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“Each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact…civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place...a poison has been instilled into the veins of Europe [and] the continent proceeds toward savagery. “
As part of Salvadoran president Bukele's propaganda offensive he unveiled the use of what he called the "Unidad Camina Ribotica"—a robot shaped like a dog.
According to a Salvadoran unit commander the role of the armed dog-shaped robot is:
1. Surveillance: Observing human movement in suspicious areas via cameras.
2. Reconnaissance: Entering dangerous zones to gather information before soldiers move in.
3. Threat Detection: Assisting in the detection of explosives, illegal substances, and other suspicious objects.
4. Military Operational Support: Helping soldiers inspect homes, buildings, and other high-risk spaces.
5. Weaponized Support: Certain models are capable of carrying weapons to support military operations.
Via Vega Politique
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Christianity and Islam are subjected to theological and civilizational scrutiny (e.g. “Islam and politics,” “Christian nationalism”), but we shield jewish people and Judaism from this even while Judaism is the pretext for genocide with mass popular support with global jewelry?
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Nothing “impressive” about the “connectedness of the medieval world” to me. They should have been much more connected and they were stupid for not being so
Was Venice's iconic Winged Lion statue made in China?
Isotope analysis indicates this symbol of Venetian statehood was made from a modified Tang Dynasty tomb guardian, a reminder of the impressive connectedness of the medieval world.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10…
ALT Illustration of a lion with wings in profile, coloured with six different colours on different sections. The colours represent phases of casting, and phases 1 and 2 (the majority of the main body) are ascribed to the original Tang sculpture.
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Indeed. In “Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing” Jared Sexton (2017) states that what y’all actually need to be concerned about is the pushing of Black men as police in the film industry.
ALT Cover of Jared Sexton’s (2017) book, “Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing”.
ALT Page 7 of Jared Sexton’s (2017) book, “Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing”.
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it's always pretty lame when mainstream musicians go after critics but if you absolutely must do it at least attach it to a song that doesn't sound like dogshit
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My favorite thing about Pasteur is that after decolonization and revolutions in Global South, many countries renamed places that were named after European administrators, explorers, businessmen, and royals, except for places named after Louis Pasteur, those are kept.
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US police are genuinely the most overpaid, pathetic, incompetent, & useless idiots on Earth
& thats not even getting into the worst shit, that theyre all domestically violent rapist murderers & child abusers/rapists
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TIL about this bootstrapping scene for the first time. It's wild.
They are building a tower of languages, starting with a 256-byte hand-written binary, for building a complete Linux system.
Love how Guix is attempting to thwart the trusting trust attack:
"The goal is to start from a minimal, easily inspectable binary (which should be readable as source)"
"Guix bootstraps by using MesCC—the small C compiler that comes with Mes—to build TinyCC, which is used to build GCC 2.95.0, which then builds GCC 4.7.4."
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Rubio “hasnt been that bad”…Hm, let’s see. He’s fucked over Venezuela for a millennia, is an architect of the most extreme strangulation of Cuba, coerced CARICOM and Latin American govts to end medical ties with Cuba that served their poorest, carried out 244 extrajudicial murders of Caribbean & Latin Americans in boats, championed Israel’s genocide on Gaza, Lebanon and US war on Iran. STFU.
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HEY ORANGE COUNTY VIETS, GO FUCK YOURSELVES TOO, I SPIT ON YOUR ADIDAS FLAG AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAH
