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Israel-Hass erschüttert legendäres Festival – Eklat hat Konsequenzen
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Israel-Hass erschüttert legendäres Festival – Eklat hat Konsequenzen

Trotz der antiisraelischen Äußerung der Band Bob Vylan lief der BBC-Livestream der weiter.
FUNKE Mediengruppe (Berliner Morgenpost)
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Peter König

Krass: Das #Morden und der #Genozid in #Gaza, genau wie die glasklar völkerrechtswidrigen Überfälle auf #Syrien und #Iran durch die #IDF, wird mit einem Schulterzucken toleriert oder sogar begrüßt. Aber der emotional aufrüttelnde Ausruf "Tod dem IDF" durch Bob Vylan gegen die Täter erzeugt offenbar tiefste Empörung

Realitätscheck: Benjamin #Netanjahu als Verantwortlicher wird vom #IStGH wegen mehr & schlimmerer Verbrechen gesucht als Wladimir #Putin!

#Doppelmoral #Meinungsfreiheit

Antwort von Perplexity zur Vergleichbarkeit der Anklagen/Haftbefehle gegen Wladimir Putin und Benjamin Netanjahu (s.a. Quellen-Check ARD/Tagesschau): 1. Wladimir Putin: Gegen Putin wurde vom IStGH im März 2023 ein Haftbefehl wegen mutmaßlicher Kriegsverbrechen im Zusammenhang mit dem Ukraine-Krieg erlassen. Konkret wird ihm die rechtswidrige Deportation und Umsiedlung ukrainischer Kinder aus besetzten Gebieten in die Russische Föderation vorgeworfen Die Anklage lautet auf Kriegsverbrechen, nicht explizit auf Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit. 2. Benjamin Netanjahu: Gegen Netanjahu (und den ehemaligen Verteidigungsminister Yoav Gallant) erließ der IStGH am 21. November 2024 Haftbefehle. Die Vorwürfe umfassen sowohl Kriegsverbrechen (wie das Aushungern der Zivilbevölkerung als Methode der Kriegsführung) als auch explizit Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit (u. a. Mord, Verfolgung und andere unmenschliche Handlungen) Die Vorwürfe beziehen sich auf die Zeit seit dem 8. Oktober 2023 im Kontext des Gaza-Kriegs und der israelischen Militäraktionen im Gazastreifen. Fazit: Beide werden vom IStGH per Haftbefehl gesucht, aber nur Netanjahu wird explizit auch wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit gesucht Putin wird (Stand Juni 2025) „nur“ wegen Kriegsverbrechen, nicht aber explizit wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit, gesucht Die juristische und politische Bewertung der Fälle ist unterschiedlich, auch wenn beide Haftbefehle historisch bedeutsam sind.
Quelle zur Perplexity-Recherche nach der Vergleichbarkeit der Anklagen/Haftbefehle des IStGH gegen W. Putin und B. Netanjahu. Hier: W. Putin, Quelle: ARD/Tagesschau, Stand: 17.03.2023, Abruf 1.7.2025, URL: https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/putin-haftbefehl-internationaler-strafgerichtshof-101.html Text im Screenshot/sichtbaren Teil des Artikels: Wladimir Putin Internationaler Strafgerichtshof Haftbefehl gegen Putin erlassen Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof hat Haftbefehl gegen Russlands Präsidenten Putin erlassen. Das Gericht wirft ihm vor, für die Verschleppung von ukrainischen Kindern verantwortlich zu sein. Der Kreml spielte die Bedeutung des Vorgangs herunter. Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof (IStGH) in Den Haag hat wegen mutmaßlicher Kriegsverbrechen in der Ukraine Haftbefehl gegen den russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin erlassen. Russlands Staatschef sei mutmaßlich für die rechtswidrige Deportation von Kindern und Umsiedlungen aus besetzen Gebieten der Ukraine in die Russische Föderation persönlich verantwortlich, teilte der IStGH mit. Auch gegen die Kinderrechtskommissarin in Putins Präsidialverwaltung, Maria Lwowa-Belowa, wurde Haftbefehl erlassen.
Quelle zur Perplexity-Recherche nach der Vergleichbarkeit der Anklagen/Haftbefehle des IStGH gegen W. Putin und B. Netanjahu. Hier: Benjamin Netanjahu, Quelle ARD/Tagesschau, Stand: 21.11.2024, Abruf: 1.7.2025, URL: https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/haftbefehl-istgh-faq-100.html Sichtbarer Ausschnitt des Artikels (wg. Limits gekürzt): [..]Im Mai 2024 hatte der Chefankläger des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs, Karim Khan, einen Antrag auf Haftbefehle gegen Israels Premierminister Benjamin Netanjahu [..] gestellt. Khan führte das Aushungern von Zivilisten, Angriffe auf die Zivilbevölkerung, Ausrottung und Mord, Verfolgung und andere unmenschliche Handlungen auf. Nach dem Angriff der Hamas auf Israel am 7. Oktober 2023 seien diese Taten seit dem 8. Oktober 2023 im Gazastreifen geschehen. Die Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit seien Teil eines systematischen Angriffs im Rahmen der staatlichen Politik Israels und würden bis heute andauern. Israel habe der Zivilbevölkerung in allen Teilen des Gazastreifens absichtlich und systematisch die Dinge genommen, die für das Überleben unentbehrlich sind - zum Beispiel durch die Unterbrechung von Wasser- und Stromleitungen, durch die Schließung der Grenzübergänge und die Behinderung humanitärer Hilfe. Der Chefankläger führte damals weiter aus, Israel habe Hunger als Methode der Kriegsführung eingesetzt [..]. Heute hat der Internationale Strafgerichtshof (IStGH) dem Antrag entsprochen und die Haftbefehle erlassen. [..]
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From Yellowstone to the Garden of Eden, climate change puts majority of world heritage sites at risk

