Americans are having a record low amount of sex -- even less than they did during the Covid-19 pandemic -- according to a new study led by researchers at the Institute for Family Studies.
Open source maintainers of major projects (hi) are not ready to accept and talk about how the cultural insistence on permissive licensing is just straight up labor exploitation taking advantage of our addiction to popularity (also hi).
Unlike regular labor exploitation, where there’s really not much of a choice at all because you have to be part of the labor force to get any income and survive at all…
We’re literally doing this shit for free, people. What’s your excuse?
Building a free and open commons is still a good thing. Sharing code and projects with each other free of charge, for mutual benefit, is still a good thing.
The program is getting corpos in there who use your work for profit while demanding more work from you in the name of “supply chain security”
Selon l’Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques, ce déficit colossal s’explique d’abord par la baisse de la fiscalité sur les entreprises et les ménages les plus aisés. Pour parler simplement, Macron a créé de la dette en aidant les riches contre-attaque.net/2025/09/01/…
Michael Warner, co-founder of wine boutique DCanter, said importers and distributors have raised costs of foreign wines since June - Copyright AFP SAUL LOEB
🇭🇷🇺🇦 A new wave of humanitarian aid has arrived in Ukraine from Croatia!
Medical equipment, generators and transformers for hospitals and communities in war-affected regions. The total cost of the aid is almost $3 million.
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A strange feeling it is, to witness how ppl across the world perceive u. I never arranged my words to be the finest, nor my thoughts to be perfectly ordered. All I truly did was to describe, what I am living—even when words & expressions fell short.
I am deeply happy each time I see how the world stands with us, how it stands with #Palestine, & w every instance my sense of pride grows stronger at being part of this world—❤️❤️❤️ #Gaza #palestine
In einer UN-Resolution von 1948 sind die Kriterien für einen Völkermord festgelegt. Laut der Internationalen Vereinigung von Völkermord-Forschern erfüllt Israel mit seinem Vorgehen im Gazastreifen den Tatbestand des Genozids.
There are reports that for the first time since the beginning of the SVO, strikes on targets in the suburbs of Odessa were carried out using aviation bombs with universal planning and correction modules.
With over 1 million signatures, the European citizens' initiative "My Voice, My Choice" submitted its request to the European Commission on Monday to set up a funding mechanism to make abortion more accessible.
Il neo tecnico dell'Italia Under 21 verso la gara col Montenegro: "Sono abituato a usare termini un po’ volgari, e con la maglia azzurra non lo posso fare.
È in via di organizzazione la riunione dei leader della cosiddetta coalizione dei volenterosi a sostegno dell'Ucraina, prevista per giovedì. Come nelle altre occasioni, a quanto si apprende, parteciperà la premier Giorgia Meloni. (ANSA)
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I have been looking for info on what is happening in Indonesia. Massive protests that won't die down. Police brutality. Ambiguous statements from the rulers.
I found this, but cannot verify its authenticity, other than AbolitionMedia published it. Still don't know what to make out of it. Information welcome if you have any. TY
I found some history on this article, detailing how the current Indonesian ruler, Prabowo Subianto, got to where he is. Needless to say, it starts with Nixon and the CIA, 1955/1956.
Prabowo Subianto will take office as President of Indonesia in October. He is a military strongman with a sordid history of killings and human rights abuses. How did he win the election? An Indonesian socialist explains the background to his rise.
Il racconto del titolare della Pinko Pallino, dove a Ferragosto un dipendente è stato insultato e colpito in piena faccia da un avventore: prognosi di 30 giorn…
@zenkat lol yeah WSJ was definitely understating the case... though unfortunately it's pretty obvious that this kind of thing is no longer illegal as long as it involves the trump family and justin sun.
Très bon article de Fr3 sur l’organisation du 10 septembre à Caen. Je saurais pas dire depuis combien d’années j’avais pas lu des précaires expliquer leur quotidien sans que se soit juste du misérabilisme et avoir l’occasion de s’exprimer politiquement
Face à un budget 2026 perçu comme "une agression contre les classes populaires", la mobilisation du 10 septembre "Bloquons tout", qui se veut spontanée et citoyenne, se met en place. Deux militants nous expliquent les raisons...
