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Communication show the #US attack #Iran's nukes intact... now it will build atomic weapons When the real target is not uranium, but public opinion. This aggression is already driving Iran to the decision to finally acquire nuclear weapons. "Trump stated that "the Islamic Republic's key nuclear infrastructure was destroyed". But the reality behind the carefully staged communications storm is quite different"
#US opened the gates to hell. #Iran on the road to a nuclear bomb. #Tehran's greatest asset is its stockpile of enriched uranium, which it already has and no one in the West knows where it is. Iran is now very likely to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty #NPT and seek to build a nuclear arsenal argues a report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies #IISS
#CraigMurray | You Cannot Negotiate with the Zionist West
"I see much futile discussion as to whether Israel is controlling the US or the US controlling Israel. Plainly the answer is both; there is a deep symbiotic relationship of the political classes in both places. The key point is that the Israel settler colony carries an insupportable weight in the policy decisions of Western politicians. Like all colonialism – and as outlined by Lenin and Hobson – this is because colonialism benefits the personal interests of the wealthy and military classes but is a burden on working people."
Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission – marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle. But these inaugural glimpses go beyond forests. Remarkably, the satellite is already showing potential to unlock new insights into some of Earth’s most extreme environments.
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Apple has announced a significant tool for getting Windows games running on Mac. A new Game Porting Toolkit can run DirectX 12 games on macOS unmodified, allowing developers to quickly port games.
With the initiation by the United States of war on Iran this weekend, the final military objective of the 2001 “seven countries in five years” plan revealed on March 2, 2007 by Gen.
A missile on Friday hit the IDF’s cyberwarfare campus in Beersheba — also known as the Gav Yam tech park. It houses 12,000 Israeli soldiers, plus… Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Why are US tech companies co-located with a war base?
The Gav Yam cyberwarfare base wasn’t just “near” these tech offices — it includes them. It’s a deliberate blend of civilian and military, to shield Israel’s war infrastructure behind brands like Microsoft and Amazon.
"We obliterated them!" -> "We seriously damaged them!" -> "We're evaluating the damage." -> "We don't know where their nuclear stockpile is." -> "Invest in the new big money Operation Midnight Hammer Memecoin!"
Els reis espanyols, Felipe VI i Letizia, s’ha vist obligat a entrar d’amagat al monestir de Montserrat arran de les protestes de l’Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC).
Empezamos las ventanillas informativas de vamonos juntas este 8 de julio a las 18:30 hora de Barcelona. En estas sesiones intentaremos resolver tus dudas si eres nueva en el fediverso.
Escríbenos tu duda o déjanos tu correo para avisarte cuándo será la siguiente ventanilla informativa. usem.liberaforms.org/ventanill… Te enviaremos el link con la invitación al evento un día antes de cada sesión si te apuntas en el formulario
In my opinion, this is NOT a good look for Trump. It comes off as if Trump wants everyone to agree with him on every decision he makes and that is not a good look. I think it's CRUCIAL we have dissenting voices at this time or we get runaway Presidents like we had with Biden. Of course Biden wasn't running anything but he was definitely the front man.
I'm a staunch Trump Supporter, but I could care less if Trump likes my opinions about his decisions or not. I will praise Trump when I think he's doing right and criticize him when I think it's necessary. Btw, I think a lot of MAGA Supporters are grateful for what Massie has been saying. And that doesn't even mean they all agree with him. It simply means they appreciate him speaking his point of view and dissenting.
The support for Massie is certainly not non-existent among MAGA. Probably more people are behind Trump than Massie, but Massie's support is not insignificant. And maybe Trump sees that as a threat, but the MAGA Movement is NOT about Trump—It's about We The People.
As a veteran of the US Navy (got out 35+ years ago), I am begging you to talk your kids out of joining the United States Military if they decide they want to join. Trump will do his best to get them killed. And plus, there are a million other reasons not to join the military. I grew up poor and had no other options. Don't make the same mistake that I made.
Oprah runs a large feminist cult in the United States and they violently attack women who don't submit to them with witchcraft and electronic weapons. Oprah is a violent psychopath and she murders children. Oprah is an extremely racist child murderer that is obsessed with cannibalizing white children's private parts. Oprah runs a cult of feminist women which are mostly white women and if white women don't submit to her she violently attacks them and tries to murder their children as sacrifices. Oprah works with Scientologists which have electronic weapons and they also use chemical warfare. Oprah specializes in causing asthma attacks on white children which she then cannibalizes. Oprah also physically murders trafficked children. Oprah molests children and then strangles them to death or sits on them until they suffocate. She responds to getting exposed as a child murderer by smiling and threatening to murder more children. Oprah is one of the most evil females on the planet. Oprah has murdered and cannibalized hundreds of children. Oprah is disgusting beast that needs to be executed immediately.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence simultaneously inscribes itself within the domains of science, art, and the paranormal. Yet, whether we are dealing with astrobiology, science fiction, or superstition, each of ... Read More
I spent a lot of time on "MyFace", and was dogpiled by a half-dozen art-fags that refused to think, but simply raged at some strawman image of me. I said, "Let's Talk", and they said, "I just know you won't listen, so fuck-off, Fascist". So much for the party of Acceptance. (Acceptance must mean something retarded in their dictionary.) I'm sick of Lefty Shit.
