One thing that seriously pisses me off is how GOP politicians have actively been convincing the people to do things that obviously result in illnesses running rampant, and now everyone is sicker as a result. Each time I catch an illness reminds me of it. >:(
#IRAN 🇮🇷 has not launched an #unprovoked conventional invasion or war of conquest against another nation in thousands of years.
• The International Criminal Court ( #ICC) issued arrest warrants for Benjamin #Netanyahu and Yoav #Gallant for #warcrimes and crimes against humanity, specifically for the #starvation of #children and civilians as a method of warfare.
• #Israel 🇮🇱 is currently being prosecuted for #genocide at the International Court of Justice ( #ICJ), which has issued multiple legally binding orders to stop genocidal acts and end the starvation of the population in #Gaza.
• For decades, Israel has been found by the United Nations 🇺🇳 and international legal bodies to be in illegal occupation of Palestinian land, involving the theft of territory and the systematic oppression of the population.
• In the last year alone, Israel 🇮🇱 has launched military strikes and operations across at least six territories: #Gaza, the #WestBank, #Lebanon 🇱🇧 , #Syria 🇸🇾 , #Yemen 🇾🇪 , and #Iran 🇮🇷 .
• The Zionist controlled #US has repeatedly used its veto power to block UN Security Council resolutions (To block #Israel from being held accountable for crimes against humanity) for a ceasefire and has moved to sanction ICC officials to prevent the enforcement of the arrest warrants.
Your car simply watches and decides whether you’re fit to drive If the AI determines you’re impaired, it can prevent ignition startup or limit vehicle speed. Think Minority Report, but for your morning commute.
Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
Your next car purchase comes with an unwelcome passenger: a federal mandate requiring surveillance technology that monitors your every blink, glance, and head nod. Thanks to Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, NHTSA must finalize rules forcing all new passenger vehicles to include “advanced impaired driving prevention technology”—essentially turning your dashboard into a judgment-free zone that’s anything but judgment-free. ... Full article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-161321992.html #car #safety #AI #driving
There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A Law of the Sea scholar explains.
During the Revolutionary War, colonial military and political leaders desperately sought the support of Indigenous nations. Colonial negotiators’ treaty with the Delaware Nation, signed on Septembe…
Pete Hegseth’s Worrisome Press Briefing If you want to believe the Iran war is going as planned, don’t listen to the defense secretary. By Jonathan Chait
However well or poorly you think the excursion in Iran, as President Trump calls it, is going, you might want to lower your assessment after Pete Hegseth’s press conference today.
The defense secretary, who calls himself the “secretary of war” but might need to change his title to “excursion secretary,” addressed the public after CNN reported that the administration had erroneously assumed that Iran would keep the Strait of Hormuz open. Since the war began, Iran has mined the strait, fired on ships, choked off traffic, and caused the price of oil and other commodities to soar. Hegseth’s response is that we shouldn’t worry our pretty little heads about a minor body of water. “They are exercising sheer desperation in the straits of Hormuz,” he said. “Something we’re dealing with. We have been dealing with it and don’t need to worry about it.”
Hegseth went on to call CNN’s report “patently ridiculous” and “fake news.” Yet when he elaborated, he seemed to inadvertently give it credence.
“For decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” he said. “This is always what they do—hold the strait hostage.” Read: ‘We would be entering a completely different world’ It’s true that Iran has long threatened to close the strait. The accusation is that the administration bungled by not believing that Iran would follow through on its threats. Hegseth’s blithe assurance that Iran is behaving no differently from before confirms the report that he is trying to discredit.
Hegseth’s presentation gave no remotely skeptical viewer any new reasons to trust that the administration expected the war to go as it has nor that there is a realistic plan to end it. Instead, his briefing suggests he believes that the administration’s only challenge in the Middle East is to prevent news organizations from reporting on anything but Iran’s desperation. Hegseth is fond of the trick of using a dismissive tone while actually conceding skeptics’ main point. Returning to the topic of the strait, he casually insisted, “The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that.”
Well, yes. Everybody understands why the strait is closed. Nobody is saying that the Strait of Hormuz is closed because Trump hates oil tankers. By pointing out that the enemy is to blame for doing the bad thing, he is reinforcing the suspicion that he didn’t expect the bad thing to happen.
Hegseth urged reporters to focus on more important developments, such as, “We know the new so-called not-so-supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured.”
It’s understandable that a man who installed a makeup studio at the Pentagon and expelled photojournalists for shooting him at an unflattering angle would consider disfigurement an especially devastating strategic setback. But given that the administration has never listed making Iran’s mullahs less attractive as a primary war objective, this is a minor comfort.
Also, a small point on trash-talking: You can call him the “so-called supreme leader” or the “not-so-supreme leader,” but combining the two insults negates them both. He is not “the so-called not-so-supreme leader,” because he is not calling himself the not-so-supreme leader.
Hegseth mainly berated news outlets for failing to cover the war in the propagandistic fashion that he’d practiced as a Fox News talking head. He quoted a CNN chyron that read Mideast War Intensifies. A better chyron, he suggested, would have been Iran increasingly desperate.
In fact, a headline emphasizing Iran’s motives and state of mind would be less objective than one emphasizing what the parties to the war are actually doing. But objectivity is the opposite of Hegseth’s intent. “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better,” he said, referring to the Trump ally who heads Paramount Skydance and will soon acquire CNN.
Trump seems to have used the threat of regulatory pressure to install his friends at CNN. Hegseth is openly asking the new ownership to crack down on reporting that casts an unflattering light on the administration’s behavior. Cracking down on reporting is definitely the kind of priority Trump and Hegseth would care about. But it does not seem like what they’d emphasize if the war were going smoothly.
I couldn't wish death and destruction on anyone, but that's just me. I don't have some deranged, deluded ideology ruling my psyche. I DO wish that #Netanyahu, #Trump and all the #Zionist subordinates end up with life in prison. And I wish that their supporters all feel guilty as hell for the rest of their wretched lives for what they've endorsed and enabled.
If you want a reminder of what the Zionists wish on Palestinian's, here are some lovely quotes:
“Gaza and its people must be burned.” - Nissim Vaturi “I am personally proud of the ruins of Gaza.” - May Golan “There are no innocent civilians in Gaza.” - Isaac Herzog “We will conquer Gaza and leave no living Palestinian.” - Avi Dichter “There will be no Arabs in the Gaza Strip.” - Daniella Weiss “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.” - Giora Eiland “We are fighting human animals.” - Yoav Gallant “There is no such thing as Palestinian people.” - Bezalel Smotrich
More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 2023 - a man-made, planned and orchestrated human catastrophe unfolding like a black storm rolling through a city of glass.
Israel talks about morality while flattening neighborhoods and America bankrolls the whole grim circus - two governments walking around like they’re wearing halos made of barbed wire, pretending the world can’t see the smoke.
Let’s stand with human dignity from Gaza to Tehran - rip the mask off this colonial machine, like a rusted engine grinding through generations while ordinary people finally say enough.
Somewhere tonight a parent pulls their child close beneath a sky that feels like a cracked ceiling - hoping the world remembers they are human too.
If you're looking to gain a deeper insight into the power dynamics influencing global politics and the hidden mechanisms at work behind the curtain, you should watch The Trust Fall: Julian #Assange. 🕊 Watch it for FREE here: 👉🏼 www.thetrustfall.org/watch ❤️ Support the project 👉🏼 https://gofund.me/55f992e2
THE TRUST FALL isn’t just a film. It’s a peace movement.
#Macron et la quasi-totalité de la classe #politique française se comportent comme les vassaux dociles et muets de #Trump et de #Netanyahou.
Le silence assourdissant de la droite et de l'extrême-droite sur ces questions essentielles est lamentable et scandaleux, et tout spécialement de la part de ceux qui osent se réclamer du «gaullisme».
Today in All Software Sucks: Windows11 can't reboot because it is scared of an invisible window
I'm not kidding. This is real. The Mickeysoft "development" Solutioneers built a process into Windows 11 which displays an invisible window.
At first I thought my workplace PC had been infiltrated by some halfassed virus. I mean, an invisible window. Yeah, right.
But no, it's a legit vibecoded piece of crapware, called MksInvisibleWindow
Brought to you by MICROS~1 (remember that masterpiece of software engineering? I'm an old fart, I know). This polished diamond of code must be part of the NT6 Kernel or whatever it is they internally call their playdoh VMS wannabe this week.
Google has released an urgent security update for its Chrome desktop browser to address two critical zero-day vulnerabilities. Tracked as CVE-2026-3909 and CVE-2026-3910, both flaws are categorized as high-severity and are confirmed to be actively exploited by attackers in the wild. Users are strongly advised to update their browsers immediately to protect against potential malicious […]
The term "colouristic" (or "coloristic") is an adjective that relates to the use or choice of colors, especially by an artist. It describes something that is of or relating to color or coloring, often emphasizing a special or skillful use of color. For example, "colouristic effects" refer to effects created through the use of color.
In summary, "colouristic" pertains to the artistic or skillful application of color in visual works.
Major US technology companies have been named as potential targets as the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States begins to spill into the digital infrastructure that powers modern economies.
Iranian state-linked media this week published a list of offices and infrastructure run by US companies with Israeli links whose technology has been used for military applications. According to Al Jazeera, the companies include Google, Microsoft, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia, and Oracle.
Many of these companies operate regional offices, cloud infrastructure, or data-center operations across the Gulf, including in the United Arab Emirates. None have released public statements on this development.
The list was published by the semi-official, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–linked Tasnim News Agency alongside a warning that the scope of the conflict could expand beyond traditional military targets.
“As the scope of the regional war expands to infrastructure war, the scope of Iran’s legitimate targets expands,” Tasnim News Agency reported.
Last week, Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting services and exposing the vulnerability of physical tech infrastructure in the region.
The warning followed Iranian reports of an Israeli strike on a bank building in Tehran linked to Bank Sepah. Iranian officials have described it as an attack on economic infrastructure.
Iranian state media said the incident justified expanding potential targets to include US and Israeli economic and banking interests across the region.
“With this illegitimate and uncommon action, the enemy is forcing our hand to target economic centers and banks linked to the US and Zionist regime in the region,” said a spokesperson for the IRGC-owned Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters. He warned civilians to stay one kilometer away from banks.
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •The term "colouristic" (or "coloristic") is an adjective that relates to the use or choice of colors, especially by an artist. It describes something that is of or relating to color or coloring, often emphasizing a special or skillful use of color. For example, "colouristic effects" refer to effects created through the use of color.
In summary, "colouristic" pertains to the artistic or skillful application of color in visual works.
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