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MAKS23, 2 days ago to random

🇺🇦✈️ "Some of the Ukrainian F-16 fighter jets will be based at air bases in other countries, as an aviation reserve", - Chief of Aviation of the Ukrainian Air Force Command.

👀Also, some of the F-16s will be based in training centers of other countries to train Ukrainian pilots.

augieray, 3 days ago to random

Great interview:

I should point out that there are, in fact, places that have installed all of these: fresh air, filtering, and germicidal UV lights. Do you know where they are?

Where?

PA: The White House, Congress, Number 10 Downing, Parliament, the Reichstag, and WHO. All of our leaders have these protections and procedures in place.

But not our schoolchildren.

The school where former CDC director Rochelle Walensky’s children go, they have these upgrades. #COVID19

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/from-long-covid-odds-to-lost-iq-points-ongoing-threats-you-dont-know-about

Jeremiah, 4 days ago to privacy

Very important for Swedes to vote in the EU Election. Privacy is a fundamental human right, even when there are bad people doing bad things. Mass surveillance by the government does more harm than good.

Learn more: https://chatcontrol.se/

#EUElections2024 #EUPol #SvPol #ChatControl #privacy

augieray, 3 days ago to random

STUDY: #COVID19's "chronic or long-term effects are more detrimental than acute ones. All types of vaccines significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 infection. But no vaccine was reported that provides lifetime protection against COVID-19; therefore, protective measures (nonpharmaceutical interventions), such as physical separation, mask use, telework, hand cleansing, isolation, and appropriate respiration significantly reduce the rate of SARS-CoV-2 transmission." https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01636

augieray, 3 days ago to random

STUDY: “Cancer survivors contracting a #COVID19 infection have substantially increased risks of lung metastatic progression and cancer-related death compared to cancer survivors who did not.” Study also notes influenza virus infection leads to “disseminated cancer cell proliferation within days of infection, and a greater than 100-fold expansion of carcinoma cells into metastatic lesions within two weeks.” (For the “COVID is just the flu” people!)

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4210090/v1

cyberlyra, 4 days ago to google

Hi friends and followers, the terrific @jhpot wrote a piece for @lifehacker sharing my tips for getting off #google

Please check it out and share with your friends, family, and colleagues on and off the #fedi !

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-quit-google-according-to-a-privacy-expert?ref=jhpMastodon

timkmak, 5 days ago to ukrainian

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in #Ukrainian hands.

In 2022, retired Navy admiral Arne saw a sanctioned Russian ship in the harbor. It was unloading weapons.

He didn't know it then, but it became part of a major scandal: one that shows how close #SouthAfrica is to #russia

kravietz, 5 days ago to Russia

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has submitted an Article 15 Communication to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against 6 key #Russia media figures – Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Solovyov, Margarita Simonyan, Dmitry Kiselyov, Sergey Mardan, and Alexey Gromov – for hate speech as the crime against humanity under Articles 7(1)(h), (2)(g) of the Rome Statute.

Source: https://x.com/fidh_en/status/1798722544494854273

FIDH video explaining the legal basis for hate speech prosecution

MAKS23, 5 days ago to random

⚓️🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Navy showed training for landing marines on the Black Sea coast using high-speed landing boats provided by the 🇫🇮Finns!

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noelreports, 6 days ago to random

A year ago, the Russians blew up the Kakhovka Dam in the Kherson region. Many died, were injured or were displaced.

An act of terror.

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peterdutoit, 6 days ago to climate

This is absolutely the right call:

“I urge every country to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies.

“And I urge news media and tech companies to stop taking fossil fuel advertising.” — Antonio Guterres

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

Full remarks here: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2024-06-05/secretary-generals-special-address-climate-action-moment-of-truth%C2%A0

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timbray, 6 days ago to random

From @cstross - “Suddenly every PC becomes a target for Discovery during legal proceedings. Lawyers can subpoena your Recall database and search it, no longer being limited to email but being able to search for terms that came up in Teams or Slack or Signal messages, and potentially verbally via Zoom or Skype if speech-to-text is included in Recall data.”
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html

[But his blog is currently paralyzed by YCombinator.]

randahl, 8 days ago to LGBT

While many reputable companies have pulled out of Russia long ago, American language learning company Duolingo has continued its business in Russia, reveals TASS.

In April, the company was told to censor its app, so Russians can no longer see ANY reference to the existence of #LGBT persons, and instead of ending its business in Russia, the company chose to help the dystopian regime and comply, writes Latvian-based newsmedia Meduza.

Erasing a culture… for rubles.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/06/04/duolingo-reportedly-deletes-references-to-lgbt-people-in-app-s-russian-version

bitsunited, 8 days ago to random German

Webfund.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1d7lfrk/littlebillyignoreinstructions/

anneapplebaum, 8 days ago to random

35 years ago today, June 4, 1989, Poles ousted the communist party in the first partly free elections since WW2. The election set off a chain of events that led to the opening of the Berlin wall. The USSR's European empire had collapsed by the end of the year.
Also on June 4, 1989, the Chinese army fired on Tianamen Square protesters, ending any hope of political change. The massacre helped inspire the Chinese communist party to create the total surveillance state they are completing today.

outi, 7 days ago to Bulgaria Finnish

politiikalla on väliä 👋

Analysis: European power-sector emissions fall by 20% since last EU election | https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-european-power-sector-emissions-fall-by-20-since-last-eu-election/

#euvaalit #eurovaalit #vaalit #eu #elections

afterdawn, 7 days ago to vr Finnish

Hyvästi haaveet toimivasta junanetistä?

VR ehti saada jo oman kalustonsa verkon parannuksen lähes maaliin. Nyt piti vielä parantaa tukiasemien kattavuutta radan varrella. Rahaakin oli varattuna, mutta Lulu Ranteen johtama LVM keskeytti hankkeen ilman ennakkovaroitusta.

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2024/06/04/lvm-keskeytti-junaverkon-parantamisen

#vr #juna #junaverkko #nettiyhteys #lvm #ministeriö #uutiset #teknologia #tekniika

paka, 7 days ago to random

Much ado about Russia’s nuclear rumblings?

Since the start of Russian invasion in 2022, #Kremlin played the nuclear card – to frighten Ukraine & deter West from assisting

Putin cast a nuclear threats over his full-scale invasion from the start. After Russian troops invaded Ukraine Putin put his nuclear forces on special combat readiness

The Kremlin’s most recent nuclear card was May 6. Russia held exercises involving tactical nuclear weapons

https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-much-ado-about-russias-nuclear-rumblings/

#RussianAggression

randahl, 8 days ago to random

Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz: Using German weapons to bomb Russian military positions inside Russia is not an escalation.

Also Olaf Scholz: Using Taurus missiles to bomb Russian military positions inside Ukraine is an escalation.

It makes no sense at all.

randahl, 8 days ago to random

With just 0.11 percent of GDP support for Ukraine, Switzerland is the very least supportive country in all of Europe.

Fortunately, the Swiss parliament finally voted yes to a new aid package worth an impressive EUR 5.6 billion, and I was looking forward to writing about that. But that aid package has now been turned down by the Swiss upper house.

Measured per capita, Switzerland is the 5th richest country in Europe — richer than Norway.

https://kyivindependent.com/swiss-upper-house-rejects-5-58bn-aid-plan-for-ukraine/

ScottLucas, 8 days ago to Russia

#UkraineWar, Day 832: #IAEA --- "Grave Situation" at #Russia-Occupied #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

https://eaworldview.com/2024/06/ukraine-war-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-iaea-grave-situation/

hanse_mina, 8 days ago to Ukraine

Few countries since World War II have experienced this level of devastation. But it’s been impossible for anybody to see more than glimpses of it. It’s too vast. Every battle, every bombing, every missile strike, every house burned down, has left its mark across multiple front lines, back and forth over more than two years.

This is the first comprehensive picture of where the #Ukraine war has been fought and the totality of the destruction.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/world/europe/ukraine-destruction.html

#Russia

18+ mark_ohe, 8 days ago to random

Q: How much CO2 do humans activities really put into the atmosphere each year as compared to say… volcanoes?

A: 100 times more.

https://skepticalscience.com/volcanoes-and-global-warming.htm

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hanse_mina, 8 days ago to Ukraine

The New York Times traced how a web of politicians aligned with President Vladimir #Putin’s party carried out a campaign to permanently transfer Ukrainian children from #Kherson.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000009497389/tracking-ukrainian-children-russia.html

#Ukraine #Russia

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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