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Iran says it has bombed wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in Israel. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are also claiming that they have attacked the Israeli air force headquarters.

Palestine Chronicle reported that:

According to Tasnim News Agency, the Public Relations office of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the location of the commander of the Israeli air force were attacked in what it described as “targeted and surprise attacks.”

The Times of Israel has reported that:

Israel says there were no injuries in the strikes.

And, Netanyahu’s office has dismissed Iran’s claims that the “fate” of the Israeli PM is unclear. As yet, details remain entirely unclear – Iran’s assertions have not been verified, nor has Netanyahu’s location.

At the weekend, Netanyahu – along with various co-criminal Western leaders – crowed about the assassination of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and his family. It’s hard to argue that turnabout is not fair play. However, it will be no surprise to see Keir Starmer and other ‘leaders’ condemn Iran for ‘disproportionately’ retaliating for what Israel did to it – just as Starmer did on 1 March after the US and Israel slaughtered Iranian schoolchildren and bombed hospitals.

Featured image via the Canary

By Skwawkbox

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Simpsons s8e8 "Hurricane Neddy"

Only in America could scores of kids be murdered in a school and nobody cares about it a week later. It seems that the Epstein Coalition's mistake is they thought that the Iranians were just as okay with murdered children as they were

You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

I got bored and ran uBlock across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously.

Claude:

• Six parallel telemetry pipelines.
• A tracking GIF with 40 browser fingerprint data points baked into the URL, routed through a CDN proxy alias specifically to make it harder to block.
• Intercom running a persistent WebSocket whether you use it or not.
• Honeycomb distributed tracing on a chat UI because apparently your conversation needs the same observability stack as a payments microservice.

ChatGPT:

• proxies telemetry through their own backend to hide the Datadog destination URL from blockers.
• uBlock had to deploy scriptlet injection — actual JS injected into the page to intercept fetch() at the API level — because a network rule wasn't enough.
• Also ships your usage data to Google Analytics. OpenAI. To Google. You cannot make this up.
• Also runs a proof-of-work challenge before you're allowed to type anything.

Gemini:

• play.google.com/log getting hammered with your full session behavior, authenticated with three SAPISIDHASH token variants, piped directly into the Google identity supergraph that correlates everything you've ever done across every Google product since 2004. - Also creates a Web App Activity record in your Google account timeline. Also has "ads" in one of the telemetry endpoint subdomains.

When uBlock blocks Gemini's requests, the JS exceptions bubble up and Gemini dutifully tries to POST the error details back to Google. uBlock blocks that too. The error messages contain the internal codenames for every upsell popup that failed to load.

KETCHUP_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MUSTARD_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MAYO_DISCOVERY_CARD.

Google named their subscription upsell popups after condiments and I found out because their error handler snitched on them.

All three of these products cost money.
One of them is also running ad infrastructure.

Touch grass. Install @ublockorigin

#infosec #privacy #selfhosted #foss #surveillance

> Do nothing.

> Win.

man I am going to need that $130 bucks...

“A federal judge in Oregon has ordered dams that operate on the Columbia and Snake rivers to generate less hydropower and allow more water to pass in an effort to keep salmon populations from dying out…

““One of the foundational symbols of the West, a critical recreational, cultural, and economic driver for Western states, and the beating heart and guaranteed resource protected by treaties with several Native American tribes is disappearing from the landscape,” [U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon] wrote of Columbia River salmon in the 101-page order Wednesday. “And yet the litigation continues in much the same way as it has for 30 years.””

Iran says it has bombed wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in Israel. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are also claiming that they have attacked the Israeli air force headquarters.

Palestine Chronicle reported that:

According to Tasnim News Agency, the Public Relations office of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the location of the commander of the Israeli air force were attacked in what it described as “targeted and surprise attacks.”

The Times of Israel has reported that:

Israel says there were no injuries in the strikes.

And, Netanyahu’s office has dismissed Iran’s claims that the “fate” of the Israeli PM is unclear. As yet, details remain entirely unclear – Iran’s assertions have not been verified, nor has Netanyahu’s location.

At the weekend, Netanyahu – along with various co-criminal Western leaders – crowed about the assassination of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and his family. It’s hard to argue that turnabout is not fair play. However, it will be no surprise to see Keir Starmer and other ‘leaders’ condemn Iran for ‘disproportionately’ retaliating for what Israel did to it – just as Starmer did on 1 March after the US and Israel slaughtered Iranian schoolchildren and bombed hospitals.

