Broken down by party, 66 percent of Democrats, 20 percent of Republicans and 55 percent of independents surveyed said that the U.S. is backing Israel too much.

https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us06242026_ujrk36.pdf

Supporting genocide is no longer a moderate position.

Palantir is the profit-driven offshoot of this program. It's mostly infrastructure for privatized mass surveillance services. Also why the push for age verification and ID is happen alongside this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

The funny part is that the USA doesn't have enough electric generation infrastructure to power more than a small sliver of all the planned AI data centers.

Broken down by party, 66 percent of Democrats, 20 percent of Republicans and 55 percent of independents surveyed said that the U.S. is backing Israel too much.

https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us06242026_ujrk36.pdf

Supporting genocide is no longer a moderate position.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260615IPR45408/cuba-meps-call-for-eu-sanctions-and-a-push-towards-transition

In a resolution approved by 283 votes to 199 and 85 abstentions, MEPs say that after five decades of a communist regime Cuba is close to being a failed state. They stress that the current humanitarian emergency -89% of families living in extreme poverty- is “not the product of any external embargo but the direct consequence of the regime's own model and failures”.

The cosmological principle holds that the universe is homogeneous (the same everywhere) and isotropic (the same in all directions). A quick glance at the night sky shows this cannot be true at all levels, because the void of space is dotted with dense clumps of stars. Nevertheless, cosmologists assume the universe is essentially uniform and featureless when averaged over sufficiently long length scales

Previous studies typically asked the question: Given a galaxy at any one point, how likely is it to find another galaxy at a particular distance, regardless of direction? “In general, people measure the probability function of the distance,” Sylos Labini says. “Here we are measuring how it varies with both distance and angle.”

To do that, the researchers sliced the DESI map into 2D slices, examined pairs of galaxies separated by a given distance, and looked for patterns in how those pairs were oriented. In a homogenous universe, those directions should be randomly and evenly distributed. Instead, the researchers found significant correlations in the directions, suggesting the distribution of galaxies remains stringy over much larger distances than lambda-CDM simulations predict.

However, David Spergel, a cosmologist at the Flatiron Institute, is skeptical of the new claim. If structures extend across billions of light-years, he says, their gravity should dramatically distort the lingering afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB). “The result very much appears to be in contradiction with much more sensitive measurements from the microwave background.” Sarkar counters that if Spergel and others can use observations of the CMB to rule out the new result, “then they should do it.”

Now that's some good science smack talk.

e: also side note, the Flatiron Institute is privately funded from the fortune of hedge fund manager Jim Simons (known for unprecedented profits). Both Jim and David appear in some certain files.

This "Good" Cop / "Bad" Cop routine has been going on for decades. Both parties are still cops and ACAB.

ACUCAB just doesn't have the same snap to it, but Under Capitalism is an important distinction indeed. Reminds me of a Parenti quote about why socialist states have to have a significant level of state authority because of constant capitalist incursions and subterfuge.

Needs to incorporate this truth in the next iteration:

“All modern communication would collapse if about 50 people, most of which are furries, decided to turn their pager off for a day”

https://jacobin.com/2025/02/amazon-union-north-carolina-racism/

Today 4,000 Amazon workers at a North Carolina warehouse will finish voting on a union. Employees say the company “mobilized an army” ahead of the election, siccing local police on organizers and trying to pit black and Hispanic workers against each other.

“Under the National Labor Relations Act, I should have been allowed to flyer on the premises,” said Orin Starn, who had worked at Amazon for six months. “But the police, who in the small town of Garner where Amazon is the biggest employer act as a kind of private security force, didn’t care and just took us off to jail.”

Mass UN walkout when Netanyahu started speaking.

leftist : anti-capitalism :: liberal : pro-capitalism

Why is this so hard for some radlibs to understand? I think it is all the propaganda they passively consume.

Current list of US sanctions and embargoes

Balkans-related
Belarus
Burundi
Central African Republic
China
Counter Narcotics Trafficking
Counter Terrorism
Cuba
Cyber Related
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Iran
Iraq-related
Lebanon-related
Libya
Magnitsky
Non-Proliferation
North Korea
Rough Diamond Trade Controls
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Transnational Criminal Organizations
Ukraine-related
Venezuela
Yemen
Zimbabwe

He died of acute high velocity irony to the neck.

German Guilt Pride is a hell of a drug. Hiding behind 'laws' to justify this is also very on brand.

https://youtu.be/Vy2ju_qPtuM

I'm going to start mining in datacenters.

So like bitcoin?

Nah, this is different thing.

https://streamable.com/unjnw9

Pretty sure this is less than the US spent shooting down Iranian drones this weekend.

No mention of Hillary Clinton endorsing the AIPAC candidate.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/13/clinton-endorses-bowmans-challenger-house/74082348007/