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“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce.”

~ James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Federalist No. 45

Quotation by James Madison

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
LibertyQuotes

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BRICS Calls For WMD-Free Zone in Middle East sputnikglobe.com/20250625/bric…

BRICS Calls For WMD-Free Zone in Middle East

The BRICS countries have called for the creation of a zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, a joint communique published by Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Sputnik International

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How Bird Flu Went from Devastating Poultry Farms to Infecting Dairy Herds
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/how-bird-flu-went-from-devastating-poultry-farms-to-infecting-dairy-herds/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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How Bird Flu Went from Devastating Poultry Farms to Infecting Dairy Herds

The bird flu was long known to poultry farmers. Here’s why the dairy industry was caught off guard by its jump to cattle.
Meghan Bartels (Scientific American)

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[ Android Police: This new Android feature is awful and there's no way to turn it off ]
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Or you can do what I used to do in meetings...

PUT MY PHONE ON DND!

Kids these days......


This new Android feature is awful and there's no way to turn it off

The Android 16 feature Google got terribly wrong
Parth Shah (Android Police)

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“No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?”

~ Daniel Webster
(1782-1852) US Senator

Quotation by Daniel Webster

"No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?" ~ Daniel Webster
LibertyQuotes

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Huawei aggressively expanding, despite US threats against anyone, anywhere using their chips. It's really heart warming to see a cooperatively owned company becoming dominant in the tech sector.

youtu.be/NYLXubOBZDs

#technology #china #huawei


Huawei aggressively expanding, despite US threats against anyone, anywhere using their chips

The US Commerce Department has announced criminal penalties and fines against any person or company across the world who uses Huawei AI chips.But Huawei is n...
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Zohran Mamdani’s apparent victory late Tuesday night represented a sharp rebuke of the Democratic Party establishment

It represented, he said, the ascendance of a new Democratic coalition, one that prioritized the needs of the working class over those of the elite.
“We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for a city they can afford,” he said.
“A city where they can do more than just struggle. One where those who toil in the night can enjoy the fruits of their labor in the day.”
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@Theaitetos (Рцяэыоод) - sad news:

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#Fox #Foxes #MikaylaRaines #animals


YouTube’s Save A Fox founder Mikayla Raines dies from suicide after online harassment

Save a Fox founder and popular YouTuber Mikayla Raines has died after taking her own life due to bullying and harassment.
Virginia Glaze (Dexerto)
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Carter Braxton

@mudflap Is that reason enough to be a soft, fucking, pussy suicidal? We have all gotten bullied in multiple ways. Those moments were and still are, opportunities to overcome and win not to surrender and die. It's unforgivable, it's weak and it's superficial.

Imagine caring that much about gaining the acceptance of people, especially people one never even met, that their negative, presumable opinions or attitudes causes one to prefer suicide. That is utter vanity and there may be a special place in hell for people that vain, weak and shallow. Who will take care of her foxes now that she never really cared about them in the first place? She just cared about what favorable opinions, that others had for her.

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Jean-Pascal Zadi : interview avec l'acteur et réalisateur du film Le Grand Déplacement | GQ France


#cinéma

Oh purée ça a l'air mortel. Zadi me fait mourir de rire, il est génial.

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Jean-Pascal Zadi : interview avec l'acteur et réalisateur du film Le Grand Déplacement

Cinq ans après le carton Tout simplement noir, Jean-Pascal Zadi repasse derrière la caméra avec Le Grand Déplacement, une comédie perchée dans laquelle des scientifiques africains partent à la recherche d’une planète un peu plus habitable.
Adam Sanchez (GQ France)

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fascinating how every culture has its own legends - in Germany our neighbors were horrified we put ice in our drinks - they said it was bad for the stomach. To this day with few exceptions I prefer drinks room temp or hot

@wesyang
I was told by my Korean mother that I could die from an electric fan left running while asleep and only learned well into adulthood that this was an urban legend unique to Koreans

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PNG is back!

programmax.net/articles/png-is… (by Chris Blume)

A new PNG spec was just released! […]

[…] After 20 years of stagnation, PNG is back with renewed vigor!

