Elina Bakunova aka "Eli from Russia" visited Iran before the military conflict between Iran, Israel, and the US began. Before she left, her friends were like, "You're going to Iran? It's so dangerous!" But she found once she arrived in Iran, she never felt in any danger. The Iranian people were kind and curious. She feels the reality of Iran is different from how the media portrays it. She explores the city of Shiraz, visits geographic and historical landmarks, tries the local food, and so fourth. Her English-speaking guides (the whole video is conducted in English) are very good. Officially, Iran is an Islamic country with many restrictions, but many people have little interest in the religion and the restrictions, especially young people. People comply more in public but often in private people ignore the restrictions all the time. There is a difference between the government and the politics and the regular people. The video has very good music.

#geopolitics


🌍 ■ La relatora de la ONU para Palestina: "EEUU quiere intimidarme con métodos mafiosos" ■ Una iniciativa en Change reclama que la italiana Francesca Albanese, sancionada por Washington, sea candidata al Premio Nobel de la Paz por sus investigaciones sobre las violaciones[…]
huffingtonpost.es/global/la-re…

#gaza #change.org #global #eeuu #onu #israel #sanciones #premiosnobel #palestina #mafia

The footballing lives of Handala
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/11/…

"Palestine solidarity gestures have multiplied in football—often referring to Handala, an iconic cartoon character and symbol of hope ~ Yann Dey-Helle, Dialectik Football ~ At MetLife Stadium in suburban New York, Wessam Abou Ali recently celebrated his second goal against FC Porto by posing with one hand behind his back and the other making the
The post The footballing lives of Handala

Sayyed Al-Houthi re-affirms Yemen’s naval operations supporting Gaza to continue en.ypagency.net/362466

Europe's first deep-space optical communication link


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NASA's Psyche mission

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometres away, using two optical grounds stations developed for this purpose in Greece.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Ursula von der Leyen étrillée par Valérie Hayer, les macronistes furieux contre la présidente de la Commission


#politique #UE #corruption

Que des traîtres, des vendus, des couilles molles et des putes.

huffingtonpost.fr/politique/ar…

ID soldiers testify to systematic killing of Palestinians in Gaza via weaponized drones

[Warning: story contains graphic descriptions]

Testimonies from soldiers who served in Gaza reveal extensive use of weaponized commercial drones modified to drop grenades on Palestinians. The soldiers describe frequently targeting unarmed civilians, including women and children, often to force them out of their homes.

[...] S said he saw some of the bodies through drone cameras. According to him, because the killing is done far from where the soldiers are, "the bodies aren't collected. The dogs eat them. You can see it through the cameras. I wouldn't be able to see a dog eating a body at any moment. The people around me did. The dogs are already conditioned to run to places where there's gunfire or explosions, as they understand this means a chance of finding a body."

Videos of such attacks, originally shared by soldiers, show grenades being dropped on fleeing civilians. Survivors and residents attest to the use of drones to displace large populations in line with military objectives and policies of evacuation.
xcancel.com/ytirawi/status/194… (via Younis Tirawi)

IDF routinely denies allegations of targeting non-combatants.

Hebrew mekomit.co.il/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%…

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide (I'm aware the term genocide in the context of Gaza is very offensive to Jews, but that's what's happening in Gaza kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1148…)


Quoting Sergey Brin: "The use of the term genocide in the context of Gaza is very offensive to Jews, I would not rely on an anti-Semitic organization like the UN."

One might argue that companies profiting from genocide may react defensively... #ProjectNimbus is a $1.2 billion cloud and #AI contract between #Google, #Amazon, and #Israel that has been criticized internationally for enabling Israel's war on #Gaza, including surveillance and AI-driven tactics that contribute to the ongoing #genocide.

Google is to Israel what #IBM was to #Germany in the 1930s—tech support. See kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1147…

@palestine
@israel
#Google #GenocideDenialism
#GazaGenocide #ProjectNimbus
#OatmealQuotes


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In the first months of the war, Israeli army units received ample donations from the general public, mostly in Israel and the United States. Alongside food and shampoo, drones were among the items that soldiers requested the most.

“Soldiers independently launched crowdfunding campaigns,” L. explained. “Our company received around NIS 500,000 (approximately $150,000) in donations, which we also used to buy drones.” C., another soldier, recalled being asked to sign thank-you letters to Americans who had donated EVO drones to his battalion.


