In 2024, Ralph Abraham ordered state agencies under his watch to stop recommending vaccines.

Jeffrey Epstein died in prison waiting for his sex trafficking trial - but who was he?

Real title: US interventionism, the Third World, and the USSR

Never stops being relevant, thought new users might enjoy it. Reposting it as the US is yet again considering sending its sons to kill and die to enrich a handful of rich families.

[T]he Third World is not poor. You don't go to poor countries to make money. There are very few poor countries in this world. Most countries are rich.

[...] Only the people are poor, but there's billions to be made there, to be carved out, to be taken. There's been billions for four hundred years. The capitalist European and North American powers have carved it out and taken it.

Not my typical shitpost but I like this so deal with it

cross-posted from: https://expressional.social/users/Peter_Link/statuses/115619211444995435

New location for 2 Cuba video Peertube channels

The Peertube channels Belly of the Beast videos and Cuba Analysis Podcasts now have a better server with a better name - PeerTube.wtf

The new locations:
https://peertube.wtf/c/cuba/_botb/_videos/videos
https://peertube.wtf/c/cubaanalysis/_podcasts/videos

There are playlists now and more will be coming out over time.

#Cuba #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol
@cuba

AutoFlight Aviation Technology has unveiled the world’s first integrated sea–air low-altitude transport solution, marking a major step toward large-scale eVTOL deployment across coastal and offshore regions.

Newegg is partnering with PayPal to plug its product catalog into AI-powered shopping tools like Perplexity, letting customers buy directly inside those environments.

Penny Wong’s cautious diplomacy reveals Australia’s struggle to balance loyalty to the U.S. with the need for genuine independence on the world stage, writes Mark Beeson.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39357260

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/38218875

A severed mosquito proboscis can be turned into an extremely fine nozzle for 3D printing, and this could help create replacement tissues and organs for transplants.

I've linked to a decent write-up on Tom's Hardware, but New Scientist covered it last week too.

Source paper: 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (science.org)

In short:

A suspected Chinese drone has been spotted off a Japanese island near Taiwan.

Japan's army scrambled its aircraft in response.

The incident comes amid an ongoing diplomatic spat between Tokyo and Beijing.

A severed mosquito proboscis can be turned into an extremely fine nozzle for 3D printing, and this could help create replacement tissues and organs for transplants.

I've linked to a decent write-up on Tom's Hardware, but New Scientist covered it last week too.

Source paper: 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (science.org)

The cause of the blaze in the northern Tai Po district was not immediately known, but it was fanned by green construction mesh and bamboo scaffolding

Hong Kong is one of the last places in the world where bamboo is still widely used for scaffolding in construction.

A firefighter was among the 44 killed, with 45 people in hospital in critical condition

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39323927

Wut.