because of some rumors fllying around, I want to set the record straight
I do tie my shoelaces, although sometimes I don't get to it until the day after tomorrow
Trafficking στην Ηλιούπολη: Ένοχος και ελεύθερος ο αστυνομικός για εμπορία ανθρώπων αλλά... όχι κατ' επάγγελμα
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Ένοχος κρίθηκε ο αστυνομικός για το trafficking στην Ηλιούπολη που αποκαλύφθηκε τον Ιούλιο του 2021 από μία 19χρονη, με το δικαστήριο ωστόσο να αποφασίζει την ομόφωνη καταδίκη του για εμπορία…Νεκταρία Ψαράκη (ThePressProject.gr)
'Israel' may have used depleted uranium bombs in Iran strikes: Probe
Iran suspects “Israel” used depleted uranium munitions in its June 13 strikes on Iranian facilities, as per initial investigation findings.
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"All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. ... A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war. ... I don't believe…
A leaked Pentagon assessment contradicts Donald Trump’s claims of crippling Iran's nuclear program, revealing minimal damage from US strikes and prompting a hostile outburst against CNN journalist Natasha Bertrand.Al Mayadeen English (Trump demands CNN reporter be fired for revealing Iran strike failure)
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“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”
~ General Omar Bradley
(1893-1981) Five Star General of the US Army, headed the Veterans Administration, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.LibertyQuotes
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Dear Israel Apologist
"That’s why your old tricks have stopped working, you know: all you have is words. We have truth, facts and morality on our side, and you have a bunch of words."
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Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
>watch a deep analysis about Midsommar
>the film director essentially wanted to make a "Sweden bad" film depicting swedes and their traditions as terrible and barbaric
Boss, i'm tired about this fucking shit
This is bad
Spain’s current govt is facing a fresh corruption crisis, adding to the growing list of scandals that have plagued PM Sánchez’s cabinet.Vivek GROVER (Oriental Review)
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Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees– stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.
Despite the growing technological and industrial capacity of countries in the Global South, countries and corporations in the Global North continue to own intellectual property patents on key products, locking the South into indefinite patent payment regimes. These include patent payments for pharmaceuticals, digital technologies (such as licensing fees for software and telecommunications infrastructure), and agricultural goods (such as genetically modified seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, and equipment). Scientific and technological advances have indeed accelerated in the Global South, with several countries – particularly in Asia – developing sophisticated high-speed rail, green technologies, and telecommunications infrastructure. Yet even in these sectors, most countries continue to pay large rents to Global North firms that own patents on key components.
There are five sectors where the imbalance in patent-related payments is most severe (in other words, where Global South countries pay significantly more in royalties and licensing fees than they receive in return):
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Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees– stripping them of wealth and stunting their d…Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB
A couple of months ago I bought the Nanoleaf Pegboard Desk Dock, the latest and greatest in USB-hub-with-RGB-LEDs-and-hooks-for-gadgets technology. This invention unfortunately only supports the real gamer operating systems of Windows and macOS, which necessitated the development of a Linux driver.Over the past few posts I’ve set up a Windows VM with USB passthrough, and attempted to reverse-engineer the official drivers, As I was doing that, I also thought I’d message the vendor and ask them if they could share any specifications or docs regarding their protocol. To my surprise, Nanoleaf tech support responded to me within 4 hours, with a full description of the protocol that’s used both by the Desk Dock as well as their RGB strips. The docs mostly confirmed what I had already discovered independently, but there were a couple of other minor features as well (like power and brightness management) that I did not know about, which was helpful.
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...d obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day.". Subscribe to @Fret...Minds
'World needs to wake up'
We all need to wake up.
#Gaza #Genocide #famine #EthnicCleansing
This doctor in Gaza has tried to save children torn to shreds by Israeli bombs and bullets at GHF aid sites.Al Jazeera
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This doctor in Gaza has tried to save children torn to shreds by Israeli bombs and bullets at GHF aid sites.Al Jazeera
Germany: Police Target 170 People for Insulting Politicians Online
If you call Chancellor Merz a “drunk” or Green leader Robert Habeck an “idiot” in Deutschland you could get a visit from law enforcement.
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Sara Duterte, Vice President of Philippines, spoke to RT to discuss the current political situation in the country, US and Philippine military scientists in Southeast Asia, the arrest of her father Ro...Odysee
Good riddance!