#ComplicitInGenocide

in reply to oatmeal

"(I'm aware the term genocide in the context of Gaza is very offensive to Jews, but that's what's happening in Gaza)"

Correction: the term is offensive primarily to people who hold Zionist commitments, some of whom are also Jewish. It is the reality of ongoing genocide, apartheid, forced displacement, and other crimes against humanity that is offensive to the overwhelming majority of Jewish people I know who are not also committed to Zionism as a political project.



The Internet is a lot safer today than it was a decade ago, thanks to Let's Encrypt.

zdnet.com/home-and-office/netw…


Bien que verrouillée, la posture de zazen est une clé.

notesandsilence.com/2025/05/01…
#zen #silence #prière #pratique #spiritualité

GUILLAUME MEURICE, LA SCIENCE ET NOUS
N. #Casaux
(En référence à l'apéro du Club de Vert avec Guillaume Meurice le 24 juin 2025)

En théorie, la #science décrit le réel, admettons.
Mais en pratique, la science n’a jamais été dissociable des intérêts ayant présidé à son avènement et déterminant encore aujourd’hui ses fins et ses moyens.
Les pères fondateurs de la science moderne travaillaient à la solde de riches dirigeants. Galilée, par exemple, fut soutenu par les Médicis. Newton fut anobli par la Couronne britannique et dirigea la Monnaie de Londres. Boyle et Bacon fondaient explicitement la méthode scientifique dans le cadre d’un projet impérial de #domination de la #nature, dans une logique coloniale, marchande et extractiviste. Toute sa vie, Léonard de Vinci chercha à plaire à de puissants mécènes — les Sforza à Milan, les Médicis à Florence, François Ier en France, etc. — non pas seulement en peignant des Madones, mais surtout en proposant ses services d’ingénieur militaire, de concepteur de machines de guerre.

La science moderne n’a pas été créée par les volontés démocratiques des populations du monde, dans une volonté d’exprimer le vrai, de défendre le juste et de faire le bien. Elle est née au cœur des empires, dans des sociétés hautement hiérarchiques, au service d’intérêts marchands et de la course à la puissance. Depuis son avènement, ce sont des logiques de puissance, de rentabilité et de contrôle qui orientent les axes de recherche, les choix technologiques, les priorités épistémiques.
Et aujourd’hui encore, sous ses dehors prétendument neutres, la science est financée par des budgets d’État fixés par une oligarchie de décideurs, mais aussi par l’industrie militaire, pharmaceutique, numérique ou énergétique. On n’étudie pas n’importe quoi, de n’importe quelle manière, au nom d’un amour abstrait de la vérité.
Et donc la science décrit le réel, certes, mais dans les limites que lui imposent les structures de #pouvoir dont elle émane.


Par ailleurs, la science est une cause majeure de la catastrophe sociale et écologique en cours. La science a produit les machines ayant permis et permettant toujours d’extraire le pétrole du sol, et tous les engins à moteur thermique, de la locomotive au porte-conteneurs, de la moissonneuse-batteuse au char de combat. Elle a conçu les procédés de raffinage, les circuits logistiques, les techniques de fracturation hydraulique, les plastiques, les pesticides, les OGM, les armes atomiques et les LBD. Elle a permis aux sociétés humaines hiérarchiques, déjà axées sur la puissance, d’exploiter le monde plus vite, plus intensément, plus profondément. Sans la science, pas de réacteur nucléaire, pas de climatiseur, pas d’ordinateur, pas de smartphone, pas de réseau 5G. Pas d’Amazon, pas de Facebook, pas de Google. Pas de chaîne de production robotisée, pas de police algorithmique, pas de biométrie. La science n’a pas seulement permis l’avènement de l’enfer techno-industriel : elle l’a fabriqué.

La science repose sur une importante division spécialisée et hiérarchique du travail, laquelle n’est rendue possible que par la dépossession des êtres humains, l’existence de classes sociales, de rapports de domination, d’infrastructures centralisées et d’un appareil d’État capable d’imposer, de financer, d’orchestrer une répartition autoritaire des rôles et des savoirs. Elle repose sur une architecture sociale profondément hiérarchisée : à la base, des techniciens invisibles ; au sommet, une aristocratie de chercheurs, de « penseurs » et d’experts, séparés du reste de la population par un langage ésotérique, des diplômes inaccessibles, des institutions opaques. L’immense majorité des humains ne peut ni comprendre ni discuter ce que produit la science, encore moins décider de ses orientations. Elle doit croire. Paradoxe : la société qui se prétend « rationnelle » repose sur une foi absolue dans la parole de ses nouveaux prêtres, les scientifiques.

Certes, la science a aussi produit les antibiotiques, les vaccins, certaines connaissances médicales précieuses. Mais ces acquis, souvent brandis comme justification globale de la science moderne, sont l’arbre qui cache la forêt de ses ravages. Parce que les bienfaits de la science sont indissociables des désastres écologiques et sociaux qu'elle produit, et d'une #société de classes, et d’une vaste division spécialisée et hiérarchique du travail, où la quasi-totalité des individus sont privés de tout pouvoir sur le cours des choses, réduits au rôle de simples exécutants, de consommateurs passifs ou de cobayes involontaires d’innovations qu’ils n’ont ni souhaitées ni décidées.

Se lamenter d’attaques contre la science et prétendre que les dominants auraient peur de la science est donc idiot. La #science sert la #domination depuis ses origines. Elle est un de ses meilleurs alliés.
Certes, certains scientifiques s’indignent. Ils signent des tribunes, dénoncent l’inaction face au réchauffement climatique, alertent sur la perte de biodiversité ou la surveillance de masse. Mais leurs plaintes ne changent rien. Elles ne peuvent rien contre les logiques profondes de la civilisation industrielle. Elles ne sont que des soupirs hypocrites dans un train lancé à toute vitesse, qu’ils ont eux-mêmes (ou leurs collègues, et leurs prédécesseurs) contribué à construire. De la même manière, les appels naïfs à « mieux orienter » la science, à « faire bon usage » de la technique, à « écouter les chercheurs », ne sont que des incantations impuissantes. Le réel est ailleurs : dans les structures de pouvoir, les flux de capitaux, les chaînes d’approvisionnement, les intérêts d’État et les impératifs industriels.

Sans prendre trop de risques, on peut prévoir qu’au cours des prochaines décennies, la science produira une multitude de nouveaux outils au service de la #surveillance, du #contrôle, de la #rentabilité, de la #puissance et de la #destruction du monde.

Le mythe de la science, très courant dans la société, et qui va de pair avec nombre d’autres mythes – le mythe de l’école comme invention émancipatrice, le mythe de la #technologie comme vecteur d’un progrès ayant glorieusement extirpé l’être humain d’une infâme condition quasi-animale, etc., – perpétue une mystification générale et l’asservissement fasciné des populations aux institutions qui les dominent et les exploitent.


#technopush

"The Fourth Amendment forbids “exploratory rummaging”—in fact, it was drafted in direct response to British colonial soldiers’ practice of indiscriminately searching people’s homes and papers for evidence of their opposition to the Crown."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/eff-…

Chefankläger zu Srebrenica: "Kampagne für Leugnung des Völkermords ist heute viel präsenter" derstandard.at/story/300000027…

Over the past weeks, there have been no exceptions to the statement ‘today Israel committed a massacre against Palestinians queuing for aid/food’ 10 children murdered yesterday alone. Israel’s genocide continues. Most Western states maintain normal relations. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israeli strike kills at least ...

It makes me laugh/cry that we spent decades trying to get the software industry to internalise that it takes far more effort to support & maintain systems than it does to write them in the first place, and yet seemingly every trendy development in the last 5-10 years has been about making that initial stage faster & sloppier at the expense of everything else
in reply to The Seven Voyages Of Steve

I partially wonder if this is because of who and what determines what's "trendy". When I drive the adoption of a tool, it's usually a small tool that fits in a small place in the workflow. (Massive benefits from it - the tool tends to do that one thing that was giving me problems really well. GitVersion is the most recent. Before that, it was an NPM package that makes it WAY easier to pull in unpublished NPM packages.)

Thing is... Those tools don't need marketing beyond minor SEO optimization. If you need them, you will probably find them or hear about them, and their users will tend to be quiet about them because those packages are not doing anything flashy. They are doing their jobs and taking care of a pain point in a workflow that doesn't highlight them.

