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On 5 June Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov hosted delegations from three African countries - Botswana, Ghana and Mozambique - headed by the agriculture ministers.
Sometimes people talk about how expensive something they own is simply because they're proud that they could afford it and even when they're being tone-deaf, there's no benefit to getting offended when you could just move the conversation along instead. (Although you might have to listen to them talk about watches.) If they were trying to brag, now they're stuck trying to explain why the watch is actually worth what they paid and you're the one judging them.
Cars (and watches) aren't so expensive that a middle-class person can't plausibly already own the one he would buy even if money was unlimited. You can act like that's true about you. My status-conscious former mother in law was bothered by the fact that I owned an old car, but when she would bring it up I would just say "I really like the 2008 model." She couldn't argue with that.
Nice one. If it's only a status thing he'll scrabble to find something to say about it other than it's price. And on the very very low chance that it's not, he'll have an excuse to explain. Who knows, he might be a watch nerd who's really proud that he could afford that watch because it's a special watch to watch nerds for watch related reasons and he'll tell you all about it.
Turns out everything we've been told about the state of Russian army for the past three years was a lie.
• It's now twice as large as in 2022, and continues to grow • Production of arms and munitions has soared • Exposure to the advanced Western weaponry allowed the Russians to figure out how to neutralize it • The Russian air force, built to fight NATO, is modern and has been preserved intact • In terms of drone and electronic warfare, Russia is probably ahead of NATO
"#RFKJr threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals. The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with #pharma." politico.com/news/2025/05/27/r…
Note that two of the three have published editorials criticizing the #censorship of science under the #Trump admin:
Several other journals have published comparable editorials but are not yet Trumpist targets. Are they next? See the list maintained by the #DefendResearch team. docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5…
This is a list of public statements supporting research and higher education against threats from the Trump administration. It includes a list of projects that track or monitor Trump administration actions on the same topics.
Update. The Dept of Veterans Affairs has done what #RFKJr merely threatened to do at the Dept of Health and Human Services. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
"Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump."
Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say
Very Lysenko vibes. This kind of supression of objective factual data and those who produced it brought Russia and China to huge famines back in the ‘50s and ‘60s. I hope the scientists and researchers are packing up, and arranging to relocate.
looks like i can get away with just welding a broken part in the old stock RSX exhaust and i don't have to replace the whole thing... which is good cause this is getting ridiculous
SANAA, June 05 (YPA) -President of the Supreme Political Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, delivered a speech on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, in which he extended congratulations to the Leader of the Revolution, to the Yemeni people, Armed Forces, Security,
"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."
tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part. So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.
Recently VE3NEA has released a new Windows program called 'SkyRoof'. SkyRoof is both a satellite tracking and SDR receiver program. It supports the RTL-SDR as well as Airspy and SDRplay devices.
Im Interview berichtet Amy Kit-Mei Low von @MSF_ch: „Gaza ist das Schlimmste, was ich je gesehen habe.“ Das Nasser-Spital steht kurz vor dem Aus – die Not ist riesig. Ihre Familie sorgt sich, doch sie hilft, wo Hilfe am dringendsten ist. 💔🕊️ #Gaza #MSF #HumanitäreHilfe 👉 srf.ch/news/international/msf-… #newz
President Trump isn’t ruling out cutting Elon Musk’s government contracts, saying it’s on the table—if it’s fair for both him and the country. t.me/GeneralMCNews/13751
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Professor Postol explains that the Golden Dome is a political idea with no technical value, designed to appeal to Trump's supporters by giving the impression that it would protect the US from nuclear threats.
A big worry is that the imbeciles in charge of the US might actually think these defenses work and act more recklessly in a crisis, which could lead to a world ending miscalculation.
MIT Professor and Pentagon advisor Ted Postol presents the dangers of Trump's Golden Dome.Follow me:Substack: https://glenndiesen.substack.com/X/Twitter: htt...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, said it was not surprising that the United States used its veto in the Security Council regarding the Gaza Strip, calling for the delivery of humanitarian aid via UN peacekeeping forces
I used to really enjoy sites like this. I know there's joke accounts on Twitter and other sites here and there, but I haven't seen anything lately that has the whole site as one big running gag.