Undercover #Vancouver Police officer Mark Horsley uncovers kindness in Downtown Eastside | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col… “No one tried to rob him or short change him during transactions.
"Not one person took advantage of my vulnerability," Horsley told a news conference Thursday.
Often folk in poor communities have more compassion and empathy than middle-higher incomes because experience taught them to shed their judgemental biases. They are more likely to be aware no one is to blame for a disability, either visible or not.
🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇦 Macron and Starmer will hold a meeting of the "coalition of the willing" at the Elysee Palace on Thursday, - Le Monde
❗️Zelensky will also take part in the meeting, which will be held in a hybrid format.
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🎒 Alors que la rentrée est arrivée, petit regard dans le rétro sur les actions du mois d'aout au sein des Groupes Locaux de #ExtinctionRebellion : que de belles promesses pour le mois de septembre 😏 #10septembre / #BloquonsTout 🚧
Nous faisons face à une urgence mondiale sans précédent. Les gouvernements ont échoué à nous protéger malgré les solutions connues et préconisées. Il est don...
Demande de destitution du Président Emmanuel Macron en vertu de l’article 68 de la Constitution
À l’attention des parlementaires de l’Assemblée nationale et du Sénat,
Nous, citoyens français, adressons cette demande de destitution du Président …
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E' da sabato mattina che una ruota della macchina è a terra. Sabato i gommisti sono chiusi e poi il sabato io sto in giro o in relax più tempo possibile. Mi sono detto "lunedì pomeriggio smonto la ruota della macchina e la porto dal gommista con la bici cargo". La mia macchina non ha il crick per togliere la ruota, nemmeno la macchina dei miei. Il compressore in dotazione alla macchina non andava, il vicino non aveva il crick nemmeno lui quindi niente da fare. -->
--> alla fine ho dovuto gonfiare la ruota con la pompa della bici (meno faticoso del previsto) e sono andato dal gommista in macchina quando avrei potuto/voluto fare tutti gli spostamenti in bici senza accendere la macchina. E invece...
❗️🇺🇦 The suspect in Parubiy's murder confessed to the crime during interrogations and spoke about his contacts with Russia, - Radio Liberty
▪️The man had a son, a serviceman, who went missing in the Bakhmut direction.
Gemeinsam machen wir Hamburgs Klimapolitik sozial, planbar und verantwortungsbewusst. Stimme am 12.10.2025 beim Volksentscheid mit JA für ein besseres Klimaschutzgesetz.
In 2023, the then-Conservative government awarded Palantir with a £330m contract to “build a new NHS data platform”. The move proved controversial because Palantir is a US spy tech firm and its co-founder Peter Thiel is a prominent Trump donor with links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, a trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Thiel’s connections.
Journalists have reported on Thiel’s links to Epstein for some time. In 2019, journalist Whitney Webb reported on the links between Epstein, Israeli tech company Carbyne, and the American intelligence apparatus. In the piece, she reported:
Not long after Epstein’s arrest, and his relationships and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as Epstein’s close associate and former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist and prominent Trump backer Peter Thiel.
Webb added:
Another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from the Trump administration’s proposed hi-tech solutions to mass shootings. Indeed, after the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas, President Trump — who received political donations from and has been advised by Thiel following his election — asked tech companies to “detect mass shooters before they strike,” a service already perfected by Thiel’s company Palantir, which has developed “pre-crime software” already in use throughout the country. Palantir is also a contractor for the U.S. intelligence community and also has a branch based in Israel.
The latest revelations around Thiel come from the leaked emails of the aforementioned Ehud Barak (former Israeli prime minister). Writing in Reason, Matthew Petti reported:
Epstein invited Barak to come to a meeting with Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and the surveillance contractor Palantir, in May 2014. Although Barak couldn’t make that meeting, Epstein insisted that Barak “spend real time with peter thiel [sic]” and offered to set up a dinner the following month.Epstein
Barak wrote to a different business associate a few days later, without mentioning Epstein’s role, that he and Thiel would have a “first date” and “probably spend it talking just geopolitics” with an unnamed third person. In that email, Barak added that he had met Thiel once before in Davos, Switzerland, but speculated that Thiel “probably doesn’t even recall it.”
