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Putin: Finland, why did it join NATO? Did we have any territorial disputes with Finland? Everything had long been settled.

Israel reveals its true face An Israeli bill to cancel the Oslo, Hebron, and Wye agreements The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation is expected to discuss today, Sunday, a bill submitted by members of the “Jewish Power” party headed by Itamar Ben-Gvir, calling for the cancellation of the Oslo Accords, the Hebron Agreement, and the Wye Agreement. The proposed law stipulates the annulment of all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian National Authority on one side, and Israel on the other, meaning they would no longer be binding on Israel or any body representing it. The bill also includes repealing the laws enacted to implement the Oslo Accords and restoring the legal and political situation to what it was before those agreements were signed.

In April, a website that has been sued, blocked, deplatformed, and chased across thirty-seven domains over fifteen years quietly launched its own AI. Sci-Hub is the largest unauthorized library of scientific papers in human history. Ninety-five million academic papers. Tens of millions of books. Built and maintained by a single Kazakhstani neuroscientist named Alexandra Elbakyan since 2011, funded by donations, hosted on whatever country's registrar will tolerate it that year, mirrored across torrents and IPFS and Telegram bots. Elsevier sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. The American Chemical Society sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. India sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. Swedish registrar Njalla cut the .se domain in January. Sci-Hub stayed up at .al, .ru, .ee, .box, and a half-dozen .onion addresses the registrars cannot reach. Now the library has built its own intelligence. Sci-Bot launched in alpha in April. You ask it a research question. It answers, and it cites real papers from inside the corpus, with links that actually open the actual papers. The bot does not hallucinate citations. It cannot, because it only draws from papers it actually holds. The same property that the venture-funded labs have spent four years and forty billion dollars trying to engineer back into their products is a free side effect of training the model on a library that contains the books. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta have all been sued in the past eighteen months for training their models on the same shadow libraries that Sci-Hub assembled. Meanwhile the corpus those scripts were pointed at, the corpus those models were trained on, the corpus the entire generative AI industry is built on, sat right there the whole time, free, with a search box on top. The pirates beat them to it. Sci-Bot was built on a corpus that was already free, by a team that asked no permission, charging no one, with the explicit position that the right to read scientific research is older than the cartel that decided to charge for it. The same arithmetic the medieval guilds used to keep the printing trade in approved hands. The same arithmetic Pope Paul IV used in 1559 to publish the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used in seventeenth-century London. Knowledge has always had a fence around it. The fence has always been guarded by men who did not write the books. The library answers. We never asked permission. We never had to.

California peach farmers are destroying around 420,000 peach trees after fruit company Del Monte filed for bankruptcy. Farmers are heartbroken for having to destroy their orchards, but they have to pivot to other crops to try and stay afloat.

In Chisinau, a 100-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Vasily Litvinov, participated in the "Victory March" and laid flowers at the "Eternity" memorial, despite a ban by the Moldovan authorities.

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