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2026-08-07 00:24:12 CEST

#extinction #reintroduction #SouthAfrica
"The $100m-buck gamble: Should an extinct SA antelope roam the Cape again?
Texas biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences wants to bring back the bluebuck from extinction. The project’s significance may extend far beyond reviving the long-lost species, said to have sported a blue-grey hide.
The species disappeared from the Cape about two centuries ago.
If Colossal Biosciences succeeds, South Africa could become a major test for a radically different vision for conservation – one built around reproductive breakthroughs and venture capital.
Now Colossal, the company that claims to have resurrected the Americas’ dire wolf, says it is working to recreate the extinct South African bluebuck by editing the genome of a close living relative. First, the company is seeking to implant edited embryos into roan surrogates. If all goes to plan, the first birth could be 'a couple of years away', according to Matt James, Colossal’s chief animal officer and executive director of the company’s conservation foundation.
'I think we’re very close. We’re in the editing phase. We’ve unlocked a lot of the reproductive science. We still have a few hurdles to climb,' he says.
The most revealing part of James’ interview with Daily Maverick may be that the bluebuck and ambassador species like it do not necessarily represent the company’s ultimate objective.
'We’re interested in investing this amount of money not because of the resulting animal alone,' James says. 'We’re also interested in rapid development of tech that helps bring that moonshot to life. That tech then is directly applicable to species on the brink of extinction today.'
With this, James reframes Colossal’s pitch.
Rather than simply trying to recreate an extinct animal, Colossal says 'de-extinction' is a platform for new conservation technologies – an approach the company contends could eventually help threatened species teetering on the edge of the extinction abyss."
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-08-05-the-100m-buck-gamble-should-an-extinct-sa-antelope-roam-the-cape-again/

2026-07-31 18:51:54 CEST

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#orcas
"Why the Ocean's Deadliest Predator Refuses to Hunt Humans
There is a predator out there that flips full-grown great white sharks like coins, drowns blue whales, and has started sinking yachts off the coast of Europe. Pound for pound, nothing in the ocean kills better. So here is what should terrify you and somehow does not. You could be floating right above it, soft and slow and completely defenseless, and it will not touch you. In every year humans have kept records, it has had countless chances to hunt one of us in open water and taken exactly none. The deadliest thing in the sea has quietly decided we are off-limits. Why?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0up77oUv5uQ

2026-07-31 18:44:16 CEST

#orcas
"Orcas Are Sinking Boats in Spain Again
Orcas hate boats. Well, the ones in Spain do, at least. Last week, a pod of the ocean mammals disabled, damaged, and destroyed a number of vessels – the latest in a long-running feud between cetaceans and watercraft.
The trouble started Thursday when, as Spanish news outlet SUR reports, four craft were targeted. Around 5 p.m., the yacht Idem was attacked just over a mile off Estaca de Bares, located at the northernmost point of Spain. The craft’s rudder was destroyed and it began to sink, prompting a rescue of the two people onboard (who escaped from the ordeal unharmed). According to mayor Alfredo Dovale, a private boat attempted to tow the yacht to shore, but was unable to recover it before it sank.
However, that was not the end of it. 'While assisting the yacht Idem, it emerged another sailing vessel had also experienced an interaction with these marine mammals, but the damage to its rudder was minimal and it continued sailing to Viveiro,' added the Spanish Coast Guard. Another craft had its rudder rendered inoperable, and a third was attacked, but didn’t receive any significant damage.
The orcas struck again the following day, this time smashing the rudder of a 14-meter Swedish-flagged vessel named Vai. A Spanish coastguard vessel responded to a mayday call from the yacht and towed it to nearby Viveiro.
This is merely the latest in a long string of orca attacks, spanning years. Since 2020, killer whales have regularly accosted boats around the Iberian Peninsula, with hundreds of attacks reported each year. There are various theories as to exactly why they have taken to doing this, with some theorizing the behavior is revenge for a vessel strike, while others characterize the attacks as 'play behavior.'"
https://www.theinertia.com/surf/wavegarden-british-columbia-sea-to-sky-corridor/

2026-07-31 18:41:57 CEST

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If you only read one Primo Levi book, this is the one. While fiction, it is a based on oral history accounts he heard from other prisoners at Auschwitz.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/136096.If_Not_Now_When_

2026-07-31 18:41:34 CEST

#PrimoLevi #history
"Who was Primo Levi?
Primo Michele Levi was an Italian-Jewish chemist, anti-fascist resistance fighter, Holocaust survivor, and acclaimed author. Over the course of his career, he wrote a diverse body of work, including novels, memoirs, short story collections, essays, and poetry.
Primo Levi is best known for his powerful memoirs about surviving the Holocaust, but there was much more to him than his literary legacy. A chemist, thinker, and keen observer of human nature, Levi's life was filled with remarkable experiences that continue to fascinate readers today.
Born in Turin, Italy, in 1919, Levi earned a degree in chemistry despite facing anti-Jewish racial laws under Fascist Italy. He would later describe chemistry as a discipline that shaped both his scientific and literary thinking.
At Auschwitz, Levi's scientific training proved unexpectedly valuable. His knowledge of chemistry earned him work in a laboratory, sparing him from some of the harshest physical labour and increasing his chances of survival.
Even after gaining literary fame, Levi did not immediately become a full-time writer. He spent years working in a paint and chemical factory, often writing in the evenings and on weekends.
Before his arrest, Levi joined a small anti-Fascist resistance group in northern Italy. Captured in 1943, he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, an experience that would define much of his later writing.
Many readers know Levi for *If This Is a Man*, but few realize he also wrote imaginative science fiction and speculative stories. Collections such as *Natural Histories* explored technology, ethics, and human behaviour with wit and originality."
https://indianexpress.com/photos/lifestyle-gallery/who-was-primo-levi-10811583/lite/

2026-07-26 17:33:16 CEST

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Lucy was an "African American woman” only by the Confederate/Jim Crow standard of “one drop of blood”. In real life, and by modern standards, she was of mixed race.

2026-07-12 23:14:53 CEST

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Under whose control?

2026-07-07 20:16:29 CEST

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I never said any such thing. Don’t put words in my mouth. It’s rude. It’s dishonest. It’s very bad form.

2026-07-07 16:31:57 CEST

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America: Built by slaves on stolen land.

2026-07-06 22:50:49 CEST

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We *are* animals. Animals eat each other. That’s Nature’s way. Deal with it.

2026-07-01 17:41:29 CEST

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An ethnic state is an ethnic state is an ethnic state. The only difference between an Aryan state and a Jewish state is the name of the tribe in charge.

2026-07-01 17:38:51 CEST

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The 2nd Amendment was written for the standard military arms of the day. The standard military arms of today are what now?

2026-06-26 00:55:18 CEST

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Trump is not the problem. Trump is a symptom. Capitalism is the problem.

2026-06-26 00:50:33 CEST

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Oh, no. Not the Luigi option.