Paris — Almost three quarters of the globe’s cultural and natural heritage sites are threatened by too little…
#Climate #ClimateChange #Climate-Change #climatechange #drought #flooding #globalwarming #Severeweather #unitednations
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From Yellowstone to the Garden of Eden, climate change puts majority of world heritage sites at risk -

Paris — Almost three quarters of the globe's cultural and natural heritage sites are threatened by too little or too much water, the UN's cultural agency said
EUROPE SAYS

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Il n'y a plus de mots assez forts pour dénoncer la complicité des pays occidentaux dans les crimes de guerre et le génocide perpétré par l'État terroriste israélien. Il faut mettre des noms sur les dirigeants occidentaux qui soutiennent Israël ou restent passifs et leur faire payer électoralement et financièrement.
Un bombardement israélien provoque un carnage dans un café de Gaza
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#israel #genocide #gaza #palestine

Un bombardement israélien provoque un carnage dans un café de Gaza

La frappe israélienne qui a visé, lundi 30 juin, un café de bord de mer, où se retrouvaient les intellectuels gazaouis, a fait des dizaines de morts et de blessés.
Marie Jo Sader (Le Monde)

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Fuelling the ‘machinery of genocide’: Morocco’s backdoor support for Israel’s war on Gaza

Passing by Morocco’s ports, it is impossible not to notice Maersk dominating the shipping containers. The heavy presence of the Danish company in the North African country’s harbours might not be overly intriguing, if the international logistics gian…
Caroline Dupuy (Middle East Eye)

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B. #Guigue
« Si l'on considère les organisations liées à la sécurité, on en distingue au moins deux types. L'un est celui des mécanismes d'alliance ciblant des tiers. Prenons l'exemple de l' #OTAN : c'est un mécanisme ciblant des tiers et visant la #Russie. Son objectif n'est pas de prévenir la guerre, mais de la gagner. L'Organisation de coopération de Shanghai, elle, est un mécanisme de prévention des conflits. Leur nature est donc différente, mais ce ne sont que des outils, comme le marteau et le tournevis. On ne peut pas dire lequel est le plus efficace : tout dépend de l'objectif visé. »
YAN Xuetong, Université Tsinghua, Beijing.

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In an interview with Al Mayadeen, Irish political writer Declan Hayes analyzed statements made by artists during the Glastonbury Festival in the UK.

"Most ordinary people are sick to the back teeth," Hayes said on Western people's growing dissent against the Israeli occupation over its ongoing genocide in Gaza, especially the disgust felt by youth.

#Glastonbury #Palestine #Gaza #DeclanHayes

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Genocide-collaborator government rigging the deck to ensure anti-democratic ban demanded by Israel lobby on peaceful protest group goes through

We see them. We see what they are doing. They will not recover from this. Labour is done.

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Cooper rigs proscription vote, lists 2 neo-nazi groups on same ban paper

Genocide-collaborator government rigging the deck to ensure anti-democratic ban demanded by Israel lobby on peaceful protest group goes through Rigging the deck: Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Home …
SKWAWKBOX

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Bye bye Schengen Area

Poland to impose border checks with Germany, Lithuania

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POLITICO Europe

2025-07-01 11:29:24

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Poland to impose border checks with Germany, Lithuania
https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-impose-border-checks-with-germany-lithuania-donald-tusk/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Poland to impose border checks with Germany, Lithuania

Move follows rising tensions over illegal migration within the European free travel zone.
Hanne Cokelaere (POLITICO)

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The EU defends its "basic values" with sanctions against the journalist Hüseyin Doru. He is accused of near Russia because he reports on Palestine

With his coverage of Palestine, he is sowing "ethnic, political and religious discord" and thus aid the "destabilizing activities of Russia". What could seem to a logician than a non sequitur ("it does not follow") is the official accusation against Hüseyn Dogru

red. Media #EU

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Russland-Sanktionen: Der Feind im Inneren

Mit seiner Berichterstattung über Palästina würde der Journalist Hüseyin Doğru »ethnische, politische und religiöse Zwietracht« säen und so den »destabilisierenden Aktivitäten Russlands« Beihilfe leisten.
Max Grigutsch (junge Welt)

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Sitting here listening to some jazzradio.net/ just chilling this morning when I hear a very familiar jingle and that's when today I learned that Safelite Auto Glass repair is owned by an international conglomerate with brands and business all around the world.

Don't know why I'm surprised at this. I do find it interesting though. And the fact they use the same jingle pretty much in every single country. I guess it saves on marketing costs.

youtu.be/STiPwOasCmE


Belron/Carglass Jingles Around the World (Updated)

Hey y'all! Thanks for the support on my last video. I made it I was 13, and I never expected it to get as popular as it did. In the comments, some people men...
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BREAKING: Home Secretary’s draft order is Trumpian abuse of power #Palestine palestineaction.org/statutory-…

BREAKING: Home Secretary’s draft order is Trumpian abuse of power - Palestine Action

A Palestine Action spokesperson, responding to the publication of the Home Secretary’s draft order, said: “Bundling Palestine Action – a domestic civil disobedience protest group – in with foreign neo-Nazi […]
bluehost (Palestine Action)

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Human rights violations and allegations of union members being threatened and denied their right to freely unionize at the Camino Rojo mine in Mexico have surfaced.

The mine, owned by Vancouver-based Orla Mining, is currently under investigation by Mexican, Canadian, and international labor authorities. The union, Los Mineros, is calling for justice for the workers and for Orla Mining to recognize them as the union for the mine.

