The ‘Pride’-themed Mass at All Saints Church included a transgender Episcopal homilist and rainbow vestments – days after a Catholic man burned the parish’s Pride flag.LifeSite
This week we start with Joseph’s article about the U.S’s major airlines selling customers’ flight information to Customs and Border Protection and then telling the agency to not reveal where the data came from. After the break, Emanuel tells us how AI scraping bots are breaking open libraries, archives, and museums. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains the casual surveillance relationship between ICE and local cops, according to emails he got.
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Police departments in Oregon created an "analyst group" where they casually offer each other assistance with surveillance tools.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Friedrich Merz has such a boner for the murder of Brown people. Poor chap was clearly born a few decades too late to enjoy partaking in his own genocide and must live vicariously through israel’s atrocities.
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Adjunto: 1 vídeo El canciller #alemán Friedrich Merz : #Israel está haciendo el trabajo sucio [bombardear #Irán] para todos nosotros [#Occidente]. https://t.me/mundomultipolarZOV/156766Mastodon NoBIGTech
Man I have never rooted for one Country to completely whoop the ass of another Country than I'm doing right now. #Iran #Israel @israel@a.gup.pe @iran@a.gup.pe
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sent out some eerie messages Tuesday night as US President Donald Trump continues to weigh his options o...Melissa Koenig For Dailymail.Com (Daily Mail)
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"This is the dirty work Israel does for all of us."
In German: "Das ist die Drecksarbeit, die Israel macht für uns alle."
- Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz
With such an inhumane statement, Merz seems to have lost the last vestige of humanity.
I'm ashamed to be German if a German chancellor can say something like that without having to resign.
Merz has copied far too much from Trump.
He is not my chancellor.
#Israel #Iran #Germany #CDU #Merz #Trump #War
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Kanzler Merz bezeichnete das Vorgehen Israels gegen den Iran im ZDF als "Drecksarbeit für uns alle". Auch Deutschland sei vom Mullah-Regime betroffen.ZDFheute
"Bis vor ein paar Jahren galt das neutrale #Österreich für einen westlichen Staat tendenziell als eher pro-palästinensisch. Aber unter Sebastian #Kurz kehrte 2018 eine Wende in der Nahost-Politik ein. Das zeigte sich etwa in Abstimmungen bei der #UNO, in denen Österreich gegen eine Waffenruhe votierte."
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Shoura Hashemi ist Geschäftsführerin von Amnesty International Österreich. Im Interview erzählt sie, wie ihr Einsatz für iranische Frauen bejubelt, derselbe Einsatz für palästinensische Menschen aber angegriffen wurde, und wie die Gaza-Debatte sich w…JACOBIN Magazin
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The New York Federal Reserve reported a fourth consecutive month of contraction in New York manufacturing activity in June, with the general business conditions index dropping to a negative 16.0 from a negative 9.2 in May.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – In one of the bloodiest attacks on besieged Gaza in recent weeks, the Israeli occupation forces killed at least 70 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more in Khan Younis on Tuesday, targeting desperate civilians seeking food assistan…Tasnim News Agency
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Live Updates: Israel has been bombarding Gaza, killing thousands of Palestinians, since Hamas launched a deadly offensive on Oct 7, 2023.DAWN.COM
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I want to be part of the solution of the problems I see on Lemmy, that is why I opened my alt account at my current server to open new communities while fixing their issues.
I had been informed by the server admin that I should not post more than 5 posts in any local community which is guaranteed to kill my communities on my current server.
I am explaining the backstory here for people to understand my logic for my question.
So, I really appreciate any help here. If anyone can give me good servers to open my communities in.
My current communities:
- News: to lower the load on Lemmy. World server and to improve the Fediverse health.
- Europe: due to less than optimal moderation actions as documented in "power trippin " community.
- Misinformation/ Disinformation: Because there is no community to post research and news about this topic.
Thank you all for your help. I really would appreciate any lead here.
