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Scott Ritter joins TMJ News for an interview that exposes the deeper implications of Israel’s recent attack on Iran and the role the U.S. has played behind the scenes.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
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Zehntausende demonstrieren in Berlin gegen das Sterben in Gaza. Israel hat dort seit fast zwei Jahren mehr als 50.000 Menschen getötet. Raul Zelik hofft, dass die Berliner Demo ein Anfang ist.nd-aktuell.de
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In Part 1, we traced its roots to Operation Gladio—a NATO-CIA shadow army built to fight communism… that morphed into a domestic terror network, rigging elections and running false flags across Europe. This was no Cold War relic. It ...
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Satellite pictures taken before #US strikes indicated heavy traffic movements at the #Fordo nuclear plant in #Iran, in images taken on June 19th and 20th released today by @Maxar
On the 19th, 16 cargo trucks were seen across an access road leading to a tunnel entrance to the facility. A day later, trucks and bulldozers are reported to have been seen near the entrance to the main facility.
#Isfahan facilities that were hit by cruise missiles were not damaged and this is evident from everywhere. #Natanz has been hit more seriously, as has #Arak.
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The exercise was unprecedented as it war-gamed offensive actions against Iranian nuclear capabilities for the first time, the source informed ABC.The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
We did not attack the nation of Iran. We did not attack any civilian targets. We didn't even attack military targets outside of the three nuclear weapons facilities.
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El discurso político occidental en general, pero muy especialmente el yanqui, está tan degradado como para que la imbecilidad supina sea el único requisito para tener una carrera política exitosa.
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Most of the images in my book, "111 Places in Space That You Must Not Miss", came from space agencies & observatories, as well as talented archive image processors & amateur astronomers, most released with CC licences.
But I made quite a few too, also processing archival data, from my JWST observations, or from my back garden.
I've made them all available with CC BY-SA licences here:
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“Only Congress can declare war!”
True.
But let’s clarify:
Obama (2011) – Bombed Libya w/o approval, claiming it didn’t count as “hostilities” under the War Powers Act
Clinton (’99) – Bombed Yugoslavia after Congress voted against it. Also struck Iraq, intervened in Haiti.
Reagan – Sent troops to Grenada, Lebanon, armed Central America factions
H.W. – Invaded Panama w/o Congressional OK
This isn’t defending Trump. It’s about clarity before spin sets in
U.S. Reveals Details Of Attack On Iran’s Nuclear Sites
Seven B-2 Spirit stealth strategic bombers were used in the United States attack against Iranian nuclear sites on the morning of June 22, top general Dan Caine said at a Pentagon news conference, revealing that the complex operation was codenamed “Midnight Hammer”.
The Joint Chiefs Chairman said that “main strike package comprised of seven B-2 Spirit bombers” flying 18 hours from the U.S. mainland to Iran with multiple aerial refuelings.
“Iran’s fighters did not fly, and it appears that Iran’s surface to air missile systems did not see us throughout the mission. We retained the element of surprise,” Caine added.
According to the general, a total of 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP) bombs, more than two dozen BGM-109 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles and over 125 military aircraft were employed during the operation.
Satellite images released by Maxar show at least six holes on the mountainside at Fordow site, where the 14-ton MOP bombs impacted. The bunker buster bomb is believed to be able to penetrate about 61 meters below the surface before exploding.
'Atomic Energy Organization of Iran' has not yet offered any details of the damage at Fordow.
Tempo de revisitar 😢
This Land Is Mine
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Quem será o próximo?
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I envisioned This Land Is Mine as the last scene of my potential-possible-maybe- feature film, Seder-Masochism, but it’s the first (and so far only) scene I’ve animated. As the Bible says, “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.Nina Paley
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Trump's military actions against Iran were carried out without Congressional or UN authorization for strikes.
Trump has also deployed US military domestically in Los Angeles without oversight, potentially violating the Posse Comitatus Act.
The US is increasingly looking like a dictatorship where the military answers directly to Trump.
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The unrelenting struggles endured by Palestinians should, by any rational expectation, have irrevocably concluded the Palestinian cause.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
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Why Feditips is either ignorant, stupid, or both.
I am going straaaight to name-calling I don't care anymore
Very recently I had the great displeasure of arguing with FediTips which you may know for creating all kinds of informational content about the Fediverse and surrounding topics on their website, fedi.tips/.
That's great and all, if not for all the blatant disinformation regarding...literally any microblogging or even social media platform at all that isn't the Fediverse. Most notably, Bluesky.
FediTips, or rather the person behind it, Fedithings loves spreading plain disinformation regarding Bluesky and completely disregarding proven facts about Bluesky. Facts that are obvious by just reading one or two pages of the spec overview or the Wikipedia page on ATProto.
On the Fediverse, as I'm sure most of you will know, we use a sort of “message-passing” approach to sharing our posts around the network; We pass our posts directly to those which should see it, and we know who should see it because “oh hey, that guy followed me that one time!”. This is great! Everyone gets their posts no matter where they are, from completely different communities! (unless you deny them, we'll get to that)
These places, communities are often referred to as “Instances”. It's basically just the fancy term for communities though. But it's important to keep that in the back of your head for the rest of this.
Another important detail to keep in mind is how, on the Fediverse, your identity is usually tied to the community you chose. Your handle will quite literally look something like @[url=https://blog.cyrneko.eu/@/sunny@wonderful.garden]sunny@wonderful.garden[/url]
(I don't think that's a real instance...I hope lol) and people will see you as being from that community
What about Bluesky? Oh boy, Completely different model.
To get this right out of the way: No. At least not how you think.
Whereas in the context of the Fediverse and all our communities we just sort of pass posts around directly, like people sending eachother letters, Bluesky went a different route
There is basically three important components:
now, Personal Data Servers sort of explain themselves. It's where your posts are. If you or anyone else wants to go right to the source of those memes and shitposts, that's where they'll find them. Right open for everyone to see.
I'll refer to Personal Data Servers as just “PDS” from here on out.
Relays then take the posts from every single PDS they can possibly find and turns them into one long, always-updating list of all posts in the order they were posted.
And the AppView has the job of, well, letting you actually see those posts and interact with them; Make new posts, like stuff, share stuff. You know the drill
Notice how I didn't say what data is stored on a PDS? That's actually an important detail to know, so let's compare
So with a Fediverse server, because you're passing posts directly between eachother as if they're letters, you need to hold on to the posts yourself so that you can, well...read them.
This means that you have a copy of not just your posts, but also the posts of everyone you follow and interact with regularly. Anyone that appears on the feed, basically
On Bluesky though? You don't keep the posts of others, only your own are stored. Well, your own and anyone you happen to share space with on the PDS.
Now we're back to the whole “denying” thing that I hinted at earlier.
Due to the fact that posts are exchanged directly between people, there might be like superevilcommunity.com
that does nothing but send you like hatred or something else you plain don't like. And blocking those communities is known as “defederation”
Now, this is a stark difference to how Bluesky fundamentally works.
Because everyone gets their posts from the same place, the Relay, one cannot really block the server a post comes from; You're not getting it from there anyways.
But even if they did filter out posts of that kind, there is another issue that makes it near impossible to have this sort of moderation tool.
Bluesky had one arguably good reason to not use the same tech that the Fediverse uses: Fedi's account moving ability is not robust enough.
on the Fediverse, you can move your account to a different server by setting up an “alias” or “redirect”. This will make it so that anyone which follows you will automatically follow the new account, and anyone that searches for your old account will be redirected to the new one.
But for Bluesky, this wasn't enough. Posts weren't moved across, and you had to take up an entirely new identity on that new community. So for their new tech they were developing, they have a new identifier that isn't tied to a server. This is called a DID:PLC identifier.
