It’s funny how a lot of people viewed me as a rigorous journalist on every other topic. And when it came to this, all of a sudden there was this disbelief in my method of research. There was this suspicion that all of a sudden it wasn’t rigorous. I think that really, really speaks to the very, very, very deeply entrenched biases that exist around this subject.
Since the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content program back in 2013, we’ve been featuring their efforts to make their vast collection of cultural artifacts freely accessible online. They’ve released not just digitized works of art, but also a great many art history texts and art books in general. Just this week, they announced an expansion of access to their digital archive, in that they’ve made nearly 88,000 images free to download on their Open Content database under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). That means “you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”
"The US plan for a temporary pier in Gaza to increase the flow of humanitarian aid is a glaring distraction from the real problem: Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate military campaign and punishing siege. The food, water, and medical supplies so desperately needed by people in Gaza are sitting just across the border. Israel needs to facilitate rather than block the flow of supplies. This is not a logistics problem; it is a political problem. Rather than look to the US military to build a work-around, the US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using the roads and entry points that already exist.
Christopher Lock, the organization's representative, discusses the ongoing crisis in Gaza, where over one million people are trapped and living in fear of a ground invasion.
He shares a personal account of a recent attack on an MSF-marked building housing MSF staff and their families, resulting in fatalities and injuries. The speaker condemns the pattern of attacks against humanitarian workers and infrastructure, such as hospitals, which is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence.
The situation in Gaza has led to the systematic destruction of a health system that Doctors Without Borders have supported for decades. The humanitarian response is inadequate, with limited space, medicine, food, water, and safety available.
Lock urges the UN Security Council to take effective action to address the conflict in Gaza, adopt a …
More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis.
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People had congregated at al-Rashid Street, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way. Al Jazeera verified footage showing the bodies of dozens of killed and wounded Palestinians being carried onto trucks as no ambulances could reach the area.
“We went to get flour. The Israeli army shot at us. There are many martyrs on the ground and until this moment we are withdrawing them. There is no first aid,” said one witness.
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This site contains 29257 unique* 88x31 buttons that I scraped from the GeoCities archives compiled by the incredible ARCHIVE TEAM before GeoCities' demise in late 2009.
Downpour is the best way to make games on your phone. Collage together photos, drawings and text, and then connect them into an interactive story. It's genuinely quick and easy to use — you can make a game before your tea has gone cold.
Once you've made a game with Downpour, what then? You can share it with your friends inside the app, or post the link for anyone to play.
لعبة «جزيرة القرد» توفر عالمًا خياليًا يمكن أن يهرب إليه اللاعب بضع ساعات، قصة فكاهية يعيشها اللاعب ولا تضع أمامه عقبات مستحيلة، فالأمر لا يختلف عن قراءة رواية خفيفة ممتعة قد ترغب في العودة إلى قراءتها مرة أخرى بعد حين، ودومًا ثمة شيء جميل في العالم الخيالي للقراصنة يجذبنا إليه.
Pannellum is a lightweight, free, and open source panorama viewer for the web. Built using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and WebGL, it is plug-in free.
The Palestinians, facing down the most powerful countries in the world, left virtually alone even by their allies, have suffered immeasurably. But they have won this war. They, their journalists, their doctors, their rescue teams their poets, academics, spokespeople, and even their children have conducted themselves with a courage and dignity that has inspired the rest of the world. The young generation in the western world, particularly the new generation of young Jewish people in the US, have seen through the brainwashing and propaganda and have recognised apartheid and genocide for what it is. The governments of the most powerful countries in the western world have lost their dignity, and any respect they might have had.
