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Yeah, but Mark and Elon need that power for their spicy autocomplete machines!
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Proposed gas plants in Wisconsin pose health risks, report finds Pollution from the plants could contribute to heart attacks, ER visits, and long-term health harms over decades https://yaleclimateconnections.
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The internet blackout in #Iran is ongoing and I am trying to find information about how its actually enacted. Hearing that local services are working. Would like to understand how exactly the blackout is enacted. Are they filtering IP blocks? Are all .ir domains still accessible? The media keeps talking about it like it's a big on off switch but that's obviously not the case
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week-long total internet blackout ordered by Supreme National Security Council

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TIL: Axel Health (axelhealth.com/) is still using Debian 8 - From 2015 💀

I don't know if they are actually using it only for the displays (that show patient numbers etc) or for the central configuration server, but in either case that's diabolical.

Holy shit

#axelhealth #finland #linux

A TV showing: Debian GNU/Linux 8 "unconfigured" tty1 In configured Login

Tehokkuutta terveydenhuollon tuotantoon | Axel Health

Axel Healthin ratkaisut helpottavat potilaiden asiointia, tukevat ammattilaisten päivittäistä työtä sekä auttavat organisaatioita tehostamaan toimintaansa.
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CyberFrog

once saw a dentist chair running outdated windows 7 (yes, after EOL) with an anti-virus security alert popup which was ignored, and a horribly outdated Java version installed that was begging for updates

this person was doing minor surgery with that machine daily, I had no choice but to let them use a probably malware'd device on my face, or leave and pray the next guy isn't as stupid

nothing about this is fun

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CyberFrog

I don't really consider hospitals to ever be correctly air-gapped because in reality there are like 6,000 endpoints literally a single hop away from the "air gapped" devices with full internet access, and hacking the firmware of something like an insulin or drug pump is laughably easy because they simply ignored computer security for 30 years, you can still buffer overflow to RCE on those things without any issues

@pluralistic@mamot.fr wrote about this in 2014/15 and from the new research I've seen very little has improved since then
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Paltel announces disruption of internet, telecommunications services in Gaza dailyyemen.net/2025/06/22/palt…

Paltel announces disruption of internet, telecommunications services in Gaza

Palestinian Telecommunications Company announced on Saturday a new outage of fixed internet and landline services in the Gaza Strip and northern Gaza Strip governorates.The company explained in a statement that the outage was the result of targeting
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Pourquoi les plateformes deviennent toutes "merdiques" ?

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Netflix, Uber, Facebook, Amazon : les plateformes ont envahi notre quotidien et révolutionné nos modes de consommation. Cet eldorado nous vend l’opulence pour les consommateurs et liberté pour les travailleurs. Ces promesses cachent-elles une plus terrible réalité ? Celle d’un monde entièrement ubérisé. Voir pire : en voie de “merdification” ?
C'est ce que Le fils de Pub et Bolchegeek, nous expliquent dans ce nouvel épisode de Coporate !

Remerciements à Gérard Hernandez, pour le re doublage de la pub Chocapic.

Auteurs et réalisateurs : Benjamin Patinaud et le Fils de Pub
Illustrations : Tienstiens
Chargée de production et cadre : Kathleen Brun
Montage : Le Coin du Bis
Fond 3D : Charly Hopp
Son : Baptiste Veilhan
Graphisme : Morgane Sabouret, Margaux Simon
Production : Hicham Tragha
Directeur du développement des collaborations extérieures : Mathias Enthoven
Co-directrice de la rédaction : Soumaya Benaïssa
Directeur de la publication : Denis Robert

Le site : blast-info.fr/
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#uberisation
#plateformes
#capitalisme

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3.43K Posts, 25 Following, 37.2K Followers · Blast, nouvelle Web TV indépendante, nouveau site d’infos. Éditos, enquêtes, culture, tribunes et reportages. Lancé par Denis Robert. https://www.blast-info.fr
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Pourquoi les plateformes deviennent toutes "merdiques" ? - Blast le souffle de l'info

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avec du @pluralistic et du #graeber dedans

#enshittification #uberisation
#socialDumping

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Je deviens sociétaire

Blast, le souffle de l’info est une SCIC, une société coopérative d’intérêt collectif.
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HunDriverWidow

Dark Journalist X-199: Roswell Reignited Bombshell JFK UFO FIle

youtube.com/live/oAXnvc3fikI

"I can’t recommend enough the book The Roswell Deception By Douglas, Duane Dietrich and Peter Moon."

