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Week 39

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#FauxPilot

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TASS: "Ukraine’s permanent losses amount to 1.7 million people — Russian commander"

IC: "Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank.. I visited the West Bank three times over the past 12 months, During the last visit, Israel announced its intention to divide the West Bank into two parts and possibly three according to its E1 plan. This is part of Israel bigger plan for the West Bank including the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and an annexation to Israel.

In fact, ethnic cleansing and annexation are Israel only plans for the West Bank since it occupied Gaza and the West Bank in 1967. All Israel polices, including the engaging in a so-called peace process, are aimed at achieving these Illegal targets."

IC: "In move that could Bring in NATO, Spain joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla. On Wednesday, the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez in Spain announced that it would dispatch a rescue ship to be in the vicinity of the 50 ships that make up the Sumud (steadfastness) flotilla aiming to provide humanitarian relief to the Gaza Strip"

"@LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social

Circle, one of the biggest players in crypto, is just now realizing it might be useful to be able to reverse a transaction… The blockchain sector is solving problems it created itself, and once again discovering why the traditional financial system works the way it does."

Zionism is a form of fascism after all

Lasciatemi Cantare is an anti-fascist, leftist hymn BTW

♪♬ Lasciatemi cantare ♬

♪ ♪ Perché ne sono fiero ♪

♪ Sono un italiano ♬

♬ Un italiano vero ♬

MEE: "Italy sends warship to accompany Gaza flotilla following Israeli attack"

NYT: "U.N. General Assembly Updates: China, for First Time, Vows to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions"

ProPublica: "Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care"

Sanders: "Everyone needs housing. Yet today, nearly 800,000 Americans are homeless and more than 20m households pay more than 50% of their limited incomes on rent or a mortgage. Since 2000, average rents have more than doubled and the median price of a home has soared to more than $435,000."

That point on promising good job vs low prices is spot on. The latter goal is enshrined in FED charter actually, via its famous "price stability" goal.

#Capitalism #ProfJiangXueqin

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via @Heliograph@mastodon.au

The Grayzone: "Mike Cernovich, a conservative activist and longtime ally of Kirk, may have been alluding to the break-up allegedly initiated by Shillman when he tweeted on September 13, 2025, 'Charlie was about to lose his last major donor because he refused to ban Tucker Carlson from events. There are A LOT of people shedding crocodile tears. The billionaires must be exposed for the cretins that they are.' Along with the apparent rift between Shillman and Kirk, The Grayzone has learned that Netanyahu’s US allies intensified their campaign to manage the late TPUSA founder as his fateful first campus tour date approached...

Netanyahu’s functionaries managed Kirk 'on an almost daily basis'.. Shillman’s apparent break with Kirk capped a months-long pressure campaign from Zionist bigwigs, media operatives, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself to bring the late conservative activist back into line with the self-proclaimed Jewish state’s agenda... [T]he TPUSA founder refused an offer by Netanyahu to arrange a new infusion of funding into his organization from his stable of Zionist millionaires and billionaires in the US."

#CharlieKirk #Proof

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#CharlieKirk #BlackScoutSurvival

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That was good wording, contrasting 'never again' of the Jews with 'yet again' of Palestinians getting bombed and killed.

King Abdullah (Jordan): “Our UN General Assembly was born 80 years ago, pledging to learn from and not repeat history. The world vowed 'never again'.. However, for almost as long, Palestinians have been living through a cruel cycle. Yet again, bombed indiscriminately, yet again, killed, injured and maimed, yet again, displaced and dispossessed, yet again denied rights, dignity, their basic humanity.. So I must ask, how long?"

Net approval fell to -6.5% a significant change.

Pieter Hintjens: "[2014] For decades, the [bad boys] of the patent system have been the pharmaceutical industry. The truth is that new drugs, like new software, are never the product of single teams working in shiny white laboratories. All innovation comes from mass effort, over time, to solve numerous individual problems. it's not just the formula for a drug. It's ten thousand answers to a thousand problems, along the whole process. At some stage these come together into viable products [..].

In 1980 the US passed the Bayh-Dole act [which] allowed universities to keep the patents on federally-funded research. This is an extraordinary model. The public pays for research that is then owned by private business and sold back to the public at an extortionate profit. Bayh-Dole was written and pushed by a consortium of universities and big pharma. Lucky universities privatized every significant part of the drug research pipeline, and sold these rights off to their big pharma partners. The public saw new drugs for HIV/AIDS, but at a thousand dollars a pop. Hey, that's what health insurance is for, right?

