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  • From tweet:

    Iran firing at Israel nonstop (millions have spent the last 24 hours mostly in shelters, and the economy will be at a complete standstill for the foreseeable future), and is applying a clear tactic of saturating Israeli air defences and triggering an interceptor crises. If I'm reading them right, their initial response is designed to remove the immediate threat from US assets in the region, which they have been doing brilliantly, and, simultaneously, exhausting Israeli and Western air defences, which will compel the US and Israel to ask for a ceasefire.

    And there's the global economy front with the stoppage of West Asia gas and oil flow.

    But this is only the opening phase, and, as always with Iran, great methodicity is carefully applied. No missile is fired spontaneously. Every action is taken for a desired outcome, as part of a rigorously laid out plan.

    They are picking apart Israel's infrastructure and economy. In 10 days, the country will begin to crack. Maybe even sooner.

    We are not seeing Iran's achievements, but they are there. They have prepared for this, and the assassination of Khamenei makes the choices they face absolutely clear. They will not stop.

  • Gen-Z village head brings new life to her hometown

    29-year-old Zhang Guifang

    "Fun" Fact: Next year, the oldest Gen-Zers will turn 30.

  • https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/29192

    —❗️🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: The oil tanker that was struck by an Iranian anti-ship missile in the Strait of Hormuz

    (Video can be found on the link in the first quote block/context comment)

  • I just woke up to all of this

  • Now, by closing the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, it is imposing a major blockade on cargo ships, American warships, and naval fleets. It is now shifting towards adding more asset targets.

    🇮🇷 | BREAKING: The strait of Hormuz is unofficially closed

    Source: https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/18398

  • 🇮🇷 | Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya (war) HQ:

    The powerful operations of Iran’s Armed Forces will continue with even greater force.

    Source (Video found here): https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/18392

  • Sejil hypersonic missile launched

    Six minutes pass

    Sirens in the Galilee again

    These two events, despite being exactly six minutes apart, are totally, and completely unrelated! No correlation whatsoever. Nothing to see here. Just get back to work. /s

  • Iranian missiles reportedly bound for Israel right now

    Operation True Promise IV???!!!111

  • China @lemmygrad.ml

    China is Backing Iran BIG TIME

  • A full-scale American assault would not be a surgical strike. It would once again be the opening of a regional war with no clear exit. Iran would retaliate against US bases in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the UAE and likely level them all. The Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil passes, would become a shooting gallery. Hezbollah’s missiles would rain on Israel. The Houthis would absolutely join in for the fun of it. Oil prices would spike globally, slamming economies already teetering on the edge. And the American people, already fracturing under domestic tensions, would watch their empire slide into another Middle Eastern catastrophe with no end in sight.

    Hezbollah’s missiles would rain on Israel. The Houthis would absolutely join in for the fun of it.

    Inshallah

    Oil prices would spike globally, slamming economies already teetering on the edge. And the American people, already fracturing under domestic tensions, would watch their empire slide into another Middle Eastern catastrophe with no end in sight.

  • news @hexbear.net

    USA is so desperate to stop China, it's trying to make new global coalition

  • World News @lemmygrad.ml

    USA is so desperate to stop China, it's trying to make new global coalition

  • news @hexbear.net

    Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

    www.therage.co /persona-age-verification/
  • news @hexbear.net

    the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

    vmfunc.re /blog/persona
  • World News @lemmygrad.ml

    the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

    vmfunc.re /blog/persona
  • World News @lemmygrad.ml

    Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

    www.therage.co /persona-age-verification/
  • Great response!

  • Obligatory Intellectual property in the times of AI mention

    @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml

    LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation

    So is torrenting. This is a very capitalist argument, coming from someone that self-identifies as a communist, that one deserves to reap the rewards of them adding value to humanity through some form of gatekeeping and is entitled to a reward from such gatekeeping. You’re literally arguing on the side of Elsevier and JSTOR against Aaron Swartz

    What does it matter if human knowledge is available as a book or an LLM? The important part is that all of humanity has access to it.

    Omelas is an almost perfect city. Rich, democratic, pleasant. But it only works by having one small child in perpetual torment.

    Walking away from Omelas doesn’t stop that child’s perpetual torment. Your choice is merely ignorance and cowardice in front of injustice. Choosing to stay in Omelas and poison its democratic system to lead to its downfall is the arguably the more moral option. Let’s not even get into the argument about how Germany made the Eurozone its Omelas at the expense of deficit-prone southern Europe, and how you should leave Germany by your argument.

    If everything is somehow “free and open” then we have won.

    your moral choice to not use LLMs is the same as abandoning Omelas and the eternally tormented child, it serves as nothing but intellectual onanism. Distilling GPT 5, Opus 4.6, commoditising the petaflop (see George Hotz), deploying efficient models on Huawei chips is the same as causing rot in Omelas from the inside, causing the billions invested into AI to be worthless, tearing down the system that is perpetually tormenting that child. It is the only way forward.

    Cory was right to label this “neolib purity testing”, because 1) it sides with capital (see above point re: torrenting), 2) it tries to don the mantel of dialectical materialism, while viewing this issue through a lens of “individualist action” and static morality and 3) It endlessly criticises power instead of aiming to claim and wield it for good.

    ::: spoiler Also, one (out of many) of Cory's points mentioned in the last paragraph of the comment:

    Purity culture is such an obvious trap, an artifact of the neoliberal ideology that insists that the solution to all our problems is to shop very carefully, thus reducing all politics to personal consumption choices:

    https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems

    Also also, @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml

  • Technology @lemmygrad.ml

    How Chinese scientists made petrol building blocks with CO2, water and sunlight

    www.scmp.com /news/china/science/article/3342716/how-chinese-scientists-made-petrol-building-blocks-co2-water-and-sunlight
  • technology @hexbear.net

    How Chinese scientists made petrol building blocks with CO2, water and sunlight

    www.scmp.com /news/china/science/article/3342716/how-chinese-scientists-made-petrol-building-blocks-co2-water-and-sunlight
  • Sino @hexbear.net

    How Chinese scientists made petrol building blocks with CO2, water and sunlight

    www.scmp.com /news/china/science/article/3342716/how-chinese-scientists-made-petrol-building-blocks-co2-water-and-sunlight
  • China @lemmygrad.ml

    How Chinese scientists made petrol building blocks with CO2, water and sunlight

    www.scmp.com /news/china/science/article/3342716/how-chinese-scientists-made-petrol-building-blocks-co2-water-and-sunlight
  • China @lemmygrad.ml

    China develops Mach 6 hypersonic naval gun projectiles with 12-mile range

    interestingengineering.com /military/china-hypersonic-naval-gun-mach-6-research
  • Sino @hexbear.net

    China develops Mach 6 hypersonic naval gun projectiles with 12-mile range

    interestingengineering.com /military/china-hypersonic-naval-gun-mach-6-research
  • technology @hexbear.net

    China develops Mach 6 hypersonic naval gun projectiles with 12-mile range

    interestingengineering.com /military/china-hypersonic-naval-gun-mach-6-research
  • Technology @lemmygrad.ml

    China develops Mach 6 hypersonic naval gun projectiles with 12-mile range

    interestingengineering.com /military/china-hypersonic-naval-gun-mach-6-research
  • China @lemmygrad.ml

    China's top universities are opening to foreign students. That's a big problem for US schools.

  • technology @hexbear.net

    China bans security software from the US and "Israel"

  • Technology @lemmygrad.ml

    China bans security software from the US and "Israel"

  • Sino @hexbear.net

    China bans security software from the US and "Israel"

  • China @lemmygrad.ml

    China bans security software from the US and "Israel"