What's new?

* Proper HDR support (future‐proof, too!)

* Finally recognizes APNGs (animations!)

* Officially supports Exif data

* General tidying up—fixing errata, clarifications, etc.

#png

PNG is back!

After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.
www.programmax.net
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"Trapping AI" – Slight Update! 🌀

Activity in the "Trapping AI" project is accelerating: in just under a month, over 26 million requests have hit our tarpit URLs 🕳️. Vast volumes of meaningless content were devoured by AI crawlers — ruthless digital leeches that relentlessly scour and pillage the web, leaving no data untouched.

In the coming days, we’ll roll out a new layer of complexity — amplifying both the intensity and offensiveness of our approach. This escalation builds on fakejpeg, a tool developed by @pengfold.

🖼️ fakejpeg generates fake JPEGs on the fly. You "train" it with a collection of existing JPEGs, and once trained, it can produce an arbitrary number of things that look like real JPEGs — perfect for feeding aggressive web crawlers junk 🗑️.

Explore fakejpeg: github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

Learn more about "Trapping AI": algorithmic-sabotage.github.io…

See the tarpit in action: content.asrg.site/

A captured screenshot of a page generated by a tarpit (built on babble, a standalone LLM crawler-tarpit binary), deployed as part of the ongoing ‘Trapping AI’ operation — an endless stream of deterministic bollocks that traps crawlers on a single site and forces them to endlessly navigate a constantly expanding sea of pages 🌊. Each new page spawns additional layers of meaningless text and dozens of links, dragging them ever deeper into the tarpit 🕳️.

GitHub - gw1urf/fakejpeg: Generate files that are almost JPEGs with random data. Possibly useful in feeding aggressive web crawlers.

Generate files that are almost JPEGs with random data. Possibly useful in feeding aggressive web crawlers. - gw1urf/fakejpeg
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It is difficult to summon any kind of language to describe the age of Israeli barbarity and horror and remain sane. #Israel #Netanyahu #JewishHitler #warcriminal #Zionazis #Jewishterrorists #psychopaths #hasbara #OccupiedWestBank #Gaza #Palestine #genocide #Iran #CrimesAgainstHumanity #USA #warcrimes theshot.net.au/uncategorized/t…

The end of reality - The Shot

Our establishment has asked us to believe that up is down, and that might is right. That this slaughter is ok. They are lying to you.
Omar Sakr (The Shot)

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I'm curious how many agencies know the that body bags with ice in them can save lives in heatwaves?

J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open
. 2020 Jan 8;1(1):49–52. doi: 10.1002/emp2.12007

A body bag can save your life: a novel method of cold water immersion for heat stroke treatment

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…

#heatwaves #heatstroke #heat

A body bag can save your life: a novel method of cold water immersion for heat stroke treatment - PMC

Non‐exertional heat stroke is a life‐threatening condition characterized by passive exposure to high ambient heat, a core body temperature of 40°C (104°F) or greater, and central nervous system dysfunction. Rapid cooling is imperative to minimize ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Hey folks - for health reasons (mine, not hers!) I may need to soon re-home my amazing cat, Smalltalk! If you live in the SF Bay Area and might be interested, please ping me! She's truly a wonderful sweet creature! (She'd do best as an only pet.)

(Update 6/27: I’ve found a couple wonderful humans and am exploring options w them. Thank you all for your help!)

A small brown and white cat gazes up while laying on a rug behind an Apple Magic Keyboard. She has one white paw on the space bar. She's extremely cute.
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High-resolution mapping reveals ocean carbon sink detail


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Ocean acidification is detrimental to coral reefs

As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, the ocean plays a crucial role in helping to reduce the full impact of human-driven climate change by absorbing roughly a quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity. However, this uptake is far from uniform across the global ocean. A new satellite-based product can now map the ocean carbon sink at unprecedented resolution, offering unique insights into this highly variable and complex component of Earth’s climate system.