Featured image via the Canary

By Skwawkbox

From Canary via This RSS Feed.

Ashley loves her day job teaching math, reading and science to fifth graders in Washington state. But like many other teachers, Ashley relies on a side hustle or two to get by.

When she’s not in the classroom, Ashley works as a spray tanner at night during the school year and at her family’s Christmas tree farm over winter break. Her husband, Jake, also a public school teacher, has a side hustle of his own as a painter.

“I absolutely love what I do, but it comes with big challenges financially,” Ashley, who preferred not to share her last name, told CNN in a phone interview. “My husband and I are doing whatever we can, whenever we can, to support our lifestyle.”

They’re hardly alone.

The majority of public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a survey released Monday by Gallup in partnership with the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Walton Family Foundation.

Teacher schedules, with seasonal breaks and summers off, provide more time for side hustles compared to some other professions. Yet the Gallup survey found that 85% of those who hold side jobs do that work during the school year, not just over breaks.

Teaching during the day, driving Ubers at night The side work often stretches beyond teaching-related jobs such as tutoring.

Nearly a third of teachers hold a second job that is unrelated to education, including driving Ubers, delivering food, and working as bartenders and waiters.

While teachers have historically been underpaid, the issue has been exacerbated by today’s cost-of-living problems. The rising cost of groceries, insurance and utilities have hurt lower- and middle-income workers across industries.

Ashley said she works a second job to not feel like she’s living paycheck to paycheck on her $62,000-a-year salary. The money from her work as a spray tanner goes towards travel and a down payment on a house.

“We’re trying to save up to buy a house, but in this economy, that’s very difficult on two teacher salaries,” Ashley said.

According to the Gallup survey, just 28% of teachers say they’re living comfortably on their household income. By contrast, 52% say they are only getting by and 21% say they face financial challenges.

Teachers who say they are struggling are twice as likely to hold a non-teaching related side gig compared to those living comparably (46% vs. 22%), according to Gallup.

“It’s shocking to see how many teachers work in in second jobs outside of education during the school year,” former US Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, now president and CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center, told CNN. “Our teachers feel so financially strained that they have to seek additional employment. This is at odds with what we say we value.”

When it comes to pay, teachers have been left in the dust by other professions. According to the National Education Association, the average teacher salary in the 2024-2025 school year was just over $72,000.

Public school teachers make about 27% less than other people who have similar levels of education in other jobs, according to 2024 data from the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the Economic Policy Institute. That’s the highest on records that go back to the 1970s. It’s even worse for men, where the teacher pay gap is 36%.

Teachers have perks, too Teachers have perks that many other workers may not. For instance, while most corporations did away with pension plans years ago, public school teachers can look forward to guaranteed monthly pension checks for life after they retire. Teachers also often have superior healthcare plans compared to other industries.

And perhaps the strongest structural perk of being a teacher is the safety net of tenure, whereas private-sector workers can get fired with little to no notice.

Still, state and local budget cuts have eroded some of those perks and raised questions about the long-term viability of those pension plans.

The decline of perks, on top of teachers’ financial struggles, may be contributing to burnout at public schools.

More than half (52%) of teachers who find it hard to get by financially say they feel burned out at work very often or always, according to the Gallup survey.

“That teacher who is burned out and not fully focused on your kids or my grandkids … (is) likely to wash out and leave the profession,” Spellings said, “and we, as taxpayers and users of the public education system, are ill-served.”

‘It’s corrosive’ Spellings noted that the United States has a teacher shortage, especially in fields like special education, driven in part by an aging teacher population and high attrition. But the financial issues have caused some teachers to question whether they can make it work in the long run.

“I don’t know if I will retire as a teacher,” Ashley said. “I keep fighting to come back because I’m passionate about it. But it’s hard to stay in a system where you don’t feel valued.”

The general perception of low pay and not feeling valued also sends a “corrosive” signal to anyone considering a career in teaching, Spellings said.

Spellings said she is eager to find solutions for the financial struggles of teachers, including career ladders that can help dedicated educators stay in the classroom instead of leaving for higher-paying administrative roles. This includes finding ways to increase wages and resources for educators.

“We can put our money where our mouths are. We can raise pay for teachers,” she said.