This video shows how your phone records your location, movement and activity even while offline — then uploads the data once it reconnects.
Now add Flock cameras tracking identifiable vehicles across cities and jurisdictions…
There is no end to this very slippery slope.
Warrantless surveillance is being hidden behind Terms of Service that almost nobody reads, and arguing that privacy and search-and-seizure protections should no longer apply simply because a corporation stores your private data through a “trusted third party” or in a foreign jurisdiction — is an extremely dangerous precedent.
We’re passing the point where “public safety” and “national security” have become a privately operated movement and information database capable of tracking millions of innocent people alongside “legitimate investigations”.
Data rights aren’t just a technology issue anymore — they’re becoming a civil rights issue.
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5 λεπτά πριν ο Πρόεδρος ανακοινώσει τη διακοπή των επιθέσεων στο Ιράν… κάποιος έβαλε ένα στοίχημα 1,5 ΔΙΣΕΚΑΤΟΜΜΥΡΙΟΥ δολαρίων σε ανοδικές τάσεις στις μετοχές και πούλησε 192 εκατομμύρια δολάρια σε πετρέλαιο.
5 λεπτά…
Αυτές οι συναλλαγές ήταν 4 έως 6 φορές μεγαλύτερες από οτιδήποτε άλλο σε ολόκληρη την αγορά. Όποιος το έκανε αυτό δεν το μάντευε. Δεν ρισκάρεις 1,5 δισεκατομμύριο δολάρια με προαίσθημα.
Δεν υπήρχε καμία δημόσια ένδειξη ότι αυτή η ανακοίνωση θα ερχόταν. Καμία διαρροή. Κανένας τύπος. Τίποτα. Οι μόνοι άνθρωποι που γνώριζαν ήταν στο δωμάτιο όταν ελήφθη η απόφαση.
Κάποιος σε αυτό το δωμάτιο σήκωσε ένα τηλέφωνο.
Και μέσα σε λίγα λεπτά έβγαλε περισσότερα χρήματα από όσα θα κερδίσουν οι περισσότεροι Αμερικανοί σε χίλιες ζωές. Σε μία μόνο συναλλαγή. Σε έναν πόλεμο που σας κόστισε 4+ δολάρια ανά γαλόνι βενζίνης και 16 δισεκατομμύρια δολάρια σε φορολογικά δολάρια.
Αμερικανοί πολίτες χρηματοδότησαν αυτόν τον πόλεμο. Οι πολιτικοί επωφελούνται από αυτόν.
Δεν είναι η πρώτη φορά. Κάθε σημαντική ανακοίνωση αυτής της κυβέρνησης είχε τεράστιες ύποπτες συναλλαγές λίγο πριν κυκλοφορήσει. Αντιστροφές δασμών. Αλλαγές πολιτικής. Πολεμικές αποφάσεις.
Αυτή είναι η πιο κραυγαλέα επιχείρηση εμπιστευτικής διαπραγμάτευσης στην ιστορία της αμερικανικής πολιτικής. Δεν είναι καν κοντά. Και συμβαίνει ξανά και ξανά μέρα μεσημέρι.
Θα πηγαίνατε στην ομοσπονδιακή φυλακή επειδή βασιζόσασταν σε μια πληροφορία από τον ξάδερφό σας. Αυτοί οι άνθρωποι είναι εμπροσθοφυλακές σε πολεμικές αποφάσεις με στοιχήματα δισεκατομμυρίων δολαρίων και κανείς δεν θα κάνει ποτέ ούτε μια ερώτηση.
Κανείς δεν θα διερευνηθεί. Κανείς δεν θα κατηγορηθεί. Μέχρι αύριο αυτό θα είναι θαμμένο κάτω από τον επόμενο ικανοποιητικό τίτλο. Όπως ακριβώς την προηγούμενη φορά. Και την προηγούμενη φορά.
Το παιχνίδι είναι στημένο. Και δεν προσπαθούν καν να το κρύψουν πια."
In 1980, a bioarchaeologist at Emory University named George Armelagos was studying ancient human bones from Sudanese Nubia, the kingdom that flourished along the Nile south of Egypt between roughly 350-550 CE, when something stopped him. Under ultraviolet light, the bones glowed.
They fluoresced with a distinctive yellow-green color that Armelagos recognized immediately, because the same glow appeared in the bones of modern patients who had been treated with tetracycline.
The antibiotic binds tightly to calcium and phosphorus in bone tissue as the body metabolizes it, leaving a permanent fluorescent marker. What Armelagos was seeing in bones nearly two thousand years old was chemically identical to what he saw in twentieth-century medical subjects.
The archaeological community was skeptical. The received history of antibiotics began with Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin in 1928, and tetracycline itself was not isolated until 1948. The idea that a pre-literate population in the Nile valley had been routinely ingesting it seemed implausible, and the initial findings were dismissed as post-mortem contamination from soil bacteria.
Armelagos spent three more decades building the case. He eventually partnered with Mark Nelson, a leading tetracycline specialist at Paratek Pharmaceuticals, who agreed to perform a definitive chemical analysis.
The process required dissolving the ancient bones in hydrogen fluoride, one of the most corrosive and dangerous acids in existence. What the resulting liquid-chromatography mass-spectrometry analysis found was not a trace of tetracycline.
The bones were saturated with it. Multiple tetracycline variants were identified, including chlortetracycline and oxytetracycline, in concentrations indicating sustained exposure beginning in early childhood and continuing throughout life.
Ninety percent of the Nubian individuals tested showed the labeling. The exposure had not been accidental or occasional. It had been lifelong and deliberate.
The source was their beer.
Ancient Egyptian and Nubian brewing began with grain, typically emmer wheat or barley, which in that region was naturally contaminated with Streptomyces, a soil bacterium that produces tetracycline as a metabolic byproduct.
The grain was germinated, made into bread, then incompletely baked to preserve an active center, and finally fermented in vats of water. The standard practice was to seed each new batch with ten percent of the previous one, which kept the Streptomyces culture alive and active from batch to batch in a continuous chain.
The resulting brew was thick, sour, low in alcohol, and highly nutritious. Everyone drank it, including children as young as two years old.
The critical question Armelagos could not fully resolve was whether the Nubians understood what they were doing. The consensus among researchers is that they almost certainly did not know the mechanism.
They had no concept of bacteria, no understanding of antibiotics as a drug class, and no language for what tetracycline was doing in their bodies.
What they likely did know, accumulated through generations of observation and passed down as practical knowledge, was that this particular preparation of beer had medicinal effects.
Ancient Egyptian and Jordanian medical texts record beer being used to treat gum disease, wounds, and other infections.
The brewing method that produced tetracycline appears to have been deliberately maintained and refined over centuries, not by any understanding of the chemistry involved, but by the accumulated recognition that it worked.
#archaeohistories
Despite the centuries of turmoil, the Roman conquest, the fall of the Byzantine Empire, and centuries of Ottoman rule, the core of the population remained the same. The evidence suggests that the Greek identity was preserved not only in culture, language, but also in biology.
The Greek military is the most underrated in the world.
The beacon of bravery and hope during WW2.
This is Greece now, have you ever heard the stories of what Greece did to Nazi Germany?
Hitler was apologizing for thinking the true Greek DNA was dead, and battling that warrior spirit.
and that was barely after coming out of Ottoman rule.
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According to Reuters, the Trump administration has instructed US diplomats to push back against European data sovereignty rules, calling them “unnecessarily burdensome”. Let’s be clear: protecting citizens’ data is not protectionism. It is democracy in the digital age. Europe cannot outsource privacy, nor accept that AI innovation comes at the expense of fundamental rights. Openness yes, naivety no.
