https://apnews.com/article/palestinian-student-lawsuit-michigan-school-pledge-allegiance-06c97427299652865b60313ed38ffcc2

Easy 1.5 mile Loop
300 ft elevation gain
Hiked May 23, 2025

An extremely popular hike due to its ease and location north of Lake Louise on the Icefields Parkway, this hike puts you right on top of the falls where you may wander along the top of the canyon and see the various water chutes. A short loop uses part of the Mt Sarbach trail to get a higher view. Both parking and the people can be a mess here, so plan accordingly.

Where the river meets the canyon creating a short but turbocharged waterfall.

Mistaya canyon unfolds towards Mount Sarbach in the distance.

Mount Sarbach in the distance with Mistaya river and a forest extending downstream.

It started to become clear the previous April, when a man who had been pursuing me canceled a dinner at the last minute. There was a scheduling mix-up with his son’s game. I understood. I’m a hockey mom; I get it. Still, I went. I wore what I would have worn anyway. I took the table. I ordered well. And I watched the room.

Only two tables nearby seemed to hold actual dates. The rest were groups of women, or women alone, each one occupying her space with quiet confidence. No shrinking. No waiting. No apologizing.

That night marked something. Not a heartbreak, but an unveiling. A sense that what I’d been experiencing wasn’t just personal misalignment. It was something broader. Cultural. A slow vanishing of presence.

I’m 54. I’ve been dating since the mid-80s, been married, been a mother, gotten divorced, had many relationships long and short. I remember when part of heterosexual male culture involved showing up with a woman to signal something — status, success, desirability. Women were once signifiers of value, even to other men. It wasn’t always healthy, but it meant that men had to show up and put in some effort.

That dynamic has quietly collapsed. We have moved into an era where many men no longer seek women to impress other men or to connect across difference. They perform elsewhere. Alone. They’ve filtered us out.

I recently experienced a flicker of possibility. With James. We met on Raya, the dating app. There was something mutual from the start — wordplay, emotional precision, a tone that felt attuned. It was brief, but it caught light. I remember saying to him, “Even fleeting connections matter, when they’re mutual and lit from the inside.” I meant it.

There was just enough spark to wonder what might unfold. Enough curiosity to imagine a doorway. But he didn’t step through it. Not with a plan. Not with presence. He hovered — flirting, retreating, offering warmth but no direction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/style/modern-love-men-where-have-you-gone-please-come-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE8.XGxM.Vjn2tQ-ezAmR

Some excerpts:
A survivor of the Tuesday massacre at the GHF distribution point in Rafah told me that shortly after the appointed distribution time, Israeli soldiers were near the road to the site, “hunting people as if they were ducks”.

The aid seeker from southern Gaza told me he saw gangs of Palestinian thieves inside the point, apparently “working side by side with the GHF workers” to create a buffer between the pushing crowds and US staff.

The GHF workers, described as “seasoned crisis operators,” have troubling backgrounds. Phil Reilly, CEO of Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), which assists the GHF, was a senior vice president at a US company that committed a massacre in Iraq in 2007.

The foundation is also assisted by another company, publicly known as UG Solutions. During the January ceasefire, UG hired US mercenaries at daily rates starting at $1,100 to inspect vehicles at the Netzarim checkpoint.

I’m in northern Gaza. I would rather starve than take GHF aid

No amount of hunger would push me to seek aid wrapped in blood and humiliation.

^{Eman Hillis (Al Jazeera)}

Some excerpts:

A survivor of the Tuesday massacre at the GHF distribution point in Rafah told me that shortly after the appointed distribution time, Israeli soldiers were near the road to the site, “hunting people as if they were ducks”.

The aid seeker from southern Gaza told me he saw gangs of Palestinian thieves inside the point, apparently “working side by side with the GHF workers” to create a buffer between the pushing crowds and US staff.

The GHF workers, described as “seasoned crisis operators,” have troubling backgrounds. Phil Reilly, CEO of Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), which assists the GHF, was a senior vice president at a US company that committed a massacre in Iraq in 2007.

The foundation is also assisted by another company, publicly known as UG Solutions. During the January ceasefire, UG hired US mercenaries at daily rates starting at $1,100 to inspect vehicles at the Netzarim checkpoint.

I’m in northern Gaza. I would rather starve than take GHF aid

No amount of hunger would push me to seek aid wrapped in blood and humiliation.

^{Eman Hillis (Al Jazeera)}

Jake Johnson
Jun 25, 2025

"Affordability was a key focus of Mamdani's policy platform and messaging, with the Democratic state assemblymember calling for an immediate rent freeze for all of the city's rent-stabilized tenants, the creation of a network of city-owned grocery stores focused not on profits but on "keeping prices low," and free childcare.