#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*
GitLab

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Well! Some excellent news! Fuck you, Cuomo and all your rotten neolib Dems like you. Breath of fresh air.

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Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in NYC

"The people of New York City proved that a movement powered by hope, courage, and working people can beat the money of billionaires," said one Mamdani supporter.
jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
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FIAR Light

@tomcapuder Well--this was just a primary so the next part is beating the repugniqant and/or that asshole Adams. I think he'll do OK--and yes. Once he is mayor, we know how nasty and corrupt politicos can be to preserve funding and turf....I'll be surprised if he lives to the end of the term, frankly.

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« … voiced outrage at what they see as an attack on free speech and solidarity with Palestine… »⁣⁣⁣

🔗 · youtube.com/watch?v=lhJ9oH7BqX…

#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine⁣⁣

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️


Protests erupt after UK bans Palestine Action movement

Following the UK government’s decision to officially ban the activist group Palestine Action, protesters rallied in cities across the country in defiance. De...
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Hi, here's my #Introduction, it seems to be the done thing. I'm a fifty-something man, my world is small. I have my #family and my #dog. I grow #vegetables, I #swim, I try to eat well, sleep well, and move well, and generally stay alive. I love #music, it's significantly helped in terms of making it through a fairly difficult life with a variety of recently diagnosed #emotional and #neurological conditions. I study #Humanities, rather sporadically with the #OpenUniversity. #Cornwall, #UnitedKingdom.. and some additional and hopefully useful tags #jazz #classical #electronica #allotment #allotmentlife #Kernow #KernowLife
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‘Bring Your Pilots Home’: Trump Warns Israel against Violating Ceasefire with Iran #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/bring-y…

'Bring Your Pilots Home': Trump Warns Israel against Violating Ceasefire with Iran  - Palestine Chronicle

US President Donald Trump warned Israel against bombing Iran, calling it a “major violation” of a ceasefire agreement.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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Frank van der Linde is a long-time activist for racial justice, the environment, and a free Palestine.

In 2018, he discovered that the Dutch police had listed him as a terrorist — and since then, van der Linde has endured legal battles, delays, and cover-ups. Now, he’s demanding accountability.

📄 Read the full article: statewatch.org/news/2025/june/…

A green-hued image of a "Free Palestina" placard sits above the text: Dutch police labelled pacifist activist a "terrorist"—and he's seeking justice.

Statewatch | Activist demands compensation from Europol for illegal surveillance

A Dutch political activist last week filed a legal complaint with EU police agency Europol, seeking compensation for the unlawful processing and handling of his personal data.
www.statewatch.org

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For decades, Route 3254 was used by Palestinians and Bedouins to reach the #Ad-Dhariya market. But the traffic bothered the #settlers, so the Apartheid Major General Avi Bluth set up a checkpoint on the road to the market and had some of the stalls destroyed. In order to spare about 1,000 settlers from waiting in line with Palestinians at a checkpoint, a market that serves tens of thousands of people is now being shut down.

Route 3254 in the southern #WestBank had never really attracted settler interest since it was paved in the late 1990s. But in recent weeks, settlers from the South Hebron Hills, led by the toxic head of the regional council, Eliram Azoulay, have launched a new campaign: "The Ad-Dhariya Market is a Security Threat". They handed the narrative off to their loyal allies at “Israel Hayom” newspaper, and they provided with a sensational headline: "Drugs, prostitution, and even weapons: Bedouin residents storm a criminal pirate market”.

But what really bothered the settlers was spelled out clearly in the opening paragraph of the article: "Massive traffic jams have been reported in the Hebron Hills area in recent days, due to thousands of Bedouin residents arriving at a pirate market operating between Eshkolot, Tene Omarim, and Ad-Dhahiriya. The nearby Meitar checkpoint could not handle the pressure, and traffic backed up at the few surrounding checkpoints, which were never intended to accommodate such a volume of vehicles". Link to the “Israel Hayom” article is in the comments.

