Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

'Amid a general lack of trust in Washington’s willingness or even ability to negotiate an agreement, #Iran issued its own list of conditions for a peace deal—including guarantees that the war would not resume, an end to attacks in Lebanon, Gaza, and Iraq, reparations for war damages suffered during the fighting, and recognition of Iranian right to exercise authority over the Strait of Hormuz.' https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-trump-war-ceasefire-pakistan #USFascism

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/

David Pocock

'vested interests have won out over community wellbeing...This package is weaker than the one proposed by the former communications minister Michelle Rowland two years ago – a package the prime minister reportedly stepped in to stop'

#ausPol #labor #gambling #advertising

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/05/gambling-reform-australia-david-pocock

Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund

'When I wrote my book about the Bund, I made sure to focus on the women. Some were barricade fighters and orators. Some shot guns, wrote theoretical treatises, and pulled their friends off of boxcars bound for Treblinka...I tried to pay attention to the humbler work of life. The women’s vigils alongside Mokotow prison. The women on the bus to Rikers. The aunties who pack the packages. The hands that keep movements alive'

#history #literature #bookstodon #jewishBund #resistance #prisonIndustrialComplex

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a70884911/molly-crabapple-bund/

'In peacetime, dependencies like sulfur were easy to miss. Understanding this prelogistical dimension is essential because it forces planners to look beyond stockpiles and shipping, and instead ask a more fundamental question: Do we have the basic industrial and chemical inputs required to regenerate combat power in a protracted conflict?'

#iran #geopolitics #trade #polycrisis #trumpClusterfuck

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-chokepoint-we-missed-sulfur-hormuz-and-the-threats-to-military-readiness/

"If peaceful protest was gonna change anything, they would ban it"

Funny how they do keep trying to ban it, though

'America’s AI prowess on computer chips and cutting-edge software is being hamstrung by the country’s inability to manufacture the electrical parts. “There’s not enough domestic capacity to go around, so people are pretty much forced to go to the export market,” says Benjamin Boucher, senior analyst with Wood Mackenzie...The import dependence is putting data center companies in a bind'

Iran's emergency Medical Services Organization reported that at least 24 health workers have been killed in US-Israeli attacks on Iran.

It added that at least another 114 health workers have been wounded, among them, 74 emergency responders who were injured at the scene while treating casualties.

Additionally, the organization reported that over 330 healthcare facilities have been damaged in the attacks, with one rescue helicopter destroyed.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Iran

Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile
people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend
now open source knockoff in python and rust

What's anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a violation of copyright???

https://github.com/instructkr/claw-code

You did it! 🥳

European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop.

This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/

This is just to say, rationing always happens, it's just done by price and it's always, always, always the poorest among us who pay the most. Can't afford to fill it up, always at the mercy of the fluctuating price and at a certain point, you just have to forego.

Since the start of this decade, Israel has not prosecuted its settlers for killing Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, creating impunity for ongoing violence.

Former PM Ehud Olmert called on the ICC to “save the Palestinians” from state-backed settler attacks, often carried out with forces and military complicity.

Dozens of former Israeli security commanders warned that “almost daily” attacks on Palestinians, including recent killings of 10 civilians this month, pose an existential threat. “We are no longer talking about a handful of lawbreaking hooligans. This is an organised activity,” they said.

Since 2020, at least 1,100 Palestinians, including children, have been killed in the West Bank, yet no one has been charged.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Palestinian