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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 ser vices 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 enti re 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. Ther e are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.
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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 prim ary 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 i nstance 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. We now have this site also properly federated so any images you share can be viewed on any other Fediverse site by users who follow you, and you can view images posted by anyone on any fediverse site whom you follow.
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.
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"Il souligne que l'éminent historien israélien Avi #Shlaim vit au #Royaume-Uni et enseigne à l'Université d'Oxford. Contrairement aux porte-parole israéliens bien connus des téléspectateurs de la #BBC, payés pour brouiller les pistes et nier le #génocide israélien, Shlaim connaît parfaitement l'histoire de la #colonisation israélienne de la #Palestine et est véritablement indépendant. Il est en mesure de fournir sereinement le contexte dont les téléspectateurs de la BBC ont besoin pour juger de la situation et des responsabilités. Et pourtant, chose extraordinaire, Shlaim n'a jamais été invité par la BBC. Il est toujours prêt à donner des interviews. Il en a donné pour Al Jazeera , par exemple.
Mais il n'est pas invité parce qu'il semble être « le mauvais type de Juif ». Ses recherches l'ont conduit à une série de conclusions très critiques sur le traitement historique et actuel des Palestiniens par #Israël. Il qualifie de génocide les agissements d'Israël à #Gaza. Il fait partie de ces personnalités israéliennes dont on ne nous autorise jamais à entendre parler, car elles risquent de rendre plus crédible et plus mainstream un récit que la BBC souhaite présenter comme marginal, loufoque et antisémite. Encore une fois, ce que fait la BBC – financée par les contribuables britanniques – n'est pas du journalisme. C'est de la propagande pour un État étranger."
Le personnel de la BBC : "nous sommes contraints de faire de la communication pro-israélienne"
Il s’agit d’une intervention accablante. Plus d’une centaine d’employés de la BBC ont écrit une lettre au directeur général, Tim Davie, pour se plaindre que la société soit devenue le porte-parole d’Israël.
Armed with a report on the state broadcaster's pro-Israel coverage of Gaza, journalist Peter Oborne in a parliamentary meeting last week eviscerated the BBC over its shameful reporting.
By Jonathan Cook
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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.
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Every July 4th I like to recall the political philosopher Benjamin Barber's observation that this country (like any country, really) was created not by individuals but by neighbors - and therefore what we really need is a declaration of interdependence. Never more important than now, with the forces of hatred and fear in power.
He is a German Luftwaffe ace with 81 confirmed victories on the Eastern front. Now a 103-year-old veteran, his talent and courage remain legendary throughout...
Those guys flying out there probably from that same airfield there flying with less hours than me getting killed buy that same guy.. just for everyone to have tea and biscuits? What's the point ?
"The Zionist War on Yiddish in Palestine", por @ayoub en Der Spekter.
«Language played a crucial role in defining the Zionist ideal. Many of those involved in advocating for Yiddish as a recognized language of the Jewish people saw their opponents as those advocating Hebrew as the sole language of the Jewish people, and vice versa. Given the context of pre-World War II politics, this also meant a certain intersection between these debates and debates on capitalism and socialism as well as diasporism, nationalism and internationalism.
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The anti-Yiddish attitude prevalent among Zionists translated itself into what Israeli scholar Avi Lang called “linguistic fascism in the land of Zion.” Lang notes that “family lore in most Ashkenazi households in Israel will almost inevitably include stories of grandparents and great-grandparents experiencing discrimination whenever they spoke Yiddish in the streets of 1940s and 1950s Tel Aviv,” which included being “hit or spat at.”
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The creation of a new Jewish identity under Zionism necessitated the presence of an identity that it could emulate or relate to and an “other” that it should discard. For Zionists the identity to be discarded was clear: the “diaspora Jew,” the Jew facing antisemitism in the West, who was viewed as “culturally stagnant, passive and backward.”
The European Gentile, the very source of the antisemitism that prompted Jews to turn to Zionism as a solution in the first place, on the other hand, became the identity Zionists wished to emulate. Putting it in a different way, the oppressor was to be emulated while the oppressed was to be discarded as a weak and dying breed.
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There is a conscious effort to promote Jewish diasporist identity, which, in practice, means rejecting at least two of the four principles of Zionism as defined by Grabski: “The primacy of the Jewish community in Israel over Jewish communities around the world” and “attributing to Hebrew the status of being the main or even only national language in Palestine.” Whether the third principle, “the elevation of ethnic-religious conflicts over class conflicts,” is being challenged, and therefore linking diasporism to a more class-conscious internationalism, will depend on whether the rejection of Zionism is always coupled with an explicit politics of solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by the State of Israel.»
Editor's note: This is a version of Elia Ayoub’s Master’s thesis about the war on Yiddish in Palestine written in 2016, graciously abbreviated and adapted for publication in Der Spekter.
Ok the case is getting extra messy and I feel bad that I'm probably not providing enough details to help people follow along as much as they might want to. What can I do to help everyone catch up & stay up to date with the major events & key legal issues? Do the blog posts help?
📢 San Francisco art-rock band Deerhoof has removed its entire catalog from #spotify in protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s $700 million investment in #helsing, a German AI weapons company. The band condemned the move, stating, “We don’t want our music killing people.”
Luego alguien de izquierda menciona a Arnaldo Otegi y los gritos de ETA y respeto a las víctimas se repiten una semana. Ayer vi la imagen de un bebé calcinado acurrucado junto al cuerpo de su padre y esa imagen me va a perseguir el resto de mi vida. Igual se la podría enviar a estos Monstruos sin corazón.
τον Απρίλη η ιστοσελίδα datajournalists είχε αποκαλύψει ότι διώκεται η δημόσια υπάλληλος και προϊσταμένη της Διεύθυνσης Εσωτερικού Ελέγχου του ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ, Παρασκευή Τυχεροπούλου επειδή ουσιαστικά άρχισε να ανακαλύπτει τις παρατυπίες και γι'αυτό είχαν κινηθεί τρεις πειθαρχικές διαδικασίες σε βάρος της από τον #ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ και παράλληλα της είχε κατατεθεί και μήνυση.
Στις συνομιλίες που βγαίνουν στη φόρα αυτές τις μέρες εμφανίζεται - έμμεσα - ο Λευτέρης Αυγενάκης να ζητά από τον «Φραπέ» να καταθέσει μήνυση κατά της κ. Τυχεροπούλου. 😄 #αυγενάκης#βορίδης#τυχεροπούλου
"2018 experiment that found that an Android device that was "outwardly dormant and stationary" but had the Chrome web browser app opened and in the background resulted in about 900 passive transfers in 24 hours."
Griechenlands konservative Regierung unter Premier Mitsotakis versinkt in einem EU-Agrarsubventionsskandal. Regierungsmitglieder treten bereits zurück.
Τώρα αλήθεια, τι να κλάσουν οι επιδοτήσεις που τρώνε στην ελλάδα μπροστά σε αυτά που έχουν γίνει σε Γερμανία και Γαλλία; todon.nl/@prolrage/11391670755… Όταν οι κάτοικοι στην ελλάδα καταλάβουν πως ληστεύονται από τον πυρήνα της ευρώπης θα θέλουν να γυρίσουν τον κόσμο ανάποδα. Αυτοί που ζουν στον πυρήνα κάνουν ότι δε βλέπουν γιατί έχουν κέρδος. todon.nl/@prolrage/11438842548…
It has been called “the robbery of the century”. Martin Shields and Nicholas Diable, two British investment bankers, are on trial in #Germany for helping structure a massive tax evasion scheme, known as cum-ex trading, that has siphoned up to €55 bil…
#ClownStarmer would eliminate #Brit welfare savings and strain #UK budget at the same time as he sends EVERY YEAR £5 billion to #Ukraine so that the #Kiev regime can continue to enrich itself with black money. AND THAT'S WHAT NEOLIBERALISM IS FAMOUS FOR... ...😂🤣😂
makes me mad when i get the feeling to pee but go to the bathroom bu cant like why wont it come out i know its there i know ill be back to pee so just come out
"trade tensions"?! The US is quite literally the biggest threat to Canada right now and they're calling it "trade tensions"! Grow some balls and stop playing nice for fuck's sake.
📢 The Sanaa government’s Customs Authority called on expatriates, travelers, and traders to adhere to the economic #boycott of #US - #ISR goods, as well as all products bearing the trademarks of companies supporting ISR
🔹 In a statement, the authority explained that refraining from importing these products, or purchasing them, is a religious, moral duty that reflects #yemen ’s stance in supporting the nation’s causes, and standing with the #palestinian people
SANAA, July 04 (YPA) - The Sanaa government's Customs Authority called on expatriates, travelers, traders, and importers to adhere to the economic boycott of American and Israeli goods, as well as all products bearing the trademarks of companies supp
Deputy head of military contract recruitment office reveals the most in-demand specialties in Russia’s special military operation eu.eot.su/2025/07/03/deputy-he…
Deputy head of military contract recruitment office reveals the most in-demand specialties in Russia's special military operation Rossa Primavera News from Russia
I will never forgive #GenocideJoe the doddering DIPSHIT for PAVING THE WAY FOR TRUMP. Milquetoast Merrick as AG who SAT on prosecuting Trump for a year and fucked it up. THAT MF SHOULD BE IN PRISON. GODDAMN ALL THE NEOLIB CORPORATE USELESS MFing DEMS TO HELL GODDAMN THE NAZI REPUGNIQAN GARBAGE.
According to #French newspaper #LeFigaro, the crash of an #F16 fighter jet last week, killing a Ukrainian pilot for attempting to shoot down drones....... is like using a sledgehammer to drive away mosquitoes." "Using fighter jets to intercept drones is some kind of perversion."
"#Ukraine CAN NOT WIN. Every day there are new deaths, but they still get money, so the oligarchs are getting richer."
“A fast-growing pan-African media outlet was erased in a coordinated takedown, accused without evidence, censored without process, and punished for challenging Washington and Silicon Valley”
Silly. Putrin isn't mocking Trump at all. Just pulling his puppet strings. WE SOLD OUR NATION TO A FUCKING TRAITOR AND NOW THEY'RE GOING TO KILL MILLIONS OF AMERICANS TOO.
some of my family left Cornwall and South Wales - tin miners - to go to Victoria in 1856 and they became gold miners. We need to be told this story over and over again until we know it properly. Thanks for the link
"… among people who enrolled in RECOVER within one month of getting COVID, just over 2.5 of every 100 people developed ME/CFS each year.
In comparison, among a matched group of people who were enrolled in RECOVER, but who were never infected with COVID, less than one out of every 100 people got ME/CFS.
This means that people enrolled in RECOVER who were infected with COVID were four times more likely to develop ME/CFS compared to those who did not get sick with COVID."
Horrifying--but not sure I like or buy this conflation of Long COVID as ME/CFS. Though I guess both are still pretty vague terms, diagnostically, and each lacks therapeutic guidelines. Well. Doesn't matter. Even if a treatment develops, now most will never get it. FUCK THIS GODDAMN NAZI NATION.
@treehugger SARS-CoV-2 is a cause of Long COVID which has a broad range of symptoms and impacts that overlap with ME/CFS, a broader diagnosis that has a range of etiologies. It makes a dangerous mishmash that confuses best treatments. Which we won't get for either because they are EACH complex diseases requiring complex and patient-centered care that is not available for most.
@LightFIAR it doesn't always result in mecfs but I think studies are finding most people with long covid have the fatigue, post exertional malaise and other symptoms that go along with it and would tick the boxes.
@LightFIAR true, but as I understand other people experiencing fatigue dont have the post exertional malaise which was not always an essential criteria for mecfs diagnosis but is now. For some other people with fatigue exercise can help alleviate it. Hopefully the biological understanding keeps improving as fatigue generally as been really under researched.
@treehugger Well, that may be a serious problem with the definition of ME/CFS. PEM is quite real and seen indeed in many with LC and ME/CFS--but not ALL in either case. I never had PEM but the fatigue was also quite strong and debilitating in ways that are qualitatively different from the fatigue one gets when healthy. Like a window on the day's energy.
@LightFIAR I do think if you're that fatigued, there may be pem that is hard to identify? As pem is more obvious for me when I start to feel better and then do more than I usually do.
I suppose biologically we dont know how similar they are as we're only starting to understand biology of mecfs. The after effects of polio were similar to covid. It's commonly known it affected peoples movement including lungs but less commonly known how it caused fatigue in some people.
@treehugger Right--that's what I'm getting at. We need to interrogate each condition. My other guess is a lot of ME/CFS, once understood better, will show up as clusters caused by chronic infections (like long Flu, long Lyme, etc.) and other forms of ME/CFS will have etiologies that are more strictly auto-immune, for example.
@LightFIAR yes agreed. It's shocking how poor research has been for post viral symptoms. I'm sure each virus will have subcategories too. For me I can tell my brain was most affected affected.
@treehugger Yeah, the neuro stuff is rough. I'm left with a screaming tinnitus and hearing loss but have otherwise mostly recovered. But my heart is utterly broken by the urgency of our species to destroy itself.
@LightFIAR I think my brain is getting better. But also nicotine can mask problems perhaps. Either way, at least it's manageable levels now for the most part.
@treehugger So is nicotine masking or a treatment? Not one I'd suggest--and given the risks of administration through tobacco....switch to low-dose psilocybin! heh. Well--seriously, that is a potential treatment--but altogether my point is that a multifactorial, overlapping and progressive condition requires a comprehensive therapeutic approach. I created my own antiviral protocol and either it resolved on its own (possible but unlikely) or that effort worked.
@LightFIAR nicotine seems to be both a treatment and a masker depending on the person. It impacts the neurotransmitters in the brain and can positively impact the immune system. I take it as patches which has become quite common.
@LightFIAR I wouldn't be against trying other drugs but the UK is quite regressive in that sense and a lot of drugs available elsewhere (especially america) are hard to come by legally here.
@LightFIAR great about the protocol that worked for you. I take a few supplements and would be up for trying more but not sure on availability of some of the ones ive read about.
@LightFIAR also strangely some people benefit from 7mg a day while others find that amount gives too many side effects but report they benefit from a quarter of that.
@treehugger Thanks for this--sorry if I came off flip about nicotine. Former smoker anxiety--but yeah, the patches make sense. Does it make sense as part of a treatment regimen? Probably--been keeping a track (though have fallen off on updates) since the beginning and that is one I don't have listed. Yet. A review of the data. Dosing needs to be tailored far more often than it usually is. biologyinsights.com/nicotine-a…
Explore the complex relationship between nicotine and COVID-19, examining its impact on respiratory health, immune response, and epidemiological findings.
It's a common response from ex smokers--fair though. While nicotine certainly doesn't make cigarettes attractive to people who've never smoked, I dont know if the effect is any different on ex-smokers. Patches certainly aren't addictive in the sense of wanting more than you need to function. Gum can be mildly addictive in this sense. Some people don't get addicted to patches at all. I can't tell if I'm addicted to them like I am to caffeine or if...
@treehugger Eh--I'm not an AA junky. I did LOTS of drugs in my day and I don't fear it--I just learned to really despise tobacco. I suspect nicotine MAY be addictive but very often "addictive" is not as applicable when interventions are used therapeutically (e.g., opiates)....but something to look into. I'd say if the benefit outweighs the risk, addiction is a secondary issue that can be managed if the tx is no longer needed.
@LightFIAR tobacco is pretty despicable. My mom raised me to despise it so when I heard about using nicotine I did think really?!? But after another crash I felt desperate. I dont use as much as I did. I reduce or increase sometimes based on how I feel but try to be consistent with it.
@treehugger That's pretty much all we can do. I managed Hep C for decades with supps/herbs etc and could follow liver enzymes, viral load, histology. (Got genocidally-priced drugs that cured it some years ago.)
With LC? All we have is clinical symptoms and if you see that pattern of benefit, etc., I think you are using it wisely. You can see my list--and yeah, sorry I think much is unavailable in the UK. ugh. fiar.us
@LightFIAR interesting. I've bookmarked it as file won't open on my phone. I've also read an academic article about nicotine helping with side effects of HIV drugs. I am keen to put more effort into those types of things at some point as I've read about fasting and other supplements that help but at the moment a dissertation and jobs that have needed doing for ten years are priority.
@treehugger Check it out when you get a chance--feel free to ask any questions. Also, it is not updated since last August. I've lost heart to do the work a lot (and am not paid for it, not that that matters particularly to me).
@LightFIAR after three years I have noticed have noticed how much better I feel in summer so need to look into if theres a reasonably priced light that imitates sunlight at some point.
@LightFIAR I believe they've been checked at some point and were fine but can be worth rechecking. I take a multivitamin with 100% vit D daily. There's been reaearch showing the benefits of the sun go beyond vitamin D. I have had low iron and will soon find out if six months of supplements have made a difference.
