The article in full: https://bret.dk/every-single-board-computer-i-tested-in-2025/

Part of a larger $550 billion investment framework.

Israeli settlers and soldiers killed three Palestinians in their village near Ramallah on Saturday night, the third deadly attack in a week of surging Israeli violence across the occupied West Bank.

Israeli settlers have shot dead five civilians during invasions of Palestinian olive groves, villages and grazing land, in the brief period since Israel and the US launched a new war on Iran at the end of February. A sixth person died on Saturday after inhaling military-grade tear gasused by the Israeli army.

The escalating regional conflict diverted diplomatic, media and political attention away from occupied Palestine, even as Israeli authorities imposed a new blockade on Gaza and brought in sweeping movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank, and settlers intensified Israeli attacks on Palestinian land, crops, livestock and homes.

Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

Thick black smoke was still rising in the sky, soot covered the streets and cars, balconies filled with black gunk, and the toxic air had filled the lungs as Tehran woke up after a night of airstrikes on the city’s oil depots on Sunday.

In messages and voice notes sent to the Guardian, people described the situation in their homes and on the streets, some calling it “apocalyptic”. With the sun blotted out, disoriented people in Iran’s capital had to turn on their lights to see through the gloom.

Four oil depots and a petroleum logistics site in and around Tehran were hit. Local authorities said six people were killed and 20 wounded at one of the sites.

Videos shared by citizen journalists showed massive flames over the Tehran sky overnight and smoke still billowing over the oil storage facilities. As rain poured down on the city of 10 million people on Sunday morning, authorities warned of toxic acid rain and many residents woke up with pain in their throat and eyes burning.

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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60387297

Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data for defendtheatlantaforest@protonmail.com — the account linked to Stop Cop City protests in Atlanta. The FBI obtained this information through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request on January 25, 2024, identifying the activist behind the anonymous account through their credit card identifier.

Implementation of the White House’s return-to-office directive will be aided by the tech firm Palantir. It remains unclear why a spy-tech company should be tasked with things like “employee seat assignments.”

States are no longer the highest form of power globally. Power has shifted to wealthy individuals who work in groups and operate across borders.

Just wanted to update everyone of the good news!!

Carmen Espinosa - True to her name, she can be a bit “thorny”. She is a 17-year-old girl, later 18, in her senior year with an abrasive personality. She has a habit of calling people younger than her “kid”. Since she was born on May 2nd, she is one of the younger seniors in her year. While she is a genuinely kind person, she also has anger issues and deep-rooted self-hatred as well as an annoyance towards children due to having to babysit a bratty 8-year-old boy at the age of 15. Due to her annoyance and self-hatred, she takes her anger out on people under the age of 13 and has even been shown bullying them. Despite this, she genuinely does not want to see another kid injured or in danger and says she “hates” it. She is pretty affectionate with her fellow peers, such as jumping up and down and hugging people like Austin and Mika.

While she does seem to like Anya, she knows she can’t have her and her true interest is the Viewer (another senior), who she created the Highschool Harem Hell “saga” for to reach out to them.

(I don't care much that this may make her unlikable, she's supposed to be thorny and a child-hater. Also, this isn't sexual by any means, these characters are all minors [until the seniors turn 18 later], this is just a high school romance story.)

Human Rights Watch research has found that key aspects of the current German social security system are already failing to ensure the rights to social security and to an adequate standard of living, in particular for single parents, most of whom are women raising young children. The proposed changes to the social security system are likely to exacerbate these problems.

First reported here 5 days ago, it has now been confirmed by official sources. https://lemmy.ca/post/61271111

The United States and Israel are both revelling in inflicting the maximum possible death and suffering on Iran. After the genocide in Gaza, on a far larger field in Iran, those in power in Israel and the USA have a lust to kill and they revel in impunity.

The Epstein files reveal the same dynamic. We live in a society where those who obtain power wish to exercise it in the cruellest possible ways against the most defenceless. It appears to be a feature of late Western capitalist society, where sociopathic tendencies are essential to obtaining power, in a society which rejects altruism and cooperation as concepts and promotes competition, self-love and ruthlessness.

Iran is showing commendable fighting spirit, but as my last article stated, American military power should not be underestimated. They have the ability to destroy Iran from the air, to obliterate the institutions of the state and all of the key civilian infrastructure. Electricity, water, healthcare, education, administration, policing all can be knocked out just as they were systematically in Gaza and – on a scale insufficiently recalled – in Iraq.

Trump is already asking Congress for $50 billion to fund the operation and replenish stocks. The scale of destruction Netanyahu envisages will cost at least half a trillion dollars from the US Treasury. But there is nothing that can stop them.

