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Today I’m talking again to Ali Borhani a Geopolitical Strategist, the cohost of the BRI-Diaolgue podcast, and the Substack FuturEarly. Ali is a Canadian wit...
In a rejoinder to Mark Seddon’s article Trevor Fisher further outlines the big weakness in Labour’s current approach Mark Seddon’s analysis of the political situation after 10 months of a Labour government was accurate, but the alternative is not cle…
There is a war against Irish rap trio, #Kneecap. Zionist lobby now tries to bury them because they keep an anti-occupation stance; because they know what occupation means. From the fascists of Fox News theguardian.com/world/2025/apr… to the "soft" but much more effective internet interventions, zionists are trying very hard to silence them.
Let's have a look on their Wikipedia page. This is the permanent page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecap_… In the current format you will read: "The group is also known for their political views, which include Irish republicanism, anti-Zionism, support for Hamas and Hezbollah, and opposition to Donald Trump.[6]"
Something is wrong when you read this. I'm not an expert on how to use Wikipedia, but this obviously has a zionist hand behind it. Went on previous revisions and realized that the comment of their political beliefs has been added from the user Denninithan (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Den…) yesterday - after their strong stance in the festival of Coachella. The change being made on 06:42, 22 April 2025 In a previous version of the page was reading "The group is also known for their left wing political beliefs which include: Irish Republicanism, Anti-zionism, and opposition to Donald Trump.[6]"
It's still important to not let #zionazis cover the truth.
The hunt against #Kneecap continues. Of course from #UK's zionist establishment.
"Criticism of the group has been mounting – including from Downing Street and the Conservative leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch – since a video emerged from a November 2023 gig appearing to show one person from the group saying: “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.”
Katie Amess, whose father, David Amess, was murdered by an Islamic State fanatic in his Southend West constituency in 2021, said she was “gobsmacked at the stupidity of somebody or a group of people being in the public eye and saying such dangerous, violent rhetoric” and demanded an apology.
The band has previously claimed they are facing a “coordinated smear campaign” after speaking out about “the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people”.
“Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral hysteria,” they said." theguardian.com/music/2025/apr…
"British police have charged a member of acclaimed Irish hip-hop group Kneecap with a terrorism offense for allegedly waving a Hezbollah flag at a Kentish Town Forum concert in London on 21 November 2024.
The Metropolitan Police force said Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, 27, was charged under the Terrorism Act with displaying a flag in support a proscribed organization.
Several Kneecap gigs have been cancelled as a result of the controversy, especially in Germany where Kneecap were scheduled to play in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne. Some British lawmakers have called on organizers of next month's Glastonbury Festival to scrap a planned performance." euronews.com/culture/2025/05/2…
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh - who performs under the stage name Mo Chara - will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court next month, the Metropolitan Police says.
“14,000 babies are about to die of starvation in Gaza, with food sent by the world sitting on the other side of a wall, and once again the #British establishment is focused on us.
“We deny this ‘offence’ and will vehemently defend ourselves, this is political policing, this is a carnival of distraction.
“We are not the story, genocide is, as they profit from genocide, they use an ‘anti-terror law’ against us for displaying a flag thrown on stage. A charge not serious enough to even warrant their crown court, instead a court that doesn’t have a jury. What’s the objective?
“To restrict our ability to travel. To prevent us speaking to young people across the world. To silence voices of compassion. To prosecute #artists who dare speak out.
“Instead of defending innocent people, or the principles of international law they claim to uphold, the powerful in Britain have abetted slaughter and famine in #Gaza, just as they did in Ireland for centuries. Then, like now, they claim justification.
#Kneecap displayed a message stating: “#Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” and the words “Fuck Israel. Free Palestine”. Mo Chara, one of the group’s members, told the audience: “The #Palestinians have nowhere to go. It’s their fucking home and they’re bombing them from the skies. If you’re not calling it a genocide, what the fuck are you calling it?” Within a week, Kneecap’s US booking agent had dropped them, Fox #News had likened the statements to “#Nazi #Germany”, a handful of summer shows had been cancelled.
