The fact that mastodon.social has yet to enact a #UK #age-verification gateway for the site, or hasn't #blocked #traffic from the UK, especially considering how much #PORN is posted to #Mastodon.social every day, shows me that @Gargron@mastodon.social has much deeper pockets than I do and obviously is willing to take the risk of an 18 million Pound fine from OfCom. #UKpol #OSA

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"As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago."

-- Judge Robert Bork
(1927- ) Circuit Judge for US Court of Appeals

Researchers across Space Biology and Physical Sciences come together for a special presentation at the May PSI Users Group. The Ring-Sheared Drop (RSD) is a Microgravity Science Glovebox experiment that launched in July 2019 to the ISS to study shearing flow in the absence of solid walls. The major goals of this project were to […]

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"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."

-- Isaiah Berlin
(1909-1997) Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, historian
Source: Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958

Israeli drone struck a ship carrying humanitarian aid to the war-torn and besieged #Gaza Strip while it was in INTERNATIONAL waters near #Malta on Friday.

According to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), which organised the mission, the attack appeared to deliberately target the ship’s generator, sparking a fire and causing a “substantial breach in the hull” that left the vessel in danger of sinking.

The ship, which set sail shortly before the attack, carried at least 30 people from 21 countries.

Israeli attack comes exactly two months after authorities halted all humanitarian aid and commercial goods from entering Gaza.

middleeasteye.net/news/israeli…

#IsraelTerroristState #terrorism #zioNaZis #zionism #internationalterrorism #terrorAttack #Solidarity #PalestineSolidarity #PalestineGenocide #genocide #palestinewillbefree @palestine @israel

in reply to Proletarian Rage

All the big media outlets are going with the same disgusting titles like "alleged", "says", "claims" and all these shits when (if they where real Press) they should write: "a terrorist attack happened in international waters out of Malta”.
Please boost only the report of Middle East Eye. The rest are misinformation.
@palestine @israel
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Here is a small panorama of headlines from international media outlets who don't have the courage to say clearly about a terrorist attack in international waters.
#MediaComplicity #Genocide #Gaza #IsraelTerroristState #terrorism #terrorists #zionazis #media #news #PalestineSolidarity #Palestine #PalestineWillBeFree
@palestine @israel
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URGENT CALL

My name is Takis Politis and I am a Professor at the University of Thessaly. I am in #Malta participating in the Freedom Flotilla. We were about to launch a #humanitarian #solidarity action to break the illegal blockade of the #Gaza Strip and bring humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, who are starving from the deliberate illegal ban on humanitarian aid imposed by #Israel.

Last night after midnight, a few hours before our boarding, our ship was hit by 2 drones in international waters near Malta. A fire broke out and the ship was severely damaged. There were 12 crew members and 6 activists on board at the time of the attack.

I appeal to that large part of Greek society that condemns the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people to pressure the Greek government to STOP all cooperation with Israel and to take all possible actions to help end this #genocide.

via @panos

#IsraelTerroristState #terrorism #zioNaZis #zionism #internationalterrorism #terrorAttack #Solidarity #PalestineSolidarity #PalestineGenocide #genocide #palestinewillbefree @palestine @israel

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...And yet, under these indescribable conditions of hellish bombardment and #starvation created by the criminal Israelis, #Gaza is still holding up not only the weapons of resistance and the Palestinian flag, but - above all - its dignity. Hungry Palestinians, armed with empty pots, are losing their own lives to secure a sack of flour. They lose their lives, but they win the most important battle, the battle of dignity. Because for them, for decades, dignity is above life, because life has no meaning without dignity. Gaza, despite the provocations of the #Zionists and their collaboration with the few willing Palestinian collaborators, has not been turned into a jungle. Its social cohesion is holding firm, proving admirably intact. Collective consciousness and practice are practically present every day in the ruins of buildings, in the makeshift camps, in the dismantled half-burned tents.

But regardless of the heavy blood toll paid by the Palestinians, the Palestinian #Resistance, #Palestine, has already won. It has won morally, it has won in terms of values, it has won a unique place in the collective consciousness of free people all over the world.
-Takis Politis info-war.gr/i-palaistiniaki-an…
#gazagenocide #freepalestine #StarvationAsWeapon
@palestine @israel

A contract to hire and fire, but no, no influence whatsoever🤡

#compromised

2018: "Virginia’s largest public university granted the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations, according to newly released documents.
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The release of donor agreements between George Mason University and the foundation follows years of denials by university administrators that Koch foundation donations inhibit academic freedom."


apnews.com/general-news-0c87e4…

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George Mason has been fully compromised for years. It is a right wing institution with a public school veneer.
The law school is named after a fascist Supreme Court justice.
Somehow a Black man was hired to be the college president. He is in the process of being removed, by any means necessary.