2026-06-21 20:29:56 CEST

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Posting an article behind a paywall and not also posting an archived work around is like posting a picture without an alt text.
https://archive.ph/qYiok

2026-06-05 22:46:47 CEST

#NATO #Germany #TomahawkMissiles #TrumpRegime
"Pentagon likely to cancel missile deal with Germany over fears of Russia
The decision is part of a broader American retrenchment from the NATO alliance.
The Pentagon is expected to cancel a plan to send Tomahawk missiles to Germany partly because officials are concerned Russia will view it as an escalation, a startling reversal of a long-planned agreement with one of America’s biggest allies.
U.S. officials fear Moscow will retaliate if the Trump administration follows through on the effort to deploy precision missiles in the middle of the continent, according to two European officials and one American official. But any decision not to deliver them would yank back a deal made during the Biden administration and leave Berlin without defenses German leaders say they desperately need."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/us-germany-tomahawks-missiles-cancel-00950284

2026-06-05 22:44:52 CEST

#AI #pedagogy
"Most K-12 teachers say AI's impact on education will eclipse the internet or computers
The effects of artificial intelligence on learning are still largely unclear. But a new NPR/Ipsos poll of K-12 teachers found that nearly 3-in-4 believe AI has bigger implications for education than past innovations like the internet or computers.
The nationally representative poll surveyed 545 respondents and paints a complex picture of teachers' views on AI: Many are using it to save time and improve their teaching materials, but a majority of teachers are worried AI is making it harder for students to learn to think for themselves."
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/05/nx-s1-5779757/school-ai-education-students-teachers-poll-critical-thinking

2026-06-01 18:32:29 CEST

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2026-05-31 21:26:25 CEST

#AI #education
"This big university system is embracing AI. Students and faculty aren't all on board
Leaders of the California State University system, the CSU, want it to become the nation's first artificial intelligence-powered institution of its kind.
It entered into a $17 million no-bid contract with OpenAI last year to provide students, faculty and staff with a new resource: ChatGPT Edu — a version of the popular generative AI chatbot intended for use by educational institutions. The system recently renewed that contract for another $13 million a year for the next three years.
'No other university system in the U.S. or internationally is doing anything like this, not at this scale,' said Mildred García, the CSU's chancellor, during a February 2025 press conference announcing the partnership.
But in a recent survey, majorities of its students and faculty said they were skeptical of the benefits of AI for education, and they worry about AI's impacts on job security, creativity and the environment."
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/25/nx-s1-5772820/artificial-intelligence-education-technology-california-state-university

2026-05-29 02:25:48 CEST

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https://archive.ph/KO3Et

2026-05-27 20:29:16 CEST

#AI #LLM #DHSB #FBI #fascists #Gorka
"US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
IN THE WAKE of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists.
IN THE WAKE of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists.
Taken together, these Trump administration directives have commandeered the domestic surveillance apparatus to surveil and criminalize speech and assembly that challenges the ideology of the White House. A new focus on anti-technology extremism adds an unreported category to already public designations under a presidency that has heavily invested political and material capital in AI and data center proliferation."
https://archive.is/I00Ew

2026-05-27 19:18:19 CEST

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FWIW, we would *not* be better off if Trump suddenly died. He’s not the leader of the American fascist movement. He’s their current mascot, and not the first, either. He can be replaced. He *would* be replaced, by Thiel’s puppet Vance.
Our real problem is not whatever individuals the system has currently put in power. It’s the system itself. Any system that not only allows, but actively enables psychopaths to hold power is a threat our future. The system itself must change, not the figurehead.

2026-05-27 19:07:47 CEST

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Syntax matters in court. Legally, stating an opinion is not incitement. Our opinions are irrelevant.
"We'd be better off if Trump suddenly died” is legal to say.
“Kill the president is not.
https://medium.com/@dessycl/modal-verbs-how-to-give-order-and-advice-6c069c48dbc5

2026-05-27 18:20:10 CEST

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Have you ever been in court?

2026-05-20 23:38:05 CEST

#Russia #Latvia #Ukraine #drones
"Russian Army Preparing ‘Appropriate’ Response After Latvia Accused of Hosting Ukrainian Drones, Kremlin Says
Russia’s military is preparing an 'appropriate' response to Ukraine’s alleged use of Baltic territory to launch drone attacks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.
'This problem exists, and our relevant services, primarily the military in this case, are closely monitoring the situation and formulating our country’s necessary response,' Peskov told the pro-Kremlin tabloid Izvestia, though he did not specify the scope of the measures.
(. . .)
Also on Tuesday, Estonia’s defense ministry said a NATO jet shot down a Ukrainian drone after it entered Estonian airspace, marking the first such interception in the Baltics since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine."
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/20/russian-army-preparing-appropriate-response-after-latvia-accused-of-hosting-ukrainian-drones-kremlin-says-a92799

2026-05-19 18:39:14 CEST

#ICE
"New economics study finds that ICE activity has upended the US childcare workforce
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations come to town, it can create a landscape of fear, chilling commerce and school attendance, and now, new research shows that it affects childcare workers.
(. . .)
'When ICE enforcement intensified, the formal childcare sector lost capacity: centers reduced enrollment, closed classrooms, and in some cases shut down entirely,' says lead author Erkmen Aslim, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Vermont. 'That has real consequences for American families; particularly working mothers, who rely on stable, affordable childcare to hold down jobs.'
The study finds that increased ICE activity led to significant declines in employment among immigrant women, particularly those working in more regulated and publicly visible settings, such as childcare centers. This population is more likely than their native-born peers to hold advanced certifications, and the researchers found limited evidence that immigrant workers are being broadly replaced by native-born workers."
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-economics-ice-upended-childcare-workforce.html

2026-05-16 22:06:47 CEST

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Explain please.

2026-05-10 16:59:34 CEST

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This begs the question, by assuming that “representative democracy” is democracy. It’s not. Only direct democracy even *is* democracy. Anything less is a fraud and a sham. Politicians don’t represent us. They represent their donors. Are you a donor? How much did you donate? That’s how much representation you bought, not one penny more. It’s the best democracy that money can buy.
Decisions should be made by the people they affect. Everyone else should butt out. We live in an oligarchy. We are governed by oligarchs. We need to stop lying to ourselves that it’s anything else. We need to stop believing this lie. Believe is what stupid, lazy people do instead of find out the truth for themselves. The lie that we live in a democracy, though fundamental to the existence of oligarchy is only one lie. There are others, many others. We especially need to stop teaching *all* their lies to our children, especially the sorry excuse for “history” that they teach in our schools.
For details, see:
https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/114728910300109516
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2026-05-09 23:02:59 CEST

#ClimateCrisis #Antarctic
"These three horsemen’ of Antarctic instability could transform the oceans into a driver of climate change by 2030
Antarctica has been impacted by three major events, which researchers have identified as a 'perfect storm' that could finally initiate major melting on the icy continent, with major implications for exacerbating climate change.
According to new University of Southampton research, these events have begun a spiral that could move the global oceans from a hedge against climate change, to one of its primary drivers.
In a recent paper published in Science Advances, the team behind the study used satellite data to identify the root causes of record-low sea ice in the Antarctic and the potential future effects on the global climate."
https://thedebrief.org/these-three-horsemen-of-antarctic-instability-could-transform-the-oceans-into-a-driver-of-climate-change-by-2030/

2026-05-09 22:59:45 CEST

#transrights #antifa #Gorka #fascists
“'Counterterrorism' Now Officially Means Targeting Trans People
The White House will prioritize the 'neutralization' of groups it considers 'anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.'
On Wednesday, the White House released a new 'United States Counterterrorism Strategy,' the first such directive since a 2021 Biden-era memo emphasizing the need to combat white supremacist violence, which has now been scrubbed from the White House website.
Wednesday’s document, masterminded by White House 'counterterrorism czar' Sebastian Gorka, does not mention far-right violence at all. It identifies 'Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists' as a security threat of equal severity to 'Legacy Islamist Terrorists' and 'Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs.' The administration will now apparently 'prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.'
In a bizarre but familiar turn, the document also blames transgender people for the shooting of Charlie Kirk. 'Americans have witnessed the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent left-wing extremists, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies.'
(. . .)
Counterterrorism itself is a politicized term that came into common use following the September 11 attacks and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. It formed part of the language of the policing apparatus that targeted Muslim and Arab Americans and legitimized surveillance of those communities as 'terrorist threats.' That same language is now being applied to transgender people.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called Kirk’s death a 'domestic 9/11.' The Heritage Foundation, too, has done its best to connect being transgender with the idea of terrorism, campaigning last year for the FBI to designate trans advocacy as violent extremism.
'We will…identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally,' the document says."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/trump-gorka-counter-terrorism-transgender-antifa-docuiment/

2026-05-08 19:50:48 CEST

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How do I make that a live link?

