I used epilator on my armpits and it hurt a lot. But I hate the fact I’m so hairy as a woman (thanks, PCOS and genetics, I also now have to shave my mustache), so I just take it. To your point, I prefer to use waxing strips on that area because it’s less painful as it rips much more hair off in one go.
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Another backlog post… Conflux - In the Wake of Saturn (CAN-QC) EL - The Angelarium (USA-CA) Shadowclad - As Day Gives Way to Night at Last [EP] (Hungary) (a bit melodic/core)
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Het dodenaantal van de grote Russische aanval op Kyiv van afgelopen nacht is opgelopen tot zeker 21. Dat zeggen de lokale autoriteiten in Oekraïne. Daarnaast zouden 85 mensen gewond zijn geraakt, onder wie […]
The search results only have slop articles because it’s increasingly difficult to find anything else. I heard that recent estimates are indicating about 50% of the content of the internet is already AI generated, and it’s only going to get worse, and it’s going to keep getting worse very rapidly. “Search” in the way we understand it is obsolete. I don’t know what the future of content discovery for real humans is going to look like, but I’m confident it’s not going to look anything like search. That’s broken and it’s never coming back.
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Iranian officials met mediators in Doha this week and condemned Washington’s non-stop violations of the MoU From thecradle.co via This RSS Feed.
In short: The Christian Brothers religious order has been granted a moratorium on payouts to child sexual abuse victims, as a judge accepted the argument it risked running out of money. Lawyers had previously argued the religious order was losing about $1.7 million a week since October. What’s next? The next hearing is expected in late September.
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A fragile shift in Iran–GCC relations takes shape under pressure, not trust. From thecradle.co via This RSS Feed.
The big AI lie is that compute capacity is scarce. The fraud was propped up by SpaceX announcing big rental deals with “friends” (google a big owner of spacex, with deal 1 week before IPO) that have massive exit clauses for the buyers. AI hype started with Meta/Xai needing all of their compute for their own AI ambitions, and that was the source for compute scarcity. That they have no special competency means that they resell their compute, is flooding an already well supplied compute market.
With the US and Iranian governments engaged in 60 days of peace talks, the United Nations’ latest projections about the illegal war’s impact on fossil fuel subsidies this week triggered new demands for taxing the windfall profits of climate-wrecking Big Oil. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Monday released “Military Escalation in the Middle East: Cushioning the Global Shock,” a report detailing how governments have navigated the “most severe oil supply shock in history,” caused by Iran limiting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz in response to the Trump administration and Israel’s unlawful assault. As fossil fuel prices have soared worldwide, the report states, “governments have moved quickly to cushion households and firms from higher energy prices through fuel subsidies, tax cuts, price caps, strategic stock releases, emergency procurement, export restrictions, demand-management measures, and fuel switching.” “While energy subsidies had fallen by roughly half in 2024 as energy markets stabilized, the downward trajectory has sharply reversed,” the document notes. “We estimate that global fossil fuel subsidies are currently on track to reach $1.1 trillion in 2026 and could reach as high as $1.43 trillion in a severe scenario where the average oil price reaches $110/barrel… This represents an estimated $410-$740 billion increase from 2025.” UNDP Administrator Alexander De Croo said in a statement that “the global spillover of the Middle East conflict is profound and potentially long-lasting. Developing countries, many already struggling with debt, have temporarily managed to protect people from the worst of the energy shock.” “These countries are doing everything they can, but there is a hidden cost,” he stressed. “To deal with today’s crisis, governments are postponing tomorrow’s investments. Money that should be building schools, hospitals, and clean energy systems is being used simply to keep economies afloat. Without international support, these countries won’t escape the shock. They are absorbing it at the expense of future growth.” “No country should have to sacrifice its future development to manage a crisis it did not create,” De Croo argued. “First, we must unlock multilateral liquidity in ways that are easy to access for low- and middle-income countries. Second, we must accelerate investment in renewable energy. Every clean energy investment reduces exposure to future shocks. The crisis has made one thing clear: Energy security and the energy transition are no longer separate agendas. They are one and the same.” In addition to reiterating calls for a just transition to clean