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DrALJONES, 2 days ago to random

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"The Harvard graduating students denied their degrees over Palestine protest"

"The decision by Harvard to delay degrees for 13 students for one year has caused outrage at the university & a mass walkout from its graduation ceremony.

"Harvard Corporation barred these students from receiving their degrees... on account of their involvement in the three-week pro-Palestine encampment at the university last month."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/9/the-harvard-graduating-students-denied-their-degrees-over-palestine-protest

#StudentProtests #HarvardCorp #USPol ...

anathema_device, 2 days ago to random

Indigenous singer Emma Donovan alleges entire taxi rank refused to serve her at Perth airport

Acclaimed soul singer claims multiple drivers refused to take her home on Friday night, with one allegedly saying he didn’t serve her ‘kind of people’

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/10/indigenous-singer-emma-donovan-alleges-entire-taxi-rank-refused-to-serve-her-at-perth-airport?CMP=aus_bsky

taylorlorenz, 2 days ago to random

“On November 11, the foreign ministry launched a campaign under the hashtag # BelieveIsraeliWomen.

They didn’t mean ‘believe Israeli women’. They meant ‘believe Israel’.”
https://www.thetimes.com/magazines/the-times-magazine/article/israel-hamas-rape-investigation-evidence-october-7-6kzphszsj

junesim63, 2 days ago to random

"The main hospital in Sudan's al-Fashir city has been attacked and put out of service, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which supports the facility, told Reuters on Sunday, while local volunteers blamed the incident on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)"

Lest we forget, another genocide targeting health facilities is in progress.

#Sudan #Genocide #RSF
Hospital in Sudan's al-Fashir shut after attack, aid group says | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/hospital-sudans-al-fashir-shut-after-attack-aid-group-says-2024-06-09/

NicoleCRust, 2 days ago to random

Fact check gem of the day: On Karl Popper's contribution to neurotransmission

In the early 1950s, neuroscientists were arguing about whether neurons communicate with one another via electricity (sparks) or chemical neurotransmissions (soups). It was known as "The War of the Soups and the Sparks" (Big reveal: It's mostly soups).

The experiment that put the debate to rest (at least for the spinal cord) was performed in 1950 by John Eccles and colleagues. In that experiment, they demonstrated that their own hypothesis (sparks) was wrong.

What inspired them to do a "disproving" experiment as opposed to the type that would gather support for their favorite theory? In 1944, Eccles met Karl Popper, and they began corresponding. Per one historian,

"The association with Popper made Eccles reformulate his experimental questions in accord with Popper’s philosophy that apparent ‘‘authentication” is no proof at all. It is only the clear-cut ‘‘falsification” of a theory that carried intellectual weight."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18617413/

fulelo, 3 days ago to Ukraine

V Guardian your light weekend long read has landed:
‘We’re in 1938 now’: #Putin ’s war in #Ukraine and lessons from history
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/08/putin-war-ukraine-forgotten-lessons-of-history-europe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

mcnees, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

William Anders, astronaut on the Apollo 8 mission, passed away earlier today.

Anders took the iconic Earthrise photo while orbiting the Moon with Borman and Lovell. No human had ever seen an Earthrise before.

On the transmission he says "Oh my God, look at that picture over there! It's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"

🌕

Image: NASA

augieray, 4 days ago to random

"The pandemic ends when infections end, not when your attention span ends."

• Arturo Portnoy, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

#COVID19

ai6yr, 4 days ago to tesla

"Tesla's unsold inventory is creating stockpiles you can see from space

Where have all the Teslas gone? Stored in parking lots, every one. "

https://sherwood.news/business/elon-musk-tesla-extra-inventory-satellite-imagery/

#RemoteImaging #Tesla #automotive #satellites

br00t4c, 4 days ago to random

Iran helicopter crash shows Tehran's reliance on an aging fleet as well as its challenges at home

#crash

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ap-iran-ebrahim-raisi-dubai-united-states-b2559060.html

DrALJONES, 4 days ago to random

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"How Israeli prison doctors assist in the torture of Palestinian detainees"

Israeli doctors:

• share prisoners’ medical information with interrogators to “greenlight” torture;

• teach interrogators how to inflict pain without leaving physical marks;

• actively engage in acts of torture themselves.