How did these traffic jams were created? For decades, the Ad-Dhahiriya market has served many Bedouin residents from the negev, who come there to shop. Recently, due to a consumer boycott by the Bedouin communities protesting rampant racism in Beersheba, even more people have begun shopping in the market. At the same time, following October 7th, Israel banned the entry of Palestinian workers. As a result, several dozen Palestinians, trying to make a living, set up roadside stalls along Route 3254. All of this has led to traffic congestion at certain times of day - and that is what upset the settlers from the settlement of Tene Omarim.

Now let us zoom out in order to understand what actually happened there. In the early 1980s, two isolated settlements Eshkolot and Tene Omarim - were established in the southwestern Hebron Hills. Both were built on lands that were looted from the residents of the village of Ad-Dhahiriya by declaring them as "state land". Although these two settlements are relatively small, with a combined population of around 1,700 residents today, the area that the state looted and handed over to them is above 16,000 dunams!

As part of the policy aimed at creating "Jewish continuity", Highway 3254 was paved in the 1990s in order to connect the two settlements, which lie about five kilometers apart. The road is effectively branching out Highway 325, which links the Meitar checkpoint to the settlement of Tene Omarim and was originally intended to continue on to Ad-Dhahiriya. However, the section leading to Ad-Dhahiriya was blocked by the army already in 2001 and has remained closed ever since.

And now we return to the present. The Meitar checkpoint is the checkpoint used by Bedouins that are heading to shop in Ad-Dhahiriya. Meaning, the settlers from Tene Omarim, the residents of Ad-Dhahiriya riding to the checkpoint, and the Bedouins that are coming from the Negev to shop in the market, all use the same road. Now, settlers occasionally find themselves standing in traffic - and even worse, standing in traffic with Arabs! And so, they concocted a story about drugs, prostitution, weapons, and nonsense.

At this point, Major General Avi Bluth entered the picture. On June 8, the Facebook page of the head of the Mount Hebron Regional Council reported that Bluth met with settlers who had "demanded solutions". Two days later, the council head announced that a solution had been implemented: a permanent checkpoint was installed at the junction of Highways 325 and 3254, blocking Bedouin access to the road leading to Ad-Dhahiriya. At the same time, bulldozers were sent to demolish the stalls that were built along the road. Links to the head of the Mount Hebron Regional Council posts are in the comments.

And what about the Bedouins who still want to reach Ad-Dhahiriya? For now, they can take a long detour of several dozen kilometers and approach the town from the north, via Highway 60. But who knows how long that option will remain open. Sooner or later, settlers will likely start complaining that there are too many "Arabs" on Highway 60 as well - and then that route will be closed to them also.

This is how a market that served tens of thousands of Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line - for livelihood and shopping - was destroyed. A gift to the settlers, just so they can drive without traffic jams from the settlement of Tene Omarim to the Meitar checkpoint. After all, they were promised "quality of life”.

#KeremNavot - Naboth’s Vineyard
Naboth’s Vineyard (Kerem Navot) is an Israeli NGO established in 2012, which monitors and carries out research on Israeli land policy in the #WestBank.

#Palestine
#apartheid #Israel #apartheid-Israel
#History #settlers
#Kerem-navot
#EU #US #US-Israel #US-Israel-terrorism #Israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine
keremnavot.org/english
https://x.com/nabothVin

kerem navot

knavot

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It has been Confirmed those involved with the Biden Autopen Scandal will meet in a closed door meeting with Congress

The whole thing done in secret

Remember, Peter Doocy found ONLY ONE signature may have actually been signed by Biden IN 4 YEARS
#minds minds.com/newsfeed/17845830856…


It has been Confirmed those involved with the Biden Autopen Scandal will meet in a closed door meeting with Congress The whole thing done in secret Remember, Peter Doocy found ONLY ONE signature may have actually been signed by Biden IN ... | Minds

