The US has used its "ceasefire" with Iran to reorganize and rearm...

It has also used it to further expand what is already a global maritime blockade being illegally imposed on Russia, Iran, and ultimately China (and will expand to include any nation in between as this global conflict escalates).

A recent illegal seizure by the US of an Iranian ship supposedly on its way back from China was not only conducted as part of this - but is being used to build a narrative to escalate further against China directly.

Elsewhere, the US continues its control of Venezuela and its blockade and threats toward Cuba in the Americas, its war on Russia through Ukraine and the rest of Europe, and is openly preparing to restart direct war on Iran itself in the Middle East.

All of this is ultimately aimed at China and the multipolar world its rise has facilitated in recent years.

However, just because these are the US' plans and they continue moving forward doesn't mean they are succeeding or will succeed.

This will depend on China, Russia, Iran and many other nations across the multipolar world organizing against US aggression.

The increasingly rushed and open nature of US aggression is being forced by the rapid rise of multipolarism in the first place - and the reality that the US is quickly running out of time to re-impose primacy - if it even can.

Do not mistaken patience and a desire to avoid or at least put off for as long as possible a direct confrontation with the US with ignorance of the danger the US poses or a lack of will or ability to confront it.

Russia, China, and Iran have spent decades staying ahead of US efforts to undermine and subordinate them as well as decades building up the necessary means to defend themselves amid what they all must have realized was an inevitable clash once US primacy began to decline.

Keep all of this in mind amid this temporary pause.

From caves of terrorim and car bombs to high fashion shoes and watches worth hundreds of thousands, the contrast reveals a deep sense of repression and a compulsive drive to compensate for it at the expense of a population whose resources and basic services, from electricity and education to healthcare and even bread, are being stripped away.
O' Syria.

"DO YOU REJECT ETHNOSUPREMACISM?"

Professor Marandi turns the tables on Piers Morgan & it's glorious.

📱 ROBINMG

Robert F. Kennedy Says MMR Vaxx is "Safe and Effective"

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy was recently asked if he agrees that the MMR vaccine is "safe and effective" and if getting vaccinated was better than getting measles.

He said yes on both accounts.

#frfk

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live
Apr 20 2026

https://archive.ph/ConnO

Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation. That means Gemini seeing who you know and what you do. You likely have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos. They’re all exposed if you update.
We’re talking Personal Intelligence, Google’s latest AI upgrade path which lets users opt-in to connecting Google apps to Gemini. Why search for a doctor’s appointment when Google has access to all your calendar events. Why search for a party invite when it reads all your emails. And why search for a specific photo of you and your loved ones to create an image, when it sees all your photos.

This is the latest iteration in the ongoing battle between convenience and privacy playing out on our phones and computers. “Previously, to get a result that felt truly personal, you had to write long, detailed descriptions and manually upload a reference photo just to give Gemini the right context.” Not any more, Google says. Its AI can scan everything to form its own views of you and everyone you know.
“Personal Intelligence gives Gemini an inherent understanding of your preferences from the start. By integrating this context directly with Nano Banana 2, Gemini can automatically fill in the blanks," Google says. “A lot of your most significant moments live in your Google Photos library. By connecting your Google Photos library to Personal Intelligence, Gemini goes a step further than just understanding your interests. It can use actual images of you and your loved ones.”

By its very nature, this goes right to the heart of your most private and intimate moments. “Now your inner circle can become the stars of your images, whether you want a result that feels pulled straight from your life or one that takes your imagination a bit further.” It’s undoubtedly innovative and exciting. But you must decide carefully before connecting your personal data to Google’s AI platform.
This is coming first to the U.S. before it rolls out everywhere else. Google assures that “bringing personal details into your images shouldn’t mean compromising on privacy, which is why our core commitments haven't changed. The Gemini app does not directly train its models on your private Google Photos library.”
But Google does say “we train on limited info, like specific prompts in Gemini and the model’s responses, to improve functionality over time.” That’s why “connecting your Google apps to Gemini remains an opt-in experience that you can adjust in your settings at any time.” It’s opt-in for a reason. Keep that in mind.
Google’s AI won’t always get this right, even if it is scrutinizing your life and your captured memories. “If the result isn’t quite right, you can simply tell Gemini what was incorrect and try again."
This AI update is undoubtedly powerful. ZDNet says “this powerful Gemini setting made my AI results way more personal and accurate. I enabled Personal Intelligence, connected my Google apps, and now Gemini guesses what I want without me saying it.” In other words, “Personal Intelligence essentially removes the need to repeatedly provide context, which is one of my biggest gripes with AI.”
And TechRadar says “The feature sets up a much more powerful way to teach Gemini about yourself. Traditional AI image generation depends heavily on how well you describe what you want. Here, description becomes secondary. The system is already working from a base layer of information.”

