Venus and Jupiter meet in the sky. Too bad for us, a real-life date is rarer than an eclipse. View quoted note →

Systematic Censorship of Pro-Palestinian Content on Meta Platforms. Between 2023 and 2025, a global investigation by Human Rights Watch, Project Censored, and internal sources documented a systematic pattern of removal, shadow banning, and suppression of content critical of the Israeli government or supportive of Palestinian rights on Meta’s social networks (Facebook and Instagram). The platform complied with 94% of the removal requests submitted by the Israeli government, leading to the suppression of tens of millions of posts across over 60 countries. This phenomenon has been described as the largest mass censorship operation in the digital age. **Reasons for potential censorship according to typical social media guidelines:** - **Violation of "Dangerous Organizations and Individuals" (DOI) policies:** Meta extensively applied U.S. government terrorist lists, mistakenly labeling peaceful expressions of human rights support as content related to designated dangerous groups. - **Misuse of hate speech and incitement rules:** posts containing evidence of human rights violations, testimonies of airstrikes, or ceasefire calls were removed under the pretext of incitement to violence, while violent rhetoric from the other side remained visible. - **Shadow banning and algorithmic visibility reduction:** many activist, journalist, and humanitarian organization accounts were shadow banned, making their content invisible in feeds, searches, and trends without any notification to the user. - **Labeling as "spam" or "misinformation":** common phrases like "Free Palestine" were classified as spam or automated posts, reducing their distribution. - **Violation of "authentic conduct" guidelines:** activists reported the removal of entire profiles and the disabling of key features (e.g., live streaming) to prevent the spread of testimonies from conflict zones. - **Geopolitical asymmetry in policy enforcement:** while platforms like Meta relaxed restrictions for violent content in support of Ukraine, they applied much stricter moderation to content from the Global South, highlighting a double standard in the enforcement of the same rules.

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Today, silence is a luxury I can't afford. I have a tangle in my head like a ball of yarn after the cat's played with it. And I don't want to untangle it, I just want to sit and stare at it, without anyone saying a word to me.

Rumours from Persia: Epstein Island Act II

Every so often the world stops working by the old rules. Not because the rules have changed, but because someone dared to look at the gaps everyone else had learned to ignore.

When you close your eyes and stop searching outward, the world does not vanish. Rather, it shifts register. Sounds recede, shapes dissolve into a dust of phosphenes, and the mind, relieved of the task of decoding the environment, turns toward a different landscape. It’s a simple gesture, almost banal, yet it holds a strangeness that neurophysiology has begun to map: the brain’s electrical activity, measured in raw terms, seems to quiet down. But beneath that quiet, something rearranges itself. The point is not that the brain “shuts off.” Certain areas, particularly those of the so-called default mode network, begin to converse with a synchrony reminiscent of an orchestra finally finding its tuning. It’s as if, by reducing the noise of stimuli, deeper connections emerge from the background hum. We’re doing nothing, and yet the system aligns itself. Here a first question opens—one that need not be stated but runs through every authentic reflection: what, in this process, is simply given, and what can we touch? The brain has its own spontaneous architecture, an innate tendency to reorganize when we take away its work. We don’t have to invent it. It’s already there, like an underground current. But we can choose to meet it. We can train the habit of withdrawing from the senses, of seeking that active silence. We don’t command the harmonization; we create the conditions for it to happen. It’s a delicate collaboration between what happens on its own and the intention that hosts it. Then there is the bare experience, the one that precedes any theory. If you try now, as you read, to close your eyes and bring your attention inward, what do you encounter? At first, perhaps, a slight disorientation. The mind accustomed to reacting finds itself without handholds, and for a moment it may feel empty. But if you stay, a subtle sensation appears: a diffuse warmth, a breath that becomes wider, a presence to yourself that does not have the shape of a thought. It’s not an exceptional state. It’s the ordinary texture of feeling when you stop chasing. The efficiency the studies speak of does not present itself as a logical leap. It presents itself as a relief. As a spaciousness that was previously occupied by a thousand fragments. And it’s precisely here that the phenomenon becomes charged with meaning. Because that relief is not just a biological fact. It’s an invitation. In a culture that equates value with visible production, with constant input, closing your eyes and descending into yourself appears almost as an act of resistance. But we don’t need to load it with rhetoric. It’s enough to observe what happens to the quality of our presence when we open our eyes again. Things appear sharper, priorities readjust, and we find ourselves less hostage to immediate reactions. We are not merely resting. We are rebuilding a centre. The question of meaning is therefore not “why do I do this?” but “what kind of relationship with myself do I want to cultivate?”. Within that minimal gesture hides a choice about what we consider real and where we place our attention. We can treat inner space as a void to be filled, or as a source from which to drink. The brain that harmonizes when we reduce input is not a machine secretly optimizing itself. It’s the signal of a wider intelligence, one that doesn’t need to add but to take away. Learning to function better, it seems, is not a conquest towards the outside. It’s a return home.

Meanwhile I'm trying to grow lavender on my windowsill. It always dies, but every year I try again. 💜 View quoted note →

Yo #Nostr Yo #Bitcoin are we living or just surviving? #asknostr

The mirror is no longer an object; it is an atmosphere. We live inside a galaxy of reflections that precedes and outlives us: every gesture demands a response, every silence becomes an absence of validation. The hunger for recognition has devoured the ability to exist without witnesses. Thus the self has become a surface, taut skin over a void that trembles at the first hint of contempt. And the final paradox is that the more mirrors we point at ourselves, the more alone we feel – because no image is ever true enough, no like can quench the original thirst to be, not merely to appear. We are the first generation to have outsourced the soul – and put it up for auction in a market without trust.

An economy serving the people cannot coexist with a finance that legalizes the dispossession of savers. It is time to disarm the predators and arm savers with awareness and real protections.

Sometimes haste steals from us the chance to notice a silence. That silence which is not absence, but the full presence of someone who chooses to stop and listen to the world’s breath. Staying human perhaps means this: opposing the rush without shouting, inhabiting slowness as an act of gentle care for oneself and for others.

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It's not a question of price levels. The game is played on the time factor. You have to be patient. Who is a trader, go and trade somewhere else. Those who hold the chart shouldn't even look at it. My advice is to close and reopen the charts at the end of the summer! Enjoy the sun, family, friendships, nature and above all... touch the grass! 😉

Is something broken?

Why doesn't WoT have a temporal decay? A profile that has been stuck for months has more confidence than an active one. Is this a bug or a feature?