...en Scandal will meet in a closed door meeting with Congress The whole thing done in secret Remember, Peter Doocy found ONLY ONE signature may have actually been signed by Biden IN 4 YEARS #min...
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“I think that Earth 2024 means stupidity,” Kathy said. We all laughed. It was a time when the leaders were both clowns and dangerous. It was a new age on Earth after a pandemic when the stupid were put into positions of power with the hope that stupidity would be the new path to the future. It didn’t work and caused World War Three. They did everything backwards. It was as if they went to stupid school and learned to carry out every activity in a way where it didn’t work and not only that, came back to hurt them.

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Kilroy Was Here With The Earth ETs

Back to the past to visit burned out Earth Before WW3
Futurism

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Reunião de estratégia para divulgação da petição Dinheiro Público Código Público


A carta Dinheiro Público Código Público é uma petição organizada pela Comunidade Software Livre #43 para reivindicar uma legislação que exija que sistemas utilizados por instâncias públicas sejam softwares livre.

A carta abaixo assinado (softwarelivre.tec.br/campanha-…) foi lançada em maio deste ano e precisamos construir uma estratégia de divulgação da campanha para recolher o maior número de assinaturas possíveis.

Além disso, planejamos construir uma cartilha mapeando o que já existe de legislação a respeito no Brasil e os casos de sucesso de uso de software livre no setor público.

Participe!

Precisamos de mais braços para alavancar esta campanha!
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Reunião de estratégia para divulgação da petição Dinheiro Público Código Público - Plantaformas

A carta Dinheiro Público Código Público é uma petição organizada pela Comunidade Software Livre #43 para reivindicar uma legislação que exija que sistemas utilizados por instâncias públicas sejam softwares livre.
plantaformas.org

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Η εξαίρεση του κανόνα: ραδιόφωνο της Κρήτης κάλυψε την απόφαση του ΕΔΔΑ για το τουρκικό σωματείο (και την ανάρτησε όλη) ενώ κανένα ραδιόφωνο ή εφημερίδα της Αθήνας, της Θεσσαλονίκης ή της Θράκης (πλην των τουρκόφωνων) δεν το κάλυψε
radio984.gr/post/pavlos-stefan…

Παύλος Στεφάνου : Καταδίκη της Ελλάδας στο ΕΔΔΑ για τον "Πολιτιστικό Σύλλογο Τούρκων Γυναικών Ν. Ξάνθης" - Radio 984

Γ. Αϋφαντής : Με σοβαρή νομική προετοιμασία στο νέο αίτημα το Ελληνικό κράτος Ο νομικός Παύλος Στεφάνου, που προσφέρει νομικές υπηρεσίες και στα Ευρωπαϊκά Δικαστήρια, παρέθεσε σήμερα στην εκπομπή του 98.
Γιώργος Σαχίνης (Radio 984)
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Dieu

I am sure I don't have the most demanding job in the tech world, but it really seems like whenever I am somewhat stuck, ChatGPT is completely blown out of the water. Here I got lots of blather that I had to correct twice in order to be offered the obvious solution I was trying to avoid: chatgpt.com/share/685bdad2-caf…

Whoever considers this a useful technology must be using it for freshman homework assignments or something like that.


ChatGPT - Podman systemd env variable

Shared via ChatGPT
ChatGPT

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#Windows10 #updates will #cost you $30 - #Linux updates are for free 👍


Source: windowslatest.com/2024/10/31/m…

#Microsoft #cybersecurity #security #Software #os #update #Problem #fail #news #freedom #change #Windows #Windows11 #money #finance #economy

Microsoft: Pay $30 to keep using Windows 10 securely if you hate Windows 11

With support for Windows 10 ending on October 14, 2025, Microsoft wants people to switch to Windows 11 or pay $30 to keep using Windows 10.
Mayank Parmar (Windows Latest)

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Not entirely unreasonably, if you're old enough to remember that the “UN weapons inspection programme in Iraq, was "infiltrated and fatally compromised" by the American and British intelligence agencies”…