But what was really happening was worse than a simple hijacking of public research and blackmailing of the sick and vulnerable. The drug pipeline stretches 15-20 years. It's a slow process of turning data into knowledge. The process depends on collaboration between teams, across the world. Patents poison this process. You cannot at the same time collaborate on research, and file patents. Simply publishing or discussing a new idea means you can't patent it [..] Successful patenting demands secrecy, whereas successful innovation demands open discussion. Ah, you see the conundrum [..].

The drug research pipeline is layered. That is, a product floats on a sea of techniques and intermediate tools, and primary research, each a necessary step on the way to the market. As Bayh-Dole bit, and universities across the USA and then Europe and Asia started to cash in, they patented more and more of these layers, until even basic research techniques were patented as "products". Meaning that researchers could no longer share techniques and basic knowledge [..].

The consequences were predictable. By the late 90's, the drug pipeline was almost empty. Pfizer and Merck and the other big pharma brands saw their profits falling off a cliff [..] Today Pfizer's share price has fallen by 62% from its high in April 1999. The Bayh-Dole act has not cured cancer. It has not helped the drug industry past that 20-year pipeline window. The universities that jumped on that ship have lost their best researchers. It hasn't produced a single new success in medicine. Instead, it has allowed a few to profit from what was already in the pipeline, and poisoned the well of US medical research for at least three decades."

The Lever: "Pharma’s $236 Billion Patent Racket Is About To Fall Off A Cliff.. Big Pharma is turning to mergers and acquisitions as the industry is set to lose billions to expired patents by 2030."

"@inthehands@hachyderm.io

[A] bunch of assholes have hijacked public perception and lifted up some of the worst people on Earth as exemplars of what the 'tech world' is supposed to be.. I’ve been in the software world for decades, surrounded by thoughftul, creative, and humane people with whom I’ve formed many wonderful friendships and done meaningful work. That’s possible. It’s normal, even. You don’t have to become a sociopath to make it in the tech world. Or a malignant narcissist..."

"@werd.io@bsky.brid.gy

This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host docs securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing."

"Collaborative writing, Simplified. Collaborate and write in real time, without layout constraints... Govs ❤️ Open Source. Docs is built on top of Django Rest Framework and Next.js. We also use Yjs and BlockNote.js, both of which we are proud to sponsor. You can easily self-host Docs (check our installation documentation). Docs uses an innovation and business friendly licence (MIT). Contributions are welcome (see our roadmap here)."

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TAC: "Israel’s bombing of Qatar changed [the dynamics]. Qatar had an American base; the U.S. couldn’t stop Qatar from being bombed by a rabid American protectorate already mired in conflicts with five neighbours, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Gaza and the West Bank... The fact that a U.S. base cannot provide deterrence automatically pushed Turkey to seek rapprochement with Egypt and the Saudis to seek Pakistani nuclear weapons. The Joint Strategic Defense Agreement is interesting; it is a hint that the Pakistani strategic forces will be used for any contingency and enhance joint deterrence. It also automatically treats an attack on one to be an attack on the other. Unlike NATO, it leaves no room for consultation between the principals and leaves no ambiguity. In case there were any comprehension issues, the subsequent Pakistani comments clarified that the pact is a comprehensive agreement that encompasses all military means."

The American Conservative: "Reports that TikTok will transfer an 80 percent stake in its U.S. operations to Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz are celebrated in Washington as a strategic victory over China, where its parent company is based. But a closer examination of the deal reveals a different winner: the foreign government of Israel and its lobby in the United States...

[Remember back in November 2023] panic over TikTok’s 'pro-terror' algorithm reached a crescendo after young people on the app discovered Osama bin Laden’s 'Letter to America' through their 'For You' page. For the first time, many Gen Zers read the Al Qaeda leader’s own explanation for why the U.S. was attacked on 9/11—an explanation that had nothing to do with hating 'our freedoms,' as official Washington had long insisted, and everything to do with U.S. militarism abroad, particularly on behalf of Israel... TikTok’s capacity to totally and instantaneously shatter decades of neoconservative propaganda revealed what Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, would label Israel’s 'TikTok problem'..

The acquisition of TikTok by Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz is therefore not simply a reshuffling of corporate control, but the latest step to consolidate a foreign government’s censorship regime in America. The app’s new owners openly display their affection for, and often loyalty toward, Israel."

MSN: "In a major development.. the [Indian] Ministry of Railways has informed that the government will launch the hydrogen-powered train set soon.

