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Wait... isn't that racism? Elite university uses AI to race-swap students in advertising photo You might think that in the world of today's woke academia, kids aren't learning much in college. Or, at least, not much that is useful. In California's elite Stanford University, however, they're learning just how devious and hypocritical their own administrations can be. Apparently, the school's Residential & Dining Enterprises operation wanted to get just the right look for an advertising campaign — a more diverse one — so they swapped out the race of one student in a group photo and slimmed down the two others. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇳🇱Doctors in The Netherlands euthanize 17-year-old girl who had depression and anxiety The DutchNewsNL reported that the Dutch federation of doctors (KNMG) rebuked 14 psychiatrists for sending a letter to urge the prosecution office to investigate the euthanasia death of a 17-year-old. The DutchNewsNL reported that: The case revolves around Milou, who had suffered from depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts from the age of 11 following sexual abuse. She was again sexually abused in an institution by another patient. After years of treatment and various suicide attempts, she chose euthanasia at the age of 17 on the grounds of unbearable mental suffering. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

CIA warns of potential Israeli civil war, state collapse: 'Fracture from within' International isolation, erosion of the Israeli economy, and deep political and societal fragmentation are among the factors cited in the US intelligence report A classified CIA assessment has warned that Israel is at risk of "civil war or state collapse," according to a new report co-published by Drop Site News and Capital & Empire, released on 5 October. The report was drafted in August and is titled "Fracture from Within." It was put together by "experts in the CIA's Red Cell," two US sources told Drop Site News. The Red Cell provides "alternative analysis" within the CIA. It drafted the report using a mix of open-source information and US intelligence. "The assessment appears to refer only to Israel's Jewish citizens," Drop Site News added. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

UK MPs call for investigation after Howard Lutnick-Jeffrey Epstein whistleblower dies The treatment of whistleblowers by the UK's financial watchdog must be investigated following the death of a British trader who exposed evidence of links between US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein, MPs have said. Simon Andriesz, a former senior employee of BGC Partners - the international firm of financial brokers founded and run by Lutnick before his appointment by US President Donald Trump - died last month in Thailand. Earlier this year, Andriesz raised concerns with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the FBI and other watchdogs about evidence he had uncovered of business links between Epstein and Lutnick. It cast doubt on Lutnick's public statements about his associations with the late sex offender. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Donald Trump acknowledges the limits of Jacksonism Events are going badly. At a time when President Trump is launching his Kulturkampf against the Catholic Church to reaffirm the Anglo-Saxon and not Aztec character of his country, he is suffering a heavy failure against Iran. He must note that his way of conducting commercial affairs cannot replace diplomacy, at least with this interlocutor. And that his *Jacksonian ideology, which works wonders on domestic issues, does not allow strategic problems to be answered. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇷🇺What are Russia's top three strategic challenges? The new "cordon sanitaire" that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign Ministry are the main strategic risks that must be urgently addressed in order to most effectively ensure Russia's future. Putin wisely advised Russians during his keynote speech at the Valdai Club's latest annual meeting that "we certainly need a roadmap for our movement into the future. What we need is not wishful thinking, an abstract and speculative construct or an unrealistic visualisation of our wishes, but a realistic assessment of risks, capabilities and essential objectives." His clarion call inspired the present piece that'll enumerate Russia's top three strategic challenges and propose pragmatic ways to address them. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇷Iran's NPT debate moves beyond parliament After two wars, Iranian lawmakers are pressing for an NPT exit. The argument inside Tehran now extends to whether a bomb would deter another attack. After two rounds of US-Israeli attacks in the space of a year, pressure is mounting on Iran's leadership to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Advocates say the treaty has failed to protect Iran's civilian nuclear program or its scientists. Their opponents warn that withdrawal could provide Washington and Tel Aviv with a pretext for another assault. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇱Israel is rewriting the Palestinian curriculum in East Jerusalem to erase Palestinian identity Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students' textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of Jerusalem, prisoners, the Nakba, and freedom fighters. Sally Assi, 34, recalled watching her 11-year-old daughter, Aline, a third-grader at Nour al-Huda School in the town of Beit Hanina in occupied East Jerusalem, arrange her drawing supplies before asking her, "Do you know why we draw Jerusalem?" "Because it's beautiful... right?" Aline answered. Assi told Mondoweiss: Assi smiled, but her question to her daughter wasn't really about drawing. "Jerusalem isn't just walls and the Dome of the Rock. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

