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Ye Gods. @pluralistic goes straight to the heart: advances in surveillance technology make it possible for the oligarchs to push our society deeper into democratic debt. Until... What? 100 families eat UK the world's entire wealth? The guillotines come out?
The "dictator's dilemma" pits a dictator's desire to create social stability by censoring public communications in order to prevent the spread of anti-regime messages with the dictator's need to know whether powerful elites are becoming restless and plotting a coup:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
My garden has 3 core functions. Recreation and play, Growing vegetables and fruits, and givin nature more room. The so called Controlled Wildernes. I Love to see all the different species the are coming by. But i always want to make it better, especially the combination of space for family and nature. Ive got inspired by the book The Garden Jungle from Dave Goulson. It just gave me more ideas and motivation to protect the smal animals, and make the garden usefull for more. But what about you? What books, articles, documentary etc, did inspire or would give me some ideas to let nature have more space in af garden?
I wouldn't say any book, but the news. Our planet is failing quickly, with no concerted effort to stop it. My zone has had massive collapses in insect and wildlife year over year, and I aim to help combat that as much as possible by planting native plants, providing extra fruit and vegetables for the wildlife (I keep a decoy garden for them), and doing it all as resource conscious as possible. Nothing but good things can come from having even a few native flowering plants around for bees and hummingbirds, and going a bit of an extra mile to compost to keep the good insects that contribute to that process happy and expanding their colonies.
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter.
"Belgian peace organization Vredesactie filed a criminal complaint on June 26, accusing FedEx of violating international and national law by facilitating the transfer of US-made F-35 components to Israel via Liege Airport. "
"The shipments, linked to Lockheed Martin, arrived between 20 and 24 June from US military hubs and were marked for final delivery to Nevatim air base, from which Israeli jets have taken off to bomb Gaza and, more recently, Iranian territory." "The complaint, lodged under Belgian criminal law, claims the shipments constitute “punishable cooperation in war crimes,” referencing the Arms Trade Treaty and Belgium’s export control regulations."
“'This transit is in violation of the Arms Trade Treaty,' said Hans Lammerant of Vredesactie, 'and constitutes punishable cooperation in war crimes under Belgian criminal law.'”
Despite regional restrictions and a lack of permits, US-made fighter jet components transited through Belgium en route to Israel, prompting a war crimes complaint from a local peace group
@gabriel fundamentally, the issue is that the data requires code execution to access, and that code will require the key material.
A drive that allowed you to approve access levels/modes, and used bio-metric to confirm your identity, I think would be closer to the ideal.
I had the chance to talk with an Offensive Security penetration team, and they more or less told me that, their time in Africa made them realize that, in a physical environment, the person will always be the weak link. (aka rubber hose attack)
And, personally, if I sit down and think about it, I buy very little privacy or protection from encrypting. But, I lose performance, and make the possibility of losing access to my own data much higher.
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is a glittering beacon in this image released on June 25, 2025, in tribute to the groundbreaking legacy of astronomer Dr. Vera Rubin, whose observations transformed our understanding of the universe. In the 1960s, Rubin and her colleagues studied M31 and determined that there was some unseen […]
Israeli Channel 13 project that Netanyahu would win an election if it was declared today
Prior to the war with Iran, all polls concluded that he would fail to secure the seats necessary to form a government. The poll claims he would win 62 seats.
The war with Iran has increased the popularity of both #Netanyahu & #Likud Party, while decreasing support for the war in #Gaza
Holy shit! A guy 4 homes down the road just had a baby boy. I wanted to show up with a bottle of scotch and congratulate, but then I was told they fuckin' name the kid Guido! I shit you not, folks. They literally name an Italian kid fuckin' Guido! How's that not child abuse? 🤣
Almost a third of all of Tuvalu’s residents have put in requests for the first batch of climate visas from Australia, as scientists fear the Pacific nation will be uninhabitable within the next 80 years.
You know what? I am absolutely sick of the MSM This is not honest, objective reporting/journalism anymore. It is, quite simply and profoundly, un-American. And anyone who is in this industry and supports the lies and fiction coming from the fake news, in order to degrade and denigrate the truth, is un-American.
Israeli settlers went on a rampage in the town of Kufr Malek, northeast of Ramallah, killing three Palestinians. The attack is the latest in an escalating wave of settler pogroms against Palestinian communities between the Jordan Valley and Ramallah.
Le système français a longtemps fonctionné (et fonctionne encore parfois) avec une grande confiance dans l'intime conviction du juge, ce qui peut mener à des condamnations sans preuves irréfutables, sur la base de récits ou d'indices faibles.
Übersetzung: Wir haben nun eindeutige Beweise dafür, dass die COVID-19- #mRNA - #Impfstoffe die #Fortpflanzungsfähigkeit der Menschheit zerstört haben. In Tiermodellen zerstören sie >60 % der begrenzten #Eizellenvorräte von #Frauen. In Daten von Menschen (n=1,3 Mio.) haben geimpfte #Frauen ~33 % weniger erfolgreiche #Schwangerschaften als nicht geimpfte
Steam Sale in 7 hours gents. A little birdie told me you might be able to get the supporter pack for God's Disdain for a little cheaper. Wouldn't that be cool? That little birdie better not be spreading fake news otherwise I'll have to get Elon to kill his entire family.
Le système judiciaire français : les marges laissées à l’intime conviction des juges ou jurés, parfois sans preuves matérielles solides, ont mené à des erreurs judiciaires tragiques.
Il est souvent plus difficile de condamner une personne au Canada ou aux USA qu'en France, surtout dans des cas où les preuves sont circonstancielles ou ambiguës. En France, on fait davantage confiance à l’intime conviction du juge ou des jurés, tandis qu’en Amérique du Nord, on insiste sur une prudence extrême pour éviter toute erreur judiciaire.
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I grew up with smoker parents. That shit is so rank, and I grew up when smokers were extremely blasé about secondhand smoke - every room was always smoke-filled when smokers were in it, and obviously it's OK to smoke in a car with children if you open one window.
My wife and my 10th anniversary is coming up this year. She quit smoking before we got married. Years later I told her how proud I was of her quitting because it would have been a requirement of mine before saying our vows.
5 years ago she started smoking again when her father died of COVID. I was patient with her in the beginning but I have become increasingly frustrated with her unwillingness to quit. We have been looking forward to a 10th anniversary vow renewal but I told her I won't do it unless she quits. I told her I wouldn't have married a smoker. I will not remarry her while she is a smoker.
Unless you’re going about it like an asshole, no. You’re communicating, standing by your position, and setting a boundary.
She knows smoking is dangerous, she knows you don’t like it, she knows you want her to quit, she’s quit before so she knows how to do it.
Have you considered compromising with vapes? Still not as good for you as not smoking at all, but significantly healthier than smoking and doesn’t make everything smell horrific. She can get that nicotine buzz she craves with very few of the downsides. She can also then taper her nicotine content and quit that way if she decides to.
I'm trying not to to be an asshole about it. She knows my stance and I'm not budging. That said, I don't throw it in her face. In fact, I only told her once that I won't do the vow renewal until she quits. We have an otherwise perfect marriage.
We haven't had the vape conversation, but I'm not in favor of that either. You don't quit drinking by switching from beer to vodka. I honestly don't know how I would feel about her switching to vape. I hate the smell of her addiction but that's not my biggest issue. I hate the effect on her health but that's not the complete picture either. I hate the concept of a smoking addiction. It's not my identity, and I don't want it to be the identity of us as a couple. We are blue collar AF, but I still feel like her smoking diminishes us.
I used to be proud of her for quitting and staying quit. Now I'm not anymore.
That identity thing seems counterproductive. The way addictions works, you generally kind of stay addicted indefinitely even if you manage to quit and stay off the substance forever. And in contrast to beer vs. vodka, vapes are healthier than cigarettes - even if that doesn't actually change anything for you, it's definitely better for her.
Friends of Socialist China was among the organisers of a hybrid event in Portland, Oregon (US), held on 22 June 2025, discussing Kyle Ferrana’s important book Why the World Needs China.
As 40ish and 50 something females ruined Facebook under the lie of playing Farmville, circa 2009, they are ruining TikTok.
ICE deportations have brought out all of these 40 and 50 something females with data plans desperately trying to stay youthful as they invade late-age teenagers' TikTok LARPing as revolutionaries.
Facebook started out as a college kiddo platform. Then rapidly aging females started creating accounts to helicopter mom over their kiddos away at uni. By 2011, FB had become a service for middle aged Females to show off status with photos of grand kids, vacations, newly bought houses, and then of themselves.
Younger females opted for Instagram, which, itself, as become almost a soft core version of OnlyFans and (P)orn Hub.
More horrific footage from the Israeli settler pogrom against the #Christian village of Taybeh, #Ramallah, in the West Bank, where #settlers set houses and vehicles on fire.
i bring a sort of "it doesnt matter if youre into #porn or not, getting elitist and mad at #people for being #horny aligns you with the #agenda of the #altright" vibe to the conversation that some ppl dont like
“Even now, Israeli Forces are continuing to demolish homes…This is not just destruction: it is part of systematic forced displacement, a violation of int’l law, and a form of collective punishment,” —Roland Friedrich, UNRWA. #GazaGenocide aje.io/kaoafa?update=3801707
Kringel-Kultur ist einfach nur Diskriminierung von Leuten die etwas "anders" sind (oder einfach nur "nicht männlich"), im etwas weniger deutlich reaktionärem Gewand.
Hättest du das gleiche geschrieben, wenn es ein Junge mit einer Fußballverein-Party gewesen wäre?
The Gemma 3n model has been fully released, building on the success of previous Gemma models and bringing advanced on-device multimodal capabilities to edge devices with unprecedented performance.
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