Brace Belden of the TrueAnon podcast added that Barak suspected Thiel was “under some drug impact” when they met, according to the emails:
Another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from the Trump administration’s proposed hi-tech solutions to mass shootings.
This willingness to let billionaires offer for-profit tech solutions to social problems is a sickness, and this is the clearest example yet.
Makes sense. Sex trafficking is sex trafficking. Remember when Lindsey Graham made the sudden switch from vehemently against the Orange pedophile/rapist to best buds? Blackmail makes real sense.
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Thiel shared his views on the Ten Commandments and identified which ones he believes are the most significant.
"The Ten Commandments, the two most important are the first and last on the list. The first commandment is, you should worship God," Thiel reportedly told attendees. "The tenth commandment is, you should not covet the things that belong to your neighbor. In some ways, the first commandment is to look up, and the tenth commandment is you do not look around. And if you're too much focused horizontally on all the people around you, that's sort of the bad version you get caught up in."
He's such a hypocrite!
The greedy guy who owns a company that offers mass surveillance systems says that not looking around at your neighbors is one of the best virtues. LoL
The liability is obviously not high enough if keeping and sharing this data works out positively. Even if the parties involved weren't obviously evil, the risk to the people is too high for them to accept the risk with only trivial, speculative improvements.
Yeah I'm not surprised about the Thiel/Epstein thing, I'm more surprised that the NHS is considering any sort of private health data handling by PALANTIR of all companies.
Somebody is going to be getting a Non-executive board membership or millionaire consulting "gig" from one of Tiel's companies or one from one of his friends...
By this point in time in Britain that kind of I thing has been going on long enough to almost be tradition.
NHS England has tens of millions of patients. Most patient records are undigitised and must be couriered when patients move to a new area or when specialist care is required.
It’s also a huge, publicly funded service so big data can be crunched to improve outcomes and efficiencies.
Palantir wanted a big system to use as the testbed for its move into healthcare data systems and offered a low bid.
Unless I am presented with contradictory evidence (I am not accepting feedback) I will assume nobody over there is willing to program a machine of any type out of fear that their balls will be cut off by the government like daddy Turing’s were.
Edit: (to be clear, I’m just taking the piss. Please for the love of dog, do not touch Palantir with even the tip of any of your extremities.)
This isn't even the first time Thiel has been linked to Epstein, but we never really hear about it for some reason. This isn't even the first time he's been linked this summer.
Ever since that gawker lawsuit, it kinda seems like bad press about Peter Thiel gets buried almost as soon as it's published.
as a rule I don't subscribe to theories related to the blood libel myth but if there was a dude to try injecting children's's blood into his blood to prolong his own life, it's probably this psycho. the dude needs a straight jacket and glands removed. not government contracts.
In 2016, various media outlets reported that Mr Thiel had links to the radical life extension startup Ambrosia, with Gawker claiming he "spends $40,00 per quarter to get an infusion of blood from an 18-year-old based on research conducted at Stanford on extending the lives of mice."
These reports cited his investment portfolio, together with a 2009 essay that laid out his philosophical and political beliefs. In it, he wrote that he stood against "the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual."
However the blood transfusion claims were never verified and Gawker shut down shortly after following an unrelated lawsuit partly funded by Mr Thiel.
The comedy show “Silicon Valley” was a documentary. They just changed the names of prominent figures and literally nothing else. That’s why it was so funny.
I don't know which all aircraft were involved at different points, but there was absolutely a shoot-down by an F-22.
I don't know anything about this website but it was one of Wikipedia's sources. I remember seeing the pictures/videos with the F-22 clearly visible, plus the noteworthy stats like being the first f-22 kill, being the first engagement over US territory since WW2, and that it was probably the highest air to air kill.
They provide police state technology currently used by ICE to target immigrants and several US cities police departments use their tech for "predictive policing." Not to mention they are actively and enthusiastically testing predictive generative AI to plan war crimes and hallucinate targets in the Gaza genocide. Technology they will bring home as "battle tested."