And the “dead Tory” comments? “Why should I regret it? It was a joke – we’re playing characters, it’s satirical, it’s a fucking joke. “The point is, that [video] wasn’t an issue until we said ‘Free Palestine’ at Coachella. That stuff happened 18 months ago, and nobody batted an eyelid. Everybody agreed it was a fucking joke, even people that may have been in the room that didn’t agree – it’s a laugh, we’re all having a bit of craic. The point is, and the context is, it all [resurfaced] because of Coachella. That’s what we should be questioning, not whether I regret things.” “The genocide in #Palestine is a big reason we’re getting such big crowds at our gigs, because we are willing to put that message out there,” says Ó hAnnaidh. theguardian.com/music/2025/jun…
Alt text, image 1: The group is also known for their political views, which include Irish republicanism, anti- Zionism, support for Hamas and Hezbollah, and opposition to Donald Trump. (6)
Alt text, image 2: The group is also known for their left wing political beliefs which include: Irish Republicanism, Anti-zionism, and opposition to Donald Trump. (6)
I think fewer and fewer people in the world are falling for these incessant cries of antisemitism and also the implications that antisemitism is the biggest scourge on the planet.
Frankly, I think even Israel's biggest enabler (the US) is exhausted and beginning to move on. The US regime is interested in material gain, which Israel isn't really offering these days. And even a blind person can see that starving and bombing babies for years is WAY WORSE than disliking Israel. @aral
By Pablo Meriguet - Jun 25, 2025
The reform, promoted by Gustavo Petro and his party Pacto Histórico, was approved after months of disputes and boycotts by the opposition.
Attack on Iran damaged US credibility – China rt.com/news/620422-china-us-cr… Beijing has condemned the strikes as a violation of the UN Charter and joined Russia in warning of global consequences Read Full Article at RT.com #news #press
‘We’ll only punish future disabled people’ is nowhere near enough ‘compromise’ for rebels and opposition parties to back the Starmer-Kendall eugenicist war on sick and…
Despite working on polar science for the British Antarctic Survey for 20 years, Louise Sime finds the magnitude of potential sea-level rise hard to comprehend
Arizona (Quds News Network)- In a religiously motivated murder, a man with a Hebrew neck tattoo admitted to crucifying a pastor in Arizona and revealed that he had a broader hit list of religious lead
Gardiner Bryant had conversation with Manjaros lead, Phillip Muller and was told that Valve has the Orange Pi Neo in-hand and they’re testing it, probably to bring SteamOS support for the handheld
Launch prices of the OrangePi Neo-01 will be: Base Model 7840u 16GB/512GB will be 450 $ or 3699 CNY Base Model 8840u 32GB/512GB will be 550 $ or 4499 CNY
: Israeli soldiers deliberately fire at Palestinians seeking aid at distribution sites, Haaretz investigation reveals
An investigation by #Haaretz reveals that Israeli soldiers have deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites in Gaza over the past month, with commanders ordering troops to shoot at crowds to disperse them despite posing no threat. According to official numbers published by the Gaza's Health Ministry, 549 people have been killed and over 4,000 wounded near aid centers since May 27.
Soldiers described the situation as a "killing field" and "total breakdown" of military ethical codes, with one calling it "Operation Salted Fish" - firing live ammunition, mortars, and grenades at hungry civilians waiting for food.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation operates four distribution centers that open for just one hour daily. Soldiers report firing at people who arrive early or remain after closing, with no return fire documented. Private contractors receive payment for each house demolished, bringing forces closer to aid distribution points and creating additional shooting incidents.
While the Military Advocate General has ordered investigations into suspected war crimes at aid sites, human rights organizations including Amnesty International have criticized Israel's military justice system for lacking independence and impartiality. Investigations typically focus on individual soldiers rather than examining broader military policies or command decisions, with limited transparency and many cases closed without prosecution or disciplinary action.