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_eas…
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BBC News | Middle East | Unscom 'infiltrated by spies'

The UN weapons inspection team in Iraq was infiltrated and compromised by spies, according to claims in the BBC's Panorama programme.
news.bbc.co.uk

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Sanaa declares continuation of war on Israeli occupation en.ypagency.net/360715

Sanaa declares continuation of war on Israeli occupation

SANAA, June 24 (YPA) - A prominent Ansarallah leader in Sanaa confirmed on Tuesday that Yemeni military operations against the Israeli occupation will continue until the aggression on the Gaza Strip stops.Mohammed Nasser Al-Bukhaiti, a member of the
basheer (Yemen Press Agency)

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Spahn und Masken-Affäre: Komplett geschwärzte Seiten, heftige Vorwürfe und neue Fragen
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Spahn und Masken-Affäre: Komplett geschwärzte Seiten, heftige Vorwürfe und neue Fragen

Nina Warken hat den geschwärzten Masken-Bericht vorgelegt. Ihr Haus greift die Sonderermittlerin an und nimmt Spahn in Schutz.
Christina Berndt (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/31924287

404 Media

2025-06-24 13:43:47

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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops


A new site, FuckLAPD.com, is using public records and facial recognition technology to allow anyone to identify police officers in Los Angeles they have a picture of. The tool, made by artist Kyle McDonald, is designed to help people identify cops who may otherwise try to conceal their identity, such as covering their badge or serial number.

“We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up,” McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police violence during the LA protests against ICE that started earlier this month. “fucklapd.com is a response to the violence of the LAPD during the recent protests against the horrific ICE raids. And more broadly—the failure of the LAPD to accomplish anything useful with over $2B in funding each year.”

“Cops covering up their badges? ID them with their faces instead,” the site, which McDonald said went live this Saturday. The tool allows users to upload an image of a police officer’s face to search over 9,000 LAPD headshots obtained via public record requests. The site says image processing happens on the device, and no photos or data are transmitted or saved on the site. “Blurry, low-resolution photos will not match,” the site says.

“fucklapd.com uses data provided by the City of Los Angeles directly to the public,” McDonald told me in an email. “This data has been provided in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits. That means all of this information belongs to the public and is a matter of public record. fucklapd.com is not scraping any data.”

In addition to potentially identifying officers by name and serial number, FuckLAPD.com also pulls up a police officer’s salary.

“Surprisingly it [the domain name] only costs $10 a year to exercise my first amendment right to say fucklapd.com,” McDonald said.
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I tested the tools by grabbing an image of a white and bald police officer from an LAPD press conference addressing its use of force during the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. I uploaded the image to the site, and within a few seconds the site presented me with nine headshots of officers who could be possible matches, all of them bald white men. The first correctly identified the cop in the image I uploaded.

Clicking “view profile” under the result sent me to the Watch the Watchers site by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a community group based in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles. “All of the information on this website comes from records that were deliberately made public by the City of Los Angeles in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits,” the Watch the Watchers site says. “We plan to keep refreshing this data from new public records requests as well as to add other data.” Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is not associated with FuckLAPD.com and did not endorse the site.

McDonald told me that since the site launched, it had around 50,000 visitors, but “Because the analysis happens on-device I have no way of knowing what people are using it for, except for some people who have posted screenshots to Twitter or Instagram,” he said.

In 2018 McDonald made another tool called ICEspy which used hundreds of photos of ICE employees from LinkedIn and does much the same thing as FuckLAPD.com. “This app is designed to highlight and embarrass the organization committing atrocities against refugees and immigrants to the United States,” ICEspy’s website says. That tool originally used a Microsoft API, before Microsoft restricted access to it. McDonald said on X that he recently relaunched the tool to run locally on devices. 404 Media tested ICEspy using images of ICE employees on LinkedIn to verify if the tool worked and each result was incorrect; McDonald indicated on X he was looking for others to re-scrape LinkedIn and update the database.