κ. Μητσοτάκη, έχετε συμφωνήσει προσεχή συνάντηση σας με τον κ. Ταγίπ Ερντογάν, Πρόεδρο της Τουρκίας, συνάντηση, για την οποία ο κ. Χακάν Φιντάν, Υπουργός Εξωτερικών της Τουρκίας, μάλιστα δήλωσε: "Να μην σηκωθούμε από το τραπέζι, αν δεν λυθούν τα προβλήματα"
Η συνάντηση άρα αυτή που έχετε αποδεχθεί, είναι μείζονος εθνικής σημασίας, για αυτό και όλοι οι Έλληνες δικαιούμαστε να γνωρίζουμε: (α) ποια τα θέματα προς συζήτηση, ως σας έχουν επίσημα γνωστοποιηθεί, ώστε οι Έλληνες Πολίτες να κρίνουν την ανάγκη ή μη διενέργειας της συνάντησης αυτής∙ και (β) ποιες οι θέσεις της Κυβέρνησής σας επ' αυτών.
Είναι ευνόητο ότι η διατήρηση της εθνικής κυριαρχίας και η άσκηση των δικαιωμάτων της χώρας από το διεθνές δίκαιο είναι αδιαπραγμάτευτες και οποιαδήποτε απεμπόλησή τους είναι εθνική προδοσία.
Greek farmers are begging for vaccines to save their flocks from sheep pox, and Brussels is offering them for free. But the Athens government prefers to cull infected animals.
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The number of NATO soldiers who died 'doing nothing' for America since 9/11:
United Kingdom: 636
Canada: 160+
Italy: 86
Poland: 74
France: 90 (primarily Afghanistan)
Spain: 46
Denmark: 50
Australia: 43
Germany: 62
Netherlands: 27
Estonia: 11
Norway: 10
Czech Republic: 15
#FuckTrump
“Europe is poor. Europoor! Low GDP. Broke continent.”
And honestly, it’s such a lazy argument that it almost answers itself.
First, let’s list the typical “Europe is poor” insults the way they actually show up.
MAGA, JD Vance and Trump say:
Europe is poor
Europe is broke
Europe has low GDP
Europe cannot afford anything without the US
Europe is falling behind
Europe is a declining continent
Now here’s the problem with that whole framing.
They are using national level money stats as if they automatically translate into human wellbeing. They do not.
GDP is not a quality of life scoreboard. GDP is an activity scoreboard.
It counts spending, not thriving.
It counts medical bills as “economic activity.”
It counts crime cleanup as “economic activity.”
It counts lawsuits, admin overhead, and debt servicing as “economic activity.”
So in a system where people pay insane amounts for healthcare, childcare, education, insurance, and legal friction, GDP can look fantastic precisely because people are paying through the nose to survive.
That’s not “rich.”
Meanwhile, Europe deliver more of what people actually want out of life: security, stability, and the ability to breathe without constant financial threat. Because a lot of essential things are cheaper at the point of use, and the social floor is higher.
Here’s the practical test I always use:
If a society is “richer,” why are normal people more anxious about getting sick, die, going to college, having a baby, or losing a job?
If the wealth is real for regular citizens, it should show up as reduced fear and increased stability.
And this is where the “Europe is poor” insult collapses.
Europe’s money is distributed in a way that buys normal life outcomes:
•Longer lives
•Lower infant mortality
•Lower homicide rates
•Far fewer people in prison
•Safer workplaces
•Less life wrecking education debt
You can scream “low GDP” all day, but you cannot argue with “people are living longer and safer lives.”
Also, that “Europe is poor” claim is usually based on cherry picking. Europe is a collection of wealthy advanced economies, many of which are among the richest in the world by any sane standard. The idea that Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Nordics, etc. are “poor” is clown talk. It’s propaganda aimed at Americans who have never checked anything beyond a meme.
“They keep yelling ‘Europe is poor’ because GDP is the only metric where they feel safe. But GDP measures spending, not wellbeing. Europe turns money into longer lives, safer streets, less debt, and fewer people in cages. If that’s ‘poor,’ then their definition of ‘rich’ is just suffering.”
Europe converts its resources into human life better. That’s the whole game.
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