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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is finally in a position to implement his dream goal of sending millions of Americans to "wellness farms".The Trump administration has long focused on relocating immigrants and American prisoners into domestic and international concentration camps and prisons, but now they are looking to expand it to much wider swath of American citizens with a variety of medical conditions, as well...

"This historic free jazz album is a heavy-impact sonic assault so aggressive it still knocks listeners back on their heels decades later. Recorded in May 1968, Machine Gun captures some top European improvisers at the beginning of their influential careers, and is regarded by some as the first European — not just German or British — jazz recording. Originally self-released by Peter Brötzmann, the...

New koala sanctuary plan for Kangaroo Island. A sanctuary for up to 1000 koalas and other wildlife is to be established on Kangaroo Island (Australia) with the hope it will bring tourism and education opportunities while protecting the valuable population of marsupials.

justice dismantles barriers to resources and opportunities in society so that all individuals and communities can live a full and dignified life [b-lab][wookieepedia:] "to dedicate my life to the cause of freedom, and justice" (previously)

Your (not really) weekly dose of Female Fronted Metal: Nemophila - Just Do It! Total banger.Scowl - Special Melodic and indie-adjacent with some nice screaming. Vanitas - Grey Morality Groove-heavy, melodic, almost symophonic at times, with great growls and a killer breakdown. Red Handed Denial – Fix Me Very modern metalcorey, great angry energy. Ichika Nito - Metaphor Astounding prog instrumental. Halsey - Experiment...

Have you been looking for an AI Text-To-Genome-Sequence DNA generator? I got U! Arc Institute is dropping a new AI model trained on over 100.000 species. They claim it can "identify patterns in gene sequences across disparate organisms that experimental researchers would need years to uncover".

I spent the past 10 months traveling the country interviewing my father and other people he worked with who built the first internet, sent some of the first messages, and conceived of the precursors to wireless to collect their stories before it's too late. I learned about the battles for credit that some founders have even waged on their deathbeds, explored whether the French...

Trump likens himself to a king on Truth Social. The post was in relation to the USDOT killing New York City's planned congestion pricing. In case you missed it: Yesterday, Trump issued an executive order ending the independence of multiple agencies. A few days ago, he claimed that "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law". And after firing nuclear safety workers,...

HMAS Protector, bought for just 10 pounds, now a marine paradise off Heron Island. This crumbling shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef was bought for just 10 pounds in World War II. "Ecologically, and from a tourist point of view, it's the king," Dr Kininmonth said. "You go to that ship and you will see so many fantastic things because all the fish, sharks,...

"The covers of the book depict some form of the cosmos, the planet, the ocean, and occasionally a lonely man facing it. However, while the 1960s and 1970s were characterized by hallucinogenic, sprawling, or more abstract visions, more recent editions have a more streamlined design."By way of giving good measure, have some film posters as well.

Black Flag gig flyers (96.4 MB PDF)Art Through Intimidation: An introduction to the flyers of Black Flag (8.3 MB PDF) Raymond Pettibon - Punk Rock Genius (YT - 43:24) Henry Rollins, Get in the Van: We would make a combination of white glue and wheat paste. One guy on lookout, the other guy slapping up the paste. One layer on the pole, put the...

There is no distinction between the gutting of the parks and the gutting of education, the gutting of healthcare, the gutting of basic decency. The same impulse drives both: a belief that nothing has value unless it can be owned, extracted, turned into capital.A response to the mass layoffs at national parks, among many other federal agencies, by Frederick Joseph, also seen recently on...

The breakdown of democracy in the United States will not give rise to a classic dictatorship in which elections are a sham and the opposition is locked up, exiled, or killed. authoritarianism does not require the destruction of the constitutional order. What lies ahead is not fascist or single-party dictatorship but competitive authoritarianism—a system in which parties compete in elections but the incumbent's abuse...

In the Champagne region of France now, many producers are adapting a new element to their production method. They see it not only as a significant improvement in nonvintage Champagnes, the vast majority of the bottles produced each year, but as a major hedge against the effects of climate change, which for many producers has altered both the way they farm the grapes and...

Native mouse struggling to breed gets helping hand in ACT. Smoky mouse populations are so isolated and in such low numbers that the animals struggle to find mates that are not genetically related to them. However, a Canberra program is helping to change that. (Australia)

"A book like A Perfect Vacuum, a collection of reviews of non-existent books, is more akin to Borges than Heinlein. ... a book filled with ideas — in the form of compacted micro-books. The device of using faux-literary criticism for the launching of bold philosophical queries in miniature is novel, if not utterly brilliant. The execution is deadpan, believable, and totally hilarious."Lem: Nor do...

A federation of publishers operating on different scales and with different capacities would allow for new cartographies of knowledge where non-overlapping disciplinary fragments, hypotheses, and other research ingredients from different disciplines could be put into play in a rich cognitive setting. By establishing a relative disciplinary cohabitation, a federation of publishers would be positioned to address fragments and bodies of knowledge in a horizontal...

but the only way we're going to get there is to organize...FINALLY: Jamie Raskin with MUST-SEE plan to DEFEAT Trump & Elon is filing amicus briefs, which may seem underwhelming? [link-heavy FPP]In the Silicon Valley network of right-wing billionaire libertarians turned authoritarians, they are very open about the fact that they think that democracy is obsolete, that we're living in a post-constitutional America: The...

Shooting campaign to target foxes raiding sea turtle nests in Queensland. European red foxes have been caught on camera digging up sea turtle eggs and biting hatchlings at Mackay, prompting plans for a cull by the local council. (Australia)

On April 30, 1945, unaware that the Führer's petrol-soaked corpse was burning in the garden of the Reich Chancellery, the American-born Irish fascist William Joyce turned Nazi radio propagandist Lord Haw-Haw drunkenly sat before a microphone to make his final broadcast.Joyce and his wife then fled to Kuffermuille, where he was apprehended by British intelligence officers on May 28. Stating that he was "proud...

The first edition of Ulysses was 1,000 copies. The first 100 were printed on Holland paper and signed by the author. The next 150 were printed on vergé d'Arches paper. But Copy #361 is special.