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New guidance from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may make pro-Palestine activism a disqualifying factor for non-citizens who seek to live and work in the US.
Jon Elmer, contributing editor, covers the latest from the resistance in Gaza and Yemeni support operations. This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada's...
New guidance from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may make pro-Palestine activism a disqualifying factor for non-citizens who seek to live and work in the US.
People posting about #Mastodon finally getting quote sharing and like...it really didn't already have that? geez. Next you'll tell me you guys still don't have rich text editing either.
IDF troops wired the Halima al-Saadiya School in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, with explosives. Moments ago, the school was detonated, destroying the infrastructure.
They are going to do the same with Khan Yunis and Gaza City. The explosives used for these operations were provided by Germany, UK and US.
Internal Israeli intelligence data reveals that at least 83% of Palestinians killed in the Gaza offensive were civilians, contradicting official Israeli claims of a 1:1 or 2:1 civilian-to-militant ratio.
The data highlights the extremely high civilian toll of Israel’s bombardment, with few parallels in modern warfare.
Modern views of how the brain works. This article is about human consciousness and anesthesia. But the story I want to impress upon people is some background to the issue. There is a new way to think about how the brain does its job.
Some excerpts from the article:
"For much of the 20th century, neuroscientists believed that neurons performed the heavy lifting of producing conscious experience through a process called spiking, which involves transmitting a signal via an electrical impulse known as an action potential.
Spikes of neurons were seen as ones and zeros, and these were considered the carriers of information.
Scientists have realized that neuron firing isn’t solely responsible for consciousness. In fact, researchers have discovered that neurons spend about 80% of their time not spiking. During these periods, they still communicate with other brain cells through subtle electrical influences. Those influences — waves — travel around the brain 5,000 times faster than the slower signaling of synaptic spikes, and they’re being sent out all the time.
Astrocytes — star-shaped glial cells that comprise up to 40% of all cells in the brain — do more than just support neurons structurally, remove waste products, and provide nutrients. Like neurons, they also oscillate and spread electrical influences. In May, a team led by Thomas Papouin, an assistant professor of neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis, found that a** brain chemical associated with alertness, attention, and learning alters brain connectivity and function by acting on astrocytes, not neurons**.
But Miller is nurturing another hypothesis that fits with the idea that brain waves, not neurons, drive consciousness: The mind actually functions more like an analog computer. These machines solve problems by representing quantities as models — think voltages or mechanical positions — rather than the ones and zeros used in digital computers.
Miller points to the human brain’s meager use of power — just 20 watts — as evidence that its computational approach must be vastly more efficient than today’s energy-hungry digital supercomputers.
In the analog brain, waves could easily serve as those models, Miller says. Computation could emerge from how waves interact, adding together or canceling out depending on their phases. And because these waves ripple across the brain’s layered, three-dimensional structure, they could support enormously complex computations."
The ideological cancellation of $800 million of scientific research grants because they supposedly focused on DEI was just backed by the Supreme Court. This is horrific on so many levels. npr.org/2025/08/21/g-s1-84441/…
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Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara highlights that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is rejecting previously discussed ceasefire te...
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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee claimed in an interview on Thursday that Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were not illegal under international law, comments that came after Israel approved a major expansion of settlements.
The author of Lab Leak Fever has comprehensively exposed the baseless ultra-right campaign to blame COVID-19 on the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Interesting to read from the Swiss scientist Philipp Markolin that there were two different SARS-CoV-2 strings that caused the spread of Covid at the Wuhan market.
It is more evidence that COVID-19 originated from an animal-to-human transfer and not from a lab accident. If COVID-19 had come from a lab, there would have been only one string.
The State Department said the government will begin reviewing all visa holders’ social media accounts for posts or messages that evince support for “terrorism.”
Cute but this would never happen. I have to give the Starbucks folk my last name because my first name is too difficult for them to spell. "Spartacus" would send them reeling.