A Q&A website is a website where the site creators use the images of pop culture icons, historical figures, fictional characters, or even inanimate objects or abstract concepts to answer input from the site's visitors, usually in question/answer format. This format of website, most popular in the early 2000s, evolved from the much older Internet Oracle. The original progenitor of this type of site was the now-defunct Forum 2000. The Forum 2000 claimed to have run the site by means of artificial intelligence, and the personalities on the website were called SOMADs, or "State Of Mind Adjointness pairs". However, later Q&A sites usually dispensed with this pretense, with the most extreme example being Jerk Squad!, on which the administrators of the site provide many of the answers.
While two man-babies in the US throw their tantrums and transfix the profit driven drama machines of the US corporate media, a group of courageous and compassionate human rights activists are confronting Israel head on in an attempt to bring aid and draw attention to the ongoing genocide.
Our attention should be focused on Gaza, not the drama of the two US man-babies (apologies to babies everywhere).
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
AUSTIN, TX—Stressing that the billionaire’s completely erratic behavior had strained the already fraught relationships, sources confirmed Thursday that a rift was widening between Elon Musk and anyone who had ever met him.
« La #gauche est devenue aussi mensongère et hypocrite que la #bourgeoisie parce qu’elle continue à proclamer sa vertu, la défense des pauvres. Elle continue à s’affirmer comme le représentant des classes misérables. Mais elle ment. Elle défend et soutient exclusivement ce qui peut la servir, ceux qui sont utilisables soit pour sa propagande, soit pour l’action directe. Elle utilise les pauvres exactement comme le capitalisme. Elle les exploite. Elle les fait marcher sans leur dévoiler ses vrais objectifs. Elle leur ment jour après jour. » « On n’avait pas en 1936 ou en 1945 le droit de dire que le communisme stalinien était une dictature sanguinaire et que les camps de concentration y étaient équivalents à ceux du nazisme. On n’a pas le droit aujourd’hui de dire que la Chine est une dictature de fer et que les camps de concentration y sont florissants. Chutt… cela servirait les ennemis de la révolution. La gauche est engagée jusqu’au cou dans le mensonge. Elle ne représente en rien les pauvres. Elle ne les défend en rien. Elle a substitué pour eux, à l’illusion religieuse du paradis céleste à venir, l’illusion politique du paradis terrestre à venir. La gauche est l’exact équivalent de l’Église bourgeoise du XIXe siècle, à l’égard des pauvres. Elle en présente les mêmes caractères et mérite le même mépris. Parmi les pauvres, exactement comme pour les bourgeois chrétiens du XIXe siècle, il y a les bons pauvres, ceux qui marchent dans la combine, ceux qui sont les bons moutons de la révolution, ceux dont la situation peut être exploitée comme facteur de propagande. Et puis les mauvais pauvres, ceux qui refusent, dans un régime communiste, de se trouver bien ceux qui se révoltent à tort et à travers simplement parce qu’ils sont malheureux et sans tenir compte des plans de la révolution mondiale, ceux qui représentent des valeurs et une culture traditionnelles. Tous ceux-là il faut simplement les réprimer, les refouler. » « Il est vrai que la gauche ne prétend plus le moins du monde être révolutionnaire. Elle a enterré la révolution, et s’apprête paisiblement à occuper le pouvoir pour continuer. Mais il faut aller plus loin. Non seulement elle n’est plus révolutionnaire, mais elle occupe maintenant un rôle tout à fait précis : sa fonction dans la société moderne est de bloquer la révolution. La gauche, des radicaux jusqu’au PC, PSU compris, a reçu délégation tacite du corps social entier pour que la révolution ne puisse pas avoir lieu. Les meilleurs gardiens de l’establishment ce sont les partis de gauche et les syndicats. Pensez donc, si ces partis arrivent au pouvoir ce ne peut être que grâce au jeu des institutions mêmes ! Comment ne les garderait-on pas avec le plus grand soin ? Bien entendu, je ne dis pas qu’il y a une connivence explicite, et une formulation claire de ce rôle. Les bourgeois font toujours semblant d’avoir très peur du PC. Mais combien il est rassurant, ce brave PC ! Il ne fait plus peur à personne, et la bourgeoisie sait très bien que l’on pourra dorénavant s’entendre avec lui. Il faut seulement avoir l’air d’avoir peur pour que l’idée de son opposition et de sa révolution soit « crédible », c’est-à-dire pour que les forces de révolte qui existent dans la société puissent être fixées, catalysées, bloquées sur le PC et de ce fait ne s’exercent pas en tant que forces de révolte, ailleurs, sur un autre point et de façon incontrôlable. La gauche est le grand paratonnerre anti-révolutionnaire. » Jacques #Ellul, Le naufrage de la gauche. #politique #pipolitique
Washington DC is desperate to include the troubled F-35 in arms deals with Delhi, but India is reluctant to waste money on a jet with such a disastrous track record.