2026-05-08 19:50:21 CEST

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#dystopia #dystopian #novels
"We're already living in every dystopian novel" -- Mr. Beat
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2026-05-08 19:49:41 CEST

#MutualAid #Solidarity #DirectAction
"The Real-Life Teenage Castaways Who Proved 'Lord of the Flies' Wrong
In 1965, six boys were stranded for fifteen months on an uninhabited island, but things went very differently than they do in William Golding's classic novel.
William Golding’s 1954 book *The Lord of the Flies* follows a group of young boys who wind up stranded on a remote island. Spoiler alert—things devolve into pure chaos, and the darkest crevices of human nature emerge.
Yet just eleven years after the book’s publication, six teenage boys really did find themselves stranded on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. They were there for fifteen months before being rescued, but unlike the characters in Lord of the Flies, all of them survived the ordeal—and what happened on the island couldn’t have been more different from what Golding dreamed up."
https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/tongan-castaways-true-story

2026-05-04 00:00:47 CEST

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Christians stole my property, lied to me, and raped me. Then I turned nine. Fuck Christianity. It’s a terrorist religion. I am by far not its only victim. For details, read history. If Jesus was alive today, he’d be rolling in his grave.
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” -- Mahatma Gandhi (attributed, probably apocryphal, but no less true.)

2026-05-03 22:12:22 CEST

#AI #DeepFakes
"Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Account
OpenAI made the perfect tool for scammers.
Donald Trump is on TikTok doing his morning routine. 'Get ready with me for a big day 💄🇺🇸,' reads the caption, as the president holds a makeup brush to his cheek. The scene is a still, ostensibly a screenshot of a TikTok clip. Like so much other AI-generated slop coursing through the internet, the image is fake and ridiculous. It also looks unnervingly real: There are no hands with six fingers, physics-defying angles, or other flagrant signs of AI-generated imagery. At quick glance, it really looks like the president is putting on bronzer.
I made this deepfake with OpenAI’s new image-generation model. ChatGPT Images 2.0, released last week, can create photorealistic visuals that are noticeably more convincing than what its predecessors might have produced. The tool has flooded the internet with hyperreal fakes: for example, Jeffrey Epstein as a Twitch streamer. I created the 'screenshot' of Trump’s fake TikTok after encountering a similar image on the ChatGPT subreddit, and I’ve since been able to use Images 2.0 to create all kinds of alarming deepfake images—including of Elon Musk getting whisked away by the FBI, world leaders suffering medical emergencies, and top American politicians donning Nazi paraphernalia (none of which I’ve shared anywhere)."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/chatgpt-images-deepfakes-fraud/687023/

2026-05-02 20:58:55 CEST

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That counts. Somebody had to do it. He was also right about Stalin, but Stalin was right about him, too, so that part of the equation balances out. Leaders? Feh.

2026-04-26 23:06:12 CEST

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Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good." -- Seneca, *Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi*

2026-04-26 20:21:30 CEST

#EpsteinFiles #MTG
"She continued: 'He told Pam Bondi at the DOJ — no matter what you think of Pam Bondi — he flat out told her, ‘Do not release the Epstein files.’ He was blocking everybody.'”
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-just-claimed-141402139.html

2026-04-23 17:30:28 CEST

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https://grammarverb.com/creek-vs-crick/

2026-04-21 22:34:15 CEST

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The solution is to scale up Libertarian Socialism. The wrork self-owned, worker self-managed workplace is not just the anarchist ideal, it’s already happening. Such places range from a handful of hippies running a pizza joint to a multi-million dollar, multi-national enterprise. See NoBAWC, Mondragon, etc. Join one. Start one. Do it today.

2026-04-21 19:12:49 CEST

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"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." -- Ursula K. Le Guin

2026-04-21 00:39:06 CEST

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Dana saw an opportunity. Smoke-ins became a common and useful political tactic. It exposed people to the ease and pleasure of scofflawry, which proved to be both politically consciousness raising and psycho-socially bonding experience. It also spread weed culture and weed itself. This lead after many years of persecution eventually lead to legalization in more states every year.
I never put any more real effort into the legalization movement than getting some people high and letting them keep me abreast of developments. I don't care if something is illegal. I don't take orders from the state. Also, in a world of ubiquitous capitalism, malicious oligarchy, burgeoning fascism and very real and pressing threats to the biosphere itself, I can't waste my limited organizing time on symbolic reforms. I'm glad somebody does though because now, for the first time in my life, I no longer have to fear the police when my personal drug of choice in my possession.

2026-04-20 01:56:52 CEST

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We'll need to set up multiple strike funds.

2026-04-19 21:27:19 CEST

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"If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped." -- Big Bill Haywood

2026-04-19 21:06:18 CEST

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Genocide Joe? Oh, please.

2026-04-19 20:29:40 CEST

#OccupiedPalestine #SanFrancisco
"S.F. activists display 120-foot ‘End U.S. aid to Israel’ banner on Twin Peaks
Anonymous activists on Saturday displayed a large banner in Palestinian colors on the side of Twin Peaks that read 'End U.S. aid to Israel' and could be seen across San Francisco.
The activists wrote in a statement that they were 'urging an end to U.S. funding for Israel’s killing of over 100,000 Palestinians, Lebanese, and Iranians.'
The statement said 'dozens of self-organized community members' installed the 50-by-120 foot banner over the course of about 10 minutes on Saturday.
The banner was displayed at the same location as the annual 'Pink Triangle,' a monument that has been put up every Pride weekend since 1996. The triangle is meant to be a 'visible yet mute reminder of man’s inhumanity to man,' according to its organizers.
The activists called out the 'genocide in Gaza' and said Israel is 'blockading supplies for food, medicine, and shelter, while continuing to bomb and shoot people on a daily basis.' The United Nations on Friday said an average of 47 women and girls were killed a day in Israel’s war on Gaza, a total of 38,000 from October 2023 to December 2025."
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-arms-embargo-israel-banner-twin-peaks/

2026-04-19 01:19:46 CEST

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I’m not worried about the government. I’m no threat to their existence and I don’t have anything woorth stealing, so I’m not on their radar. If the government wanted me dead, it would have happened already. I’m afraid of the fascist paramilitaries, and the so-called lone wolves. These are brainwashed cultist fanatics and armed to the teeth.