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Nobody has my IP, self-hosted vpn
My host string changes automatically every 3 minutes, and none of them report my actual system status
Every cookie and cache is purged on close except for a few whitelisted sites, and I regularly run diff scans for evercookies
So yes, it is possible, and is relatively easy to do
#BenedictCumberbatch, reading a #letter about a #guy witnessing another guy #blow-drying his #balls, in the men's locker room at a gym, is everything I needed right now. #LettersLive
In December of 2011, a writer named Ross Beeley addressed the following open letter to a fellow gym-goer. Benedict Cumberbatch joined us to read this extraor...YouTube
vi allergy at a young age, I've only ever memorized one vi command, arguably the most important one for people like myself: :q!. Luckily I haven't spotted that one in any text files yet. I don't think it would have the desired effect!
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“I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.”
~ Hermann Goering
(1893-1946) Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich. [Göring]
"I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense." ~ Hermann GoeringLibertyQuotes
Et bonne fin de Ramadan.
Il est trop fort Haroun 😂
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Cruz: They probably do.
Tucker: And it’s ok with you?
Cruz: One of the things about being a conservative is that you’re not naive..
Tucker: So it’s conservative to pay people to spy on you?
#geopolitics #imperialism #Israel #war
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Imagine a show today called 'Father Knows Best'
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“If our generation happens to be too weak to establish Socialism over the earth, we will hand the spotless banner down to our children. The struggle which is in the offing transcends by far the importance of individuals, factions and parties. It is the struggle for the future of all mankind. It will be severe, it will be lengthy. Whoever seeks physical comfort and spiritual calm let him step aside. In time of reaction it is more convenient to lean on the bureaucracy…
"If our generation happens to be too weak to establish Socialism over the earth, we will hand the spotless banner down to our children. The struggle which is in the offing transcends by far the importance of individuals, factions and parties.LibertyQuotes
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The death of Turki al-Jasser was the first high-profile killing of a journalist since the 2018 murder of Jamal KhashoggiStephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)
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Viva la lucha de la clase obrera!!
In the latest episode of the Sanchez Effect, Rick travels through the beautiful and strategically important cities of Crimea, the pearl of the Black Sea.Odysee
Councillors have been left scrambling to warn their colleagues before more municipalities abandon their net-zero commitments, after conspiracy theories resurrected from the US Tea Party swamped their communities.Canada's National Observer
Watch the replay of the call between Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General, Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, ESA project astronaut. This call took place at the Paris Air Show 2025 (Le Bourget) on 18 June. Project astronaut Uznański-Wiśniewski joined from quarantine ahead of the upcoming Ignis mission mission.
Sponsored by the Polish government and supported by ESA, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (MRiT), and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), the Ignis mission features an ambitious technological and scientific programme. It includes several experiments proposed by the Polish space industry and developed in cooperation with ESA, along with additional ESA-led experiments.
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Watch the replay of the ESA-European Commission press conference with Josef Aschbacher, Director General of ESA, and Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, held at the Paris Air Show 2025 (Le Bourget) on 18 June 2025.
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Israel and Iran exchanged fire again on Wednesday, the sixth day of strikes in their most intense confrontation in history, fuelling fears of a drawn-out conflict that could engulf the Middle East.France 24 (FRANCE 24)
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Iran has killed "a significant number" of officers and commanders in strikes on Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and military intelligence centers, the Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday.Sputnik International
We can certainly wait a long time for reliable verification or falsification from the Western media.
As Aron Maté has already commented (see link below), #Israel passes on very few (rather none) details of Iranian attacks and targets, whether on infrastructure or military and civilian personnel.
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"Any person who prints or publishes printed matter or a publication regarding the location of a strike or hit by enemy war materiel," must submit to the military censor for approval.
The senator said that he identified himself before officers pushed him out.Ivan Pereira (ABC News)
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#Trump: Don't Drag the #US Into #Netanyahu's #War with #Iran | Sen. Bernie #Sanders #yt
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Central banks have dumped $48 billion in Treasuries as foreign wealth officials divorce the dollar
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Foreign buyers account for roughly 30% of the U.S. Treasury market.Greg McKenna (Fortune)
“Iran warns ‘no restraint’ if Washington joins Israeli war”
by The Cradle News Desk
“US President Donald Trump has demanded ‘unconditional surrender’ from Iran and has made threats against the country’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei”
> Signal groups, in particular, are more powerful than you might be aware of, even if you already use them all the time. In this post I'll show you how to:
- Turn an in-person meeting into a Signal group using QR codes
- Manage large semi-public groups while still vetting new members
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Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism.Micah Lee (micahflee)
Long before the internet, some phone networks were hackable by playing a single tone at 2600Hz.