I assume y’all on the other side of the pond are just learning about Palantir for the first time and that’s why you’re looking for bombshell headlines. I can assure you as someone from Silicon Valley that there is literally no single headline that can possibly convey the pure evil that is Peter Thiel. He literally believes that it is morally and, from his perspective, objectively correct that a few pre-selected technocrat elites (his words) should rule city-states that “compete” with each other. He is currently miserably failing at building a libertarian “eutopia” (his words) out in the desert to the east of San Francisco. He promises it would be done by this year. It hasn’t even started.
He founded PayPal and got mad when he immediately learned that banks exist for a reason. He was such a piece of shit that Elon Musk couldn’t work with him.
Being a "thinker" isn't exactly a high bar. A fish can do it (depending on the definition). I mean I suppose I can think, but I wouldn't brag about it.
if you have nothing worth bragging about, resorting to basic functions of sapient life for clout is the best you can do. I'm a thinker too. I'm also a breather, an eater and plenty moee things that aren't special.
I've got some actual achievements too, such as being a former piece of shit, so I've actually got a leg up on him!
The neoreactionary movement (a.k.a. neoreaction, NRx, the Dark Enlightenment) is a loosely-defined cluster of Internet-based political thinkers who wish to return society to forms of government older than liberal democracy.
It is an ideal belief system for soi-disant libertarians who realize that, regardless of the principles of freedom being the ostensible foundation of their ideology, they are unwilling to tolerate others' enjoyment of freedom.
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The first time? Hardly, for anyone who can read and find proper news sources. I've been telling people for years that the most dangerous people in the fascist middle northern america are not in the white house, but in the silicon valley - and that the most evil motherfucker is Peter Thiel.
I can assure you as someone from Silicon Valley that there is literally no single headline that can possibly convey the pure evil that is Peter Thiel. He literally believes that ...
Dude, the US has been lagging behind the UK for the last decade. We voted for Brexit because of Cambridge Analytica, then you voted Trump for the first time because of Cambridge Analytica. We voted for Boris in 2019, you got Trump again in 2024. We're probably going to vote in Nigel Farage next and then the US will be like "Hold my beer!"
Palantir is just another symptom of this wider problem.
The recent fury over news that data on Facebook members was used by the Trump campaign exposes a massive double standard on the part of those now raising holy hell over Facebook.
uhm idk who's not familiar with Thiel but the blueprint of his "utopia" - "The Sovereign Individual" was literally co-written by no other than William Rees-Mogg a conservative house of lords cross-bencher who's also the father of two other conservative MPs that have served in the UK Parliament.
the 2014 reprint of the book has a foreword by Thiel, where he says that it's "the most influential book he had read"
so as usual the theoretical frameworks have been drafted in the heart of empire and implemented in the "land of the free"
Well, Elon wouldn't work with him because Elon had a shitty idea that Thiel said was shitty and wouldn't let Elon do it. Elon was forced to settle for becoming filthy rich.
That project is where the name "X" originally comes from.
Lol what the fuck? I assume you are taking about California Forever but desert is a weird word to describe the Sacramento River delta. It is one of the largest estuaries in north america.
It does seem like the muttering, scrawny weirdo would be the first to get put out on their arse post-apocalypse by... literally anyone currently in their employ.
Does he put forward his case that he is the anti christ? As he sure comes across as someone who would want that. He has always felt like the sort of motherfucker who would read the Stand and identify with Randall Flagg
La presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, ha acusado al presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, de "multiplicar" la llegada de menores migrantes a la región tras conocerse la detención de un menor marroquí como presunto autor de la violación de una joven de 14 años en el madrileño barrio de Hortaleza, donde hay un centro de menores. La madrileña ha asegurado que "cada día son menores más agresivos y llegan en peores condiciones" y ha reprochado que el Ejecutivo "se desatiende de ellos". Estas declaraciones han sorprendido al presidente de Vox, Santiago Abascal, quien no ha dudado en reprochar a la presidenta madrileña, ya que la ha acusado de incurrir en una "gigantesca contradicción" en materia migratoria y de protagonizar "la estafa perfeccionada" en torno a los menores extranjeros no acompañados. Según el ultraderechista, la ejecutiva de Sol ha usado la inmigración y las posiciones de Vox "para colocarle como un partido xenófobo". "Ha utilizado los mismos argumentos de la izquierda contra nosotros", le ha espetado. A su vez, ha acusado al Partido Popular de "engañar" a su formación, ya que para Abascal el PP sufre una "gigantesca contradicción". "Quiere colocar un centro de menores en Fuenlabrada, donde hay el alcalde socialista; pero no quiere un centro de menas en Pozuelo, donde hay la Alcaldía del PP", ha aseverado. Abascal ha reiterado de nuevo su propuesta: devolver a esos menores con sus padres en Marruecos o en un centro de menores allí o "en el país de donde vengan". "Los que son más responsables de esta oleada migratoria son los que más van a estafar", ha expresado. Asimismo ha continuado criticando duramente a los populares: "Ya estamos acostumbrados a ver la estafa del PP, desgraciadamente, en este asunto migratorio y de la acogida de los inmigrantes ilegales en Madrid, y el discurso de Ayuso ha sido la estafa perfeccionada" Críticas a Sánchez y el Open Arms Sobre el caso reciente de violación ocurrido en Hostaleza, el líder de Vox ha apuntado que esa niña "es una víctima de las políticas del presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, del bipartidismo y del barco Open Arms, al que ha vuelto a calificar de "barco negrero y esclavista" al que "hay que confiscar y hundir". A su vez, ha ha informado de la convocatoria de una manifestación este martes por ese suceso. Abascal ha asegurado que va a pedir medidas en materia migratoria al Gobierno. En su opinión, esas medidas son para "paralizar la llegada de supuestos menores, porque no les hacen ni las pruebas de edad". Para finalizar, ha querido avanzar que su formación se encuentra estudiando y analizando "acciones penales contra los que patrocinan la inmigración ilegal", que en su opinión es "un negocio muy lucrativo". Súmate a Apoya nuestro trabajo. Navega sin publicidad. Entra a todos los contenidos. hazte socio
So, I hate the anti-choice of Ubuntu, so I decided to write a script to gut snaps and systemd and replace it with s6. It's getting really close to being finished. #linux #opensource #software
The case brought by South Africa v. Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is “arguably the strongest case of genocide that has ever come before the Court.”
"Today, September 1, 2025, more than 250 media outlets around the world are participating in a unique global protest against the unlawful killing of journalists in Gaza. ...
The attacks on journalists, the silence of the world, the complicity of the US and UK governments is a harbinger of what is to come. We’ve seen how the authoritarian playbook works."
"How the flouting of international rules and norms in one country is quickly aped and copied by authoritarians in other countries. It’s why what is happening in Gaza sets a wholly chilling new precedent."
"An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association have backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime.
Eighty-six per cent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion."
Whatever you would do, once the Wicked Witch is Dead (after the dancing), maybe do that now? Or lay the foundation for it. Or start making the bricks for the foundation.
Also: there's no going back, status quo was killing us,the only way is forward.
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Llegeixo comentaris sobre l’acció absurda de futuro vegetal d’ahir a la sagrada familia. Busquen crear accions incoherents per donar visibilitat a problemes reals.
El que no entenen que a la gent els arriba l’acció deslligada de la protesta i perden simpatitzants. Els de extintion rebellion ja feien coses similars, i per més d’acord que estigui amb la causa no trobo les seves accions gens utils. Ni tant sols per visibilitzarles.
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in reply to Kat Marchán 🐈 • • •Unlike regular labor exploitation, where there’s really not much of a choice at all because you have to be part of the labor force to get any income and survive at all…
We’re literally doing this shit for free, people. What’s your excuse?
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in reply to Kat Marchán 🐈 • • •Building a free and open commons is still a good thing. Sharing code and projects with each other free of charge, for mutual benefit, is still a good thing.
The program is getting corpos in there who use your work for profit while demanding more work from you in the name of “supply chain security”
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