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Lev Zadov is not my real name. I expropriated it from a dead man. He wasn’t using it. It wasn’t his real name, anyway. It was his dead name. Dead names aren’t real. In real life he went by Zinkovsky. I’m not particular about my own pronouns. We’re all on the same side of the Class War. "He/him/they" works. I also respond to "yo," "soup’s on," and "freeze motherfucker!" I call other people by whatever pronouns and/or aliases that they say they want to be called by. It’s only polite.

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2026-04-17 16:10:38 CEST

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Good cop, bad cop, both cops.

2026-04-15 20:28:04 CEST

#RebeccaSolnit
"The United States is destroying itself.
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment.
The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries.
(. . .)
But trying to understand motives is something of a hobby when the focus needs to be on consequences. We do not need to understand these criminals in order to try to contain and ultimately remove them. They will not last for ever, and we need to think about what happens when they’re gone – to talk about the kind of reconstruction the US will face for the first time since the civil war, the reconstruction a ravaged and corrupted country has to go through to return to functionality. But not to return to the way things were."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction

2026-04-12 23:46:59 CEST

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Iran is holding the best cars at the table, a Hormuz Straight. That beats Three Carriers and takes the pot. Trump really ought to fold this hand. But, oh well.

2026-04-12 23:28:16 CEST

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and dangerous

2026-04-12 22:38:18 CEST

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First they came for . . .

2026-04-12 22:24:26 CEST

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He’s not on his own, though. Alas.

2026-04-12 21:40:06 CEST

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To me it sounds like a scam. Buzzwords make money.
But the concept behind it raises serious ethical issues. They deserve as much attention as the AI debate has been getting lately.

2026-04-12 21:38:18 CEST

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https://archive.ph/RGLWu

2026-04-12 20:50:25 CEST

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"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” -- Oscar Wilde, *The Picture of Dorian Gray*

2026-04-12 19:47:13 CEST

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Does this apply to archive.ph?

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 19:26:01 CEST

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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 their list? Neither do I.

2026-04-12 19:14:50 CEST

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

2026-04-12 18:40:18 CEST

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(1.) By calling the Iranian *people*, as opposed the current regime, "volatile, difficult, unpredictable" Trump displays his life long racism. He is yet another blot on the global reputation of the American people and every individual among them, myself included. America was built by slaves on stolen land, preys on weaker nations, treats women, transfolk, Queers, People of Color, minors, and the poor as second class citizens, but Trump is actually *proud* of it. So are the #MAGAts who support him. They're no better than he is. Already, some of them are beginning to realize it and defect. Even Tucker Carlson and MTG condemn him in public. There is hope for society.
The irony is that with a little fixing up, America could be a paradise on earth and a shining beacon for the world. That will not happen until we the people seize control of everyday life from the oligarchs. This seizure need not be violent. All we have to do is stop working for them.
"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
(2.) Trump is the "volatile, difficult, unpredictable" president of the only country even to actually *use* nuclear weapons (and against civilians no less).
America is not the "land of the free and the home of the brave". America is the land of bullies, cowards and greed. It will stay that way until we the people collectively eschew our compliance. Our last, best hope is a #GeneralStrike, starting today. I personally have been on strike for most of my adult life. You could do this, too, simply by working off the books and paying your share of society's upkeep, not as taxes to the government, but directly to the people in need that capitalism leaves by the wayside.

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 18:39:07 CEST

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More interesting than its age is that there is no physical evidence of hierarchy in the culture that created it. For details, see:
https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/110626437687651518

2026-04-12 18:38:47 CEST

#archeology #MohenjoDaro
"A century ago, when the ancient ruins of the lost city of Mohenjo-Daro were rediscovered, archaeologists hadn’t anticipated that their discovery would reveal evidence of a thriving hub of the ancient world, which had remained hidden for nearly 3,700 years.
(. . .)
Part of what made Mohenjo-Daro so fascinating was its age: the city, eventually revealed to have been among the most expansive settlements ever seen during the time of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, was also one of the oldest major cities in the region, with an estimated age of around 4,500 years.
Part of what made Mohenjo-Daro so fascinating was its age: the city, eventually revealed to have been among the most expansive settlements ever seen during the time of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, was also one of the oldest major cities in the region, with an estimated age of around 4,500 years.
(. . .)
Mohenjo-Daro has captivated archaeologists since its discovery due in part to the remarkable level of sophistication exhibited by its ancient builders.
From its structural elements, which, in many ways, resemble urban planning for modern cities, to its remarkably advanced water infrastructure, which includes sewers, baths, and wells, many elements of Mohenjo-Daro set it apart from other cities of its era."
https://thedebrief.org/the-ancient-city-of-mohenjo-daro-a-lost-archaeological-enigma-could-be-centuries-older-than-previously-thought/