Trendy development though, is a lot more about advertising. You need visibility to be trendy. Obvious impacts rather than subtle ones. Quick adoption rather than a slow adaption. It also tends to be the kind of thing that makes Managers excited rather than Developers.

And you also need these new technologies in flashy developments, not stable ones. Would you really notice if your bank made a backend refactor to adopt a technology that encouraged a smoother integration between their servers and databases? If your accounting software was modified to be more testable via automated means during the build stage, with the goal of more reliably finding and stopping bugs before release?

Probably not.

When truth departs – as it is doing from the political field – we are in very deep trouble taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0… Politicians used to spin, but now they just lie. And the trouble is, they lie on big issues like genocide, the fact that it is going on, and that our country is complicit in it. How long can this go on for before trust breaks down completely?

Israeli Airstrikes Kill Scores in Central Gaza, Target Children’s Clinic #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/israeli…
in reply to Acta Populi

We are looking for an investor who can loan our holding company 237,000 US dollars.

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Additionally, by producing our own animal feed, we will be able to sell healthier, higher quality animal products at a lower price.

Since we can sell quality products cheaply and thanks to our strong advertising network, we will be able to sell more internationally and make huge profits.

The reason for establishing the business in Azerbaijan is that animal husbandry is a very profitable business in Azerbaijan, but since there are very few people doing animal husbandry, establishing the farm in Azerbaijan will provide us with more income.

Your profit:

You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.

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You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.

When 22.03.2026 comes, I will give you back your money in the amount of 953,000 US dollars.

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My telegram username:
@adenholding

Interesting response and analysis of Francesca Albanese regarding profiteering in the siege of Gaza and settlements of Palestinian land, annexed to Israel. She’s been studying this for over 2 years, revealing particular capitalist entities like Maersk. She notes that young activists undertook the research and now established media refuses to acknowledge their authority. 2nd part of interview yet to be recorded and posted.
#FrancescaAlbanese #UN #Gaza #sanctions
democracynow.org/2025/7/10/fra…

Lisa #Pratta

“I worked for #BigPharma. What I saw will shock you”

  • 5 day snorkeling vacations to doctors
  • California Big Pharma reps giving doctors $15,000 Birkin handbags
  • $6,000 Armani suits and expensed it on their expense reports
  • Strip clubs, lap dances, you name it
  • Rent a box for a big concert to Phillies games, Eagles games
  • Extravagant Golf trips
  • “They received it as gifts and bribes”

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1943205851872755891

#BigPharma #Pharma #corruption

#medicine #health

"Trapping AI" – Operational Progress! 🕳️

Following the last update (tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/1147426…), we’re transitioning from planning to practice — amplifying both the scale and operational ferocity of our approach through the deployment of a new, more radically interventionist layer of complexity.

This intensified escalation — as outlined in the last update — is concretized in fakejpeg, which is now fully live and operational. From this point onward, every page generated by our standalone LLM crawler-tarpit embeds a garbage JPEG. Notably, within just a few hours of operation, this deployment has already yielded over 40,000 such images.

The integration of fakejpeg constitutes a critical deepening layer that amplifies both the strategic offensiveness and subversive ardor of our approach by enabling the ongoing targeted poisoning and coordinated dissemination of systematically crafted junk data within the operational workflows of AI systems.

fakejpeg repo: github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

See the tarpit in action: content.asrg.site/

Context and rationale: algorithmic-sabotage.github.io…


"Trapping AI" – Slight Update! 🌀

Activity in the "Trapping AI" project is accelerating: in just under a month, over 26 million requests have hit our tarpit URLs 🕳️. Vast volumes of meaningless content were devoured by AI crawlers — ruthless digital leeches that relentlessly scour and pillage the web, leaving no data untouched.

In the coming days, we’ll roll out a new layer of complexity — amplifying both the intensity and offensiveness of our approach. This escalation builds on fakejpeg, a tool developed by @pengfold.

🖼️ fakejpeg generates fake JPEGs on the fly. You "train" it with a collection of existing JPEGs, and once trained, it can produce an arbitrary number of things that look like real JPEGs — perfect for feeding aggressive web crawlers junk 🗑️.

