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Naledi Pandor played a key role in South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-revokes-visa-south-africa-naledi-pandor-led-case-icj-israel-genocide

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It's a question I sometimes remember, when doing fitness. I always wanted to wear weights on my arms or legs. But they are always filled with sand and are very bulky and weird. I am wondering, why we're not using more dense materials? Why not metal? The weights at the gym aren't sand.

This is DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) Protocol:

Not a token, not speculation. It’s infrastructure, deployed on Ethereum mainnet.

We’re watching the same pattern everywhere: Postal systems collapsing. Parcels lost, broken, stolen or seized. Increased surveillance, ID requirements, more decay. Less reliability, less privacy, less dignity.

The institutions that were supposed to protect our right to communication are failing, even though privacy of correspondence is guaranteed under UN Article 12 and ICCPR Article 17.

So instead of being stuck in surveillance and Inefficiency-As-A-Service, we have to build parallel systems immune to centralized control. Systems by us for us, in the spirit of the Fediverse:

community-powered

decentralized

permissionless

protocol, not platform

no corporations

no bosses

no surveillance

no extraction

DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) is not a token, not a scam, not a VC product, not a walled garden. It’s a rail, an open delivery settlement layer anyone can build on.

What it does:

Every parcel is an NFT with a lifecycle

Escrow is automatic, trustless, and transparent

Anyone can create an NFT-Parcel

Anyone can carry parcels while they’re already on the move

No fleets, no gig exploitation, no “shadow wages”

Zero extra CO₂, use the movement people already make

Protocol fee is immutable (0.5%), so nobody can rug / extract

Privacy is natively built in.

Fully MIT-licensed & open-source

It’s not a startup. It’s not a marketplace. It’s not a company.

It’s the peoples infrastructure for physical logistics.

Because if we want a free world, we can’t outsource critical communication infrastructure to decaying governments, surveillance corps, or gig economy parasites.

If you want to understand the philosophy behind it, here’s the full manifesto + artwork:

Medium: https://medium.com/@ekarlsson66/dede-the-delivery-rail-for-a-free-world-e7be944b90fc

If you want to poke around the contracts:

DeDe Protocol GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/pablo-chacon/dede-protocol

DeDe Quik-Start Templates GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/pablo-chacon/dede-templates

No pressure to “like crypto.” DeDe is just a tool. Use it, fork it, ignore it. All up to you. More decentralized civilizational fundamentals, means less dependency of collapsing control systems. We must have working alternatives when the centralized systems break down.

Against decay, we build. That’s the spirit of the fediverse. That’s the spirit of DeDe.

As per FSF only these linux distributions are 100% free:

Dragora
Dyne
Guix
Hyperbola
Parabola
PureOS
Trisquel
Ututo
libreCMC
ProteanOS

Do you agree or not?

I see a lot of people that want to switch from windows to a linux distro or a open os. But from what i see they tend to migrate to another black boxed/closed os.

What is a trully free os that doesnt included any closed code/binary blobs/closed drivers etc.

Just 100% free open code, no traps.

What are the options and what should one go with if they want fully free os that rejects any closed code?

OQB @pie@piefed.social

The Richardson Waiver which prohibited regulatory decisions being made without sufficient public input with the Department of Health and Human Services was repealed back in February by RFK Jr. Critics claim these changes enable the department to make drastic changes to Medicaid that would negatively impact many Americans. Others argue that this change allows faster implementation of necessary policies. Is public participation always necessary in policymaking?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53497484

We use COLONS in this household. We use SEMI-COLONS when we want to look smart. We use COMMAS when we DON'T CARE. We use - when we need a dash. This symbol is NOT on OUR keyboards. When you see it, perform a Voight-Kampff test and expose them.

transcript:
cat mum: what's 6 times 7?
cat boy (making faces): 6 7!!!
cat mum: hilarious, as always. but actually ...?
cat boy: 42
cat mum: 6 x 7 - 6 7 - is 42?!
cat boy: yeah ... so?
cat mum (making faces): that means 6 7 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!
cat boy: daddy! mommy's being weird again!
cat dad: aww, you see son, - your mommy is just a huge dork!
cat mum: history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes!

My friend's father bought a 2025 Tesla after my friend begged him not to, but a boomer's gotta boomer. Suffice to say, it hasn't gone well for him, so the man went and put this decal on his car. My brother in Christ, you are driving a freshly redesigned car. Nobody is going to believe your swastikar is pre-COVID.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeals by /u/FiendFyre498 on 2025-11-21 19:27:27+00:00.

As someone who didn't grow up in the US, I don't have a large family here, nor do we have any thanksgiving traditions outside of turkey or ham for dinner. But I wanted to learn some new traditions, specially some I can do with adults as my kids are in college.

The S Group has decided to temporarily stop purchasing products of Israeli origin, while respecting its legal commitments, the mega-retailer tells Yle.

In practice, the S Group product range has only included a small number of such items, as it has not sold fruit or vegetables of Israeli origin for some time.

Some individual products, such as home carbonation devices, will remain available until the current ranges sell out, S Group Chief Sustainability Officer Nina Elomaa told the public broadcaster by email on Wednesday.

The decision was made in September, she said, based on the European Commission proposal to suspend the trade-related parts of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.