Israeli soldiers nicknamed their activity around Gaza aid distribution sites [death traps] "Operation Salted Fish" after the Israeli version of the children's game "Red light, green light." Like in the children's game where players must stop moving when "red light" is called, Palestinians approaching food distribution sites face live fire when they're not supposed to be there, and can only approach safely when the "green light" is given (when the distribution center opens). The soldiers are essentially treating starving civilians seeking food like players in a deadly version of a children's game - shoot to stop them from moving forward, then allow them to approach only during the designated hour when distribution occurs.
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present.
I mean, the sane among us already knew they were doing that, but I'm glad there's more organised investigation happening as well (and by an Israeli publication at that) 😛
It's like a mini Jallianwala Bagh every day but the leaders of most white countries evidently think that's perfectly okay 🙄
@badrihippo Unfortunately, it’s also not Israel’s first massacre; they’re not even trying to hide their glee as they watch the slaughter. I remember how much pushback there was about Deir Yassin and Tantura, even recently. You weren’t even allowed to question the purity of arms of pre-state militias, and then Kefar Qassem… and on and on. No one wanted to hear this then, and even less now. As someone posted today, why isn’t the #NYT, BBC, etc. publishing what appears on Haaretz regularly? There’s so much documented by Israeli researchers and investigators that it’s overwhelmingly clear.
@badrihippo exactly. In 2009 UN special reporter Goldstone published a report about the attrocties commited in Gaza by the #IOF in 2008. His report contains warcrimes against civilians and clear indications of genocidal intentions. In the aftermath the #Obamagoverment dismissed the report as a #PaperReality and pressured #Abbas to delay the UN vote to condem #IsraeliWarcrimes. Which further undermined his position in #Gaza which he lost to #hamas #IsraeliGenocide.un.org/unispal/document/auto-i…
Is Linux accidentally giving itself an unfair reputation for being difficult?
Helped a non-techy person on the phone get their wifi working on a Linux laptop, we solved it by them pressing the physical flight mode button and then toggling the wireless option in the GUI. Pretty easy, as easy as Mac or Windows.
BUT... when I looked this problem up on a search engine, the first page of results involved the command line and scary paragraphs of CLI text about hardware and drivers.
If this non-techy person had looked this up, they would have seen scary CLI options as top results, and been unfairly intimidated away from Linux.
Really good point by several people about diversity of distros, so I've tried searching for this particular problem on the user's particular distro (Linux Mint).
Top results in DDG for "linux mint wifi not working":
100%! for some reason - the vast majority of "tutorials" and replies on forums/reddit favour CLI for EVERYTHING, even if there's a 2-click GUI solution to the same issue
@FediThing 🏳️🌈 Main problem here is with people not having the same physical buttons or even GUI as Lunux has a ton of distros and inconsistent hardware support (extended function keys included).
Also these scary CLI spells have a reason for existing as well 😀
I think the lesson here is the need to seriously up the manual/discoverability game and make *relevant* answers readily available without relying on web search at all.
Because web search is in all likelihood not going to take into account the specifics of the system the user is running, and favor the answer that helps the most Linux systems. And I'd fathom a guess that most Linux systems in existence today are headless and accessible via SSH at best, so the most universal answers are probably going to be for the command line.
So either web search has to stop being to go-to source, or Linux needs a very separate desktop brand that can pull generic Linux answers away from web search results when the user mentions it. Something comparable to Ubuntu or SteamOS. Because apparently even counting on the user to know they're using a GNOME DE is too generous these days.
And both these routes are *monumentally* difficult.