Project Gladio

Take A BP Pill for this one. You have to get to the end of this before you presume to know who exactly is responsible.

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - "1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING" - EP.429 - AlphaWarrior Show with Colonel Towner-Watkins

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OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - "1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING" - EP.429

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Colonel Turner-Watkins

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THE MIDDLE EAST IN 20 MINS with GHOST BASED of BPH - EP.1

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OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 58 - "L.A INSURRECTION - LINKS TO THE PAST" - EP.426

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AlphaWarrior Show

Browse the most recent videos from channel "AlphaWarrior Show" uploaded to Rumble.com
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Boiling Steam

@PalePimp @jay
Any hint about B though? I mean we just have to look around at "professional" projects like COSMIC from System76 whose first release was barely functional, wayland that's been breaking every typical Xorg workflows for years... what are the good examples out there right now? Even the Linux kernel has CVEs and Linus needs to bitch on a regular basis so that poor quality code does not make it into the kernel.

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'The #EU has corroborated UN allegations that #Israel was guilty of "indiscriminate attacks ... starvation ... torture ... [and] #apartheid" against #Palestinians in a leaked "review".'

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#EUpol #Palestine #Gaza #oPt #HumanRights @palestine @israel


Full text of EU report on Israeli crimes in Gaza

Full text: The EU has corroborated UN allegations that Israel was guilty of "indiscriminate attacks ... starvation ... torture ... [and] apartheid" against Palestinians in a leaked "review".
Andrew Rettman (EUobserver)

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Venice against Jeff Bezos wedding (23rd June)

Original post from u/Kvolti on reddit

More informations and pictures here:

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In azione a Venezia: la nostra protesta a Jeff Bezos contro l’ingiustizia sociale e climatica! - Greenpeace Italia

La nostra protesta a Venezia contro Jeff Bezos. Un gigantesco striscione è apparso in Piazza San Marco per contestare il business inquinante del CEO di Amazon.
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GiuseppeAndTheYeti

Talk about a gross oversimplification. Venice grew out of mosquito infested lagoon due to necessity. The Venetian people were driven into the lagoon multiple times over centuries as a means of protection from Germanic invasions in the 7th century. They capitalized on shipping and trade just like any other population would do and used those riches to make their citizens lives better. What would you have expected them to do? Turn away from the money spice trading and Mediterranean shipping traffic brought them because it would make them too rich? Because again, they were a people used to fleeing into a mosquito infested lagoon when their farming population was invaded by multiple armies.

For that reason, comparing an entire cultural population like Venice to a singular person is a false equivalency. Bezos hasn't used his shipping fortune to enrich anyone but himself, but at least Venetian royalty built buildings and public spaces for their population.

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The trick of declaring war against the armed resistance and then attacking the resisters’ unarmed kin as well as the surrounding population with the most gruesome products of Death-Science — this trick is not new. American Pioneers were pioneers in this too; they made it standard practice to declare war on indigenous warriors and then to murder and burn villages with only women and children in them. This is already modern war, what we know as war against civilian populations; it has also been called, more candidly, mass murder or genocide.

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that the perpetrators of a Pogrom portray themselves as the victims, in the present case as victims of the Holocaust.

...If I went on I would probably come to results already found by W. Reich in his study of the mass psychology of Fascism. It galls me that a new Fascism should choose to use the experience of the victims of the earlier Fascism among its justifications.

Fredy Perlman
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
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Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom

Fredy Perlman Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom 1983 Fifth Estate, issue number 310 (Vol. 17 No. 3). 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201. Reprinted...
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"The trick of declaring war against the armed resistance and then attacking the resisters’ unarmed kin as well as the surrounding population..."

...is called COIN strategy. US Police developed it and the pentagon militarized it, then it came back to the street, militarized auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post…

The Military-Civil Society Suppression Interface - "The Other Side Of The Coin: Counterinsurgency And Community Policing"

Interface: a journal for and about social movements Volume 3 (1): 81 - 117 (May 2011) The Other Side Of The Coin: Counterinsurgency And Community Policing Kristian Williams (This paper grew out...
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Tehran’s Next Move after the US Strike: Calculated Deterrence or Escalation?