I've been taking modafinil off and on for the last 10 years now, usually with a prescription, sometimes without, and it's been very helpful. I get about 6 hours of good use out of it as far as ADHD symptoms and such, it'll keep me awake for about 8 hours.
armodafinil kicks in a little quicker, lasts longer (I can get a good 10 hours out of it, and it can keep me up for 12), and makes me sweat a lot less than either Provigil or ephedrine. I had been waiting for it to come off patent in the states, and it did over the last 2 years so now I can play with it.
I'm not going to sit here and talk about sources, but test your shit. something I got from an overseas vendor tested positive for methamphetamine once (might have been mdma, my test can't tell the difference but either way, test your shit}
Le PS a réformé massivement tout au long des années 1980, en faveur du capital : il a mis fin au contrôle des crédits et des taux d’intérêts et a déréglementé les marchés financiers. Il a légalisé les produits dérivés à l’origine de la crise de 2008. Il a soutenu le traité de Maastricht qui nous a fait perdre notre indépendance monétaire et nous a livrés pieds et poings liés aux emprunts auprès des marchés financiers. Et dans le même temps, il a désindexé les salaires des prix.
TEHRAN, Jun. 05 (MNA) – The Presidents of Iran and Iraq held on phone conversation to review the status of bilateral relations between Tehran and Baghdad.
Failure, corruption and warmongering: Ursula von der Leyen is awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen for her contribution to the EU – because in Europe utter failure is not only tolerated, but celebrated! It is one of life’s guilty ple…
Hey remember that ship Greta Thunberg is on, trying to get aid into Gaza despite Israel constantly bombing them? It has a live tracker. The more eyes on it the safer they'll be: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracke…
Don’t lose the Madleen [Barcarole]. Track her journey for safety, accountability, and solidarity In partnership with Forensic Architecture, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition has equipped the ‘Madleen’ with an advanced tracking system.
Kuiper et al. looked at the effectiveness of these approaches and found that only one, removal of the poacher’s reward through dehorning, significantly reduced rhinoceros loss.
At the re:publica internet conference, Federal Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger (CDU) took up the cudgels for greater digital sovereignty in Germany and Europe. He wants to make open standards and open source the "guiding principle", emphasized the former CEO of Ceconomy (MediaMarkt and Saturn) on Tuesday in Berlin.
All the discussions he has had in his four weeks in office "include precisely these topics". The urgency to become more independent of traditional software providers, cloud service providers and big tech companies from the USA is "greater than ever". However, it will not be possible to simply flip a switch here. Rather, it is possible to raise awareness for change.
According to Wildberger, German and European IT solutions offer the opportunity to create platforms and build technologies that are based on "our values". He specifically mentioned freedom, the rule of law, justice, openness, the social market economy and a functioning community. What is needed is a Germany stack, i.e. a uniform IT infrastructure with cloud and IT services that do not have to be built 20 times each. Every citizen should also receive a digital identity via the planned EU wallet (EUDI).
