The worst backdoor in the history of open source software was narrowly avoided just days ago.

Had this gone undetected, vast sections of the linux ecosystem would've become vulnerable to being hacked and taken over by a bad actor that to this day remains totally unknown.

The XZ Backdoor is believe me - one hell of a rabbit hole, so rather than going into detail on one specific thing, this video is more of an overview on the whole campaign beginning to end.

Got out on the snowboard even during this thin snow season and got some laps in at Big Sky, "The Biggest Skiing in America". I tried to send it fast!

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Adi Jaffe was a crystal meth dealer in Los Angeles, purchasing his supply from local meth labs and making his way up to dealing with Mexican cartels. After leaving prison, Jaffe attained his doctorate degree in psychology. He now lectures at the University of California, Los Angeles, and runs a practice called IGNTD, which takes a unique approach to addiction recovery.

David McMillan is a British Australian former drug smuggler. He trafficked heroin through Southeast and Central Asia. He was arrested numerous times between the '80s and 2012, and he estimates he trafficked over $17 million worth of heroin internationally. He is now an author and speaker on drug-policy reform.

Pieter Tritton, a former cocaine smuggler, speaks with Business Insider about trafficking cocaine from Ecuador to Europe through a cartel connection. Tritton was arrested in Ecuador and sentenced to 12 years in one of the world's most violent and corrupt prisons.

Shaun Attwood is a former drug smuggler who ran a successful ring trafficking MDMA pills in the US in the '90s. He was arrested in 2002 and served six years in US jails. Attwood published his life story as the "English Shaun Trilogy" and talks to audiences around the UK and Europe about prison reform.

Neil Woods spent 14 years as an undercover police officer infiltrating some of the most dangerous organized-crime groups in the UK. He speaks with BI about his experience with drug-dealing gangs and how the drug market works. Woods is now a board member of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership, an American nonprofit.

Adi Jaffe
www.igntd.com/
Pieter Tritton
incapablestaircase.com/
Shaun Attwood
shaunattwood.com/books/
Neil Woods
www.amazon.com/Neil-Woods/e/B07DPSM7L4

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Sources (to be updated soon in video description):

• A History of Modern Palestine One Land, Two Peoples (2006) - Ilan Pappe
• Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews (2009) - Jonathan Frankel
• Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State (2021) - Jeff Halper
• Israel and South Africa the many faces of Apartheid (Pappe, Ilan)
• Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 (1996) - Gershon Shafir
• Might over Right How the Zionists Took over Palestine (Adel Safty)
• Rethinking Israel and Palestine Marxist Perspectives (Oded Nir (editor), Joel Wainwright (editor))
• Righteous Victims A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 (Benny Morris)
• Ten Myths About Israel (Ilan Pappe)
• The Class Origins of Zionist Ideology (Stephen Halbrook)
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2007) - Ilan Pappé
• The Gaza Strip The Political Economy of De-development (Sara Roy)
• The Hundred Years War on Palestine (Rashid Khalidi)
• The Idea Of Israel A History Of Power And Knowledge (Ilan Pappe)
• The Invention of the Land of Israel From Holy Land to Homeland (Sand, Shlomo)
• The Myths of Zionism (John Rose)
• Zionism and the Arabs, 1882-1948 A Study of Ideology (Yosef Gorny)
• Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965) - Fayez Sayegh
• Zionism a very short introduction (Michael Stanislawski)

Learn all about the world of ancient engineering with our detailed step-by-step guide on the construction of the Egyptian Pyramids within Chris Massey's theory (Water Shaft Theory). This comprehensive video offers more than just a brief overview – it’s an in-depth journey through the intriguing Water Shaft Theory, with illustrations and pictures to clarify the stages and process.

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DEMOLISH APARTHEID NOT PALESTINIAN HOMES

TAKE ACTION HERE amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/

Millions of Palestinians live under Israel’s system of apartheid, and at the heart of this violently racist system, is the Palestinian experience of being denied a home.

For over 73 years, Israel has forcibly displaced entire Palestinian communities and demolished hundreds of thousands of Palestinians’ homes causing terrible trauma & suffering. Over 6 million Palestinians remain as refugees and today at least another 150,000 are at real risk of losing their homes.

Israel has created and maintains laws, policies, and practices that deliberately oppress Palestinians and work to ensure Jewish Israeli domination across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). This includes racist seizures of property and planning laws and policies that make it impossible for many Palestinians to build homes. It also allows for mass demolitions of homes built without a permit, something that is routinely denied for Palestinians.