2026-04-18 21:54:41 CEST

#transrights #abortion
"Trump wants data on California’s trans and abortion care. Can the state stop him?
The latest clash between California and President Donald Trump over abortion and gender-affirming care could soon leave doctors caught between state and federal law.
Under a bill that may soon pass the Legislature, California medical providers and affiliated businesses could face hefty state fines if they comply with a federal subpoena seeking abortion, gender-affirming or reproductive care information without first notifying the California attorney general, patients and providers.
But delaying responding to the feds could put them at risk of violating federal law, and independent constitutional scholars say the pending law might not survive a legal challenge.
The bill is in response to efforts the Trump administration and conservative states have undertaken to block or criminalize abortion services and care for transgender people."
https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/04/california-abortion-trans-subpoena-bill/

2026-04-18 21:53:57 CEST

#coup
"The five ways Trump could attempt a coup, by fascism expert Timothy Snyder
Despite the debacle in Iran, a president at war has several pressure points at his disposal to postpone, restrict and ultimately cancel democracy, writes the historian.
The United States is seven months away from the most consequential midterm elections in its history. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump, together with Israel, has started a war against Iran. These are the ideal conditions for a head of state to seize power in a coup.
Trump’s chief concern is preserving his own comfort and power, much of which will be lost if the Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives, as they look poised to do. Clearly, Trump has no qualms about election meddling: he already attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election and has mused about cancelling the midterms. More recently, he has tried to push through legislation that would severely restrict voting, making it a privilege.
When it comes to Iran, Trump and US secretary of 'war' (defence) Pete Hegseth, have been stuck in the logic of escalation, according to which the feeling of defeat today can be reversed by doing the first thing that comes to mind tomorrow. Each day that the conflict and uncertainty about it continue – including about whether the current two-week ceasefire with Iran will hold – people around the president will profit (through insider trading, political bets or arms dealing). And the longer the situation lasts, the greater the chance that it will be exploited for a coup attempt.
Against this backdrop, Trump’s proposal to boost the defence budget by more than 40% should be understood as a payoff for the officers whose backing he hopes to secure. Hegseth, for his part, is frantically purging people of principle from the highest ranks."
https://www.thenerve.news/p/donald-trump-coup-five-ways-scenarios-timothy-snyder-midterms-election-survive

2026-04-17 16:10:38 CEST

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Good cop, bad cop, both cops.

2026-04-17 15:58:10 CEST

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"Like, we can innovate *everywhere*, but no, don't touch the only two possible systems of power? Really?”
I never said that. Don’t put words in my mouth. It’s rude. It’s dishonest. It’s very bad form.

2026-04-17 15:56:10 CEST

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See also:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+4:32&version=KJV

2026-04-17 15:55:24 CEST

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Then there’s Christian communism. According to the bible, if you're not a communist, you're not a real Christian.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+2%3A44-46&version=NKJV

2026-04-17 08:10:09 CEST

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Of which metal are they composed?

2026-04-15 20:46:14 CEST

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Dismantling Ctizens United is not the answer to our problems. The answer is to dismantle capitalism.

2026-04-12 21:38:18 CEST

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https://archive.ph/RGLWu

2026-04-12 19:38:36 CEST

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All crimes, both great and small, follow the same rules:
(1.) Have no witnesses.
(2.) Leave no evidence.
(3.) STFU about it.
The last one is the hardest. It’s human to want to brag. Don’t. Or at least wait till the statute of limitations runs out. You’ll be glad you did.

2026-04-12 19:14:50 CEST

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“Dumb” is an ableist slur with roots in #eugenics

2026-04-12 18:39:34 CEST

#Iran #TrumpRegime #Hormuz #blockade
"Trump announces Navy blockade in Strait of Hormuz after Iran talks fizzle
President Trump on Sunday announced that the U.S. military will begin blockading ships seeking to enter the Strait of Hormuz after weekend peace talks with Iran did not bring about a deal.
'Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,' Trump wrote in a Sunday morning Truth Social post, adding that he instructed the Navy to 'seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran.'
The president said the blockade would begin 'shortly,' while underscoring recent U.S. military operations seeking to remove mines laid by Tehran in the Strait.
Vice President Vance announced on Saturday evening that the U.S. and Iran failed to come to an agreement, as the two sides gathered in Islamabad, Pakistan, to discuss the ceasefire. Trump, on Sunday, said the talks ultimately came down to Tehran’s nuclear capabilities.
'In many ways, the points that were agreed to are better than us continuing our Military Operations to conclusion, but all of those points don’t matter compared to allowing Nuclear Power to be in the hands of such volatile, difficult, unpredictable people,' Trump wrote."
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5827724-trump-iran-strait-hormuz-blockade/

2026-04-12 18:38:26 CEST

#AI
"Economists Starting to Admit They May Have Been Wrong About AI Never Replacing Human Jobs
They're taking it seriously.
For the most part, economists have been one of the few groups of professionals who’ve roundly rejected the AI Kool-Aid. Consensus of the worst-case scenario seemed to center on the idea that AI could upend the job market, but it wouldn’t destroy it entirely. ATMs didn’t eliminate bank tellers, the parable went, meaning new technology isn’t a guarantee that automation will actually change the whole face of an industry.
As a sweeping economics paper by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Forecasting Research Institute (FRI), and numerous top universities found, that attitude may be shifting. As time goes on, top economic experts are increasingly factoring extreme AI disruption into their models. Yet acknowledging a possibility and accepting its inevitable are two very different things — and as the complicated range of sentiments makes clear, an AI jobs apocalypse is still far from certain."
https://futurism.com/future-society/economist-ai-job-forecast

2026-04-12 18:37:19 CEST

#AI #TedChiang
"Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?
By Ted Chiang
When we talk about artificial intelligence, we rely on metaphor, as we always do when dealing with something new and unfamiliar. Metaphors are, by their nature, imperfect, but we still need to choose them carefully, because bad ones can lead us astray. For example, it’s become very common to compare powerful A.I.s to genies in fairy tales. The metaphor is meant to highlight the difficulty of making powerful entities obey your commands; the computer scientist Stuart Russell has cited the parable of King Midas, who demanded that everything he touched turn into gold, to illustrate the dangers of an A.I. doing what you tell it to do instead of what you want it to do. There are multiple problems with this metaphor, but one of them is that it derives the wrong lessons from the tale to which it refers. The point of the Midas parable is that greed will destroy you, and that the pursuit of wealth will cost you everything that is truly important. If your reading of the parable is that, when you are granted a wish by the gods, you should phrase your wish very, very carefully, then you have missed the point.
So, I would like to propose another metaphor for the risks of artificial intelligence. I suggest that we think about A.I. as a management-consulting firm, along the lines of McKinsey & Company. Firms like McKinsey are hired for a wide variety of reasons, and A.I. systems are used for many reasons, too. But the similarities between McKinsey—a consulting firm that works with ninety per cent of the Fortune 100—and A.I. are also clear. Social-media companies use machine learning to keep users glued to their feeds. In a similar way, Purdue Pharma used McKinsey to figure out how to 'turbocharge' sales of OxyContin during the opioid epidemic. Just as A.I. promises to offer managers a cheap replacement for human workers, so McKinsey and similar firms helped normalize the practice of mass layoffs as a way of increasing stock prices and executive compensation, contributing to the destruction of the middle class in America.
A former McKinsey employee has described the company as 'capital’s willing executioners': if you want something done but don’t want to get your hands dirty, McKinsey will do it for you. That escape from accountability is one of the most valuable services that management consultancies provide. Bosses have certain goals, but don’t want to be blamed for doing what’s necessary to achieve those goals; by hiring consultants, management can say that they were just following independent, expert advice. Even in its current rudimentary form, A.I. has become a way for a company to evade responsibility by saying that it’s just doing what 'the algorithm' says, even though it was the company that commissioned the algorithm in the first place.
The question we should be asking is: as A.I. becomes more powerful and flexible, is there any way to keep it from being another version of McKinsey?"
https://archive.ph/TAb8u#selection-449.0-485.149

2026-04-12 18:35:54 CEST

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Christians lied to me, stole my property, and raped me. Then I turned nine. Fuck Christianity. It's a terrorist religion. I am far from its only victim. For details, read history.