Over the last few months ICE officers have consistently worn masks, neck gaiters, sunglasses, and baseball caps to shield their identity while often refusing to provide their name or even confirm the agency they belong to. This includes while violently assaulting people, detaining U.S. citizens, and pointing weapons at bystanders, leaving little room for recourse or accountability against the individual agents or the agency.

ICE’s constant use of masks has created a climate where people cannot be sure that the heavily armed group of men coming towards them are really federal agents or not. In Philadelphia, a man pretended to be an ICE agent in order to rob an auto repair shop and zip tie an employee. In Brooklyn, a man posed as an immigration officer before attempting to rape a woman.

ICE claims that assaults against its officers have increased by 413 percent, and use this as the justification for covering their faces. But as Philip Bump showed in the Washington Postthere are still plenty of questions about those numbers and their accuracy. ICE says its officers’ family members have been doxed too.

Neither the LAPD or ICE responded to a request for comment.

Joseph Cox contributed reporting.



'ICE Agent' Pulls Gun on Man Taking Photos of His Car

Activists post footage which also shows suspects being led away by masked agent.
Billal Rahman (Newsweek)

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HayadSont

Again, I want to establish that I've learned a ton and really appreciate your writings. Thank you!

That looks interesting, although I would be weary of learning a layout that only works on specific keyboards, it will make it hard for you to use a laptop on the go, work in an office with a normal keyboard or any other similar situation.


Thanks for the reminder! While I can't completely ignore the main takeaway, I do find myself only rarely (read: less than 5%) engage with normal keyboards. And, AFAIU, by only adopting the exotic layout for splitting keyboards, I can keep the muscle memory for QWERTY on regular keyboards. Though, please feel free to correct me if I say something that goes against your own experiences.

which btw I strongly recommend you check out wrist and finger stretching exercises as they help a lot


Would you be so kind to share what has worked for your wrist? While there's no reason to assume that your exercises work out for me, I can at least discuss them with the physiotherapist. BTW, to be clear, I've already visited the physiotherapist a number of times and we've discussed exercises that I've eventually incorporated in my daily routine.

Lots of the changes I made (e.g. split ortholinear keyboard) were probably not needed


Question: If we focus on the split ortholinear keyboard, is only the ortholinear aspect (possibly) redundant? Or..., the split itself?

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Nibodhika

Damn, I thought I had sent the reply and it's been erased.

I'll keep it short, muscle memory for qwerty doesn't go away that easily, at least it didn't for me, but I'm able to type blindly in qwerty (just not touch typing). Still I think that something I can use in my laptop is very useful so I can keep the ergonomics on the go.

I don't have the exercises, it was just something someone told me to do, I'm sure whatever your doctor is telling you would be better.

For the split vs ortholinear I think split makes more difference, whenever I use a normal keyboard I feel this, but never had any pains related to it, it's just more comfortable.

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#ynet news alert

Deri rejects Trump’s claim: “No one has visited Fordow yet”

Shas party chairman Aryeh Deri said in an interview with the “Kikar Hashabbat” website that “damage was certainly caused to Iran’s nuclear facilities,” and rejected the claim by US President Donald Trump that “people on behalf of Israel visited the Fordow facility.” Deri was asked what damage was caused to the Iranian nuclear program and whether there was enriched uranium inside the facilities, and replied: “No one knows for certain, because no one has visited there yet.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices

Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices

According to the legal representatives of the 'Fair PlayStation' campaign, at least 1.7 million Dutch PlayStation owners pay too much for their digital downloads. Economic research shows...
Rob Thubron (TechSpot)
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Dariusmiles2123

To be honest that would just be the end of the consoles system as there is a reason Sony is selling the PS5 for so cheap.

As much as I understand why Apple shouldn’t be allowed to keep everything in the Apple Store, Sony’s situation isn’t the same.

But what would bother me more is if Sony starts to raise the prices of everything without justification.

