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"More than 150 years ago, scientists discovered what they termed a 'greenhouse effect'."
"Governments knew what was coming... In 1938 a British scientist published the first observational study".
By the late 1950s, the science about global warming was so well established that Frank Capra made a documentary to educate the public.
"Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Nor will her successors".
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#USPol #EUPol #ClimateCatastrophe #news #BigOil .2
Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Her successors will be the same
Governments knew what was coming. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever.www.jonathan-cook.net
heise+ | „Fritzhole“: Adblocker direkt in Fritzboxen nutzen
FritzOS 8.50 bringt DNS-Filter, die nervige Werbung blocken – nicht nur auf dem PC, sondern auch auf Smartphone, TV und allen anderen Geräten im Heimnetz.
"More than 150 years ago, scientists discovered what they termed a 'greenhouse effect'."
"Governments knew what was coming... In 1938 a British scientist published the first observational study".
By the late 1950s, the science about global warming was so well established that Frank Capra made a documentary to educate the public.
"Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Nor will her successors".
jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-08…
#USPol #EUPol #ClimateCatastrophe #news #BigOil .2
Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Her successors will be the same
Governments knew what was coming. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever.www.jonathan-cook.net
KI-Update kompakt: Hate Aid vs. KI-Brillen, Mistral, Prompts, Twitch
Das „KI-Update“ liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
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#GenerativeAI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Journal #KIUpdate #Sprachverarbeitung #Wissenschaft #news
My heart bleeds for him, how dare they……. Imagine the gall of people working for money !!!
#brexit #BrexitLies #politics #toryscum #tories #conservatives #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #immigration #ReformAreUseless #farageisaracist #farageisatraitor #TaxTheRich #ReformCorruption #ReformSleaze #ai #aislop #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #openai #anthropic
Glueball entdeckt: Materie aus dem Nichts, das die Welt zusammenhält
Nach 50 Jahren Suche gibt es den bislang stärksten Nachweis für ein Glueball – ein Teilchen aus reiner Bindungsenergie der starken Kernkraft.
NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company.
Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911.
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#News #Tennessee #Children #Prison #Abuse #CriminalJustice
Jason Crews’ Wayne Halfway House Failed to Report Abuse, Former Staff Say — ProPublica
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911.Aliyya Swaby (ProPublica)
The AI Land Grab: How Data Centers Threaten Indigenous Sovereignty
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#news #uspol #politics #culture #commentary #progressive #left #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist
The AI Land Grab: How Data Centers Threaten Indigenous Sovereignty
I’m sitting down with my former debater Taylor Sanchez to unpack something I don’t think enough people are connecting the dots on: AI, data centers, Native l...YouTube
NEW: General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking.
Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.
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#News #Defense #Military #Ukraine #Government #Technology #Tech
General Dynamics Failed to Build Artillery Shells for the Army — ProPublica
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.Jesse Coburn (ProPublica)
As of August 3, more than 474 gigawatts worth of large-scale projects are waiting to connect to the #Texas grid, more than 5 times the grid's previous peak demand. Roughly 90% are AI data centers. texasobserver.org/who-pays-for…
Who Pays for the High-Powered Grid that Data Centers Need?
Texas would make large AI hyperscalers pay for the wires that connect them. Whether they must also pay directly for the broader grid work needed to serve them is still an open question.Mezabahnur Masum (The Texas Observer)
Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device
Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter open agentic model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, optimized for always-on local workflows on consumer hardware.Meta Superintelligence Labs (Meta AI)
States that require people to use the restrooms for their gender assigned at birth are discovering there are trans men in the world.
"'Supporters of S.B. 244, including Attorney General Kris Kobach and Senate Majority Leader Ty Masterson, billed it as a way to keep men out of women’s spaces; it clearly requires some men to enter women’s spaces,' said the activist group, KS SB244 Compliance Crew, in a press release."
An attorney with a license to protect, a byline, and a working client list filed the first lawsuit anyone has ever brought to enforce the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Against the Justice Department. Alone.