@FediThing 🏳️🌈 CLI-based solutions are generally less dependent on the distribution, desktop and language used. The same solution often works for e.g. an English-speaking Fedora user with GNOME as well as for an Chinese-speaking Kubuntu user. This is usually not the case with GUI solutions. To find a working GUI solution, you often have to know exactly what kind of system you are using.
the problem is that when you say Linux you have a wide array of different distributions. The terminal is where stuff works largely the same, but between systems your GUI might be completely different
#Germany is a police state that literally attack their own citizenry “hate crime” – any perceived slight against another person, verbal or otherwise. The law recognizes such disparate slurs as those critical of gender identity, religion, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or even affiliation with a group. German TV Promotes Great Replacement Climate Plan: Stop Having White European Children ‘Aryan CO2 Emitters,’ Import Third World Migrants Instead. “The current political and demographic shifts in Europe are an existential threat to its indigenous populations, not seen since the Gates of Vienna in 1683…” youtu.be/_uN3ZORybwg?si=HrAPpU…
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Gaza is the place where resistance has never ceased, not for a single moment. This fact alone is sufficient to establish Gaza as the most critical and undeniable component in the entire intricate history of the so-called conflict.
In his message following the end of Israeli aggression against Iran and a unilateral declaration of a ceasefire by the regime, Ayatollah Khamenei congratulates the Iranian nation on the victory.
🔻Anatolij #Sharij, journaliste ukrainien opposé à #Zelensky, se moque des hyperboles utilisées par des membres de l’ #UE pour promouvoir leur grand héros :
«Un héros d'acier, né dans la ville d'acier, un grand leader que le destin nous a donné !» Sharij commente: «Un monument doré à Zelensky sera bientôt érigé à Strasbourg» 😂 Les commentateurs se lâchent : «C'est hilarant. Vous, les clowns, avez tous besoin de soins psychiatriques d'urgence !» «Le déclin moral de l'UE continue. Une civilisation qu'il faudrait abandonner et laisser dépérir... Les contribuables sont-ils du gibier à plumer ou des moutons à tondre ?» 🔻 Il s’insurge : « 26 États membres de l’UE sur 27 soutiennent l’adhésion de l’Ukraine à l’UE. Seule la Hongrie est contre. Avec des verdicts politiques. Avec la persécution de l’opposition. Avec le néonazisme. Sans tribunaux. Sans police. Putain de toi, putain de groupe de crime organisé🖕»
This is #Israel / Racism & coercion: on the Depo-Provera Issue and the Ethiopian community (research)
I’ve seen this issue discussed here recently. Here’s some context about an historical and ongoing overreach of the state and medical authorities in controlling the fertility of Ethiopian immigrant women, in this case the forced (or “strongly encouraged”) use of the Depo-Provera contraceptive injection, extracted for a recent research paper.
The issue dates back to the 1990s and continues to the present day. Ethiopian immigrants, who often faced discrimination and were perceived as having higher birth rates, were disproportionately targeted by state-sponsored programs aimed at limiting their family size.
The Depo-Provera injection, a long-acting reversible contraceptive, was frequently administered to Ethiopian women, often without full informed consent or consideration of their individual needs and desires. This practice was sometimes carried out in the context of family planning programs in absorption centers for new immigrants.
The Israeli government and medical authorities played a role in perpetuating this issue. While some officials initially denied or downplayed the extent of the problem, investigations and reports revealed a pattern of coercive practices.
The issue is deeply rooted in racism and discrimination against Ethiopian immigrants, who were often viewed as a "problem", requiring state intervention to control their population growth. This reflects broader societal biases and stereotypes which is not limited to the Ethiopian community, if we limit the discussion to Jewish immigrants.
The researcher, Chedva Eyal, states that despite some changes in policy, concerns remain about the potential for continued overreach and a lack of respect for the reproductive rights of Ethiopian women.
Testimonial from the paper:
[…] For example, the testimony of Shula, who arrived at a Kupat Holim (healthcare clinic) branch in central Israel after giving birth to her son. The nurse insisted she take Depo-Provera, even though Shula did not request contraception and even emphasized that she did not have a partner. Shula, stunned by the intensity of the pressure, decided to go to another clinic to avoid taking contraception she had not asked for at all. The visitor might also have heard the testimony of an Ethiopian woman who refused to take Depo-Provera and was insulted with "retard, foolish," and because of her three pregnancies, she was offered an abortion. The racist and humiliating treatment, along with cases of a lack of medical care infrastructure, indicate a difficult and complex reality that is not reflected in the visitor's inquiry.
The article presents a retrospective account of the Depo-Provera (contraceptive injection) provision scandal to women from the #Ethiopian community in Israel, which was administered broadly with the aim of reducing fertility. The article follows the social and institutional processes since the scandal was revealed in 2008 and examines the State Comptroller's inquiry in 2015. This is a multi-site #ethnographic study that combines interviews, data processing, analysis of the State Comptroller's inquiry and Knesset debate protocols, and spans the years 2023–2008. During the research, I was exposed to many cases of Depo-Provera being administered without consent, and I witnessed the public discourse and processes that occurred in the wake of the scandal's exposure.
#Israel just slaughtered 100s more innocents in #Gaza. Here are some of their names and stories
The numbers are horrific but they are not mere numbers With the world ‘mainstream’ media’s eyes diverted to Iran & never too interested in reporting Israel’s crimes in Gaza anyway – Israel has continued to accelerate its slaughter & starvation of the Palestinian people of Gaza. 100s have been murdered in just the last couple of days, bombed & shot.
Israel’s genocide doesn’t stop; the numbers are horrific but they are not mere numbers With the world ‘mainstream’ media’s eyes diverted to Iran – and never too …
📢 🕯️ At least 11 Palestinians were killed, dozens injured early Friday as ISR aistrikes and drone attacks continued to pound the southern #gaza strip, targeting displaced civilians, residential neighborhoods, and aid seekers
🔹 🕯️ Acc to local sources, ISR warplanes bombed a makeshift tent sheltering displaced people in Al-Mawasi, west of #khanyounis, killing Dr. Ayman Suleiman Abu Tair and his niece Amira Mohammed Abu Tair
On March 26, 2010 Nancy Schaefer and her husband Bruce were found dead in their Habersham County home. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation ruled the deaths a murder-suicide, asserting Bruce shot Nancy in the back while she slept and then turned the gun on himself, leaving a suicide note and no signs of forced entry and closed the case rapidly \[1].
Nancy Schaefer had been removed from the Georgia State Senate in 2008 but continued as an outspoken critic of child protective services, publishing in 2007 “Investigation of Child Protective Services,” which alleged Title IV-E funding incentives drove unwarranted child removals, financial fraud, and trafficking in concert with foster and adoption agencies \[2].
At the death scene GBI reported Nancy had a single gunshot wound to the back and Bruce a self-inflicted chest wound; towels near the handgun and no forced entry were cited as consistent with murder-suicide, yet no independent forensic audit, ballistics reconstruction, blood spatter or gunshot residue analysis has ever been released \[1].
Family members and close associates unanimously rejected the official narrative. Nancy exhibited no suicidal ideation, was in good health, planning international speaking engagements and a documentary release, and Bruce showed no history of depression, financial distress, or violence; both were described as supportive, stable, and focused on activism \[3].
Prior to her death Nancy publicly reported receiving threats linked to her investigations of CPS and alleged involvement in exposing international child trafficking networks; her collected documentation and documentary materials vanished after the deaths, and FOIA requests for related records were met with redaction or denial \[4].
Major media outlets offered minimal coverage, no Congressional inquiry or independent autopsy was conducted, and federal agencies showed no interest in her documented civil rights and RICO-related allegations against CPS and state actors, despite her presentations before conservative organizations and United Nations forums \[5].
Independent investigators and family‐designated experts were denied access to autopsy materials, crime scene evidence, and sealed court documents; whistleblower accounts within Georgia’s legal system claim her work threatened sealed federal interests, yet these assertions remain unverified due to restricted records \[6].