F24: "Kim Jong Un says dialogue with US possible if denuclearisation demands dropped"

OpenCV has a MOG2 implementation.. OpenCV is of course free and open source. That's how science, engineering develops, through open collaboration not through commercial entities. For-profit types are spoon-fed their innovations, and walk around as if they created the world anew. But we are the wind beneath their wings.

ViBe, SuBSENSE - even better. And again, not NN

You can't beat Beat MOG2 on all criteria, try it

Ask Hinton, "the godfather of AI" what he used in the 90s. That stuff still works, much improved today with extra frills but core technique is the same.

Neural nets (as in LLMs) are not the default solution in many AI tasks. They are clunky and don't perform well in all categories.. For computer vision background extraction, streaming video, SOTA is still non neural-net based. Top two methods are probabilistic / use non-parametric statistics, they use solid mathematics, not shoving some data into a dumb-dumb black box... Before your clunky neural-net can be written, deployed, maintained, my probabilistic model will leave it in the dust.

Ellisons are Zio. I hope they lose if there is a bidding war.

Some were speculating abt a possible sale, that Zaslaw funded the creation of DCU to make WB's brand more attractive for purchase.

Variety: "The Ellisons are mulling a Paramount Skydance acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery"

Cullinane: "[W]e hoped the middle- and upper-class capture of the [UK] media would lessen. It’s got worse.. Since our last survey, we find more columnists, podcasters and executives are from privileged backgrounds. That’s too narrow a segment of society"

Arab News: "Netherlands plans to ban imports from Israel’s Jewish settlements"

NYT: "Britain, Australia, Canada and Portugal Recognize a Palestinian State"

MEE: "Amnesty names companies contributing to apartheid and genocide in Gaza.. The NGO named 15 companies on which it said it has gathered credible evidence. This list includes American aircraft manufacturer Boeing, whose munitions were used in Gaza, the Chinese company Hikvision, which is a world leader in facial recognition technology, and the American software manufacturer Palantir, which provides services to the Israeli army and intelligence services."

NBC News: "Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a mutual defense pact that defines any attack on either nation as an attack on both"

The fact that the attack was not deterred despite Qatar's strong relationship with the US (hosting a base, lavish gifts to Trump), would have forced the Saudis look for options.

Reuters: "Saudi pact puts Pakistan's nuclear umbrella into Middle East security picture.. Gulf Arab states said Israel, which has never confirmed or denied possessing nuclear weapons, had shown itself to be a direct threat following its unprecedented strikes on Qatar last week"

These are the Russian gains this year, since January 2025.

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Kellogg must be a paid shill of the MIC, an ongoing war, however terrible its consequences on the Ukranian side, is still profitable.

"Keith Kellogg on Monday said he and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently advised President Trump that Russia is losing its war on Ukraine"

A second pro shooter is likely, that means Kirk was killed by an organized entity, for a specific purpose. What could that purpose be? The most powerful entity is the military-industrial complex. Possible reasons - trying to change the subject from something they feared more, attempting to foment civil war knowing they would profit from it, or Kirk's recent doubts about Zionism (no-no, wars in ME are a major source of profits). Whatever their reasons, we need to be clear, Kirk would not have been sacrificed if he was a loyal soldier of the Zionist cause. His doubts, and the fact that he aired them so publicly would have moved him up in the list, in that list of possible targets.

They shifted the moment he nodded to the point where he was told his alleged motive so he looked like he was accepting it which is different from the local TV version. That means the modification was made at the ABC. Small things like this matter.. a manipulation here, a manipulation there.. this is how perception is controlled...

I see traces of corporate cover-up here.

#BodyLanguage #Robinson

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.30-06 will blow your head off, it is retarded they even talk about this. They should have picked a better patsy.

CK was not hit by .30-06 caliber bullet (the one used by the suspect's rifle). It was probably 22 (what the real shooter used).

#Kirk #MegynKelly

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A Navy Seal sniper says the shot heard in the Kirk video sounds muffled, not muffled as in silenced, muffled like the shot was made from inside an apartment, possibly a few rooms behind an open window.

One spectator at the scene did say when he was watching Kirk speak, facing him, he heard the shot from his left, not behind, (Robinson's location). And after hit CK was thrown towards his left (sad scene to watch, RIP) hinting the bullet coming from his right (spectator's left).

The building marked in the pic could be the likely location for the second (real) shooter. The guy was almost certainly a pro. For Robinson, a 200 yard shot, with a "cold muzzle", added stress, wind conditions, and that specific rifle would be next to impossible to accomplish. Plus there are other things abt the man that just don't add up.

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#Ukraine 09/09 - 09/19

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