Whistled into a phone, it could grant you unrestricted access. Do you have the vocal chops to be an old-school phone phreak?
I built a web app to test your ability to produce the legendary frequency. You won't get free long distance calls but you will get some honor in the knowledge that you could have been a cool hacker. 😎
I am sad to say that I can only whistle up to 1100Hz... But my wife (a long time woodwind player) is able to consistently get it.
Give it a try: phreak.kmcd.dev/
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Israel suffering casualties from Iranian strikes, while war continues in Gaza - CBS NewsBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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"Seit über 600 Tagen wird die ganze Zeit bombardiert, Hilfslieferungen werden verhindert, Menschen sterben, Menschen verhungern. Es ist für uns sehr schwer zu verstehen, warum das zugelassen wird." Interview mit einem Arzt des medico-Partners PMRS in Gaza
Heraclitus once stated, “a man never steps into the same river twice,” which implies that both the river and the man are continuously changing. The United States, and we as its citizens, are also constantly changing, but change can be man...www.americanthinker.com
Israel fails to detect Iran’s latest missile before impact Rossa Primavera News from the Middle East and Central AsiaAvis Krane (Rossa Primavera International News)
A compilation of a series of lectures by Liu Shaoqi (Mao Zedong’s number-two man and the President of Communist China) at the Yunan Institute of Marxism-Leninism in 1939, this book was more popular in Communist China than the works of Chairman Mao! For decades it was required reading for all party cadre on discipline and individual self-cultivation.
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“This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important – if not the most important – phenomena of modern capitalist economy.” – V. I. Lenin
During the First World War, Lenin found himself isolated, but he was not afraid to fight against the stream. He dedicated all his strength to educating and training the Bolsheviks on the basis of the genuine ideas of Marxism. His masterpiece, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, is an immortal monument to his work in the vital field of theory.
No book has ever explained the phenomena of modern capitalism better. Indeed, all of Lenin’s predictions concerning the concentration of capital, the dominance of the banks and finance capital, the growing antagonism between nation states and the inevitability of war arising out of the contradictions of imperialism have been shown to be true by the entire history of the last 100 years.
Using the empirical evidence and statistics at his disposal, Lenin explains that, in the stage of imperialist monopoly capitalism, the entire economy is under the domination of the banks and finance capital. Today, over 100 years after it was first published, this domination is 100 times greater.
Elementary Principles of Philosophy, written by Georges Politzer. Recorded reading of the text linked below:
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Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark.
Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the "free-market" victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism.
Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are.
"A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks." —The Catholic Journalist
"By portraying the struggle between fascism and Communism in this century as a single conflict, and not a series of discrete encounters, between the insatiable need for new capital on the one hand and the survival of a system under siege on the other, Parenti defines fascism as the weapon of capitalism, not simply an extreme form of it. Fascism is not an aberration, he points out, but a 'rational' and integral component of the system."—Stan Goff, author of Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century
Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts. Author of over 275 published articles and twenty books, his writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.
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Description: This is a very early (1847) FAQ file for Communism, written by Karl Marx's main collaborator, Frederick Engels. Engels had previously written "Draft of the Communist Confession of Faith," which uses a similar, catechistic format of questions and answers, but this document is better-developed. However, Engels still did not find it satisfying and wrote to Marx, "“Think over the Confession of Faith a bit. I believe we had better drop the catechism form and call the thing: Communist Manifesto. As more or less history has got to be related in it, the form it has been in hitherto is quite unsuitable. I am bringing what I have done here with me; it is in simple narrative form, but miserably worded, in fearful haste. ...”
The original text is here: marxists.org/archive/marx/work…
Timestamps for those coming back to this video, or those who want a specific question answered:
0:00 Channel introduction
0:43 Front matter
1:25 1. What is Communism?
1:33 2. What is the proletariat?
2:03 3. Proletarians, then, have not always existed?
2:25 4. How did the proletariat originate?
5:39 5. Under what conditions does this sale of the labor of the proletarians to the bourgeoisie take place?
7:05 6. What working classes were there before the industrial revolution?
7:55 7. In what way do proletarians differ from slaves?
9:11 8. In what way do proletarians differ from serfs?
10:20 9. In what way do proletarians differ from handicraftsmen?
11:28 10. In what way do proletarians differ from manufacturing workers?
12:16 11. What were the immediate consequences of the industrial revolution and of the division of society into bourgeoisie and proletariat?
17:02 12. What were the further consequences of the industrial revolution?
18:25 13. What follows from these periodic commercial crises?
20:17 14. What will this new social order have to be like?
21:41 15. Was not the abolition of private property possible at an earlier time?
24:16 16. Will the peaceful abolition of private property be possible?
25:12 17. Will it be possible for private property to be abolished at one stroke?
25:39 18. What will be the course of this revolution?
29:50 19. Will it be possible for this revolution to take place in one country alone?
31:10 20. What will be the consequences of the ultimate disappearance of private property?
36:42 21. What will be the influence of communist society on the family?
37:36 22. What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities?
38:00 23. What will be its attitude to existing religions?
38:21 24. How do communists differ from socialists?
38:29 (How do communists differ from) Reactionary Socialists
39:51 (How do communists differ from) Bourgeois Socialists
40:36 (How do communists differ from) Democratic Socialists
41:40 25. What is the attitude of the communists to the other political parties of our time?
44:05 Footnotes
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This is the 1st of 26 texts in the basic Marxism-Leninism study guide published by Movimiento Anti-Imperialista (MAI) and read as audiobooks by Socialism for All. Find the full curriculum here: reddit.com/r/communism/comment…
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:20 Text
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US American studying Marxism (anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninism). I post educational socialist audiobooks & commentary videos at https://www.youtube.com/@SocialismForAllSocialism For All / S4A ☭ (substack.com)
This is Lenin’s seminal text on social revolution and how to achieve it, published some 16 years before Russia’s October 1917 Revolution. His plan to overturn the Czar’s ruthless autocratic regime proposes the establishment of a cadre of “professional revolutionaries” with the necessary skills and experience to counter the regime’s secret police.
Lenin derides trade unionists as “wretched amateurs”, arguing that a struggle for simple economic betterment is not enough, nor are patchwork reforms – what is needed is the complete overthrow of the political system. Lenin’s “professional revolutionaries” are not so much ‘shock troops’ of violent rebellion as educated activists who will awaken the workers’ class consciousness, leading them to reject western-style political factions and to work within the Party to achieve the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the October Revolution and the ensuing upheavals of the twentieth century.
"Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement."
— Vladimir Lenin^[What is to be Done? | Audiobook]
It's time to read theory, comrades! As Lenin says, "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle." Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components, as noted by Lenin in his pamphlet The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism: | Audiobook
As such, I created the following list to take you from no knowledge whatsoever of Leftist theory, and leave you with a strong understanding of the critical fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism in an order that builds up as you read. Let's get started!
Section I: Getting Started
What the heck is Communism, anyways? For that matter, what is fascism?
The FAQ of Communism, written by the Luigi of the Marx & Engels duo. Quick to read, and easy to reference, this is the perfect start to your journey.
Parenti's characteristic wit is on full display in this historical contextualization and analysis of fascism and Communism. Line after line, Parenti debunks anti-Communist myths. This is also an excellent time to watch the famous speech.
Section II: Historical and Dialectical Materialism
Ugh, philosophy? Really? YES!
By understanding Dialectical and Historical Materialism first, you make it easier to understand the rest of Marxism-Leninism. Don't be intimidated!
Engels introduces Scientific Socialism, explaining how Capitalism itself prepares the conditions for public ownership and planning by centralizing itself into monopolist syndicates and cartels.
Section III: Political Economy
That's right, it's time for the Law of Value and a deep-dive into Imperialism. If we are to defeat Capitalism, we must learn it's mechanisms, tendencies, contradictions, and laws.
Best taken as a pair, these essays simplify the most important parts of the Law of Value.
The era of Imperialism, which as the primary contradiction cascades downward into all manner of related secondary contradictions.
Section IV: Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
Can we defeat Capitalism at the ballot box? What about just defeating fascism? What about the role of the state?
If Marxists believed reforming Capitalist society was possible, we would be the first in line for it. Sadly, it isn't.
Further analyzes the necessity of Revolution and introduces the economic basis for the withering away of the State.
Section V: National Liberation, De-colonialism, and Solidarity
The revolution will not be fought by individuals, but by an intersectional, international working class movement. Solidarity allows different marginalized groups to work together in collective interest, unifying into a single broad movement. Marxists support the Right of Self-Determination for all peoples and support National Liberation movements against Imperialism.
Breaks down misogyny, and queerphobia, as well as how to move beyond the base subject of "gender" from a Historical Materialist perspective.
When different social groups fight for liberation together along intersectional lines, they are emboldened and empowered ever-further.
De-colonialism is essential to Marxism. Without having a strong, de-colonial, internationalist stance, we have no path to victory nor justice. These books are best taken as a pair, read in quick succession.
Section VI: Putting it into Practice!
It's not enough to endlessly read, you must put theory to practice. That is how you can improve yourself and the movements you support. Touch grass!
Mao wrote simply and directly to peasant soldiers during the Revolutionary War in China. This pair of essays equip the reader to apply the analytical tools of Dialectical Materialism to their every day practice.
Common among new leftists is dogmatism over pragmatism. Everyone wants perfection, but dogmatic "left" anti-Communists let perfection become the enemy of progress.
Common among western leftists is fetishization of Marxism, rather than using it as a tool for analysis and social change. This article helps rectify that.
Organizing is a skill. If we are to be successful, we must work to better ourselves.
Congratulations, you completed your introductory reading course!
With your new understanding and knowledge of Marxism-Leninism, here is a mini What is to be Done? of your own to follow, and take with you as practical advice.
"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
— Mao Tse-Tung
Red Star is a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist caucus in the Democratic Socialists of America.Red Star
What Is To Be Done? by Vladimir Lenin (Full Audiobook)
This is Lenin’s seminal text on social revolution and how to achieve it, published some 16 years before Russia’s October 1917 Revolution. His plan to overturn the Czar’s ruthless autocratic regime proposes the establishment of a cadre of “professional revolutionaries” with the necessary skills and experience to counter the regime’s secret police.Lenin derides trade unionists as “wretched amateurs”, arguing that a struggle for simple economic betterment is not enough, nor are patchwork reforms – what is needed is the complete overthrow of the political system. Lenin’s “professional revolutionaries” are not so much ‘shock troops’ of violent rebellion as educated activists who will awaken the workers’ class consciousness, leading them to reject western-style political factions and to work within the Party to achieve the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the October Revolution and the ensuing upheavals of the twentieth century.
See the stickied comment below for an explanation and statement of our purpose, based on simple back-of-the-napkin math
E: if someone could please link this community to r/aspen and r/roaringforkvalley I would greatly appreciate it. I’ve been IP banned by the all powerful AI mod monster, like many folks on Lemmy
So far the CEOs of Amazon, Duolingo, Fiverr and Shopify have sent emails to employees about how AI is coming for their jobs and they need to become AI experts to stay relevant.
It seems CEOs want employees to both fear for their jobs yet also come up with ways for AI to replace them.
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.BRICS
#Iran #imperialism #war
Decidedly Carlson has his moments 😁
like this
#Iran #Israël #propagande #guerre
Anne likes this.
#Israel #Iran #war #imperialism #propaganda
theintercept.com/2025/06/17/ir…
The U.S. is helping Israel wage war on Iran over its nuclear program. But U.S. intelligence says Iran is not building a bomb.Nick Turse (The Intercept)
Let us dispense with illusions: Israel’s foreign policy is not defensive. It is expansionist and supremacist.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Clergy Blown Away by Psilocybin
nautil.us/clergy-blown-away-by…
A 10-year-old study finally comes into the light
<- let me know if anyone finds an unpaywalled version of the report...?
"This is not a picture…
This is a testament to unspeakable pain.
A woman from #Gaza walks on the sand, with a torn homeland under her feet.
Carrying bread that feels like life, and pain that the world cannot see.
No home, no safety, no warmth... just the burden of war and children waiting for their daily bread.
This is the lady of the earth... who will apologize to her?”
—Anas Al-Sharif
The Taliban government have temporarily suspended chess in Afghanistan. Currently reviewing the game over gambling concerns, the Taliban have also suspended the Afghanistan National Chess Federation.Peter Doggers (Chess.com)
Nina Paley
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