Mamdani proposed funding those and other priorities with a higher tax rate on corporations and city residents earning more than $1 million per year—fueling the backlash his campaign faced from the ultra-wealthy."

Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in NYC

"The people of New York City proved that a movement powered by hope, courage, and working people can beat the money of billionaires," said one Mamdani supporter.

^{jake-johnson (Common Dreams)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32262380

Jake Johnson
Jun 25, 2025

"Affordability was a key focus of Mamdani's policy platform and messaging, with the Democratic state assemblymember calling for an immediate rent freeze for all of the city's rent-stabilized tenants, the creation of a network of city-owned grocery stores focused not on profits but on "keeping prices low," and free childcare.

Mamdani proposed funding those and other priorities with a higher tax rate on corporations and city residents earning more than $1 million per year—fueling the backlash his campaign faced from the ultra-wealthy."

Peter Link

2025-06-25 21:55:08

Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in NYC | Common Dreams

Jake Johnson
Jun 25, 2025

"Affordability was a key focus of Mamdani's policy platform and messaging, with the Democratic state assemblymember calling for an immediate rent freeze for all of the city's rent-stabilized tenants, the creation of a network of city-owned grocery stores focused not on profits but on "keeping prices low," and free childcare.

Mamdani proposed funding those and other priorities with a higher tax rate on corporations and city residents earning more than $1 million per year—fueling the backlash his campaign faced from the ultra-wealthy."

Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in NYC

"The people of New York City proved that a movement powered by hope, courage, and working people can beat the money of billionaires," said one Mamdani supporter.

^{jake-johnson (Common Dreams)}

The old saying “timing is everything” apparently also applies to corruption.

On June 6, mere hours after Elon Musk started his tweet war with the president, Trump’s Commerce Department released its long-awaited revisions to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (“BEAD”) program.

This $42 billion broadband-deployment plan was part of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”) that Congress passed in November 2021. As expected, the Trump administration’s revisions radically overhauled what had been a rural broadband-deployment plan focused on building fiber networks — and turned it into a free money dispenser for Elon Musk’s satellite-broadband company, Starlink.

Had this billionaire bromance fallen apart a few weeks earlier, we might have seen a less sweeping revision of this once-in-a-lifetime infrastructure program. But now that this revised plan is out there, analysts everywhere — operating on the premise that Trump-administration corruption is a given — are trying to predict how and to what degree the Trump team will enforce these changes designed to unjustly enrich Musk … a man the president reportedly called “a big time drug addict” as the two traded barbs.

Trump's Corrupt Plan to Steal Rural America's Broadband Future

A program designed to bring broadband to rural communities had a lot of promise — until the Trump administration got its hands on it. Now Musk stands to benefit.

^{S. Derek Turner (Free Press Action Fund)}

The old saying “timing is everything” apparently also applies to corruption.

On June 6, mere hours after Elon Musk started his tweet war with the president, Trump’s Commerce Department released its long-awaited revisions to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (“BEAD”) program.

This $42 billion broadband-deployment plan was part of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”) that Congress passed in November 2021. As expected, the Trump administration’s revisions radically overhauled what had been a rural broadband-deployment plan focused on building fiber networks — and turned it into a free money dispenser for Elon Musk’s satellite-broadband company, Starlink.

Had this billionaire bromance fallen apart a few weeks earlier, we might have seen a less sweeping revision of this once-in-a-lifetime infrastructure program. But now that this revised plan is out there, analysts everywhere — operating on the premise that Trump-administration corruption is a given — are trying to predict how and to what degree the Trump team will enforce these changes designed to unjustly enrich Musk … a man the president reportedly called “a big time drug addict” as the two traded barbs.

Trump's Corrupt Plan to Steal Rural America's Broadband Future

A program designed to bring broadband to rural communities had a lot of promise — until the Trump administration got its hands on it. Now Musk stands to benefit.

^{S. Derek Turner (Free Press Action Fund)}

Il coraggio è una virtù di pochi e i Wilco sono tra questi.
I fan di vecchia data, dopo un primo ascolto rimarranno molto probabilmente spiazzati. The Whole Love abbandonando la strada di Sky Blue Sky (2007) e dell’ultimo Wilco (2011), dimenticando i suoni di Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) e A Ghost Is Born (2004), si inerpica in nuovi territori e... Leggi e ascolta...