I witnessed close up over five months the 80 to 100,000 homes destroyed in Lebanon by Israel in the last three years. We have all seen what they did to Gaza. The notion they cannot do this to Iran is simply wrong. It requires a colossal effort of will, a mania for killing, a vast amount of money and the depletion of the US arsenal. But they can do it.

Only political action by the peoples of the West against their leaders can stop it.

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With West Bank under total Israeli closure, settlers are seizing the moment

Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians and raided dozens of villages amid the war with Iran, as the army restricts movement and backs up the attackers. By Oren Ziv and Basel Adra March 4, 2026

Palestinians in the village of Qaryut mourn the killing of two residents who were shot dead by an Israeli settler, occupied West Bank, March 3, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

With global attention fixed on the escalating U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, Israel has imposed a total military closure on the occupied West Bank. Israeli settlers, backed by the army, are seizing the opportunity to try to expel more rural Palestinian communities from their land, as they did in the days immediately following October 7.

Within hours of the war beginning on Saturday morning, the Israeli army shut all checkpoints across the West Bank and blocked roads between cities and villages with iron gates and earth mounds. It also installed new iron gates in locations where none had previously existed. Settlers brought in excavators to seal makeshift passages Palestinians had carved out over the past two and a half years, in areas where the army has kept roads closed since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Especially Hispanics/Latinos

Does wealth override race?

I honestly do not know the difference between and a stim toy and I usually use the two terms interchangeably.

My favorite fidget toys is my flippy chain. I use this thing all the time and take it with me everywhere. And I love that it's discreet and quiet.

What's your favorite fidget toy, or thing yiu like to fidget/stim with?

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/7675978

Mark Carney’s Canberra address and the Geelong Treaty reveal the architecture of a powerful middle-power bloc ready to be assembled.

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Aukus delivers hard power: nuclear-powered submarines, quantum technologies, AI-enabled defence systems, hypersonic weapons, and directed-energy capabilities. But hard power without economic depth is brittle. Canzuk supplies the missing dimension – trade diversification, skilled labour mobility, critical minerals coordination, and a diplomatic network that spans every major ocean and time zone. Together they form something greater than the sum of their parts: a full-spectrum alliance that can deter adversaries, withstand economic coercion, and provide mutual resilience when the global order fractures.

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Australia and Canada together possess the largest mineral reserves held by democratic nations. In an era of accelerating decoupling from Chinese supply chains, this is an asset of extraordinary and growing strategic value.

The polling data confirms the political feasibility. A February 2026 survey by Canzuk International found 68 per cent support in Australia, 72 per cent in Canada, 75 per cent in New Zealand, and 70 per cent in the United Kingdom for a multilateral free trade and mobility agreement. These are not marginal numbers. They represent a democratic mandate waiting to be exercised.

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The institutional scaffolding is more advanced than most commentators acknowledge. The four Canzuk nations share King Charles III as head of state, Westminster parliamentary systems, common law traditions, and deeply interoperable intelligence services through Five Eyes. The ABCANZ Armies program – encompassing all four Canzuk nations plus the United States – already facilitates military interoperability across the Anglosphere. Workforce mobility initiatives are being pursued to facilitate movement of skilled defence personnel between Australia and the United Kingdom, including reciprocal recognition of security clearances. Add Canada and New Zealand to this framework and you have a defence-industrial ecosystem that spans the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean – with Arctic reach thrown in for good measure.

New Zealand, often treated as the quiet partner, brings its own distinctive value. Its Pillar II potential under Aukus – advanced cyber capabilities, undersea sensing, and Antarctic logistics – complements the submarine focus of Pillar I. And its extraordinary 75 per cent public support for Canzuk suggests a population ready for deeper integration than its cautious political class has yet been willing to deliver.

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Nearly 40 employees of OpenAI and Google filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic’s Monday lawsuit.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260309204814/https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/891514/anthropic-pentagon-lawsuit-amicus-brief-openai-google

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/43173266

Naqvi, along with two other U.S. citizens and three green card holders, was detained by Customs and Border Protection agents Thursday morning in O’Hare Airport’s third terminal, where they were held for roughly 30 hours, according to Naqvi’s family, her attorney and local officials.

The group was then taken to the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview Friday evening before being transported to the Dodge Detention Facility in Wisconsin, where they were released early Saturday morning, officials said Sunday.

Federal authorities, meanwhile, refused to give Naqvi’s family and supporters information about her whereabouts or even say if she was in their custody, they said. Naqvi’s iPhone location is how supporters kept tabs, Naqvi’s sister, Sarah Afzal, said at a rally Sunday outside of the Broadview ICE facility, 1930 Beach St.