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Sat, 08/11/2025 - 05:01

Other than lawsuits, losing track of a child is every school district’s worst nightmare. We haven’t lost anyone yet, but an EdTech company has painted a compelling picture of this as a possible future problem that can be pre-solved with EdTech. Therefore, we’re pleased to introduce some cutting-edge yet profoundly user-unfriendly technology.

You’ve already been given an app for reluctantly volunteering to run the book fair, an app for viewing your kid’s hastily prepared report cards, and an app for lodging complaints about our apps. Effective immediately, we’ll also be tracking your child’s whereabouts on three additional apps.

First, if your child is going to be absent, log into your PITA, which does not stand for “Pain in the Ass” but for “Parents Informing Technology of Absences.” If you forget your login, call our wonderful school secretary, Marjorie. No, you can’t just call the office to tell Marjorie your kid is sick; you’ll need to call the office to retrieve your PITA login information, then log in to PITA to tell PITA your kid is sick.

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Sat, 08/11/2025 - 02:10

As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional resistance to U.S. aggression as Trump’s new Cold War threatens to ignite the Caribbean.

The post Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America appeared first on MintPress News.

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Sat, 08/11/2025 - 01:59

Behind the headlines of “civil war” and “tribal clashes,” Sudan’s collapse reveals a U.S.-engineered campaign of starvation, displacement, and proxy war led by Israel and the UAE to crush resistance and control Africa’s resources.

The post How The CIA & Mossad Set Up Sudan for Genocide since the 1990s appeared first on MintPress News.

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Sat, 08/11/2025 - 00:00

“Jeff Bezos says the future is so bright, he doesn’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now… ‘In the next couple of decades, there will be millions of people living in space. That’s how fast this is going to accelerate,’ he said.” — Yahoo Tech

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If you’ve been lying awake worrying about creeping authoritarianism, economic collapse, or climate disasters, have you stopped to consider that in our lifetime, some small fraction of humanity may reside beyond Earth’s atmosphere?

I mean, picture it: By 2050, as global temperatures blow past the 1.5C target set by the now-abandoned Paris Climate Accord, there may be millions of people living in space.

Created
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 19:00
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Created
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 16:24
~by Sean Paul Kelley With the encirclement of the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad pocket by Russia now complete, it is only days, a week or two at most, until mopping up operations are complete. This is an indisputable Russian victory, but don’t expect the war to change much. Russia’s strategy of attrition is about incremental gains that create […]
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Fri, 07/11/2025 - 10:50

[ The below is a cross-post of an article that I published on my blog at Software Freedom Conservancy. ]

Our member project representatives and others who collaborate with SFC on projects know that I've been on part-time medical leave this year. As I recently announced publicly on the Fediverse, I was diagnosed in March 2025 with early-stage Type 2 Diabetes. I had no idea that that the diagnosis would become a software freedom and users' rights endeavor.

After the diagnosis, my doctor suggested immediately that I see the diabetes nurse-practitioner specialist in their practice. It took some time get an appointment with him, so I saw him first in mid-April 2025.