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2025-06-26 05:21:50

Wilco - The Whole Love (2011)

Il coraggio è una virtù di pochi e i Wilco sono tra questi. I fan di vecchia data, dopo un primo ascolto rimarranno molto probabilmente spiazzati. The Whole Love abbandonando la strada di Sky Blue Sky (2007) e dell’ultimo Wilco (2011), dimenticando i suoni di Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) e A Ghost Is Born (2004), si inerpica in nuovi territori e, questo, non può che far bene. Si perchè, al di la che il disco possa piacere o meno, quello che conta per un gruppo ormai sulla breccia dal 1995 (senza contare la parenesi “Uncle Tupelo” dei primi anni novanta) è il saper rinnovarsi, evitando così la noia del ripetersi. The Whole Love è un ponte, l’inizio probabilmente di un nuovo corso dei Wilco. Non che Jeff Tweedy non sia stato incline a sperimentazioni e a ricerche sonore, anzi, fatto sta che questo ultimo lavoro suona come un manifesto di cambiamento. Un cambiamento che sa di abbandono ai vecchi cliché e di abbraccio a nuove esperienze musicali senza preclusioni di ordine commerciale, non a caso l’album è prodotto proprio da Tweedy... artesuono.blogspot.com/2014/08…

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Wilco - The Whole Love (2011)

di Silvano Bottaro Il coraggio è una virtù di pochi e i Wilco sono tra questi. I fan di vecchia data, dopo un primo ascolto rimarranno...

^{Silvano Bottaro (Blogger)}

A federal judge sided with Meta in a lawsuit that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on copyrighted works.

Case file: storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books | TechCrunch

^{Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)}

Il 5 luglio presso l'Hotel Miramare di Cesentatico (FC), l'artista e scrittore Klaus Zambiasi sarà insignito del trofeo internazionale "Artista dell'anno 2025" per le arti visive. Si tratta di un riconoscimento assegnato da Artexpò Gallery, con il patrocinio della Città di Cesenatico. Le opere di Zambiasi e degli altri artisti premiati saranno esposte nelle sale dell'Hotel e pubblicate in un catalogo dedicato. Il prestigioso riconoscimento per l'artista altoatesino giunge in occasione dei suoi trent'anni di attività nel campo della pittura e al culmine di una stagione ricca di mostre e successi internazionali.
Lo scorso marzo, il dipinto che fa da copertina al suo primo romanzo "Il sorriso della luna" (nella foto) è stato esposto sotto forma di poster gigante nella stazione della Metropolitana di Madrid Nuevos Ministerios nell'ambito della seconda edizione di "Madrid Station Exhibition". La stessa opera esposta a luglio nella stazione ferroviaria Shibuya di Tokio, la seconda più frequentata al mondo con 3.6 milioni di persone al giorno. A giugno, tre opere sono state esposte nella stazione ferroviaria di Basilea durante la fiera Art Basel e un'opera è stata esposta nel Museo della Fotografia e Arte di Pechino. Dall'inizio del 2025 e fino alla primavera 2026, inoltre, altre sue opere saranno esposte in diverse gallerie ad Atene, Berlino, Dubai, New York, Palma De Maiorca, Parigi, Venezia, Zugo (Svizzera).

L'artista, inoltre, sarà inserito con una pagina dedicata, nell'Atlante dell'Arte Contemporanea edito dalla Giunti e presentato al "MoMa" di New York, che sarà distribuito alla Biennale di Venezia, alla Fiera del libro di Francoforte e all'Art Basel di Miami, consacrandolo tra i nomi di riferimento dell'arte contemporanea.

Klaus Zambiasi originario di Castiglione delle Stiviere (Mantova), vive e lavora tra la provincia di Bolzano e Bratislava (Slovacchia). Nel 2022 ha esordito sulla scena letteraria con il romanzo autobiografico "Il sorriso della luna", seguito da "3 Il Bacio Rubato" (2023) e "L'appuntamento al calar della sera (2024)". I primi due libri sono stati tradotti anche in tedesco.

The revived No JS Club celebrates websites that don't use Javascript, the powerful but sometimes overused code that's been bloating the web and crashing tabs since 1995. The No CSS Club goes a step further and forbids even a scrap of styling beyond the browser defaults. And there is even the No HTML Club, where you're not even allowed to use HTML. Plain text websites!

The modern web is the pure incarnation of evil. When Satan has a 1v1 with his manager, he confers with the modern web. If Satan is Sauron, then the modern web is Melkor [1]. Every horror that you can imagine is because of the modern web. Modern web is not an existential risk (X-risk), but is an astronomic suffering risk (S-risk) [2]. It is the duty of each and every man, woman, and child to revolt against it. If you're not working on returning civilization to ooga-booga, you're a bad person.

A compromise with the clubs is called for. A hypertext brutalism that uses the raw materials of the web to functional, honest ends while allowing web technologies to support clarity, legibility and accessibility. Compare this notion to the web brutalism of recent times, which started off in similar vein but soon became a self-subverting aesthetic: sites using 2.4MB frameworks to add text-shadow: 40px 40px 0px hotpink to 400kb Helvetica webfonts that were already on your computer.

I also like the idea of implementing "hypotext" as an inversion of hypertext. This would somehow avoid the failure modes of extending the structure of text by failing in other ways that are more fun. But I'm in two minds about whether that would be just a toy (e.g. references banished to metadata, i.e. footnotes are the hypertext) or something more conceptual that uses references to collapse the structure of text rather than extend it (e.g. links are includes and going near them spaghettifies your brain). The term is already in use in a structuralist sense, which is to say there are 2 million words of French I have to read first if I want to get away with any of this.

Republished Under Creative Commons Terms.
Boing Boing Original Article.

The revived No JS Club celebrates websites that don't use Javascript, the powerful but sometimes overused code that's been bloating the web and crashing tabs since 1995. The No CSS Club goes a step further and forbids even a scrap of styling beyond the browser defaults. And there is even the No HTML Club, where you're not even allowed to use HTML. Plain text websites!

The modern web is the pure incarnation of evil. When Satan has a 1v1 with his manager, he confers with the modern web. If Satan is Sauron, then the modern web is Melkor [1]. Every horror that you can imagine is because of the modern web. Modern web is not an existential risk (X-risk), but is an astronomic suffering risk (S-risk) [2]. It is the duty of each and every man, woman, and child to revolt against it. If you're not working on returning civilization to ooga-booga, you're a bad person.

A compromise with the clubs is called for. A hypertext brutalism that uses the raw materials of the web to functional, honest ends while allowing web technologies to support clarity, legibility and accessibility. Compare this notion to the web brutalism of recent times, which started off in similar vein but soon became a self-subverting aesthetic: sites using 2.4MB frameworks to add text-shadow: 40px 40px 0px hotpink to 400kb Helvetica webfonts that were already on your computer.

I also like the idea of implementing "hypotext" as an inversion of hypertext. This would somehow avoid the failure modes of extending the structure of text by failing in other ways that are more fun. But I'm in two minds about whether that would be just a toy (e.g. references banished to metadata, i.e. footnotes are the hypertext) or something more conceptual that uses references to collapse the structure of text rather than extend it (e.g. links are includes and going near them spaghettifies your brain). The term is already in use in a structuralist sense, which is to say there are 2 million words of French I have to read first if I want to get away with any of this.

Republished Under Creative Commons Terms.
Boing Boing Original Article.

Research.

Analyses of over 40,000 documents, computer vision papers and downstream patents spanning four decades indicates the extent of this surveillance and the rise of obfuscating language that helps to normalise such approaches.

Pervasive surveillance of people is being used to access, monetise, coerce, and control

^www.tcd.ie

Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.

Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old given unprecedented access to some of the most private information on Americans, has reportedly quit his role at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency according to Wired. If you don’t remember the name Coristine, you probably remember his nickname, the thing he reportedly told people to call him while he plundered the nation’s data. He went by Big Balls.

Officially, Coristine was an employee of GSA but was working across multiple government agencies, according to Wired. Big Balls was reportedly rooting around in government systems for USAID, the Department of Education, and the Small Business Administration, among others. It’s not clear how much data to which Coristine ultimately got access. Nor do we know what he, or anyone else affiliated with DOGE, has done with it.

Coristine made an infamous appearance on Fox News where he tried to strengthen Musk’s case that the federal government was riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse. But he wound up accidentally revealing that he simply had no idea how anything works. Coristine and Musk seemed to believe that because they didn’t know how various things in the government worked, some kind of nefarious activity had been exposed. But it did nothing of the sort.

The Tyranny of 'Big Balls' Has Come to an End

The 19-year-old dipshit is moving on from DOGE work.

^{Matt Novak (Gizmodo)}

Greetings Programs! I just wanted to let you know that the #announcement, #news, and #release tags on discourse.imfreedom.org are now available directly on the Fediverse!

Comments are not currently enabled between Discourse and the Fediverse, but we might consider this in the future.

You can follow them by searching for their handles on your instances

• announcements@discourse.imfreedom.org
• news@discourse.imfreedom.org
• releases@discourse.imfreedom.org

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Su Aphorism.it recensisco "La danza dei lebbrosi" di Leonard Cohen, un romanzo che il Poeta scrisse in età giovanile. In Italia è nel catalogo Bompiani.

aphorism.it/recensioni/la-danz…

#ladanzadeilebbrosi #leonardcohen #bompiani #giuntialpunto #recensione #recensionelibro #libro #iannozzigiuseppe #novitàinlibreria #cultura #libridaleggere