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“People die daily from malnutrition,” says Dr. Atef al-Ghoul, Director of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. “If we speak in the language of numbers, the numbers speak for themselves — hundreds of people have died in the past two months trying to get food for their families, only to return to their starving families in body bags.”

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When the bodies of starving children in Gaza reach a ‘point of no return’

Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their bodies until they reach “a point of no return.”
Tareq S. Hajjaj (Mondoweiss)

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“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?” – Thea Abu El-Haj

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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
Alice Speri (The Guardian)
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Artemis

One thing I've learned from Facebook: the people from my previous life that I trust and respect & the people I don't.

Because the people I trust & respect say something about atrocities, & those who don't apparently either are happy about it or don't want to lose face among conservatives.

Facebook posts don't do much, but at least it's a chance to tell people that truth exists and that it fucking matters, & I appreciate that my parents and a few others of their generation are not silent.

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Artemis

I think that is the hardest thing about seeing all the people with nothing to say.

Like, news out of Gaza doesn't make you want to scream in unspeakable sorrow & anger?

Learning of ICE kidnappings & torture doesn't compel you to speak out?

If you're not boiling over with *something* to say about all the cruelty, violence, & death...how? What is wrong with you? Where tf is your humanity? Have you forgotten it? Lost it? Where is your compassion? Your sense of justice?

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Artemis

Aside: I just realized that nearly every person that I'm thinking of who is saying something is neurodivergent (ADHD &/or autistic), which I guess isn't surprising. We are known for having a rigid sense of justice & being non-conformist.

I'm starting to wonder if those "disorders" are an evolutionary feature that ensures *some* percentage of a population is harder to manipulate with social conditioning.

(obviously, you can also be neurotypical & resist conditioning—a lot of factors contribute)

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Cassandrich

I think the explanation for the latter is that most neurotypicality *is* just successful conditioning (dependent on innate capability and willingness to do so) to perform it.

Many of the same traits and behaviors that overlap with "neurotypicality" also lie on the vast spectrum of neurodiversity, and are not the product of conditioning. But most instances are probably the result of conditioning, to the degree that "neurotypicality" would not be a majority/default if you only included people who just happened to be that way without conditioning.

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@dalias
I like that perspective. I frequently feel really, really cynical about humanity right now, but I am trying to hold that in balance with the fact that people are so manipulated, controlled, conditioned, indoctrinated, and misinformed.

It can feel like a lot of people choose that or are naturally that way, but that's frustration with how hard it is to deprogram people from something built into the social constructs we inhabit.

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Artemis

@dalias
And yeah, sometimes I get the sort of "are the straights ok?" feeling about "neurotypicality".

Example: when I talk to a "neurotypical" person I often get a strong sense they have buried their personality to conform with the group, and it's like... it's not that you don't HAVE unique interests or a desire to be yourself, you just don't seem to know that you can simply embrace those things.

Hiding who you are and what you like out of a desire to be perceived as "normal" is not innate.

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Violet Madder

YES @dalias I ponder this a lot!!

I also have spooky moments where I ponder how effective all these tyrannical regimes have (or have not) actually been at stamping the capacity for resistance out of populations-- from a cultural standpoint AND, spookier, from a eugenics standpoint. It would probably take thousands of generations to physically breed out independent minds and reduce default human behavior to placid submissiveness, if such a thing is even possible but lord knows they've been wanting to try and EW.

Nature, nurture, social engineering, yeeeeek

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Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]

I mean, some of the neurodivergent 'moral rigidity' is really just because of a greater need for consistency. And a lot of instances of injustice have components of inconsistent applications of rules (not necessarily the whole of it though, and not necessarily all instances of injustice).

I don't really know enough to theorize on why there's a shared need for consistency - just some vague thoughts on consistency helping with cognitive processing efficiency - but it seems to be a shared feature across ADHD and autism.

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Artemis

@dartigen
I wonder if there is a socialization component for this need for consistency.

Something ADHD and autistic folks have in common is being frequently misunderstood as children & being punished/corrected for things that don't make sense & aren't clear to them.

I think it makes sense to develop a need for consistency in that context. If people want us to abide by their rules, we would argue they had better spell them out and then abide by all the logical consequences of those rules.

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Artemis

@dartigen
We also are forced to explain our actions and justify our choices significantly more often than others, so we probably are more likely to approach a question like "what should I do about x thing?" from the existing mental framework that we use to try to convince others to treat us fairly & with consistency.

I think about how I would justify my actions to others to the point it is unhealthy, but I have always had to explain my choices to people who misinterpreted or misunderstood them

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Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]

This could be a big component of it, yeah!

I was thinking more along the lines of how moral rules, like lots of other rules and rule-like frameworks, help to provide a cognitive shortcut. If it's always right to refill the coffee pot if you used the last of it, for example, you don't have to waste any cognitive energy considering if it's good in this instance to refill the coffee pot - it's always good, therefore refill coffee pot. Or if you always eat soup for lunch on Wednesday, you can cut down on the cognitive energy needed to decide on what to eat for lunch on Wednesday - you can bypass all other food categories and jump straight to deciding what kind of soup, instead of having to start from 'all possible lunch foods' and drill down to 'all possible types of soup'.

I feel like some of it may also run into empathy as well though - or maybe we all take the 'imagine yourself in this person's situation' description of empathy way too literally, and actually do that, and figure that we'd find that situation upsetting or infuriating and would probably react similarly, or we can at least understand how that person came to that reaction.