Torture is a "colonial tool to subjugate & exercise control over Palestinians & is intertwined with its very inception as a state."

https://israelpalestinenews.org/how-israeli-prison-doctors-assist-in-the-torture-of-palestinian-detainees/

#IsraeliWarCrimes #Torture ..

DrALJONES, 4 days ago to random

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"UN adding Israel to ‘blacklist’ of countries harming children in conflict"

Israel "has killed more than 15,500 Palestinian children & fuelled widespread malnutrition."

A UN official said, “Ambassador Erdan’s video recording of [the UN's courtesy] phone call, & the partial release of that recording on Twitter, is shocking & unacceptable – & frankly something I’ve never seen in my 24 years serving this organisation."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/7/un-adding-israel-to-blacklist-of-countries-harming-children-in-conflict

#UN #IsraeliWarCrimes ..

AnnaAnthro, 4 days ago to random

Alcohol Sensitivity Could Be a Long #COVID Symptom, Stanford Study Says

https://www.winespectator.com/articles/alcohol-sensitivity-and-long-covid

mattblaze, 5 days ago to random

Speaking of bad ideas, WTF Adobe? https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/06/change-to-adobe-terms-amp-conditions/

The Adobe Creative Suite absolutely owns significant portions of professional creative production workflow, some aspects of which have essentially no good quality or interoperable competition. So a lot of people are locked in. "Just don't use Adobe products" isn't an option for many of the people affected by these insanely grabby new terms.

pbump, 4 days ago to random

The Trump-Dr. Phil interview was revealing not because of what it told us about Trump but because of what it demonstrated about his relationship with the media. Gift link: https://wapo.st/3Xehop1

DrALJONES, 4 days ago to random

Analysis

"Libertarian oligarchs are trying to take over San Francisco — & the US"

The delusions of "Grey" libertarianism

How the pandemic shifted libertarians

Investors & conspiracy theorists

Right-wing oligarchs hate free speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ivb3mYakNE

#GreyLibertarianism #Fascism ..

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andrewstroehlein, 5 days ago to random

What's a good, readable book on Russian imperialism and colonialism that focuses on parts east - central Asia, Siberia, the far east, Alaska, etc?

alexkidman, 5 days ago to australia

It's not often I revisit a review, but that's just what I've done with my review of D-Link's Aquila Pro AI Mesh system, now with test results for two and three node systems.

(If you're already asleep, it's home wifi mesh gear. Makes things go faster, in theory... and, it turns out, in the real world too!)

#Wifi #Dlink #Mesh #Network #Australia

https://alexreviewstech.com/d-link-aquila-pro-ai-m30-ax3000-wi-fi-6-smart-mesh-system-review-good-value/

skykiss, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to Ukraine

Veteran: You're the savior of the people, you bring tears to my eyes."

PresidentZelenskyy: "No no, you saved Europe."

Veteran: "My hero."

PresidentZelenskyy: "No, you are our hero."

Veteran: "I pray for you."

Heartbreaking between #ZelenskyyUa & a #DDay veteran, who knows the cost. He kisses his hand & won't let go. 🇺🇦🫡🇺🇸 ❤️‍🩹

#Ukraine #SlavaUkraini #EU #UK #Normandy #France #Poland #Canada #nato

br00t4c, 5 days ago to random

Pressure mounts on Tanya Plibersek to assess water impacts of NT Beetaloo Basin fracking project

#development #fracking

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/07/pressure-mounts-on-tanya-plibersek-to-assess-water-impacts-of-nt-beetaloo-basin-fracking-project

MAKS23, 5 days ago to random

😞 Zelensky: "The destruction by the Russian occupiers of the dam and structures of the Kakhovska HPP is one of the biggest crimes of this war, a deliberate attack by terrorists on people and life. I am grateful to everyone in the world who helps us defend Ukraine."

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br00t4c, 5 days ago to Law

Republicans in Pennsylvania boo cops who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6

#law #republicans

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-police-pennsylvania-republican/

MAKS23, 5 days ago to random

France Today 🇫🇷

GossiTheDog, 11 days ago to random

Very big cyber incident playing out at Snowflake, who describe themselves as “AI Data Cloud”. They have a free trial where anybody can sign up and upload data… and they have.

Threat actors have been scraping customer data using a tool called rapeflake, for about a month.

GossiTheDog, 21 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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