Keith Edwards discusses how Senator Alex Padilla was detained during a press briefing led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—handcuffed after identif...
There is a lot bluesky gets right, and a lot it gets wrong, the same is true with Activitypub.
(Some) strengths of Atproto
Atproto is content-addressed, and portable. This means that posts can exist independantly of their original server. Instead of giving posts a https uri, which will stop working if a user moves servers or their server disappears, they give them at uris. For example, this post on bsky.app: bsky.app/profile/ponder.ooo/po… Has the at:// link is: at://did:plc:i4bfh2tyxihe2ksplmtcoopk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk4yrmyugc2f. The post does exist over https at https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.getRecord?repo=did:plc:i4bfh2tyxihe2ksplmtcoopk&collection=app.bsky.feed.post&rkey=3lk4yrmyugc2f.
Atproto is very easy to build apps on. For example, tangled.sh, frontpage.fyi and flushes.app are all apps built on atproto. Atproto allows more flexibility in what an app can do, as opposed to lemmy or mastodon's api.
Atproto is better documented. The ActivityPub spec leaves a lot up to the reader.
Atproto has some really good moderation tools for users. People can make public blocklists of users, and people can subscribe to labellers, people or services which give users/posts a label.
Weaknesses of Atproto
almost everyone is on bluesky's PDSes. I thought mastodon.social and lemmy.world were bad, but the people on alternate PDSes altogether adds up to only a few thousand.
Its decentralised identifiers are actually completely centralised! DID:PLC, their DID method, originally stood for placeholder, but they renamed it to Public Ledger of Credentials. To use it, you have to use plc.directory. You can use a DID:WEB DID, but if your website linked to it goes down you lose your identity. (I find it extremely funny that its not actually a requirement for a decentralised identifier to be decentralised. )
Everything on the network has to be public to work. since relays have to be able to collect all the information on the network for Appviews to be able to make use of that information, anyone can find out who's blocking someone, or who is on a list, or who's following who, with no way of hiding that information. Private accounts and posts are impossible to do on atproto.
Since everything is public, DMs (for now) are centralised. They do seem like they want to change that though.
Strengths of ActivityPub
AP (ActivityPub) is better distributed. While it has large servers (like mastodon.social or lemmy.world (and threads, but we don't talk about threads)) the majority of users are not on those servers. There is no single point of failure. If bluesky disappeared tomorrow, atproto would still exist, it would just have a negligable amount of users.
One node in the network lets you do everything, as opposed to bluesky which has three parts (You can do stuff without a relay though). This means you can trust a lot less of the network.
ActivityPub scales better than ATProto. Atproto scales quadratically, meaning that having a lot of nodes in the network harms performance. AP scales horizontally, meaning it works better with a lot of small servers.
ActivityPub can keep stuff private, like blocks and posts. Though, a lot of implementations can leak posts.
Weaknesses of ActivityPub
The spec leaves somuch out. They didn't propose a way to make sure requests between servers are validated, so mastodon chose HTTP signatures. They didn't add any way of looking up handles, so mastodon chose webfinger.
A posts's id is its https uri, this means thatif a server goes down, stuff can't be fetched. A user can't move their followers if their server goes down (you can on ATproto). There is a standard to fix this, FEP-ef61, but it breaks compatibility with a lot of implementations.
Missing information is a problem. Its not really a problem on lemmy, but on mastodon likes and replies from other servers may not make it to your server at all (you can fetch replies in newer versions of mastodon though).
All this aside, I do think the two can coexist. I don't see anything like lemmy working on atproto. ActivityPub seems closer to social networking, as opposed to social media. Something like facebook would be impossible to make on atproto, because not everything is made to be public.
I am hoping for a bridge, but good (bridgy is opt-in, making it useless).
Na Gottseidank. Und der Merz findet auch noch ganz toll, das die Amis wiedermal einfach so nach Lust und Laune rumbomben und Israel unter der nun schon zwanzigjährigen Behauptung Iran würde ganz bestimmt übermorgen eine Atombombe haben, einfach mal ein paar Raketen losschickt auf Atomanlagen !!!