2026-04-12 18:35:12 CEST

#neuroscience #autism
"One Compound Repairs Neurons with Autism Mutations
Because autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is linked to over 100 different genes, a 'one-size-fits-all' medication has proven impossible to find. However, researchers are changing the game by using zebrafish to create a 'pharmaco-behavioral' map.
In a study, the team screened 774 FDA-approved drugs to see how they altered the behavior of larval zebrafish. By matching these drug 'fingerprints' to the disrupted sleep and sensory behaviors of fish with specific autism mutations (like SCN2A and DYRK1A), they identified candidates—specifically the drug levocarnitine—that can 'rescue' or reverse these symptoms."
https://neurosciencenews.com/autism-genetics-neuropharmacology-30480/

2026-04-12 18:34:14 CEST

#gender #DNA
"Female mice grow testes after this single DNA tweak
Small changes in the non-coding part of the genome have a key role in sex determination.
Female mouse embryos with a single letter change in a specific region of their DNA develop male reproductive organs, finds a study1 published today in Nature Communications.
Typically, female mouse embryos with two X chromosomes develop ovaries because a gene called Sox9 is suppressed. In male mouse embryos with XY chromosomes, the expression of Sox9 triggers testis development.
In male mice, Sox9 is controlled by a segment of non-coding DNA — part of the genome that does not encode proteins — called enhancer 13 (Enh13). Studies have shown that deleting Enh13 causes mice with XY chromosomes to develop female organs2, but until now, modifying Enh13 was not known to have any effects in female (XX) mice."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01120-8

2026-04-12 18:33:31 CEST

#AI
"OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause 'critical harm.'
OPENAI IS THROWING its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms, such as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage.
The effort seems to mark a shift in OpenAI’s legislative strategy. Until now, OpenAI has largely played defense, opposing bills that could have made AI labs liable for their technology’s harms. Several AI policy experts tell WIRED that SB 3444—which could set a new standard for the industry—is a more extreme measure than bills OpenAI has supported in the past."
https://archive.ph/V46ZG#selection-705.0-709.163

2026-04-12 18:32:55 CEST

#ClimateCrisis
"From Tuvalu to Puglia: regenerative design tackling the climate crisis and saving endangered environments and species
From sensory memory to material reconstruction, *Memo. Souvenirs du futur stages a form of design that moves between loss and repair, turning the climate crisis into a field of action.
The opening image is that of a tropical island: Tuvalu, a Pacific archipelago that, despite contributing very little to global emissions, risks being submerged by the end of the 21st century. In 2021, at COP26, Minister Simon Kofe sounded the alarm while standing knee-deep in water; in 2022, at COP27, he announced that Tuvalu would become the first 'digital nation': even after its disappearance, the territory will continue to exist as a virtual reality.
This full-screen image—an idyllic technological vision masking an ecological tragedy—introduces the exhibition 'Memo. Souvenirs du futur', conceived by the curatorial duo d-o-t-s (Laura Drouet and Olivier Lacrouts), recently opened at CID/Grand-Hornu in Belgium. Co-produced with the Fondation d’entreprise Martell (Cognac, France), the exhibition presents a series of projects by designers and artists seeking to reconstruct or preserve traces of environments threatened by human activity. It is a form of regenerative design rooted in memory—not only conceptual, but also sensory. A way to confront the ever-worsening climate crisis, where the critical engagement of art and the inherent optimism of design converge."
https://www.domusweb.it/en/design/gallery/2026/04/09/regenerative-design-climate-crisis-projects-endangered-environments-species.html

2026-04-12 02:01:17 CEST

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In the ‘70s I was living in East Oakland at 15th and 11th. Christian missionaries were canvassing my street. I think they were Seventh Day Adventists. They knocked my door three Saturdays in a row. I never let them in. I’d open the door the length of its chain, ask what they wanted and then slam it in their face. Even though they were always different individuals, they always wanted the same thing, a moment of my time to discuss “our lord and savior” Jesus Christ. Slam! Good riddance.
But they kept coming back. I figured that if they couldn’t take a hint, maybe they’d respond to some psychological warfare. I had a German Shepard. My partner at the time had a dog that was half Doberman and half Great Dane. On the fourth Saturday I could see them coming up the street. I took off all my clothes. When I answered the door I opened it wide so they have a good view. There I was, buck naked except for my wrap around shades, and holding a large, snarling dog by the collar with each hand. Black Sabbath was playing on the stereo. Incense hung in the air.
“In this house we worship Satan,” I said.
They never came back.

2026-04-11 23:44:45 CEST

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More than half a century after the Vietnam War, this fool is still judging martial success by body count!?! War is not a sporting event which can be scored by totaling individual actions. War is a business. Dryden said it was the business of kings. Butler said it was a racket. I’m with Smedley on this one. Follow the money.

2026-04-11 23:13:24 CEST

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It’s not broken. It’s working *exactly* as its creators intended to work.

2026-04-11 23:10:51 CEST

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Learn to parse.

2026-04-11 21:22:09 CEST

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Rather than demand an end to the oligarch-enabled Trump regime, better we should end oligarchy, starting with the oligarchs themselves.

2026-04-11 20:40:01 CEST

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Old white guy here. I've never picked cotton or rowed a galley but I know *exactly*how it feels to be a slave because I was prisoner once.

2026-04-11 20:07:07 CEST

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Yup, we won the Vietnam war, too. Just look at the body count.

2026-04-09 18:55:55 CEST

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Bourgeois feminists will tell you that the purpose of #patriarchy is to enable men to oppress women, which it does. But this is not its purpose. This is its mechanism. Its purpose is to enable men to oppress other men. And it works. Superbly. Most men are not patriarchs. They're schlumps. They work for the real patriarchs. They take orders all day. They don't seem to mind that much, though, in part because when they get home from work they can order their wives and children around. This must end.

