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I watched this in a kind of daze, thinking about factorization of permutations and how you could try to find fixpoints in iterated cryptographic hash chains. It's really neat. Subscribe to Visual Math .

I caught the end of this YouTube livestream, but when I went to Twitch the livestream continuation there wasn't shown, but it was scheduled for 7 PM. It's now 7:45 PM and Twitch is showing that the stream there finished four hours ago. Maybe I got some timezone confused, but AFIK we're both in the same time zone, ... I imagine Twitch would show my local time, ... Anyway, see  Low Level Learning - Backdoor In Open Source by Subverting The Build Tools .  According to Soléne , OpenSUSE MicroOS is one of the vulnerable distributions. One of the things that is freaking people out a bit is that nobody can be quite sure which executables the library targets. It's used by a lot of programs. Subscribe to René Rebe .

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He thinks the UK High Court's demand that Assange's trial will not be prejudiced on account of him being an Australian rather a US citizen is tantamount to them demanding that Assange's rights will include the First Amendment  which would seriously undermine the case they have presented against him, where the presumption is that as a non-US citizen he is not entitled to any constitutional rights: The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. Stella Assange does not think any such assurance would be worth the paper it is written on: Subscribe to Free Assange .

They seem to have cut the ear off one of them.  This is presumably somebody's idea of a deterrent, but this kind of behaviour by authorities does much more harm than good. It indicates at best that the state isn't in control of the criminal justice system, and that brings into question the whole government. In the US they try to cover this sort of thing up. See  Rachel Blevins, Vanessa Beeley and Grayzone on Moscow Theatre Attack . Subscribe to Al Jazeera . One suspect early on in interrogation: Subscribe to Times of India . Later, ... Subscribe to Reuters .

This is pretty crude stuff compared to what could be done, but still, it shows how vulnerable git repos can be. [Correction: git was not involved in the backdoor, see Soléne's blog post Lessons learned with XZ vulnerability , nevertheless, git will happily distribute any binary files, including executables that could be used to subvert the development process. This can happen by accident or design, see e.g. https://github.com/LifeWithDavid/RaspberryPiPico-BareMetalAdventures/tree/main/Chapter%2004 ] See Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise  for some more details. Subscribe to Low level Learning .

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Subscribe to Kim Iversen . I think Heidi is right. The"multi-faceted agenda" is a predominantly economic phenomenon. You have to listen to this talk by Stuart Kauffman at least through to the part starting at five minutes to see what he's talking about. The same situational logic plagues capitalism almost everywhere. Some people think it's a creative force, but they are not looking at the consequences of this "creativity". Subscribe to TED . Here they start getting to the mechanics of lesbianism. It's more complicated now, ... See the full show at  https://www.kimiversenshow.com .

See  UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Presents Findings that "Genocide is Being Committed" in Gaza  and  Jeremy Loffredo Talks About Right-wing Israeli Admissions of War Crimes in Gaza . Subscribe to UNHRC . 8:20 I think there is also circumstantial evidence that Israel is deliberately prolonging the conflict. This comes from the statistics showing that the majority of the dead and injured are women and children. Those statistics, provided by Hamas, cannot be verified by the UN however, because they have no access to Gaza. If they are correct though, then this shows that civilians were deliberately being targetted, and the combatants left to continue fighting, giving Israel an excuse to continue the bombardment. You can read the unedited version (25 pages) here:  Anatomy of a Genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese . See in particular this paragraph on...

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He must have only just come out of anaesthetic. Maybe they did it while he was conscious so they could ask him questions about how they were doing? Subscribe to Sadhguru .

This was three weeks ago:  'They scream in hunger’ - How Israel is starving Gaza : The speed at which this catastrophic child malnutrition crisis in Gaza has unfolded is shocking, especially when desperately needed assistance has been at the ready just a few miles away,” said Catherine Russell, UNICEF's executive director. ... Israel has repeatedly blocked the delivery of aid supplies, including food, despite the International Court of Justice ruling in January that ordered Israel to “ensure the delivery of basic services and essential humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza” Deir al-Balah means "Monastery of the Date Palm". See  Jeremy Loffredo Talks About Right-wing Israeli Admissions of War Crimes in Gaza  for how these blockades are being done.

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I haven't got to Vanessa's segment yet, but it is about the UK support for Saudi bombing of Yemen. She talks about how the war started in 2015 and Theresa May's husband's profits from BAE stock at the time. It starts at 20:50 . See  Jimmy Dore Talking to Moussa Ibrahim about Libya's Water Project . See  UK-Israel 2030 Roadmap  From Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and The Rt Hon James Cleverly MP: The UK and Israel are committed to a modern, innovative and forward-looking relationship that continues to focus on shared priorities for mutual benefit. Using a thematic approach, the Roadmap provides detailed commitments for deepening UK-Israel cooperation. It covers the breadth of the our relationship, including trade, cyber, science and tech, research and development, security, health, climate and gender. Read the press release: UK and Israel to sign landmark agreement deepening tech, trade and security ties. See also this report Vanessa did for UK Column...

