without dedicating time to a detailed examination. In a house where 10 Palestinians lived before the war, for example, the system would show that only two remained.«
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»It’s a statistical approach to errors,” said one intelligence source.

In this way, the army can approve more airstrikes and claim they adhere to the principle of proportionality, sources said. They added that the army does not conduct post-strike assessments to determine how many civilians were actually killed, and for this reason, it also does not know how many Palestinians it has killed since October 7. «

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stephie

»While the statistical calculation falsely estimates the number of civilians in each house, the mass killing of civilians in Gaza is not a result of a mistake, but a direct consequence of Israel’s lenient policies regarding civilian harm, multiple sources have said. As previously reported by +972 Magazine and Local Call, army policy allowed officers to kill up to 20 civilians in each house where a junior militant was present and hundreds of civilians when the target was more senior.«
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»According to one of the sources, in recent weeks, many of these attacks only killed civilians and were carried out despite uncertainty about whether they would hit any military targets. Such “misses,” according to several sources, stem from military policies that allow strikes to go ahead without thorough checks — for example, without verifying in real-time that the target is actually present in the building.«
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stephie

Ohnehin ist keine Gegend frei vom Zivilisten. Selbst in den Bereichen die die israelische Armee kontrolliert, verbleiben meist insbesondere besonders vulnerable Personen.
Es gibt ja keine Evakuierungen nach der eigentlichen Definition des Wortes.

»No neighborhood in Gaza is fully evacuated,” Shehada said. “Even in areas Israel has been occupying for some time, there would be elderly people, people with disabilities, pregnant women, kids, and orphans who have no one to help them evacuate.”«

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»Shehada explained that since Hamas or Hamas-affiliated individuals are present everywhere in Gaza, these bombing policies amount to “basically carpet bombing or indiscriminate bombing, using unarmed, rank-and-file Hamas members as a pretext to achieve the real goal, which is maximum destruction.” He noted that prior to October 7, Israel would bomb civilian infrastructure in Gaza to deter the population from supporting Hamas, but this time “it’s not about deterrence, it’s about extermination.”«
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»Several of the deadliest airstrikes in recent weeks have targeted schools and hospitals filled with refugees as part of a deliberate strategy, according to a new investigation by The Guardian. Previously considered “sensitive sites,” these locations are now also categorized by the military as “heavy centers” (based on the claim that they host a high concentration of Hamas operatives), and the procedures for authorizing airstrikes against them have been relaxed.«
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»The testimony of the two intelligence sources, along with those of two additional security sources who were in Gaza in recent months, reinforces this claim. Acc. to the int. sources, since March, airstrikes have often been carried out simply “for the sake of attacking,” with no significant direct military value. “There aren’t many targets left. Everyone who mattered has already been killed or is hiding really well. So they’re forcefully looking for targets, and these are just very low quality”«
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»“Instead of in-and-out operations, it’s enter and flatten. Every area the IDF takes, the IDF flattens,” he explained. “The idea is ultimately to push everyone into Al-Mawasi and turn a single neighborhood into the home of two million people, fenced in and controlled by the military, with access only through checkpoints, and the only place where humanitarian aid is brought in.

“The army doesn’t use the words ‘ghetto’ or ‘ethnic cleansing,’” he added, “[but] it’s a de facto ghetto.”«

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Looking for the Best KDE Distro – Fast, Stable, and Feature-Rich

Hey folks,

I’ve been using Linux on and off for over a year now—not a total newbie, but still learning. I know the basics and usually rely on GPT or forums when I hit a wall. I’ve tried a bunch of distros so far: Kali, Debian, Pop!_OS, KDE Neon, Kubuntu… and currently running Fedora KDE.

Fedora is solid, but I keep finding myself tempted to try something new. Maybe I get bored easily—or maybe I just haven’t found the one yet. That’s why I’m asking for your help.

