US applications for jobless benefits up modestly but remain at a healthy level
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made myself breakfast again
I tried cooking my eggs in a way that wasn't scrambled but the yolk split as I cracked open my egg 
still turned out pretty good
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DHS and ICE are not law enforcement. They do not respect or obey binding legal directives.
DHS and ICE are criminal cartels. It is inaccurate to refer to DHS/ ICE as law enforcement. If they wanted to enforce the law, the best thing for them to do would be start following it.
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Border Patrol agents used a Penske moving truck to storm a Home Depot, despite a court order barring ICE raids at workplaces.Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)
Stand 4. August hat #Israel mindestens 18.430 #Kinder in #Gaza getötet.
Die Reaktion der #EU, insbesondere der @EUCommission ist: NULL.
NICHTS. Keine Sanktionen, nichts außer den immer gleichen, billigen Phrasen, man sei ach so "besorgt" – ohne jedwede Konsequenz.
Die Lieferungen von Waffen und Material aus der EU an Israel gehen weiter. Die Förderung israelischer Forschung an "dual-use" Technik, wie Drohnen, geht weiter.
Bis. Zum. Heutigen. Tag.
18.430 Kinder
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Following 22 months of hostilities, UN agencies urge immediate action to flood Gaza with aid and commercial cargo to address catastrophic humanitarian conditions, including starvation and deaths from malnutrition.United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory
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The Geneva Conventions weren’t written by soft-headed humanitarians. They were negotiated by generals, and they recognized, O.K., if we allow starvation as a tactic, we’re just going to be starving civilians, not the guys doing the fighting.
This all leads to one of the most extraordinary points, which is that the G.H.F. was supposed to minimize Hamas looting. Who is eating or selling the food that they are distributing? They can’t tell. The U.N. has a pretty good idea of who was eating its food. The G.H.F. has not got a fucking clue.
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China is utilizing humanoid robot swarms to perform complex tasks in car factories, a world-first in automation. These robots use "brainet" swarm intelligence and are developed by companies like UBTECH Robotics in partnership with car manufacturers. This trend is part of China's broader push to integrate embodied AI into its industries.
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UBTech's Walker S1 humanoids complete world-first multi-robot training at Zeekr's 5G smart factory, advancing intelligent automation.Jijo Malayil (Interesting Engineering)
Aggressive promotional campaigns by Belarusian car dealerships fueled a 15.4% month-over-month sales increase in July, with 4,346 new passenger vehicles sold.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
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"Although totalitarian democracy is democratic in form, it requires an all-knowing elite to guide the masses toward their determined end, and that elite relies on whipping up mass enthusiasm to preserve its power and achieve its goals. Totalitarian democracy is almost always secular and materialistic, and its adherents tend to treat politics as a substitute for religion. Their sacred mission is to use the coercive power of the state to remake man and society according…
I made a thing! Linen t-shirt from the recycling center freebie room + embroidery threads I had lying around (probably thrifted) + a piece of fabric from an old t-shirt for facing.
Inspired by a shirt worn by @susankayequinn
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and designed by @docpop
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#embroidery #solarpunk #käsityöt
In 2018, I created the "Move Purposefully and Fix Things" sticker to help counter the "Move Fast And Break Things" mentality of Silicone Valley.doc (Doc Pop's Blog)
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“The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.”
~ William Ellery Channing
(1780-1842) American Unitarian preacher
"The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.LibertyQuotes
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Just seven months into his second term, President Donald Trump is already losing faith among even his biggest constituencies, according to multiple new polls.Carl Gibson (Alternet.org)
<5 years after urging rioters to "kill" police at the Cap,🚨a former J6 defendant is working as a snr adviser for the #DOJ *dramatically remade under the 2md Trump admin.
The current admin official,🚨J Wise, berating officers & calling them "Nazi" & "Gestapo, "repeatedly yelled "kill 'em" as officers were being attacked & tried to explain his actions. Wise wasn't convicted of any crimes re J6.
#Traitors have infiltrated the US govt, from the top down.
#TrumpRegime #USPol
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End Israeli Apartheid
Nearly 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated as a result of injuries sustained in Israeli attacks. The months-long blockade means medical equipment that could help amputees is running out. Alongside the devastated healthcare system, patients battle with deep psychological trauma. Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout spoke to young Palestinian amputees in Gaza City. youtube.com/watch?v=V6kNTq-n7b…
#gaza #genocide #palestine
#israel #IsraelTerroristState
Nearly 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated as a result of injuries sustained in Israeli attacks.The months-long blockade means me...YouTube
"Under military law, Israeli soldiers can seize Palestinian property without presenting evidence or facing oversight." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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She is the author of A Problem from Hell, a book on America's responses to the major genocides of the 20th century for which Power won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.www.pbs.org
The United States and its allies are experts at covering their crimes and finding scapegoats to take the blame for them. They are doing it now with their disinformation campaigns against Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, and Syria.Global Research
By Misión Verdad – Aug 5, 2025Over the past year, Venezuela has been the scene of a coordinated offensive that transcends mere criminal activity, forming part of a broader political strategy aimed at destabilization.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Sahel : sortir de l’impasse militariste
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"L’article Sahel : sortir de l’impasse militariste est apparu en premier sur CONTRETEMPS."
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“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
~ Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker
Reflections on the Revolution in France
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." ~ Edmund BurkeLibertyQuotes
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Questions for Ireland as investigation reveals Microsoft data centre use by Israeli military – The Journal
Questions for Ireland as investigation reveals Microsoft data centre use by Israeli military The Journal‘A million calls an hour’:…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #datacentres #datastorage #Gaza #IE #Ireland #Israel #Microsoft #Palestinians #surveillance #thejournal-insta #Unit8200 #WestBank
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Questions for Ireland as investigation reveals Microsoft data centre use by Israeli military The Journal‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relyingNEWSBEEP (NEWS BEEP)
I was playing with gpt-oss:20b, the new OpenAI model you can download and run yourself.
Thought I would do a quick experiment, ask it the same question about two different groups.
You don't have to read the whole thing. Just look at how much work the AI has to do to not say something insensitive about black people, vs how it treats white people.
Now imagine how much computer time this is wasting, just to give you a less-correct answer.
Another hellscape partly fuelled by America's current disinterest in anything other than 'America First'.
'The end of the liberal world order is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in conference rooms and university lecture halls in places like Washington and Brussels. But in al-Ahamdda, this theoretical idea has become reality.'
14-day gift read
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Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic)
Russia has begun the transfer of troops to Belarus, the first echelon with equipment and personnel has already arrived at one of the stations of the Belarusian railway.Новостник (Военное обозрение)
The "K-shape" economy is back. It's one of the most important charts to understand the state of the economy.
The wealthy are still spending, although there has been some moderation. Meanwhile the bottom 80% are tapped out. Their spending is basically in line w/inflation.
Whether the US ends up in a recession will depend almost entirely on whether the top 10 to 20% of earners keep spending.
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Exposing the Moving Scam CRISIS—Fake Movers DEMAND RANSOM for Your Stuff! - YouTube
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Things you never ever had to worry about before: hiring movers who steal everything you own.
Hotlanta.
Are you planning a move? BEWARE! In this eye-opening video, we’re exposing the latest moving scam crisis sweeping the nation—where fake movers and fraudulent...YouTube
I have definitely purged. Moving makes you decide if you really want to carry some crap around.
Ho hum: I sent my walking boots off to be resoled the other day, just had a phone call saying that they need more work than I expected (meaning it’ll be less than £100 less than the cost of a new pair), and the membrane (which they can’t fix) is wearing thin around the big toe: “How often do you get wet feet?”
To which the answer is “never”, but the question suggests I will be soon. That plus a ten week lead time before they get to the top of the pile, and I’ve just ordered a new pair and told him to stick them in the recycling bin.
Well, I tried!
Haruhi Voice Actress Aya Hirano Divorces After 3-Month Marriage
she should have picked me
Spain has abandoned plans to purchase American F-35 fighter jets. This was reported by the newspaper El Pais, citing unnamed government sources. The publication states that the Spanish government allocated $6.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
J'ai reçu un SMS d'arnaque pour un péage à flux libre, autant vous avertir de l'arnaque : leprogres.fr/magazine-lifestyl…
Copiez-collez les SMS d'arnaque au 33700 pour les signaler, c'est gratuit et la procédure après ne dure qu'une ou deux minutes (demandes de précisions sur l'expéditeur et la date et l'heure).
Sur les réseaux sociaux, des dizaines d'internautes ont rapporté avoir reçu un SMS (ou un mail) provenant soi-disant de la société Ulys.K.N. (Le Progrès)
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Launch of Vega-C VV27 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on 25 July at 23:03 local time (03:03 BST/04:03 CEST on 26 July), carrying Airbus’s four CO3D satellites and the French space agency CNES MicroCarb mission.
#launchers #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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_Texas Redistricting Exposes Democrat Hypocrisy_
"When the Texas House Democrats bolted from Austin in earlier this month, they did so with the swagger of martyrs. They cast their self-imposed exile as a noble stand against injustice, a heroic resistance to gerrymandering. But like most political theatre, the drama was better lit than written. What these Democrats inadvertently illuminated was not Republican overreach but their own decades-long monopoly on congressional cartography in the states they dominate. In trying to indict Texas, they put their own crimes on trial."
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@rysiek@mstdn.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @davidgerard@circumstances.run so the use case for AI assistants is to do performative computing so the CEO actually finally understands why refusing their password is bad and you need to put pape…FIVE F*ing NINES
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He clearly has no idea what antigenic shift means.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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ok #gm today we are making some important folded welded corner brackets that will be bolting everything in this project together. last minute i increased the thickness to make them stronger.
i love parametric modeling. it just werks
SQUIRREL: This book isn't good. RABBIT: Then stop reading it. SQUIRREL: NO! No. Because then... then the book WINS.rooniecomics.com
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Proportional tits are nice. But it's the girl's vibe - manner - personality that matters most.
They're all, unfortunately, crazy. Just try to find one whose craziness appeals to you.
#Health #Science #Research #mRNA #Malaria
I've had malaria, seen many others with it, horrible disease, so much damage. This is awesome.
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A novel way to prevent the spread of malaria by directly targeting the proteins that enable the infectious parasite to reproduce could soon be realized, thanks to scientists at WEHI in Australia.Abhimanyu Ghoshal (New Atlas)
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There’s a tape.Not a metaphor, not a rumor, not some fuzzy third-hand whisper passed from burner phone to basement podcast. A real audio recording.Thom Hartmann (Raw Story)
Armenia might formally withdraw from the CSTO and then replace Russian troops with American PMCs to control Zangezur Corridor.Andrew KORYBKO (Oriental Review)
136K likes, 3,192 comments - wizard_bisan1 on August 6, 2025: "Share the UPDATES from Gaza‼️".Instagram
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[F]or those living with chronic illness or disability in Gaza, hunger is
not separate from their condition — it is made worse by it. Medications have disappeared. Treatments have stopped. And basic survival has become a daily battle. Under total blockade, diabetes or a thyroid condition can become a death sentence.
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For diabetics, skipping meals without adjusting medication can trigger a dangerous cycle known as iatrogenic hypoglycemia — caused not just by the disease, but by inadequate care.
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“Thyroid patients need special nutrition — fish and eggs are vital to compensate for deficiencies in the body. But here, almost all we have access to are canned and preserved foods that don’t meet those needs.”
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“When I don’t eat enough, my heart acts up more,” she said. “Even when I take the pill, my body doesn’t respond the same. I get dizzy. I feel like I’m fading.”
Malnutrition weakens her body’s ability to absorb medicine. Dehydration and exhaustion trigger more episodes. She must ration what little food, medicine, and strength she has left.
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#Gaza #starvation #famine
Outlets like the New York Times have downplayed the famine by pointing to underlying medical conditions. But these ailments only make the suffering worse.Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi (The Intercept)
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It's time to admit, that we are already living in the post-global internet world.
And there goes the last hope I had for a united humanity. The last argument for a liberal future is dead.
@alyx
Would you rather be a slave in heaven or a king in hell?
This is a famous question, that I used to consider ridiculous, but the way modern politicians treat it is outright schizophrenic. While they sing the glory of globalism, our politicians say we cannot leave the EU because "we get more money out of surrounding nations".
That is ridiculous, and when it comes to the internet, this split becomes even more obvious. They NEED to control all of the data on their territory, as if they didn't understand that lack of territory is the entire point.
I just realized this point, when I was thinking of the old Netflix. It had it's library so shattered, that a VPN was a requirement for you to use it in any meaningful way.
Well, from there.... We were already just a single step away from national nets being the only option.
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Sorry for sperging out.
I just concider the internet to be literally as important as the moon landing, when it comes to pushing the idea, that humanity could move on into the future.
I often joke, that as a child, I was politically a Star-trekkie. But that meant, that humanity could move on from racism and unite nations.
BLM completely disproved the first illusion, and it broke me for a decade. Now, they're about to break the 2nd illusion.
Commemoration
Atomic Bomb Viewing Parties: A Fad Lost to Time
by Steve Bombomarx
Once upon a crisp Nevada dawn, when the roosters were irradiated and the martinis still glowed from the night before, Americans did what they do best: turned existential dread into spectacle and called it a party.
Yes, friends and fallout-fetishists, there was a time—not so long ago—that people packed into convertibles and lounge chairs in the desert outside Las Vegas, wore sunglasses at night (because Ray-Bans weren’t just for style), and toasted the end of the world with highballs and optimism.
These were the atomic bomb viewing parties:
A peculiarly American pastime where the mushroom cloud wasn’t a warning—it was entertainment.
“Pull up a chaise longue, Dorothy, they’re about to drop the 15-kiloton special!”
From the 1950s into the early '60s, tourists booked hotel rooms with "mushroom cloud views." The Desert Inn became the Ritz of Radioactivity. Guests would rise early, don sunglasses and silk robes, and line the windows for the main event—cocktails in hand, hangovers in progress.
And for those seeking more than just a visual thrill, the high-rise honeymoon suites became launchpads of their own.
Yes, the Mile High Club had a desert chapter—members living on the edge, chasing the thrill of a bang that came with a shock wave. Nothing like a little atmospheric detonation to put the boom in boom-boom.
The Logic Went Like This:
• It’s for science!
• It’s for national security!
• It’s happening anyway, so we might as well have a ball.
One could imagine Plato, if dragged forward through time and handed a daiquiri, staring at the horizon and muttering, “These are not shadows on the cave wall. This is the cave wall melting.”
But Vegas leaned in.
There were “Dawn Bomb” cocktails and Miss Atomic Blast pageants.
One showgirl, adorned in a mushroom-cloud tutu, became the patron saint of American denial.
Eventually, the party ended.
Turns out, the best souvenirs were radioactive isotopes.
Milk got a little spicy.
Hair got a little thin.
Children, a little too luminous.
And the government—realizing the PR optics of glowing toddlers—began doing what it does best:
Classifying. Disappearing. Disclaiming.
Today, we speak in hushed tones of Chernobyl and Fukushima—but almost never of Yucca martinis at sunrise, or of that odd moment in time when the most destructive force in human history was the backdrop for a conga line.
Steve Bombomarx’s Rule #47:
If humanity finds a way to dress up annihilation with sequins and sell it with a side of fries, it will.
And so it did.
Coda, for the kids who never knew:
Imagine TikTok with a tactical warhead filter.
Imagine Coachella, but instead of a bass drop—it’s the crust of the earth rippling.
Now imagine your grandparents applauding it from a chaise lounge while sipping a Sidecar.
History is strange.
Americans are stranger.
And the bomb?
Still ticking, somewhere deep in our collective psyche, where spectacle and shadow meet.
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Roblox rolls out open-source AI system to protect kids from predators in chats
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