The US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan—announced with characteristic bravado by President Donald Trump—was framed as a “highly successful” operation. But beneath the surface of military theater, the strike carries deeper messages and calculated signals. Timing, tone, and restraint reveal more than the explosions themselves.

Trump, ever the showman, punctuated the announcement with an odd yet telling declaration: “Now is the time for peace.” That statement wasn’t just rhetorical flourish—it was strategic punctuation. It framed the strike not as a prelude to war, but as its endpoint. In other words: message sent, escalation contained—for now.

But the aftermath is anything but resolved.

A Message in the Timing

Sunday was no coincidence. With US markets closed, the strike landed softly on the domestic front—shielding Wall Street from immediate tremors. It was a game of optics and damage control: shake the chessboard abroad, but keep the boardroom calm at home.

This is classic Trump-era strategic theater: assert dominance, project unpredictability, then leave the world guessing. But even behind the curtain of calculation, this act carries very real implications for the region—and for Iran in particular.

Iran Holds the Next Move

The strike forces Tehran into a tense, high-stakes decision. Does it absorb the blow, treat it as a closing note in a failed negotiation symphony, and preserve its nuclear advances? Or does it strike back—risking a spiral that could pull the United States further into a conflict it likely cannot sustain?

Iranian strategy has never been rooted in impulsive retaliation. Its playbook is built on ambiguity, asymmetry, and patience. A direct attack on a US base might rally domestic pride, but it also opens the gates to broader confrontation. Conversely, a calculated strike against Zionist assets could signal strength without triggering American wrath—a balancing act Iran has perfected over decades.

Then there’s the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has long kept this vital oil artery in its back pocket as a pressure valve. Total closure would invite international retaliation, but a slow-burn campaign of maritime harassment and ambiguity? That’s well within Tehran’s wheelhouse. Expect maneuvers, signals, and shadow games before any talk of outright closure, or else if it’s national security was at stake expect the unexpected.

Following the United States’ airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, senior Iranian lawmakers have raised the possibility of withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz in retaliation.

Esmail Kowsari, a prominent member of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in Parliament, affirmed that the country had already implemented protective measures to safeguard its nuclear infrastructure. He dismissed allegations of severe damage to Iran’s nuclear program, calling them “baseless claims,” and insisted that “Tehran has accurate intelligence disproving such assertions.”

Kowsari revealed that authorities are actively weighing a possible exit from the NPT. “We are reviewing the option of withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,” he said, noting that the parliamentary committee would soon hold an emergency session to assess the American attack and formulate Iran’s official response.

Reiterating Iran’s commitment to Resistance, Kowsari warned that “our armed forces will certainly continue striking the Zionist entity,” adding, “US military bases across the region will not remain secure. Hitting them will be far easier than targeting the Israeli regime.”

He further cautioned that Iran is prepared to escalate militarily if necessary, stating, “The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is on the table. We will definitely implement it if the situation requires.”

The Familiar Script of US–Zionist Policy

For Washington and Tel Aviv, this isn’t new terrain. The strategy toward Iran has always been one of coercion without commitment—crippling sanctions, covert operations, cyber sabotage, and the occasional kinetic jab. The idea isn’t to win a war, but to prevent Iran from ever dictating peace on its own terms.

The Zionist regime plays provocateur. The United States plays referee. The rhythm is familiar.

What’s changed is Iran’s ability to rewrite the tempo.

Just days before the strike, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh suggested a limited US operation was imminent—a “strike without engagement,” designed to recalibrate deterrence without crossing into quagmire territory. He was right. The move was surgical, symbolic, and strategically ambiguous.

And yet, Iran was ready. A senior official confirmed that much of the highly enriched uranium at Fordow had already been moved before the strike. The lesson: Tehran was anticipating.

The Netanyahu Mirror

One can’t help but recall the conundrum Benjamin Netanyahu faced in Gaza: repeated escalations with no strategic exit, a cycle of provocation and retaliation that left little but rubble and rhetoric. Has Trump now walked into the same strategic cul-de-sac?

Without a credible exit strategy or diplomatic off-ramp, Washington risks setting itself up for a familiar frustration: applying overwhelming pressure without achieving decisive outcomes.