Judge Emmet Sullivan sided with her. Ordered the department to unredact key documents and publish a redaction log, and then declined to pause his own order so the government could appeal. #Epstein #Journalism #PressFreedom #Accountability #Law #Courts #News #USPolitics #FOIA
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#France bans unsolicited telemarketing calls
Cold calling is coming to an end in France, with one consumer group calling the ban a "small revolution".
Interview: "Israel aims to make Palestine disappear physically, economically, culturally and politically”.
Fmr pres of Ireland, Mary Robinson, says weapons decommissioning "does not happen before a withdrawal of troops or before x, y, z happens."
"That happens as part of a process. It took... 12 years for the full decommisioning of the IRA".
16 min in:
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#USPol #EUPol #WestBank #gaza #palestine #news #IsraeliCrimes #HamasDecommissioning .
Israel is ‘trying to make Palestine disappear’: The Elders
Former Irish President Mary Robinson: Israel ‘erasing Palestine physically, economically, culturally and politically’.Al Jazeera
Israeli general says Gaza should remain ‘destroyed for generations’
Ret Maj Gen Giora Eiland said that "rebuilding Gaza would run against Israeli interests. Israel has no interest in Gaza being rebuilt, it is better for us that it be destroyed for generations to come."
~Giora Eiland
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#USPol #EUPol #News #Gaza #GazaGenocide #palestine #israeliCrimes .
Israeli general says Gaza should remain ‘destroyed for generations’
A former head of Israel’s National Security Council has called for Gaza to remain devastated for decades, openly presenting Palestinian despair and destruction as desirable outcomes after Israel’s genocide in tElis Gjevori (Middle East Eye)
"As the pioneering cybernetician Stafford Beer famously wrote, "the purpose of a system is what it does." If your bureaucracy is more concerned with fighting fraud than delivering service, then it isn't a service delivery system at all – it's a service denial system.
...how this ends – in a war of giant robots in which we are all collateral damage."
- @pluralistic
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#Government #Tech #Technology #AI #Cybernetics #Politics #Fraud #News #Press #US #USA #World
BREAKING NEWS
Iran's official media source rules out future negotiations with the Trump regime, says it will wait until his term ends in 2029.
Iran is tired of trying to work with a convicted felon and habitual liar.
#AureFreePress #News #uspol #wariniran #BreakingNews
Signal Login: the optional registration without a phone number will require a one-time payment.
This is intended to create an additional barrier against spam and abuse. The fees will also help support Signal’s mission 💙
Signal has not yet confirmed the price.
What do you think would be a fair price?
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#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #news #tech
Signal Login: optional registration without a phone number will require a one-time payment
The payment requirement for registration without a phone number is intended to serve as an additional barrier against spam and abuse. The fees will also help support Signal's mission.AboutSignal
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerized by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
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#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnistThe Nerve
Trump administration officials suggested funding research on crime against Afrikaners in South Africa.
“It’s laughable to suggest that on the African continent, the prime issue of human rights concern is whites in South Africa,” one expert said.
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#News #Trump #SouthAfrica #HumanRights #Funding #Politics
Trump Administration Suggested Funding Afrikaner Group in South Africa — ProPublica
The billions of dollars Congress has allocated for foreign aid programs must be spent. One proposal from the Trump administration suggested funding research on crime against Afrikaners in South Africa.Sharon Lerner (ProPublica)
Just when you think Zucky @zuck is finally out of ideas - to steal.
It starts to feel like even a weak #LLM like #MetaAI is more creative than him.
Maybe we already have created truly artificial intelligence because he is more of an #SLM: a Small Language Model?
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#toxic #humor #Meta #News #Facebook #Zuckerberg #MarkZuckerberg #ai #artificialintelligence #creativity #robot #sarcasm
Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too
Meta claimed that a recent test of its AI model allowed it to access the internet, an already intimately familiar narrative by this point.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
Virginia Gov. Spanberger takes unprecedented step to intervene in $67B Dominion-NextEra merger - WTOP News
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger is stepping directly into the regulatory fight over the proposed $67 billion sale of Dominion Energy to Florida-based NextEra Energy.
wtop.com/virginia/2026/08/span…
#TopNews #News #Virginia #Spanberger #Dominion
He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
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Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
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#News #Louisiana #Law #CriminalJustice #CivilRights #Justice #Legal
Lesser-well-known israeli occupation in Southern Syria is destroying farmland and lives
"Across southern Syria, israelis have bulldozed trees, killed crops with chemicals, and set up a separation line that keeps farmers from their fields. Around 100 families are completely barred from accessing their land. Most of the agricultural roads have been destroyed by israeli tanks.."