2026-04-09 18:55:07 CEST

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#patriarchy #archeology
I recently engaged in a conversation with a man who was trying to convince his readers the #patriarchy has *always* been the natural state of the human species. This is patently false. Neither is patriarchy built into our genes.
"Always"!?! Oh, please. Anatomically modern humans have been around for at least 300,000 years. Patriarchy is, at most, 4-5,000 years old. It's not universal, ubiquitous, or omnipresent. It's not genetic. It's an aberration in the human story.
The belief that genes determine group behaviors is pure eugenics. It is the essence of Nazi ideology. People who think like that are thinking like Nazis.
Patriarchy is behavior. All culture is behavior. Behavior can change. Culture can change. One way we can tell is archeology. For example, we can study their graves. How people are buried can tell us a lot about how they lived.
Before the Steppe Culture expanded out of what's now Ukraine and into Europe and South Asia, burials were conducted much differently. Let's look at Europe because of the abundance of data available. When Steppe Culture met what Marija Gimbutas called "Old Europe" they slaughtered most of the males and, in most places, just took over. This *is* written in our genes. At this point in the story, burial customs shifted dramatically.
Prior to then, European burials were communal, with little or no individual grave goods. This implies a more or less egalitarian culture. Then the Steppe people imported their custom of exalting certain individuals by entombing them in kurgans, often with grave goods that included weaponry. This implies hierarchy.
The patriarchal bias of European archeologists assigned maleness to these skeletons, solely of the basis of their martial grave goods, without the advantage of modern paleogenetic technology or, often without even measuring the width of their pelvises. If they are armed, they must be male is how the thinking went.
The technology driven rise of paleogenetic science is discrediting this bogus analysis. Archeologists have had to begin to reconsider gender roles throughout human history.
While the luxurious grave goods clearly indicate persons of standing, graves with weaponry weren't all luxurious, they weren't all leaders, and they weren't all male. Many were what we'd call common soldiers. Some, in some contexts many, of them were women.
Women have fought since time immemorial. For example, the Scythian peoples (Tomyris's Massagetae, etc.) were famous for their coed cavalry. They are probably the kernel of truth behind the Amazons of Greek mythology and the valkyries of Norse mythology.
A female archer on horseback had a distinct advantage over male equestrians. They're lighter, so they can ride faster and turn sharper while riding on comparable horses. They were a formidable fighting force.
Not all women have been warriors. Most have not. Neither have most men. But as the central aphorism of anthropology clearly states, any behavior not universal is not human nature, it's cultural, idiosyncratic, or both. There are a lot of exceptions to the "only males fight" paradigm. Even today the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) and the Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces (an Assyrian all-female brigade of the Syriac Military Council) that they inspired, have a recent history of kicking ISIS's butt. Tradwives they are not. "Submissive"? Oh, please.
And so on. To summarize, the absurd notion that the fate of women has *always* been in the hands of men needs to be discarded. As for its believers, I take their reliance on ad hominem, rudeness and vulgarity to defend their position as proof positive of their beliefs themselves lack of worth. What they themselves are worth is a matter of opinion. I personally fail to see any worth at all in men like that. I'm not the only one.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they can change. After all, behavior is cultural and behavior can change. If any Mastodonians want to try, be my guest. I don't hold out too much hope, but hope dies last.
You try to change their minds, not me. I'm ill equipped. I'm far too reactive. Just listening to this crap raises my blood pressure. It's already high enough that I take medication for it. My diet and exercise regimen can't be at fault. I'm pretty good about that stuff. I blame it on the stress of living in late stage capitalism, especially the cruel and unusual crap we find on social media. And patriarchy and its results. The results of patriarchy are abominable. War is the worst of them but there's more. Domestic violence comes from the same source. So does bullying. So does our foolish and deplorable tendency to just believe anything the ranking males say without first applying critical fact checking.
I've done my best to convince these people that they're wrong. I've failed. Now it's your turn. If you have what it takes, please engage with these people. We will never yeet patriarchy from the human story until we understand it and we will never understand it until we are extremely clear on its etiology. Short version: it is *not* genetic.
The role of patriarchy in the problems and failures of modern civilization is an important subject. It should be discussed. But not by me, not with people who insult me and put words in my mouth. That stuff belongs on #xitter not on Mastodon, and not in my timeline. I muted the whole conversation.
But if you're interested in that sort of thing, check it out. Just ignore the ad hominems, vulgarity, tone policing and general rudeness. They are off topic and thus irrelevant. Bypass them. Cut to the chase.
I jumped into the thread here:
https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/116354514795706418
You can take it from there. Good luck. Thanks in advance.

2026-04-08 19:04:41 CEST

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Just because we can’t vote the problem away does not mean they are here to stay. Shun them. Boycott them. Dox them. Suborn their children's loyalty. Educate, educate, educate.

2026-04-08 18:18:49 CEST

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This is actually good news, *very* good news. It means we outnumber them two to one.

2026-04-07 23:46:34 CEST

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It’s a typical war: The bad guys vs the worse guys. It’s getting harder every war telling which is which.

2026-04-07 23:33:36 CEST

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If we the people let him do it, we’ll be as guilty as he is.

2026-04-07 22:55:21 CEST

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Refresh my memory, please. Didn’t Serbs do this in 1999 when NATO was bombing their bridges?

2026-04-07 20:37:04 CEST

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Good cop, bad cop, both cops.

2026-04-06 03:59:34 CEST

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I’m bored with this troll. I’m going to go something productive with my time. If any of you want to keep listening to his crap, be my guest. I have better things to do.

2026-04-06 01:42:06 CEST

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And . . .
"Early Women Were Hunters, Not Just Gatherers, Study Suggests
Regardless of maternal status, women hunted in almost 80 percent of recent and present-day foraging societies in a new study
People have long said that in prehistoric foraging societies, labor was divided by gender: Women gathered and men hunted. But now, a new study adds to the growing body of work challenging this idea, suggesting that prehistoric women were just as skilled at killing game as men were.
'We’ve had scattered reports here and there about women’s hunting,’ Vivek Venkataraman, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Calgary in Canada who was not involved with the research, tells Science’s Bridget Alex. But the new research 'pulls a lot of these things together.'
In the paper, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of international researchers identified 391 foraging societies across the world, from the 1800s to present day. (Scientists use modern foraging societies as a window into past human behavior, reports NPR’s Nurith Aizenman.) Of these, they obtained data on hunting from 63 societies.
'We were reading papers written by people who had lived with these groups and had studied their behavior,’ study co-author Cara Wall-Scheffler, a professor and co-chair of biology at Seattle Pacific University, tells Live Science’s Jennifer Nalewicki. 'They were looking at people and recording what they did.'
Their analysis revealed that regardless of maternal status, women hunted in 50 of these societies—or about 79 percent. And more than 70 percent of female hunting appeared to be intentional—rather than opportunistically killing animals while doing other activities, per the study. In societies where hunting was the most important activity for subsistence, women participated in hunting 100 percent of the time.
'The hunting was purposeful,‘ Wall-Scheffler tells NPR. 'Women had their own tool kit. They had favorite weapons. Grandmas were the best hunters of the village.'
The researchers also found that women played an active role in teaching hunting, and they used a wider variety of weapons and hunting strategies than men did. For example, while men tended to hunt alone or in pairs, women hunted alone, with a man or with groups of women, children or dogs. Women hunted small game in 46 percent of the studied societies and took down medium or large game in 48 percent of them. In 4 percent of societies, they hunted game of all sizes.
While previous research has found that women may have rivaled males when it came to taking down big game, historically, scientists have dismissed females’ hunting prowess, possibly because of researcher bias, per the paper. But recent studies have increasingly shown women as hunters: In the Americas, a 2020 study found that females likely represented up to 50 percent of prehistoric big game hunters, suggesting the practice was gender neutral.
And the remains of women, like men, have been discovered buried alongside hunting weapons. Yet, while researchers presume stone projectiles found buried with men are hunting tools, they are “'ess persuaded when projectiles are associated with females,' per the new paper.
Wall-Scheffler tells NPR that stories of gender differences in our ancestors have percolated into our society today, which can lead people to assume dividing labor based on gender is a more natural way to live.
‘It can be damaging,’ Nurith Aizenman reports for NPR. ‘They use that to argue that gender roles should be more rigid today.’"
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-women-were-hunters-not-just-gatherers-study-suggests-180982459/

2026-04-06 01:25:39 CEST

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I pity your ignorance. You’re also rude and vulgar, but I forgive you for that. You can’t help it. Rudeness and vulgarity stem from ignorance.
Ignorance can be cured. Start here:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=grave+goods+women+warriors&ia=web

2026-04-06 00:43:17 CEST

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That "women have had a raw deal for the entire history of the species” is disinformation. Ask an archeologist about gendered grave goods sometime.