Currently, over 75 percent of European cloud data is "in the hands of US hyperscalers", the minister said, referring to the strength of AWS, Google, Microsoft & Co. "Why?" he asked the audience. This approach has no future; the German government is committed to European structures in the computer clouds. These are "part of a fair, open and innovation-driven competition". Sensitive payment data leaving the EU legal area
The former manager also believes there is an urgent need for alternative offers for digital payments "that are accepted and give citizens a more secure feeling". This requires a trustworthy infrastructure with the highest security standards. Currently, 80 percent of payment providers do not come from Europe, meaning that a lot of sensitive data leaves "our jurisdiction". However, he did not address the plans for a digital euro. With social media, it is also important to act in a decentralized manner and work with open interfaces to improve exchange.
Achieving a digital administration with functioning e-government is another "big issue" that Wildberger wants to tackle. Other countries are orchestrating this more centrally, but he does not yet have all the answers for a solution. He aims to set up a federal IT security center in close cooperation with the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) to create the basic requirements for digital services, for example. The country also needs an "economic push forward". The location must also be attractive for start-ups in the data economy and AI sectors. The state's task here is to create a free space for start-ups in which they can "build something themselves".
A new twin study published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that the sensory sensitivities often seen in autistic individuals may not be caused by autism itself. Instead, these sensory traits appear to be genetically linked to alexithymia—a condition characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing one’s own emotions. After accounting for alexithymia, the researchers found no remaining genetic association between autism and sensory symptoms. These findings challenge long-standing assumptions about the nature of autism and point to the possibility that some hallmark features attributed to the condition may instead arise from overlapping but distinct traits.
Millions of Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Adha (the Feast of the Sacrifice), one of the most important festivities on the Islamic calendar, in Iran and other countries.
Extrait de notre entretien avec l'ancien lobbyiste de l'UE Frédéric Baldan, dans lequel il explique comment le cabinet de RP bien connu Hill & Knowlton a œuv...
Samidoun Brussels is joining together with a wide coalition of organizations for the third annual Resistance Festival in Brussels between June 6 through 8. The annual event, which began in May 2023…
I'm into the look (burberry/plaid, tattoos and tracksuits) and also the idgaf/take no shit attitude they have. First guy to flirt with me and ask me out matched this description so ig that left an impression lol
"İnsan haklarının varlığı ve geçerliliği yıldızlara yazılmaz ... Tarihin büyük bir bölümü bu haklar için verilen mücadeleyle dolu.. Son zaferin asla kazanılamayacağı bir zafer. Ama bu mücadelede yorulmak toplumun yıkılması anlamına gelir. ”
No marriage, no kids, exclusively transactional romantic relationships. Maybe I’m a bit too aloof and pragmatic, but these 3 have made my life buttery smooth.
40 years in prison, a lifetime of struggle: FREE GEORGES ABDALLAH! On June 19, Georges Abdallah will face a new hearing in French courts after 40 years of imprisonment. The Lebanese Arab Communist …
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phantomwise
in reply to Stamets • • •Can your watch play Bad Apple?
Can your watch run Doom?
Can you install Arch on that watch?
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... didn't think so 😛
You paid all that money for a watch that can't do ANY cool stuff? You utter loser 🤣 🤣 🤣
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in reply to ZeffSyde • • •ArbitraryValue
in reply to Stamets • • •Serious answer:
Sometimes people talk about how expensive something they own is simply because they're proud that they could afford it and even when they're being tone-deaf, there's no benefit to getting offended when you could just move the conversation along instead. (Although you might have to listen to them talk about watches.) If they were trying to brag, now they're stuck trying to explain why the watch is actually worth what they paid and you're the one judging them.
Cars (and watches) aren't so expensive that a middle-class person can't plausibly already own the one he would buy even if money was unlimited. You can act like that's true about you. My status-conscious former mother in law was bothered by the fact that I owned an old car, but when she would bring it up I would just say "I really like the 2008 model." She couldn't argue with that.
phantomwise
in reply to ArbitraryValue • • •Nice one. If it's only a status thing he'll scrabble to find something to say about it other than it's price. And on the very very low chance that it's not, he'll have an excuse to explain. Who knows, he might be a watch nerd who's really proud that he could afford that watch because it's a special watch to watch nerds for watch related reasons and he'll tell you all about it.