Even Al Jazeera are using the passive voice, rather than saying outright that the Israeli Government is committing genocide in Gaza. They do have a title on the video saying "UN special rapporteur accuses Israel of genocide" According to rhe commentator, Francesca Albanese wasn't able to go to Gaza so her evidence was gathered from press and social media reports. See  Jeremy Loffredo Talks About Right-wing Israeli Admissions of War Crimes in Gaza . She closes by addressing the international community and calling for an arms embargo and sanctions on Israel. Subscribe to Al Jazeera .

Mentions Google Zero. I wonder what Google minus one will be like? See also  US Considering Sanctions Against Huawei Because ... Subscribe to Daniel Boctor .

 ... When they imposed sanctions in 2018 Huwei started designing their own chips and now they're getting too good at it. More on the free market economy: For those relying on the subtitles, he said fabless, not fabulous, and "generative AI" not "generative eBay" which will be where you may soon be able to purchase Intel stock. Writing "Huawei" as "all ways" is interesting! We really are heading in to an interesting fouton with this AI, ... Subscribe to Bloomberg TV .

TLDR: Big tech software and systems just don't work anymore. He says TikTok because that's what they're talking about, and the subtitle reads Ted Talk. Isn't AI amazing!   Subscribe to Bloomberg TV .

Bombed by NATO in 2011. See the Ecologist piece from May 2015:  War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure . It's interesting to check the timing of that NATO bombing of Libya in 2011 with Obama's royal visit to the UK. I remember getting a really weird e-mail in 2015 from Nik Thomas, who was working for BAE Systems at the time, doing ISO quality standards documentation on maintenance of RAF Tornado fighter-bombers. He said something like "I'm working on a project to extend the project I'm working on, maybe until the end of the project". What the fuck was that supposed to mean? With friends like that, who needs friends. Subscribe to Jimmy Dore .

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This is shocking. You can destroy someone's life with tactics like this. I asked my immediate family whether they had been contacted by any official in any matter concerning me, and they all eventually replied in the negative, though my brother did not reply directly to me. I haven't asked any of my friends this, but one did volunteer the information that his wife works for OFCOM , ... But they're all super-friendly, helpful people. Subscribe to Lauren Southern .

This activist freed two ducks from a factory farm and has been sentenced to twenty years in prison. I guess that's ten years for each duck.  Sign the petition to prosecute the Reichardt farm at  https://helptheducks.com/ Here's the text they're suggesting you send: Dear District Attorney Rodriguez, Reichardt Duck Farm has been repeatedly exposed for criminal animal cruelty and zoonotic disease. As the District Attorney of Sonoma County, you have the power and responsibility to act in the best interest of the animals and the public by investigating and prosecuting Reichardt. The cruel and dangerous conditions at this factory farm violate California Penal Code Section 597 and the precepts of California Health and Safety Code Sections 25990, et seq. California Penal Code Section 597(b) addresses various forms of criminal animal cruelty. The statute provides, in part, as follows: "whoever, having the charge or custody of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, subjects a...

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See  Treaty of Lausanne  and  Lausanne Conference of 1922–1923 . See also the brochure of the Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel : pages 124 - 126 . It's interesting to compare the Ottoman Empire with the Soviet Union. See  Finian Cunningham Talking With Alex Kraimer About the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999  and  Lausanne . See also  Kurdistan  and these telegrams  ( cf . Emirate of Transjordan ): 25 March 1921 UK Government; Report on Middle East Conference held in Cairo and Jerusalem.' Conference concerning the British Government's involvement with Mesopotamia, Palestine, Aden and Somaliland and its Middle Eastern policy. Winston Churchill and T E Lawrence were among those present; CO 935/1/1, pages 207-208 One of the delegates here asked me if I could teach him English in my free time. See  Mandatory (meaning) . Why can't Cambridge University do that? See mandatory (adj.)

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Only eight years after the cold war ended, NATO illegally bombed a former Warsaw Pact country. Alex Krainer, author of Grand Deception, contends that the NATO military aggression in Yugoslavia in 1999 was a strategic gambit by the US-led Western powers to pursue hegemonic ambitions of dominating Russia and any other geopolitical rival. The aggression 25 years ago fatally undermined international law and set a precedent for the next quarter century of endless US and NATO wars around the world, including in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, across the Middle East and North Africa, and elsewhere. The current US-led NATO proxy war in Ukraine against Russia can be traced back to the historic assault on Yugoslavia. 21:20 he makes an interesting point, which is that if you are extracting raw material resources from a region then you need to be able to manage the capital and labor in those countries to be able to get at those resources. You also need to be able to hold back real economic and s...

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