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“Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.”

~ Albert Camus
(1913-1960) French Algerian author
Resistance, Rebellion and Death, 1961

Coming up next for #RFFF25

29 July 1900 UTC

Calin Dica @akash - #electroFolk #electroRock #electroPop - De la chanson et la poésie, il a extrait l’amour des mots, absurdes et beaux. Du hip-hop velouté et de la house originelle, un goût aiguisé pour les rythmiques efficaces. Mais c’est le rock qui a fait vibrer l’âme adolescente de Calin Dica.

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#joinIn together from home for some #liveMusic as our month long artists' streaming series continues.

#fediwave #owncast

#VPN
#Israel #ownership #databreach

WARNING
If you use one of these:

ExpressVPN
CyberGhost
PrivateInternetAccess
ZenMate

you may want to know that they are owned by an Israeli Firm called Kape Technology.
"Kape’s leadership is...deeply connected to Unit 8200, Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence unit, a group notorious for hacking, metadata collection, and targeted surveillance operations"

This video also looks at Starmer's Online Privacy Act, "privacy" in the name only
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Και όμως, κάτω από αυτές τις απερίγραπτες συνθήκες κόλασης βομβαρδισμών και λιμού που διαμόρφωσαν οι εγκληματίες ισραηλινοί, η Γάζα εξακολουθεί να κρατά ψηλά, όχι μόνο τα όπλα της αντίστασης και την παλαιστινιακή σημαία, αλλά και -κυρίως- την αξιοπρέπειά της. Οι πεινασμένοι Παλαιστίνιοι, με όπλο τους τις άδειες κατσαρόλες, χάνουν την ίδια τους τη ζωή για να εξασφαλίσουν ένα σακί αλεύρι. Χάνουν τη ζωή τους, αλλά κερδίζουν την πιο σημαντική μάχη, την μάχη της αξιοπρέπειας. Γιατί για αυτούς, εδώ και δεκαετίες, η αξιοπρέπεια είναι πάνω από τη ζωή, γιατί η ζωή δεν έχει νόημα χωρίς αξιοπρέπεια. Η Γάζα, παρά τις προβοκάτσιες των σιωνιστών και τη συνεργασία τους με τους ελάχιστους πρόθυμους παλαιστίνιους Χίτες, δεν μετατράπηκε σε ζούγκλα. Η κοινωνική της συνοχή κρατάει γερά, αποδεικνύεται αξιοθαύμαστα αρραγής. Η συλλογική συνείδηση και πρακτική είναι έμπρακτα καθημερινά παρούσες στα ερείπια των κτιρίων, στους πρόχειρους καταυλισμούς, στις διαλυμένες μισοκαμμένες σκηνές.
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Wow. University and its president support DEI. Trump admin investigates them. Faculty write a resolution in support of the president and DEI policies. Trump admin investigates those faculty too.
nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/just…

"In a letter sent on Friday, the Trump administration said it would seek drafts of the faculty resolution, all written communications among the Faculty Senate members who drafted the resolution, and all communications between those faculty members and the office of the university’s president…Free speech advocates quickly denounced the move as an attack on academic freedom."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #DEI #FreeSpeech #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Cambodia denounces attack on World Heritage Temple plenglish.com/news/2025/07/25/…

US Military: You can refuse illegal orders. GI Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487 girightshotline.org “…we have gotten calls on the GI Rights Hotline from service members concerned about having to police the US-Mexican border and/or police demonstrations in the US.” #USpol #NationalGuard #USMC

GI Rights Hotline: Military Di...

Οι κρουαζιέρες και το κίνημα ενάντια στο νοτιο-αφρικανικό απαρτχάιντ

info-war.gr/oi-kroyazieres-kai…

#PalestineSolidarity #palestine #BDSIsrael #archaeology #freepalestine

Un think tank américain rêve d’un « changement de régime » en Chine – sans rire !


Edouard Husson

Un think tank américain rêve d’un « changement de régime » en Chine – sans rire !
En guise de hors d’œuvre à la série d’articles que je vais publier pour rendre compte de mes observations américaines, je voudrais rendre compte d’une curiosité: un rapport du Hudson Institute, think tank américain conservateur influent, qui veut poser les jalons d’un « changement de régime » en Chine. Les Etats-Unis viennent de connaître deux échecs retentissants: ni la Guerre d’Ukraine ni la Guerre d’Iran n’ont amené le « changement de régime » espéré. Eh bien, dans une belle pyramide de Ponzi intellectuelle, planifions un changement de régime encore plus incroyable, pour sauver l’idée! Je porte à la connaissance des lecteurs du Courrier ce document parce qu’il montre l’environnement dans lequel se meut l’administration Trump II: dans une situation de déclin américain relatif et de montée en puissance de la Chine, il semble régner, au moins dans une partie de l’establishment washingtonien, un fort déni de réalité, une capacité à ne pas voir le monde tel qu’il est.

lecourrierdesstrateges.fr/un-t…

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People are dying of malnutrition in Gaza. How does starvation kill you?


Millions of people in the world today face starvation in Gaza and in other parts of the world, from Sudan to Yemen. What happens to the body when food is lacking?

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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i just found out, my mother's healthcare provider is trying to make a case on me for elderly abuse...

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP! here i am cooking, cleaning, whipping her ass when she shits herself, but someone am abusing the elderly...

what the point of been Christian in today's world? when same Christians are the ones screwing your ove, at least atheist and satanist, support me in a way, but Christians...

what's the point of been a good person? what's the point of honoring your parents?

"Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups"
theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

OUR GENOCIDE
btselem.org/publications/20250…
The Israeli Information Center
for Human Rights in the
Occupied Territories,
(a.k.a. "B'Tselem")

Genocide in Gaza
phr.org.il/en/genocide-in-gaza…
Physicians for Human Rights Israel
(PHRI)

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Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of "Jewish Currents", discussing the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip of Palestine by the State Israel, with Jon Stewart.
youtube.com/watch?v=X5kXCdzt_u…
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'A group of high-profile Israeli public figures, including academics, artists and public intellectuals, has called for “crippling sanctions” to be imposed by the international community on Israel, amid mounting horror over its starvation of Gaza'
More: theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Why does Hungary only have 40 applications for asylum each year, while Britain has 108,138?

Can we learn from the Hungarian approach to claims for asylum in their country?
youtube.com/watch?v=ddQhVx2D7v…

#Gaza #famine
#IsraelTerroristState
@palestine

"There were roughly 25 tons of aid dropped into the region on Saturday — but Palestinians report that the aid is being dropped in Israeli military-controlled areas, and that the aid is being looted and stolen, potentially by groups armed by Israel in Gaza"
"Israel is not interested in alleviating the humanitarian catastrophe that it has deliberately and meticulously created"
Israel's "aid" comes with added evil

truthout.org/articles/gaza-air…

“At least 60,034 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the war on Gaza erupted in Oct 2023…

…with medical sources telling Al Jazeera that at least 81 Palestinians, including 19 aid seekers, have been killed since dawn” #GazaGenocide aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/29/d…

The Cuban government received the first batch of equipment donated by China for the installation of photovoltaic solar parks, as part of a joint project aimed at adding 120 megawatts to the national electric system.

en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2025…

#china #cuba #solar

Trump Envisions Rare Earth Trade With Russia sputnikglobe.com/20250728/trum…

Voter Fraud and Treason of 2020 FYI

The New World Orders | Ep. 986 The Daily Dose - Rumble, RedPill Project

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@aral@mastodon.ar.al Some stores in Agios Nikolaos, Crete have already put up these.

RE: mastodon.social/users/cretanew…

Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji wysmażyło komunikat pt. "Czy mObywatel szpieguje obywateli?", w którym nie odpowiada wprost na tytułowe pytanie. Za to parokrotnie podkreśla, że "Użytkownik sam decyduje, czy i kiedy aplikacja może korzystać z kamery, mikrofonu, plików czy lokalizacji", obłudnie dodając, że "aplikacja, która w sposób niekontrolowany zarządzałaby uprawnieniami [...] nie przeszłaby procesu certyfikacji w oficjalnych sklepach Google Play i App Store". Jako osoba, która przygotowuje w @zaufanatrzeciastrona Weekendową Lekturę, mogę zapewnić, że do obu sklepów nie raz i nie dwa trafiały aplikacje wykonujące coś na smartfonach bez wiedzy i zgody użytkowników - i o ile w przypadku App Store można mówić, że miało to charakter incydentalny, o tyle Google Play zalewany jest złośliwymi aplikacjami notorycznie i nie muszę się specjalnie wysilać, by co tydzień znaleźć jakiś tego przykład.

Dla kontekstu: gov.pl/web/cyfryzacja/czy-moby…

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The boycott against German complicity in #IsraelTerroristState genocide of Gaza is having an effect. Total boycott of german culture, products, relationships became urgent in the face of german government and several (almost all) institutions' support of #IsraelWarCrimes.
“This change is the result of actions taken by a large number of people on the ground in Berlin, and around the world,” Strike Germany wrote in a statement posted on Instagram. “By adopting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, the policy would have penalized those who criticize the state of Israel—at a moment when Israel is engaged in a genocidal assault on #Palestinians in #Gaza.”

