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by Qem 2y ago
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241009011407/https://www.middl...
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by Qem 2y ago
> These accounts were engaged in political speech. The judge ordered their banishment. Wrong. The accounts with orders for blocking were pushing a doxxing campaign against police investigators tasked with the January 8 coup attempt inves
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by Qem 2y ago
Archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20241007090749/https://interactiv... The journalists that still remain in place documenting those war crimes are heroes. Another one was assassinated just yes
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by Qem 2y ago
This is the best argument against built-in backdoors. Eventually they will be used against you by a hostile party. This happens time and again. For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%..
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by Qem 2y ago
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241002132147/https://www.middl... Full documentary: https://youtu.be/kPE6vbKix6A?si=l2DySJWqTEXXgs9N
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Was Bruce Willis right? Could a nuclear blast save us from killer asteroid?(aljazeera.com)
2 points by Qem 2y ago|2 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
Original study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02633-7 Unfortunately I couldn't find an open access version.
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by Qem 2y ago
Nice. But IIRC not all DNA code for proteins, so some of it would remain unrecoverable by this method.
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by Qem 2y ago
> Among the many extinct species that lived in this region are members of the family Megalonychidae (including the genus Megalonyx, Greek for “large claw”). Fossils of these giant ground sloths are commonly found in the caves, as they pr
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Coastal communities face 'catastrophic flooding' from rising sea levels(aljazeera.com)
2 points by Qem 2y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
If the Python Software Foundation is going to ban experienced CPython core developers, it's unfortunate, but I wish those driven out went straight to work on PyPy instead. Perhaps this way it could receive the extra impulse necessary t
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The First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech(theintercept.com)
10 points by Qem 2y ago|1 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240929232804/https://theinterc...
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by Qem 2y ago
They already had a Hezbollah chief assassinated back in 1992: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_al-Musawi Spoilers: It did little to promote peace or weaken Hezbollah.
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by Qem 2y ago
> if you’re obese already, you’ll have much more difficulty with lots of cardio exercise than someone who is much lighter. I enjoyed cycling, but once I crossed the 95kg threshold, it became unbearable, due to the rashes I got. Cycling s
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by Qem 2y ago
I wonder if a similar diary is being written right now, and will be published someday, documenting the ongoing genocide in Gaza Strip.
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South African Border War(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Qem 2y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
Increased pay. Long shifts tend to command a premium. Also if demand happens to be low and you manage to take a little nap, you're being effectively paid for your sleep time.
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by Qem 2y ago
This reminds me of that Triassic Kraken hypothesis: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013AM/webprogram/Handout/Paper23...
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'Blue Zones' where people reach 100? Fake data, says academic(aljazeera.com)
1 points by Qem 2y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestini...
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by Qem 2y ago
Lack of self-contained tooling. Idle doesn't work with Hy. You'll probably need to fiddle with Emacs to set your environment first, before being able to do anything beyond playing with the language in the REPL.
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by Qem 2y ago
It was reported they attemped to blow commercial passenger aircraft over the mediterran in the 80s, to kill Arafat: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/israel-plan-sh...
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by Qem 2y ago
Now it'll probably become standard operational practice for every organization that fears such attack to separate part of its new acquisitions of everyday items and sell them in Israeli second-hand market first, before internal use, as
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by Qem 2y ago
> “In recent years, EMS has experienced an explosion in call volume, including in the number of high-priority calls, as well as an increase of transports to the hospital,” she added. I wonder if that explosion is due to post-covid compli
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by Qem 2y ago
She would be an amazing astronaut candidate. Smaller size would make a Moon or Mars mission much more economical. I wonder how much food she ate, to calculate how much provisions would be enough for a 2-year roundtrip.
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by Qem 2y ago
Most proprietary software has similar scary warnings in their licenses/EULAs.
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by Qem 2y ago
> but it seems like those who get the most benefit from free labor are large corporations. One factor is the lack of adoption of copyleft licenses. The proliferation of permissive licenses turned into a backdoor for corporations to priva
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by Qem 2y ago
Should be renamed Three E's Island.
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Bombs in toys: A brief history of Israeli booby traps in Lebanon(middleeasteye.net)
11 points by Qem 2y ago|1 comments

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