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Philo Sophies

#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. #Daniel #Dennett: “A #naturalistic #view on #consciousness”

The #philosophical #concept of supposed #naturalistic #monism is currently the basis of most approaches to elucidating the phenomenon of #consciousness in the research field of #cognitive #neuroscience, which attempt to #reduce #mental states to #physical #states.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

or: youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

Chuck Darwin

A far-right group that claimed credit for the arrest of a Palestinian activist and permanent US resident who the Trump administration is seeking to deport-- claims it has submitted “thousands of names” for similar treatment.

"Betar US" is one of a number of rightwing, so called "pro-Israel" groups
that are supporting the administration’s efforts to deport international students involved in university pro-Palestinian protests,
an effort that escalated this week with the arrest of #Mahmoud #Khalil, an activist who recently completed his graduate studies at Columbia University.

This week, Donald Trump said Khalil’s arrest was
just “the first of many to come”.
#BetarUS quickly claimed credit on social media for providing Khalil’s name to the government.

Betar, 💥which has been labelled an extremist group by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish advocacy group,
said on Monday that it had
“been working on deportations and will continue to do so”,
and warned that the effort would extend beyond immigrants.
❌“Expect naturalized citizens to start being picked up within the month,” the group’s post on X read.
(It is very difficult to revoke US citizenship, though Trump has indicated an intention to try.)

👉Deporting speakers over supposed ‘propaganda’ is a stock authoritarian move

The group has compiled a so-called “deportation list”
naming individuals it believes are in the US on visas and have participated in pro-Palestinian protests, claiming these individuals “terrorize America”.
A Betar spokesperson, #Daniel #Levy, said in a statement to the Guardian that Betar submitted 🆘“thousands of names” of students and faculty they believe to be on visas from institutions like Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, Syracuse University and others to representatives of the Trump administration.

The group claims to have “documentation, including tapes, social media and more” to support their actions.
It claims to be sharing names with several high-ranking officials, including the secretary of state, Marco #Rubio; the White House homeland security adviser, Stephen #Miller; and the attorney general, Pam #Bondi, among others.

The White House and state department did not respond to questions about whether they are working with Betar or other groups to identify students for deportation.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · Pro-Israel group says it has ‘deportation list’ and has sent ‘thousands’ of names to Trump officialsBy Anna Betts
Chuck Darwin

The fediverse answer to TikTok is on its way.
Signups opened this week for #Loops, a short-form looping video app from the creator of Instagram alternative #Pixelfed, reports TechCrunch.
Users who’ve signed up can post up to 60 seconds of video, according to details shared by developer #Daniel #Supernault on Mastodon.
He added that using sounds and remixing others’ videos is coming,
as are pinned profile videos,
and that users will be able to “curate” their comment sections.
Videos can be categorized, but hashtags and mentions aren’t yet supported.
The Loops Pixelfed account has posted example videos. Supernault has posted screenshots and screen recordings, as well.

theverge.com/2024/10/26/242800

The Verge · A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverseBy Wes Davis
Chuck Darwin

“We will drill, baby, drill,” Trump said in July as he officially accepted the Republican nomination at the party’s national convention in Milwaukee.

Indeed, early plans suggest that Trump aims to ♦️radically remake the Department of the Interior,
which oversees more than 500m acres (200m hectares) of public lands,
manages the country’s national parks and wildlife refuges,
and is responsible for protecting endangered species.

❇️Whereas Joe Biden made safeguarding public lands and the transition to green energy a centerpiece of his time in office,
🆘Trump and his allies would reverse many of Biden’s policies,
remake the civil service
and implement a new agenda focused on slashing regulations, weakening environmental protections, and expanding oil and gas development across the American west.

⚠️One of the figures involved in crafting this vision is #Daniel #Jorjani, who served as the top solicitor at the interior department during Trump’s term, according to two sources who have spoken with Jorjani recently.

A lawyer who formerly worked for the organizations affiliated with the conservative #mega-#donors Charles and David #Koch,
Jorjani currently serves as chief operating officer and principal deputy general counsel for the far-right advocacy group #Citizens #United,
whose president, David Bossie, was Trump’s deputy campaign manager in 2016.

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

The Guardian · If Trump wins the election, US parks and wildlife will face a new age of miningBy Adam Federman
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Chuck Darwin

Federal judge blocks employee abortion, IVF protections
at thousands of Catholic employers nationwide

The group that brought the challenge to a new federal policy argues it cannot be forced to accommodate
"immoral infertility 'treatments.'"

A federal judge in North Dakota issued an #injunction on Monday ❌blocking the🔸 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission🔸 from protecting
any employees of any members of a nationwide Catholic association
who are seeking time off or other accommodations under the #Pregnant #Workers #Fairness #Act
for an ♦️abortion or
♦️in vitro fertilization ( #IVF ) treatment.

U.S. District Judge #Daniel #Traynor, a Trump appointee to the federal court in North Dakota, issued the🔸 religion-infused preliminary injunction🔸 to partially
🆘 block enforcement of an EEOC rule implementing the 2022 law,
👉along with related implementation of Title VII of the #Civil #Rights #Act of 1964,

as to the Catholic Benefits Association and its members
— current or future
— #nationwide.

The order covers ⚠️more than 8,000 employers
— including thousands of churches
— across the country.

The #PWFA was passed in December 2022 and is supposed to protect covered workers from discrimination on the basis of “pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions”
by, in part, requiring employers to provide employees with reasonable accommodations.

The EEOC proposed its implementing rule for the PWFA in August 2023,
stating in part that abortion and fertility treatment, including IVF,
are covered by the law’s protections.

That rule, which does not relate to insurance coverage, went into effect in June.

Judge Traynor concluded that the CBA is likely to succeed in its challenge to the rule and related Title VII enforcement guidance under the "Religious Freedom Restoration Act".

Any appeal would go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit,
which only has one Democratic appointee among its 11 judges.

lawdork.com/p/federal-judge-in

Law Dork · Federal judge blocks employee abortion, IVF protections at many Catholic employersBy Chris Geidner
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Chuck Darwin

Donald Trump unleashed so many #falsehoods during his nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that 🔸it seemed to overwhelm CNN’s on-air fact checker. 🔸

After Trump’s appearance Thursday night, CNN’s #Daniel #Dale ran through a lengthy list of Trump’s lies,
having to brush past several on his list because he was running out of time to dispute each baseless claim. 

During his speech, Trump had claimed that his opponents inherited a world “at #peace.”
🔸“Trump did not achieve world peace when he was president; certainly wasn’t at peace when he left office,” Dale explained.

“There were active wars or armed conflicts in dozens of nations in 2020: 51 by one research institution’s count, and then 51 again in 2021.”

“Trump handed President Biden ongoing civil #wars in Yemen and Syria, of course, an unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli-Iranian conflict, a war in Ethiopia,” Dale explained.

There were also the U.S. troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, a civil war in Somalia, insurgents fighting Africa’s Sahel region, violent clashes between drug cartels in Mexico, to name a few others, according to CNN.  

⭐️“I could go on for a while, but I don’t have time because there were so many other false claims. So let’s address some of those, not even all of them,” said Dale.

He later noted that Trump falsely claimed to have defeated “100 percent of #ISIS.” 
🔸“In fact, the ISIS caliphate was declared fully liberated more than two years into his presidency,” Dale said. 

Trump “repeated his usual lie about Democrats having #cheated in the 2020 election. 🔸It’s nonsense,” Dale said.
During his speech, Trump offhandedly claimedthat Democrats had somehow managed to use the Covid-19 #pandemic to cheat in the 2020 election. 
“He said #crime is going up. The opposite is true. It’s gone sharply down in 2023 and early 2024.
🔸It’s now lower than it was under Trump in 2020,” Dale said.

Trump has repeatedly made claims about an increase in violent crime and tried to blame it on undocumented #immigrants. 
Not only has Trump’s campaign failed to provide any evidence of a surge in crime committed by migrants,
🔸there has been no increase in violent crime to speak of.
More importantly, U.S. citizens are proven to commit crimes at a higher rate than undocumented immigrants.

Still, Trump falsely claimed that other countries were releasing people from #prisons and #mental #institutions into the United States. 

Trump also “said we have the worst #inflation we’ve ever had.
🔸Again, not even close. It is 3 percent right now.
The U.S. record is 23.7 percent.
He said there was no inflation under him. It was low, of course, but not nonexistent
—it was 8 percent total for his presidency, 1.4 percent year over year in the month he left office,” Dale said.

Trump also lied about the price of #groceries, according to Dale: “He said the price of groceries is up 57 percent under Biden.
🔸It’s actually 21 percent.”
Apparently, plenty of Trump’s numbers were all over the place.

The former president “said Democrats are proposing to quadruple people’s #taxes.
🔸That is imaginary.

He said his tax #cut was the largest in American history,
not even close again,” Dale explained.
🔸A report from the Congressional Budget Office found that Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama had each facilitated larger tax cuts than Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. 

Much like Trump’s speech, which seemed to go on and on into eternity (it was a whopping 92 minutes), his lies continued to stack up. 

Trump claimed that the government had recently hired 88,000 #IRS agents,
🔸but that number appears to be from a projection from a 2021 Treasury Department report, which predicted the agency could bring in roughly 87,000 new hires in the next decade, thanks to $80 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act. 

Trump “said the Biden administration does nothing to stop #migrants.
Well, 🔸the administration tried to get Congress to pass a bill to tighten the border, and after Trump himself helped to kill that bill, Biden took executive action to tighten the border.” Dale said.

“Trump said he stopped human #trafficking. 🔸Again, not true.”

Trump made plenty of false claims about his business dealings with #China, claiming that the country had “stopped buying oil from Iran under him,” Dale said.
🔸“Also did not happen.”

newrepublic.com/post/184048/ho

The New Republic · Here’s How Many Times Trump Lied During His Weird RNC SpeechSpoiler alert: It’s a lot.
Continued thread
anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/0

#CowboyStateDaily has obtained a photo of a #wolf that was captured and had its mouth taped shut while it was reportedly taken to a local man’s house and a bar in rural #Daniel, #Wyoming, before it was killed.

The photo shows the wolf with red tape wound tightly around its muzzle sitting and looking down while #CodyRoberts of Daniel poses with the animal in his house. They are on a tile floor with coats and other clothing hanging behind them.

Cowboy State Daily · Photo Shows Wyoming Man With Tormented Wolf Before It Was KilledBy Greg Johnson & Mark Heinz
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MMR Nmd

Avant 2011, la #Libye était autosuffisante.
Avant 2011, l'islamisme était un épiphénomène farouchement combattu en Libye.
Avant 2011, les libyens ne fuyaient pas leur pays, le monde arabe se massait à ses frontières pour aller y travailler.
Avant 2011, la Libye aurait pu faire face seule au récent drame qui l'a touchée.

Et puis, l'Occident a décidé d'apprendre la démocratie et les droits de l'homme à la Libye et aux libyens.

"La destruction de la Libye par l'OTAN a déclenché une chaîne d'événements : l'effondrement de l'État libyen ; la guerre civile, qui continue encore aujourd'hui ; la propagation des radicaux islamiques à travers l’Afrique du Nord et dans la région du Sahel, dont la déstabilisation qui dure depuis une décennie a conduit à une série de coups d’État du Burkina Faso au Niger .

Cela a ensuite créé de nouvelles routes migratoires vers l’Europe et entraîné la mort de migrants dans le désert du Sahara et en mer Méditerranée, ainsi qu’une ampleur sans précédent des opérations de trafic d’êtres humains dans la région.

A cette liste de dangers, il faut ajouter non seulement les morts de #Derna et, bien sûr, ceux de la tempête #Daniel, mais aussi les victimes d'une guerre dont le peuple libyen ne s'est jamais relevé."

(L'article est en français)

globalizacion.ca/la-otan-destr

Globalización · La OTAN destruyó Libia en 2011, las aguas barren hoy los restosTres días antes de que las represas de Abu Mansur y Al Bilad colapsaran en Wadi Derna, Libia, la noche del 10 de septiembre, el poeta Mustafa al-Trabelsi participó en un debate en la Casa de la Cultura de Derna sobre el abandono de las infraestructuras básicas en su ciudad. En la reunión, al-Trabelsi alertó […]
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