Here’s what I’m really looking for:

🔹 Large and fast app repository – I want access to a wide range of apps, updated quickly, without weird dependency issues.

🔹 Great UI/UX – KDE is my current favorite. I love how modern and smooth it feels, and I want something that builds on that experience.

🔹 Stability without being outdated – I don’t mind rolling release if it’s reliable. Crashes and breakages are a dealbreaker.

🔹 Good extras – Whether it’s unique tools, deep customization options, or just thoughtful polish, I love a distro with a “complete” feel.

🔹 Active community/support – Docs, forums, or anything that helps when things go wrong.

I’d love your suggestions—especially if you’ve been in the same place: bouncing between distros, loving KDE, and still chasing that “perfect” setup.

What would you recommend and why? Any underrated KDE-based distro I should check out? Or maybe something mainstream but deeply customizable and stable?

Appreciate your thoughts!

Also, if you can, please share some of the best (and free) resources to really learn and master Linux.
I’m still learning and only know some basics, but I want to go deeper and really understand how things work under the hood. Even if I don’t feel super advanced yet 😅, I’m curious and willing to grow.

Thanks a ton in advance!

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kshade

You could try Tuxedo OS. It's stable Ubuntu minus Snap plus newer KDE packages by a small Linux system retailer. Been using it for about a year now on my work laptop and it's perfectly adequate.

TUXEDO OS - TUXEDO Computers

TUXEDO OS: TUXEDO OS Modified Linux kernel Optimized for TUXEDO-Hardware Simple by default Powerful when needed Linux-qualified customer support Powered by KDE Plasma "Making Linux accessible to the general public" - this is our mission at TUXEDO ...
www.tuxedocomputers.com
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The starvation of Gaza is a manmade catastrophe that shames us all
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/gaza-aid-israel-attack-hamas-war-b2763624.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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The starvation of Gaza is a manmade catastrophe that shames us all

Editorial: It is in Israel’s interest to allow humanitarian aid to come into what the UN has called ‘the hungriest place on Earth’. The rest of the world must make Netanyahu see sense
Editorial (The Independent)

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Canada in trouble...
Privacy At Risk: Government Buries Lawful Access Provisions in New Border Bill

Privacy At Risk: Government Buries Lawful Access Provisions in New Border Bill - Michael Geist

The government yesterday introduced the Strong Border Act (Bill C-2), legislation that was promoted as establishing new border measure provisions presumably designed to address U.S. concerns regarding the border.
Michael Geist

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#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #armsindustry / #armssales / #doublestandards

„The exports show how Israel is pursuing new markets as its forces battle on multiple fronts.
Israel sold more weapons to other countries in 2024 than ever, government officials said on Wednesday, even as it fought on multiple fronts in the longest war in its history.
Israeli producers signed contracts to export about $14.8 billion in weapons last year (…).“

nytimes.com/2025/06/04/world/m…

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The National Interest: US MQ-9 reaper drones lose combat prestige after repeated downing in Yemen en.ypagency.net/358686

The National Interest: US MQ-9 reaper drones lose combat prestige after repeated downing in Yemen

WORLD, June 04 (YPA) - America’s most advanced drones have lost their combat prestige in Yemen after being repeatedly shot down by Yemen’s armed forces, US magazine "The National Interest" reported.In a report, the magazine noted that Sana’a forces h
عماد (Yemen Press Agency)

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#Palestine / IDF promotes officer accused of ordering soldiers to shoot Gazans carrying white flag

An IDF officer was promoted to battalion commander despite a pending decision on whether to investigate reports that he ordered soldiers to shoot two #Gazans carrying a white flag in 2024. Soldiers reported the officer's "shoot-to-kill" order, which was countermanded by another officer.