Nancy Schaefer’s death aligns with a pattern of unexplained fatalities among CPS whistleblowers and reform advocates, including Monica Petersen and Senator Linda Collins-Smith, characterized by abrupt official rulings of suicide or accident, rapid case closures, and absence of thorough forensic review \[7].
Sources
\[1] Georgia Bureau of Investigation official case summary, 2010 \[2] Nancy Schaefer “Investigation of Child Protective Services,” 2007 \[3] Family testimonies collected by independent advocates, 2010 \[4] Freedom of Information Act responses and Associated Press coverage, 2010 \[5] Media analysis of national and international coverage, 2010 \[6] Whistleblower affidavit filed with state legal counsel, 2011 \[7] Comparative study of CPS whistleblower fatalities, 2015
Trump Spends $1M On Attack Ads Smearing Thomas Massie as Pro-Child Genital Mutilation Terrorist
AIPAC is recruiting a challenger to take on Thomas Massie and President Trump is already spending $1 million of his donors' money on smearing the America First congressman as a terrorist who wants to mutilate children's genitals.
Cases like Gabriel Fernandez and Adrian Jones highlight horrific abuse in state custody but are treated as rare exceptions. Meanwhile, systemic issues—especially mass spying via data collection used for racially and politically biased child removals, financial incentives, and the harmful outcomes—go largely ignored.
Risk assessment tools from firms like Palantir and Microsoft analyze data such as income, criminal records, CPS history, mental health, school attendance, social media, and neighborhood poverty and racial makeup. These biased algorithms disproportionately target families upholding traditional values or rejecting dominant ideologies, subjecting them to surveillance and separation. This model is exported globally via UNICEF, WHO, and philanthropic groups. The UN's number 1 stated goal is to end poverty; apparently by ending poor famalies.
The majority of removals (75%) are not for abuse, but a percieved risk of “neglect”. Even when the child was in no danger, and better off with family. (ACF, Child Maltreatment 2022). Reunification rates remain below 50%, with many parents permanently losing custody despite no criminal convictions (Children’s Bureau Annual Report, 2022).
These removals destroy family bonds, and cause irreversible damage to children. Outcomes in foster care are catastrophically worse than remaining with their families, marked by high rates of malnutrition, abuse, medical neglect, psychotropic overmedication, disappearances, and deaths—many concealed or misclassified. Sexual exploitation, trafficking, and organ harvesting disproportionately victimize foster youth, making the system a documented human trafficking conduit under the guise of protection.
National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) reports from 2021 indicate foster children experience mortality rates 20 times higher than age-matched peers, with deaths attributed to neglect, abuse, untreated medical conditions, and suicide. Investigative journalism from The Guardian and ProPublica revealed widespread physical and sexual abuse in foster care and group homes, forced medication, malnutrition, and neglect. The GAO (2019) documented that 61% of foster children received psychotropic medications, often prescribed off-label without FDA approval or adequate psychiatric oversight. DOJ statistics estimate roughly 20,000 foster children run away or go missing annually, many trafficked or exploited, but reporting systems are inconsistent and undercount disappearances (DOJ Child Exploitation Report, 2020). These abuses amount to racial and class genocide disguised as protection.
Media silence stems from conflicts of interest tied to government funding and corporate advertising, sustaining the false narrative that removal is always protective.
This media blackout is part of a global psychological operation controlled by political actors, corporate contractors, and intelligence-linked firms. By focusing on isolated cases, they hide a coordinated system enforcing racial and class genocide through family destruction. Without real investigative journalism, this silent genocide continues behind closed doors.
Die durch ihr verschenktes Millionenerbe bekannt gewordene Aktivistin möchte "auf die illegale Blockade des Gazastreifens durch Israel" aufmerksam machen
All ideas about the "Nazis" being so strict and uptight that they had no sense of humor are of course all derived from the programming of countless movies where National Socialist Germans have been pictured as such.
Thus people today, "feels like" they kind of know how it was.
It is all lies based upon lies.