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 18:38:08 CEST

#Africa #history
"Tracking the footsteps of West Africa's prehistoric metalworkers
The discovery of a 2,400-year-old metalworking workshop in Senegal provides new insights into the history of iron production in Africa. Despite decades of archaeological research, the origins of iron metallurgy in sub-Saharan Africa remain largely unclear. Yet this technological revolution—crucial for producing efficient agricultural tools—emerged there at least 3,000 years ago."
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-tracking-footsteps-west-africa-prehistoric.html

2026-04-12 18:37:46 CEST

#AI #college #homogenized
"College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Because Due to Offloading Their Thinking to AI
'Everyone now kind of sounds the same.'
It’s well known that students from grade schools to the big universities are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to large language models (LLMs). The consequences are already measurable: elementary students are losing cognitive skills, leading them to tank their exams.
Harder to quantify — but impossible to miss if you’ve spent any time in school lately — is the situation unfolding across classrooms, where students from all layers of society have become empty vessels that parrot the outputs of AI without critically engaging with the subject matter at hand.
One student at Yale University, identified as Amanda, told CNN that the monotonous prose of ChatGPT is even seeping into Ivy-league seminars. As the student and her classmates have observed, in-class conversations among peers are becoming increasingly flat and predictable, a symptom of students leaning on AI to think through discussions for them.
During one memorable awkward silence in class, Amanda told CNN she saw 'someone typing ferociously on their laptop, asking [AI] the question my professor just asked about the reading.'
'Everyone now kind of sounds the same,' the Yale student said. 'I feel like during my freshman year in college, I would sit in seminars where everyone had something different to contribute. Although people would piggyback off each other, they approached from different angles and offered different commentary.'"
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-college-students-homogenized

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 18:36:56 CEST

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Humans are not called "The Third Chimp" for nothing. Our lives and our enviroment would be much better off if *Homo sapiens* behaved more like *Pan paniscus* than we do like *Pan troglodytes*

2026-04-12 18:36:36 CEST

#war #chimpanzees
"Inside deadly chimp ‘civil war’ in Uganda—What they reveal about human nature
Since 2018 , researchers have recorded 24 killings, including 17 infants
Deep in the lush canopy of Uganda’s Kibale National Park, a decades-long peace has shattered, giving way to a brutal and vicious 'civil war' that mirrors the darkest chapters of human history.
For over 20 years, the Ngogo chimpanzees, the largest community of wild chimps ever recorded, flourished as a close-knit community.
Now, the researchers have officially documented the first clear yet unsettling struggles of power and survival ongoing among this community. As a result, two warring factions, Western and Central, have emerged, locking in a brutal civil war for 8 years.
What makes the scientist surprised is the intensity and frequency of conflicts. This is no longer a brawl or a simple split; it has turned into a series of coordinated and lethal raids in which one group targeted the other, resulting in deaths of males and infants.
As per researchers, since 2018 they have recorded 24 killings, including 17 infants. But, they are clueless about the reason behind the ongoing chip conflict.
'Biting, pounding the victim with their hands, dragging them, kicking them - mostly adult males, but sometimes adult females participate in the attacks,' said University of Texas primatologist Aaron Sandel, lead author of the study published in the journal Science.
'These were chimps that would hold hands. Now they're trying to kill each other,' Sandel added."
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1398527-inside-deadly-chimp-civil-war-in-ugandawhat-they-reveal-about-human-nature

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 18:35:35 CEST

#Hegseth #Iran #ChristianNationalists
"Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran
The Bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?
Hegseth’s distinct combination of piety and bloodlust was most prominently on display at the 25 March worship service at the Pentagon, the first since the war in Iran began, when he prayed for 'overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy'. The prayer was so shocking that it appears to have provoked a direct rebuke from Pope Leo, who preached on Palm Sunday that God ignores the prayers of those whose 'hands are full of blood' from making war.
Hegseth will hardly mind harsh words from the head of the Catholic church, however. The 45-year-old US army veteran and former Fox News host is a member of an obscure, deeply Calvinist wing of evangelical Christianity – John Calvin broke from the Catholic church during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation – that rejects the pope’s authority and is rooted in a belief in predestination.
'They believe that nothing happens that isn’t in God’s will,' said Julie Ingersoll, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida, who researches this branch of Reformed Christianity. 'They believe that God directs everything that happens.'
Even a bomb falling on an elementary school full of children?
'If God would order a genocide in Deuteronomy 20,' Ingersoll said, citing a passage in which God instructs the Israelites to 'destroy every living thing' in certain cities, 'what makes you think he wouldn’t cause a girl’s school to be attacked?'”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/10/pete-hegseth-christianity-iran-war-crusade