Haim Har-Zahav, a soldier who wrote an op-ed in #Haaretz about an incident he witnessed in 2024 along the Netzarim corridor, discussed an incident where an officer ordered soldiers to shoot two Gazans carrying a white flag. He highlighted that the order was disregarded because it was recognized as manifestly illegal, which, to him, demonstrated the value of the IDF's ethical code. However, he also emphasized that the lives of Palestinians often depend on the individual ethical standards of the commanders on the ground, leading to inconsistent and potentially deadly outcomes.

[…] "The lives of the Palestinians in Gaza depend first and foremost on the private and personal ethical code of the commanders on the ground... Those who want to kill Arabs, because they are Arabs, will kill Arabs. No one will ask them questions, and no one will investigate or punish them. Those who want to maintain their humanity will do so, but will also know that their replacements in the Gaza Strip might not share the same moral and ethical code. Consequently, the person who survived thanks to a decision made by one officer will die of a command given by the next. If not tomorrow, then the next day"

The IDF stated the incident is under investigation.

haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… or archive.is/g3LYL

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide


IDF promotes officer who soldiers said ordered to shoot Gazans carrying white flag

An IDF commander was said to have issued a shoot-to-kill order against two Gazans carrying a white flag, which was dismissed by other officers who deemed it illegal.
Bar Peleg (Haaretz)

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Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

Link: macrumors.com/2025/06/04/apple…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Apple Notes Expected to Gain Support for Exporting in Markdown in iOS 26

Apple's Notes app is rumored to be getting limited Markdown support in iOS 26 and macOS 26, according to 9to5Mac. The feature would allow users...
Tim Hardwick (MacRumors.com)

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Dozens of Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards dailyyemen.net/2025/06/04/doze…

Dozens of Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards

Dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards, under tight protection from the Israeli enemy police.Jerusalem sources reported that the settlers stormed Al-Aqsa from the Mughrabi Gate in groups and successive batches, performing Talmu
DAILY YEMEN

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trump just banned travel from a bunch of shithole countries whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…

Restricting The Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats – The White House

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION During my first Administration, I restricted the entry of foreign nationals into the
The White House

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Russian Entrepreneur Finds Her Best Era for Entrepreneurship in China infobrics.org/post/47236/

Russian Entrepreneur Finds Her Best Era for Entrepreneurship in China

In her office located at the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, 36-year-old Russian entrepreneur Svetlana Olkhovikova, dressed in a cream-colored suit, gently sipped a matcha latte while checking orders from her business partners in Russia and Uzbekistan…
BRICS

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Is there a quick way to know which instance might need mods?

As per title.
I've been wondering about this. How can we help when someone managing a community/instance can't find help locally, for whatever reason? Something like an "help wanted" board. Even if it's for one month, three months, etc.

I've been an admin for a 8-9k+ users Discord server for years, but I love Lemmy so much I'd like to see if I can be somehow useful here. I don't think I'm power tripping at all, but have zero tolerance for harassment, racism or sexism, bigotry and honestly want to keep neocons and bigots/trolls out of Lemmy as long as it's humanly possible. Whenever in doubt, I generally abstain from using any moderation power and talk with other mods/users to find the best course of action.

The situation I imagined in the first paragraph did happen to me. Managing the server alone was draining my mental health, and I couldn't find anyone to help with all I had to do. Then someone wrote to me, we had lengthy discussions about the rules and philosophy of the server and we've been co-managing it together for years. Lemm.ee closing down made me think about "how to help where and when it's needed"?

I'm posting in this community in hope that other users may be wondering about it and may find any answer useful.

[Multiple edits, original post written quite late, judging from most replies, I failed to phrase correctly what I had in mind]

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don't like this

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tuckerm

I'm wondering if the fediverse in general (but especially Lemmy) would benefit from some kind of "fediverse help wanted" board for moderators, donations, technical help, etc.

edit: People who run a Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed/etc instance might be hanging out in the Matrix chat room for the software they are running; that might already serve this purpose.

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The Indian governmental incursion must've been part of the original script as all the actors were perfectly lined up and ready to go right at the start.

