The Benny Show - Protestors learning the hard way!!

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Watch live: Living Planet Symposium 2025


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Living Planet Symposium 2025

One of the biggest Earth observation conferences in the world will take place next week in Vienna. You can watch streamed plenary discussions and presentations each day on ESA Web TV.

#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Spahn und Corona: Warum ist der Masken-Bericht nicht öffentlich?


Hat Jens Spahn in der Corona-Zeit überteuert Masken beschafft? Unter anderem dieser Frage geht ein Prüf-Bericht nach, der seit Monaten nicht öffentlich ist. Warum eigentlich nicht?
Spahn und Corona: Warum ist der Masken-Bericht nicht öffentlich?

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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Has anyone stepped up I wonder to produce a sticker that can be placed on the door of an establishment indicating that it's a "safe space" (not just for trans patrons unfortunately because that might attract vandalism). Or maybe something akin to the "Green Book" that Blacks in the United States produced during the 1950s and 1960s to show which establishments in which cities were "safe spaces" when traveling? Not saying an actual book today but maybe an app on the phone maybe? Listing trans-safe bathrooms when out in public? Until the law can be changed maybe something like that can help.

ORG turns 20 this year! 🎈 🎉 🎂

To celebrate two decades of fighting for digital rights, join us for a special event with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic in conversation Maria Farrell.

Register now to hear about Cory's writing, surveillance capitalism, the ‘enshittification’ of digital platforms and how to fight Big Tech ✊

It's not one to miss!

🗓️ Wed 16 July, 6pm BST
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#ORG20 #digitalrights #bigtech #corydoctorow #enshittification #privacy #capitalism #surveillance

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Rabbi's assurances offered them a sense of security – then an Iranian missile struck haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

Not So Fast, Netanyahu: Trump Assassination Plots Trace Back to Ukraine—Not Iran—While FBI Stonewalls on Crooks’ Encrypted Messages

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/n…

#WMD [2025] / Fake till you make it...

#Israel gets a lot of assistance from the Iranian opposition, including fabricating a narrative of imminent danger (which in Israel, even those who oppose the war sort of believed). But to “finish the job”, presumably a regime change in Iran, Israel needs the U.S. Which pretext is #Netanyahu going to come up with next?

Clearly, the #US and #Israel share intelligence on #Iran's nuclear program. Israel, or #Netanyahu rather, has been claiming for years that Iran is rapidly approaching nuclear weapon capability, requiring immediate action. The US intelligence assessments though have concluded that Iran is not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon.

[…] Israel has spoken for years about a "credible military threat," without which diplomacy with Iran would fail. It turns out that the military threat was not credible. Israel had power, but the Iranians did not believe in its existence or the American willingness to use it. June 13 is seemingly the opposite of October 7, because this time Israel surprised and attacked and was not surprised and defended, but the two polar military moves have a common denominator - the failure of deterrence, against both Hamas and Iran.

[…] Two days before the air strike that started the war, an event was held in Washington that could have awakened the #Tehran authorities from their complacency: the opposition organization #NCRI revealed in the media and sent to Trump and the #IAEA data on secret progress in the nuclear weapons channel, in a project called "Kabir." American intelligence has not yet addressed the veracity of the claims of those who long for the #Shah.

edition.cnn.com/2025/06/17/pol…

Hebrew haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-06… or archive.is/JAzTd

@palestine
@israel
#IsraelWarCrimes

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For the record. The ghost of Colin Powell's UN presentation... in a way.

On February 5, 2003, Colin Powell stood before the UN Security Council with maps, photos, and intercepted communications, declaring these were "facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence" proving Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. Six weeks later, the Iraq invasion began based on this testimony. No WMDs were ever found, and Powell later admitted his speech was a "great intelligence failure" and permanent "blot" on his record. Twenty-one years later, Israel deploys strikingly similar rhetoric about Iran's "nuclear threat" to justify its strikes - same manufactured urgency, same unverified claims, same predictable script for war.

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#IAEA #WMD #Israel #Iran

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China has announced it will eliminate tariffs on all goods from African countries, significantly strengthening China-Africa trade relations and opening new opportunities for African exporters.

This decision comes as part of a broader strategic alignment with Africa, with China pledging to support key areas and enhance technical training and market access.

peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/16…

#china #africa #economy

"The KKK were democrats"

Yes...but...this is a shit "gotcha" because they no longer are...they now support the republicans.

"But they were Democrat first"

Once again, it doesn't matter what they were...

Would you eat fecal matter?
Why not? It was food.
And people seemingly think, that becaus it started as food, it still is food...

But..

Pentagon chief Hegseth unable to answer where the Suwalki Corridor is located en.news-front.su/2025/06/16/pe…

I shut down all my ads while I rebuild my website from scratch.

Anyways, now no one's buying any books.

Please buy my books. They’ll make you laugh – either because they're funny or because I had the audacity to charge money for such drivel. One way or the other, you'll be laughing.

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#Iran #US
#IsraelTerroristState
@palestine

9 min Lowkey video going viral.

To protect its genocide in Palestine, Israel in 600 days has bombed Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran and the coast of Malta.
"Israel has added Iranian children to the long list of children it kills"
The press forgets to mention that Israel has over 200 nuclear warhead that it does not declare. Israeli is being used by the US to regime change Iran, for daring to be independent.

youtube.com/watch?v=tHamtgq7dX…

Mentally ill adults, facing relocation from residential care facility, plead with SF Health Commission

San Francisco’s plan to add 90 locked psych beds at the Behavioral Health Center is facing pushback from nurses and families.

missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-ge…

Why deceive with promises, then rescind permission? More delay and deception, likely on behalf of the perpetrators of Gazan annihilation, who appear to enlist Egypt in this cruelty.
#Gaza #GazaMarch #Egypt
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> its vast expansion of the Homeland Security budget, which will be used to build ICE into a huge national army of loyalists under Trump’s control... This is the Proud Boys, at national scale, with badges. It is a very dangerous prospect.

> [current] combined funding of the FBI, DEA, ATF, Secret Service, and all other federal law enforcement is only half the size of the federal funding for immigration and border enforcement.

#USpol #immigration #police #fascism

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UC San Francisco fired me for speaking out against genocide, but as a physician I could not remain silent #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/06/uc-san-…

Your values are euros and cents. ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E…


Europe must be ready to defend what it stands for: Our people. Our values.

We are proposing to support EU countries to invest €800 billion over the next four years by cutting red tape, including:

📄 Less paperwork, thus faster new defence technologies.
🛒 Faster and easier for countries to buy and share defence equipment.
⚡ Quicker permits for important defence projects
💶 Simpler rules to get more companies to invest in defence

Securing Europe's peace. 💪

ℹ️ europa.eu/!xcWjRb


Is UX/UI and marketing really the reason XMPP lags behind Signal/Matrix/Telegram?


Matrix is going Freemium and WhatsApp is adding ads, which is sparking the annual "time to leave [app]" threads.

Users don't care that much about privacy, but they do care about enshittification, so XMPP not being built for it shouldn't be a problem.

Meanwhile, I've heard for years that XMPP has solved a lot of the problems that lead more popular apps to fail.

Is it really just a marketing/UX/UI problem?

If XMPP had a killer app with all the features that Signal/Whatsapp/Telegram has, would it have as many users?

If not, why does it keep getting out-adopted by new apps and protocols?

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Autonomous User doesn't like this.

Considering putting out some #FediHire feelers. My current company seems to be turning more and more towards AI and my concerns are that this will be at the expense of stuff I want to focus on, like optimization, architecture and system work. I'd rather take this moment to grow my career towards what I originally imagined, biotechology, but honestly I'm open to any role that seems interesting and does good work.

I'm an excellent dev in Java, with significant experience in Go, Python and HTML5, and a degree in Bioinformatics from the medical research center at the local university hospital. Moreover, I'm really, really good at working in a team, especially asynchronously. I'm also looking to pivot from the role of a general lead developer into focussing more on backend, devops and security work

I'm at the GMT-0 to GMT+4 band and I'm looking for remote work! And I'm in South Africa, so if you're from the northern hemisphere you'll get to vicariously enjoy my summers while your fingers freeze off 😎

Any boosts or leads would be rad! But also making this post is me keeping myself honest too.

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It’s all about regime change in Iran & the event that triggers a “reluctant” US to pile in on Israel’s behalf is called a “false flag” as I’m sure you know!

This ⤵️ is interesting/ scary in that respect:

“A Major False Flag on US Soil and Average Joe Will March to Kill 'Them Eye-rainians!'”

by BettBeat Media on Substack

open.substack.com/pub/bettbeat…

#Israel #US #iran #FalseFlag #RegimeChange

Israel’s attack on Iranian broadcasting denounced plenglish.com/news/2025/06/16/…

Europe must be ready to defend what it stands for: Our people. Our values.

We are proposing to support EU countries to invest €800 billion over the next four years by cutting red tape, including:

📄 Less paperwork, thus faster new defence technologies.
🛒 Faster and easier for countries to buy and share defence equipment.
⚡ Quicker permits for important defence projects
💶 Simpler rules to get more companies to invest in defence

Securing Europe's peace. 💪

ℹ️ europa.eu/!xcWjRb

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Gen Z faces a challenging job market with disappearing entry-level jobs and uncertain career paths. Many graduates struggle to find work despite impressive academic records and internships. The economic slowdown, federal policy uncertainty, and emerging technologies are contributing to this trend. The unemployment rate for recent graduates is higher than the overall unemployment rate, and some sectors, like public service, are experiencing significant cuts.
businessinsider.com/gen-z-unem…

#usa #economy

The Terminal Question


I know this probably comes up a lot and is liable to spark some debate, but I'm curious what the good options are for terminals. I've skimmed some reddit/lemmy posts about it and looked at a few options and I dunno how to decide between them because they all seem like they're too narrowly focused on some particular use case. I'm just using it for general terminal stuff, nothing terribly fancy. I'm aware that there's not one terminal to rule them all or anything, so I'm curious: what do you folks use, and more importantly, why do you use that over the (many) other options available?

Personally I've just been using konsole since it's what came with kde and it seems nice and all, but I feel like I'm missing out on features I don't even know about. One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such where i'm doing the tinkering instead of constantly tabbing out to duck.ai or w/e.

in reply to Libra00

I'm using st with tmux. It's in written in c, simple configuration can be done by editing the header file(s). More complex customization (such as visual bell or transparency) can be done via patch files.

Not the most beginner friendly terminal but super light weight and fast.

I was tinkering with ollama+deepseek and trying to integrate it into my bash functions, but gave up, because i could not supress that stupid "thinking..." prompt. Found it easyer to just have a browser window open (switching windows can become muscle memory in tiling wms like i3/sway or dwm).

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Our children are just as precious as yours. They dream. They laugh. They cry when they’re hungry. They hide when bombs fall. And they deserve to live, too My family donations link:↘️ only link ↘️chuffed.org/project/mona...#Gaza #StopTheGenocide #SaveTheChildren

The components of a story are still: Who. What. Where. When. Why. How.
As far as the Indian and foreigner problem, we have been shown the first 4 and the How but what is missing in the discussion is the Why part. Does anyone really think that Indians and foreigners are invading America on their own. They are being used as pawns for a bigger Who that needs a Why understanding. I believe that a common thread is the lack of a heritage European and Christian culture ethos which is despised and to be actively eliminated\eradicated.
I heartily recommend reading or listening to the following 80 minute podcast reading to understand. It is in their own words. It will be the most enlightening hour that one spends this week. Without this knowledge, one has a huge blind spot through which anything can be and has been made to happen. Take it from the conspirators themselves to acquire Better Judgement.
podchaser.com/podcasts/the-pet…
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I believe that the reading was for subscribers but a second release came today which I have not heard so cannot comment. It is hard for people to believe that an oath to a position above family and everything else really occurs. In the Mafia it is called Omerta and they are serious. So was Skull and Bones and the other secret societies. No one can serve two masters which is why dual citizenship is a joke.
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I have a feeling that the Mafia were always zionist aligned.

That first reading was impressive enough for another listen. So many things just magically connected into place and none of it was complicated at all. Suddenly the entire backstory behind Israel became clear as day which for me is a first as trying to figure it out from other sources somehow always had me going around in circles.

Netanyahu says assassination of Iran’s supreme leader would end, not escalate, conflict middleeastmonitor.com/20250616…

He compartido esto en #Instagram (sí, sigo teniendo una cuenta ahí, la vida es complicada...) con algo de éxito, así que lo pongo por aquí por si a alguien le es útil. #Signal #WhatsApp #Meta #technofascism #fuckZuckerberg

Edit: he escrito esto para explicarlo mejor: redesnuestras.net/2025/06/17/p…


Por qué dejar de usar WhatsApp y cuál es la alternativa


Meta ha anunciado que va a empezar a incluir anuncios en WhatsApp. Estarán personalizados con los datos que extraen de Instagram y Facebook. Por ahora, la publicidad aparecerá en los «estados» (esa especie de stories que no todo el mundo usa) y en los canales.