energy, the advocacy group 350.org has repeatedly advocated for a windfall profits tax targeting oil and gas giants cashing in on the conflict in the Middle East. Executive director Anne Jellema pushed for such policies again on Wednesday, noting the new UNDP numbers. “The $1.1 trillion that governments are pouring into fossil fuel subsidies this year is not a safety net, it is a ransom payment,” Jellema declared. “Every dollar spent shielding the fossil fuel industry from the consequences of its own price volatility is a dollar not spent on the clean energy systems that can bring costs down for good.” “We need a phaseout to end public subsidies for fossil fuel companies, and a permanent windfall tax on fossil fuel profits,” she continued. “Not a one-off levy, but a permanent, legislated mechanism that redirects the extraordinary profits of an industry driving this crisis into the just transition every country needs. That means affordable clean energy, retrofitted homes, and funding to protect people from the extreme weather unleashed by fossil pollution.” In the United States, where President Donald Trump’s war has cost Americans tens of billions of dollars at the pump, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) reintroduced the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in March, just weeks into the war. Backing the bill, Food & Water Watch managing director of policy and litigation Mitch Jones said at the time that “historical evidence could not be any clearer: Big Oil will undoubtedly leverage the current crisis in the Middle East to maximize profit margins, pinching American families and enriching their executives and Wall Street speculators.” “This demands a policy response—namely, a windfall profits tax… which would recover much of these egregious, opportunistic gains and return them to everyday Americans,” Jones added. “Fossil fuel companies must be held accountable for the profiteering they are orchestrating as we speak.” From Common Dreams via This RSS Feed.
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Amelia Schafer ICT MENOMINEE, M.I. – No one can remember the last time a Menominee person rode a traditional dugout canoe, or Maeqtek-ōs, down the Menominee river. This week a group of Menominee water protectors aims to change that when they launch their brand new, hand-crafted canoe into the river and paddle it 48 miles south. “It’s making a statement, we’re making history,” said Wayne Swett, who spent over two weeks camped out at the Chappee Rapids Weber Learning Center just north of Menominee, Michigan, working on the canoe. He’s got the heat blisters to prove it. Since June 15, Menominee water protectors Dawn M. Wilber and Swett have camped out on the banks of the Menominee river burning, scrapping, debarking and sanding a 17-foot-longpinelog into the premiere method of transportation used by their ancestors and hundreds of thousands of other Woodland people for centuries. Their bodies are sore, their arms are burnt, either from the sun or the fire itself, but they continue to work, Wilber said. It’s a community effort, Wilber said. Every day different friends and visitors come by the camp to bring supplies, chat and help out, Wilber said. The pine log itself was donated by Menominee Tribal Enterprises. “I wake up in the middle of the morning or late at night and my legs are sore (from working),” Wilber said. “It’s a lot of work, it really is. And it’s a suffrage of sort, you know, to try to do this and bring it back to this area because we don’t know when the last time somebody, a Menominee, built a dugout canoe on this river. Well, this year we can say (we did) in 2026.” This 17 foot long canoe was the traditional boat of choice for Indigenous people across the North American woodlands for thousands of years. Credit: Amelia Schafer, ICT This year marks the group’s eighth annual canoe journey down the Menominee River, and this year, the Protectors of the Menominee River wanted to make it even more special. “When we go down the river, the first two days, I like to reconnect and put myself in a time frame of what it was like back in the day, when the river used to be the highway,” Swett said. “There used to be no roads. There used to be animal trails. Those used to be the roads, the animal trails through here. And then (the river) used to be the highway and canoes were the family car.” On this year’s canoe journey, they’re not just taking the family car for a spin, they’re building it. From the banks of the Menominee River at the site of a historic 1824 trading post, Swett and Wilber are hard at work making history. The camp is nestled right in the center of an area the Menominee people have called home since time immemorial. To the north are Menominee burial mounds, a traditional dance ring and the largest Indigenous agricultural site in the eastern U.S. To the south is the Menominee peoples’ birthplace where the Menominee river meets lake Michigan. The dugout canoe’s construction took over two weeks and involved an average of 7-8 hours of burning per day. The canoe will be rowed down the Menominee River starting on July 2. Credit: Amelia Schafer, ICT Prior to colonization, countless