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Chinese defense industry manufactures equipment comparable or superior in quality, but always much more affordable than #NATO. Moreover, the West is already facing problems as they lose #Russia's and #China's rare earths. #Iran is in talks to buy an entirely new air force with J-10C and AWACS aircraft from China. If China were to arm Iran, it would reshape the military and diplomatic landscape of the entire Asia. Checkmate
This is a good deal for both sides; it will enhance China’s weapons export market and give Iran considerably new capabilities, as its air force was in shambles even before the war.
Offset 'air superiortity' of F35s? 🤣 Theyre junk. Built junk and remain junk. Deathtraps actually. They fall out of the sky for no apparent reason as a recent vid showed. A flaming scrap pile BEFORE it hit the ground @IAmSpartacus
#Israel has perfected the art of snuffing-out #Palestinian lives. Their speciality is babies, infants, toddlers, and children. #Hitler would be proud. He taught them well. #PalestinianHolocaust
In North Korea, dictator Kim Jong Un has been making more public appearances with the person many believe will succeed him as supreme leader, his daughter...
BBC | #Israel 's defence minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.
One Israeli human rights lawyer condemned it as nothing less than an "operational plan for a crime against humanity".
"It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the #Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation outside the strip,"
Anti-genocide campaigners receive warm welcome from delegates furious with Graham and cronies Some of the protesters outside Unite’s conference yesterday. Unite members lobbying the unionR…
ALEX JONES SAYS A DEAL WAS MADE WITH THE DEEP STATE CONCERNING EPSTEIN
( No Deals! )
====Bullhorn Barry📢 (Opinion / News)
According to Alex, the Deep State is supposedly going to roll over and let Trump do his thing—as long as he backs off the Epstein disclosures.
Yeah… no. That’s never going to happen.
You can’t make deals with devils.
Now, I’m not even saying I believe that claim—but IF there’s any truth to it—NO DEALS CAN BE MADE! Personally, I think what's happening is something else, but I don't think anyone knows for sure except for those on the inside.
Multiple Israeli women have testified to a joint Knesset committee, accusing senior figures of involvement in ritual abuse. One survivor said that her harrowing experience is only “a drop in the oc…
El Gobierno 🏛️🇪🇸 autoriza a Defensa a comprar tecnología a Israel 🇮🇱 para su plan de rearme
Alegan “la carencia de capacidad industrial” para abordar “avances urgentes” en sistemas antimisiles, guerra electrónica y sensores de última generación”.
El Ejecutivo ha decidido permitir al Ministerio de Defensa adquirir tecnología militar israelí en el marco del plan de rearme, justificado por la carencia de…
Trying to explain "How Capitalism Works" without mentioning its disastrous structural flaws for the masses is just a cover-up, albeit an entertaining one, I must admit.
#Capitalism needs "suckers" on an individual level, all the way to colonies on an "empire" level.
Fortunately, -although I have some doubts about stupidity- both of these "characteristics" are beginning to disappear. And this is precisely the path that capitalism will inevitably take.
Today on the popular FOX News panel show, The Five, liberal host Jessica Tarlov suggested that people being held in ICE detention centers are reporting sexual abuse by the workers at these facilities.
Loops is still in beta, so there's no other instances yet, but it's gonna use ActivityPub like everyone else does so it can federate with Pixelfed (and probs mastodon). Also, like 90% of Fediverse instances require registration, usually to prevent spam and other crazy shit (CSAM, literal gore, etc.) from being posted. Just gonna have to wait a bit.
I actually agree that registration is silly. It's trivial to create fake email addresses; all it does is present obstacles and slight privacy implications for legitimate users, while forming an incredibly mild speedbump for malicious users. But, it's probably not going away, every little tool in the toolbox that can be deployed by overworked volunteer admins against the unending tide of malicious users trying to make their lives more difficult is probably going to get deployed if it is easy to do.
Didn't realize you just wanted to scroll. Yeah, almost no instance requires registration to scroll. Once again, I think Loops is just requiring registrations now because the project is unfinished, and probably can't handle a large amount of users. They also need easy feedback from users.
Yeah, definitely could be making faster improvements, and it's disheartening considering Pixelfed hasn't had major improvements either. But I'm not a coder, so other than the fact that I donated to the spring Kickstarter, I can't complain much.
It's Dan's whole M.O: he gets excited about some new project, goes on a rushed coding rampage, releases some alpha-quality code, then loses interest and starts the chase for the next shiny toy.
tiktok alternatives would suffer the same problem that shorts and loops do; they are content creator driven platforms so unless you incentivise content creators to move you just get reposts from other platforms or ai generated slop.
