Family of Dr Marwan al-Sultan says the Israeli airstrike ‘precisely’ hit the apartment block the cardiologist and his relatives occupied

Archived version: archive.is/20250704161432/theg…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

‘No other explanation’: children of Gaza doctor killed in airstrike believe he was deliberately targeted

^{Annie Kelly (The Guardian)}

The New York Times questions Zohran Mamdani's racial background based on a tip from a proponent of "race science."

NYT Runs Hit Piece on Mamdani Based on Tip From Proponent of 'Race Science'

Reports from multiple outlets show the Times is vastly underselling its source's extreme views on race.

^{brad-reed (Common Dreams)}

Colorado Democrats condemn Trump administration's fast-tracking of oil expansion project along Colorado River, risking environmental damage.

Trump Admin Quietly Approves Massive Crude Oil Expansion Project

"This thinly analyzed decision threatens the lifeblood of the American Southwest," said one environmental attorney.

^{brad-reed (Common Dreams)}

"While the United States and some other major polluters have chosen to ignore climate science, the rest of the international community is advancing protections," said one observer.

'Highly Inspiring' Court Ruling Affirms Nations' Legal Duty to Combat Climate Emergency

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

Read the room Matt.

Laid-off workers should use AI to manage their emotions, says Xbox exec

Xbox executive Matt Turnbull suggested using AI to “help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss” before deleting his post.

^{Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)}

Peter Kyle says the Alan Turing Institute should prioritise boosting the UK's AI capabilities.

Minister tells UK's Turing AI institute to focus on defence

^{Joshua Nevett (BBC News)}

A new study investigates the link between processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages, and trans fatty acids, to diseases such as cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/02/health/processed-meats-sweet-drinks-disease-wellness

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to restrict shipments of AI chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp. to Malaysia and Thailand, part of an effort to crack down on suspected semiconductor smuggling into China.

Archived version: archive.is/20250705003100/bloo…

US Plans AI Chip Curbs on Malaysia, Thailand Over China Concerns

^{Mackenzie Hawkins (Bloomberg)}

After more than a decade of timely updates, Google Search's takedown transparency report has stalled since mid-April. The absence of new data makes it harder for journalists and researchers to analyze these DMCA takedown efforts, which have increased significantly over the past year and a half. Notably, Google continues to send these notices to the Lumen database, providing some ongoing visibility.

Google's DMCA Transparency Report 'Freezes' After Recent Volume Surge * TorrentFreak

After more than a decade of timely updates, Google Search's takedown transparency report has been stalled since mid-April.

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

Quarto album per questi "Orsi grigi", giovane band americana attiva dal 2004.
Dopo "Veckatimest", uscito nel 2009, album che ha avuto notevole successo di critica e di pubblico, i Grizzly si sono presi una pausa, un periodo non proprio di riposo visto che, nel frattempo, hanno avuto esperienze personali, "momenti" utili per capire cosa fare del proprio futuro o meglio cosa fare dei Grizzly Bear... Leggi e ascolta...

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2025-07-05 08:10:08

Grizzly Bear - Shields (2012)

Quarto album per questi “Orsi grigi”, giovane band americana attiva dal 2004. Dopo “Veckatimest”, uscito nel 2009, album che ha avuto notevole successo di critica e di pubblico, i Grizzly si sono presi una pausa, un periodo non proprio di riposo visto che, nel frattempo, hanno avuto esperienze personali, “momenti” utili per capire cosa fare del proprio futuro o meglio cosa fare dei Grizzly Bear. Il risultato è questo Shields, una costola del precedente “Veckatimest”, meno incisivo, ma più equilibrato. Dieci sono i brani presenti; scritti, suonati e cantati da tutti e quattro i musicisti del gruppo. Le sonorità si aggirano in territori indie-folk (come i precedenti) con qualche strizzatina d'occhio alla psichedelia e soprattutto al pop, senza però guastare... artesuono.blogspot.com/2014/10…

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Grizzly Bear - Shields (2012)

di Silvano Bottaro Quarto album per questi "Orsi grigi", giovane band americana attiva dal 2004. Dopo "Veckatimest...

^{Silvano Bottaro (Blogger)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32491039

This is at the Oralities Research Lab in Jaipur.

Death, death to the IOF 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

https://apnews.com/article/cellphone-smartphone-invention-wireless-communication-3127c722666030ae6571494d27ae3b00

https://apnews.com/article/cellphone-smartphone-invention-wireless-communication-3127c722666030ae6571494d27ae3b00

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250704173/sleeping-beauty-bitcoin-wallets-wake-up-after-14-years-to-the-tune-of-2-billion

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250704173/sleeping-beauty-bitcoin-wallets-wake-up-after-14-years-to-the-tune-of-2-billion

Jeremy Scahill
Jul 03, 2025

"The Hamas official said the “new” draft was largely a repackaging of terms that the U.S. and Israel tried to strong arm Hamas into accepting in late May. That deal would have allowed some Israeli forces to remain entrenched in Gaza, offered no clear guarantees for a permanent end to the war, and allowed Israel to effectively maintain control of food and aid distribution in Gaza."

The Devil in the Details of Trump’s "Final Proposal" for Gaza Ceasefire

A Hamas official accused Trump of aiding an Israeli “deception operation,” but the movement says it wants to bridge the gaps and make a deal.

^{Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32703834

Jeremy Scahill
Jul 03, 2025

"The Hamas official said the “new” draft was largely a repackaging of terms that the U.S. and Israel tried to strong arm Hamas into accepting in late May. That deal would have allowed some Israeli forces to remain entrenched in Gaza, offered no clear guarantees for a permanent end to the war, and allowed Israel to effectively maintain control of food and aid distribution in Gaza."

Peter Link

2025-07-04 20:36:02

The Devil in the Details of Trump’s "Final Proposal" for Gaza Ceasefire

Jeremy Scahill
Jul 03, 2025

"The Hamas official said the “new” draft was largely a repackaging of terms that the U.S. and Israel tried to strong arm Hamas into accepting in late May. That deal would have allowed some Israeli forces to remain entrenched in Gaza, offered no clear guarantees for a permanent end to the war, and allowed Israel to effectively maintain control of food and aid distribution in Gaza."

The Devil in the Details of Trump’s "Final Proposal" for Gaza Ceasefire

A Hamas official accused Trump of aiding an Israeli “deception operation,” but the movement says it wants to bridge the gaps and make a deal.

^{Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32477572

The use of chloropicrin gas is a grave violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which Russia signed on January 13, 1993, and ratified on November 5, 1997.

Putin does NOT deserve a seat at any table and should become completely isolated. When will Trump get this?

msn.com/en-us/news/world/hegse…

Hegseth halted weapons for Ukraine this week amid concern about the U.S. military’s stockpiles despite military analysis that the aid wouldn’t jeopardize U.S. readiness (claims by top military officials).

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-use-chemical-weapons-against-ukraine-widespread-dutch-defence-minister-2025-07-04/

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/03/turkey-must-leave-nato-expel-foreign-military-bases-says-communist-party/

Moderate 10.7 mi Out and Back
2,500ft elevation gain
Extends from Emerald Lake Trail
Hiked 6/5/25

This fantastic hike leaves Emerald lake and climbs into a large bowl in between Wapta Mtn and the Oresident range. Bowl area is full sun while keeping a fairly steep pace on the way into Yoho Pass. Deep snow at time of hike for over 1 mile on pass, melty on way back with post-holing. Very Popular. Same trail I saw the Ruffed Grouse on that I posted a while ago, reposted in here as well.

Wapta mountain sits across from the serene waters of Yoho lake. Still a little avalanche to be let go of on the mountain, and that side of the lake was still deep snow. Red chairs just out of frame.

Looking up towards Angle Peak with a large field of snow still at the top of the Avalanche zone beyond it.

The view as you decend from Yoho pass back into the valley shows the many tracks the stream flows take in the large avalanche zone feeding into Emerald Lake. Mt Deville lies behind the Tocher ridge in the distance.

A ruffed grouse was on the trail as I turned a corner, trusting in it's camoflage until the right moment to make a break.

Short video if the seasonal fall on Bluesky

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

archives.gov/founding-docs/dec…

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflects the original.

^{National Archives}

In a memo to employees earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision for a near-future in which "personal [AI] superintelligence for everyone" forms "the beginning of a new era for humanity." The newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs—freshly staffed with multiple high-level acquisitions from OpenAI and other AI companies—will spearhead the development of "our next generation of models to get to the frontier in the next year or so," Zuckerberg wrote.

Reading that memo, I couldn't help but think of another "vision for the future" Zuckerberg shared not that long ago. At his 2021 Facebook Connect keynote, Zuckerberg laid out his plan for the metaverse, a virtual place where “you're gonna be able to do almost anything you can imagine" and which would form the basis of "the next version of the Internet."

Zuckerberg believed in that vision so much at the time that he abandoned the well-known Facebook corporate brand in favor of the new name "Meta." "I'm going to keep pushing and giving everything I've got to make this happen now," Zuckerberg said at the time. Less than four years later, Zuckerberg seems to now be “giving everything [he's] got" for a vision of AI “superintelligence," reportedly offering pay packages of up to $300 million over four years to attract top talent from other AI companies (Meta has since denied those reports, saying, “The size and structure of these compensation packages have been misrepresented all over the place").

Once again, Zuckerberg is promising that this new technology will revolutionize our lives and replace the ways we currently socialize and work on the Internet. But the utter failure (so far) of those over-the-top promises for the metaverse has us more than a little skeptical of how impactful Zuckerberg’s vision of “personal superintelligence for everyone" will truly be.

Looks like Zuck is angling for the golden shoehorn award (a real thing at one of the papers I worked for). It would be nice if all these failures actually put a dent in Meta's income, but who's really going to notice tens of billions being lost when you essentially own a money-printing scheme?

Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”

Zuckerberg and company talked up another supposed tech revolution four short years ago.

^{Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)}

The traffic receded as Chicago withdrew into the distance behind me on Interstate 90. Barns and trees dotted the horizon. The speakers in my rental car, playing Spotify from my smartphone, put out the opening riff of a laid-back psychedelic-rock song. When the lyrics came, delivered in a folksy vibrato, they matched my mood: “Smoke in the sky / No peace found,” the band’s vocalist sang.

Except perhaps he didn’t really sing, because he doesn’t exist. By all appearances, neither does the band, called the Velvet Sundown. Its music, lyrics, and album art may be AI inventions. Same goes for the photos of the band. Social-media accounts associated with the band have been coy on the subject: “They said we’re not real. Maybe you aren’t either,” one Velvet Sundown post declares. (That account did not respond to a request for comment via direct message.) Whatever its provenance, the Velvet Sundown seems to be successful: It released two albums last month alone, with a third on its way. And with more than 850,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, its reach exceeds that of the late-’80s MTV staple Martika or the hard-bop jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley. As for the music: You know, it’s not bad.

It’s not good either. It’s more like nothing—not good or bad, aesthetically or morally. Having listened to both of the Velvet Sundown’s albums as I drove from Chicago to Madison, Wisconsin, earlier this week, I discovered that what may now be the most successful AI group on Spotify is merely, profoundly, and disturbingly innocuous. In that sense, it signifies the fate of music that is streamed online and then imbibed while one drives, cooks, cleans, works, exercises, or does any other prosaic act. Long before generative AI began its takeover of the internet, streaming music had turned anodyne—a vehicle for vibes, not for active listening. A single road trip with the Velvet Sundown was enough to prove this point: A major subset of the music that we listen to today might as well have been made by a machine.

I don't understand streaming music as a concept. My collection of individual tracks stands at about 1,700 (clocking in at 190 hours -- that is 22 hours more than a week), and there are several full albums atop that.

In my 40s, new music discovery has been a low priority, but if I'm really in the mood, I'll find a weekly radio mix from known quality DJs and hop over to Beatport if something moves me.

The use case for streaming is ... you don't want to choose what you listen to, pay monthly for stuff you'll never own and pay for a higher data plan? That sounds like radio with really expensive extra steps (I ceased listening to the radio after being thrust into the rave scene in the late '90s, and through interactions with others came to the conclusion that I was missing out on nothing.).

I'm sure "AI" can produce perfectly milquetoast music, but are you ever going to want to listen again? I have tracks I've listened to hundreds of times because they mean something to me emotionally (and often have a temporal element wherein I remember where I was living and what I was doing the first time I heard it) -- and most of my tracks do not have lyrics.

Layering nonsensical lyrics atop forgettable melodies sounds more like torture than a service providing any value.

My Road Trip With the Velvet Sundown

Nobody cares if music is real anymore.

^{Ian Bogost (The Atlantic)}