The important thing here, just so I don't lose myself in technical details, is that even when you were previously at one given server it is trivial to move to another one, keeping this identity. Unlike a fediverse identity which is tied to the community it was on.
And this is why “defederation” doesn't work on Bluesky.
The things I've discussed here are basically a breakdown of what I talked about with Feditips.
Repeatedly, feditips refused to acknowledge the fact that Bluesky works differently, that it isn't even “federation” per-se, and eventually they pulled the “think of the minorities which are scared for their lives” card.
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On a Trans person. They were talking to a trans person. That is one of the minorities which are scared for their life.
At that point, I stopped talking to them and advised them to shut the fuck up
Feditips does this on the regular. They frequently spread disinformation about Bluesky in an effort to feed their superiority complex for using a different social media site. They blame those which use Bluesky and see them as below themselves. You can see them posting about oh how much better the fediverse is on the regular.
Preaching to the choir, on the fediverse.
my {preferred term}
in christ, you don't need to preach to fediverse users how good the fediverse is. Especially when those which ACTUALLY moderate and run communities and those which have been here for MUCH LONGER THAN YOU all agree that no, the Fediverse is not this perfect safe haven. Far from it.
If you come to me screaming about how “think of the minorities” how come I don't see you taking action on transmasc erasure on fedi, or how people of color are treated on fedi? Those are marginalized too, and you say you care so much about safety which is why you redirect everyone there. Why can't they find a home here? Could it be that fedi is...not perfect? That the structure we've built over many years makes it at best uncomfortable for those people to be here?
No, it couldn't be. The fediverse is perfect and we are all superior for using it. What's that, Blacksky is a thing and they are running completely independent infrastructure for the black community? No no, you must be hallucinating. What is that, they in large parts feel much safer there? Nope. Can't be. The Fediverse is perfect.
expanding on blacksky a bit...Just to expand on this a little bit, everything I've seen from the blacksky community is genuinely amazing. They are building their community and keeping eachother safe, and it is working much better on there than anything I've seen on fedi. Seriously, these people make their own software completely independent from Bluesky PBLLC, and I've heard some rumours they even want to have their own AppView.
Thank you for reading.
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hey I don't wanna say anything but you are talking to that minority. Shut your mouth and do not use our fear to drive your point you prick.app.wafrn.net
I see a lot of misinformation about bluesky here, so I want to address a lot of the talking points against atproto/bluesky.
This is partially inspired by accounts like mastodon migration and feditips being really annoying about bluesky.
I see a lot of people misunderstanding how it works.
The network has three main parts:
1. A PDS -- This stands for Personal Data Server. These store information in records, like who you are following, your posts, who you are blocking and your images.
2. A relay -- These crawl PDSes and keep a copy of all the records on them. They give a "Firehose" of all the data on the network (that they crawled).
3. An AppView -- These index and work through the data from the firehose. All interactions are handled through these, meaning if someone follows me on bluesky, that app.bsky.graph.follow
record will be crawled by the relay, and recieved by the AppView. bsky.app/ is an Appview. Appviews don't always have to use the relays, whtwnd.com/ connects to PDSes directly.
This is different to ActivityPub, where if I follow someone, my server sends that information directly to the other person's server.
atproto.africa/ is a second full-network relay run by the blacksky team. We already have a second relay, and they're not even that expensive to run anymore, a lot of people run non-archival (meaning it doesn't backfill every post) relays for less than $40 a month.
bsky.social isn't actually an instance, its just the domain name assigned to users by default. This is explained here: app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/f…
Wafrn has (opt-in) bluesky support, they act as a PDS and AppView, so if bluesky disappears tomorrow they can switch to the atproto.africa relay. (There is DID:PLC which is a problem, but I'll get to that later.)
app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/f… also explains this, bsky.social is just the name assigned to users, each PDS has names like brittlegill.us-west.host.bsky.… (where my account is).