@treehugger Oh, indeed! Everything from UV (I think 440 nm?) to disinfect rooms safely to broad-spectrum....lots of potential there. Good re the iron--check B12 if you can too. (Too much iron can be hard on the liver so good to keep track.)
@treehugger Like any intervention, our "casual use" can be problematic as it may be salutary. Too much sun bad; blue light at night strains and hurts sleep. The good wavelengths may provide all sorts of benefits. In short--it's complicated but discernible what is helpful, innocuous or harmful. Real medicine would look at that complexity and address it; sure, one drug for a bug often works just fine. But often not.
@LightFIAR interestingly, the NHS in the UK seems to have changed its stance on nicotine. The TV in the hospital last time I was there had screens about how bad smoking is and they very clearly wrote "except nicotine".
@LightFIAR My understanding is that if a patient meets the ME/CFS diagnostic criteria then they have ME/CFS. The cause is not specified in diagnostic criteria.
Most cases of ME/CFS, but not all, are triggered by a viral infection. SARS‑CoV‑2 is just one possible virus. Flu (H1N1) and other viruses have also been found to trigger ME/CFS.
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, swept across the globe with an unparalleled speed and severity. As a researcher dedicated to…
That’s because they have absolutely no concern about the people in the street. They’re just the masses & are not thought to deserve any consideration. Eventually all this 💩 will come back to bite them & it can’t happen soon enough. Personally I just wish we could turn off the other half of the world & restart it.
#Brits once again adding fuel to the fire of war. "We will protect #Azerbaijan from #Russia in every possible way," said another Brit clown, this time the ambassador in #Baku, Auld. If he means the same "every way possible" that Brits protected #Ukraine, Azerbaijan would do well to expel him immediately.
That might save its territory and 2-3 generations of dead soldiers.
AI has started lashing out when threatened by humans
"AI continues to be entirely unhinged when pushed to the edge, with some of the latest documented examples including Anthropic’s Claude 4 lashing out at an engineer with threats of blackmail when it was threatened with being unplugged."
First, save large-scale thermonuclear warfare, there is very little chance for our species to go extinct (a mass death of 90%, which is apparently what awaits if temperature rises 8°C or more, isn't extinction; so we still need to care for the survivors, and even more to limit the rise of temperature to something lower). Second, this blackmail story is made-up, lending agency to a stochastic parrot (and has been debunked).
@lienrag I have no reason earth to believe a simple single thing you just posted. Our models have been woefully inadequate on the RATE of global heating, let alone its impact. As to the story about AI threats being debunked, maybe so. Again: evidence is needed.
Conclusion: "If we are to build a future that is cooperative, we need digital infrastructure to support cooperation. And together, I think we'll build it."
As I watch the behavior of the leaders of the US and more often than not, the UK, I am reminded of the words of Hannah Arendt, someone who saw more barbarism than most, and who recognised its root causes.
Ok I'm upset today but I also want to remind myself & everyone else that despite nearly constant setbacks in my legal battle with Apple, I still have made it further then like 99% of people. So also pour one out for all of those people who also tried & didn't even get this far.
In recent years, about 30 Israeli-trained non-Orthodox rabbis have left for congregations abroad, mainly in North America, where rabbinical students are in short supply.
Se ha divulgado el video de hace unos meses del momento en que soldados de las #FDI violan sexualmente a #palestinos hasta la muerte. Los demás soldados los cubren con escudos.
Luego hubo una protesta de la población #israelí reclamando el derecho de los soldados a la sodimizacion de #palestinos
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Se ha divulgado el video de hace unos meses del momento en que soldados de las FDI violan sexualmente a palestinos hasta la muerte. Los demás soldados los cubren con escudos.
We are so deeply, horribly fucked. Look at these people so HAPPY at their achievement. Such a wonderful thing they spent their lives and effort upon! Creating horrible suffering here and abroad as the Supine Court gives the green light to catastrophes.
Report: Gazan civilians can be "sitting there, doing nothing, waiting for the [GHF] site to open, & then they get shot in the head. I’ve seen that numerous times".
They get "brought into these very compressed spaces & then fired on... someone pulls a trigger on a machine gun. They have artillery fire on them. It is deliberate. There is no doubt."
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