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A project by photographer Daniella Zalcman shows the casual prevalence of goods made by prison labor in public and private spaces.

In the United States, prison labor is everywhere, a practice nearly as old as our nation itself. Incarcerated workers are responsible for producing over $2 billion in goods annually, much of which is sold via federal and state prison industries to public institutions like libraries, schools, courthouses and government agencies.

Incarcerated workers make between 33 cents and $1.41 per hour working for state-owned businesses — though in six states, prison workers aren’t paid for their labor at all.

In Heathrow Airport, September 2005, the British Police failed to arrest Major General Doron Almog because they feared there would be a gun fight with armed marshals (these details are sketchy though. Some reports say that his personal security team were on board and were heavily armed).

Why was there an arrest warrant for him? Because, "on 10 September 2005, Chief London Magistrate Timothy Workman issued a warrant for the arrest of Major General Almog on suspicion of committing a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention 1949 which in the UK is a criminal offence contrary to the Geneva Conventions Act 1957."

Why is this story being reposted, now? Just as a reminder of how things will turn out if there were any attempts to arrest Israeli War Criminals, which is: Not much will happen!

Suck on that, Trump!

China has displaced the United States on an influential ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, underscoring Beijing’s growing capability to compete with the world’s leading superpower in cutting-edge technology.

China’s LineShine is the most powerful system on the planet, overtaking the US-based El Capitan, according to the biannual ranking announced in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday.

LineShine, located at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, achieved a performance of 2.198 exaflops, carrying out more than 2 quintillion calculations per second – a 20 percent lead over El Capitan, according to the latest TOP500 list.

LineShine’s position marks the first time a Chinese system has topped the list since Sunway TaihuLight did so in 2017.

El Capitan, based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, had ranked as the top-performing system since November 2024.

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