Iran Bombards the Occupation Continously


A new wave of Iranian ballistic missile strikes targeted central and northern parts of occupied Palestine on Sunday, marking the first such attack since US airstrikes hit Iran’s nuclear facilities on Sunday at dawn. Sirens were activated across multiple areas, with Zionist authorities urging settlers to remain in shelters.

According to the occupation’s military, around 30 missiles were launched from Iran in two salvos toward Gush Dan and the north. On its part, Iranian state television reported strikes on at least 10 separate sites. Sirens were reportedly not activated in several areas, mainly Haifa, prior to impact, raising concerns over the entity’s early warning system.

Confirmed missile impacts were recorded in Haifa, Tel Aviv, Ness Ziona, Beer Yaakov, Ramla, and the settlement of Bat Yam, where a fire broke out in a residential building. In Haifa, one missile struck without any prior alert, prompting internal outrage over the failure of the alarm system.

Meanwhile, Iranian media reported that over 20 missiles landed in various locations across the occupied territories.

86 Settlers Injured

Zionist media reported that medical teams are assessing the affected areas for damage and casualties. In a related development, Israeli media reported, citing Magen David Adom (MDA), that emergency responders are attending to at least 86 settlers injured in the Iranian ballistic missile strikes on central and northern occupied Palestine, including some in critical condition. 30 injuries were reported in Tel Aviv alone.

MDA added that its teams are continuing to survey the reported impact sites, Zionist media reported.

Zionist authorities instructed settlers in impacted areas to remain in shelters until further notice, particularly in Haifa and al-Jalil, where sirens were also triggered.

This missile campaign marks Iran’s first attack since the United States, in coordination with the occupation, launched airstrikes on the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites, an action Tehran has condemned as illegal and escalatory.

In the aftermath of the attack, the Zionist military’s spokesperson called on the public and media to refrain from sharing footage or images of the impact zones. Despite this, footage continued to come in from the impacted areas, showcasing the massive destruction. Emergency teams and military units remain on high alert as the situation continues to unfold, as per Zionist media.

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#alAqsaFlood #antiColonialism #antiImperialism #iran #palestine #resistance #westAsia

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According to the WSJ, Trump privately approved plans for an assault on Iran pending a final decision.

According to the WSJ, Trump privately approved plans for an assault on Iran pending a final decision. |

Trump privately approved plans for an assault on Iran US President Donald Trump informed senior officials late on Tuesday that he had approved plans for an attack on Iran
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Check this podcast with info on the Iran bombing. Start at the 24:00 point at the link below.

Absolute Storm Ep 46 6/22/25 7:30pm EST BOOMS|B2|Ezra/ArmorOfGod

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Absolute Storm Ep 46 6/22/25 7:30pm EST BOOMS|B2|Ezra/ArmorOfGod

Join us for Episode 46 of Absolute Storm! - 3 BOOMS - WHAT’S THE 4th BOOM? - TOP GUN - B2 BOMBER - IN GOD WE TRUST - EZRA SHARES 4POG - ARMOR OF GOD Show starts at 7:30pm EST! Follow on Rumble: http:/
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Trump: We attacked the Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan sites. They were evacuated, according to Tehran en.reseauinternational.net/tru…

Trump: We attacked the Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan sites. They were evacuated, according to Tehran. Réseau International

Al Manar: The US president, who has said that Iran cannot possess a nuclear weapon, has been weighing the possibility of military intervention against Iran for several days.
Réseau International

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US State Department Spokeswoman Says Israel Is Greater Than America

It's like this administration is doing everything it can to vindicate those who accuse it of being Israel First instead of America First.

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US State Department Spokeswoman Says Israel Is Greater Than America

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)

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NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 20001 on June 20, at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during a launch of an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on […]

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Die globale Weltordnung ersetzt durchs persönliche Empfinden einer Berdohung von jedem der gerade eine Waffe zur Verfügung hat - als neuen moralischen Standard für die Welt.

