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Attached: 1 image While many countries are abolishing or reducing the use of the death penalty, Israel is doing the opposite, writing it into law. Israel’s Death Penalty Law institutionalizes and legalizes the state’s mechanism for executing Palestinians. Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 72,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and at least 1,050 Palestinians in the West Bank. During this time, more than 80 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons, which have turned into a network of torture camps where prisoners are subjected to continuous abuse and violence. The death penalty law adds another official killing mechanism to existing practices. The mass incarceration of Palestinians is a feature of Israel’s apartheid regime. As of March 2026, about 9,500 Palestinians are held in inhumane conditions in Israeli prisons, roughly half of them under administrative detention or as “unlawful combatants,” without trial and with no ability to defend themselves. Death penalty for Palestinians only: The law is worded to apply to Palestinians only, and it is set to make the killing of Palestinians a normalized, common punitive tool through several mechanisms: The law gives military courts no discretion. Military judges will be required to sentence Palestinians convicted of murder to death, except in “special circumstances.” There is no requirement for a unanimous decision. A simple majority will suffice, and avenues for appeal will be extremely limited. Only Palestinians are tried in military courts. Their conviction rate is 96%, based largely on “confessions” extracted under duress and torture during interrogations. The penalty, execution by hanging, must be carried out within 90 days of sentencing, with no possibility of pardon. A designated prison officer will execute the sentence. The law, which enjoys broad public support in Israel, is expected to pass in the Knesset tomorrow, Monday, 30 March. The Israel Prison Service has already begun preparing designated execution facilities. The death penalty is a total violation of the most basic human rights, primarily, the right to life. Israel enforces a comprehensive policy of killing and oppression against the Palestinian people in all the territories it controls. The Death Penalty Law gives Israel’s apartheid regime yet another tool for advancing that policy.

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RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116291641538524981

The Verge is doubling down and it's a good one to read and share 👌
https://www.theverge.com/report/901818/hbo-harry-potter-jk-rowling-transphobia

Especially to your cis folks who are still somehow arguing that it's possible to watch something that’s directly funding a worldwide fascist crusade against trans people without being a part of the problem.

RE: https://kzoo.to/@notsle/116313855313901722

I love that there is actually a term for when you get people complaining that the media they're seeing isn't necessarily for them (after all, we all have our interests) and will henceforth just be saying 'bean soup' to anyone who does this shit to me

State control of big media is one of the first steps to total consolidation of power.

Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

"AI companies continually scrape the internet at an enormous scale, swallowing up all of its contents to use as training data for their next models. If you have a public website, they are already stealing your work.

Miasma is here to help you fight back! Spin up the server and point any malicious traffic towards it. Miasma will send poisoned training data from the poison fountain alongside multiple self-referential links. It's an endless buffet of slop for the slop machines.

Miasma is very fast and has a minimal memory footprint - you should not have to waste compute resources fending off the internet's leeches."

https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma

GitHub - austin-weeks/miasma: Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit.

Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit. Contribute to austin-weeks/miasma development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Huge since true.

"It costs just $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable solar"

And no, that doesn't yet account for that storied Dunkelflaute. Then again, the typical gas LCOE doesn't account for Putin's whims or other geopolitical vagaries.

#climate #solar #eu

All yall defending the Iranian regime seem to forget that their nationalist police murder 2000 people a year, the regime kills 70,000 people a year by denying them the basic medicine they need to live, this year their supreme leader cut aid to hungry civilians and killed 600,000 innocent people, and since 2001 they’ve waged imperialist wars that have killed 4.6 Million people

How Do You Defend That?!?

Ahhh my bad. I just described the United States Govt and the number of people it’s killed.😐

https://www.kxan.com/news/your-local-election-hq/march-3-2026-voter-guide/

So, primaries are in less than three weeks. And as I usually do, I scanned to see how many seats the Left weren’t trying to compete for, and y’all... it’s very few! The only Republicans running unopposed are Judicial. The local races have candidates on both sides and that’s a sign of hope I haven’t seen in over a decade.

Here’s some important dates for #Texas, that are probably close to all the other states dates:

Monday, Feb. 2: Last day to register to vote
Tuesday, Feb. 17: Early voting begins
Friday, Feb. 20: Last day to apply to vote by mail
Friday, Feb. 27: Early voting ends
Tuesday, March 3: Election Day

Y’all, leftists have been winning elections since DiaperDaddy and the Victorian doll haunted by unrepentant nazis took over. We may not have many more chances to stop this nonsense via ballot. Do your duty.

#vote #primary2026

Just for "fun", for the next few minutes if you tell me your latitude, I'll put up a plot showing how many satellites would be visible in your night sky with 42,000 Starlink satellites and 1 million SpaceX AI datacenters, at midnight on the summer solstice.
Want to tell the FCC not to approve this hideous, stupid, short-sighted megaconstellation? Instructions are available here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc