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Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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The Lost BBC Interview That Reignited the Banksy Name Debate (+17 Photos)

STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com

Banksy’s work still pulls massive attention worldwide — especially since new claims about his identity have been circulating. In this rare BBC interview, he talks openly about his process, his views on graffiti, and how he keeps distance from the traditional art world. Does it offer a real clue to who he is? Watch the full interview: BANKSY – The Lost Interview: A Glimpse into Banksy’s Artistic World 🌿 1. Inside “Turf War” (2003) A big part of the interview focuses on Turf […]

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The Department of Defense has quietly signed a $210 million deal to buy advanced cluster shells from one of Israel’s state-owned arms companies, marking unusually large new commitments to a class of weapons and an Israeli defense establishment.

The deal, signed in September and not previously reported, is the department’s largest contract to purchase weapons from an Israeli company in available records.

theintercept.com/2026/02/06/pe

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The open source design stack

Scott Riley tested free and open source design tools out when researching his course, Mindful Design. They actually worked out better than Figma ever could, as he explains in this article with loads of options for you.

piccalil.li/blog/the-open-sour

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The Met Police is refusing to admit the existence of a classified document, which pro-Israel groups used to lobby the government over the proscription of Palestine Action.

It’s well documented that the Zionist lobby group We Believe in Israel (WBII) was a primary actor among those lobbying for the proscription of Palestine Action.

thecanary.co/uk/2026/02/06/%e2

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"日本は大統領制ではない。にもかかわらず、選挙の焦点が「一人の人物への信任投票の様相」を見せている"

心底ウンザリだ

「トランプ再登板」の米国と同じ道を歩んでいる…政治を「推し活化」した日本人がこれから受ける"しっぺ返し" (2ページ目) | PRESIDENT Online(プレジデントオンライン) president.jp/articles/-/108756

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Zweites mal Gym in diesem Jahr, nachdem ich im Jänner nur krank war.
Ohne dem Onsen in der Spa-Landschaft, wäre ich viel kaputter.

In other news: ignoriert die "riesen-rosine gefunden" meldungen in den medien morgen.

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Hey @paigePAIGE! 🍁 @smattymattyMathew Storm @evanEvan Prodromou @paulbuschInnocuous In Innisfil 🇨🇦 and other fediverse problem solvers. If a fellow wanted to organize and promote an event on Mastodon, or perhaps connect some sort of event calendar to their local server, what would be the least clunky way to do this? Ideally this fellow would be able to see who has signed up to attend the event and message attendees with updates and so on.

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Love and Math by Edward Frenkel, 2013

The Heart of Hidden Reality

An awesome, globe-spanning, and New York Times best-selling journey through the beauty and power of mathematics.

At its core, Love and Math is a story about accessing a new way of thinking, which can enrich our lives and empower us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics.



What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry. 

In Love and Math, renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space.

Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. Considered by many to be a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics, the Langlands Program enables researchers to translate findings from one field to another so that they can solve problems, such as Fermat's last theorem, that had seemed intractable before.
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Love and Math by Edward Frenkel, 2013

The Heart of Hidden Reality

An awesome, globe-spanning, and New York Times best-selling journey through the beauty and power of mathematics.

At its core, Love and Math is a story about accessing a new way of thinking, which can enrich our lives and empower us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics.



What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry. 

In Love and Math, renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space.

Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. Considered by many to be a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics, the Langlands Program enables researchers to translate findings from one field to another so that they can solve problems, such as Fermat's last theorem, that had seemed intractable before.
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Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the president of Somalia, says what the world has seen in Gaza is “another level of inhumane engagement in the history of the world.”

“This must remain an international priority despite all other challenges globally simply because without an equitable, legal, durable solution based on the two-state solution the world has been advocating for long, it will be a recurrent misfortune that the world will experience more.”



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Total losses of transport infrastructure in Gaza estimated at $2.5bn

Every morning, university professor Hassan El-Nabih straps his briefcase and laptop to his bicycle and rides out in search of a place with electricity and an internet connection, hoping to reach his students online.

aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/



A displaced Palestinian drives his damaged vehicle as he transports residents in Gaza City, on January 25, 2026 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
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About 46 percent of essential medicines out of stock in Gaza,

46 percent of essential medicines are out of stock, 66 percent of medical supplies are also out of stock and 84 percent of laboratory and blood bank supplies are depleted.

“The catastrophic effects of the ‘health annihilation’ have made the continuation of healthcare a daily miracle and a major challenge to recovery efforts and the restoration of many specialised services.”


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About 46 percent of essential medicines out of stock in Gaza,

46 percent of essential medicines are out of stock, 66 percent of medical supplies are also out of stock and 84 percent of laboratory and blood bank supplies are depleted.

“The catastrophic effects of the ‘health annihilation’ have made the continuation of healthcare a daily miracle and a major challenge to recovery efforts and the restoration of many specialised services.”


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“The first consequence is global: The Israeli regime’s conduct in Palestine and the impunity granted to it have deeply damaged the international legal order,” he said, adding that “the world is moving toward a condition where the international law is no longer respected.”

The minister stressed that the second result was regional saying: “Israel’s expansionist project has had a direct and destabilising impact on the security of all countries in the region.”


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said that “openly violates borders, breaches sovereignties, assassinates official dignitaries, conducts terrorist operations” in the region “with a sense of entitlement.”

According to the top diplomat, the third consequence, which he called “structural”, is that “Israel’s expansionist project requires that neighbouring countries be weakened – militarily, technologically, economically and socially.”

He said: “So that the Israeli regime permanently enjoys the upper hand.”

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Israel’s alarming expansionist project pursued under banner of security: Iran’s Araghchi

According to the top Iranian diplomat, what is happening in Palestine and Gaza has become a platform for something larger and more dangerous – an expansionist project pursued under the banner of security.

Abbas Araghchi said that the project has three consequences, adding that each of them was profound and alarming.
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“The first consequence is global: The Israeli regime’s conduct in Palestine and the impunity granted to it have deeply damaged the international legal order,” he said, adding that “the world is moving toward a condition where the international law is no longer respected.”

The minister stressed that the second result was regional saying: “Israel’s expansionist project has had a direct and destabilising impact on the security of all countries in the region.”


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Israel’s alarming expansionist project pursued under banner of security: Iran’s Araghchi

According to the top Iranian diplomat, what is happening in Palestine and Gaza has become a platform for something larger and more dangerous – an expansionist project pursued under the banner of security.

Abbas Araghchi said that the project has three consequences, adding that each of them was profound and alarming.
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More from Iranian FM Araghchi

The human cost of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza has wounded the conscience of humanity, it has torn open the heart of the Muslim world, and it has also shaken millions beyond – Christians, Jews and people of all kinds and all faiths.

We still believe that the life of a child is not a bargaining chip, starvation is not a weapon, hospitals are not battlefields, and killing of families is not self-defence.
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Palestine today is not simply a tragedy; it is a mirror held up to the world.

It reflects not only the suffering of Palestinians, but also the moral failure of those who had the power to stop this catastrophe and chose instead to justify, enable or normalise it.

Palestine and Gaza have become the platform for something larger and more dangerous – an expansionist project pursued under the banner of security.




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More from Iranian FM Araghchi

The human cost of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza has wounded the conscience of humanity, it has torn open the heart of the Muslim world, and it has also shaken millions beyond – Christians, Jews and people of all kinds and all faiths.

We still believe that the life of a child is not a bargaining chip, starvation is not a weapon, hospitals are not battlefields, and killing of families is not self-defence.
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