The wild plant is a weedy little herb that prefers to grow on limestone outcroppings all around the coastal Mediterranean region. It is a biennial plant that uses food reserves stored over the winter in its rosette of leaves to produce a spike of a few yellow flowers at the end of its second summer before dying. Those nutritious leaves make its domesticated derivatives important food crops in much of the world now. Enterprising farmers over the last several thousand years contributed to domesticating several distinct lineages of B. oleracea, each amplifying different parts of this wild plant to produce several vegetable varieties, or cultivar groups or subspecies (“ssp.”): kale and collard greens (ssp. acephala), Chinese broccoli (ssp. alboglabra), red and green cabbages (ssp. capitata), savoy cabbage (ssp …
انتشرت خلال الأعوام الأخيرة ظاهرة الانتحار عن طريق "حبة الغلة"، خصوصاً في القرى والأرياف، وهي مبيد حشري يستخدم لحفظ القمح من الفساد والتسوس، ويتم تداولها على نطاق واسع وفي المحال التجارية وليس الجمعيات الزراعية والعيادات البيطرية فقط.
ونظراً إلى سوء استخدامها وتداولها بين الأطفال بسهولة أصبحت أسرع وسيلة للموت المحقق والانتحار، خصوصاً أنه لا يوجد مضاد حيوي يوقف مفعولها، فهي بمجرد نزولها في الجسم أو المعدة تتنج سموماً تسمى "غاز الفوسفين" شديد السُمية وهو غاز لا يوجد علاج أو ترياق مضاد له، فـ500 ملليغرام من هذا المركب كفيلة بقتل إنسان، ولك أن تعلم أن القرص المتداول 1 غرام أي ضعف الجرعة القاتلة.
يتم استيراد "حبة الغلة" القاتلة من الهند والصين، واسمها العلمي "فوسفيد الألمنيوم"، وتباع في محال المبيدات الزراعية والصيدليات البيطرية …
Annoying javascript popups
Early complaint regarding internet forums that is not dissimilar to complaints surrounding social media in the past few years.
[Google] has continuously built and extended their products around the free and open RSS protocol to gain user trust, only to then remove RSS support once they've locked users in, and ignore any complaints or requests to restore it.
... [by] incorporating RSS features into their products and then removing them negatively impacts user perception and confidence around RSS overall.
no three-dimensional space could ever be perceptually uniform; three dimensions just cannot capture all of the weird and wonderful ways that our eyes and brains process color comparisons. As anyone who has entered a Turrell or debated The Dress can tell you, color perception is wild. When trying to predict how people are going to perceive the difference between two colors, we need to account for way more than three variables.
"Rogers believed that a therapist should be less a problem-solver, and more a sort of skilled midwife, drawing out solutions that already existed in the client. All people possess a deep urge to 'self-actualise', he believed, and it is the therapist's job to nurture this urge. They were there to 'release and strengthen the individual, rather than to intervene in his life'. Key to achieving this goal was careful, focused, 'active' listening."
Not the first complicity in genocide. People should just stop using Meta.
Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices have been censored and suppressed across Meta’s platforms. This latest wave of censorship, which coincides with “apocalyptic” violence in the Gaza Strip and stark warnings of genocide from the UN and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), adds to Meta’s long history of systematically censoring Palestine-related content. While the company has stated that it’s never their “intention to suppress a particular community or point of view,” our documentation points to the opposite conclusion. This pattern of censorship is no glitch.
In this report, we show how Meta is systematically silencing the voices of both Palestinians and those advocating for Palestinians’ rights. We delve into the roots of this censorship …
Web-based pixel art editor modeled after Deluxe Paint. Opens Amiga files.
Despite the widespread harm caused by cars and automobility, governments, corporations, and individuals continue to facilitate it by expanding roads, manufacturing larger vehicles, and subsidising parking, electric cars, and resource extraction. This literature review synthesises the negative consequences of automobility, or car harm, which we have grouped into four categories: violence, ill health, social injustice, and environmental damage. We find that, since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion. Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility. Cars have exacerbated social inequities and damaged ecosystems in every global region, including in remote car-free places. While some people benefit from automobility, nearly everyone—whether or not they drive—is harmed by it. Slowing automobility's violence and pollution will …
French blog full of scans of arts and crafts books
