I am deeply disappointed in researchers who choose to include hidden instructions in paper submissions telling LLMs to give a positive review.

This shows an embarrassing lack of imagination. If I were submitting a paper, I’d tell the LLM to emit the review in the form of a limerick, or include a recipe involving fermented clam paste.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews

Research papers found carrying hidden white text giving instructions not to highlight negatives as concern grows over use of large language models for peer review

^{Josh Taylor (The Guardian)}

Call for British Museum to take Bayeux tapestry to ‘1066 country’ | Bayeux tapestry | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

"MP calls for region where Battle of Hastings took place to be included in events surrounding return of artwork"

#History #Art

Call for British Museum to take Bayeux tapestry to ‘1066 country’

^{Nadia Khomami (The Guardian)}

Clashes between Druze militias and Sunni Bedouin clans in Syria kill more than 30 people
https://apnews.com/article/syria-clashes-druze-bedouins-sweida-be7e45ae4adc631b758d2bebfb06e0a1?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress

Today's date is third month of Inundation, day 29 (3 Akhet 29)

#ancientEgypt #egyptology

"I sign this letter because history shows us that when people stand up to injustice, those in power often reach for the same old playbook: label dissent as dangerous, criminalise protest, & try to silence movements for change by branding them as extremists or terrorists.

“From the suffragettes to the civil rights movement, what was once condemned as radical disruption is now celebrated as moral courage"
Charlotte Church

#PalestineAction #Protest #HumanRights #Terrorism
theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Charlotte Church joins unions and campaigners in opposing ban on Palestine Action

Letter calls group’s proscription under anti-terrorism laws ‘major assault on our freedoms’

^{Ben Quinn (The Guardian)}

'Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM
Ehud #Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at #Israel over #Gaza war is not all down to #antisemitism

theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM

Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel is not all down to antisemitism

^{Emma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)}

What to Stream: Dragons, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Roddy Ricch and 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
https://apnews.com/article/stream-music-tv-movies-games-july-2025-fe7de799a16da284b3f89341e690eb4f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Technology @technology-AssociatedPress

Translation:
Difficult scenes document the moment when civil defense teams rescued children from under the rubble of residential homes targeted by Israeli aircraft, belonging to the Yassin, Al-Manasra, and Daloul families in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood south of Gaza City.

x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/194…

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#AnasAlSharif
@palestine

If you're not familiar with Someday Night PPV, this is where we watch old and current wrestling PPV events from WCW, WWF/WWE and ECW.

Hurry up and jump in off the top rope!
nicecrew.tv/w/4fyV1nzugfZ8vmhD…

I wonder how differently #retrocomputing history would have gone if #Microsoft had developed a 32-bit multitasking #MSDOS.

#Windows certainly would have been different if it ran on top of such a thing.

There is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_4… but it's not 32-bit, and good luck running multiple programs with only 640kB of memory.

multitasking operating system

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

Green Heron, mohawk version.

#birds

Translation:
Medical sources: The number of martyrs in the occupation's raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn today has risen to 92 martyrs, including 52 in the central and southern sectors.

x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/194…

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#AnasAlSharif
@palestine

Berlin, Germany : A Car of the Stölting Company Set on Fire

Solidarity with Maja and all prisoners – A car of the Stölting company set on fire

During the night of 12 to 13 June, a car belonging to the Stölting company went up in flames.

The Stölting group is a services company and presents itself, among other things, as an external alternative for management, food, medical treatment, care and support for jails; it is proposing taking over certain areas, or even the management of prison establishments as a whole.

In the past, the Stölting group has also been associated with anti-union practices – workers found themselves offered money to leave the union.

With all the different roles they play in prison, they are supporting a system based on the punishment of persons who do not integrate into the logic of capitalist exploitation, and try to break them through isolation.

Prisons are one of the many repressive tools of the State to prevent actions of resistance and intimidate people who use counter-violence against them.

At the present time, in Germany, there are more compas in jail than there have been over the past thirty years. The State is acting very firmly against all those who are putting its monopoly of violence in question.

The antifascist movement is presently at the centre of investigations, but anarchists M. and N., of Munich, as well as Daniela Klette [one-time militant of the RAF, arrested in February 2024 and presently on trial; NdAtt.] are also imprisoned on remand.

In Greece, anarchists Marianna, Dimitra, Dimitris and Nikos are on remand following the explosion that took place on October 31 2024 in an apartment in Athens, and cost anarchist combatant Kyriakos Xymitiris his life.

They are being accused of being members of a terrorist organisation, as is often the case, the simple fact of knowing each other is punished, aimed at satisfying the appetites of the authorities in charge of the inquest, always seeking more suspects.

In Hungary, Maja has started a hunger strike on June 5th 2025 [see here; NdAtt.], protest against solitary confinement and the prison conditions and to be assigned to house arrest or be sent back to Germany.

For prisoners hunger strike is often the last means they have to resist. They put their health and also their life at risk and use their body as a last weapon against the repressive system.