[Video link] - aljazeera.com/#flips-640286960…
#BoycottIsrael #CrimesAgainstHumanity #HumanRights #News #Syria #Activism #WarCrimes
Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
News, analysis from the Middle East & worldwide, multimedia & interactives, opinions, documentaries, podcasts, long reads and broadcast schedule.Al Jazeera
WhatsApp-Update: Gruppenchats bekommen neue Funktionen
Meta baut die Gruppenchat-Funktionen in WhatsApp aus. Die Neuerungen betreffen Abstimmungen, Erwähnungen und Untergruppen.
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#Apps #Entertainment #MetaPlatforms #Mobiles #Smartphone #WhatsApp #news
Israel pays Trump’s fmr campaign manager Brad Parscale $46m to train chatbots to spread Israeli lies about Gaza.
When one chatbot was asked "whether it would be beneficial for the US to enhance military cooperation with Israel, the chatbot responded with a one-word answer: 'Yes'.”
"The top source cited was a website created by Parscale’s firm for the Israeli government."
democracynow.org/2026/7/30/hea…
#USPol #EUPol #GazaGenocide #Gaza #palestine #news #IsraeliLies .
Drop Site News: Trump’s Former Campaign Manager Working to Influence How AI Chatbots Talk About Gaza
Drop Site News is reporting Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale has been quietly working with Israel to help influence how artificial intelligence chatbots talk about Gaza. Israel awarded Parscale’s firm a $46.Democracy Now!
Chinese AI advances create ‘death zone’ for US rivals
Rapid advances by Chinese AI companies are narrowing the technology gap with their U.S. counterpartsNileena Sunil (The American Bazaar)
New data reveals how U.S. troops were injured in Iran war
The War Horse, a nonprofit newsroom that covers the U.S. military, dug into new records from the Department…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Iran
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The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site.
New soil tests by The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
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#News #Omaha #Nebraska #Environment #Pollution #Children #Health #EPA
Our Soil Tests Found Lead in Omaha’s Yards Despite EPA Cleanup — ProPublica
The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that many yards still have harmful levels of lead.Leah Keinama (ProPublica)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Het fulltime bestrijden van misdaad als Spider-Man in een wereld die hem niet meer herinnert – en de druk om zijn oude vrienden zonder hem verder te zien gaan – zet een verandering in gang in Peter Parker die hij misschien niet in de hand heeft.The Movie Database
CHECKING WILDBERRIES ORDER
A Wildberries warehouse in Leningrad region is on fire after a Ukrainian drone attack.
It is one of the top-10 largest Wildberries warehouses in Russia.
STOP. PUTIN. TODAY.
#AureFreePress #News #wildberries #UkraineWar #BreakingNews
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
US-Forscher enthüllen nicht deklarierte Uran-Exporte aus dem Kongo
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Poröse Füße aus dem 3D-Drucker senken Energiebedarf von Roboterhunden
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Qwen3.8-Max: Alibaba legt mit neuem KI-Modell nach
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Apple: Limit für Bug-Meldungen pro Person
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US-Forscher enthüllen nicht deklarierte Uran-Exporte aus dem Kongo
Der Kongo ist der größte Kobaltproduzent. Das Erz enthält Uran, das mit exportiert wird. Die Mengen könnten beträchtlich sein, was damit geschieht, ist unklar.Werner Pluta (heise online)
NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
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#News #FCC #Government #Ethics #USPolitics #Paramount #CBS #Entertainment #Business
FCC Officials Face Ethics Complaints Over Pricey Gifts From Paramount — ProPublica
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to review megamergers involving Paramount.Corey G. Johnson (ProPublica)
‘Full cooperation’: How Tel Aviv University serves Israel’s security state
JVL Introduction Focusing on the situation at Tel Aviv university this article shows how the intertwining of Arabic…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel
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