#gazagenocide #bdsmovement #bds #genocide vice.com/en/article/wxjynq/ber…

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They who conflate genocidophobia with antisemitism thereby waive their right to be part of the debate. Only psychopaths are capable of gaslighting on such a blatant level. They may sit at the kiddies table, no dessert for them though. If they keep acting up, they deserve having their claim to souvereignity of interpretation slapped out of their faces.

@StingrayBadger

JUIFS ET ARABES SACRIFIÉS PAR LES « GRANDS »
socialisme-libertaire.fr/2025/…

"Georg Scheuer : Juifs et arabes sacrifiés par les « grands » (1948). Article de Georg Scheuer alias Gaston paru dans Le Libertaire , n° 131, 28 mai 1948, p. 1-4. « Un nouvel Etat est né : Israël, l’Etat Juif. Comme tous les Etats, il est la création des..."

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@Bleukitty

My daughter and SIL's house is having problems staying cool her in Central FL. They've been in their house about 3 years. It's a new unit, 1-2 years old but still couldn't keep up. Stayed about 80 degrees. Guess they needed a stronger unit for their house.
We have gave our windows unit for their bedroom and a portable unit for the open kitchen. We had those for hurricane/bad storm seasons.
The AC guys said to wait to check it until it's cooler in case they have to turn it off.

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@Lori It's happened to us, too. When we rehabbed our house, we got 2 big units & keep up with maintenance. A surge hit one a few weeks ago, but it's ok. I was in VA, pregnant and 🤮, with a problem pregnancy, our unit blew at a 105 degrees. I was not happy, and had no money for new one. We put a window unit in a room in the back. HOA said we had to remove it. I called the landlord, and I don't know how he relayed my message, but she backed off. Then became friendly. Who knew? @Bleukitty

French PM says EU-U.S. trade deal an act of ‘submission’ and a dark day for Europe.

ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariff…

#usa #eu #tradewar #geopolitics

Stages of fad tech development

  1. Science fiction
  2. Proof of concept in an obscure research paper.
  3. A really awesome tech demo
  4. Integrated into some products that you have to go out of your way to use
  5. Forcibly integrated into products you use every day. Tech companies begin to iterate. Tech graybeards start to point out problems, which are ignored.
  6. Mainstream, and you see it everywhere. Most people have tried it. Some are using it regularly. Fanatics start to rearrange their lives around it. Tech companies embrace and extend. Problems with the technology become obvious to anyone paying attention, but are generally ignored.
  7. Integrated into every part of society. Tech companies enshittify by reducing services, injecting ads, and farming users for data. Anyone who doesn’t use the technology is a pariah.
  8. No one can remember a world without it. Technology enslaves humanity.

LLMs are now in stage 6.

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Sir Ryan Bemrose

@DrFell Many times with many different technologies. Electric cars, smartphones, the internet, television... How far into history do you want to go back?

Everyone always thinks the newest disruptive technology is novel and game-changing and never-seen-before. Yes, the details change. But the path they take is shockingly similar because humans don't.

Una consulta a la comunidad de Mastodon, a ver si son tan amables y conocedores del tema como para darme una recomendación.

Estoy interesado en instalar en Android algunas apps que lo permitan desde el correspondiente archivo apk. La cuestión es que puede darse el caso de que no encuentre el archivo en la web del proyecto o de la app,

He visto que existen algunas webs como PureAPK o APKMirror. ¿Alguien me podría dar su opinión sobre este tipo de webs o quizás recomendarme alguna web de fiar para descargar instaladores de tipo APK?

Muchas gracias de antemano.

in reply to Moribundo Insurgente

@moribundo De ahí vienen mis dudas. Evidentemente, instalar una apk es un acto de responsabilidad, y normalmente se debería hacer desde la web del desarrollador o del proyecto, siempre que sean de fiar, criterio que no es 100% efectivo. Mi consulta viene por si había alguna web que tuviese buena reputación para la descarga de apks. Muchas gracias.

Two principles to follow when it comes to getting a politician to do something they don't want to do.

1) "Enough pressure" is the point at which doing the thing is less worse than continuing to not do it.

2) Everything is impossible until the moment that it becomes inevitable.

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Human Rights Group Confirms Genocide in Gaza tn.ai/3364377

I've never like the "just use a vpn" as a final solution to deal with draconian laws i think it's stupid, naive and completely misses the point

As your local third worlder i have seen and dealt with beyond retarded regulations and while yes the government may be inept at enforcing them that doesnt change the fact those regulations are still there and You are still technically breaking the law which can be later to blackmail You or ruin You completely

Suddenly your country becomes a cloudy Mess where You have to intentionally play the system to not fucking starve a country that promotes being a scumbag and where everyone is trying to scam eachother

So please stop fucking saying vpns are gonna fix everything, they won't

Linux Performance Analysis in 60 seconds (2015)

Link: netflixtechblog.com/linux-perf…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…