Loops, like everyone rightly said, but while this initially peaked my interest, at this point I'm a little skeptical about this project. Dev seems very keen to overhype and tease new features, but usually fails to deliver, like the webUI that was supposed to be days away last year but still doesn't exist. For a fedi platform, not being able to access it via a browser on a desktop is the most bizarre thing to me. I'd hate for fediverse tech to follow this mobile-only trend.
Thinking nothing more wonky than mint/pop!/bazzite/elementary. I know there is never “one” perfect one but feeling like trying something new on this machine that’s at least somewhat push button. Since it no longer receive regular updates from Apple I just want to keep this machine available for use when needed.
I’m pretty comfortable on the above ones I mentioned. I’m not a coder/engineer so I tend to lean heavily on flatpaks and such, though if I have to go into the terminal occasionally I can usually poke my way around
Why don’t you type “MacBook Pro?” I think “MBpro” and “MBP” is probably confusing to people and they might not even know you’re talking about something that isn’t PC/Intel-adjacent.
The only problem I’ve had was the Mac not going asleep properly, and immediately waking up. But that’s something I encountered on other distros including Mint also.
Found a fix for it.
Ctrl key hasn’t been a problem. Often on many distros the old hybrid Nvidia graphics and the old Broadcom card were both problems. But ok on Mint and EOS.
in case you can't stand the snap business go fedora, add rpmfusion and poke around. if everything works, you're set.
two possible issues with resume from sleep. if your wifi won't come back, use the script from t2linux. if your laptop won't wake up expeditiously (takes a while), come back here and ping me and I'll dig up the the script.
stay away from mints and xfces and friends as you need wayland (so, Plasma or Gnome) for fractional scaling, gestures, seamless dock/undock, etc.
I think one of the reasons I tend to enjoy "retro-styled" games (eg. pixel art and possibly chiptune music) isn't really about nostalgia at all - there were no games like Eastward, Animal Well, Kingdom: Two Crowns, Stardew Valley or even Undertale when I was a kid with an Amiga. Playing them feels nothing like what playing games felt like when I was a kid with an Amiga either.
Rather, I think it's because pixel art and that sort of gameplay feels much more like a piece of artistic craftsmanship someone cared about. I get the same feeling from hand-drawn vector art (ranging from the simplistic-looking art in eg. Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included to the "cartoon you can play" style of eg. Spiritfarer). I only very rarely get this feeling out of modern 3D-rendered game art - for lack of a better term, that often feels a lot more "alienated", even when it's technically much better.
(Possibly I'm just better at judging pixel art than 3D rendering, which would be because I'm old. 😀 )
One 3-d rendered game that stands out for me is The Long Dark. Its art style borders on cartoony: it's 3-d, but highly stylized and not hyperrealistic. This video gives a sense of it. It's one of the few games I've played as an adult where I felt like I had an experience. I remember and still think about it from time to time.
Hyperrealistic 3-d game art tends to trigger unpleasant feelings in me. Usually either it's the uncanny valley, where everything feels creepy, or it's one I can't easily describe where I feel like I'm smelling cellophane the whole time (everything's too shiny) and just want to leave before I'm sick from it. It's disorienting, almost dizzying, and I can't suspend disbelief enough to enjoy the game a lot of the time (while also acknowledging some of these games are visually very impressive). I've had this reaction to modern digital television shows too. I'll admit that maybe I'm unusual, but anyway I have a kind of "alienated" response to this kind of game art too.
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Brazil’s most revered Indigenous leader, Raoni Metuktire, has said he believes that one of the former president Jair Bolsonaro’s goals while in office was to “exterminate” the country’s Indigenous peoples.
“He really wanted to exterminate us. But Indigenous peoples across Brazil united to resist his government,” he says, adding that “from now on, every president elected in Brazil must respect Indigenous peoples”
@RichardJMurphy hits the nail on the head (as so often):
'if any political party wishes to truly succeed — not just scrape by, but build lasting loyalty and transform this country — it must make the promise that it will put people first, meet their needs from cradle to grave, and offer them freedom from fear'!
However, our political class seems quite some way from that agenda....
I recorded a podcast with Tony Groves and Martin McMahon from the Echo Chamber Podcast in Ireland yesterday, which I do every few weeks or so. This is now published, but only for subscribers.
If you're just tuning in, it turns out Al Qaeda in Syria are not terrorists but the peace activists in the UK are, the guy committing genocide in Gaza says the guy backing his genocide deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and Jeffrey Epstein was an misunderstood angel who killed himself.
I keep meaning to write up an analysis of LLM use based on systems-thinking—the core issue is that their volatility is bad for organisations and leads to gambler behaviour in individuals—but then I come across some fresh bullshit and realise there's nothing I can say to change people's minds. The people who are against it are already against it and the people who are for it, or even on the fence, aren't likely to listen to my style of argument.
I do tech consulting, and more than once since 2022 I've advised small-to-medium-sized businesses about LLMs. It's extremely valuable to have analysis like this in hand and be able to link to it. Throwing an analysis into the wind may not change minds, but those of us in the trenches can make excellent use of it.
Ca s'appelle un camp de concentration, et nous ne devons pas laisser cela arriver.
- haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… (Defense Minister Says Israel Plans to Concentrate All Gaza's Population in 'Humanitarian' Zone Built on Rafah's Ruins)
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It’s called a concentration camp, and we must not let it happen.
Kathmandu Post - More than two dozen people are dead or missing after a flood caused widespread destruction, sweeping away the Miteri Bridge — a key piece of infrastructure linking Nepal and China. kathmandupost.com/nepali-diasp…
"The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of the rights and the right most valued by civilized men."
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice Source: Olmstead v. United States, 1928
In a momentous vote, the National Education Association voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The reason? “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should…
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution,
are worth defending at all hazards;
and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
This is a war crime. Israel just bombed a prison ward where trans people were kept locked up. Hundreds of trans people exterminated. There is no rational explanation for this.
The nation state system, Western conceptions of property rights, and the theater we call "rule of law" are all reaching their logical ends.
They were all just Colonialism 2.0 and the whole inane system is slowly being crushed under its own weight.
We need a detailed proposal for what a post-nation state could look like.
Particular attention must be paid to how systems that sustain civilization can be picked up & transformed with as little damage as possible as the systems of yesterday perish.
This might sound unhinged to many; after all, imagination around other systems, other ways of being, and other types of civilizations, other ways of doing trade and sustaining life, those are all things we are taught not to think about or take seriously, and communities who practice alternatives are have always been ignored when possible, or met with violence.
The most unhinged systems are the ones we exist in today, normalized because we are just fish in the waters of our suicidal system.
Olivier #Marleix, membre du parti Les Républicains (LR), est décédé tragiquement le 7 juillet #2025 à l’âge de 54 ans. En 2017, il a présidé une commission d’enquête parlementaire sur la vente de la branche énergie d’ #Alstom à #GeneralElectric, dénonçant une possible perte de souveraineté industrielle. Il a saisi le parquet de Paris en 2019 et a reçu le «prix éthique» d’ #Anticor en 2020 pour ce travail. Gaulliste convaincu, il critiquait régulièrement la #politique d’Emmanuel #Macron, notamment sur la faillite du pays et la désindustrialisation. Olivier Marleix est mort aujourd’hui à son domicile d’Anet. Selon plusieurs sources, il se serait suicidé, une information confirmée par le procureur de Chartres. Juste après la mort d'Eric #Denecé qui avait lancé un rapport d'alerte sur la vente d’Alstom, maintenant c'est celle du Député Olivier #Marleix qui avait fait saisir le Parquet national financier sur la même affaire.
Le député LR de la deuxième circonscription d'Eure-et-Loir, Olivier Marleix a été retrouvé mort, pendu ce lundi 7 juillet dans sa maison à Anet, commune dont il a été le maire de 2008 à 2017. C'est son ancienne première adjointe...
"The rights enumerated in this Bill of Rights shall not be construed to limit other rights of the people not therein expressed." ~ Virginia Declaration of Rights
A recent series of worldwide studies finds that ugly anti-immigrant prejudice isn't inevitable just because immigration increases. "Inclusive legal and socioeconomic integration policies that render immigrants more equal to natives...reduce xenophobia among natives": researchgate.net/publication/3…
BTW, I found those studies in my review of social science research offering possible solutions to tribalism: "Heterogenius: Why and How to Stop Dividing People into Us and Them" - alfiekohn.org/blogs/diversity/
Those who produce everything have nothing, and those who produce nothing have everything. Such a state of affairs can only produce antagonism between the laboring class and the owning, i.e., do-nothing, class. The fight breaks out and hatred delivers its blows. -- Marius Jacob
Spartacus
in reply to Spartacus • • •Iran aims to acquire the Chinese J-10C, the “Rafale Killer,” in exchange for a steady supply of low-priced oil to China.
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Iran Is Preparing to Buy a New Air Force from China - The National Interest
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