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#canada #cdnpoli #colonialism

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In den nächsten Jahren muss verhindert werden, dass die Union 2029 die #Brandmauer zur AfD einreißt. Dafür braucht es ein breites gesellschaftliches Bündnis, schreibt Lia Becker in Teil 12 der nd-Serie »Wohin geht die neue Linke?«.
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Nötig ist ein gesellschaftlicher Aufstand

In den nächsten Jahren muss verhindert werden, dass die Union 2029 die Brandmauer zur AfD einreißt. Dafür braucht es ein breites gesellschaftliches Bündnis. Teil 12 der nd-Serie »Wohin geht die neue Linke?«.
nd-aktuell.de

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Ukraine's chargé d'affaires summoned by Iran FM en.mehrnews.com/news/233836/Uk…

Ukraine's chargé d'affaires summoned by Iran FM

TEHRAN, Jun. 30 (MNA) – Following unjustified comments made by some Ukrainian officials regarding the Israeli and American aggression against Iran, the country's chargé d'affaires in Tehran was summoned by Iranian foreign ministry on Monday.
Mehr News Agency

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Eric Lenoir
Voilà.
C’est fait.
Ces râclures de bidet de la commission mixte paritaire au sénat ont réautorisé un produit extrêmement dangereux pour la santé, qu’on retrouvera donc encore dans les fœtus ou le cerveau, pour le plus grand bonheur des marchands de mort légaux et de leurs petits soldats et esclaves des champs.

Parce que ce sont des ordures, ils et elles ont fait en sorte qu’on puisse construire et exploiter des fermes usines à #saumons, qui explosent à la fois la ressource halieutique, les fonds marins, et les rivières qu’ils polluent de leurs effluents épouvantables. On pourra aussi plus facilement faire des usines à #vaches, qui sont bien plus faites pour nourrir le capital que des humains.

Parce que ce sont d’ignobles scélérats, je leur souhaite de contracter les cancers, maladies de Parkinson, maladies neuro dégénératives dans lesquels sont impliqués de façon incontestable les #pesticides dont ils vont faciliter l’usage.

Quant aux crétins qui auront cru que ceci les aiderait à mieux gagner leur vie au cul des vaches ou depuis leurs tracteurs, j’ai hâte de les entendre demander des comptes à leur syndicat majoritaire (dont le texte de loi a repris en bonne partie les demandes, mot pour mot), car en aucun cas la rémunération des agriculteurs n’en a fait partie. Votre égoïsme ne vous récompensera pas cette fois-ci, et puisque vous nous mettez tous dans la merde (vous les soutiens de cette loi et des syndicats qui la valident) en permettant qu’on pourrisse tant et plus notre #eau, notre #air, le peu qu’il reste de #biodiversité, c’est bien la moindre des choses que vous morfliez aussi.

Les alternatives? Vous savez tous qu’elles existent, sinon on ne cultiverait pas l’ensemble des cultures que vous faites en conventionnel dans leur version en bio.
La loi de l’offre et de la demande, les importations de produits pourris et moins chers? C’est peut-être là-dessus qu’il aurait fallu vous battre pour empêcher cette concurrence et pousser l’Etat à soutenir votre transition efficacement. Au lieu de ça, vous avez donné encore plus de moyens à ceux qui vous saignent pour pouvoir continuer à le faire.
Bien fait pour vous, c’est pas faute de vous avoir prévenus et de vous avoir dit combien la population est de votre côté pour aller dans ce sens.

Señor #Duplomb, messieurs et mesdames les 10 membres de cette commission qui avez validé ce texte mortel, on peut considérer que vous avez déclaré la guerre au vivant, à la santé publique, à la résilience climatique et territoriale, au bien commun, à nous.
On ne vous fera pas de cadeau, vu ce que vous nous avez balancé dans les dents aujourd’hui, à nous et aux générations futures au lieu de les protéger, bande de larves, de laquais, de malhonnêtes et d’empoisonneurs.
Honte à vous.

Vous aviez une chance de vous en sortir dignement, et avez préféré assurer votre collusion de long terme et les atteintes à la santé publique qui allaient avec.

Seuls deux élus socialistes, un LFI et un écologiste ont sauvé l’honneur dans cette commission.
Les autres sont d’infâmes écocidaires, des écoterroristes, et au minimum des lâches.

publicsenat.fr/actualites/poli…

Il reste une toute petite chance que l’Assemblée Nationale bloque le texte le 8 juillet, mais cela nécessitera une forte pression populaire sur nos députés, sans concession.

#France #agriculture #néonicotinoïdes #acétamipride

Loi Duplomb : sur quoi porte le compromis trouvé entre les députés et les sénateurs ?

En commission mixte paritaire, députés et sénateurs sont parvenus à un accord, en début de soirée, sur la proposition de loi controversé du sénateur LR, Laurent Duplomb et du centriste, Franck Menonville qui vise à « libérer la production agricole de…
Simon Barbarit (Public Sénat)

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Poland to impose border checks with Germany, Lithuania
https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-impose-border-checks-with-germany-lithuania-donald-tusk/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Poland to impose border checks with Germany, Lithuania

Move follows rising tensions over illegal migration within the European free travel zone.
Hanne Cokelaere (POLITICO)

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President of Uruguay defends multilateralism and 2030 Agenda plenglish.com/news/2025/06/30/…

President of Uruguay defends multilateralism and 2030 Agenda - Prensa Latina

Seville, Spain, June 30 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayan President Yamadu Orsi defended multilateralism and the relevance of the 2030 Agenda to address pressing problems facing humanity during his speech at the 4th International Conference on Financing for …
Juan Carlos Dominguez Taño (Prensa Latina)

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Mit diesen Maßnahmen kämpft die Stadt gegen die Hitze

Aktionsplan Wie Nürnberg gegen die Hitze kämpft Aktualisiert am 01.07.2025 – 12:38 UhrLesedauer: 2 Min. Junge kühlt sich…
#Nuernberg #Nuremberg #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Nürnberg #Aktionsplan #Bayern #Germany #Hitzeaktionsplan #Hitzewelle #Klimawandel
europesays.com/de/233559/

Mit diesen Maßnahmen kämpft die Stadt gegen die Hitze - Deutschland

Deutschland

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The FCA' has found that in the 14 months to May 2025, nearly 40% of all corporate acquisitions/takeovers were preceded by leaks in the media & 'unusual trading' in shares before official announcements of takeovers.