>>Israel's Heritage Min (sigh) Amichai Eliyahu: "We set a new global moral standard: if someone threatens your life, you act without hesitation to neutralize the threat. This is both moral & just. That's why we are now also working with the Iranian opposition–which is a blessing"<< (Gefunden bei Noga Tarnopolsky

Screenshot, gefunden bei Noga Tarnopolsky (23.06.2025) Far-right minister says Israel 'working with opposition in Iran' Israel's far-right Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said in an interview Monday on i24 that Israel is "working with the opposition in Iran," calling it a blessing. He said, ""We began this campaign in coordination with the U.S. — but we set a new global moral standard: if someone threatens your life, you must act without hesitation to neutralize the threat. This is both moral and just. That's why we are now also working with the opposition in Iran — which is a blessing." He continued: "Most of the civilians in Iran are innocent; we are targeting those who threaten and harm them, unlike the population in Gaza, which supports Hamas and has yet to reject them. For this reason, the moral and right course of action is to build something new."

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In the next weeks I anticipate we will hear a lot about Iran's ~400 kg of 60% enriched uranium, which they will probably refer to using the more scary phrase "Highly Enriched Uranium" or HEU.

They will talk about how it is "out of control," which means the IAEA doesn't have tracking of it.

This COULD be enriched to weapons-grade, and used for a bomb, IF they have an enrichment facility to do it in. That's a very very VERY big if. There's a very high chance their only three facilities were just destroyed.

I think the odds of having a secret facility outside the knowledge of the international community is low. Not only are they hard to hide, but they're almost impossible to build without raising flags. As it turns out, a lot of centrifuges require very specialized equipment and parts. You can't build a nuclear facility in secret very easily.

This is RIPE for fear mongering. I'm not a non-proliferation expert but I'll do my best to keep folks informed, as well as boost any voices or sources I find on the matter. As always happy to field questions.

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FT - Germany and Italy are facing calls to move their gold out of New York following President Trump’s repeated attacks on the US Federal Reserve and increasing geopolitical turbulence. ft.com/content/e39390cc-ea02-4…

Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245bn of gold home from US

Trump’s attacks on the Fed and growing geopolitical risks reignite public debate about repatriating bullion
Olaf Storbeck (Financial Times)

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"A cyclist is a disaster for the country's economy: he does not buy cars and does not borrow money to buy. He does not pay for insurance policies. He does not buy fuel, does not pay for the necessary maintenance and repairs. He does not use paid parking. He does not cause serious accidents. He does not require multi-lane highways. He does not get fat.
Healthy people are neither needed nor useful for the economy. They don't buy medicine. They do not go to hospitals or doctors. Nothing is added to the country's GDP (gross domestic product).
On the contrary, every new McDonald's restaurant creates at least 30 jobs: 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 dietary experts and nutritionists, and obviously, people who work at the restaurant itself."
Choose carefully: cyclist or McDonald's? It is worth considering.
P.S. Walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy bicycles.
P.P.S. If you have read this far and still don't get it, this post is SATIRE. Reread it with this in mind.
a picture of several people cycling in a city street.
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WATCH: CN Live! — ‘US Bombs Iran. What Next?’ consortiumnews.com/2025/06/22/…

WATCH: CN Live! -- 'US Bombs Iran. What Next?'

Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter joined CN Live! on Sunday morning to discuss the U.S. bombing of Iran, its impact and what might follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45M9q6QnVL0 Please Donate to the Spring Fund Drive!
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"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."

(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

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Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage

iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…
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"It's the Christians' fault!" Lol. What's funny about it is religion is not even needed to base an argument on. It's common sense. I never use it that way. It's automatically rejected without a 2nd thought. I know atheists who think the same as I do. It makes for great discussion and we lead by example.

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Defense Secretary Hegseth hails U.S. strikes in Iran as 'overwhelming success'; VP Vance: Open to diplomacy haaretz.com/us-news/2025-06-22…

Defense Secretary Hegseth hails U.S. strikes in Iran as 'overwhelming success'; VP Vance: Open to diplomacy

The strikes mark the largest B-2 operational strike in U.S. history, with officials estimating the three targets struck in Iran had 'sustained extremely severe damage and destruction' ■ Vice President Vance says U.S.
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#Israel
#TheScarsOfDavid

The level of evil and cruelty with Israel is boundless.


Why Israel is arming ISIS-linked gangs in Gaza, with Muhammad Shehada

Israel has admitted to arming an ISIS-linked gang in Gaza. We talk to Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada who explains why.Read more here: https://electroni...
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"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."

-- Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker
Source: Attributed, not found in any of his writings, originally mistakenly appeared in Barlett's Familiar Quotations

Quotation by Edmund Burke

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke
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“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

~ Abba Eban
[Aubrey Solomon Meir] (1915-2002) Israeli diplomat and politician
Speech in London, 16 December 1970

Quotation by Abba Eban

"History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." ~ Abba Eban
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laurel

Osint as a fad has been completely coopted.
Osint as a function is still going strong on this side. It's just a fancy word for what /cow/boys were doing a decade ago, while /sg/, kiwifarmers and similar are doing nowadays.

Their online Ukraine psyop has been their most successful this far. They have been trying to copy GG and Trump2016 type of online organization for years and they were finally successful.
An irl friend of mine was completely mind broken by it.

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Do you know when the mice abandon ship?

“If there’s nothing to hide, let the journalists in.”

Speaking on the BBC, British journalist Piers Morgan delivered a scathing critique of Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza and its refusal to grant access to international media.

He condemned the humanitarian crisis, accusing Israeli forces of starving a civilian population already devastated by war, and targeting people queuing for limited food aid.

#Gaza #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #PiersMorgan

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Sankoré, the famous medieval mosque-university at Timbuktu (in present-day Mali), was set up around the 12th century and is proof that Africans have always pursued knowledge.
(I remember a senior professor who was quite shocked to discover that Timbuktu exists...)

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Timbuktu: Site of 1st African University

Sankoré was a contemporary of Oxford and the Sorbonne.
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I know I'm late to the party to be finishing @karenhao's Empire of AI Now. But now that I've finished the book, I can tell you that it is nothing short of a masterpiece. It needs to be required reading for everyone in the tech industry, or anyone who wants to be in the tech industry.

The book also articulates why I've had such an aversion to OpenAI since its inception in 2015, more so than any other tech company.

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Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657508 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An Instant New York Times Bestseller “Excellent and deeply reported.” —Tim Wu, The New York Times “Startling and intensely research...
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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

I even said that there is a higher chance of me wanting to go back to Google, the company that fired me, than OpenAI. I've never been to fully articulate why I had such an aversion to them, but once you read Empire of AI, you'll understand.

Now, Anthropic is being sold as the benevolent alternative to OpenAI, just like OpenAI was sold as the benevolent alternative to Google back in 2015. Don't buy it.

Please read the book which is based on years of meticulous reporting by Karen.

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Sabin10

A lot of games are going to work without you having to do anything and some will need some tinkering. In that case, protondb.com/ will be your best friend, telling you exactly what you need to do to get things running.

That being said, some games simply can't be run under Linux. They might work in the future as compatibility improves but some won't. If it's an issue for you, you might want to dual boot windows as a workaround.

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I’ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so it’s time for an update on how it’s all going.

No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.

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#tech #digitalsovereignty #email #socialmedia #streaming


Getting off US tech is no easy task

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make the effort
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One of anthropology’s great cautionary tales involves the American anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead travelled to Samoa in the 1920s and described in her book Coming of Age in Samoa a society totally free of the Western world’s sexual taboos, to its great benefit. The book captivated Western audiences and seemed to suggest a happy alternative to our damaging complexes and hangups, a world of joyful love and sex without guilt and shame — until it was revealed, decades later, by Derek Freeman, that Mead’s informants had been systematically lying to her about their sexual lives because she was an outsider and a woman. The whole thing was a dream. Mead’s Samoa didn’t exist and never had.

Critics of liberalism and multiculturalism, especially critics of the postmodern variety, see them both as a kind of Western imperialism, whilst denying that they are such. These people are right. Presented as neutral political and interpretive frames that allow the world’s great multitude of peoples to live happily side by side and “be who they really are” in peace and harmony, liberalism and multiculturalism are nothing of the sort. They smuggle in values, not least of all a commitment to moral universalism, to individual over group, to law over custom, that are utterly partial in their origin and force, and to which the vast majority of people throughout history have not subscribed and probably couldn’t even if they wanted to.

The multicultural experiment forced on Britain and other Western nations by their ruling classes is not a genuine encounter with the Other. It’s a dangerous fantasy, a delusion of shared humanity that ends in disaster. We’ve been told these people are just like us, though they may wear a different skin colour and worship a different god — but they’re not. Just how different they are is a lesson our rulers still have yet to learn, if they even care to learn it at all, but one tens of thousands of young white girls will never be able to forget.

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