Lenin: 1901/agrarian: The Abolition of the Antithesis Between Town and Country. Particular Questions Raised by the 'Critics' marxists.org/archive/lenin/wor…
Xapo Bank has announced that it has received full regulatory approval from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission for its new bitcoin yield product,
#nouveauici. Bonjour, totalement nouvelle. j'utilisais un réseau très connu de nom qui n'enrichit actuellement que le propriétaire et dont l'utilisation gratuite promise est passée à payante : de 0 à 72 euros par an, comprenne qui voudra ... Son propriétaire ne collecte pas ses données personnelles / privées dans son iA d'ailleurs. Un de plus qui montre l'exemple. Un grand merci pour l'accueil :=)
We had one steak left before the flood hit the kitchen and lower bar area at The Tavern. So I cooked it for myself, as I cleaned up the grill, saute, oven and window stations.
What really gets me is that eveything Southern is derived from Black slaves, as if Europeans werent roasting meat over a fire (BBQ) and they obtained their rice from the Orient, and grew it in their colonies. It didnt come from Black slaves bringing kernals with them on the boats.
#1977 Doesn't take much to make me happy And make me smile with glee Never, never will I feel discouraged 'Cause our love's no mystery Teresa Davis, American soul singer (The Emotions) is 74 youtu.be/B-Tb80rmPt4?si=a-rlbz…
Splitgate 2 Devs Beg Fans: ‘Give Us One More Chance At Our Relaunch’
In a post on social media, the 1047 Games team has begged fans for another chance regarding Splitgate 2's failed launch. The post Splitgate 2 Devs Beg Fans: ‘Give Us One More Chance At Our Relaunch’ appeared first on Insider Gaming.
#1985 If she knew what she wants (He'd be giving it to her) If she knew what she needs (He could give her that too) If she knew what she wants (But he can't see through her) Debbi Peterson, American rock drummer (Bangles) is 64 youtu.be/mu_pNeqAQ-U?si=bQ_qLJ…
Official Video for "If She Knew What She Wants” by The BanglesListen to The Bangles: https://TheBangles.lnk.to/listenYDWatch more videos by The Bangles: http...
“For almost 40 years in the middle of the 20th century, workers at an oil refinery with connected facilities in the neighborhood of Wilmington and nearby city of Carson buried truckloads of slop oil and acid sludge directly on site. Decades later, much of that waste is still in the soil and water table”
@micchiato 🍉 If there is really that much oil on site (call me skeptical), then perhaps it is economically viable to dig it up and treat it like Canadian tar sands, recover and sell the product to pay for the extraction.
I present here the link to yesterday’s conversation with Shivan Chanana, a leading host on the Indian broadcaster WION with whom I have had numerous conversations in the past and whom I greatly respect.
Major News for SUI: Development, Price Outlook, Predictions - In the rapidly evolving crypto landscape, Sui (SUI) is garnering new momentum heading int... - blockonomi.com/major-news-for-… #pr
Alors que le Royaume-Uni renationalise son réseau ferroviaire après l'échec cuisant de sa privatisation dans les années 1990, la France, sous l'impulsion de l'Union européenne, ouvre ses trains de passagers à la concurrence. Cette libéralisation initiée en 2020 soulève des questions cruciales sur la gestion et le financement des infrastructures. Avec des opérateurs privés réticents à investir, le modèle économique fragile de la SNCF basé sur un équilibre entre lignes rentables et non rentables se trouve menacé. Le risque est de laisser les infrastructures et les lignes déficitaires à la charge du contribuable, pendant que les lignes bénéficiaires viennent remplir le portefeuille du secteur privé sans que le contribuable consommateur y gagne.
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Pour SNCF Réseau, l’arrivée de nouveaux clients sur ses lignes est donc à priori une opportunité. Sauf que là encore, dans la réalité, les concurrents de la SNCF Voyageurs ne contribuent pas beaucoup à la modernisation du réseau. Ainsi, pour amadouer la concurrence italienne, la France offre sur les trois années à venir une aide de 30 millions d'euros à l'entreprise Trenitalia sur la ligne Paris-Marseille qui a ouvert en juin 2025. La compagnie italienne avait déjà reçu 50 millions d'euros en 2022 lorsqu'elle s’était lancée sur la ligne Paris-Lyon en 2021.
Trenitalia peut donc financer en partie sa politique marketing agressive grâce à l’argent public des contribuables français… et proposer des billets moins chers que ceux de la SNCF Voyageurs, elle aussi financée par les mêmes contribuables. [...] Autrement dit, pour se soumettre aux directives européennes et donc à la loi du marché libre et non faussé, on fausse le marché en subventionnant avec de l’argent public l'installation d’entreprises concurrentes à nos entreprises publiques…
Dans les livres poussiéreux dorment les rêves anciens, où la justice égale dansait sous la plume, les penseurs d'autrefois traçaient leurs chemins vers un monde sans maîtres, sans amertume.
Mais les contrées lointaines ont vu s'écrouler ces cathédrales d'espoir en pierres fragiles, les dirigeants sombres ont fait chanceler la beauté des utopies aux terres stériles.
Dans les usines silencieuses, l'attente se prolonge, les ouvriers contemplent leurs mains vides, pendant que la théorie en fumée s'allonge sur les décombres des promesses candides.
Les grandes ruptures ont fendu l'horizon, laissant les idéaux saigner dans la poussière, entre le rêve d'égalité et la trahison s'étendent les plaines de notre misère.
Pourtant dans les cœurs battent encore ces élans vers un monde plus juste, même si la réalité les dévore, L'espoir renaît de sa cendre auguste.
Car l'âme humaine cherche sans repos la promesse d'une société meilleure, entre les cendres des anciens maux fleurissent les questions de l'heure.
Les temps modernes interrogent encore ces vieux fantasmes de fraternité, tandis que l'injustice se dévore dans sa propre perversité.
Understanding Hamas provides a detailed and nuanced analysis of the organisation and its history, showing that it cannot be dismissed as merely a terrorist organisation, finds Ben Rushton
‘The owl of Minerva only takes flight at dusk,’ wrote Hegel…
It's Almost Showtime For Overwatch 2's New Persona Collab
No joke.Persona 5's Joker has made surprise appearances in games like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and now he's making his way to Blizzard's free-to-play hero shooter, Overwatch 2.The Season 18 trailer has gone live and it finishes with the Persona 5 theme along with a silhouette of Joker. Atlus has also acknowledged the collaboration, which will go live on 26th August 2025.
Evidence Suggests Easter Island Heads Were Gifts From Overbearing Mother-In-Law.
Shedding light on the age-old mystery surrounding the monolithic statues, a new study published Thursday in the Journal Of Archaeological Science found evidence suggesting that the Easter Island heads were gifts from an overbearing mother-in-law
IOWA CITY, IA—Shedding light on the age-old mystery surrounding the monolithic statues, a new study published Thursday in the Journal Of Archaeological Science found evidence suggesting that the Easter Island heads were gifts from an overbearing moth…
Mundial de Vôlei Feminino 2025 Chiang Mai - Tailândia
A seleção feminina entra em quadra nesta sexta-feira para dar o primeiro passo em busca do título inédito do Campeonato Mundial. O palco é Chiang Mai, na Tailândia, e a adversária da estreia será a Grécia.
A bola sobe às 9h30 (horário de Brasília), com transmissão do SporTV2 e na VBTV.
Beijing, Aug 21 (Prensa Latina) China today called for strengthening regional cooperation and promoting stability in Afghanistan and its neighboring countries, in connection with the agenda of Foreign Minister Wang Yi in that nation.
[LIVE] Crypto News Today: Latest Updates for August 22, 2025 – Crypto Market Steadies Ahead of Fed Chair’s Jackson Hole Speech; Bitcoin at $113K, Ethereum Near $4.3K - Crypto market is holding key levels ahead of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson ... - cryptonews.com/news/live-crypt… #industrytalk #ethereum #bitcoin #market
Crypto market is holding key levels ahead of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole later today. Bitcoin is trading at $113,000 after dipping to $11...
For #ReliefWednesday a #Roman representation of everyday life: A relief from #Ostia, depicting a vegetable and flower vendor behind a stall, displaying a range of products on the table.
"It is just a movie¨. Besides the fact I like the way Korean movies and #drama -series are made, they handle small details in historical productions very well in my layman's point of view. Coming alive.In this relief I can easily imagine the good man portrayed talking to his neigboor, perhaps the lady selling fish. Opposite him the guy selling pottery , inspired to keep this as a pottery-snapshot . Probably talking and joking to each other in a now long unheard accent ?
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