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Νίκη του μποϊκοτάζ κατά Ισραήλ: Η πολυεθνική Energean αποκλείστηκε από χορηγός του 68ου Φεστιβάλ Φιλίππων!

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Τέσσερα επενδυτικά ταμεία και μια ισραηλινή τράπεζα, τα οποία χρηματοδοτούν έργα στα κατεχόμενα Παλαιστινιακά εδάφη, αποτελούν σχεδόν το 40% των μετόχων της Energean.
Ο κύριος πελάτης της Energean είναι η εταιρεία Israel Electric Corporation (IEC), ο μεγαλύτερος αγοραστής φυσικού αερίου του Ισραήλ που προμηθεύει ηλεκτρική ενέργεια στους παράνομους ισραηλινούς εποικισμούς στην κατεχόμενη Δυτική Όχθη.
Και εξίσου εγκληματικό, η Energean συνεργάζεται άμεσα από το 2019 με την αιματοβαμμένη Elbit Systems Ltd, τη μεγαλύτερη ιδιωτική εταιρεία στρατιωτικής τεχνολογίας, πυρομαχικών και λογισμικού παρακολούθησης του Ισραήλ.

Νίκη του μποϊκοτάζ κατά Ισραήλ: Η πολυεθνική Energean αποκλείστηκε από χορηγός του 68ου Φεστιβάλ Φιλίππων! - infolibre

Η Energean, βασικός χορηγός μέχρι πρότινος του Φεστιβάλ, συμβάλλει ενεργά στη γενοκτονία των Παλαιστινίων. Το ΔΗ.ΠΕ.
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Cuba is the epicenter of current exchanges on environment plenglish.com/news/2025/07/02/…

Cuba is the epicenter of current exchanges on environment - Prensa Latina

Havana, July 2 (Latin Press) The XV International Convention on Environment (Cubambiente 2025), based in the Palacio de Convenciones de La Habana, today promotes debates and presentations on current issues in this area with the participation of more …
Ana Luisa Brown (Prensa Latina)

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libertytree.ca/quotes/George.W…

"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."

-- George Washington

Quotation by George Washington

LibertyQuotes

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Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the ongoing campaign to neutralize the Palestine movement.

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/from-co…

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel


From COINTELPRO to Project Esther: The evolution of domestic counterinsurgency in the U.S.

Carrie Zaremba (Mondoweiss)

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Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

-- Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) US Founding Father
1787
Source: as recorded by Constitution signer James McHenry in a diary entry.

Quotation by Benjamin Franklin

"Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A r…
LibertyQuotes

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The US has suspended military aid to Ukraine for several months, according to the NYT en.news-front.su/2025/07/02/th…

The US has suspended military aid to Ukraine for several months, according to the NYT

The United States has stopped supplying interceptors for Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, artillery supplies and missiles to Ukraine for several months. The New York Times (NYT) newspaper writes about this, citing American officials.
newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)

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As a respondent, I would have complained to the survey designers about the absence of a "Hell yes!" answer option. mastodon.social/@Joewestby/114…

Joe Westby

2025-07-03 08:14:55

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Out today: A large majority of people in France, Germany and Spain back the EU to enforce the law on Big Tech - even if it risks relations with Trump.

New YouGov poll we commissioned @PeopleVsBigTech, WeMove Europe. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majorit…

Big Tech poll infographic

Large majority of French, German and Spanish public back tough EU stance on Big Tech, despite risk to Trump relations - People vs. Big Tech

Around half also believe Big Tech companies are more powerful than the EU Brussels, Belgium (3rd July 2025) - According to a new survey conducted by
Vanessa (People vs. Big Tech)

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I'm back again with another question: Wine/Proton

A few days ago I asked about taking the big leap, but I use my PC for work in the arts (voice over, music, digital art, etc).

I've been playing around with Bitwig to replace Cubase and ideally Adobe Audition. It's... a learning curve but I'm willing to make it work if I can get everything about my PC lined up with Linux.

I then discovered Wine and Proton. So, they're basically bridges that allow you to use some Windows programs in Linux? I read they can use vst files with a bit of work, and people have had some success with Cubase, though Adobe is still right out but I'd love to get away from Adobe anyway. Also games??

Is there a difference between Wine and Proton or are they basically just different programs that do the same thing? The big leap might be more feasible than I thought if they do what I think they do.

Edit: This seems like it could suit most of my needs. I need to do more research into it but you guys answered my questions. Appreciate you all taking the time, thanks!

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Luffy

So, they're basically bridges that allow you to use some Windows programs in Linux?


They are like really Bad cocaine. Sure, it may work, but if you want to give up that much time, might as well learn an alternative because the next version will need a new workaround.

I read they can use vst files with a bit of work


That's an emulator.

Is there a difference between Wine and Proton


Proton-ge is a fork of proton is a fork of wine, which only exists because Wine isnt made for gaming specifically and proton can't include a bunch of stuff because of legal reasons which enhance gaming further.

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Out today: A large majority of people in France, Germany and Spain back the EU to enforce the law on Big Tech - even if it risks relations with Trump.

New YouGov poll we commissioned @PeopleVsBigTech, WeMove Europe. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majorit…

Big Tech poll infographic

Large majority of French, German and Spanish public back tough EU stance on Big Tech, despite risk to Trump relations - People vs. Big Tech

Around half also believe Big Tech companies are more powerful than the EU Brussels, Belgium (3rd July 2025) - According to a new survey conducted by
Vanessa (People vs. Big Tech)

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Tech bros: “Why does everyone hate us?”

Also tech bros: caneandable.social/@WeirdWrite…

Robert Kingett

2025-07-02 09:24:22

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Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?

Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.

Mr. Kingett,

I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.

You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.

The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.

I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.

My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.

You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.

Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.

Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.

Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.

Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.

Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.

The choice is yours.

#AI #AIHype


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@WeirdWriter
Looks like an insult generated by LLM-ai in the style of witty satire. It's uneven tho, starting at the beginning where it says they are "an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster." A human writer is a 'who' not a 'that.' And it demands you take extra time to re-work your creative writing while saying the goal is to help ppl increase writing speed.

It's interesting the piece invokes the term 'open-source' (near the end) like a talisman ... or a jab?

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TEN House Republicans are standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” — a legislative masterpiece that delivers the largest tax cuts, deepest spending reductions, and toughest immigration crackdown in American history.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/h…


House Freedom Caucus SLAMS Senate Version of Trump-Backed Bill — Here Are the GOP House Members Reportedly Trying to Kill Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

          TEN House Republicans are standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” — a legislative masterpiece that delivers the largest tax cuts, deepest spending reductions, and toughest immigration crackdown in Ameri…
Jim Hᴏft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Es gibt übrigens in Deutschland mehr antimuslimische Gewalt(!)fälle als antisemitische.

Ja, selbst wenn für zweitere die teils herbei fantasierten Zahlen der RIAS genommen werden. Natürlich ist die Zahl der Muslime als potentielle Opfergruppe weit größer, logisch. Die Untererfassung allerdings auch. Außerdem können nach RIAS-Logik ja auch nichtjüdische deutsche Polizist*innen Opfer "antisemitischer" Gewalt durch jüdische Demonstrant*innen werden, von daher ist die potentielle “Opfergruppe” für die Antisemitismusstatistik sogar größer. bird.makeup/users/tarek_bae/st…

Tarek Baé

2025-07-03 10:50:57

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Es ist ein Skandal auf so vielen Ebenen. In Berlin hat die Senatorin für Integration, Cansel Kiziltepe (SPD), die Stelle der Beauftragten gegen antimuslimischen Rassismus eingeführt. Eine gut qualifizierte Wissenschaftlerin, Antisemitismus- und Rassismusforscherin namens Yücel Meheroglu bekam die Stelle. Das missfiel der Israel-Lobby (![url=https://onlycasino.legal/users/MostlyHarmless])[/url], angeführt von Volker Beck, dem Präsidenten der Lobbygruppe DIG. Ihm nach müsse die Stelle des Beauftragten gegen Antisemitismus exklusiv bleiben und „antimuslimischer Rassismus“ sei ein „Kampfbegriff“. Was macht Berlins Bürgermeister @kaiwegner (CDU)? Er nimmt die Ernennung einfach zurück. Die @berlinerzeitung nennt die Wissenschaftlerin Meheroglu dazu kurzerhand „Muslim-Aktivistin“. Einfach so. Offenkundig, weil sie ein Kopftuch trägt.

Wie sehr will sich unser Land noch durch Rassismus und Israelfanatismus zu einem Karnevalsverein machen lassen?


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Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?

Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.

Mr. Kingett,

I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.

You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.

The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.

I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.

My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.

You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.

Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.

Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.

Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.

Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.

Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.

The choice is yours.

#AI #AIHype

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Geopolitics @HomeWithHolmes - The Heroes They Give Us (ft. Cynthia Chung) cynthiachung.substack.com/p/ge…

Geopolitics @HomeWithHolmes - The Heroes They Give Us (ft. Cynthia Chung)

In this discussion with the Holmes sisters, Cynthia Chung goes through the historical context of British figure Winston Churchill and answers the question “Is there any reason at all why Calgarians shouldn't be celebrating a Churchill statue recently…
Cynthia Chung (Through A Glass Darkly)

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Israeli pilots dumped 'unused bombs' over Gaza during Iran strikes: Report


#Gaza #war #genocide

Israeli fighter pilots returning from air defense missions during the 12-day war with Iran were routinely authorized to unload their leftover munitions on the Gaza Strip, according to a 2 July report by Maariv.

The move, initially a pilot-led initiative to “assist” Israeli ground forces in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, was quickly expanded by Air Force Commander Tomer Bar into a daily operational policy across all squadrons.

The report outlines how, during the operation, pilots assigned to intercept missiles and drones launched from Iran were equipped not only with air-to-air missiles but also with air-to-surface munitions.

After completing their Iran-related missions, pilots contacted Gaza operation control rooms and offered to drop remaining bombs on designated targets in the enclave.

Air Force officials embraced the initiative. Within hours, the ad hoc proposal became standard practice, with squadrons instructed to coordinate with ground units before landing and to strike Gaza “Hamas targets” on their return.

Military officials described the program as a “force multiplier” that allowed the air force to expand bombing raids in Gaza without additional resources.

“Instead of bouncing planes off the ground for an attack policy, planes that were already in the air carried out the missions,” an Israeli Air Force source told Maariv. “It saved a great deal of resources and increased the Air Force’s capabilities.”

The result was what the report describes as “waves of powerful air strikes” on the strip, far removed from the Iranian front. According to the Israeli army, dozens of fighter jets participated daily, each releasing surplus munitions over the besieged enclave before landing.

While presented as a resource-efficient strategy, the practice effectively turned Gaza into a secondary front in a war that had no operational connection to the territory.

The attacks were directed based on instructions from Israeli ground forces already operating in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, amplifying the daily bombardment of areas already under siege.

thecradle.co/articles-id/31717


Israeli pilots dumped 'unused bombs' over Gaza during Iran strikes: Report

Israeli officials described the move as a resource-saving measure, but the result was intensified bombing of Gaza by jets returning from unrelated missions
thecradle.co
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Obi-Two al-Menashani

@scottdhansen as I said, I’ve wanted to replace it w/concrete for years. Unfortunately the $10k investment in it has always been overshadowed by other priorities (i.e. furnace/AC, plumbing, water heater, interior remodels, etc.) as long as I can drive to my garage (oh yeah, garage replacement happened 15 years ago too) I can keep patching it. Winters here are rough, so eventually I am sure I’ll need to do it.

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News story this AM on the local broadcast, Independence Day cookouts are more expensive this year. How much? “Almost 2% for a group of 10”. But this amount was not stated until the very end. They spent the time saying how much the price burgers/beef or brats have have gone up.

So NOW they want to tell us how inflation is affecting us. But under 4 years of Biden when inflation was running much higher (forgive me, I’m too lazy to go look up the amount) it was never talked about.

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New Painting Video: Baby Killer Benny

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

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This study investigates the association between speakers' personal attributes, such as political stance or military experience, and their variable pronunciations of Iraq/Iran, as elicited through a rapid anonymous survey. For both target items, speakers' choice of variant appears to be associated not with political affiliation but with two other factors: ability to speak a second language and military service. English speakers who report being able to speak a foreign language are more likely to employ a variant more aligned with the source language, [irɑ:k]/[irɑ:n], while those with a record of military service tend toward the Americanized variants, [ajræk]/ [ajræn]. These results suggest that while specific variants might index political attitude in contexts where the construction of a particular political identity is desirable, in the absence of such a context, speakers' choice of variant is governed primarily by experiential factors.


#linguistics #pronunciation #Iraq #Iran #Americans

♲ Laurel Stvan - 2025-06-21 02:44:58 GMT

Some of my colleagues wrote a paper on this pronunciation variation with Iraq :read.dukeupress.edu/american-s…

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« Mes amis Lorsque l’on est persuadé d’être très compétent, on stagne dans son apprentissage, car on ne voit pas l’intérêt d’approfondir. Demandons-nous alors : « Et si je ne savais pas tout ? Et si je jouais la carte de l’humilité ? » L’humilité fait apprendre. Lorsque l’on se lance dans l’apprentissage, il se peut que l’on se croie doué au départ, jusqu’à ce qu’on découvre qu’il existe une infinité de choses à apprendre ! Nous n’en finissons jamais. Nous tombons dans la vallée de l’humilité : je sais que je ne sais pas tout, que je peux toujours progresser. C’est ainsi que je progresse.

Lorsque l’on est persuadé d’être incompétent, on se bloque aussi, car on considère que c’est peine perdue. Demandons-nous : « Et si j’en savais plus que je ne croyais ? Et si je pouvais progresser ?

»Réfléchissez à ces biais cognitifs, afin de vous entraîner à accueillir de nouvelles pensées, une nouvelle vision du monde et des choses. Chaque fois que vous êtes persuadé d’avoir raison sur un sujet, osez une remise en question. »

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Alarc'h

Je n'ai pas le temps de regarder pour l'instant. J'ai écouté Branco sur Thinkerview. Il me laisse toujours un peu dubitatif, sorte de mélange de Tintin et de Robin des bois.
Mais il est intéressant, et dans le quasi désert intellectuel et politique en France (hors quelques "complotistes" et plateformes "alternatives") ce n'est pas à négliger.
Donc on va suivre ce gauchiste bourgeois en voie de rédemption.
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