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 18:34:38 CEST

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#gender #mice
"Male mice can grow ovaries if their pregnant mums are iron deficient
The study is the first to show that low iron levels can affect fetal sexual development.
Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy, a study in Nature reports.
This is the first-known example of a dietary mineral affecting sex determination, says Vincent Harley, a molecular geneticist at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. This 'presents an exciting new area of study', he adds."
https://archive.ph/geals

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 18:33:21 CEST

#Google #AI
"Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
This is catastrophic.
Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history.
A recent analysis conducted by the AI startup Oumi at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91 percent of the time.
In a sense, that may sound like an impressive figure. But here’s an even more impressive one: five trillion. That’s roughly the number of search queries that Google processes every year, translating to tens of millions of wrong answers that the AI Overviews are providing every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute, the analysis calculated.
In other words, Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question, with one report finding that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer. Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed 'cognitive surrender.'
Large language models adopt an authoritative tone and can confidently present fabricated information as fact when it can’t immediately glean a straight answer. Add the convenience that Google’s AI Overviews offer, and it’s easy to imagine untold numbers of users taking its summaries at their word."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation

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 18:32:33 CEST

Quote of the day.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -- Robert A. Heinlein

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 23:30:28 CEST

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History buff here. I must point out that the Terror achieved very little and only at first. Look what it led to. Even today humanity is still learning that overthrowing the evil cabal that rules your country issn’t enough unless society itself outgrows evil. Bangladeshis are demonstrating for anti-fascists the world over that grass roots fascism is the real root of the fascist problem. Fascist figureheads can be replaced. It’s the fascist *movement* that must be eliminated. There is one and only way to do this. Society must eliminate the psycho-social circumstances in which fascism can take root. Step one: Replace capitalism with libertarian socialism. It’s already being done and it works. It just needs to be scaled up. Any system that works just as well for aa handful of hippies running a pizza joint as it does for a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company like Mondragon is inherently scalable. The worker self-owned, worker self-managed workplace is the future of work. Don’t get left out.

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.

2026-04-10 02:08:06 CEST

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Justice will not have been done till all of Israel looks like Gaza.

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.

2026-04-08 03:57:30 CEST

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If Trump used nukes on Iran the whole world would turn against us. We’d be a pariah state.
Akso, let’s not forget that while Iran doesn’t have nuclear explosives or missles to deliver them this far but they don’t need them. They have enough partially refined uranium to dirty every town in America and willing kamikazi martyrs to deliver it. Think closing the Strait of Homuz is bad for? Imagine Manhattan or DC ticking away for centuries like new Chernobyls.

2026-04-08 01:03:43 CEST

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The youtube link doesn’t work.

2026-04-08 00:56:47 CEST

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What will deter him?

2026-04-08 00:05:19 CEST

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Having you name on a list in a police state is a dangerous choice. The Holocaust itself started with lists. For details, see:
https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/111007834392490556
#note1j38…h3my

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.

2026-04-07 20:25:40 CEST

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Democrats? Feh. Good cop, bad cop, both cops.

2026-04-07 19:44:31 CEST

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#WarCrimes

2026-04-07 17:46:41 CEST

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All Americans are guilty of war crimes, not because they elected then criminal-in-chief, but because we pay them every April 15. It’s like paying a hit man to murder your wife. The hitman’s guilty and so are you. Scale that up to genocide and you have the same charges, just more of him. The Trump cabal is obviously guilty of war crimes. He’s confessed many times. The question now is who’s going to slap the cuffs on them.

2026-04-07 01:02:15 CEST

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

2026-04-07 01:01:54 CEST

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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

2026-04-06 06:26:07 CEST

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duck://player/SHKjOl9ocR0

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 03:56:14 CEST

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See also:
https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/110626434051362662
#note1mw3…wlzd

2026-04-06 03:51:47 CEST

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(1.) Contested? Where? By who? Be specific.
(2.) I clearly *understand* what you wrote. It’s not scholarship. It’s blather. Actual scholars defend their statements with evidence, not ad hominems.
(3.) If I wanted to be insulted by reud, ignorant trolls I’d have stayed on Xhitter. Maybe you should go over there where your sort are welcome. At least then you wouldn’t be trolling the feminists of Mastodon.

2026-04-06 03:02:41 CEST

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This person is more than just rude and ignorant, they’re an apologist for the (relatively recent) rise of patriarchy.
Are the propagandists of patriarchy welcome on Mastodon? Not on this 77 year old man’s watch.
I’d like to also point out that “screwturn” not only fails to provide evidence that anything I said was untrue or irrelevant, he has no way of knowing for sure that I *am* a man. For all he knows for certain, I’m virtual crossdressing, so for all he knows for certain, he’s insulting a woman. He’s *definitely* insulting women in general. By denying women’s history he’s denying women's agency.
He’s also lying. No, it was not “always” like this, nor shall it be forever. Even today there are groups and circumstances in which women are equals. Have doubts? Read up on anarchist culture.
The rise patriarchy, like the even more recent rise of capitalism, was a collective mistake. We’ll get over it like we got over the divine right of kings.
Don’t trust him. He’s a closet patriarchist, preaching defeatism. No, women don’t need to “lie back and enjoy it” because “that’s just Nature’s way”. Women have always resisted male (or any) domination, sometimes with lethal force.

2026-04-06 01:55:22 CEST

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Somebody is lying.
"The first casualty when war comes is truth". — Hiram W Johnson (attributed)
"All warfare is based on deception” — Sun Tzu

2026-04-06 01:50:23 CEST

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But don’t stop there. Read these:
https://www.thecollector.com/incredible-burial-excavations-viking-women/
https://archive.ph/NbNTP
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Tomyris

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 01:34:36 CEST

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But wait. There’s more.
Female hunters of the early Americas
Sexual division of labor with females as gatherers and males as hunters is a major empirical regularity of hunter-gatherer ethnography, suggesting an ancestral behavioral pattern. We present an archeological discovery and meta-analysis that challenge the man-the-hunter hypothesis. Excavations at the Andean highland site of Wilamaya Patjxa reveal a 9000-year-old human burial (WMP6) associated with a hunting toolkit of stone projectile points and animal processing tools. Osteological, proteomic, and isotopic analyses indicate that this early hunter was a young adult female who subsisted on terrestrial plants and animals. Analysis of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene burial practices throughout the Americas situate WMP6 as the earliest and most secure hunter burial in a sample that includes 10 other females in statistical parity with early male hunter burials. The findings are consistent with nongendered labor practices in which early hunter-gatherer females were big-game hunters.
Despite such theoretical considerations, some scholars have been reluctant to ascribe hunting functionality to tools associated with female burials (20–22). Concerning the Paleoindian Gordon Creek burial, Breternitz et al. (23) grappled, 'Since the burial has been determined to be a female, the inclusion of a projectile point preform has been difficult to explain. However, if the artifact had been used as a knife or scraper, typically women’s tools, then its inclusion with the burial is a more consistent association.' Nelson (24) challenged a DNA-based sex determination at Toca dos Coqueiros (25) partially on the grounds that '...[t]he presence of inferred funerary offerings in the form of chipped stone points and other tools and flakes appear to support [male estimation]....' On the one hand, such reluctance may reflect a degree of contemporary gender bias r ethnographic bias. On the other hand, ethnographically informed models of gendered subsistence labor remain plausible as quantitative phenomena or given the multiple pathways by which objects can come to be spuriously associated in the archeological record. Toward resolving the question of gendered big-game hunting practices among early hunter-gatherer populations in the Americas, we report the discovery of two Early Holocene [pre–8 thousand years (ka)] hunter-gatherer burials in association with big-game hunting paraphernalia and place these findings in the context of Early Holocene and Late Pleistocene burial practices throughout the Americas."
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd0310

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 23:34:19 CEST

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I’m an atheist. I don’t do religion. I do science. So I pray to Athea, Goddess of Contradictions, for lo, she is the G.O.A.T. Contradictions are the building blocks of the universe. They are what reality is made of.

2026-04-05 23:16:04 CEST

#Easter
"Why Black People Dress up On Easter
While Easter is dedicated to serving the Lord, it’s also been a time for Black people to serve looks while honoring the ancestors.
For generations, 'Sunday Best' has been far more than a fashion statement; it is a legacy of resistance. It dates back to an era when presenting oneself with dignity was a radical, political act against a world designed to strip it away
From young children in their 'easter outfits' to men and women draped in the latest fashions, you best believe Black folks have been turning heads all day as strolled past each pew. This level of excellence surpasses tradition; it’s an inheritance for those who came before us.
The symbolism of Easter Sunday 'fit' stems from the Antebellum South, the period in the U.S. dating back to the 18th century until the start of the American Civil War in 1861. For six days of the week, the slavery system in the South sought to strip Black people of their humanity, forcing them into the coarse, characterless 'Negro Cloth' required for field labor.
However, when Sunday arrived, the fields were quiet. This Sabbath day was dedicated to dressing with dignity and class while silently protesting. As historians Shane White and Graham White point out in their book *Stylin’: African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginning to the Zoot Suit*,” arriving in your 'Sunday’s Best was a way for slaves to reclaim their identity while reinforcing that they belonged to no one but God and themselves.
'For the enslaved, the Sunday Best was a way of reclaiming a body that the law said belonged to someone else,' historian Shane White said. 'Whites can hardly have welcomed slaves’ arrogation of elements of elite dress,” White wrote. 'Such action disturbed the nuanced social order that clothing was supposed to display, blurring the borderlines between black and white, slave and free.'
(. . .)
Today, the tradition of wearing your 'Sunday’s Best' for Easter remains a beautiful, colorful display of renewal and faith. While the day is a place for religious recognition, it’s a reminder of our history. After facing century-long battles of resistance, Black people continue to ensure they are dressed in their 'armor' while giving praise to the Most High."
https://www.theroot.com/why-black-people-dress-up-on-easter-2000098434