Explore fakejpeg: github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

Learn more about "Trapping AI": algorithmic-sabotage.github.io…

See the tarpit in action: content.asrg.site/


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If only Cycles would ever work on AMD Polaris…

Though honestly, I’ll probably get around to a GPU upgrade eventually.
Rocm packaging looks to be pretty much done on Debian, although they still seem to need time on the problem of keeping it reasonably up to date in Testing and Sid - momentum will probably pick up after Trixie leaves hard freeze and goes stable.

Honestly, it’d be kind of nice to have a project with a repo that does nothing most of the time except during the Testing freeze, in which it would deliver package updates and keep Testing as a rolling release during that time.

I get why Debian doesn’t do this themselves - they tried and found it hell to both prepare a stable release and package new versions.

in reply to Acta Populi

We are looking for an investor who can loan our holding company 237,000 US dollars.

With this money, we will open a farm in Baku, Azerbaijan to produce animal-based food.

We will also make our own animal feed, so our products will be healthier, better quality, and cheaper.

Because we sell quality products for less and have strong advertising, we will sell more worldwide and make big profits.

Why Azerbaijan? Because animal farming makes a lot of money there, but few people do it. That’s why we will earn more by starting in Azerbaijan.

Additionally, by producing our own animal feed, we will be able to sell healthier, higher quality animal products at a lower price.

Since we can sell quality products cheaply and thanks to our strong advertising network, we will be able to sell more internationally and make huge profits.

The reason for establishing the business in Azerbaijan is that animal husbandry is a very profitable business in Azerbaijan, but since there are very few people doing animal husbandry, establishing the farm in Azerbaijan will provide us with more income.

Your profit:

You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.

Your earnings will be great. When 22.03.2026 comes, you will get your money back as 953.00 US dollars.

You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.

When 22.03.2026 comes, I will give you back your money in the amount of 953,000 US dollars.

That means you will earn 716,000 US dollars profit in just 9 months.

If you like this project and want to loan us money, message me on WhatsApp or Telegram for more details.

If our project is suitable for you and you would like to lend money to our holding, send a message to my WhatsApp number or Telegram username below and I will give you detailed information.

For detailed information and to lend money to our holding, send a message to my whatsapp number or telegram username below and I will give you detailed information.

My WhatsApp phone number:
+44 7842 572711

My telegram username:
@adenholding

Calibre 8.6 released


New features

  • Content server: Add a checkbox in content server user preferences to prevent a user account from changing its own password via the web interface
  • Restoring database: Improve performance by an order of magnitude
  • Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to permit displaying the sort value for series in the Tag browser
  • Welcome wizard: Change default output format to AZW3 for Kindle as MOBI is obsolete and all Kindles released within the last decade plus support AZW3
  • Add 'Search "not in"' and 'Filter "not in'" buttons to Manage authors and Manage Items

Bug fixes

  • Windows: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused terminal windows to popup momentarily when adding PDF files or converting them
    Closes tickets: 2115246
    • E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image
      Closes tickets: 2115057
    • Tag browser: Fix clicking on categories to search for books by first letter of series not working correctly for non-English language books
      Closes tickets: 2116006
    • Edit metadata individually: Ensure Next/Previous buttons work even if something re-orders the books in the book list. They will now iterate over the books as they were at the time the dialog is created
      Closes tickets: 2115111
    • Windows: Generate catalog: Workaround for systems where a broken antivirus or similar holds open files in the catalog library causing a permission denied error
      Closes tickets: 2115084


New news sources

  • La Presse by quatorze

Improved news sources

  • Economist
  • 1843
  • Financial Times
  • PC World
  • Muy Interesante Mexico
  • Hindu Business Line
  • Business Standard
  • Hindustan Times
  • The Week
  • Times of India
  • Hindustan
  • Financial Times
  • Reason
in reply to petsoi

Calibre is one of the great pieces of FOSS software, and demonstrates everything good about FOSS: it has regular updates; it's been around for simply ages; it works really, really well; it gets updates and new features and yet has never in my memory had a breaking, non-backwards-compatible release... it's stable; and it resists - in its way - the attempt by publishers to steal our rights and ownerships of our media.

I ~~contribute~~ donate to Calibre. I hope that Goyal has a successor lined up to take the helm who can continue such an outstanding contribution when he finally retires from the project.

Edit: clarification

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