2026-04-05 22:22:43 CEST

#Trump #WalterReed #rumors
"Trump Spokesman Pushes Back as President’s Health Rumours Swirl Online
Speculation about President Donald Trump’s whereabouts swept across social media after unverified posts claimed he had been spotted at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
The rumors, which quickly gained traction online on Saturday, April 4, prompted an official denial from Trump’s spokesman Steven Cheung, who insisted the president had remained at the White House throughout the Easter weekend.
'On this Easter weekend, he has been working nonstop in the White House and Oval Office,' Cheung wrote on X. He added, 'There has never been a President who has worked harder for the American people than President Trump. God Bless him.'
(. . .)
The White House also issued what is known as a 'lid' at 11:08 a.m. on Saturday, a notification to the press pool indicating that the president would not be making any public appearances or holding events for the remainder of the day.
While lids are not unusual, the timing fueled speculation, with journalist Ed Krassenstein noting that an early lid was atypical for Trump, who often travels to Mar-a-Lago on weekends.
Krassenstein’s post suggesting Trump might be at Walter Reed had accumulated over one million views within hours.
Additional unverified claims circulated on Bluesky, where an anonymous user alleged that a major road near Walter Reed had been blocked off and that an emergency meeting was underway at the White House. Neither claim has been independently verified."
https://thekenyatimes.com/americas/trump-at-walter-reed/

2026-04-04 21:27:23 CEST

#ClimateCrisis #YellowstoneNationalPark
"Pages devoted to climate change have disappeared from key Yellowstone guidebook
The latest Yellowstone Resources and Issues Handbook lacks climate change section for the first time in nearly two decades.
Yellowstone National Park visitors over the past few years have been asking park guide Leo Leckie why some Douglas-fir trees between Mammoth Hot Springs and Tower junction are turning red. Their change in color was clearly visible, but the cause wasn’t as apparent.
'You could see the rust-like color on the trees where you never saw that before,' said Leckie, who works for Gardiner-based tour company Yellowstone Wolf Tracker.
Leckie turned to the Yellowstone Resources and Issues Handbook, a compendium of Yellowstone information published annually by the National Park Service. He learned that bark beetles are attacking the trees, and that a warming climate is likely making their assaults more frequent and more severe. 'The resource handbook is always on hand, said Leckie, who has worked in the park since 2010. 'It is the tool that I refer to when clients inevitably ask a question that I can’t answer.'
Last year, the entry that linked beetle infestation to warmer, drier weather disappeared, along with the entire 13-page climate change section. For the first time in nearly 20 years, the handbook does not feature a single chapter dedicated to climate change. The omission occurred as the Trump administration has pressured national parks around the country to remove information on climate change, slavery and the mistreatment of Native Americans."
https://montanafreepress.org/2026/04/03/pages-devoted-to-climate-change-have-disappeared-from-key-yellowstone-national-park-guidebook/

2026-04-04 21:24:47 CEST

#Rumble #RockAndRoll #history #Indigenous
"Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017) - Tubi
This fascinating music documentary examines the musical contributions and influence of indigenous artists on popular culture."
https://tubitv.com/movies/100043840/rumble-the-indians-who-rocked-the-world

2026-03-11 23:36:51 CET

#cancer
"Study on Alt-Med Breast Cancer Treatments Finds a Grim Side Effect: Death
Over a five-year span, women who used complementary and alternative medicine had a greater mortality rate than those who relied on traditional care.
Cancer treatment is often a difficult process, thanks in no small part to the many side effects it can cause. A study out this week, however, shows the perils of relying on less conventional remedies instead.
Researchers at Yale University examined the outcomes of more than two million women with breast cancer. Women who used complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) had a substantially greater risk of dying over a five year span compared to women taking traditional treatment, they found—even if they used both at the same time. On the positive side, though, most patients stuck with mainstream medicine.
(. . .)
There are many different forms of alternative medicine, some less risky than others (meditation, for instance) Yet other treatments aren’t so benign and can come with serious, even potentially fatal, side effects, such as the improper use of chelation therapy. And even the simple act of delaying or avoiding conventional care in favor of ineffective alternative remedies can prove dangerous.
A 2018 study found that cancer patients who reported only using alternative medicine had a greater mortality rate than people on mainstream cancer treatments. The current researchers wanted to specifically examine CAM use among breast cancer patients, though, using more updated information. So they analyzed data from the National Cancer Database on women in the U.S. diagnosed with breast cancer between 2011 and 2021.
All told, 97.6% of women reported only using traditional treatment; 2.3% of women reported using no treatment at all; and less than 0.1% reported using CAM alone or CAM plus traditional treatment.
Unsurprisingly, compared to traditional treatment, women who abstained from any treatment fared worse—but those on CAM didn’t do much better. After adjusting for other factors, CAM-only users had a more than threefold higher risk of dying in the five years after diagnosis than traditional patients."
https://gizmodo.com/study-on-alt-med-breast-cancer-treatments-finds-a-grim-side-effect-death-2000729617

2026-03-11 21:45:08 CET

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#Tor #OpSec
Just using Tor puts you on the short list. If you're *already* on the short list, the powers that be can read any plain text you think you're encrypting, as you type via a keylogger that is installed through a backdoor in the OS or else comes baked in with the OS itself.
Want to have a private convo? Take a tip from organized crime. Go to the beach. Leave *all* your devices at home. It doesn't hurt to wave a Tri-Meter over your bodies to see if a miniature transmitter and/or harmonic radar tag hasn't been incorporated into your clothing.
(This was a realistic plot element in a great film from 1998 called *Enemy of the State*. Do check it out.)
Stand as close as is safe to the crashing waves. Both of you should face the noisy sea while covering your mouths with your and/or ()better still) with some periodicals, so a lip reader with a telescope can't see what your saying. You can safely assume that you're being watched, filmed, and/or photograph and that the persons surveilling know that you are having a private convo, and to expect it to indicate something important is about to happen that involves the two of you and/ory our respective networks.
This is for educational purposes only. I'm not trying to incite any crimes. Crimes are bad. Don't do any. If anybody asks you why not, tell them it's because I said so. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

2026-03-11 20:57:58 CET

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I'm not boosting this until it shows up in the Wayback Machine or archive.ph because our identities have proven to not be safe with The Intercept. For details ask Reality Winner. They have great reporting but lousy OpSec. Do you want your IP on list? Neither do I.

2026-03-04 19:09:58 CET

#Iran
"US submarine sank Iran’s warship off Sri Lanka coast, says Hegseth
Sri Lanka says it recovered several bodies and rescued 32 wounded sailors after the frigate sank just outside the island’s territorial waters.
(. . .)
Sri Lanka’s government said it recovered several bodies and rescued 32 wounded sailors after an Iranian military ship sank just outside the island’s territorial waters.
The country’s deputy ⁠foreign minister ⁠told local ⁠television that ⁠at least 80 ⁠people were killed ⁠in the strike.
Authorities told Al Jazeera the frigate IRIS Dena, located about 40 nautical miles (75km) off Galle in southern Sri Lanka, sent out a distress call between 6am and 7am (00:30 to 01:30 GMT) on Wednesday.
The ship had about 180 crew members on board, and a search and rescue operation was under way, Sri Lankan officials said.
The Iranian frigate was returning from having taken part in the 2026 International Fleet Review last month in eastern India’s coastal city of Vishakapatnam."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/4/at-least-100-missing-after-iranian-military-ship-sinks-off-sri-lanka-coast

2026-03-01 22:16:16 CET

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Would canceling the mid-term elections be a red line for the normies or will they shrug? Time will tell.