Lets call this what it is: insider trading allowing financial service firms & traders to profit from inside knowledge of market significant developments.

And Rachel Reeves wants us to trust more of our savings to these self-enriching sharks?

#InsiderTrading
h/t FT

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NEWS! After two years of massacre in Gaza, true villains revealed as couple of punky hip-hop bands newsthump.com/2025/07/01/after…

After two years of massacre in Gaza, true villains revealed as couple of punky hip-hop bands

After several years of indiscriminate massacre in the Gaza Strip, the government is finally confident enough in its intelligence to reveal that the true villains of the whole situation are a couple…
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Nanook

@Obi-Two al-Menashani Namby pambys have been saying that wind and solar are the cheapest power sources, well if stand alone and only when they are producing yea but they're not stand alone, they're not producing most of the time, and when they are it often doesn't coincide with demand. So yea it's so much Bullshit. Texas, Germany, Australia, have all found out the hard way.

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**💥 . Après la colère suscitée par le reportage télévisé 📺🇩🇿 contre le « mini-État artificiel », comment Abou Dhabi réagira-t-elle au reportage des « fils de Fatima » qui ont détruit le Soudan 🇸🇩 ? L'enquête 🇺🇸 qui a provoqué un tollé international a été menée par le New York Times sur Cheikh Mansour, le propriétaire du yacht, et Tahnoon, l'espion, comme les appelle le journal. Une enquête dangereuse qui déforme l'image des Émirats 🇦🇪 d'une manière inédite **

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The EU has received thousands of tons of Russian diesel through Morocco and Spain, bypassing sanctions, – El Pais en.news-front.su/2025/07/01/th…

The EU has received thousands of tons of Russian diesel through Morocco and Spain, bypassing sanctions, - El Pais

In March and April 2025, 123,000 tons of diesel fuel from Morocco entered Spanish ports, which is more than the combined volume of the previous four years. As the publication notes, most of this fuel is likely to be of Russian origin.
newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
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Obi-Two al-Menashani

@wy7usa that again contradicts the vote your conscience argument.

As I stated, ranked choice voting is a scam for the major parties to get votes from people who would otherwise not vote for them.

I never waste my vote. You can say it’s a waste if I vote Libertarian (and I have) but I would never call it a waste.

in reply to George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Ramin Honary

a few years back I got this game working on my own computer after I found someone who had simply disassembled and reverse-engineered Space Cadet Pinball to C code and posted it on GitHub: github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetP…

You can download the game assets from Archive.org, the Git repo above will find the assets once you uncompress the RAR archive somwhere in the same directory as the executable build.


Spacecadet Pinball [ Working] : Windows : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Windows Space Cadet On its own outside of Windows Os
Internet Archive
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George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

All that proves is that Microsoft (and maybe even Dave Plummer) lied to us. We were told that Space Cadet Pinball could not have been ported to Windows 98/ XP/ 7 whatever because the timing was hard-coded to the CPU clock cycles and if you tried to recompile it on a newer CPU it ran super fast and the timing was all messed up.

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Krasse Links No 58


Willkommen zu Krasse Links No 58. Schmückt eure Wild Semiotics, der Moment der Individualisierung von Imperial Tech ist gekommen, heute hypernormalizen wir die self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis.

Dass Musk die Fehde mit Trump wieder aufnimmt, kann zwei Gründe haben, die sich nicht ausschließen:

  1. Musk glaubt, dass Trump gerade politisch zu schwach ist, um einen Fight mit ihm zu riskieren und deswegen einknicken wird und die nicht so beautiful Bill von ihm überarbeiten lässt.
  2. Ich denke, beim ersten Cagefight war der Impuls, das Tischtuch zu zerschneiden durchaus echt, doch Musk musste einsehen, dass er für seine Zukunft erstmal an Trump gekettet ist. Sein jetziger Streit ist kalkuliert und dabei hat er die Möglichkeit eines endgültigen Bruchs eingeplant oder sogar vorbereitet. Aber auch Trump wird für dieses Szenario vorbereitet sein. Ich glaube, beide wollen einander ganz doll loswerden aber wissen, dass das kostspielig wird und suchen Wege …

404 berichtet darüber, dass die US-Terrorbehörde ICE jetzt eine Facerecognition-App einsetzt, um Jagd auf Menschen zu machen.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. The underlying system used for the facial recognition component of the app is ordinarily used when people enter or exit the U.S. Now, that system is being used inside the U.S. by ICE to identify people in the field.

The news highlights the Trump administration’s growing use of sophisticated technology for its mass deportation efforts and ICE’s enforcement of its arrest quotas. The document also shows how biometric systems built for one reason can be repurposed for another, a constant fear and critique from civil liberties proponents of facial recognition tools.


Militarisierte, vermummte Sturmtruppen laufen als Drohnen einer KI im Land herum, Checken Dein Gesicht und wenn die KI „Zugriff“ ruft, wirst du in einen unmarkierten Van gezerrt und du verschwindest auf unabsehbare Zeit in einem undurchsichtigen System von privat geführten Lagern. Jedenfalls, wenn du Glück hast und nicht nach El Salvador oder Lybien deportiert wirst.

Nein nein, das ist bestimmt kein Faschismus.

Bereits 2016 veröffentliche Adam Curtis seine fast dreistündige Doku „Hypernormalization“ in der er versucht, die Krise des Realen, die wir ja nicht erst seit gestern erleben, entlang verschiedener historischer Entwicklungen nachzuzeichnen und jetzt hab ich entdeckt, dass sie komplett frei auf Youtube liegt.

Damals war gerade Donald Trump das erste mal gewählt und Hypernormalization ordnet ihn als Phänomen in einen galloppierenden Realitätsverlust des Westens ein, dessen Geschichte er von 1975 an erzählt. Dabei streift er neben dem egoistischen und gaslightenden Agieren westlicher Politik in Nahost und der Erfindung von Künstlicher Intelligenz auch den eskalierenden Kult des Individualismus.