Solo un día después, algunes usuaries han recibido un mensaje dentro de la propia app que les pide su correo electrónico «para mayor seguridad». No hace falta ser muy lince para entender que ese interés repentino por tu seguridad tiene que ver con otra cosa: si les das tu email, les será más fácil saber quién eres en Instagram y/o Facebook (asumiendo que uses la misma dirección para loguearte allí) y podrán «personalizar» tus anuncios con toda la información que tienen de ti.

No es el primer movimiento desagradable de Meta para WhatsApp este año: hace poco agregaron un agente de IA (que se puede ocultar, pero no desactivar del todo). Esta función nos resta privacidad: si bien los mensajes que intercambias con otras personas en WhatsApp están cifrados de extremo a extremo (lo que significa que solo pueden leerlos las personas que conversan, para Meta son ilegibles), lo que le digas a la IA podrá ser analizado por Meta. Lo utilizan para entrenar esa IA y, en el futuro, probablemente, servirá para personalizar la publicidad que te muestran.

No es tampoco el segundo: Meta estrenó 2025 anunciando que dejaría de controlar las noticias falsas y los contenidos de odio, como expliqué en detalle, en un claro alineamiento con Trump.

La alternativa es fácil: vámonos a Signal


Signal es una aplicación de mensajería con funcionalidades muy similares a WhatsApp. Pero mejor: es respetuosa con la privacidad, es software libre, sus desarrolladores no tienen ánimo de lucro y prometen que no van a introducir IA ni anuncios. Cualquiera puede bajársela de su app store favorita y usarla con facilidad.

Yo entiendo que nos atrapen plataformas sociales tóxicas (como Instagram) porque en ellas está nuestra gente, o la información a la que queremos acceder… Pero en este caso la migración debería ser más factible porque tenemos un buen reemplazo. Te animo a hablar con les amigues con quienes tengas más contacto (quizá pasarles este texto ayude, para eso lo he escrito) para proponerles la mudanza. Probablemente no consigas convencer al 100%, pero todo lo que le arranquemos a Meta es positivo.

Preguntas frecuentes


¿De quién es Signal y por qué es seguro? Signal está promovido por una fundación cuyo cometido es proteger la libertad de expresión mediante comunicaciones seguras. Sobrevive gracias a donaciones y su presidenta es Meredith Whittaker, una activista contra el capitalismo de vigilancia que mola mucho. Es software libre, aka open source, que es ese tipo de software cuyo código se publica para que cualquiera pueda examinarlo y, por ejemplo, asegurar que no contiene funcionalidades ocultas para espiarnos. También se puede copiar y modificar para hacer otras versiones, con lo cual contribuyendo a Signal puedes estar contribuyendo a otras apps futuras que sean todavía mejores.

Pero Signal es una aplicación minoritaria. Bueno, no es la más usada, pero sí la recomendada por la Comisión Europea para todo su personal, y la que usa la CIA por considerarla especialmente segura. No estamos hablando de un proyecto underground para hackers, sino de una alternativa muy consolidada que tiene todas las papeletas para crecer mucho con cada medida impopular de WhatsApp.

¿Telegram no sería también una alternativa? Telegram es menos segura que WhatsApp y que Signal porque los mensajes no están encriptados por defecto. Pertenece a Pavel Durov, un CEO con todos los tics de tech bro y un historial dudoso. Durante un tiempo fue recomendada en entornos activistas porque, al estar fuera de la influencia de la UE (es rusa), no suele colaborar con la Policía. Esto también significa que aloja contenidos que podemos considerar, además de ilegales, muy poco éticos (porno infantil, nazismo, etc). Está introduciendo la publicidad e impulsando versiones de pago con funcionalidades extra (lo cual suele ser una camino para empeorar la experiencia de quienes no pagan). Por si fuera poco: a partir del 30 de junio, introducirán Grok, la IA de Elon Musk. A cambio de 300 millones de dólares, permitirán que esta IA pueda entrenarse con las interacciones de quienes la usan en Telegram.

En resumen: quizá quieras estar en Telegram por funcionalidades o usuaries que te interesan, pero que no sea por motivos éticos o políticos porque bajo esos criterios es basura.

Pero hay alternativas mejores que Signal… Depende lo que tengas en cuenta: si quieres una opción descentralizada/federada, sí, las hay (la descentralización es una gran ventaja técnica: en Signal no dejamos de depender de una sola entidad, por mucho que nos caigan súper bien y nos fiemos a tope, si nos lanzamos a la descentralización tenemos que molestarnos en establecer y configurar dónde se archivan nuestros datos, pero por supuesto tendremos mucho más control). Si lo que buscas es una app fácil de instalar y usar, para convencer a tus amigues no techies ni especialmente militantes de la seguridad informática de que den el salto, la mejor opción es Signal. Sin duda.