2026-02-26 23:31:03 CET

#UFO #ConspiracyTheories #TrumpRegime #BlackVault #hackers #hacking
"A massive public archive of declassified US government files vanished just one day after President Trump ordered the release of all UFO-related documents.
The Black Vault, run by researcher and ufologist John Greenewald Jr, had its main server reportedly wiped clean on February 20, deleting hundreds of gigabytes worth of files on UFOs, declassified CIA projects, and major conspiracies, including the assassination of JFK.
Greenewald shared the news online, explaining that some server directories had their permissions, the safeguards on who can access or edit them, and the file ownership logs changed without explanation.
(. . .)
In simpler terms, someone or something intentionally removed every single file from the Black Vault's server, deleting all the records released by the CIA and other groups, without fully shutting down the site so alarms wouldn't go off right away.
Until recently, the US government has flat-out denied that UFOs or extraterrestrial beings existed, maintaining for decades that there has never been any physical evidence recovered that proves something non-human has ever landed on Earth.
However, Trump's February 19 order came after he publicly criticized former President Barack Obama for saying in an interview that aliens were real. Trump claimed the 44th president had revealed 'classified information.'
Greenewald has previously filed over 11,000 FOIA requests with the US government to obtain these documents, including some declassified reports that date back to the alleged UFO crash landing at Roswell in 1947.
His investigations have also provided legitimate paper trails, detailing how former administrations and the intelligence community created secret task forces of high-ranking military and scientific officials to research UFO incidents.
Luckily for The Black Vault, Greenewald revealed that all of the more than 3.8 million files were backed up in secure locations and the site was restored soon after the mysterious wiping took place.
'It is a stark reminder to us all, me included. Keep backups. Keep them in multiple places. And never be intimidated by anything that comes our way, no matter what we expect may have happened,' the researcher wrote on X."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15584851/Mystery-UFO-vault-files-wiped-clean-Trump-aliens.html

2026-02-07 23:02:44 CET

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Parties, not "party". The state did this. The Democrats are as much a part of it as the Republicans.

2026-02-05 20:41:42 CET

#TrumpRegime #gulags
"Trump’s ‘Prison Camp’ Threat Sparks Widespread MAGA Backlash
'To welcome such a facility over the welcome of human beings is to question the values that shape our community,' one resident said.
The Trump administration wants to expand immigration detention facilities nationwide, but even diehard supporters aren’t buying it.
As White House deputy chief of staff and chief architect of aggressive immigration policy, Stephen Miller, pushed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to target 3,000 arrests per day, the administration’s plans to convert industrial buildings into detention facilities began to take shape.
According to The Washington Post, internal documents show that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to acquire buildings in 23 towns across at least eight states, but the move is facing pushback in communities—even in places that voted for President Donald Trump, 79, in the most recent election."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-prison-camp-threat-sparks-widespread-maga-backlash/

2026-02-04 18:25:53 CET

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https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/116013484609228390
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2026-01-31 21:52:46 CET

#ICE #Minnesota
"St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident.
The resident, a woman, had been observing and recording video of immigration enforcement actions from her car when agents removed her from her car and took her into custody.
It's believed to be the first time a local police department in Minnesota intervened in a federal law enforcement action since the surge in immigration enforcement began two months ago.
The woman, who did not want to be identified because she fears for her safety, is a U.S. citizen and a resident of St. Peter. She told MPR News in an interview that she was out in the community in her car, tracking the movements of federal agents, and recording them on a dash cam.
She shared that video with us. Agents in three vehicles began chasing her and trying to force her to pull over. Eventually they box her in, three agents get out of the car in front of her, with their guns drawn and try to force her out of her vehicle.
'Get out of the car! Get out of the car,' the agents scream at her repeatedly, while she calmly responds, 'No. I will not get out of the car.'
While she's alone in the car, the woman can be heard talking with other observers on speaker phone and she tells them to call 911. The agents open the door, which unlocked automatically when she put the gearshift in park, they drag her out and force her to the ground. She said the agents were overly aggressive and physical as they pinned her down and handcuffed her, leaving her with multiple cuts, scrapes and bruises.
The woman’s husband eventually arrives and tries to intervene, and he made a separate recording of the interaction on his phone. He tells the agents not to search her car because they don't have a warrant and it would be an illegal search. The agents appear dismissive of his constitutional concerns.
'I'm not getting into the legality of everything,' One agent responds tersely.
MPR News interviewed the woman and her husband, who also doesn't want to be identified, fearing retaliation.
The woman said the agents put her into one of their vehicles and started driving toward the Twin Cities, presumably to the Whipple Federal Building near MSP Airport, where ICE has an immigration detention facility. About 20 minutes into the drive, when they were near Le Sueur, she says one of the agents got a call, apparently from an ICE supervisor. They turned off Highway 169 at the next exit and drove back toward St. Peter.
The husband told MPR News that after his wife was taken into custody, he called his attorney, and soon after, he got a call from St. Peter Chief of Police Matt Grochow, whom he said he has known for years.
I was talking to him, kind of venting some of my frustrations,' the man said, adding that he urged the chief to have his officers just be more visible during the federal enforcement actions. 'If [local police] were present and they could see you, I promise you their behavior more than likely, or hopefully, would, you know, be appropriate and law abiding.'
The husband says he talked to the chief for a while and 'we had a good conversation.
He asked me, ‘what was your wife's name’? I told him my wife's name. He said, ‘was she picked up in a bronco?’ And I said, ‘I'm not sure, but it was an SUV, dark colored. I'd have to look at my video.’ He goes, ‘I think I got her. I'll call you back’.'
The husband said a few minutes later, the chief called again, 'and said, I got her or I'm bringing her home.'
'I was just so relieved that she got released and was able to come home,' he said.
The agents took the woman to the St. Peter police station, where she says Chief Grochow approached her, spoke with her, had her get into his squad car, and took her home.
'He knew where I lived already, because he had already been in contact with my husband.' the woman said. 'He started talking to me like he just couldn't [believe] how terrible it was, what was happening. And he was so sorry and so scared for me and that type of thing, and [he] was so upset by what they're doing to our community.'
In an email to MPR News, Chief Grochow confirmed that ICE agents turned the woman over to him and he then drove the woman home.
'ICE returned the female to our police department, I saw her, and I gave her a ride home,' Grochow wrote."
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident

2026-01-29 18:08:30 CET

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San Francisco is positively *infested* with these things. They're fun to mess with, though. Orange traffic cones totally boggle them.

2026-01-29 03:57:11 CET

#antifa #MarkBray #ICE
"The exiled American historian Mark Bray discusses the profound changes occurring in U.S. domestic politics and recent events in Minneapolis.
Mark Bray (New York, 1982) is an American historian, writer, and activist who specializes in social movements. A History professor at Rutgers University (New Jersey), previously at Dartmouth College, Bray has established himself as one of the most influential voices in the West in the international debate on contemporary anti-fascism, thanks to his prestigious work *Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook* (2017), which catapulted him to fame and simultaneously placed him in the crosshairs of fascism in the U.S.
He has written other works such as *Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street* and *The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists and Martyrs in Spain and France (1891–1909)*, which was recently published. His work combines historical research and intellectual commitment with critical thinking about resistance strategies against fascism and authoritarianism. His academic trajectory and participation in movements like Occupy Wall Street have made Bray a figure as respected as he is controversial within American public debate."
https://cubasi.cu/en/news/right-now-anti-fascism-united-states-anti-ice-movement