Menominee families navigated this river in dugout canoes during their day-to-day lives – as did countless other Indigenous families in the North American eastern woodlands. Wisconsin is believed to hold the second largest collection of dugout canoes in the nation after Florida, with 73 confirmed existing dugout canoes in the state, some of which are between 4,000 and 6,000 years old according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most recently, 16 canoes were discovered submerged in Lake Mendota in Madison, the oldest of which is an estimated 5,400 years old. Canoes were traditionally sunk at the end of the year before winter set in to preserve them and prevent the wood from cracking. Eastern Native people would use large rocks to sink their dugout canoes down into the riverbeds and recover them later on. In turn, this practice led to the preservation of hundreds of thousand-year-old canoes across North America, many of which are still being uncovered. Long-time friends Dawn Wilber and Wayne Swett work on a traditional dugout canoe near Menominee, Michigan. The pair aim to make history as the first Menominees to row a dugout canoe down the Menominee river in generations. Credit: Amelia Schafer, ICT Despite the canoe’s cultural significance, they’re rarely used anymore let alone constructed, leading Swett and Wilber to travel to the Mashantucket Pequot Nation in Connecticut to learn. “Learning from them is almost as good as learning from our ancestors,” Wilber said. In 2015, the Mashantucket Pequot nation gathered to build its first dugout canoe in the modern era, called a mishoon in Pequot. The boat built by the Pequots in 2015 is believed to be the first dugout canoe constructed in over 200 years. Since then, the tribe has taught other woodland tribes how to construct their own. The Menominee water protectors were taught that, traditionally, woodland tribes would start burning their dugout canoes in the morning and leave it burning as they worked, burning for roughly seven hours a day over the course of two weeks, Wilber said. The canoes were communal, no one family had their own, meaning the tribes would share several canoes among themselves. Dawn Wilber chips charred wood from a dugout canoe. Indigenous people of the North American eastern woodlands created and used these boats for thousands of years. Credit: Amelia Schafer, ICT Once the log arrived on June 14, Swett and Wilber brought it downto the banks of the Menominee river and began debarking it, a process that took an entire eight hours. After debarking, Swett shaped the exterior canoe with a saw to create the stern of the boat and the bow. Then they could finally begin the bulk of the process – using fire to burn the log down and hollow it out. “It was a pretty spiritual moment when I first lit the first fire,” Wilber said. “We burned it that night probably for about four or five hours and it got a good little divot in it. It was the most amazing campfire I think that I ever sat around.” When it comes to burning the log down to hollow it out and shape it to form, there’s several different methods utilized. One method involves burning a separate fire nearby and bringing over coals to place on top. The coals gradually melt down the wood that is then shaped to create the interior of the boat. Alternatively, several smaller fires can be lit on top of the log rather than creating a separate fire – a method that can be faster and works similarly. Using a small, portable air blower, Swett kept the fires lit throughout the day, helping guide them in the necessary directions to adequately shape the canoe. “If the ancestors had access to this (air blower) they’d use it too,” Swett said as he worked. Feeling the bottom of the boat, Swett and Wilber said they’re able to gauge the depth of the interior based on the heat radiating from the fires inside. As the heat works its way through, it releases the sap within the tree and creates a natural waterproof seal around the vessel. While the fire did its job, Wilber and Swett chipped away at the charred inside using different metal tools. By removing the charred bits, the fire can better access the remaining wood. Dawn Wilber and Wayne Swett work on their dugout canoe on the banks of the Menominee River in the Upper Peninsula. The pair aims to make history as the first Menominees to row the dugout canoe down the river in generations. Credit: Amelia Schafer, ICT Starting this week, the dugout canoe will travel 48 miles on the Menominee River from Anaem Omot (the Sixty Islands Archaeological site) to the Menominee people’s birthplace, Minikaneh, the mouth of the Menominee river between Menominee, Michigan and Marinette, Wisconsin. The journey will last four days. Both the construction of the new dugout canoe and the canoe journey as a whole are healing, Swett said. “I suffer from PTSD so it’s a grounding for me,” Swett said. “It keeps me grounded and I wouldn’t have it any other way.” The idea to start the canoe journey came from a conversation between Swett and Wilber eight years ago, Wilber said. “We were talking and said, ‘When’s the last time a Menominee canoed down this river?’” Wilber said. “And he (Swett) said ‘I want to canoe down this river.’ And I did too.” For nearly eight years now they’ve made that journey, but this year it looks a little different with the addition of the traditional dugout canoe. The group behind this historic moment, Protectors of the Menominee River, is an Indigenous grassroots organization formed to ensure the protection of the area. The annual canoe journey began both as a way to connect to their traditional homelands but also as a way to take a public stand in opposition to a proposed open-pit sulfide mining operation by Canadian-based company Aquila Resources. The mining project aims at targeting zinc and gold deposits in Menominee County, Michigan, just 150 feet from the Menominee River and in the middle of a site filled with Menominee cultural artifacts, historical sites and burial mounds. Dawn Wilber and Wayne Swett work on their dugout canoe on the banks of the Menominee River in the Upper Peninsula. The pair aims to make history as the first Menominees to row the dugout canoe down the river in generations. Credit: Amelia Schafer, ICT “This is our creation spot, this is where the Menominees were born,” Swett said. “It’s special. How would you like it if somebody came into a cemetery and took grandma buried up or covered grandma and pushed her someplace else? You’d be protective about that too.” The Sixty Islands area was recently identified as hosting the largest intact remains of an ancient Native American agricultural site in the eastern United States. But the Menominee people have known for generations that this is where they were born and where many of their ancestors lie. Aside from the complex, intact agricultural site, the area contains a traditional dance ring, a building foundation, a logging camp, looted burial mounds, unknown burial mounds and an additional singular burial mound. Swett and Wilber said they’ve used the boat’s construction as an opportunity to teach other Menominee people about the area and the boat’s history. The first week of construction they were visited by a group of Menominee High School students and on June 26 they were visited by a group of Menominee elders from the reservation roughly 60 miles west of the site. “I’ve been explaining the process to them, telling them that it’s a teaching moment on why we’re doing it, how we’re doing it,” Swett said. “I advised them (the youth) that they’re the next generation of water protectors. So now that we ran them through, we’re inviting everybody else to come check it out. It’s a teaching moment for everybody because history is being made.” Swett and Wilber said they plan to sink their canoe to preserve it after this year’s journey, just like their ancestors did. The Menominee River separates Wisconsin from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and is the ancestral homelands of the Menominee Nation. The Menominee people were born at the mouth of the river where it meets Lake Michigan. Credit: Amelia Schafer, ICT The post Making history on the Menominee River appeared first on ICT. From ICT via This RSS Feed.
An excellent exhibit, given the past controversy and history of this museum. I lived in Winnipeg while it was proposed and built, with early critics concerned over the one-sidedness of isreali displays and a lack of indigenous history - especially heinous considering how first peoples have been treated in Canada. The article mentions the resignation of a board member over the exhibit. For more information, you can find his side of the story here: https://thehub.ca/2026/06/29/why-i-resigned-from-the-canadian-museum-for-human-rights/ I don’t support his take on it. For lack of a better term, the dude sounds butthurt as hell. It’s telling how easily a noted right wing publication like The Hub picked up his opinion piece.
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Of all the ways and places I might have expected resistance to erosion of our freedoms, I never could have guessed it would be 4chan. Good on you, anon.
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Til. Lol, I fucking live here and I always just assumed it was part of Appalachia cause of the way I’ve read about it described. Thanks for educating me. Edit to add a panoramic photo I took of the scenery today.
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With my doctor, it will work like this: I will call them and tell them I am sick with something that makes it hard to travel (stomach issues or the like) and they will give me a 3 day pink slip with instructions to come in if I don’t feel better. Fuck the CDU and SPD though, for the assumption that most sick day calls are fake. Makes me want to call in fake sick more.
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This is like a vegan coming up to you at a restaurant and slapping the steak away from your mouth as you try to eat it.
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As Walter Isaacson says in his Jobs biography: “Some stories are too good to fact-check.”
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I think he just likes to talk, because he’s been like that since he was a kitten. Talk back to him, maybe he just wants a conversation 🥰