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Violet Madder

Heuristics, yes!

A lot of organized religions really lean on this "we did the heavy thinking so you don't have to / because you can't be trusted to" thing where they hand down dogma you're just supposed to default to without actually analyzing it in depth or even questioning it at all.

I was always an instinctive questioner (me at like 6 in Sunday school: "the Lord is my shepherd?? Shepherds EAT sheep!") so it's hard for me to wrap my head around the way so many people are much more comfortable following rules and really really don't WANT to look deeper because it genuinely freaks them out.

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So I'm reading Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich, it's a book about the formation of the first stealth bomber program and the trials and tribulations associated with getting the first stealth bomber off the ground and all the headaches it entails.

About fifty or so odd pages in and the author talks about working on this program while under many various government laws such as the EEOC, affirmative action, having to employ a certain amount of X or Y kinds of people.

So even back then you had these laws severely limiting and threatening the very existence of a technology which changed the aerospace industry forever.

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Kson quits VShojo and calls the JP branch CEO (for now) live on stream
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Seems to be a similar reason to Ironmouse, not getting paid what she is owed since SEPTEMBER.

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Cory Doctorow

Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:

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Ygor

Did you know there is a My Little Pony movie about that?

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How to Protect Yourself from a Unicorn Attack | My Little Pony: A New Generation | Netflix Futures

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Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman, dies at 76

Very sorry to see this. We're glad that he got to experience his final show and the love of his fans. Makes it all the more poignant.

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Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman, dies at 76

Iconic heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, who became a huge solo success and later a reality TV star after being fired from Black Sabbath, has died.
Ethan Sacks (NBC News)

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The Paradise area in Mount Rainier National Park today. Featuring subalpine meadows, epic mountain views, and of course, a parking lot, which is presently being paved! In the foreground, construction vehicles and crews work on the surface of the parking lot, while rows of vehicles sparkle in the sun in the center. The slopes of Mount Rainier are behind this. White clouds and a blue sky complete the picture.
The Paradise area in Mount Rainier National Park today. Featuring subalpine meadows, epic mountain views, and of course, a parking lot, which is presently being paved! On the right, the beautiful green slopes of Mount Rainier along with curving paths filled with park visitors. On the left, construction vehicles and crews work on the surface of the parking lot. The Jackson Visitor Center can be seen behind the parking lot. White clouds and a blue sky complete the picture.

Mount Rainier National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Ascending to 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainier stands as an icon in the Washington landscape. An active volcano, Mount Rainier is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S.A., spawning five major rivers.
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Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inte…
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data1701d (He/Him)

Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.

Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.

I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.

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Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 18, 2025 Curiosity has started to investigate the main exposure of the boxwork structures! What was once a distant target is now on our doorstep, and Curiosity is beginning to explore the ridges and hollows that make up this […]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4604-4606: Taking a Deep Breath of Martian Air

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#Greece #protests #IsraeliTourists
@palestine

"Israeli passengers on a [Israeli] cruise ship docked on the island of Syros in Greece were unable to disembark due to large pro-Palestinian protests at the dock on Tuesday"
"Protesters near the Syros dock flew Palestinian flags, held banners reading slogans including “Stop the Genocide,” and “No AC (Air Conditioning) in Hell.”"

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Pro-Palestinian Protesters Prevent Israelis from Disembarking Ferry on Greek Island

Israeli passengers on a cruise ship docked on the island of Syros in Greece were unable to disembark...
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Proletarian Rage

@peterbrown sir, the case for these tourists is that they are provocative -amid their support for the genocide. You can find their own videos where they shout their support for the genocidal state. Even if they don't support the genocide(which is not the case), their nationalist support make the antifascist blockade a necessity. mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApa… @NotImpressed @palestine

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This week on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on Melbourne/Naarm community radio 3CR, @sexenheimer & I talk to Nicola Guerra about the ‘Strategy of Tension’, ‘Years of Lead’, geopolitics, & hobbits.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #257 w Nicola Guerra on The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict : July 24, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Nicola Guerra. Nicola is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku, Finland, and the author of The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-U…
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On ITA, we spoke to David Broder back in 2022:

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #135 w David Broder on the Italian election : October 6, 2022

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to David Broder [Twitter]. A translator and Jacobin Europe editor, his next book is titled Mussolini’s Grandchildren: Fascism in Con…
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And in 2020, we spoke to Caterina Froio about Casapound:

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #049 w Caterina Froio on Casapound Italia : December 17, 2020

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Caterina Froio [Twitter], Assistant Professor in Political Science/e-politics at Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CE…
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If you enjoy laughing at glue sniffing imperialists while they drag us all down into the abyss:
The Hudson Institute published a plan (for lack of a better word) for how the U.S. should bring about regime change in... wait for it… China (!), a plan that involves a "military occupation”. Of China. By the US.

I don't think there's an emoji for that.

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How a US Think Tank accidentally wrote the most honest document about American empire

This might be one of the most insane reports ever produced by a U.S.
Arnaud Bertrand

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Lien Rag

I did follow his writings for a while, because indeed he writes well and seems thoughtful.
I've wondered whether he's paid to do this propaganda or whether he just, as a French businessman in China, wanted to paint a more accurate picture of the country than the one that is portrayed in the general media.
But I stumbled on a message that was more clearly propaganda (alas, can't remember what is was, so you'll have to take my word for it - or not, of course) so I unfollowed him.
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