I got a Steam Deck and I’m slowly migrating my gaming from Playstation only to Linux/Playstation gaming. Still a Playstation 5 is a great product, especially with kids and its ease of use and great graphics for your bucks.

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ayyy

Maybe it’s because I don’t use it enough but the last Sony console I bought was the absolute opposite of “no fuss”. It was nothing but mandatory unskippable updates and I constantly got signed out and had to sign in and the 2fa app kept changing names. And also all those updates and sign-ins had mandatory EULAS you had to scroll through. Such a hassle.

Edit: also it tried to talk to my Sony tv in some “smart” way over HDMI (so I couldn’t disable it) which would sometimes cause my TV to crash and reboot for several minutes.

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ayyy

For the updates: I put it to sleep. However my power cuts out every now and then. When the power comes back, the ps4 turns itself back on on and makes obnoxious beeping noises, just to tell me the power was cut. The dumb thing is it will stay on that screen until manually dismissed and won’t auto-update until you dismiss that screen, with no timeout. The hassle-free appliance experience!

For your claim that the eulas being easy to skip, keep in mind that sometimes there were back-to-back updates that each required me to agree to a eula. So I would babysit the thing, walk away when it was taking forever, and when I came back it wouldn’t even be ready for gaming. Even windows isn’t that obnoxious.

Also my tv at the time had no way to disable CEC (my new one does, and also doesn’t crash lol).

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ayyy

I don’t understand where the confrontation came from, but I guess if that’s what you want you can have it. I literally told you two posts ago about how it’s not just waiting for 20s and clicking a button. It’s an attended upgrade and scrolling process. I won’t bother quoting what I wrote 3 minutes ago, go scroll up and read it again yourself. No, my microwave does not present me with EULAs when the power goes out.

What “score” are you talking about? Do you take personal offense when a Sony product sucks? Did you invent the PlayStation or something? I was just sharing my lived experience.

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Mamdani Wins Stunning Upset in Democratic Primary as Cuomo Concedes Race

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is on track to secure the Democratic nomination for mayor, after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded to him Tuesday night following the first round of ranked-choice primary votes.

With 95% of precincts reporting two hours after polls closed at 9 p.m., 44% ranked Mamdani as their first choice while 36% chose Cuomo first and 11% had city Comptroller Brad Lander.

Mamdani emerged to raucus applause at his election party on a brewery rooftop in Long Island City, about 20 minutes after midnight.


Mamdani Wins Stunning Upset in Democratic Primary as Cuomo Concedes Race

The democratic socialist state Assemblymember from Queens is on track to be the Democratic nominee for mayor in a ranked-choice election.
Samantha Maldonado (THE CITY - NYC News)

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My bank, business, changed their site, but lost my entire account I set up 15 yrs ago. It was like a new acct. All day, I spoke to 4 people & they didn't know what I meant. My bill pay is gone, no tax documents, no mortgage documents. Just one loan document. The "operations" dept tried to blame me. Nope. The last girl said, "Just fool around with the buttons. That's what I had to do." Like I didn't try that already many times. 🙄 I'll face them, just not today. I'm too tired. SMH
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roscoeellis

My sympathies for your situation. I had to contact two of my banks yesterday to straighten out situations similar to yours. (though not as extreme, thank God!) At the first bank I spoke on the phone with a rep who apologized for the situation, promised to resolve it, but it will take aprox. 10 days to get me new cards, etc. At the 2nd bank I dealt with an AI chat bot. Resolved this situation quicker. I expect to see everything back to normal there tomorrow. We'll see.

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@roscoeellis That's awful! We started the business just before the crash under Obama & committed to pay back a venture capitalist within a year. We talked to many banks. This is the only one that would give us a refi to pay him back @14%. No buyers, so we had to rent. And so it goes, the crime, destruction of property, rehabbing them over and over, shocking filth. We needed Hazmat once for the slimy filth, drug dealers, too. One was set on fire. Insurers dumped us. We got thru it all. 😆
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