2026-04-05 22:26:51 CEST

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See also:
#archeology #gender
"6,000-Year-Old Chewing Gum Reveals Clues on Neolithic Gender Roles
Neolithic people seem to have enjoyed chewing gum just as much as a bored kid in calculus. Their discarded wads are even revealing surprising details on human life as far back as 6,000 years ago.
Tar brewed from the bark of a birch tree is the world's oldest-known synthetic material. Neolithic communities in the European Alps used this malleable, tacky substance to attach handles to stone blades, repair pottery, and gnaw on while they worked.
'The precise reason for chewing tar remains unclear, but it has been suggested that it was chewed for medicinal purposes as it contains natural compounds with antimicrobial properties,' write a team of archeologists led by Anna White from the University of Copenhagen.
The great thing about adhesives is that they tend to collect all kinds of stuff from the environment, both accidentally and intentionally. Substances found in preserved tar – such as pine resin – may have been added deliberately to change the birch tar's material qualities.
Meanwhile, samples of the human oral microbiome become incidentally embedded in the tar when it is chewed, along with food or other materials from between the chewer's teeth. Some of the pieces contained DNA from linseed (Linum usitatissimum) and poppy seeds (Papaver somniferum), though it's unclear if the latter was eaten as food or for its opioid effects.
In 19 of the samples, ancient human DNA had been preserved with enough fidelity that, in some cases, the team was able to identify the sex of the person who had chewed it.
'The presence of human and oral microbial DNA in some of the samples suggests the tar was chewed, in some cases by multiple individuals,' the authors write.
'The human DNA also enables us to determine the sex of those who chewed the tar, offering insights into gendered practices in the past, while plant and animal DNA shed light on past diets and the possible use of additives.'
Analysis of the organic residue and ancient DNA trapped within the tar revealed male DNA in the 10 stone tools where the tar had been used as an adhesive, while female DNA was present in the tar used to repair all three items of pottery examined in the study."
https://www.sciencealert.com/6000-year-old-chewing-gum-reveals-clues-on-neolithic-gender-roles

2026-04-05 22:26:14 CEST

#archeology #Neanderthals #NovaScotia #Indigenous
"Neanderthals Used Ancient Gloop as Antibacterial Medicine, Study Suggests
Relatives of modern humans may have created and used a sticky substance both as a glue and to treat their wounds, preempting modern medicine by as much as 200,000 years, a new study suggests.
Researchers have known that Neanderthals used birch tar, a viscous substance derived from birch bark, to glue spear points onto handles in a process known as hafting.
This substance has been found across Europe, and it served multiple purposes, including as some of history's oldest water sealant and Hubba Bubba.
'Alongside these findings, there is also growing evidence of medicinal practices and the use of plants among Neanderthals, which is why we were interested in the use of birch tar in this context,' explains Tjaark Siemssen, an archaeologist at the University of Cologne and Oxford University and the study's lead author.
So in the recent study, researchers at the University of Cologne, the University of Oxford, and the University of Liège recreated this birch tar using the ingredients and processes that were possibly utilized by Neanderthals.
Then, researchers at Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia, Canada, performed biological tests to confirm the tar's medicinal properties.
'That is exactly what we proved. The substance Neanderthals made 200,000 years ago, we now know, also possesses antibacterial properties,' says Matthias Bierenstiel, a professor of chemistry at Cape Breton University and study co-author.
(. . .)
They then used three tar extraction methods to turn the bark into a gooey, spreadable compound.
The first method involves heating birch bark in a tin. This technique is inspired by the Mi'kmaq nation, the Indigenous people of Nova Scotia, who for generations have used birch tar as a cornerstone of their traditional pharmacy."
https://www.sciencealert.com/neanderthals-used-ancient-gloop-as-antibacterial-medicine-study-suggests

2026-04-05 22:25:47 CEST

#Iran
"Despite propaganda coup of F-15 crew rescue, downing is reminder to US that Iran can fight back
Donald Trump will claim rescue as a triumph but 48-hour drama should be a caution against launching ground operation
Donald Trump will inevitably claim the rescue of the second crew member of the downed F-15 fighter as a propaganda triumph, though the 48-hour drama is a reminder that an undefeated Iran is able to fight back and inflict costs on the US.
(. . .)
In an asymmetric conflict, the weaker side only has to get lucky once."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/05/propaganda-f-15-crew-rescue-downing-reminder-iran-fight-back-donald-trump