Look at the video of Hitler, then a soldier, playing with a dog in the middle of WW1
Was that a man devoid of Humor? No he was a loving caring man with a smile.
All ideas about the "Nazis" being so strict and uptight that they had no sense of humor are of course all derived from the programming from countless movies where National Socialist Germans have been pictured as such.
Thus people today, "feels like" they kind of know how it was.
It is all lies based upon lies.
Look at the video of Hitler, then a soldier, playing with a dog in the middle of WW1
Was that a man devoid of Humor? No he was a loving caring man with a smile.
Open Society Publications Peter Thiel’s assertion that democracy inevitably subordinates freedom collapses once automation profits and import duties are taxed progressively, channeling AI‑driven surpluses into public goods rather than oligarchic coffers. This policy directly undermines his escape‑hatch logic by ensuring that technological dividends serve collective well‑being instead of private enrichment. By reclaiming a fair share of automation rents, it nullifies Thiel’s premise that extending fiscal democracy corrodes capitalist liberty. Nuclear powered robotic factories can produce enough surplus to provide a UBI for every citizen.
His vision of detached technocrats ruling unaccountable AI platforms is shattered by community‑led ownership of factories and data infrastructures. Democratic cooperatives and municipally governed enterprises prevent secretive acquisitions and algorithmic governance, embedding production within elected structures and subjecting all automated decision‑making to public review.
Thiel’s model of surveillance‑driven distribution is refuted by a uniform, non‑targeted UBI that guarantees equal economic footing without elite gatekeepers. Removing means tests and opaque criteria restores the principle that support is an unconditional right, not a privilege granted by an unelected few.
Finally, Thiel’s call to “find an escape from politics in all its forms” is countered by embedding these reforms within a transparent, consent‑based government fortified by robust protections for speech, press and information flows, real‑time disclosure of political expenditures, and citizen‑initiated referendum and recall mechanisms obliterates the claim that democracy stifles innovation. True liberty and technological progress flourish only when economic power is as decentralized and contestable as political authority.
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Finding viable sperm in infertile men can take days. AI did it in hours. - The Columbia University Fertility Center used AI to find viable sperm in an infertile man... - washingtonpost.com/health/2025…
Lenovo's hot-swappable batteries made my colleagues nostalgic — but today's USB-C solutions are better - Lenovo's hot swappable batteries were a great way to keep w... - tomshardware.com/laptops/lenov… #laptops
📢 Al Mayadeen's correspondent in south #lebanon: Israeli warplanes launch strikes on regions of al-Mahmoudiyah, al-Khardali (11:20 local-t) ++ Israeli aircraft execute series of strikes in Kfar Tibnit (11:00 local-t)
Pourquoi certains journaux continuent d’illustrer les canicules avec des femmes en bikini et des enfants tout sourire à la plage ? Est-ce vraiment représentatif de ce qu’il se passe quand il fait plus de 40°C à l’ombre et qu'il peut y avoir des conséquences mortelles ?
Tage nach Israels Angriff auf das Gefängnis im Iran wissen Angehörige von Insassen nicht, wie es um ihre Liebsten steht. Unsere Autorin hat gemischte Gefühle – auch sie war einst dort inhaftiert
»Bundesverkehrsminister Patrick Schnieder spricht sich für eine Fortsetzung des Deutschlandtickets aus, bleibt in der Frage der Finanzierung [von 1,5 Milliarden für den Bund] aber hart.«
Wir haben nämlich kein Geld, weil wir ~5,5 Milliarden fürs Dienstwagenprivileg ausgeben. (Quelle 2023: www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/dienst…)
Die bestehende Dienstwagen-Regelung sorgt für Kritik. Sie kostet den Staat offenbar weit mehr als das Deutschlandticket. Dabei sind die meisten Dienstwagen immer noch klimaschädliche Verbrenner.
Scientists are harnessing data from ESA’s Swarm mission and ground-based instruments to precisely measure the strength and duration of intense upper-atmosphere heating – dramatic ‘hot flushes’ triggered by solar storms that also cause Earth’s tenuous outer atmospheric layers to expand rapidly.