So per script we're also supposed to be in an entirely different place where novelty injections are now accepted as perfectly normal and fine. Everyone has already come to accept that a deadly invisible pathogen gone 'endemic' so obviously we're going to need plenty of government help going forward willingly or unwilling. vaxpass and digital id been in place for several years and BTC is everyone's favourite novelty currency.

That's the world in which all this was supposed to have happened. But it's not so obviously not an ideal situation for the people running this show. They're essentially just trying out the new arrangement to see how well it goes down. So far not many complaining which means the fluoride supplement is working a treat.

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Pippin

It's likely that Americans who'd want to radically reshape the US (and the same principal will hold in other nations) would make use of foreign and dual nationality individuals because those people will have less misgiving about following radical paths.

For instance, in the UK we've had government ministers who were likely picked up by our security services and selected for power at a young age from abroad. Those people won't care about preserving a way of life.

There's likely political value here in portraying this as an external attack, but is it _only_ that? Could they get away with this if the most powerful local forces did not see this as beneficial to them? I doubt it.

Although much smaller in scale, an analogy here would be the role played by the Israelis in taking down Corbyn for installing Starmer as leader of the UK Labour party. I expect the UK security services approved this on behalf of their backers: co-opting foreign nationals and embassy staff then provides a kind of plausible deniability.

And perhaps that deniability is why the script was written like this.

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Pippin

He's good. I admit to only having listened to a few of his podcasts. I can't say many others have heard of him. I think one other person mentioned him to me at work one time, possibly around 2021.

I read Alford and Secker's National Security Cinema. They totally missed the transhumanism angle on Avatar, regarding it as a pacifist film which slipped through the net.

Films are Not Your Friends, which used to be on Youtube was my eye-opener on the scale of the security state interference in movies and TV.

He did a good podcast on the Manchester / Aria Grande event. Contrasts with the angle taken by Richard D Hall and Iain Davis, though not necessarily contradictory.

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US can not do a damn thing about Iran nuclear industry en.mehrnews.com/news/232657/US…

US can not do a damn thing about Iran nuclear issue

TEHRAN, Jun. 04 (MNA) – Regarding the US claims against Iran's peaceful nuclear program, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said, "Our response to America's nonsense claims is clear: they can not do a damns thing in this matter."
Marzieh Rahmani (Mehr News Agency)
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Viss

@ashleygjovik ive used gpt to write bash scripts. ive never tried to get it to like, "do writing" before. it seems like it would spew weird hallucinatory nonsense.

pretty much all ive used it for is like, dumb stock trady bullshits, and python/bash. occasionally some linux config stuff and to help me find competing products, but never more than like, a paragraphs worth of thinking. any more and it goes haywire real fast.

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Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD

It works quite well if you design very strict instructions of what it needs to do, and how it needs to do it. I have used it to do complex analysis and drafting, but I have to basically have to treat it like i'm developing a little app and give it a tiny universe to operate in, and make it run QA & failure analysis on itself. Once I set that up, it automates a ton of stuff, but it cannot be left unsupervised.

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A Texas sheriff’s office conducted a nationwide search with license plate cameras in an attempt to find a woman who allegedly pursued a self-administered abortion, 404 Media reports. 404media.co/a-texas-cop-search…

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion

The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)

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“Without Struggle, There is No Victory”: Panamanians Stand Up to Their Government and the US libya360.wordpress.com/2025/06…

“Without Struggle, There is No Victory”: Panamanians Stand Up to Their Government and the US

Pablo Meriguet Workers from SUNTRACS participating in the National Strike. Photo: SUNTRACS Panamanian workers have been on strike for over a month against the policies of the José Raúl Mulino gover…
INTERNATIONALIST 360°

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Fuck this shit.

#losangeles #blackmastodon atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/0…


L.A. Deputy Who Bodyslammed Black Woman, Pinned Knee on Her Neck, and Pepper-Sprayed Her for Filming Arres ...

A former Los Angeles County deputy facing 10 years in prison will instead only serve four months following intervention from an unlikely source. It wasn't
Christian Boone (atlantablackstar)

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Shipwreckedcrew

Judge James Ho of the Fifth Circuit Will Likely Be President Trump's First Supreme Court Nominee -- And Here's Why

It is quite unusual for a Circuit Court Judge to openly take shots at a 7 Justice Supreme Court majority -- and be correct in doing so.

open.substack.com/pub/shipwrec…


Judge James Ho of the Fifth Circuit Will Likely Be President Trump's First Supreme Court Nominee -- And Here's Why

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Enough is enough, it’s time to resist. It’s time to stop the billionaire takeover which threatens the future of life on earth.

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest of the Milky Way’s many small satellite galaxies. This view of dusty gas clouds […]

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the
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no, don't tell how to do this. i am ranting. you can't "fix" it.

apple just continues to suck worse and worse. they have apparently fired anyone who has ever had any expertise in UI/UX.

i now have to use the *search* function in the control panel to find the printer. really?

i have used apple since the mac+ finder/system days, unix for years, windows since 3.11. i have suffered through all sorts of system control panels, good and bad.

the current apple OS is amongst the worst.

i can only imagine what will happen as more and more folks with what little UI/UX they still have are replaced with AI.

i truly pity anyone that needs actual accessibility features.

grrr....

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ah, server names. ;)

so many schemes. simpsons. south park. tolkien. creatures that fought godzilla (winning name "bambi"). worst was "greek liturgical terms".

one of my first jobs had a test lab and the engineers kept renaming the servers constantly, breaking other engineer scripts, etc.

the reason i now know the nato phonetic alphabet was that the engineering director got tired of this and decreed that we'd name all servers from said alphabet in order, starting with alpha. we got up to tango before i changed jobs.

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There are several reasons why I hesitate to identify as a Christian. One of the big ones is because I’m not entirely sure I believe in the existence of God, or any gods. Thus far, my approach has been to take Pascal’s wager, but that’s not a viable long-term solution to the problem.

The other big one is, well, other Christians.

I once saw a bumper sticker that read, “Jesus, save me from your followers.” At the time, I was a far more committed Christian, and I found myself offended at the notion. But now? I watch in horror as white evangelicals and conservative Catholics embrace Donald Trump, MAGA, and the moral rot they represent. Consider Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, whose response to the potential Medicare/Medicaid cuts was, “We’re all going to die.” Later, she followed up with, “For those who would like to see eternal and everlasting life, I encourage you to embrace my lord and savior, Jesus Christ.”

With no due respect, senator, that’s not the Jesus I read about in the Gospel. The Jesus I read about in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (yes, I read all four in their entirety) repeatedly stressed the importance of loving your neighbor. (And there’s a preponderance of evidence that by neighbor, Jesus meant EVERYONE, not just the people you like/love. See Matthew 5:46-48 for one example.) He even referred to it as the greatest commandment. Evangelicals love to quote John 3:16, but maybe they should spend more time with John 13:34-35: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this, all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Rev. Dr. William Barber II understood the assignment. That’s why he’s been protesting and praying in the Capitol Rotunda, and why he’s doing everything in his power to stop Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill”. He rightly points out that there’s nothing Christian about the bill, which takes from the poor and gives to the rich, in clear violation of Matthew 6:24: “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

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‘This isn’t just about Trump’: the Rev William Barber arrested after prayer-protest against Republican-led budget

Eight were arrested at Moral Monday, an effort to stop a bill they say will slash vital healthcare for lower-income people
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the idea of a god has never made any emotional or logical sense to me. But I don't dislike the teachings of (maybe a real person, maybe a combination of people or not) Jesus or other such "gurus" of the religious world. Ultimately I note that there are mean spirited and good hearted people and that their religion, or lack of it, has nothing to do with how they are and how they behave.
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