2026-04-05 22:25:30 CEST

#OccupiedPalestine #Stanford
"Defense attorneys for five Stanford pro-Palestinian protesters are trying to force the district attorney and his entire staff off the case by focusing on what they describe as the DA’s false charges of antisemitism against their clients.
'DA Rosen harbors an unwarranted and baseless view that these defendants are not only antisemitic, but they are also anti-American,' deputy public defender Avanindar Singh argued in a Feb. 25 motion to disqualify Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen and his staff.
A first attempt by prosecutors to convict the five protesters — who occupied and vandalized a Stanford University building in June 2024 — culminated in a mistrial in mid-February. Rosen declared at the time that his office would retry the case.
That effort is now on hold after defense attorneys filed a motion to recuse Rosen and his staff. On March 26, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kelley Paul granted a motion from the defense team to obtain additional documents that may support their recusal motion.
(. . .)
The recusal motion argued that Rosen, on his personal campaign website and in fundraising materials, unfairly described the case as an example of 'fighting antisemitism.' Defense attorneys said such language labels the defendants as antisemites.
'There is no evidence for such animus,' Singh wrote in the motion, pointing out that the defendants have not been charged with a hate crime. 'The conflict makes it unlikely the defendants will receive a fair trial.'
A page on Rosen’s campaign website titled 'DA Rosen fighting anti-semitism' contains links to media coverage around the time that he charged the 12 protesters. After one protester pleaded no contest, 11 protesters were indicted. Five were tried earlier this year after the remaining protesters received mental health diversions or agreed to no-contest pleas on reduced misdemeanor charges.
Rosen, who is Jewish and whose late father was a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, has openly supported Israelis since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre in Israel."
https://jweekly.com/2026/03/31/defense-for-stanford-pro-palestinian-protesters-seeks-das-recusal/

2026-04-05 22:24:45 CEST

#BrokenClocks #MTG
"MTG Shares 2019 Trump Post Slamming Mideast War: ‘Where Has This Man Gone?’
Amid the Iran war, former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, criticized President Donald Trump on Saturday, sharing one of his social media posts from 2019 about the 'policing and fighting in the Middle East.'
In an X post on Saturday, the former congresswoman accused the president of abandoning his anti‑war promises and sending U.S. troops into a new conflict that she says will cost 'trillions more and precious lives.'"
https://www.newsweek.com/mtg-shares-2019-trump-post-slamming-mideast-war-where-has-this-man-gone-11783382

2026-04-05 22:24:09 CEST

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Americans are such gullible people. Critical reasoning is not taught in our schools. Shame on us. Not to teach critical reasoning is #ChildAbuse

2026-04-05 22:23:25 CEST

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#Trump #WalterReed #rumors
"On Saturday, the rumor that Donald Trump had been taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for an undisclosed medical issue began to spread online. No outlet reported it. No official confirmed it. But the rumor gained traction because several small, unusual signals appeared in quick succession.
The first was an unexpectedly early White House lid — a public notice that the president would have no further events for the day. That alone wouldn’t normally raise alarms, but it coincided with a complete absence of the usual weekend indicators: no pool reports, no off‑the‑record sightings, no casual remarks to reporters, no visible activity at all. For a president who is typically seen or heard from in some form on weekends, the silence felt conspicuous. As one user put it, 'This is the quietest Saturday I’ve ever seen from this White House.'
(. . .)
That was enough. The rumor didn’t need evidence; it needed only a pattern that felt coherent. And for many observers, the combination of silence, timing, and suggestive chatter provided exactly that.
(. . .)
The White House pushed back quickly, stating that Trump had not been hospitalized and was working through the holiday weekend. They pointed to two familiar indicators: a Marine posted outside the West Wing and continued activity on Trump’s social platform. But both signals are symbolic rather than independently verifiable. Staff can publish posts. The Marine sentry is ceremonial, not diagnostic. A controlled schedule can be maintained even if something unexpected is unfolding behind the scenes. The rebuttal relied on optics — and optics can be curated.
Skepticism doesn’t arise spontaneously; it accumulates over time. Public reporting has documented multiple instances where information about Trump’s health was incomplete, inconsistent, or later contradicted.
(. . .)
There is no verified evidence that Trump was taken to Walter Reed on Saturday. But the denial relies on signals that are symbolic rather than independently confirmable, and it arrives in a context shaped by past inconsistencies and longstanding institutional opacity."
https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2026/04/05/did-trump-go-to-the-hospital-rumors-outrun-denials-that-fail-to-convince/

2026-04-05 22:23:04 CEST

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#Trump #WalterReed #rumors
"Trump health rumors explode as White House denies Walter Reed hospital visit
President Donald Trump's health has become a major focus of his second term, with Americans scrutinizing his public blunders and apparent physical limitations as he canceled Saturday events.
The White House attempted to dispel speculation that President Donald Trump is receiving treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as conjecture about his well-being surged online Saturday.
The Republican president's fitness has been a central concern throughout his second term, as Americans have examined his numerous public missteps, visible physical limitations, and disclosed medical issues."
https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/trump-health-rumors-explode-white-36970201

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/

2026-04-05 22:21:57 CEST

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#TikkunOlam
Every ethnic group has their own origin story. Jews were not formed from clay by Enki, neither were they found under a clamshell by Raven. Jews exist because of divine intervention on the behalf of the workers in a labor dispute over working conditions.