"Very concerning safety issues": Trump's mRNA-skeptic FDA drug chief was mysteriously fired - right before this drug was approved Within three months of firing Tracy Beth Høeg, its top drug regulator, the FDA had approved the first mRNA flu shot, cleared a Sanofi diabetes treatment for children that she had held up, and approved a twice-rejected melanoma drug whose maker went to the White House. "I'm worried about approvals that we've seen recently, like the mRNA influenza vaccine," Høeg told journalist Paul Thacker in an interview posted Wednesday, citing "very concerning safety issues." Of the melanoma drugmaker's White House meeting, she said: "I guess that's what you do now if you're angry that your product is not approved. One has to wonder, is it approved based on the data or do they just know the right people?" Høeg still doesn't know who ordered her firing. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Swarming sea monkeys show scientists how to rewrite a rule of turbulence Scientists assumed that energy flows in only one direction in a turbulent system. What they didn't know, until they looked closely at brine shrimp, was that a simple factor can reverse the flow. In the 1960s and '70s, colorful comic book advertisements from the Transcience Corporation in New York City promised to mail anyone who sent cash, check, or money order a "bowlfull of happiness" — in reality, a small paper envelope of freeze-dried eggs. Dropped into salt water, the eggs would produce brine shrimp, also known as sea monkeys. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇦🇷Scientists search for answers as baby whales wash up dead in Argentina Investigators in Argentina are trying to solve the mystery of baby whales washing up dead in unusually high numbers along the country's Patagonian coast. Scores of the calf carcasses have been washing ashore around Peninsula Valdes, a major breeding ground for southern right whales in Argentina's Chubut province. Hunted to the brink of extinction in the 19th and 20th centuries, the whales now gather in the peninsula's sheltered waters to give birth and nurse their young. "We're looking into the whale calf deaths based on 23 years of monitoring that we have of this same population. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Rare two-headed turtle hatchling discovered on Cape Cod Cape Cod is known for its lobsters and its growing great white shark population, but now the holiday hotspot has another extraordinary animal to showcase: A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin that is surviving against the odds. The baby turtle, which weighed just 0.18 ounces (5.2 grams), was brought to the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on Sept. 17, according to a Facebook post from the wildlife center. It was originally found by representatives of the Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at a protected nesting site in the town of Wellfleet. The turtle's condition, known as bicephaly, is a rare developmental disorder that's typically caused by the incomplete splitting of a single embryo during the formation of identical twins. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇾🇪All-out war erupts as Ansarullah seizes Yemen parliament speaker's home, cut Taiz-Aden lifeline Iran-aligned Houthi forces have seized the home of Yemen's parliament speaker, Sultan al-Barakani, during a lightning advance south of Taiz that has also cut one of the government's most important remaining supply routes, according to reports. Multiple Yemeni and regional outlets reported Sunday that Houthi fighters entered al-Barakani's residence in Wadi al-Barakani, south of Taiz, and established positions inside. Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported the seizure citing field sources, while Al-Ain placed the property in the Al-Ma'afer district and said the Houthis occupied it following heavy fighting with Yemeni forces and local residents. China's Xinhua subsequently quoted a Yemeni government official confirming that Houthi forces had captured the al-Barakani area containing the parliament speaker's house. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇨🇴Heavy hailstorm covers Bogota, Colombia in white A heavy hailstorm surprised Bogotá, leaving several areas blanketed in white. The accumulation of hail created a visual effect that made it look as if it had snowed in the Colombian capital. Images showing the streets covered in ice quickly began circulating on social media. 🙌 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇳🇿12 killer whales found dead on New Zealand beach At least 12 killer whales were found dead amid rough conditions at sea along New Zealand's North Island, Radio New Zealand reported Friday. Joel Lauterbach, a conservation official, said they were notified of the stranding of 15 pygmy killer whales on Thursday when they along with volunteers launched a rescue mission on Ninety Mile Beach in the Far North District. The whales were scattered across several kilometers of the beach, but conditions at sea were tough with tides, waves and fading light challenging rescue efforts. "Conditions remained challenging today," said the official as the process for burial of the dead whales was underway. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Heavy October snow buries Southern Urals; Petermann Glacier advance; + El Niño is a cooling mechanism Heavy October Snow Buries Southern Urals Heavy snow has buried Russia's Chelyabinsk Oblast, piling up to 25 cm (10 inches) deep across the Southern Urals. At Taganay National Park, near Zlatoust, snow reached 25 cm (9.8 in) overnight, while the regional Hydrometeorological Center reported temporary snow cover of up to 20 cm across the oblast. The mountain zone was hit hardest. At Zlatoust, precipitation totaled 2.6 cm (1 in) in 24 hours—39% of the city's normal October total—as rain turned increasingly to snow. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Lightning strike kills Brazilian beauty queen during family lunch Twenty-two-year-old Ana Beatriz Araújo Ferreira passed away hours after a lightning bolt hit her in the backyard of her mother's residence in Almas, Tocantins State, Brazil. The incident occurred on Saturday (3 Oct) during a family gathering, with the young woman taken to a hospital alive but unable to survive the injuries sustained from the electrical discharge. Circumstances of the fatal strike Ferreira had recently bathed her five-year-old son, Luiz Henrique, and sent him indoors before remaining outside to care for her brother's daughter. Her sister, Lana Letícia, reported that Ana was combing the niece's hair when the bolt struck. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇩🇿☄️Stunning meteor fireball over Algeria (Oct. 5) This stunning bolide was spotted from Spain on October 5, at 6:51 local time (equivalent to 4:51 universal time). At the start of the video, the fireball has been sonified by for outreach purposes: its light was converted into sound by means of a new technique developed by Dr. Madiedo in the framework of the SMART survey. It was brighter than the full Moon. The fireball was observed by a wide number of casual eyewitnesses, who reported it on social networks. The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 256,000 km/h. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

We are trapped in Cyclop's cave, but escape could be easy... A Michigan nurse, one Tawanda Hall missed $900 on her property taxes. The county took her $308,000 home, sold it and confiscated the entire $286,000 in profit. The government took everything she owed, then everything she had: "They took my whole house, my whole family's livelihood." Journalist John Stossel pointed out to another case where a county seized a retiree's home over an $8 debt. People shouldn't have to fight in court to stop the government from taking their home over eight dollars. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Modern forensic methods reveal human sacrifice in ancient Egypt Over 500 years before the building of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, First Dynasty kings were buried in a tomb surrounded by many burials of household officials and artisans — many of which seem to have taken place at the same time, a suspiciously high number of simultaneous deaths. The original excavators thought that these individuals were the victims of retainer sacrifice, where people are killed after the death of a ruler to act as their attendants in the afterlife. But they didn't find evidence of any wounds on the bones, leaving the cause of death in doubt. Now a major re-examination of a sample of the remains, using modern forensic knowledge, has identified numerous instances of cranial trauma that were likely fatal. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate