Notices by 65dBnoise (65dbnoise@mastodon.social)

@Infoseepage
Indeed, the article mentions 27 senators who recently voted against. Only, history is not a zero memory process, and past events and causality play significant role in creating subsequent events. Hence my reference to Biden's support of the #genocide till the end of his presidency. Apparently most Democrats must have realized by now that they have alienated a large number of their constituents.

Two Democrat senators who visited Gaza accused the US government of enabling the described in their report ethnic cleansing. “We, the United States, are complicit in all of this.”

Reminder:
Son-pardoner POTUS #Biden was the one who accepted #Netanyahu's argument that #Israel should do to #Gaza what the Allies did to Dresden. And the vast majority of Democrats supported that idea. About half of their caucus still fully support the #genocide of #Palestinians.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/democratic-senators-gaza-ethnic-cleansing

When Americans cared about #WarCrimes

Execution of German general Anton Dostler, found guilty for war crimes in #WWII by a US military tribunal. Other war criminals were hanged instead of being shot.

Just to make sure that the gravity of such a conviction is understood, the PM of #Israel #Netanyahu is a #wanted #WarCriminal, also accused for the #genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza.

Nowadays Americans welcome war criminals to the WH.

From the Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Dostler#Trial_and_execution

#Nazi #USpol

How others treat wannabe dictators:

"Ex-South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol returned to prison over martial law bid"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/09/ex-south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol-returns-to-prison-over-martial-law-bid

#Korea #USpol

Summertime
In the shade, outside Jezero Crater, Mars

Processed, rotated SHERLOC_WATSON
looking down (-76°) from RMC 77.0000
Sol 1555, LMST: 12:46:29

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01555/ids/edr/browse/shrlc/SIF_1555_0804985824_601EBY_N0770000SRLC00336_0000LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

I rarely read articles/papers that have the term "AI" in the title, lede or abstract. If the authors felt that their use of such vague and overhyped term would make their work more attractive or more authoritative to some audience, then I definitely don't belong to that audience.

But I always read articles that name technologies properly. It shows better understanding of the tools and more confidence in own work, and a promise that the rest of the work will be as diligent.

#AI #hype #BS

Anybody who has served in the army can tell what this is. And probably everybody else.

A silent protest by soldiers.

That's how they celebrated the 250th anniversary of the #USArmy and honored their oath to defend the country and the Constitution: the out-of-sync part was their message to the clown-in-chief exactly about that. 👍 👍 !!

#USpol #Trump

Someone having the resources should create a fediverse account/instance called #GazaMemorial, like the @auschvitzmuseum, and start listing the names of victims of the #Israeli #genocide against Palestinians one by one on a daily basis, for 75000 days (205 years).

The millions of Jews who perished during WWII should be mentioned at a prominent spot on the front page, along with a statement that racism and genocide is the same whether it is about #Jews, #Palestinians or any other ethnic group.

When Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy at Yale, and Yale historian Timothy Snyder, both of whom have written books like "How Fascism Works" and "On Tyranny", flee the country to a safer one, you can probably start figuring out what your country has become.

Fleeing fascistic/dictatorial regimes had been a last resort for people fearing persecution in the 20th century. It's now happening in 21st century #USA.

https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03/stanley-from-yale-to-toronto.html

#USpolitics #fascism

Turkey is leading the way. Trump is taking lessons.

It may soon come to a theater near you. How soon? I hear you ask. Well, days in calendar may be closer than they appear.

US Democrats: 🥱 😴 💤 🛏️

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/24/turkey-protests-istanbul-erdogan-imamoglu-greenland-germanwings-europe-news-live

#USpolitics

The former US presidents' inexplicable silence is embarrassing the whole nation.

"If you don’t have anything to say now, while this is going before our very eyes, I don’t want to hear from you ever again."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/trump-former-presidents-criticism

#USpol

As #Perseverance inches westward, so we see more of the southwestern valleys outside Jezero's rim, places where the rover will be visiting later in the spring and summer.

The map shows the approximate field of view of the cropped image.

Processed, undistorted, leveled, cropped NAVCAM_LEFT mosaic
looking SW (216°) from RMC 69.2124
Sol 1435, LMST: 18:13:51

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01435/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NLF_1435_0794353066_425ECM_N0692124NCAM00266_04_195J01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Robert A. Heinlein's #SciFi novella, 𝘐𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘎𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘖𝘯…, written in 1940 (also collected in 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘵 𝘪𝘯 2100), is about an American theocratic society ruled by christian fundamentalist prophets, the first of whom becomes a dictator in 2016 (!!).

The good thing with dystopian fiction is that, in the end, you usually escape into a much better reality. The bad thing with dystopian reality is that it takes a huge effort to make it a refuge of better reality.

#SciFi #RobertHeinlein #USpol

BREAKING:

Scientists announce that the processes which created the "poppy seeds" and "leopard spots" features #Perseverance encountered at Bright Angel were most likely biological metabolisms.

That's as close to announcing ancient life found on Mars as it has ever been

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/pdf/2133.pdf

Images:

• Annotated excerpt from the paper (h/t @sharponlooker )
• "leopard spots" seen at the Cheyava Falls rock
• "poppy seed" animation of the abrasion at the Walhalla Glades field

#Mara #Solarocks

It baffles me how some scientists who spend their lives trying to interpret the world, physical and social, show disdain and fail to handle politics, i.e. a defining aspect of human society. Some whine excessively about the effects, but miss the causes entirely. Many won't even try.

Long lasting effects of McCarthyism? Fear of being called "socialist, communist, anarchist" by fascists? Life long indoctrination, social conditioning and propaganda at play?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conditioning#Methods_of_social_conditioning_%E2%80%93_media

#USpol

It may not be just the Danes…

"More Danish people [46%] regard US as a threat than see North Korea or Iran as danger. […] 86% of respondents said they considered Moscow a threat."

“Everyone in Europe can see that it will be a different collaboration with the USA now.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/31/nearly-half-of-danes-see-us-as-threat-and-78-oppose-greenland-sale-poll-shows

#USpol EUpol #Danmark #Greenland

"A legacy of shame and infamy"

A MUST WATCH rundown of #Biden's catastrophic policy in the Middle East, and how it helped in handing the keys to fascist Trump today, by MSNBC.

"[Biden] admitted he knew what Netanyahu was going to do to the Palestinians in #Gaza, all the way back in October '23"

"[He] took this position […] to the detriment of his own party and to the future of America."

29% of Biden's voters sat out the '24 election due to his #Gaza policy.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/sg2_qxGYsv8

#USpol

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman accused of sexual abuse by sister, in lawsuit

"[…] the abuse began when Ann Altman was three and Sam Altman was 12. The filing alleges that the last instance of abuse took place when he was an adult but his sister, known as Annie, was still a child."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/08/openai-chief-executive-sam-altman-accused-of-sexual-abuse-by-sister-in-lawsuit

#sexualAbuse #SamAltman

@EricFielding @FediThing
Not necessary. Not advisable IMO. There is no need for niceties to felons and insurrectionists.

@EricFielding @FediThing
Of course there is no comparison between Biden and Trump, but extraordinary times require extraordinary leadership, and Biden clearly is not the man.

He could however just do the right thing as his last act as POTUS, one that will leave his mark in history.

Biden had the audacity to pardon his own son, but he doesn't seem to have the guts to snub Trump's inauguration. It is indicative of a man's stature.