2026-04-05 22:14:32 CEST

#Passover
"Passover recalls San Francisco’s brush with neo-Nazis in 1977
On April 1, 1977, the eve of Passover, San Francisco’s identity as a city of peace and love was tested. Just steps from a synagogue in the Outer Sunset, a neo-Nazi bookstore opened its doors, named for Rudolf Hess, commandant of Auschwitz.
Holocaust survivor Tauba Weiss z”l confronted the shop owner and asked if the murder of millions of Jews had not been enough. He answered coldly: 'No, it was not enough.'
Tauba picked up a rock and threw it through the storefront window. Her act of courage sparked a protest, and she was soon joined by other survivors, including her husband, Morris, who hurled the store’s inventory into the street.
This moment galvanized the city’s Jewish community, and within two years, the Holocaust Library and Resource Center, now the JFCS Holocaust Center, was born.
(. . .)
Passover reminds us that Jewish identity is not defined by suffering, but by resilience, by the ways we carry our history forward, and by the choices we make as Jews in the present."
https://jweekly.com/2026/04/01/passover-recalls-san-franciscos-brush-with-neo-nazis-in-1977/

2026-04-05 22:14:01 CEST

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Reagan was wrong. The *real* Evil Empire was England's not Russia's. Russia's was pretty bad but America's is giving them both competition. America doesn't just *have* and empire, America *is* an empire. I'm a Californian. In economic terms, we might as well be a colony. Our taxes support the impoveished, backward, and hostile to all who are woke, "red" states. I want my money back.

2026-04-05 22:13:07 CEST

#Easter #history #Ireland
"On This Day: 'Famine Queen Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Queen Victoria, sometimes known as 'The Famine Queen,' began her final visit to Ireland on April 4, 1900."
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/queen-victoria-ireland-1900

2026-04-05 22:12:03 CEST

#Easter #history #Ireland
"110th anniversary of Ireland's Easter Rising to be marked in Dublin on Sunday
The 1916 Proclamation will be read on Sunday outside Dublin's GPO as part of the State commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising."
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/ireland-easter-rising-110th-anniversary

2026-04-05 22:11:45 CEST

#HappyEaster
"Roy Bailey and Leon Rosselson - Stand Up For Judas"
duck://player/b1irXjtkD1Y

2026-04-05 22:11:31 CEST

Quote of the day.
“In every generation, each person is obligated to see themselves as if they personally came out of Egypt.” -- Passover haggadah

2026-04-04 22:32:21 CEST

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What she said.

2026-04-04 22:01:48 CEST

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And that’s the part the even gets written.

2026-04-04 22:01:03 CEST

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When do we get to vote for our bosses and landlords?

2026-04-04 21:53:38 CEST

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https://archive.ph/HccJg

2026-04-04 21:27:51 CEST

#ProtestMusic
"Songs for Good: The Sudden Resurgence of the Protest Song
Beginning in the middle of 2025, politically-minded (or just fed up) musicians slowly began making their rage and frustration known. Below is a loose timeline of the recorded protest music thus far in Trump’s final(?) term.
A common refrain during the first Trump presidency was 'With so many people upset, where are the protest songs?'
By no means did musicians remain totally silent, there were a handful of scathing and biting songs like 'Tiny Hands' by Fiona Apple, 'Million Dollar Loan' by Death Cab for Cutie, and the incendiary 'Nobody Speak' by DJ Shadow and Run the Jewels, but nowhere near the creative outpouring of previous generations.
The Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam movements in the late ’50s and ’60s spawned dozens of classic protest anthems, some as pleading as Marvin Gaye‘s 'What’s Goin’ On' and few as eviscerating as 'Mississippi Goddam' by Nina Simone. Even the sneering punks of the anti-Thatcher/Reagan ’80s gave us underground anthems from D.R.I., Dead Kennedys, The Ramones, Billy Bragg, and the obligatory Sex Pistols, not to mention slightly more refined Cold War statements from U2, Sting, Nena, and Bruce Springsteen (even if the majority of the people didn’t fully understand that one).
Something began stirring in Trump’s second term, however. Beginning in the middle of 2025, politically-minded (or just fed up) musicians slowly began making their rage and frustration known. Much like Kent State served as a flashpoint for activism in 1970 (famously captured in CSNY‘s 'Ohio'), the brutal and horrific escalations of I.C.E. in Minneapolis in early 2026 acted as fuel to the fire for this emotion and we started to see a real outpouring of pointed, accusatory, and just plain angry music from some of the sharpest pens. Below is a loose timeline of the recorded protest music thus far in Trump’s final(?) term."
https://www.amherstindy.org/2026/04/03/songs-for-good-the-sudden-resurgence-of-the-protest-song/