While you could ignore records from a specific PDS on the App layer, its pretty pointless, since atproto is portable/content addressed, meaning a user could seamlessly move to another PDS. (AP does support moving, but its pretty seamful.)
(While I was writing this someone posted a pretty good blogpost about this: blog.cyrneko.eu/there-is-no-bs…)
Those posts weren't removed, people on third party bluesky apps in turkey could still see them.
People in Turkey are automatically subscribed to a Moderation Service which hides those posts, as the government requires it.
If a person unsubscribes, or uses a third party app/server the posts are still there.
That person came back on a different PDS. They literally are still on bluesky because they joined a different server.
The DDoS only crashed the Bluesky PDSes. People self hosting were fine.
Wafrn is a federated tumblr alternative. It started off as a tumblr clone, the dev added AP support, and eventually, Atproto support.
Its a great example of how bluesky can be built on.
If bluesky disappeared tomorrow, Wafrn could switch relays to atproto.africa, and still interact with people on other PDSes.
appviewlite is a cool project I forgot to mention in the original post. It lets you self host an extremely lightweight Appview.
You can crawl PDSes yourself, eliminating the need for a relay.
The main reason I made this post is because so many people are blindly anti-atproto, without fully understanding how it works and how it can be improved.
There is obviously problems with it, but it does a lot right. (There's a lot ActivityPub should do, like content addressing, DIDs and composable moderation).
I also think we could do with a better bridge. bridgy isn't really cutting it right now.
Note on did:plc, its the only centralised part of the network as of now, its essentially the underlying ID every account has. It is possible to use a did:web id instead, which is tied to a website name.
Well to answer that we must first look at how bsky.social is just the auto-assigned domains for new users the underlying servers are all hosted at subdomains of .bsky.network, luckily mary-eapp.wafrn.net
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I really hate this attitude.
Most people who are against bluesky don't even care about an open internet or whatever, they just want their protocol to win or whatever.
Dies ist der nächste Schritt in Einlösung eines seiner #Wahlversprechen, nachdem bereits das #Mindestalter auf 18 Jahre herabgesetzt und der Erwerbsprozess beschleunigt wurden.
Anscheinend zeigen #Studien in den #USA, dass es in Gegenden, in denen Bürger sich selbst verteidigen können, weniger Gewaltverbrechen gibt. Die Theorie dahinter scheint zu sein, dass Kriminelle immer Zugang zu Waffen finden und ihnen der Staat damit gerade in Gegenden mit strikteren Waffenbesitzregelungen einen Vorteil verschafft, der sie eher motiviert, die Waffe auch einzusetzen. Wogegen in Gegenden, in denen der Kriminelle befürchten muss, einem bewaffneten #Opfer gegenüber zu stehen, der #Waffeneinsatz und sogar die Kriminalität insgesamt niedriger ist.
#Milei hat dazu sicher eine datengetriebene Meinung. Insoweit würde ich ihm im Zweifel glauben, dass auch bei diesem Thema #Freiheit besser ist als #Staat.
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Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the members of the CDC’s esteemed vaccine advisory panel, medical organizations and experts are looking for alternatives.
In the wake of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to shake up a key federal vaccine advisory committee, outside medical organizations and independent experts are looking for alternate sources of unbiased information and even considering forming a group of their own.
A leading contender is a new group led by Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert and the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota.
Osterholm is launching the Vaccine Integrity Project at CIDRAP as a potential alternative to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
“We’ve always just taken for granted that routine child immunizations and other vaccines would be readily available and that they would be supported by the public health system,” Osterholm said. “Now that’s in question.”
In the wake of RFK Jr.'s decision to shake up ACIP, outside medical organizations and experts are looking for alternate sources of unbiased information and even considering forming a group of their own.Erika Edwards (NBC News)
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@rlier23 i did some thinking and you could consider getting a AM5 motherboard and CPU to be more future proof depending on the price compared to the AM4 build
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@special-boy its cents on the dollar dont worry about it with a low power gpu
stuff like frame generation and upscaling DLSS (nvidia) and FSR (amd). again i don't think you need to care about those.
@special-boy
By power use You mean smaller electric bill?
As for Ai i've never been interested in such things
What kind of software support
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Assisted dying bill clears UK Commons, moves to House of Lords-english.news.cn
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As true now as it was 30 some-odd years ago. I love you, and miss you, #GeorgeCarlin. #USpol #Trump #Iran
Just as a refresher, this is what the 2009 Brookings paper said about using Israel to provoke a war, and how the US required a perceived Iranian "provocation" to wade into the war itself.
Eles abandonam a terra, recusando-se a sacrificar-se por ela — porque nunca foi a terra deles.
A verdade fala por si — nunca é difícil ver quem realmente pertence à terra.
They leave the land, refusing to sacrifice for it — because it was never their land
The truth speaks for itself — it's never hard to see who truly belongs to the land.
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Araghchi condemns the US and Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling for urgent UN action and reaffirming Iran’s right to self-defense. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi strongly condemned the [...]
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Araghchi condemns the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling for urgent UN action and reaffirming Iran's right to self-defense.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Aber wehe du postest das „falsche“ #Meme
In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt
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Ich hab gestern mein Smartphone von Englisch auf deutsch umgestellt und ich Frage mich wie ihr das macht.
Hab jetzt schon zweimal (Reddit und newpipe) Videos mit komplett bescheuerter KI Übersetzung vorgelegt bekommen, weil das Original in Englisch war.
Auch viel content scheint übersetzt zu sein, da bin ich aber nicht sicher.
Also zur Frage: Handy auf Deutsch oder Englisch? Wie geht ihr mit Maschinenübersetzungen um? Bin ich der Einzige dem das auffällt oder der saß untergeschoben bekommt?
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solved: not plasmas fault: the monitors own smartcontrast did that.
Hi, please kindly direct me to the right community to ask this:
Plasma 6 is my favorite DE and i use KDE neon.
The screen brightness adapts automatically to the windows i focus on, which is a good idea. But it does that the wrong way IMO. Dark windows are dimmed and bright windows are lit up. Why? Now i have both extremes switching back and forth all the time. Can we turn that the other way around or turn it off please?
I like that the screens hardware brightness setting is used now from the desktop. Great! But now i have no control over it anymore, since when i open a bright window, the brightness setting goes up too. I hate that at night.
Usually adjusting the brightness for me has one purpose:
- bright room: max display brightness (day)
- dark room: min display brightness (night)
...maybe something in between for transition.
All the other features are nice to have but please only work on them when this main feature is secured.
The screen brightness adapts automatically to the windows i focus on, which is a good idea.
That's definitely not something Plasma is doing... Sounds like your monitor is dumb with "adaptive contrast" or just terribly implemented local dimming.
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‘Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.’
Thank God Almighty for President Trump and his proper advisors.
May they be protected, always. Amen.
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Starmer’s police state plans now include ban on action against genocide while he continues to support slaughter of Palestinians and unprovoked war on Iran
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Taiwan is "of course" a country and China lacks both the historical evidence and legal proof to back up its sovereignty claims, President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday in a strong rebuke to Beijing and its stepped up political and military pressure.
China says democratically-governed Taiwan is "sacred" Chinese territory that has belonged to the country since ancient times, and that the island is one of its provinces with no right to be called a state.
Lai and his government strongly reject that view, and have offered talks with China multiple times but have been rejected. China calls Lai a "separatist".
Giving the first of 10 speeches in a series called "uniting the country", Lai drew on Taiwan's history, including the millennia-long connection of its indigenous people to other Austronesians, like native Hawaiians, to show what he said was Taiwan's separate and distinct development from China.
>AMD releases new CPU for 9 year old AM4 socket
>Rumors about new Intel CPU Nova Lake-S requiring a new socket LGA 1854 despite the previous one LGA 1851 being only 8 months old...
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