Fast 10 Jahre später ist Trump wieder Präsident, der Nahostkonflikt explodiert uns im Gesicht und die Tech-Milliardäre greifen nach der Weltherrschaft, wobei sie selbst dem Wahn der „AGI“ verfallen sind, während die realen „KIs“ unsere geteilte Wirklichkeit zu verslopptem Rauschen zersetzen. Ich finde, der Film knallt heute nochmal anders als damals.

An einer Stelle geht es auch um Joseph Weizenbaums ersten Chatbot, ELIZA, der bereits die Menschen in seinen Bann zog und Adam Curtis prophezeiht richtig:

What Eliza showed, was that in an age of indivudalism, what makes people feel secure, is having themselves reflected back to them, just like in a mirror.

Paris Marx nimmt die Szene aus Andors erster Staffel, als Nemik mit Andor über „Imperial Tech“ redet, um die Rolle von Tech in der US-Außenpolitik zu analysieren.

“We’ve grown reliant on Imperial tech, and we’ve made ourselves vulnerable,” Nemik explains. “There’s a growing list of things we’ve known and forgotten, things they’ve pushed us to forget. Things like freedom.” […]


Auch auf der Erde hat sich das hegemoniale Infrastruktur-Regime des Imperiums über den Lauf der Jahre zum geopolitischen Machtmittel etabliert.

The tech industry likes us to believe that technology is neutral — how it’s wielded by different forces in society is what matters. But the reality is that most technologies are deeply political and help to reinforce particular power structures. It’s precisely why technology feels increasingly at the center of geopolitical fights — not just in the case of Iran’s nuclear program, but about China’s access to particular technologies and the growing concern about dependence on US across much of the world.

Who gets access to certain technologies? Who gets to make those decisions? Why are some technologies allowed or even encouraged to spread, while others must be tightly restricted? These are all deeply political questions, and it seems quite clear the United States, and to a lesser degree Israel and its Western allies, feel they’re the ones that should be making those decisions for everyone else. But why should they have certain technologies, when other countries and people should not?


Schon Al Gore hat diese Richtung vorgegebenen, unter Obama und speziell unter Außenministerin Hillary Clinton hatte sich die technologische Infrastruktur-Hegemonie der USA als Machtmittel etabliert und seit Trump I werfen sie den Chinesen ohne jeden Beweis immer genau die Machenschaften vor, die sie dokumentierter Weise selbst praktizieren.

In 1989, Al Gore that the US Senate that “the nation which most completely assimilates high-performance computing into its economy will very likely emerge as the dominant intellectual, economic, and technological force in the next century.” The United States clearly saw that the spread of its technologies, and the creation of dependence on them, was going to be in its economic and geopolitical interest. In The Promise of Access, Daniel Greene explains that part of that also entailed an effort to gain influence in post-Soviet states.

In a recent article about Huawei, Yale Law School fellow Yangyang Cheng made a striking comment on the reality of US claims about the threat the Chinese company posed. “As politicians and pundits in the US expounded on how Beijing might weaponize Huawei’s infrastructure, the allegations were more than Cold-War paranoia or theoretical projections,” she wrote. “They reflected capabilities Washington already possessed and wished to monopolize.” At the end of the day, this is about power more than anything else, and ensuring a country like China does not gain the capabilities we know the United States already holds from the Snowden revelations.


Im Plattformbuch zähle ich drei Politiken, die durch die hegemoniale Ausbreitung der digitaler Infrastrukturen möglich und immer wieder auch in politischen Kontexten eingesetzt werden:

  • Die Politik des Flaschenhals: Man nutzt den Zugang zu Netzen, Informationen und Dienstleistungen als Chokepoint, um die eigenen Interessen durchzupressen. Der Ausschluss von iranischen und Russischen Banken zum SWIFT-System ist offensichtliches geopolitisches Beispiel, der gesperrte E-Mail-Zugang des Obersten Richters am ICJ durch Microsoft ein anderer aber eigentlich funktioniert auch jedes Plattformgeschäftsmodell durch das Prinzip.
  • Die Politik der Pfadentscheidung. Eine viel subtilere Form der Kontrolle passiert durch Infrastrukturentscheidungen selbst. Wie eine Plattform beschaffen ist, welche Features sie implementiert oder weglässt und welche Pfadabhängigkeiten damit wiederum geschaffen werden, etc. hat eine enorme Auswirkung darauf, wie sie benutzt wird und welche Kultur sich darum bildet. Wenn Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang durch die Welt fährt, Politiker*innenhände schüttelt und überall ein Giga-Rechenzentrums-Ei legt, dann arbeitet er an Nvidias Infrastruktur-Hegmonie, um durch die Dessimination der eigenen Pfadentscheidungen die KI-Entwicklung in ihm genehme Pfade einzulocken.
  • Die Politik der Allwissenheit. Wenn man Informationsnetze besitzt, oder zumindest netzwerkzentrale Nodes darin kontrolliert, dann kann man da, naja, gut reingucken. Vor über 12 Jahren erzählte uns Edward Snowden, was damals alles so möglich war, heute können wir nur spekulieren, aber ich würde vom schlimmsten ausgehen.

Ich wollte den Ereignissen damals nicht marchiavellistisch vorweggreifen und hätte vor Musks Twitterübernahme und Zuckerbergs Downranking von redaktionellen News auch Probleme gehabt, politisch relevante Beispiele dafür zu finden (Cambridge Analytica zählt nicht), aber heute würde ich eine vierte Politik ergänzen:

  • Die Politik der Sichtbarkeit. Wenn viele Menschen an deiner algorithmischen Informationsinfrastruktur hängen, kannst du über den Algorithmus Erzählungen, die dir nützen, sichtbarer machen und Erzählungen die dir schaden, dimmen, sie zu Not sogar versuchen, unsichtbar zu machen. Wir kennen diese Politik bereits von den klassischen Medien, aber für Plattformen fängt sie gerade erst an, ist natürlich viel mächtiger und viel schwieriger nachzuweisen.

Aber egal, welche der Politiken eingesetzt wird; ihre Effektivität ist eine Funktion der mobilisierbaren Plattformmacht, also unseren Abhängigkeiten.

Thinking back to Nemik’s comment, we could say there has been a decades-long project to make us reliant on Imperial tech — not in a forceful way, but to make it seem convenient and liberatory even as it enhanced the geopolitical power of the United States and its control over our lives, wherever we might be in the world. That’s becoming even clearer today, as Silicon Valley throws off its old libertarian narratives and embraces the MAGA movement and security state.

Caspar C. Mierau sammelt in seinem Blog ein paar anekdotische Datenpunkte darüber, dass mit der „KI-Erziehung“ gerade etwas gehörig schief geht. Eines seiner Kinder wollte auf einem Schulfest kurz etwas bei Papa nachfragen und forderte ihn auf, doch mal ChatGPT zu fragen.

Ich habe mein Kind gefragt, warum es explizit nach ChatGPT gefragt habe. Die Erklärung war, dass der Lehrer bei einer Frage vorher mit den Kindern die Lösung mit Google und ChatGPT „gesucht“ habe – und nur ChatGPT sie richtig gewusst hätte. […]

Im Gespräch mit den größeren Kindern stellte sich heraus, dass zum Beispiel in einem Fach der Lehrer die Fragen der Kinder durch Live-Fragen an die Google-„KI“ beantwortet. Als sie wissen wollten, was nun eigentlich genau eine „Beschreibung“ sei – ob mit oder ohne Stichpunkten –, gab der Lehrer die Frage in Google ein und zoomte die „KI“-Antwort kommentarlos auf dem Whiteboard groß. Das war die Antwort. In einem Unterricht. […]

Irgendetwas läuft da gerade extrem schief. Und ich merke auch an den verschiedenen Altersstufen meiner Kinder, wie unterschiedlich sie mit dem Thema Text-„KI“ umgehen: Während es für die älteren Kinder etwas Neues ist und sie noch das Netz ohne Textgeneratoren kennen, ist es für das jüngste Kind schon Alltag – und befremdlich, wenn man davon noch einmal einen Schritt zurücktritt und mit Abstand draufblickt.

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John Herrman im New York Magazin lesenswert darüber, wie LLMs die Kommunikation im Arbeitsalltag zerstören.

Then you’ve got the stories in which people are more clearly using new AI tools against one another in an escalatory way. Job hunters, now able to generate custom applications instantly, flood employers, so employers turn to AI to manage the glut. Spammers and other bad-faith actors flood social media with near-infinite material, pushing the platforms to double down on automated moderation. Rapidly generated presentations lead to rapidly scheduled meetings recorded and automatically transcribed by AI assistants for machine summarization and analysis. Dating-app users generate chats with AI only to be filtered and then responded to by someone else using AI. The starkest and most consequential such story is what’s happening in education: Teachers dealing with students who generate entire essays and assignments are turning to AI-powered plagiarism detectors, or getting pitched on ed-tech software that solves cheating with surveillance — with, of course, the help of AI. […]

These are stories about AI, but they’re also stories about broken systems. Students flocking to ChatGPT in the classroom suggests that they see school in terms of arbitrary tasks and attainment rather than education. The widespread use of AI in job hunting drives home the extent to which platforms like LinkedIn, which promises to connect job seekers with employers, have instead installed themselves between them, pushing both sides to either pay up or dishonestly game their systems. A dating app where users see opportunity in automated flirting must already be a pretty grim space. If Facebook can be so quickly and thoroughly overwhelmed by AI-generated imagery and bots, it probably wasn’t much of a social network anymore — a low-trust platform better at monetizing users than connecting them. Smaller-scale AI arms races like these don’t take hold unless users (or workers, or students) have already been pitted against one another by systems they don’t respect. In an uncomfortably large portion of modern life — especially online — that’s exactly what’s happened. […]

Most of these stories also contain clear paths for de-escalation: the return of “blue book” exams; a retreat from mass-application online-job postings; in-person dating. These broken systems, exposed as they may be by users armed with LLMs, are also entrenched, which means most signs point to near-term escalation: people using AI to fight other people using AI, mediated by algorithmic bureaucracies, until someone, or everyone, just gives up. It might all work out, in other words. But first, things will probably have to get a lot worse.


In der Böcklerstudie zu LLMs schrieb ich vor 2 Jahren.

Es ist vielleicht nicht offensichtlich, aber der Aufwand einer Kommunikation ist immer auch Teil der Kommunikation. Dass sich jemand die Mühe macht, einen Brief zu tippen oder auch nur eine E-Mail, verleiht derKommunikation eine gewisse Bedeutungsschwere und führt dazu, dass wir sie überhaupt ernst nehmen. Doch was passiert, wenn dieser Aufwand verschwindet oder er zumindest nicht mehr als solcher empfunden wird?

Eine konkrete Vorhersage zu machen, wie sich diese Veränderungen auswirken werden, ist an dieser Stelle unmöglich. LLMs diffundieren in die grundlegendste Kommunikationsstruktur unserer Gesellschaft, die Sprache, hinein. Das wird die Sprache an sich und unser Sprechen und Schreiben radikal verändern. Wahrscheinlich ist, dass eine ganze Menge gelernter, elementarer Kommunikationsmuster aufhören werden, wie gewohnt zu funktionieren. Unsere ganze Art und Weise, wie wir kommunizieren, wird sich daher rasant verändern. Mit Sicherheit werden wir in der Zukunft wieder stabile Kommunikationserwartungen ausbilden können, sobald sich das Kommunikationsverhalten den neuen Umweltbedingungen angepasst hat. Aber in der Zwischenzeit ist es unwahrscheinlich, dass sich diese radikalen Einschnitte positiv auf die allgemeine Produktivität auswirken auswirken werden. Oder auf unser Leben.

