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🛢️ Seul neuf navires de transport (pétroliers, cargos ou navires-citernes), dont certains camouflant par moments leur position, ont été détectés en traversant le détroit d'Ormuz depuis lundi, après de premières attaques visant des navires, selon les données du site MarineTraffic analysées par l'AFP ⬇️

Brussels urges Orbán and Zelenskyy to 'dial down escalatory rhetoric' "That type of language is not acceptable. There must not be threats against EU member states," Brussels said after Volodymyr Zelenskyy floated giving Viktor Orbán's personal number to Ukrainian soldiers

"That type of language is not acceptable. There must not be threats against EU member states," Brussels said after Volodymyr Zelenskyy floated giving Viktor Orbán's personal number to Ukrainian soldiers #EuropeNews

AI is proving a 100-year-old prediction true Keynes’ work on the problem of leisure has not been treated with the same reverence as his work on solving the problem of the great depression.

Commentary: Keynes predicted that technological progress and AI could free people from material necessity, but the real challenge is using increased leisure to live meaningful lives.

Israel bombs Beirut after telling 700,000 residents to leave The evacuation order gave residents of the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs just hours to leave their homes.

Israel bombs Beirut after telling 700,000 residents to leave

More Patriot missiles used in Middle East in 3 days than in Ukraine since 2022, Zelensky says President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated that Ukraine is ready to provide drone interceptors in exchange for missiles, though he did not specify which countries could be involved.

⚡️More Patriot missiles used in Middle East in 3 days than in Ukraine since 2022, Zelensky says.

President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated that Ukraine is ready to provide drone interceptors in exchange for missiles, though he did not specify which countries could be involved.

B&W portrait of a smoking younger Arundhati Roy (Indian journalist, activist and Booker prize winner, born 1961; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy) under quote from her speech at the World Social Forum, 2003 (Porto Alegre, Brazil)

"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling -- their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them."

-- Arundhati Roy (source in ALT)

9 Minutes To 97%: BYD Just Made EV Charging Basically As Quick As Getting Gas It’s also the world’s most powerful fast charger, arranged like your neighborhood gas station.

BYD's new Flash chargers are capable of delivering 1,500 kilowatts of power, enough to charge an EV to 97% in just nine minutes.

Disclosure - Seduction YouTube video by Disclosure

Care for a little...

"Seduction" by Disclosure

(youtu.be/GtOf56DRVv8)

#electronica #edm #deephouse

Strait of Hormuz impasse squeezes world shipping With few willing to brave the strait as war rages, companies will have to do business without one of the world’s most vital shipping lanes, especially for oil and gas.

With few willing to brave the Strait of Hormuz as war around the Gulf rages, companies will have to do business without one of the world’s most vital shipping lanes, especially for oil and gas.

US, Israel 'Going Gaza on Iran' as Death Toll Tops 500 Amid New Massacres "This is carpet bombing, which has struck everything from playgrounds, to an emergency services HQ, schools, media buildings, and medical facilities," said one observer.

"This is carpetbombing, which has struck everything from playgrounds, to an emergency services HQ, schools, media buildings, and medical facilities," said one observer.

How to Talk About Book-Banning in the Classroom: A Story of Censorship, Action, Hope, and Love The following is from Wake Now in the Fire by Jarrett Dapier and illustrated by AJ Dungo. __________________________________ Wake Now in the Fire by Jarrett Dapier and illustrated by AJ Dungo; publ…

Read Jarrett Dapier’s graphic depiction of action, hope, and love in the face of book censorship.

Panacea YouTube video by Fragile State - Topic

I've been stumbling into a...

"Fragile State" by Panacea

youtu.be/0dHbRHqRqg4

#electronica #downtempo #drumandbass

This could change everything about History: "Their sequential use on these artifacts displayed properties similar to a script that emerged much later in ancient Mesopotamia, around 3300 BC, that was a forerunner to cuneiform, one of the oldest-known forms of written language."

40,000-year-old German artifacts may display written language precursor A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a distinct culture in Europe - bears i...