But that’s not really the point. Gizmodo sums it up pretty well as “solving a problem no one had.,” with #Google “making image generation a little creepier.”

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#why

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If you want to know which of your personal and private photos have piqued Gemini’s interest, “click on the Sources button, and it’ll show you which image was auto-selected to guide the creation. You can even ask Gemini directly for information on the attribution and sources used for that specific image.”
“There’s a lot going on in AI these days,” Gmail’s VP of product, Blake Barnes, acknowledged in a recent update for users. “Sometimes it might even feel overwhelming.” Indeed. Don’t jump in to this until you’re very sure.

"Illegal" #Migration in #Europe: Visualized
Plus tens of millions more entered "legally"

#kalergi #eu

#Palantir, a #CIA front company, now has its tentacles in the food supply, our healthcare data, our growing autonomous weapons industry, the military, the entire US intelligence community, border patrol, Space Force and so on.

Seemingly, Palantir is soon to become the testrun for Yarvins "sov-corp", a privatized version of govt that replaces the existing govt and is ruled by a CEO dictator. That is, unless we do something about it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/22/palantir-inks-300-million-deal-with-usda-to-safeguard-food-supply.html

@unlimitedhangout
#why #gov

#microslop #ai

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's locations
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The Aether Cosmology FE Conceptual Model
https://alanspaceaudits.github.io/conceptual_flat_earth_model/

Alright. I want to be real clear about what this is, what it does, and — just as important — what it doesn't do, because people are going to compare it to everything else out there and I'd rather explain it ourselves than let the assumptions do it.

This is an interactive, browser-based simulator that models everything a single observer sees in the sky — from any location on earth, at any point in time. The sun, the moon, all five naked-eye planets, the full starfield, constellations, the day/night cycle, moon phases, lunar and solar eclipses. You pick your latitude and longitude, you pick the date and time, and the model shows you your sky. Exactly what you'd see looking up.

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There is not a single globe metric, globe factor variable, or globe-derived formula anywhere in this model. Not one.

No distance to the sun. No distance to the moon. No radius of the earth. None of it. Those numbers do not exist in this codebase. What we use instead is base elevation angles pulled directly from real observational data — timeanddate.com gives you the azimuth and elevation angle of any celestial body from any location, and that is the data we're working from. Trig from there. That's the whole pipeline.

The sun's position in the sky is derived from its right ascension and declination — which are observational coordinates, not model-dependent ones. Same for the moon. Same for Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury. We compute where each body sits in the sky relative to a given observer using coordinate transforms that go from the celestial frame directly into the observer's local frame. Azimuth out. Elevation out. Done.
Observer lat/long → local coordinate frame
Celestial RA/Dec → observer azimuth + elevation
Zero globe constants. Zero heliocentric distances.
All trig. All observation-grounded.
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This model makes no claim about physical distances. It doesn't need to. The observer's optical vault — the flattened dome onto which everything projects — is parameterized in unitless ratios of the disc radius. There is no number in this model that says "the sun is X miles up." The vault height is just a proportion. The math works regardless of what unit you assign to it.

What that means is: this is a pure kinematics model. It answers one question — given this observer position and this time, where does each body appear in the sky — and it answers it correctly, using nothing but the observed angles and periods that anyone can verify with their own equipment or with timeanddate.com.
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The sidereal day, the solar year, the lunar synodic and sidereal cycles, the 18.6-year nodal regression — all of those are baked in from observation. The model's ephemeris tracks the real sky to within a fraction of a degree for centuries in either direction.

The whole thing runs in the browser. No install. No plugins. Three.js for the 3D rendering. The starfield rotates with sidereal time. The moon phases are computed geometrically. Eclipses are found by searching for sun-moon conjunctions in real time — you can hit play and watch the 2024 total solar eclipse unfold from the sub-solar point.

You can move the observer anywhere. Watch how the star arcs flip when you cross the equator. Watch the sun's track change with the seasons. Watch how Polaris moves toward or away from your zenith as you travel north or south. Every one of those behaviors comes straight out of the geometry of the model with no hidden globe assumptions propping it up.
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This has been a long time coming. A lot of credit goes to Walter Bislin whose visual conventions this port preserves, and of course to the supporting community of Aether Cosmology: https://discord.gg/hFbNVYXJ

The model is open. Link below:
https://github.com/AlanSpaceAudits/conceptual_flat_earth_model/blob/main/about.md
Live at
https://alanspaceaudits.github.io/conceptual_flat_earth_model/.

Ofcom Investigates Telegram – UK Expands Online Safety Crackdown |Tech, Privacy, News - Explained

#Ofcom has launched a formal investigation into #Telegram, along with chat platforms Teen Chat and Chat Avenue, under the #UK’s Online Safety Act.