Lisa Murkowski says she has thought about switching to Democratic caucus share.google/0EwKuWJzBeB2MinOo
A good press conference by Pete Hegseth and Chairman of Joint Chiefs describing the mission and what it took for the pilots, etc, and berates media for its awful reporting.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will hold a major press conference as announced by President Trump on Truth Social.Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at 7:45 am EDT ...YouTube
Mamdani dooms New York City, The Padilla cry fest, Trump strikes Iran and conservatives fail to give him the benefit of the doubt. The View and Whoopi's ins...YouTube
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Every hour you read something more warmongering than the previous. Everyday they say openly that they take our money to give em to a bunch of capitalists and we, the working class, just standing there like hypnotized waiting for the military call to be meat for their profits.
#Warmongers #FuckWarmongers #Eupol #USA #Uspol #ArmsIndustry #ClassWar
#Europe is seeing a dramatic boost in defense budgets, driven by both long-standing pressure from Washington and the continent’s own reaction to #Russia ’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine. That promises a glut of military contracts for weapons-makers in Europe as well as in the U.S., South Korea and elsewhere.
...The enormous scale of new defense spending — the European Commission estimates that the bloc’s members will need to spend €500 billion on defense over the next decade — still means there will be a lot of money available for European defense firms.
That said, the early winner of Europe’s defense buildup is likely to be the U.S.
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The industry anticipates that no matter what the new U.S. president does, it stands to make a lot of money.Joshua Posaner (POLITICO)
Organizations, activists, political and material collectives who run for environmental issues, #ClimateCrisis etc. should take action to fight #warmongers. They openly say (everywhere, not just in #EuropeanUnion) that they must spend the money of #workingclass (you remember that big companies have less taxes than us?) for armaments and to leave the (capitalist) green transition aside. Means they don't care at all about the destruction war industry and their inevitable wars produce. Tusk explains better.
«Making references to Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine and Belarus's campaign of instrumentalised migration, which his country has experienced firsthand, Tusk implored EU states to address security "seriously" and be "flexible" and "creative" to design novel ways to finance the necessary boost in military expenditure.»
«"I'll be honest: we shouldn't really care too much about what method we adopt to finance pan-#European defence projects," he told lawmakers in #Strasbourg.»
«In the prime minister's view, "some" of the environmental regulations that the #EU has introduced in the past five years are responsible for the "prohibitively" high #energy prices. - Energy bills began rising in 2022 when the market hit record-high levels in reaction to #Russia 's manipulation of gas supplies.»
In a speech before the European Parliament, Donald Tusk called for a major boost in Europe's defence spending and a "critical review" of the Green Deal.Jorge Liboreiro (Euronews.com)
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There is no way of defending the continent without cuts to social spendingJanan Ganesh (Financial Times)
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Here is Kristi Noem diverting FEMA money, meant for emergency shelter, to build a concentration camp in the Everglades.
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The facility could be completed within months and have the capacity to hold around 1,000 people.Ali Abbas Ahmadi (BBC News)
What. A. Comeback. After crashing in his race run in 2024, @jacksongoldstone6453 took exactly one year to recover, come back, and get the best redemption ru...YouTube
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[#ÀlairLibre 📺] Handicap: «Toute la société est validiste»
L’année 2025 marque l’anniversaire de plusieurs lois sur le #handicap mais les droits des personnes concernées restent bafoués. Travail, école, espaces publics, accès aux droits: dans «À l’air libre», nos invités détaillent la façon dont le #validisme imprègne les structures de notre société.
Par À l’air libre › mediapart.fr/journal/internati…
L’année 2025 marque l’anniversaire de plusieurs lois sur le handicap mais les droits des personnes concernées restent bafoués.À l’air libre (Mediapart)
Please welcome on Mastodon the @esoastronomy European Southern Observatory (ESO), the European organization that builds and operates large, advanced ground-based observatories for research in astronomy and astrophysics.
Голос Кореи,Voice of Korea,Voz de Corea,صوت كوريا ,Stimme Koreas,공화국,vokwww.vok.rep.kp
Con una trayectoria que pasa por El Periódico, El Mundo y La Vanguardia, fue un referente en el género de la entrevista y la crónica de ambiente y publicó numerosos libros
El periodista y escritor Arturo San Agustín (Barcelona, 1949) ha fallecido durante la mañana de hoy a los 76 años, según ha informado a primera hora La Vanguardia, uno de los periódicos que habían acogido sus crónicas y artículos de opinión y con el que más asiduamente colaboro en esta última etapa de su vida profesional.
Antes había sido una figura frecuente primero en El Periódico, desde donde proyectó su mirada crítica de la realidad catalana y barcelonesa, y después en el diario El Mundo. Junto a su faceta periodística, en la que se reveló un maestro de las entrevistas, desarrolló otra importante como escritor muy vinculado a temas como el Fútbol Club Barcelona, del que era un gran seguidor, y el Vaticano.
Destacan en su bibliografía títulos como El otro zoo de Barcelona, de 1976; M'agrada que em faci aquesta pregunta: l'entrevista en premsa, de 1999, La nena del Leopoldo: Una crónica de Barcelona, de 2010 o Un perro verde entre los jóvenes del Papa de 2011.
En el campo del ensayo, escribió Tras el portón de bronce, que analizaba la realidad vaticana en tiempos del papa Francisco. Otro libro relevante suyo, publicado en el 2014, fue Cuando se jodió el nuestro, en el que analizaba la complicada relación entre Catalunya y España con entrevistas incisivas a personajes como Miquel Iceta, Jordi Pujol, Josép Cuní, Enrique Juliana, José Manuel Lara o Juan Manuel Tresserras.
Nacido en Barcelona en 1949, Arturo San Agustín pasó su juventud en el barrio del Poblenou –ahora renovado y principal colonia expatriada en la ciudad– y después entre el Somorrostro y una escuela de la Barceloneta, siempre ligado a esta parte de Barcelona. Su padre trabajaba para la compañía gasista El Arenal, situada en el distrito.
Antes de dedicarse de lleno al periodismo, San Agustín trabajó durante diez años como creativo publicitario, una etapa que le sirvió para desarrollar un estilo comunicativo directo y desinhibido, repleto de matices sugerentes, que aplicó posteriormente a sus labores tanto literarias como periodísticas.
El presidente de EEUU explota el 'peloteo' del secretario general de la OTAN: "Creo que le gusto" Mark Rutte, el secretario general que hizo del servilismo a Trump una forma de liderar la OTAN Los mensajes privados del secretario general de la OTAN a Trump: “Europa pagará a lo grande”
Que Mark Rutte está encantado con Donald Trump no es ningún secreto. Primero el presidente de EEUU publicó en redes hace unos días una conversación con Rutte, secretario general de la OTAN, en la que este le adulaba hasta niveles –para muchos– bochornosos por el ataque de Estados Unidos a Irán.
Luego, ya durante el marco de la cumbre de la OTAN en La Haya, Rutte y Trump comparecieron este miércoles de forma distendida ante la prensa. Mientras el estadounidense trataba de explicar que veía el conflicto entre Israel e Irán como “dos niños en el patio del colegio” a los que hay que dejar que se peguen un rato antes de calmarse, el secretario general de la OTAN le compraba el argumento, y apostillaba: “Sometimes, daddy has to use strong language” (A veces, papi tiene que usar lenguaje fuerte).
La frase provocó la risa de algunos asistentes a la rueda de prensa, y la cosa no quedó ahí. En otra comparecencia posterior de Donald Trump ante los medios, una periodista de Sky News le preguntaba: “Mark Rutte le ha llamado papá; ¿usted ve a los aliados de la OTAN como una especie de hijos?”. Trump contestaba que Rutte es su amigo: “Le gusto, creo que le gusto, lo ha hecho con cariño… ‘papá, eres mi papá’”. De fondo, ni siquiera Marco Rubio, secretario de Estado de EEUU, podía aguantar la risa.
Y de nuevo, el asunto no ha quedado ahí. Esta madrugada, la cuenta oficial de la Casa Blanca ha publicado –en redes y en su web oficial– un vídeo de la llegada de Trump a la cumbre de la OTAN que podría parecer parodia, pero no lo es. Lleva en grande el título ‘Daddy’s home’ (la casa de papá) y va acompañada de la canción de Usher con ese mismo nombre.
Dear @creativecommons ,
I read your article about your initiative for new licenses for dataset holders in the AI industry.
Let’s be clear: I do not want to re-license my hundreds of CC-By comic pages to please AI giants.
I wish you would support CC artists suffering from massive plagiarism. You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling. It seems you’ve joined the battle only after the casualties and still managed to side with the wrong people.
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CC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to increase reciprocity and sustain a creative commons i…Anonymous (Creative Commons)
@prinlu @ArneBab No: the court refused the author of "A Recent Entrance To Paradise" to be copyrighted. Not a case of a owner fighting for their intellectual properties.
The fact "it can't be copyrighted" doesn't mean it cannot be attacked if it degrades the Intellectual property of a brand, or owner, or bring them commercial prejudices.
The result of this bbc.com/news/articles/cg5vjqdm… will answer (on a US law POV) the debate around Intellectual Property usage in AI output...
