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“Break the Blockade and End the Siege”: Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Speaks from Gaza Aid Flotilla As the Israeli blockade of Gaza continues, a nearly 50-boat flotilla carrying humanitarian aid is currently some 150 nautical miles from Gaza. The grandson of Nelson Mandela, Nkosi Zwelivelile “Mandla...

The Global Sumud Flotilla is currently some 150 nautical miles from Gaza.

one of my evergreen tweets went something like "every techbro tripped and fell into a swimming pool full of money and decided that made them a defining genius of world history"

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

First Anniversary Blog Post: The Packing Game A well-packed bag can mean my day is more comfortable and enjoyable. And, let’s be honest, cuter.

New anniversary blog post on the dice pool dot com. My guest blogger this time is my wife! She is creating a solo game about packing. The Packing Game is unique and really cool. Go read her post about it. #rpg #solo #journaling #game

thedicepool.com/2025/07/27/f...

Magic 8 ball saying "very likely".

wow I asked it if it's becoming conscious this is scary

Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

This looks like a normal Saturday in some cities.

Chatbots now answer every question by searching the web. Meanwhile, with increasing frequency, the top search results are error-ridden pages generated by chatbots.

Israeli Military Attacks Madleen in International Waters — Weeks After Bombing of Conscience - Freedom Flotilla FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: FFC Press Officer Hay Sha Wiyamedia@freedomflotilla.org WhatsApp: +1 210-834-8155 Submit interview requests here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7r5Wy2glAJI8g...

Freedom Flotilla illegally captured by the IDF. Activists bringing humanitarian aid isn't a crime. freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/09/i...

The IDF has intercepted and kidnapped the Madleen because they didn't want it to deliver baby formula n other things like that to Palestinians who are experiencing starvation due to the Israeli government refusing to allow aid in. That's the story no matter how you window dress it.

behold the "smarter-than-human" machines that'll soon be "too smart to control"

Builder.ai® - Composable Software Development Platform Get your software applications developed easily. AI makes developing your software applications on our award-winning platform faster and more cost-effective. See how it works.

For eight years, Builder .ai marketed its "Natasha" AI system as a fully autonomous tool that could build software "as easily as ordering pizza." In reality, engineers in Noida and Bangalore manually coded client projects while being instructed to mimic AI-generated responses.

An image of a page from the Chicago Sun Times titled, "Summer reading list for 2025" with an image of a woman sitting on a porch, perhaps, beside a body of water, reading. It's beige as fuck. Above the title is a row of icons that invoke summer, I guess. The article itself is too long to reproduce, BUT, only five of the fifteen books listed here as titles you should read are actually real. Brit Bennett doesn't have a book titled Hurricane Season. The fuck? Isabel Allende has no book named Tidewater Dreams. The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir, The Collector's Piece by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Nightshade Market by Min Jin Lee, The Longest Day by Rumaan Alam, Boiling Point by Rebecca Makkai, Migrations by Maggie O'Farrell, The Rainmakers by Percival Everett, and Salt and Honey by Delia Owens are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Screenshot of a tweet by transphobic ideologue JK Rowling depicting herself celebrating the recent UK supreme court ruling on the definition of "woman"

This is a cartoonish representation of oligarchic domination: a chauvinist billionaire donned in gold jewellery and smoking a cigar, celebrating a supreme court ruling that (by her own side's account) wouldn't have gone through without her extensive financial and political investments

Van Hollen Holds Media Availability at Dulles Upon Return from El Salvador YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

I went to El Salvador hoping to meet with Kilmar and check on his well-being, and I had the chance to do that last night.

Our courts have been clear: this was an ILLEGAL abduction. I’m speaking now about my meeting with Kilmar and our work to bring him home:

New evidence unearthed by Sky News contradicts Israel's official account of the killing of 15 aid workers.

In a statement to Sky News, the IDF said it is "conducting an inquiry into the incident, which took place in a combat zone, to uncover the truth".

Read the full report here 🔗 trib.al/RwskFJX

Dear MS teams, you suck. And the entire MS comms suite also sucks.

of all the things the administration is doing, i am a little mystified by this effort to completely destroy the science, technology and medical research sector in the united states

Everyday I think about the fact that iceland jailed the people responsible for their financial crisis

Former Skadden associate: The Administration cannot pick and choose who gets representation. It cannot use executive power to scare lawyers out of advocacy.

“I will not allow my fear to manifest as silence. I choose courage.”

Tufts University pushes for release of student grabbed off the street by immigration officials The school's declaration in federal court on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk is some of the strongest pushback by a university against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.

Tufts University petitions a federal judge to release student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was grabbed off the street by immigration officials.

The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.

Wonder if the vibes coding thing works better in large orgs where the focus is on cost/headcount reduction; and consultants create software they don’t have to manage. (Because they will be gone in a year.)

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

“You may have already heard these, but it’s time you hear them again” - John Lithgow reading 20 Lessons on Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8?...

‘A special day’: how a Glasgow community halted immigration raid Activists and local people tell how they forced the release of two men detained in an enforcement van

if you're in the US and despairing about people being pulled off the street, you need to find your nearest immigrant defence/deportation defence group and learn how to do stuff like this
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...

I keep thinking how she never even protested. She just wrote an article for her school newspaper. She was on her way to iftar, to break her fast with dear friends. 😭 I keep thinking how hungry she must have been. What can we do??

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

The world is burning and people think they can fix it by inspecting genitalia.

But only women’s genitalia.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

holy shit www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...