Simpler times with a simpler mind Unburdened shoulders, lighter, quicker and bolder
It was better years with fewer fears Innocence reigning, with less aching and straining
Just as joyful as can be, when it made sense to me Fleeting through time, frictions and burns now to be alive Oh, take me back to when hope had no end
Looking back I see the cracks That formed and widened as I somehow grew silent
But before the fall I do recall A happier version, almost a different person
Just as joyful as can be, when it made sense to me Fleeting through time, frictions and burns now to be alive Oh, take me back to then, when hope had no end
Iran has requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting and accused the United States of committing a “criminal and illegal” airstrike on its nuclear facilities.
We got an unsolicited offer on our house in Perth WA it wasn't terrible. made me pull out the calculator. And consider not renting. But the wife says we can't sell that. we will get screwed on fees and taxes. The houses here suck and it's our retirement.
Well, it's not far down to paradise At least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away And find tranquility Oh, the canvas can do miracles Just you wait and see Believe me
@Katherine Bond Let me know if this comment is out of place and I will delete it. @John Hummel I wondered for a long time about the "hierarchy of intelligence" set by humans where put themselves at the top of the "intelligence hierarchy". They understand so little about how other animals and plants operate and from my own observation, the animals and plants always know way before humans when something is going to go down eg cyclones or when a particular fruit is fruiting 5,000 or more kms away. How do they know these things??? So I've inverting the pyramid (symbolically speaking) and putting the animals and plants at the top, there is so much we can learn from them. Maybe, there is no hierarchy of intelligence, except within the human psyche? Thanks for opening this wondering again...💚☮️🐸
Definitely @iam-elegance@diaspora.psyco.fr. Dolphins, for example, have to be smarter than humans: They speak (their own language), they laugh, and they don't work. 😀)
Comparative cognition (the study of the relative cognitive abilities of different species) is indeed deceptively tricky, @iam-elegance.
At the risk of over-simplifying, one lesson seems to be that whereas most animals are specialists who are extremely good at a relatively small number of things, humans are generalists who can learn to be fairly good at almost anything.
Another generalization, related to the previous one, is that most species change themselves over evolutionary time in order to adapt to the environment in which they find themselves. Humans, by contrast, change the environment in real-time (building homes, irrigation, farms, factories, etc.) in order to suit their needs.
@mc is also right that cetaceans (whales and dolphins) and corvids (crows, ravens, jays, and magpies) appear to have a kind and degree of general intelligence that is comparable to (and perhaps in some cases, superior to) human intelligence in many ways.
"Animals don’t kill each other for fun." I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, @Katherine Bond, but at least in the case of cats (and I'll bet this principle extends to most animals) the instinct to hunt/kill is entirely separate from the instinct to eat. Basically, cats kill whenever they get the opportunity. And if they happen to be hungry (which, in the wild, they probably are most of the time), then they eat the kill. I don't know what they do with the kill if they don't happen to be hungry. Or maybe I do: My own cat has presented me with several dead mice; perhaps when they're not hungry, they share.
It's unclear whether "killing when the opportunity presents itself" is the same as "killing for fun", but even if they're not the same, it seems to me that they're cousins.
But this doesn't make cats or other predators psychopaths. (Although this behavior in a human would definitely make them a psychopath.) It probably just means that selection pressure favored predators who hunted even when they weren't hungry. After all, waiting until you're hungry before you hunt means you'll always be hunting on low blood sugar, which is not a good plan if you want to be a successful hunter.
Cats here seem very respectful of birds and opossums. But greatly enjoy staying out all night and decimating rabbits for sport. I guess if the cats tried to pick on birds, the predator birds will hear the calls and swoop in and remove the terrorist cat from service.
Big tech executives have been sworn in as high ranking officers in the US Army. Normally it takes around 2 decades of sacrifice to achieve such a high rank. ...
You must be mistaken, Meta are partners with Mastodon at the Social Web Foundation. Are you saying Mastodon would partner with such a horrible corporation? Or that the illustrious Social Web Foundation would allow them in if they were as bad as you say?
SANAA, June 22 (YPA) - The Sanaa-based government strongly condemned on Sunday the blatant and barbaric US aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.In a statement, the government considered the US strikes a blatant declaration of war against t
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in reply to Spartacus • • •#Iran on the road to a nuclear bomb.
#Tehran's greatest asset is its stockpile of enriched uranium, which it already has and no one in the West knows where it is.
Iran is now very likely to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty #NPT and seek to build a nuclear arsenal argues a report from the
International Institute for Strategic Studies #IISS