"A small object called the Adorant figurine [...] crafted roughly 40,000 years ago [...] bears intriguing sequences of notches and dots. [...] New research suggests these marks [...] fall short of amounting to a written language."

Vast web of cold gas observed at the heart of the Milky Way Astronomers have produced the largest and most detailed map ever made of the vast web of cold cosmic gas stretching across the heart of our galaxy, showing thread-like filaments resembling rivers of m...

Astronomers have produced the largest and most detailed map ever made of the vast web of cold cosmic gas stretching across the heart of our galaxy, showing thread-like filaments resembling rivers of material flowing through space reut.rs/40D8RME

Octavee - Yeke Yeke YouTube video by Octavee

4 decades on, Mori Kante´s sound lives.

"Yeke Yeke" by Octavee

(youtu.be/NiQmYDHFK6Q)

#electronica #afrohouse #afrobeat

Hannah Spencer of the UK's left-wing Green Party won the contest for the vacant parliamentary seat of Gorton and Denton, with Nigel Farage's anti-immigration Reform party coming second, and Labour pushed into third place.

Nearly half of Japanese high school students use AI, report shows The child agency survey found that students are spending more time online, with some experiencing disruptions in their sleep schedules or studies.

Nearly half of high school students in Japan use generative AI online in their daily lives, a new government report shows.

Are you familiar with the command line interface? Your easiest answer would be a Termux+yt-dlp tandem... If all else fails, send me the link and I'll see if I can 'cook' something up. 🤔

Drawn To The Woman YouTube video by Sounds From The Ground - Topic

I guess I feel...

"Drawn to the Woman" by Kin ft. Lisa Fletcher

(youtu.be/H1dPPR28V4A)

#electronica #lofi #downtempo

Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts."

massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social

paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

Impact of the US Global Gag Rules on LGBTQI+ People Abroad

Three new rules from the U.S. State Department impose sweeping new conditions on organizations receiving U.S. foreign aid. This study examines how the rules affect organizations that support transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people around the world.

Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths - Committee to Protect Journalists Key findings Introduction At a time when armed conflict has reached historic levels around the world, journalist killings also reached an all-time high primarily due to the actions of one government: ...

New @pressfreedom.bsky.social report shows that a record 129 journalists, media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, with Israel responsible for over two-thirds of those killings.

And drone killings of journalists spiked from two in 2023 to 39 in 2025 — with Israel responsible for 28 of the 39.

'Women are much more frequently victims of physical violence at work than men' Violence in the workplace has serious consequences for both the victims and the perpetrators. However, within companies, there is a greater degree of impunity for male perpetrators of violence against women than in society at large, writes columnist Pauline Grosjean.

'Women are much more frequently victims of physical violence at work than men'

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Greek court sentences Predator spyware gang Greece’s “Predatorgate” scandal is one of Europe’s biggest political crises over the use of hacking software.

A Greek court sentenced four people, including two Israelis, to prison today over a major wiretapping scandal involving the illegal use of spyware to target politicians, business leaders and journalists.

All the Recycling in the World Won’t Save Us From the Greed of Big Plastic In 2017, Saudi Aramco, in partnership with Dow Chemical, finished work on a $20 billion, twenty-​­six-​­plant petrochemical complex called Sadara. The largest such facility ever built in a single p…

“But the idea that throwing a little money at them might begin to erase the environmental harm wrought by two vast global conglomerates is beyond absurd.” The impact of big oil on the plastic industry’s relentless growth.

"In theory having a single device that combines the features of multiple dedicated devices is a great idea, saving [...] space, time and money. However, in reality it mostly means that these features now conflict with each other..."

Europe leads tobacco use and girls’ vaping rates rise, WHO warns Despite overall tobacco use decline, vaping and novel tobacco products are driving increased use among young people in Europe, according to the World Health Organization.

Despite overall tobacco use decline, vaping and novel tobacco products are driving increased use among young people in Europe, according to the World Health Organization.

Cydelix - Rain and Sparks YouTube video by Fra Lam

Let there be...

"Rain and Sparks" by Cydelix

(youtu.be/RjVfdPG-_-U)

#electronica #ambient #trance