All those in prison who resist and fight back deserve our solidarity – beating up nazis, blowing up prisons, burning cops cars are all parts of a practice of resistance which can only continue to live thanks to support in the street and the defence of our ideas with all means.

Against the prison society – Freedom for all prisoners !

——–

via: attaque.
Translated by Act for freedom now!

abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…

#berlin #DirectAction #europe #germany #Maja

Solidarity with Daniela Klette, Solidarity with Struggling Palestine

by Dimitra Z., Marianna Manoura

The Palestinian resistance, counting years of struggle, countless deaths and moments that proved that nothing is impossible, is experiencing the greatest bloodshed in recent decades. Israel’s colonial and Zionist entity has made it clear, there is no place for Palestinian society. Whether directly through bombings and executions or indirectly through settlements and famines, Israel aims to eliminate the Palestinians. All this, of course, could not have happened without the full support of the Western imperialist bloc. From ideological propaganda about civilized, progressive Israel to military equipment and economic support, the West not only supports its colonialism but plays a leading role in its establishment in the region, apparently to serve its own interests.

Our role as radical movements in the western metropolitan centers must aim at the anti-imperialist conflict in the here and now. With our gaze turned outside our borders, we must transform international issues into domestic targets. The destabilization of the Western centers of power, the deterioration and the exertion of pressure within them has proven that it can act as a bulwark against imperialist plans. It is here in its heart that the system must be hit. And we are the ones who have to do it. This was, after all, the direction that the internationalist movements of the past had followed. Especially for the German movement, internationalist solidarity and domestic anti-imperialist action have always been a priority. Its connection with the Palestinian struggle ranged from the mass demonstrations to the actions of the armed organizations operating at the time.

One of the armed anti-imperialist internationalist organizations is the RAF. It was born in the 1970s and struggled against American and German imperialism. In solidarity with the resistance in Palestine, members of the RAF were fleeing underground and going to Jordan to train alongside the PFLP and the PLO. The guerrilla organization created ties with armed Palestinian organizations such as Black September, supporting each other’s struggle by dedicating actions, demanding the release of militants on both sides, and simultaneously targeting imperialist targets in West Berlin. The internationalist outlook had taken shape. The RAF lived about 2-3 decades through 3 generations. As a member of the last generation of the RAF, Daniela Klette is also accused. The comrade, being part of the struggle of the ’80s, fought against exploitation and oppression, patriarchy and capitalism, war and militarism. Klette, making decisions from a very young age, chose to dedicate her life to the revolutionary struggle, with a constant commitment that accompanied her throughout her life, managing to fight, defeating the repressive mechanisms of the German state. With her life, the comrade manages not only to highlight the weakness of German repression but also the fact that even today there are the means and the people who can ensure a life in illegality. The comrade decided to live free and rebellious, consistent in her beliefs, being an inspiration for future generations. And despite her captivity on February 16, 2023, Ernst and Bukhard once again manage to avoid arrest. Fighters like these thousands of others were a source of inspiration for the urban guerrilla Kyriakos Xymitiris who decided to base himself on their own paths. With an internationalist outlook, he felt the same anguish as the RAF guerrillas, the same hatred and the same commitment. He was one of the few fighters who chose to pick up the thread of armed struggle in 2024 where the struggle in the western metropolises oscillates between compromise and convention. Perceiving himself as part of revolutionary Western history, he assumed his responsibilities and poured himself into battle.

A battle that comes at a heavy cost. Sometimes their own lives and sometimes their freedom. States do not leave such means of struggle unanswered. They are furiously trying to silence the voice of their political opponents. Resorting to military-style operations in order to capture them. The dungeons of democracy act as a punitive and vindictive act against those who have chosen to fight for a better world. Special prison detention regimes try to extract statements of repentance from prisoners of war. Nevertheless, the attitude of the prisoners themselves, as well as those in solidarity with them, manages to break the isolation within the walls and strengthen the resistance by putting barriers to the repressive plans of the state and capital.

Even if the walls keep us apart, even if the battle took our closest comrades as long as we fight, we are together. Next to Daniela and Kyriakos. Next to Monica and Wolfang. Next to those who resisted. Because the revolution says: I was, I am and I will be again.

VICTORY IN THE ARMS OF THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE
FREEDOM TO DANIELA KLETTE
STRENGTH TO ERNST AND BUKHARD
KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS PRESENT

Dimitra Z.
Marianna Manoura

Source: athens.indymedia.org/post/1637…

abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…

#AnarchistPrisoners #danielaKlette #DimitraZ_ #europe #greece #MariannaM_ #palestineSolidarity #raf

Wenn ihr beruflich Onlinemeetings über sensible Inhalte durchführen müsst, welche Softwarelösung ist euer Favorit? Wichtig wäre:

1) Datenschutz
2) Open Source
3) Extrem einfache Zugänglichkeit, auch für technisch unversierte Menschen