¿Pero esto es legal en la UE? Probablemente no: según la Ley de Mercados Digitales y el RGPD, no se pueden compartir datos entre aplicaciones aunque pertenezcan a una misma empresa. Aunque también es cierto que Meta está crecidita bajo el paraguas de Trump, que presiona a la UE para que no controle a las big tech (es uno de los argumentos de su guerra arancelaria), y que las represalias europeas siempre llegan tarde y en una magnitud mucho menor que los beneficios de este tipo de empresas. La organización de derechos digitales NOYB ya está quejándose. Veremos cómo evoluciona.

Si no comparto mi email, o si estoy en la UE y se hace cumplir la ley, ¿ya me libro de publicidad? No, porque, a menos que cambien de idea, la publicidad te la van a poner, otra cosa es que no vaya tan «personalizada». En todo caso, ten en cuenta que si ya le diste tu teléfono a Instagram o Facebook, ya pueden cruzarte con tu cuenta de WhatsApp, sin necesidad de email. Y además es probable que encuentren otras maneras de identificarte, como tu IP u otra información extraída de tu teléfono, porque tienen mucha creatividad para encontrar maneras de rastrearte, sean o no legales.

¿Más preguntas? ¿Ideas para convencer a gente o facilitar la migración? Por favor, deja un comentario o escríbeme (tienes mi contacto aquí) si te haces más preguntas, o si quieres compartir tu experiencia llevando a gente a Signal u otras alternativas.


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Donde yo trabajo hay un proyecto para "reutilizar y recuperar" todo tipo de electrodomésticos,incluyendo ordenadores. Informaos en vuestros "puntos verdes" más cercanos. De hecho se tendría que aplicar una normativa europea sobre "reutilizacion" (Llei 7/2022 de 8 d'abril de residuos sóls contaminants per una economía circular /Promover les actividades de reparacio I PxR personas apararells)

>Pippa and Kirsche fan makes it on TV
>"described as autistic but highly functioning"
:pepelol:

youtube.com/watch?v=lNljm_dPg4…

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@Aldo2 I vaguely remember that survey, but I don't remember if they asked aoa. Like I said there's a difference between being attracted to prepubescent and pubescent features. While hebephilia seems to be to some extent a part of male sexuality, I see no reason why sexual attraction to someone unable to reproduce should be considered normal.

Probably over 50% of drivers, but it doesn't

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@Aldo2 I wanted to make a point but fell asleep midway lol.
The point I wanted to make is that even though a large amount of people drive over the legal speed limit and that the speed limit and enforcement of it is to some extent arbitrary, it doesn't negate that driving at higher speeds is more dangerous.

I agree that Americans are retarded on sex (and other things) and push that retardation onto other places, but not everything they push is retarded.
I don't know the history of AoC but I do know that around the 70s pedophilia was a social justice cause so how was it before that? and I also know that in the past in Europe, while you could marry children, that was primarily done by nobles for power reasons and the average age for marriage was early 20s.

>"relationship doesn't equal reproduction"
No, but a sexual relationship does. Arousal is a feeling that we have to motivate reproduction. Being aroused by something/someone that can't reproduce isn't normal behavior.

Did the survey ask if the attraction is exclusive?

To answer your previous question about institutionalizing 20% of the population, no, just the ones who act.
Men have quite a strong propensity towards violence and often have violent fantasies, but we only lock up those who act on it in (usually harmful) ways.

Had quite a few blackouts and brownouts here in #ABQ over the past couple days. It's only going to get worse for the next few months I'm afraid.

On Saturday we peaked at 106° where I'm at.
Yesterday we peaked at 102°.
Today is supposed to be a little cooler fortunately.

And people wonder why I've got so many UPSes!

(1) 20A for my desktop/ workstation
(1) 15A for both of my NASes
(1) 15A for my networking gear

I've got an automatic shut-off for my RV. When the voltage drops too low or gets too high it automatically kills power so some of these blackouts might be self-inflicted. Still, I'd much rather have no power than bad power.

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What folks don’t get is that he said exactly what the VCs want to hear. If he’d said they had a revenue plan or — heaven forbid — a plan to become cashflow positive and/or profitable; they would all have pulled out immediately. That’s just not how things work in the Silicon Valley model. You grow. You dominate. You monopolise. Then you monetise. It’s a zero-sum game.