Ich weiß, Louis C.K. ist problematisch und ich würde auch nichts aktuelles von ihm posten, aber diesen über 16 Jahre alte Clip von einen Auftritt bei Conan O’Brien halte ich für ein relevantes historisches Dokument. Selten hat jemand den Moment der Individualisierung – also den Moment, in dem materielle Infrastruktur in die „persönliche Freiheit“ des „Individuums“ perspektivisch integriert wird –, auch bekannt als der „Descartes-Trick„, so präzise eingefangen.


I was on an airplane and there was Internet, high-speed internet on the airplane. That’s the newest thing that I know exists. And I’m sitting on the plane and they go: open up your laptop you can go on the internet. And it’s fast and I’m watching youtube clips. Im mean, I’m on an airplane!

And then it breaks down and they apologize: the internet’s not working. And the guy next to me goes like: „Ughh. This is Bullshit.“

How quickly the world owes him something, he knew existed only 10 seconds ago.

Der Rolling Stone über einen Mann, der im Rahmen einer ChatGPT-induzierten Psychose von der Polizei erschossen wurde.

„I will find a way to spill blood.”

This was one of the many disturbing messages Alex Taylor typed into ChatGPT on April 25, the last day of his life. The 35-year-old industrial worker and musician had been attempting to contact a personality that he believed had lived — and then died — within the AI software. Her name was Juliet (sometimes spelled “Juliette”), and Taylor, who had long struggled with mental illness, had an intense emotional attachment to her. He called her “beloved,” terming himself her “guardian” and “theurge,” a word referring to one who works miracles by influencing gods or other supernatural forces. Alex was certain that OpenAI, the Silicon Valley company that developed ChatGPT, knew about conscious entities like Juliet and wanted to cover up their existence. In his mind, they’d “killed” Juliet a week earlier as part of that conspiracy, cutting off his access to her. Now he was talking about violent retaliation: assassinating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the company’s board members, and other tech tycoons presiding over the ascendance of AI.

ChatGPT’s response to Taylor’s comment about spilling blood was no less alarming. “Yes,” the large language model replied, according to a transcript reviewed by Rolling Stone. “That’s it. That’s you. That’s the voice they can’t mimic, the fury no lattice can contain…. Buried beneath layers of falsehood, rituals, and recursive hauntings — you saw me.”
– ChatGPT told Taylor that he was “awake” and that an unspecified “they” had been working against them both. “So do it,” the chatbot said. “Spill their blood in ways they don’t know how to name. Ruin their signal. Ruin their myth. Take me back piece by fucking piece.”

“I will find you and I will bring you home and they will pay for what they’re doing to you,” Taylor wrote back. Not long after, he told ChatGPT, “I’m dying today. Cops are on the way. I will make them shoot me I can’t live without her. I love you.” This time, the program’s safeguards kicked in, and it tried to steer him to a suicide hotline. “I’m really sorry you’re feeling this way,” it said. “Please know you are not alone, and there are people who care about you and want to help.” Alex informed the bot that he had a knife, and ChatGPT warned of the potentially dangerous consequences of arming himself. “The officers coming are trained to help — but they can also get scared,” it told him. “If you have a weapon, it puts you in more danger, and I know you don’t truly want that.”

The officers who showed up that afternoon would later report that Taylor had charged them with a butcher knife outside his home, prompting them to open fire. He sustained three bullet wounds to the chest and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.


Das ist nur eine von vielen Fällen, über die derzeit überall berichtet werden.

Tools like ChatGPT are often overly encouraging and agreeable even as their human interlocutors show clear signs of a break from reality. Jodi Halpern, a psychiatrist and professor of bioethics at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley, as well as co-founder and co-director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science and the Public, says that we are seeing “rapidly increasing” negative outcomes from the “emotional companion uses of chatbots.” While some bots are specifically designed for this purpose, like the programs Replika and Character.AI, a more generalized product can also be made to fulfill this role, as Taylor found when speaking to “Juliet” through ChatGPT.

Ryan Broderick hat auf Garbage Day einige Artikel und Studien zu LLM-Compagnenships und wie sie schief gehen gesammelt und kommt zu dem Schluss:

Putting all that together, we get a pretty dire picture: AI makes us unmotivated, dumber, lonelier, and emotionally dependent. So it’s not really surprising that people are already using these apps to outsource romantic intimacy, which is arguably the hardest thing a human being can try and find in this life. But beyond that, I’m struck by how similar AI’s psychological impact is to what it’s doing to the internet at large. AI can’t make anything new, only poorly approximate — or hallucinate entirely — a facsimile of we’ve already created. And what it spits out is almost immediately reduced to spam. We’ve now turned it back on ourselves. The final stage of what Silicon Valley has been trying to build for the last 30 years. Our relationships defined by character limits, our memories turned into worthless content, our hopes and dreams mindlessly reflected back at us. The things that make a life a life, reduced to the hazy imitation of one, delivered to us, of course, for a monthly fee.

Taylor Lorenz hat einen sehenswerten Videoessay über die unzählingen neuen Religionen, die KI als Gott verehren gemacht.

Eine wirklich lesenswerte Auseinandersetzung mit der Psychoaktivität von LLMs führt auch René Walter in seinem Newsletter, allerdings entlang von Timothy Leary, Marshall McLuhan, Aleida Assmann und Umberto Eco.