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In 1897, American explorer Robert Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition to Greenland with an enormous iron meteorite, which he had taken from a small tribe of Greenlandic Inuit, the Inughuit. Also on board his ship were six Inughuit. Peary had convinced them to come with him to New York to be studied by the American Museum of Natural History in exchange for guns and tools. But soon after getting back to New York, Peary left on a promotional speaking tour. The six Inughuit never saw him again.

Within a few months of exposure to the warmer climate, four of the Inughuit — Qisuk, Nuktaq, Atangana, and Aviaq — had died of respiratory disease. And another, Uisaakasak, asked to return to Greenland on one of Peary’s ships. The only Inuk left was 9-year-old Minik, Qisuk’s son. The museum officials told Minik they buried his father’s body, but that was a lie. They had actually stored Qisuk’s remains inside the museum to study.

Minik grew up in New York and went by the name Mene Wallace. In 1907, he learned the truth about his father and publicly pleaded with the museum to return Qisuk’s remains to him so he could give him a proper burial, but the museum refused. Minik eventually returned to Greenland on one of Peary’s ships in 1909 and needed to relearn Inughuit customs and his native language, Inuktun.

The American Museum of Natural History kept the remains of the four Inughuit who died in its care until 1993. Today, there is no mention inside the museum of Minik or the other five Inughuit brought to New York in 1897. The giant meteorite Peary took, however, remains a signature exhibit.

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What are the 5 most important survival skills?
What is a survival tip?
How to survive in life?
Wilderness survival myths that can get you killed
Is it possible to survive in the wilderness?
How do you survive stranded in the wilderness?
What does it take to survive in the wild?

CHAPTERS:
Should You Light A Fire In A Cave?
Does Alcohol Warm You Up?
Does Boiling Water Make It Safe To Drink?
Can You Drink Water From A Cactus?
Should You Burn, Salt Or Rip Leeches Off?

Abstract
This talk describes the fascinating and important early town of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The site is important because of its large size and elaborate symbolism, including wall art and burials beneath the floors of houses. The speaker has been excavating at the site for 25 years using the latest scientific techniques. A very large team has been piecing together the detailed evidence of the site in order to understand how the society was organized, how it lasted so long, and what its rich symbolism means.
July 2018

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Join me as we explore how director Damien Chazelle made use of colours in La La Land. Instead of using the standard emotional connotations for certain colours, Chazelle gives each colour its own thematic resonance and narrative weight, adding an extra layer to the visual storytelling. He uses inspirations ranging from German Expressionism to classical Hollywood to create a film that is not only colourful, but uses these colours for specific purposes.

Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound

I summarize all the major dynasties of Persian history from Antiquity to the present day. Watch this video if you want to get an introduction to Iranian history, or if you've already done some reading but want to get an overview to see the whole picture.

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:58 Elam
3:50 Achaemenids
6:14 Alexander the Great
7:12 Seleucids
8:37 Arsacids (Parthians)
10:04 Sasanians
12:24 Arab conquest
13:07 Umayyads
14:52 Abbasids
17:56 Ghaznavids
18:54 Seljuks
20:09 Mongols
23:09 Ilkhanate
24:07 Timur
25:28 Safavids
28:45 Nader Shah
29:22 Qajars
33:57 Pahlavis
35:57 Islamic Republic

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/13191400

The Sunday school teacher is out. Good thing a substitute is available: Satan!

SATAN'S GUIDE TO THE BIBLE is an animated documentary. Join Satan as he shares Bible secrets, secrets the students' pastor learned at Christian seminary but is afraid to share. Thankfully, Satan's not afraid of losing his job.

At The Hague yesterday, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC delivered an unbelievably powerful - condemning the Israeli state for the utter horror it has unleashed against Gaza. Here it is in full - everyone needs to see it.

About this video:
With the Jeffrey Epstein case one of the most controversial scandals in recent years, and now the new list that show Prince Andrew, Steven Hawking, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump are also implicated - I’ve seen a resurgence of debates around whether the abuse was bad enough/serious enough, qualifies for mention. People ranking the experiences and minimising and trivialising them. I see this constantly, things that clearly amounted to sxual violence are minimised by terms like ‘’just bad sx’’ misunderstanding, ‘grey area’’. People say This doesn’t really count, but …” or: “I wasn’t r@ped, but …” then proceed to tell me things that absolutely were rape. No matter where I go, or how horrendous the experience, people never seemed to think it was that bad.
‘abuse ranking’ is r@pe apologia. It normalises and trivialises the harm and invalidates victims. It makes us believe some acts are tolerable, and, further, that if a survivor of the "not as bad" sort of violence, they’re making a mountain out of a molehill. ‘’not that bad’’ is a chore pillar of r@pe culture.

⌚️Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:37 Why Not That Bad?
16:10 What Led to Change
26:48 That Bad

Watch this video before visiting the European Middle Ages. SUGGESTED READING • Steven A. Epstein, An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University...

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CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS:

• there are a few points where I switch between the terms "Black," "POC," and "immigrant" as though the terms are interchangeable; they are not


• the image representing "pre-transition photos" is not an actual pre-transition photo, in case anyone was worried. this should've been clarified in the video itself.


• I wish I'd changed the phrasing on "tokens on a white person's game board" to make it clear that this is an unambiguously false opinion

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Around the time that Israelis celebrate Independence Day, Palestinians commemorate “The Nakba,” or “The Catastrophe.” The Nakba was a series of events, centered around 1948, that expelled hundreds of thousands Palestinians from their homeland and killed thousands. The Nakba isn’t the beginning of the story, but it’s a key part of Palestinian history — and the root of Israel’s creation.

Prior to the Nakba, Palestine had a thriving population — largely made up of Arabs — that had lived and worked the land for centuries. But with the founding of Zionism, years of British meddling, and a British pledge to help create a Jewish state in Palestine — things began to change drastically. By 1947, with increasing tensions between Jewish settlers and Palestinian Arabs — the British left Palestine, and the UN stepped in with a plan to partition the land into two states. What followed was known as Plan Dalet: operations by Israeli paramilitary groups that violently uprooted Palestinians. An estimated 15,000 Palestinians were killed, more than 500 villages were decimated, and roughly 750,000 Palestinians displaced.

Most who were expelled from their homes couldn’t return to historic Palestine. And today, millions of their descendants live in refugee camps in Gaza, the West Bank and surrounding countries. The history of the Nakba has been deliberately concealed and often ignored in western narratives around the creation of Israel. In this episode of Missing Chapter, we break down how the Nakba happened — and how it defined the future of Palestine.

Sources:

Check out the documentary “1948: Creation & Catastrophe” by Ahlam Muhtaseb and Andy Trimlett for more information about the events around the Nakba - https://tubitv.com/movies/513674/1948-creation-catastrophe

All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 was a great resource in helping us understand the Nakba - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22236243-all-that-remains

For our maps, we relied heavily on these organizations: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding, Palestine Remembered and Zochrot

www.passia.org/maps/view/2
www.imeu.org/topic/category/maps
www.palestineremembered.com/Maps/index.html
www.zochrot.org/

This report by Ilan Pappe helped us understand how Zionist forces planned to destroy villages -
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1650358

For our population breakdowns, we mainly used Australian National University’s Palestine Census reports archive -
https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/yabber_census.html

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Crossposted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/6509288

The Princess and The Frog and Soul, are the two Black firsts—the first Black Disney Princess and the first Pixar movie with a Black lead.

Each attempting to gain representation clout from young and old people who have been socialized for generations to view the company as synonymous with universality. Now, this criticism of Soul and Princess and the Frog, or really any polarizing BIPOC animated creation does not dismiss the feelings of those who may feel represented by it—or dismiss the one BIPOC creator works like this bring on for "authenticity."

It is calling out the failures of crafting diversity around a theme or topic, not build to actual deal with Blackness, or otherness, that lead to the film ultimately failing to really say anything—at least to this lady.

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It made me itch watching this video. It's sad that the house looks like it would have been a nice grandma's house before it went downhill.

🌟 Top Science Fiction Feature Films of 2023 | Movie Trailers | More https://indie-cinema.com/

🎬🍿 Included in our compilation are the following feature films -

0:46 Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire — Zack Snyder
3:32 1984 — Diana Ringo
4:58 Poor Things — Yorgos Lanthimos
6:18 Jung_E — Yeon Sang-ho
8:11 65 — Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
10:01 The Creator — Gareth Edwards
12:25 Infinity Pool — Brandon Cronenberg
14:35 Awareness — Daniel Benmayor
16:40 57 Seconds — Rusty Cundieff
18:37 They Cloned Tyrone — Juel Taylor
21:02 The Wandering Earth 2 — Frant Gwo
22:47 The Mill — Sean King O'Grady
26:16 Foe — Garth Davis
26:23 Simulant — April Mullen
28:32 The Pod Generation — Sophie Barthes
30:57 Asteroid City — Wes Anderson

✨ Read our article on the top-10 best sci-fi films of 2023 -
http://indie-cinema.com/2023/12/top-1...

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