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The African continent is rich in talent, but colonial and post-colonial systems suppressed the recognition and development of its "brilliance," a South African professor said.
Wow, what a nightmare. A woman called local police about her stalker ex, who was a state trooper. The police department ignored her pleas. So of course, the ex showed up and killed her and her current boyfriend. Now the whole police department has been taken over by the county prosecutor's office and is being investigated.
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The issue we have is not just that govts want to stand in the way of a free press (same as it ever was) but more critically that we now have a generation who have utterly forgotten how to seperate their own ideological framing from the duty to present the truth to the best of their ability.
Journalism and all the attached or adjacent institutions must be gutted and rebuilt from the ground up. #truth
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are people going to be dependent on handouts from the technocratic controllers or will the technology be democratized and distributed. that's the question on my mind
when AI develops life extension nanotechnology will it be free and open source or will you be enslaved to some mega corp who patents your genetic augmentation and repair
@Suiseiseki it simply makes no economic sense to pay a human a wage to do what a robot can do for 1/10 of the cost, and the cost of robots is only coming down.
we already have around 30-40% of US residents on some form of government assistance.
the numbers do not comport with your prediction at all
Define "threat" here. I've seen my fair share too, and near as I can tell, the PRC is simply uninterested in causing damage in the way Russia/the DPRK are. China's interest is in maintaining strategic, economic, and political advantages through information pipelines. Is that a "cyber war?" Maybe, but not the same way we'd imagine the same with Russia.
@neurovagrant I don't know that it's a binary, and I am certain the PRC does not see it that way. I believe Party consensus is that a collapsing US is more trouble than it's worth for China, and that they need not accelerate that pathway through direct action.
I don't know what geopolitical info you're referring to, but I have seen supporting evidence of the contrary.
My point here is not that China is not dangerous. It is that their interests are not destructive in the sense we often imagine from a "cyber war."
@neurovagrant Not to chronically riposte, but the "destruction" I was referring to need not be kinetic. Either way, I see minimal evidence of the PRC staging for "attack" in the way commonly discussed under the banner of "cyber war." They absolutely can and do compromise systems, but the objective is so different from other nation state actors, I struggle with lumping them all together in that way.
1. We have to assume OSINT for our analysis, and we do not know what privileged info exists about early phase intrusion. This of course cuts both ways, and I do think the USG needs to make a better case for describing the activity that cannot be disclosed. Through prosecutions and community information sharing, I do believe things are far more transparent than historical.
2. For the OSINT that does exist - I do not believe that the prepositioning the PRC does is globally uncharacteristic [1]. I think, should you trust PRC-based state reporting, it mirrors USG offensive tradecraft. See: various reports of egrp hitting earthquake monitoring sites, GIS servers.
3. It's not really in our best interest to take external diplomacy as the whole of the policy of a country, especially the PRC. We all know the duplicity between public policy and closed doors meetings. In the PRC in specific we know MOFA isn't the prime mover, and often they have to contend with the CMC and Politburo against their interests, which leads to paradoxes.
4. All above being said, there is no established casus belli for network operations. Nobody knows where the line is. It's tempting to consider it as a lesser variety of nuclear exchange in some of the civil targeting.
[1] As a birdwalk, I think USG folks are sensitive to initial access only because sometimes it is less intrusive than prior TTPs that tend to predominantly infostealing.
@neurovagrant I certainly didn't mean to do that, and I'm sorry it came across that way.
I think we are seeing this from different angles, but not necessarily holding distinct positions. Yes to impact, yes to gravity, but I want more nuance in the discussion of intention than usually exists in the discourseβnotably, not here in this thread, which is about as rich as anything in public fora.
Palestinians and all supporters of justice worldwide should urgently seize this critical opportunity to decisively defeat the Israeli Hasbara for good, writes Ramzy Baroud.
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Theft of a Nation: How the Deep State Swamp Is Stealing the Peopleβs Power
When βwe the peopleβ no longer have a say in how weβre governedβwhen we have no way to guard against our trust being abused and our rights violatedβwhen we have no way to counter government efforts to silence our voices, manipulate our choices, and erase our rightsβwhat remains is not a constitutional republic.
What on earth is happening to this country? How, over the course of 250 years, did we go from prizing self-government to allowing a corrupt, self-serving ruling elite to dominate us with terror campaigns, brute force, and psychological warfare? Donβtβ¦
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Nach neuen Gaza-PlΓ€nen von Netanjahu: Bundesregierung stoppt Waffenlieferungen nach Israel de.rt.com/international/252750β¦ Die Bundesregierung schrΓ€nkt die Ausfuhr von RΓΌstungsgΓΌtern nach Israel ein. Deutschland liefert vorerst keine RΓΌstungsgΓΌter mehr an Israel, die im Gazastreifen eingesetzt werden kΓΆnnten. Damit reagiert Kanzler Merz auf die militΓ€rischen PlΓ€ne Israels. #news #press
Dean Cain can join ICE if he wants. It's not like he has other work. But how many law enforcement agencies are excited to get 59-year-old recruits? ICE will try to fulfill this big expansion, and cause a lot of harm in the process, but will be hindered by shortages, even with very low standards.
President Trump said yesterday during the Purple Hearth recipient ceremony that under a new law, Veterans at risk of foreclosure, will not lose their homes, allowing them to defer monthly mortgage payments.
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Israel's "finance minister Bezalel Smotrichβs unpalatable parsing of the decision on Friday. βWe are erasing the Palestinian state,β he declared, βfirst in action and then officiallyβ
I promised another shoe would fall... here is part one of the VexTrio origin story. It is just too big for one entry, so a few more will come in the next few weeks... and this is still a small fraction of what we know. The story of malicious adtech has long legs.
We had great reception at BlackHat. One of the most common questions was: why are you giving this talk? Simple. It's a story that needs to be told and one that is too big to carry alone. We are looking for message carriers in the media, champions in the government, partners in the industry.
Organized crime, predominantly Russian speaking, has a strong foothold in the advertising world - and they are ensuring the delivery of everything from dating scams to information stealers. Let's root them out together.
We expose adtech operators who partner with malware threat actors to commit digital fraud on a global scale through their affiliate advertising networks
Kardos died July 18 of complications from Long COVID, his family announced.
As he struggled with Long COVID, he became an advocate for more aggressive medical research & treatment development & for formal recognition of Long COVID as a disability.
Hands off Mohammed Khatib! Stand with Palestine! β Samidoun
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network stands together with our Europe Coordinator, Mohammed Khatib, and urges the broadest expressions of solidarity and support against the targeting and repression he is facing. We note that this is not only an attempt to target Mohammed as an individual and Samidoun as an organization. It is primarily an attempt to silence the growing, massive voice of the people standing together with Palestine against genocide. It aims specifically to silence the movement to liberate Palestinian prisoners and to uphold the legitimacy and justice of the Palestinian resistance, especially the armed resistance, as part of the international, Arab and Palestinian global intifada.
On 15 April 2024, Nicole De Moor, Belgiumβs Secretary for Asylum and Migration, announced in a public statement that she was calling on the Belgian immigration agencies to withdraw the refugee status of Mohammed Khatib. Mohammed, born in Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon, has been a refugee his entire life, denied his right to return to his home and homeland in Palestine, from which his family was forcibly displaced in the Zionist conquest of the Nakba in 1947-1948. De Moorβs statement is, in essence, an attempt to once again displace a Palestinian refugee who has already been displaced multiple times due to colonialism, imperialism, war and exploitation.
The Growing Movement for Palestinian Liberation
De Moor labeled Mohammed a βhate preacher,β in the latest example of the utter inversion of reality practiced by European, US and Canadian officials. There is currently a genocide being carried out by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people in Gaza, a genocide that is sparking intense global outrage against the Zionist regime, leading to protests that have taken the streets in Belgium for over six months involving tens and hundreds of thousands of people; direct actions targeting banks and arms manufacturers; a burgeoning student movement for Palestine paralleling that seen on US campuses like Columbia, Rutgers, Yale, the University of Michigan,and elsewhere; and wide-scale mobilization among the Palestinian population in Belgium.
As the global movement in support of Palestine, the Palestinian people, and their Resistance has grown across borders and continents, bringing millions to mobilize in the heart of the imperial core, it has been faced with severe repression from the same states that are arming and funding the Zionist genocide in Gaza. This is not the only attack in Belgium; demonstrations organized by Samidoun in Brussels have been canceled and banned by the police. ZINTV, an independent collective, hosted an event organized by Samidoun on repression in Europe targeting Palestine in October 2023; since that time, they have been threatened by the local government and then, months later, in March 2024, subject to a sudden police raid and investigation into βterrorism financingβ as retaliation for hosting this public political event.
Repression Targeting Palestinian Organizing in Europe
In Germany, perhaps the most extreme example, Palestinian organizations, including Samidoun, have been banned. Activists like Zaid Abdulnasser and Musaab Abu Atta have been subjected to political bans β followed shortly thereafter by prominent international figures, including Salman Abu Sitta, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, and Yanis Varoufakis. Demonstrations and conferences have been forcibly shut down and dispersed by German police, who have beaten demonstrators on the streets of cities throughout the country. Hundreds of people have been arrested. Police raids have swept into the homes of Palestinian and Palestine solidarity activists amid government-backed media smear campaigns. Dozens of Palestinians are facing procedures to withdraw their residency, block their citizenship applications and deport them from the country. Organizations, including Jewish organizations, that stand against the genocide, have had their bank accounts shut down. The extreme level of repression in Germany comes at the same time that the German government has upped its arms exports to the Israeli regime 10x since 7 October 2023.
In the Netherlands and Switzerland, particularly, multiple attempts have been made by the Israeli embassy and Zionist organizations to shut down events where Mohammed is speaking. These attempts have failed β largely because Mohammed is already a Belgian resident. The Israeli ambassador to Belgium has repeatedly issued demands to ban Samidoun and silence our events. It is difficult to see these latest attacks as anything other than an attempt to placate the same Zionist regime currently killing over 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza and bombing hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, residential buildings and refugee camps.
The Attack on Mohammed Khatib is an Attack on All of Us
The attack on Mohammed Khatib and the threat against his refugee status are part and parcel of this repression. It is meant as a threat to every other Palestinian and every other recognized refugee in Belgium that if they speak out β especially if they speak out loudly and clearly on Palestinian liberation and resistance β they will be targeted with the loss of their residency and their livelihood. The minister does not even attempt to allege that Mohammed and Samidoun have done anything other than organize demonstrations, protests, mass mobilizations and political education events for Palestine in Belgium β thus, the βthreat level 3 out of 4β identified by unspecified βsecurity agenciesβ is related to the βthreatβ posed of the growing movement for Palestinian liberation in Belgium. All of this is made even more outrageous by the note by Belgian public broadcaster VRT in an interview with Mohammed Khatib that βthe security services mainly estimate that the organization [Samidoun] can damage Belgian international relations with Israel.β
Repression Targeting the Prisoners and the Resistance
The attack on Mohammed and on Samidoun is specifically intended to silence support for Palestinian prisoners. There are currently over 9,500 Palestinian prisoners inside the Israeli occupation jails. Thousands of additional Palestinians from Gaza have been kidnapped by the Zionist regime, especially health care workers and civilians in areas targeted for invasions by the Israeli occupation army. These Palestinian prisoners are being subjected to severe torture, starvation and abuse by the Israeli prison system. At the same time, the Palestinian prisoners are leaders of the Palestinian cause, targeted for their role in resisting occupation, from organizing students and workers to leading the armed struggle. The liberation of the Palestinian prisoners is precious to the Palestinian people and a whole and to their resistance. The Israeli regime wants to isolate them from their people and from our international movement β and this is the key reason why they attack Samidoun and label us βterrorists.β We are committed to amplifying ever more loudly and broadly the demand to liberate all Palestinian prisoners.
Further, it is also an attack on the Palestinian Resistance. Increasingly, people everywhere in the world have made it clear that they recognize the illegitimacy and racism of Zionism, the need for a free Palestine from the river to the sea, and the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance, particularly the armed struggle. Despite all of the attempts to smear and criminalize Palestinian resistance organizations, including listing them as βterrorist organizationsβ in the United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada, the people of the world β and even the imperial core β recognize that it is the Palestinian resistance (and their allied resistance forces in Yemen, Lebanon and throughout the region) who are defending humanity from genocide. Not only is the Palestinian right to resist by all means enshrined in international law, it is a fundamental and natural right of any people subjected to occupation and colonization. These attacks are, once again, not only aimed at Mohammed and at Samidoun but are an attempt to criminalize and repress the burgeoning support for the resistance in all of its forms, especially the armed resistance, in Palestine.
Anti-Palestinian Racism, Imperialism and the Right to Remain and Return
We also must emphasize that this attack comes as part and parcel of the ongoing structural racism against migrants in Belgium, particularly against Black, African, Arab and other migrants of colour. Right-wing politicians like Theo Francken engage in electoral campaigns that primarily traffic in Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, while he holds up photos of Mohammed in the Belgian parliament and declares that the streets of Brussels demonstrating for Palestine βresemble Beirut or Gaza,β in what he considers a sign of βdangerβ and an insult to its residents. Palestinian children have been stripped of their Belgian nationality, while policing energies and violence are repeatedly targeted at communities of colour.
Of course, migration to Belgium is itself driven by colonialism and imperialism making life difficult to impossible around the world and imposing a form of forced migration upon the people of the global south while pursuing ever more wars, regime change, intervention and economic exploitation of the peoples of the south, their wealth and their resources. For Palestinians denied their right to return home for the past 76 years, they have lived through forced migration through forced migration, while being confronted with regimes of ongoing persecution, marginalization and exclusion, fighting simultaneously for the right to remain and the right to return to their homes and lands in Palestine. The struggle to defend Mohammed is a struggle against racism and repression in all of their forms.
Stand with Mohammed. Stand with Samidoun. Stand with Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian resistance, and the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.
TAKE ACTION:
The most important thing to do is to continue and escalate mobilizations, direct actions, encampments and all forms of organizing to bring an end to the genocide in Gaza and liberation for Palestine. Within that context, take a stand against repression and speak about this and other cases in your area.
Sign on to the campaign in support of Mohammed.Click here or use the form below to add your support!
Issue a statement of solidarity. Organizations like Charleroi Pour La Palestine, LABO, UPJB, Bruxelles Pantheres, ABP, have done so already. Issue your own statement and make it clear that Nicole de Moor does not speak for the people.
Invite Mohammed to speak. Whether this is a local event in Belgium or elsewhere in Europe or a virtual event, Mohammed can speak about his case and the broader struggle for liberation. Email us at supportmohammed@samidoun.net to plan an event.
Speak about the Palestinian prisoners and about the Resistance. Highlight the cases of Palestinian prisoners and their ongoing struggle for freedom and liberation. Emphasize the demands of the Palestinian people and their resistance for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners in a real prisoner exchange. Emphasize the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance in your demonstrations and actions.
Demand to delist Palestinian, Lebanese resistance organizations from βterrorist listsβ in the United States, European Union, Canada, Britain and other countries. These organizations represent the will and commitment of the Palestinian people to liberate their land from an illegitimate Zionist occupation. These listings are used not only to justify the ongoing Zionist genocide and imperialist funding and support but also to target Palestinian and solidarity activists and organizations.
"They could have created a framework that combined increased legal immigration with firm border enforcement and a realistic path to legalization for the undocumented...They could have made the case that the U.S. has both the right and the obligation to manage its borders but that we can do so without cruelty or chaos. They could have made immigration part of a larger labor market vision: regulated, humane and consistent with the interests of working people." truthdig.com/articles/where-isβ¦
>search my wife's name in the project heartbeat steam workshop >there are a few matches Maybe these niggers finally got some taste >they're all false positives Really, the same happens when I look for anything. Thank you for reading my blog post.
On Wednesday 6 August 2025, Mohammed Khatib, coordinator for Samidoun in Europe, was notified of the revocation of his refugee status by the Belgian asylum authorities. This is the latest development in a comprehensive attack upon the Palestinian population in Belgium and upon the growing movement in solidarity with Palestine, following on the heels of the right-wing governmentβs announcement that it is seeking to ban organizations engaging in advocacy it wishes to silence, including Samidoun.
Mohammed Khatib is targeted because he is Palestinian. He is targeted because he supports the resistance on the path to the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, because he advocates for liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, and because he honours the lives and legacy of the martyrs of the Palestinian liberation struggle.
...As the cases of Congo, Algeria or Vietnam illustrate, the attempt to repress the voice of the oppressed will not succeed. Liberation is on the horizon, and neither the Palestinian people nor the solidarity movement will give up, no matter how egregious the repression.
On Wednesday 6 August 2025, Mohammed Khatib, coordinator for Samidoun in Europe, was notifiedΒ ofΒ the revocation ofΒ hisΒ refugee statusΒ by the Belgian asylum authorities.Β This is the latest developmeβ¦
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SANAA, Aug. 07 (YPA) - Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi accused some Arab and Islamic regimes of colluding with the Israeli enemy in the systematic starvation of more than two million people in the Gaza Strip.He noted that this is taking place
New: a brand of vape detectors is in schools and public housing. A young hacker took it apart, found it contained microphones. They then demonstrated how to turn it into an audio bug. Brings up concerns of surveillance in peoples' own homes 404media.co/it-looks-like-a-scβ¦
A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wifiββusing the school network as a lab,β as he puts itβwhen he spotted a handful of mysterious devices with the identifier βIPVideo Corporation.β
After a closer look and some googling, Garcia figured out that a company by that name was a subsidiary of Motorola, and the devices heβd found in his school seemed to be something called the Halo 3C, a βsmartβ smoke and vape detection gadget. βThey look just like smoke detectors, but they have a whole bunch of features like sensors and stuff,β Garcia says.
As he read more, he was intrigued to learn that the Halo 3C goes beyond detecting smoke and vapingβincluding a distinct feature for discerning THC vaping in particular. It also has a microphone for listening out for βaggression,β gunshots, and keywords such as someone calling for help, a feature that to Vasquez-Garcia immediately raised concerns of more intrusive surveillance.
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The Halo 3C is a vape detector installed in schools and public housing. A young hacker found it contains microphones and that it can be turned into an audio bug, raising privacy concerns.
Fun fact: Windows puts a circular symbolic link in every user's profile directory, so if you're using Windows standard "robust file copy" utility (which is better than xcopy which, I assume, improves on "copy" and, among other things, dies if you have a path longer than 266 characters with a cryptic memory-out error) it will recursively materialise the link forever, filling up any storage you're copying to.
βWarum tragen Journalisten sehenden Auges zum Abbau der Demokratie bei? Vermutlich, weil sie glauben, dass sie sich auch in undemokratischen Zeiten mindestens zurecht finden und vielleicht sogar den Arsch an die Heizung kriegen werden.β
Mit unscharfen, beschΓΆnigenden und verschleiernden Schlagzeilen ΓΌber das Wirken von Demokratiefeinden gefΓ€hrden Journalisten die Demokratie - und damit eigentlich ja auch die Basis ihrer Arbeit. Warum bloΓ?
The US, creator and chief proliferator of nuclear weapons, uses them to dominate globally while opposing disarmament, spending trillions on modernization instead. Despite the UN Treaty banning nukes, the US fuels imperialist wars and nuclear escalation to sustain capitalist profits through militarism. Lasting security demands global solidarity and the defeat of US imperialism, not selective disarmament.
Since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, US imperialism has driven nuclear proliferation worldwide. Current nuclear flashpoints, such as Iran, show how the US continues to use nuclear blackmail to reinforce its dominance.
Should I do a run of the stickers? And should it say βAI Training Dataβ or just βTraining Dataβ? Vote either way I guess. Dunno how to do the options right here really
What? It's not "All training data"? Still funny with or without "AI". Do you think people knows that AI company tell this for what they doing when scraping data?
Ordinary people get into trouble for doing even a teeny tiny fraction of what AI tools do, but when the latter does it, no legal repercussions and itβs all hype.
And it often reminds me of Aaron Schwartz, and how this situation is so baffling in comparison.
very interesting, would Logan Park at 3 in the morning be a good place to find someone to discuss this project of critical global security importance to all creatures alive or yet to live? #Doge
@davidaugust.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world AP says it was a βgroup of teenagers,β and they arrested 2 15 year olds from Maryland: https://apnews.com/article/washington-dc-crime-assault-doge-05aaaeb09d106ca1af673b46e89d60e1
Went on an early morning group ride (had to wake up at 4). My 1st time to join a group ride and I was no match for their speed. I managed to stay with the group for 10 mins. I covered a distance of 105km with an average speed of 20.5 km/h. Their average was 30km/h (they are also mostly half my age). So mostly a solo ride but I provided some road side assistance to a couple of riders. I was surprised to see a large number of different groups cycling this morning #BikeTooter #Cycling #Egypt #Cairo
Sadly most groups coordinate and advertise their rides on Facebook which I would never join again. This makes it hard for me to find a group that matches my pace. Most of them have presence on Strava but they are never active.
The weather was ok. Not too hot but mostly because of strong winds which also didn't help in more than half the time.
In the early morning there were two very bright planets in the sky close to each other. Venus and Jupiter according to @KrajciTom
It is also a bit crazy that the only cycling path in #Cairo is on that highway and it is just some paint on the ground. To reach the start of that path you have to cycle 50km from the center of the city and it is only in one direction! π
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New Jersey police lieutenant accused of killing ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in murder-suicide
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