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 21:26:47 CEST

#ClimateCrisis #chocolate
"Candy makers quietly change recipes as climate change hits cocoa industry
Earlier this week, The Hershey Company announced that it is returning all of its classic brands to earlier milk and dark chocolate recipes. The move comes amid a growing backlash over the recipe changes and the use of chocolate alternatives in some of its candies. Deema Zein explores what’s behind this latest battle in the chocolate wars."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/candy-makers-quietly-change-recipes-as-climate-change-hits-cocoa-industry

2026-04-04 21:26:25 CEST

#Iran #China #AI
"Chinese firms market Iran war intelligence ‘exposing’ U.S. forces
The private companies — some with ties to the military — are marketing detailed intelligence on movements of U.S. forces, even as Beijing seeks to keep its distance.
As the war in Iran erupted five weeks ago, social media sleuths across Western and Chinese platforms flagged a wave of viral posts detailing equipment at U.S. bases, the movements of American carrier groups and granular breakdowns of how military aircraft were assembling for strikes on Tehran.
The intelligence came from a fast growing new market: Chinese firms — some with links to the People’s Liberation Army — marrying artificial intelligence with open-source data to market information they claim can 'expose' the movements of U.S. forces.
Beijing has sought to distance itself from any direct involvement in the Iran war, but the firms — many of which have emerged in the past five years as part of the government’s push to harness private AI for military use — are capitalizing on the conflict."
https://archive.ph/U7MIm#selection-381.0-405.256

2026-04-04 21:25:41 CEST

#TrumpRegime #colleges #DEI
"Judge halts Trump effort requiring colleges to show they aren't considering race in admissions.
A federal judge on Friday halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions aren't considering race in admissions.
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV in Boston granting the preliminary injunction follows a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general. It will only apply to public universities in plaintiffs' states.
The federal judge said the federal government likely has the authority to collect the data, but the demand was rolled out to universities in a 'rushed and chaotic' manner.
'The 120-day deadline imposed by the President led directly to the failure of NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) to engage meaningfully with the institutions during the notice-and-comment process to address the multitude of problems presented by the new requirements,' Saylor wrote.
President Donald Trump ordered the data collection in August after he raised concerns that colleges and universities were using personal statements and other proxies to consider race, which he views as illegal discrimination.
In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against the use of affirmative action in admissions but said colleges could still consider how race has shaped students' lives if applicants share that information in their admissions essays.
The states argue the data collection risks invading student privacy and leading to baseless investigations of colleges and universities. They also argued that universities have not been given enough time to collect the data."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-race-admissions-affirmative-actions-trump-judge/

2026-04-04 21:25:16 CEST

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#LinkWray
"The Rock Prophet: The Story of Link Wray
The story of how a poor Native American musician invented the power chord and ripped open a new genre of rock.
https://tubitv.com/movies/100047264/the-rock-prophet-the-story-of-link-wray

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

2026-04-04 21:24:28 CEST

#malware
"FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Do Not Install These Apps
It should be obvious — but unfortunately it’s not. Some of the most popular apps you have likely downloaded on your iPhone or Android smartphone are dangerous. And now the FBI is warning U.S. citizens to stop all such installs.
The bureau’s new Public Service Announcement highlights the 'security risks associated with foreign-developed mobile applications (apps) frequently used in the United States; however, these concerns are global. As of early 2026, many of the most downloaded and top-grossing apps in the United States are developed and maintained by foreign companies, particularly those based in China.'
This warning links back to China’s infamous national security laws, which the FBI reminds smartphone users enables 'the Chinese government to potentially access mobile app users’ data.' In short, the laws mandate developers based in China do all they can to support the country’s national security imperatives — including sharing data. It’s the same mandate that plagued TikTok ahead of its U.S. split."
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fbi-warns-iphone-android-users-053319444.html

2026-04-04 21:23:41 CEST

#cats
"Move over, Rover: Office cats are becoming a thing
In the Bay Area, people take their kitties to work now
Every morning, Dr. Myra Ahmad chooses which of her two British shorthair cats to take to the office. Sometimes it’s 6-month-old Butter. Sometimes it’s 3-year-old Muffin. Sometimes both. The felines are loaded into a backpack to head to the Financial District, where Mochi Health, Ahmad’s telemedicine startup, is based.
The kitties spend the day carousing in the 18,000-square-foot office, curling up under desks or hiding in tote bags. If one goes missing, Mochi staffers track them by the AirTags on their collars. The litter box is in the server room — the cats like the heat.
'They clearly like being in the office,' Ahmad said. 'They really, really like being around people.'"
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/04/move-rover-office-cats-becoming-thing/