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[...] At the same time, human rights organisations warn that the crisis is no longer merely a byproduct of war but has taken on a systematic nature.

According to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, “the lack of clean drinking water has become a matter of life or death” for civilians.

UN experts have also argued in a letter in July 2025 that what is happening goes beyond a conventional humanitarian crisis and falls within the use of essential resources as a tool of pressure.

The experts said the issue was not limited to infrastructure destruction, but also included cutting supplies, restricting fuel entry needed to operate water facilities, and obstructing repair and maintenance efforts.

“Israel’s blockade and destruction of civilian infrastructure has left most of Gaza’s two million residents displaced and without access to the minimum vital amount of drinking water,” the experts said.

This recurring pattern, combining direct targeting with sustained restrictions, has led to a deliberate reduction in the amount of water available to the population.

The UN experts warned that the “use of thirst as a weapon” has become a reality in Gaza, stressing that “cutting water and food is a silent but deadly bomb”.

This repository includes the hardware and software components of "MEVIUS2: Practical Open-Source Quadruped Robot with Sheet Metal Welding and Multimodal Perception"

Video demonstration: https://youtu.be/xzfZkmQ2rrQ

Val Kilmer will be the latest Hollywood star to be resurrected by AI. The acting legend, who died last year at age 65, will star in the drama As Deep As the Grave.

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There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures of random women in a way that makes individuals look guiltier than they really are, forgetting to redact credentials that made it possible for all of Reddit to log into Epstein’s account and trample over all the evidence, and the complete ineptitude that resulted in most of the latest batch being corrupted thanks to incorrectly converted Quoted-Printable encoding artifacts, it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this (admittedly gargantuan) undertaking. But the most damning evidence has all been thoroughly redacted… hasn’t it? Well, maybe not.

"A gente não permite que a Tulianne e nossos filhos vão para uma federal. É para manter os nossos valores familiares. A faculdade, a universidade particular, ela se alinha mais aos nossos pensamentos e aos nossos princípios", disse a mãe.

Túlio também disse que um dos motivos é o trânsito e as condições do local. "Dependendo do trânsito fica quase uma hora, uma hora e meia, duas horas [para chegar]. Tem que passar ali na linha amarela, vermelha, é uma zona de perigo, né? E a Federal, infelizmente, está bem precária. Tem greve várias vezes."

Tulianne afirmou que entendia os motivos e concordou com os pais. "Vou deixar [a vaga] para quem realmente precisa, quem não tem condições de pagar uma faculdade particular. Eu estou encantada com a minha faculdade, os meus pais já foram ver. A faculdade privada é realmente um sonho", encerrou.

teens and twentysomethings today are of a very different demographic and have markedly different media consumption habits compared to Wikipedia’s forebears. Gen Z and Gen Alpha readers are accustomed to TikTok, YouTube, and mobile-first visual media. Their impatience for Wikipedia’s impenetrable walls of text, as any parent of kids of this age knows, arguably threatens the future of the internet’s collaborative knowledge clearinghouse.

The Wikimedia Foundation knows this, too. Research has shown that many readers today greatly value quick overviews of any article, before the reader considers whether to dive into the article’s full text.

So last June, the Foundation launched a modest experiment they called “Simple Article Summaries.” The summaries consisted of AI-generated, simplified text at the top of complex articles. Summaries were clearly labeled as machine-generated and unverified, and they were available only to mobile users who opted in.

Even after all these precautions, however, the volunteer editor community barely gave the experiment time to begin. Editors shut down Simple Article Summaries within a day of its launch.

The response was fierce. Editors called the experiment a “ghastly idea” and warned of “immediate and irreversible harm” to Wikipedia’s credibility.

Comments in the village pump (a community discussion page) ranged from blunt (“Yuck”) to alarmed, with contributors raising legitimate concerns about AI hallucinations and the erosion of editorial oversight.

Wake up. It's 5:20 am. You're still tired from the night because your daughter is sick and you spend half an hour cleaning vomit off a Pikachu plush. You hear the sound of Lease by Takeshi Abo, a familiar song if you circle niche aesthetic forums. It brings a slight bit of comfort in the otherwise existential dread of the routine you stumbled into. The rut.

You didn't make a rut, you stumbled into one that was premade for most people like you. The rut was already made by people who existed long before you.

Loving wife, beautiful daughter, a comfy desk job with full benefits, and a salary that's just big enough for said wife to be able to stay home and raise your daughter.

You feel this dichotomy. By seemingly most measures of societal success, you've won the game. It's all side-quests from here. So why does it feel hollow? Is it because a significant part of your life is taken up by the mundane and exploitative nature of corporate America? The fact you spend most of your life either asleep or working for a group of people so out-of-touch with the needs of the people they deem beneath them? You've gone through this thought pattern before you've even brushed your teeth.

You get dressed in attire that you hope screams "I refuse to participate in this masquerade", kiss your sleeping wife, and walk to the garage. You get into your boring car, turn it on, look for what album you want to listen to for your hour long drive to your cognitive labor camp while the car warms up.

There's almost a dissociation that occurs between the half hour mark and the near-end of you commute. Lapses in consciousness that make you wonder how you even got there if you look it in the eyes. Only ever seemingly disrupted by cars with headlights that were engineered to make even Stevie Wonder think it's too bright. I am Jack's burning retinas.

You arrive at your office. You take a light puff of your THC vape pen, a jingle from a Serj Tankian song plays in your head:

anti-depressants controlling tools of your system. Making life more tolerable, making life more tol-er-a-ble.

You walk out into the city, it's quiet. No surprise, it's not even 7am yet. It feels almost like a liminal space to your liminal space between home and home. You get inside and walk to the kitchen...

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“Quem propõe mudanças radicais hoje é a direita: destruir o Banco Central, dolarizar, destruir a educação e a saúde pública como as conhecemos”, enumera o cientista político Diego Villanueva, diretor da Ágora Consultores, que realizou a pesquisa. Essa associação da direita a mudanças não se restringe apenas ao contexto brasileiro – também é ouvida em outros países da região, como a Argentina de Javier Milei ou o Equador de Daniel Noboa. [...]"

Amigos, estou fazendo um curso online e preciso usar o livro "Pequena gramática do português brasileiro". Já procurei em todo canto e não achei um pdf, alguém teria um scan dele por acaso?