The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is lobbying against modest legislation meant to ensure Israel complies with the supposed Gaza “ceasefire” deal it keeps violating, according to correspondence obtained by Zeteo.

Moderate Democratic Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) is leading the bill, called the Ceasefire Compliance Act, which was released Monday. The legislation aims to stop Israel from violating the Gaza ceasefire deal, negotiated by Donald Trump. Israel has already allegedly violated the deal hundreds and hundreds of times.

The Ceasefire Compliance Act would direct the US government to conduct reports every 90 days to ensure that the Israeli government is complying with the ceasefire deal, is not inhibiting aid into Gaza, does not annex more territory in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and is taking steps to stop settler violence there.

A Financial Times report suggested that the 'Board of Peace' established by Donald Trump is considering stablecoins as part of its efforts claiming to help rebuild Gaza.

According to a Monday Financial Times report, the board is in the preliminary stages of discussing whether a stablecoin could be used to help rebuild Gaza’s economy. A person familiar with the project reportedly said the stablecoin would not be a meme coin or a replacement for fiat currency, but rather “a means to allow Gazans to transact digitally.”

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I’m feeling pretty emotional and crap rn. I spent a stupid amount of money among other things… I feel disgusting and ugly.

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Seville is experimenting with underground aqueduct networks to beat the heat, building upon an ancient Middle Eastern urban cooling system.

This way we could solve the problem with teachers not earning enough money.

Alopex joins the fight as our latest playable character in TMNT: Splintered Fate! She's ready for action... and to get back at Shredder.

This all comes alongside a free game update packed with new content. Here’s what’s new:

🦊 New playable character - Alopex (Paid DLC): Our mutant arctic fox brings all her ninja assassin powers to the brawl. She swings her sickle-like kama around her, slicing foes with ease. She tosses kunai at close range to deal a major blast of damage. And the best part-- she can briefly become invulnerable while targeting multiple enemies in rapid succession. Ninja powers that modify shuriken also affect her kunai, so try her out with the Ninja, Flame, and Water Powers for major impact.
🦊 5 Artifacts (Paid DLC): Play with 5 Artifacts that can modify your run in interesting ways:

• Polar Bear Netsuke - Every 10 seconds, Final Strike will throw out a line of flames. Cooldown is halved under half health.
• The Maltese Hamster - Your Tool charges slower, but deals extra Damage.
• Channel Six Mini Camera - Your Special charges slower, but deals extra damage.
• Hot Cocoa (with Marshmallows) - You have -1 dash. When you dash, gain a burst of movement speed.
• Buddy the Wraith - You have an allied Utrom Wraith, which levels up and evolves over a run.

🦊 4 Pepper challenges in Arcade mode (Free): Think you have mastered the Arcade Mode? Take a bite on an extra dose of difficulty with our new 4 Pepper runs. They are spicy hot! These challenges kick off with hexes already applied– do you have what it takes to overcome them?
🦊 Ninja Ranks (Free): Show your skills with pride with our new prestige system. Increase your badge prestige and rep by finishing more runs.
🦊 New Combat Rooms (Free): Many new combat rooms are available in Sewers, Docks, Streets, and Rooftops within the main campaign.
🦊 Additional balancing and quality of life improvements.

We hope you enjoy the updates and additional free content. See you in the game!

“Trans people were integral to the events of June 1969 that the Stonewall National Monument memorializes, and they’ve been an integral part of the movement for LGBTQ rights ever since, and they are part of the LGBTQ community,” said Andrew Berman, executive director at Village Preservation.

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

more at: @feed@404media.co

https://tech.lgbt/@yjeanrenaud/116122129025921096

I like to sort by new, and I occasionally run across these posts. There's usually no interaction going on, just this .. What the heck are these? Can I stop seeing them somehow?

The US president—who blew up a landmark diplomatic agreement with Iran during his first term—added that if a new deal with the Iranian government doesn’t materialize, “it will be a very bad day for that Country and, very sadly, its people, because they are great and wonderful, and something like this should never have happened to them.”

Trump’s acknowledgment that a US military assault would likely be devastating for ordinary Iranians runs counter to the narrative pushed by supporters of war, who claim conflict and regime change is necessary to aid Iran’s population.

Title courtesy of Security Writer: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/116125021350696613

Using large instances kind of defeats the points of the fediverse, so I would like to move away from the matrix.org homeserver. What are solid Matrix homeservers that works well? Preferably ones hosted in Europe rather than the U.S. for lower latency.

My little laptop server is already full of other stuff and is slightly struggling hosting a bunch of other stuff (Nextcloud, Immich, Minecraft server), and I only have it exposed to my local network (since I doubt my ability to securely selfhost something exposed to the internet and don't have the time to deal with DDoS, bots, crawlers, etc) so am not looking to self host my own Matrix instance.

edit: I have decided to go with matrix.glasgow.social

This post is about Iran and Cuba