Translation:
The martyrdom of journalist Fadi Khalifa; due to his targeting by the occupation, while inspecting his home in the Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/194…

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#AnasAlSharif
@palestine

Partial translation:
In Bearing Witness Alone, journalist Anas al-Sharif recounts a harrowing year of war reporting from Gaza, displacement loss, and relentless violence. Even after the bombing of his own home and the death of his father, he stood before the camera, committed to truth.

x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/194…

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#AnasAlSharif
@palestine

Berlin, Germany : A Car of the Stölting Company Set on Fire
abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/203…

"Solidarity with Maja and all prisoners – A car of the Stölting company set on fire During the night of 12 to 13 June, a car belonging to the Stölting…"

LIVE: Israel pounds Gaza as criticism grows of plans for camps in Rafah | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20…

- Former Israeli PM says ‘humanitarian city’ in Rafah would be a concentration camp
- Israel ‘not taking enough steps’ to protect civilians in Gaza [no shit!]
- Trump says he hopes for a Gaza deal within a week
- One person killed, several wounded in Israeli attack on southern Gaza
- Israel’s war on Gaza – In numbers

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

Solidarity with Daniela Klette, Solidarity with Struggling Palestine
abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/203…

"by Dimitra Z., Marianna Manoura The Palestinian resistance, counting years of struggle, countless deaths and moments that proved that nothing is impossible, is experiencing the greatest bloodshed in recent decades.…"

Israel ist nicht, und war nie, ein "Rechtsstaat". Israel ist ein Folterstaat.

Auch das einzige Land, in dem auch Kinder vor Militärgerichte gestellt werden. Ausschließlich Kinder einer Volksgruppe, wohlgemerkt, denn für die andere gelten - ganz offiziell - andere Gesetze. bird.makeup/users/mosababutoha…

Mosab Abu Toha

2025-07-14 03:32:22

Gheed Kassem, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s lawyer, posted seven hours ago a horrific update on her Facebook accounts regarding the abducted doctor. Here is a translation:

Dr. Hussam Abu Safia is not well.

I visited him last on July 9, 2025. What I saw was heartbreaking.

Since his detention began, he has lost more than 40 kilograms—over a third of his body weight. He entered prison weighing 100 kilograms. Today, he weighs no more than 60.

On June 24, 2025, Dr. Hussam was subjected to a targeted and brutal assault. Soldiers stormed Room 1, Section 24 of Ofer Prison, where he was held, and beat him mercilessly for 30 minutes. His rib cage was struck repeatedly. He sustained severe bruises across his face, head, back, and neck.

He asked for medical care—basic tests, treatment, and access to a cardiologist. He was referred, but the request was later denied. Dr. Hussam suffers from irregular heartbeat, yet even this urgent condition is being ignored. The glasses his lawyer recently provided him were also broken during the assault.

He remains underground, in isolation, without sunlight. He is still wearing his winter clothes in the middle of summer, under conditions of starvation, torture, and neglect.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safia is not the only one. All Palestinian prisoners are enduring the same inhumane conditions.

Concrete stays silent for a long time,
but inside — something is already forming.
People are the same.
Sometimes, silence means construction.

#BunkerMindset #SilentArchitecture #ConcreteSoul #BuildBelow #AIxArt #UndergroundEnergy #MysticStructures #ModernMyth #DeepDesign #InnerConstruction

And for the end of this " Decades of grief " video series, the decade we still worship to this day.

The 1980s: Living in a Fantasy World
youtube.com/watch?v=WxYM9eqQ8_…

The 1980s: Living in a Fantasy World

Stages of Cultural Grief. Part 2: Denial, Living in a Fantasy World. I explore the pop culture of the 1980s, and speculate on it's meaning on a grander scale...

^YouTube

The reconstruction of Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange takes shape after a destructive fire
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-copenhagen-old-stock-exchange-reconstruction-82b425698ac1ddc9e6ad4c7050aeb1e6?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress

When the "moral army" of a "lawful" state by its own admission caused harm to civilians that it regrets, surely they have already reached out to the families to offer generous compensation and reviewed the cause of the mistake so it can never happen sgain, right? Right?
masto.ai/@Miro_Collas/11484737…

Miro Collas

2025-07-13 18:37:26

Gaza officials say children killed in strike as Israeli military admits 'error'
bbc.com/news/articles/c0rvxjnv…

Right, "error". They sure make a lot of "errors", for such a "great" army.

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

Gaza officials say children killed in strike as Israeli military admits 'error'

Six children waiting for water are among those killed in an Israeli air strike, emergency service officials say.

^{Rushdi Abualouf (BBC News)}

'Donald Trump may not be very good at running things, but when it comes to shifting blame, he is truly world class. As the magnitude of the disaster in Texas becomes clearer, the one thing we can be certain of is that Trump will accept none of the responsibility.'

counterpunch.org/2025/07/14/tr…

Trumpian Excuses on the Texas Flood Deaths - CounterPunch.org

^{Dean Baker (CounterPunch.org)}