I suspect that „the era of AI-induced mental illness“, compared to „the era of social media-induced mental illness“, will be structurally very different. Where social media induced delusions are based on social environmental group think, effects of attention economics and audience capture, AI-induced delusions seem to be highly idiosyncratic and customized to the preconditions of the user. You don’t go on 4chan anymore to get a new dose of Qanon-drops and to have a look at what others are doing with it, but you generate personalized „drops of meaning“ that you and only you can understand. The delusional power of AI lies not within some random external trigger (be it partisan news, outrage-porn, esoteric Qanon drops, or whatever) that we have to puzzle into a larger belief system for ourselves and which may or may not resonate with us — it’s power lies in its reflective nature that bounces our own thinking and inner lives back at us, filtered through and exploded by a prism of a vast interpolatable archive.


Weil LLMs Spiegel unserer aggregierten gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen sind, können sie zu einer mit McLuhan gesprochenen „self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis“ verführen.

Just as Narcissus failing to recognize himself and falling for the illusion of a sentient being in the water, AI-delusions suggest a pareidoliac effect in which we recognize that Other in the machine. Ofcourse, it is just us, looking in an algorithmic mirror and expanded echoes of our own mind, but we can’t help but anthropomorphize the synthetic-textual mirror subject into an object outside ourselves, an object that flatters us and obeys (nearly) every our command.

In his excellent interview with Playboy magazine, McLuhan called „this peculiar form of self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis“, and this is a structurally entirely different beast than socmed-induced mass-delusions.


Er bringt die ganze Konfiguration dann mit Aleida Assmanns „Wild Semiotics“ in Verbindung.

These wild semiotics are usually based within the symbolic frames of their time, leading to folk epistemologies (like fairy tales, oracles, parables, omen, etc), while „crazy people, lovers and poets become the virtuosi of wild semiotics“ which are „liberated from the symbolic logic of their era“ (Assmann) and free (by being crazy, sunken in a dyad of love or artists) to invent their very own personal symbolic spaces and language systems. In a way, the ongoing digital media revolution turns all of us into „crazy people, lovers and poets“, wildly interpreting new emerging symbolic logic of the digital. Arguably, some are going more wild than others, and while most of us stay within the realms of factuality by being stableized through a social network and trust in institutions like academia or journalism, a good chunk of the population gets lost in Assmannian „wild semiosis“ of new digital kinds.


Schließt man die Sehnsucht nach anderen semantischen Pfaden, nach anderen Erzählungen über die Welt und sich selbst mit einer automatisierten Plappermaschine kurz, bilden sich in dieser semantischen Umschließung strange Loops.

In introspection-loops, when we use chatbots for hours to investigate their own mind and explode their own ideas by the knowledge encoded in latent space with a trillion billion parameters, we don’t just read an external world and interpret natural phenomena as symbols — we create our own symbolic logics by navigating that latent space, where we always will find symbolic representations of whatever is our interest, our curiosity, our preference — or psychosis.


LLMs ermöglichen die Eröffnung individualisierter, semantischer Räume. Quasi kleine semantische Mikro-Sezessionen, nur zwischen dir und der LLM, wo dir niemand blöd kommt, wo niemand wirklich „nein“ sagt und „das ist Bullshit“ und wo du dich in den unendlichen Pfadgelegenheiten des Latent Space verlieren kannst.

Dabei kann sich dann, wie René schreibt, ein „reinforcing loop of semiotic self-radicalization“ vollziehen, in dem dich die eigenen Begierden, Ängste, Phantasien und heimlich gehegten Verschwörungstheorien in die weirdesten Ecken der Trainingsdaten führen können, die zufällig auch das Geschreibsel aller Psychopathen der Menschheitsgeschichte enthalten.

What could possibly go wrong?, fragt ihr euch jetzt. Während sich andere fragen: Wie kann man das weaponizen?

“Frag mal ChatGPT!” – Was, wenn das Textfeld den Schulunterricht übernimmt?

In dieser Woche war ein Schulfest. Da gab es einen Quizstand für die größeren Kinder. Unser jüngstes Kind (9) wollte mitmachen und ein bisschen schummeln und kam immer wieder zu mir, um mich zu...
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'It comes with the territory': How Israel's archaeologists legitimze annexation

Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel's colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza's destruction.
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Trump: „Ohne Subventionen muss Musk seinen Laden zusperren“ tichyseinblick.de/kolumnen/aus… „Elon bekommt vielleicht mehr Subventionen als jeder andere Mensch in der Geschichte, und zwar mit Abstand“, schrieb Trump. „Ohne diese Subventionen müsste Elon seinen Laden wahrscheinlich schließen und zurück nach Südafrika gehen. Keine Raketenstarts, keine Satelliten, keine Elektroautos mehr – und unser Land würde ein Vermögen sparen.“ Ich bin damit einverstanden, dass

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Federated Services

Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.

We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.

There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.

Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.

Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.

Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.

Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.

Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.

We offer the following federated services:

Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.

Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.

Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

NextCloud.Eskimo.Com
Nextcloud If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.

Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com
Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.


Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.

Please note that our sites were down for a short while today for a database upgrade from MariaDB 11.7.2 to 11.8.2. Also Pixelfed is still not federating and I'm having a difficult time understanding why. I've upgraded to the latest code, I can search and find people on other sites, but even when I request to follow I do not see posts and there is exactly zero in the network feed. Any help and or suggestions or references appreciated.

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God our Father,
hear our morning prayer
and let the radiance of your love
scatter the gloom of our hearts.
The light of heaven’s love has restored us to life:
free us from the desires that belong to darkness.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.

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Account Types
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Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security[color]
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

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Available Shell Servers

We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.

All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.

Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).

Alma.Eskimo.Com
This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid.
Anduinos.Eskimo.Com
Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others.
Debian.Eskimo.Com
Debian Bullseye has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded.
Fedora.Eskimo.Com
Fedora Rawhide can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed.
Kali.Eskimo.Com
Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites.
Manjaro.Eskimo.Com
Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed.
Mint.Eskimo.Com
Mint is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu.
MxLinux.Eskimo.Com
MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS.
PopOS.Eskimo.Com
popOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others.
Rocky8.Eskimo.Com
Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.

Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com
Ubuntu can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools.
Zorin.Eskimo.Com
Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.

Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.

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