Acrain7
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Acrain7
@Acrainseven
one day i will eat a synthesizer and absorb its powers
politzania Se unió Mayıs 2023
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🔴🇱🇧🇮🇱 #Liban An Israeli soldier snatches a puppy from its mother, while other soldiers throw stones at the dog who desperately tries to retrieve her pup.😡😡
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@karriganCSGO Man, he sold out to the Saudi money… my goat is washed
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Excited to announce that I’m joining Falcons and reconnecting with my old brothers Niko and Danny, together with new teammates that I’m excited to work alongside with. Let’s make history 💚 #FalconsAreHere
Falcons Esports@FalconsEsport
Some hear sirens, we hear the beginning of a new chapter 🚨 Welcome to Falcons CS @karriganCSGO صافرة بداية حقبة جديدة 🦅. أهلًا بالصقر الجديد #FalconsAreHere
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The US is crazy because when we are kids they tell us we have a bill of rights and a first amendment and then you grow up and see they literally arrest people for standing still while holding a flower and poltical beliefs that defy the will of the state.
Mike Prysner@MikePrysner
Veterans held red tulips in solidarity with the Iranian people during civil disobedience today in Congress against the war. Over 60 were arrested.
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@CounterStrike This is how the game should have felt on release, this is perfect! Thank you for the hard work, great update.
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Animgraph 2 is now live: store.steampowered.com/news/app/730/v…
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A bird doesn’t need to be productive to deserve the sky. Yet humans have been made to believe that we must be productive in order to deserve life.
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Abolish Palantir 🗣️
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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IDF soldiers raped a doctor to death on camera and the Israeli government dropped all charges against them after a mass protest movement demanded a ‘right to rape’ Palestinian detainees.
it wasn’t leftism that tanked Israel’s reputation, bro.
Peter Savodnik@petersavodnik
There was little, if anything, Israel could have done to resist the leftist, identitarian turn. Once you view the Jewish state as an outpost of settler-colonial white supremacist villainy, it really doesn’t matter whether it’s good at politics or diplomacy.
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so much about the US feels like a deeply perturbing horror film, the seamless passage from imperialist bloodshed to staged innocence, where Obama, a man who helped sanction the bombing of children across Africa and the Middle East now sings nursery rhymes in a childcare center.
Pop Base@PopBase
Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ at a childcare center in the Bronx.
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You executed an elderly Christian woman in Gaza, who was simply trying to find a restroom, and then sniped her daughter in the head for tending to her corpse. This is who you are, these are your values, not an aberration.
Israel Defense Forces@IDF
Following the completion of an initial examination regarding a photograph published earlier today of an IDF soldier harming a Christian symbol, it was determined that the photograph depicts an IDF soldier operating in southern Lebanon. The IDF views the incident with great severity and emphasizes that the soldier’s conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops. The incident is being investigated by the Northern Command and is currently being addressed through the chain of command. Appropriate measures will be taken against those involved in accordance with the findings. Furthermore, the IDF is working to assist the community in restoring the statue to its place. The IDF is operating to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure established by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and has no intention of harming civilian infrastructure, including religious buildings or religious symbols.
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aw this is so cute. speaking of buses do you all remember when Obama sent a 500-pound, laser-guided MK-82 bomb to hit a school bus in Yemen, killing 40 children on their way to a field trip.
Pop Base@PopBase
Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ at a childcare center in the Bronx.
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The Minab Girls School bombing has become the tagline, but more boys were killed than girls. This is part of the logic of imperialism and colonialism, erasing the humanity of boys and men bc they are always already considered 'combatants' whose deaths are prematurely justified.
Soureh 🟩☫🟥@Soureh_design2
This is a tragedy of its own The second floor was the girl school The first floor was the boy school In fact more boys were killed 73 school boys 47 school girls 26 teachers 7 parents 1 school driver 1 health worker in the next door 1 six months old fetus 156 in total
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This is literally what half of Soviet 'history' writing is like: describing something objectively good but in an ominous and condescending tone
Kraut@The_Davos_Man
In communist countries, because they couldn't afford to make disposable bottles, they used to have these vending machines where you had to bring your own bottle and get it filled with Soda.
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Israel keeps destroying Lebanon even during the ceasefire.
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A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.
It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.
Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.
Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.
The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.
It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.
The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.
When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.
ً@prinkasusa
Give me the kind of good news from around the world that nobody ever talks about... but should.
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The full text for HR 8250, the proposed Federal law which would require all Operating Systems to implement Age Verification, has just been made publicly available.
It is short, poorly written, clearly not at all thought out, and almost entirely devoid of specifics.
Some key points:
- The bill does not specify how age verification would work at all. It states that the Federal Trade Commission would have 180 days to specify the exact mechanism and requirements for Age Verification within the Operating Systems.
- The Federal Trade Commission would also specify data storage protection requirements as well as requirements for how the Operating System must provide access to collected user data.
- This bill would apply to ALL Operating Systems. Everything from Windows to Linux to embedded systems. Yes, even to a smart refrigerator. The “Operating System” definition is incredibly broad.
- The law will be considered in effect 1 year from the date it is enacted.
- Violations of the law will be handled under the Federal Trade Commission Act.
- It is given the “Short Title” of “Parents Decide Act”.
congress.gov/bill/119th-con…
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@5149jamesli "I know you said it's a joke, but to an objective person this is not a joke, and it's enough for probable cause" is fucking insane. This is the most blatant violation of the first amendment imaginable. Zionists are subverting core US constitutional principles with utter glee
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