The Hollywood studios allege Midjourney's image generator is a "bottomless pit of plagiarism".Tom Espiner (BBC News)
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Meanwhile in #Gaza:
WATCH: “In a courtyard shattered by war and stripped of all signs of life, I found children sweeping the rubble with their tiny hands, trying to bring back a place that was once a playground. They ran barefoot after a faded ball, as if chasing days that haven't arrived yet. I walked closer and asked one of them, ‘Aren't you scared of the drones?’ He looked up, breathless, and said, ‘When did we ever stop playing?’”
via Eye On Palestine on Telegram
Next level lego!
We design custom LEGO® models of all sorts. From kinetic sculptures to 'intelligent' robots and everything in between.YouTube
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Mothers and doctors in Gaza say formula shortages risk babies’ lives, blaming Israel’s aid blockade
https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/06/26/mothers-and-doctors-in-gaza-say-formula-shortages-risk-babies-lives-blaming-israels-aid-bl?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Rights groups say the war and the blockade have sparked a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, though Israel says it is allowing in vital aid.Euronews.com
Plus: The Constitution is clear: You can just do things.Joe Perticone (The Bulwark)
Gaza est un camp de la mort où les SS sont Israéliens.
Et ils s'en vantent en postant leurs tueries sur TikTok et Instagram !
Les USA fournissent les armes et le veto à l'ONU.
Les Allemands (qui n'ont pas compris les leçons de leur passé nazi) cautionnent cette répétition inversée de leurs crimes au nom de la "raison d'État".
Les Britanniques, usual bastards.
Les Français, bavards hypocrites.
Et le monde non-occidental regarde ça avec un dégoût croissant.
C'est une mauvaise configuration 😒
Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid would kill people and in response they were zip tied and arrested in their wheelchairs.
#USA #DeathPolicies #BillionaireTaxCuts #Capitalism #SocialMurder #Politicians #SanitizedMurder #ProfitMotive #Bribery #Corruption #Murder #USGovernment #Politics #Death #DeathCult #ChristoFascism
The absolute “chutzpah” of the “Defence” minster of a genocidal terrorist state declaring that an Iranian bank is a terrorist organisation!
“Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz [..] yesterday announced that he has signed a special order declaring the Central Bank of Iran a terrorist organisation”
via MintPress News on Telegram
#Press #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Resistance #Israel #Genocide #Terrorism #WarCrimes #SettlerColonialism #Zionism #Barbarity #BloodLust
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz took to X yesterday and announced that he has signed a special order declaring the Central Bank of Iran a terrorist organisation.Telegram
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Mozambican President Daniel Chapo exchanged congratulations on 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties on Wednesday.en.qstheory.cn
Edi Rama said things that would have been inconceivable a decade ago are now normal in the UKArchie Mitchell (The Independent)
On Wednesday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pledged to prevent Ukraine from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).teleSURenglish
"Capitalism is incompatible with any kind of human flourishing on this planet"
== Donald #Trump réclame l’annulation du procès de Benyamin #Nétanyahou ==
« J’ai été choqué d’apprendre que l’Etat d’ #Israël, qui vient de vivre l’un des plus grands moments de son histoire et qui est fortement dirigé par “Bibi” Nétanyahou, poursuit sa ridicule chasse aux sorcières contre son immense premier ministre de temps de la guerre ! », écrit le républicain dans un très long message.
« “Bibi” Nétanyahou a été un GUERRIER, comme il n’y en a jamais eu dans l’histoire d’Israël, et le résultat a été quelque chose que personne ne pensait possible, l’élimination complète de potentiellement l’une des plus puissantes armes nucléaires dans le monde », déclare M. Trump.
« Probablement personne d’autre que Benyamin Nétanyahou n’aurait pu travailler en meilleure harmonie avec le président des Etats-Unis. Les #Etats-Unis ont sauvé #Israel et maintenant les Etats-Unis vont sauver “Bibi ”Nétanyahou. CETTE PARODIE DE “JUSTICE” NE PEUT ÊTRE AUTORISÉE ! »
« Il mérite bien mieux que cela, et l’Etat d’Israël aussi. Le procès de “Bibi” Nétanyahou devrait être ANNULÉ IMMÉDIATEMENT, ou une grâce devrait être accordée à un grand héros qui a tant fait pour l’Etat », écrit encore le président américain.
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Death toll in Kenyan anti-government protests rises to 16, says rights group
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Amnesty International says most of the dead were killed by police during the nationwide demonstration.Africanews
In Spain, parents gather at school gates to remember Gaza’s child victims
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/26/in-spain-parents-gather-at-school-gates-to-remember-gazas-child-victims?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Aghast at the scale of Israel’s onslaught, a group in the city of Granada protests ‘against genocide’.Alasdair Fotheringham (Al Jazeera)
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