This research, funded by ESA's Earth Observation FutureEO Science for Society initiative, offers crucial insights into how geomagnetic activity affects satellite orbits and space weather conditions.
Unfortunately immigrants don't know that Creta is a high priority military target, that a big part of greeks wish to be shot. euronews.com/video/2025/06/27/…
Video. Greece is deploying naval forces to Crete's southern shores as migrant arrivals from Libya soar, with over 7,300 migrants landing this year. Shelters are overwhelmed.
📢 #iran has not made any decision to initiate nuclear talks with the #US, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday in an interview with Iranian state television
🔹 Araghchi noted that #tehran was engaged in negotiations with the US when Washington backed an Israeli attack on Iran and then eventually launched its own direct airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities
es ist eine schöne sache, wenn eine künstlerin und lebefrau über ihr wildes leben sagt: „ich bereue nichts.“
wenn eine politikerin das selbe sagt, nachdem sie mit destaströsen polit- und personalentscheidungen ihre eigene partei in den untergang geführt hat und damit den boden für den faschismus weiter bereitet hat, finde ich das schade. mastodon.social/@eskensaskia/1…
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Mit Tobias Peter, Berliner Büroleiter von Stuttgarter Zeitung und Stuttgarter Nachrichten, habe ich über meine Zeit als SPD-Vorsitzende gesprochen, die an diesem Wochenende zu Ende geht. Ich bereue nichts.
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Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara joins us from London to unpack the latest developments following the US strikes on Iran. In this in-dept...
Für zunächst zwei Jahre wird der Familiennachzug für subsidiär Schutzberechtigte ausgesetzt. Nach hitziger Debatte stimmten auch viele aus der Opposition der Änderung zu.
Im Gedenken an Süleyman Taşköprü, der heute vor 24 Jahren, am 27. Juni 2001, in Hamburg vom NSU mit mehreren Schüssen ermordet wurde. Er war 31 Jahre alt und hatte eine Tochter. #keinSchlussstrich #keinVergessen
In case people didn't know, Creative Commons has been on the side of "screw your rights and livelihood, it's fair use" regarding GenAI training since at least 2021.
The new "AI" license 'signals' are interesting as a development (assuming anyone honours them when companies mass pirated commercial creative works!) but not a surprise (and apparently don't include a "no" option, because that's elsewhere in a spec and this is for granularity of yes)
Seems a bit unfair to me. In my reading, both CC and EFF articles are explaining the "bad news" that (1) a lot of AI use is likely permissible under both copyright law and CC licences, and (2) trying to fix this might have troublesome blow-back effects for some ordinary human creative-rights issues. The accusation of "screw your livelihood" could be (and was!) also used by the Big Rights people trying to stop the Open Culture movement, back in the day.
The GOP’s new Homeland Security funding bill would require “all non-detained migrants” to wear GPS tracking devices, in a demoralizing “alternative to detention.”
One of the Three Stooges' greatest moments! How Vernon Dent , or anyone, could mistake Curly for the Maharaja is quite extraordinary! From "Three Little Pi...
🌪️ Confronting the "zero response" – the narcissist who completely ignores any negative feedback can be incredibly frustrating.
When you express your concerns, it may feel like you’re talking to a wall. This reaction can leave you feeling invalidated and unheard. But remember, this behavior often stems from their inability to accept criticism or any form of accountability.
🔍 It’s important to establish healthy boundaries. While you can't change their behavior, you can control your reactions. Focus on self-care and surround yourself with supportive individuals who value your perspective.
Donald Trump is losing it after a disastrous press conference from his Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, where he snapped at a reporter. Francis Maxwell re...
🔻Anatolij #Sharij, journaliste ukrainien opposé à #Zelensky, se moque des hyperboles utilisées par des membres de l’ #UE pour promouvoir leur grand héros :
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