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Federated Services

Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.

We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.

There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.

Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.

Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.

Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.

Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.

Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.

We offer the following federated services:

Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.

Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.

Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

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If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.

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Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.


Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.


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Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.

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Since I'm gonna be nebulizing saline 2x a day for the rest of my life, I'm trying different nebulizers. This silent mini one is not recommended by bronchiectasis forums because it can't be boiled and you're supposed to boil everything to Kill It With Fire. Some also say this "mesh" style breaks when used with hypertonic saline, which clogs the mesh. But this particular model is advertised for use with saline, so I plunked down the $$$ to try it.
It's very small and cute. Has no breath activation feature so it gets saline mist everywhere; to spare my air purifiers I used it outside. Seems to work fine. Pic is of its "wash cycle," running pure distilled water. It's like a teeny cool-mist humidifier.
Running distilled water through it gets the salt out, but to really clean it you run it with hydrogen peroxide, and the soak it in same, and then soak it in distilled water again.
It will probably break in a month if used daily, but the mesh part is replaceable for $35, which is more than the cheapest mini models on Amazon cost. So, ever the intrepid product explorer, I just ordered a similar cheapo version and will test both to see which dies first. But not that often, because its, uh, front hole is a non-standard size and can't be attached to my Aerobika breath-exerciser thingy.
On the other hand it easily fits in my bike bag which makes it a game-changer for long rides. I can always have this little sucker with me, so if I start coughing from crop dust or whatever, can give my lungs a cleaning mid-trip.
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Nanook

@Church of Jeff That's a level of arrogance I can't even begin to comprehend, and just to make a point, being an atheist does not make you non-religious because atheism is itself a belief system and is belief that there is no God is unprovable as belief that there is a God. The only thing that differentiates an atheist from a theist is that the theist at least has some motivation to act in a moral manner, where the atheist has none, and I'm guessing for you that's the appeal to it.

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@jeffowski@mastodon.world I'll gladly take the potential for an eternity in Hell over the bullshit Christians sling. Hell sounds like a fucking *vacation* compared to anything that Christians are offering. Hell definitely has my kind of people apparently.

Church of Jeff

2025-06-06 18:27:16

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#Atheism #Atheist #ReligionIsPoison #BurnInHell #NoLoveLikeChristianHate

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The U.S. labor market added 139,000 jobs in May, but the economy saw a loss of 696,000 workers in the household survey.

Three sectors - healthcare, hospitality, and social assistance - accounted for over 90% of the job gains. Manufacturing, construction, and temp work saw declines.

Wages rose 0.4% in May and 3.9% year-over-year, with wage inflation a concern for the Federal Reserve.

bullionbite.com/p/disguise-of-…

#usa #economy


Disguise of Stability

139,000 jobs added. 696,000 workers gone. 625,000 left the labor force.
Bullionbite

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oh i hear thunder i think...

got a bit of a headache when i woke up from my nap for some unknown reason. i haven't taken tylenol in many weeks which means i must be doing something right, i guess. probably from welding flux and grinding fumes this morning under the car is my guess.

i normally don't like to do flux core welding except on metal that is dirty and can't easily be cleaned, like car exhaust pipes. tig is just way nicer and cleaner but not that easy to get under a car

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it's becoming apparent why the demon rats were so interested in their MS13 gang member friend from el salvador kilmar garcia, going to visit him and trying so hard to bring him back - he was a high level cartel human smuggler and they were completely in on it and working directly with the cartels

i've said this many times, nobody crosses that border without paying the cartels money. if they do they're taking a huge risk. the democrats and deep state know this and they have a long history of working with cartels on all sorts of other nefarious activities like smuggling drugs and guns

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Shit happens all around the same gang


New fork of X.org xserver
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.nar…

Hello,

I do not think the original post, by Enrico Weigelt, to the xorg-devel
mailinglist made its way thru, tho freebsd-x11 was CC'd.

Anyways, if anyone missed it, here it is:

Hello everybody,

this morning, Redhat employees banned me from the freedesktop.org gitlab
infrastructure - so censored all my work (not just on Xorg). They killed
my account, my git repos, my tickets in Xorg and closed all my merge
requests. And then making fun on social media about it.

They fired the shot that's heared around the world.

So much for freedesktop.org being "independent" and embracing freedom.
Perhaps we should nominate them for the next Orwell award.

It's now clear that freedesktop.org is the Redskirts, and they want
to kill X. By the way, the same corporation that tied to proprietarize a
lot of FOSS code, including the Linux kernel (and I've been one of those
who warned them about terminating our license grants them).

My most evil heresies probably were:

a) forking Xorg and making actual progress
b) talking to a journalist whose name must not be spoken in many other
Redhat/IBM tax evasion outlets, like GNOME (they're also banning
honorable long time contributors for just mentioning that name)
c) inviting anybody to join me, without discrimination

I don't know why, but it really looks they're quite scared by one guy
that's just trying to actually bring X11 forward. Hard to find he right
words for telling how honored I'm about that.

This didn't actually surprise me, I knew this would be coming for about
a year now. Just didn't expect them to do such an extremely irrational
and dumb move. Now I'm taking great pleasure seeing the Streisand effect
kicking in (my inbox is exploding). Thanks for that great publicity.

It's not the first time this happens in FOSS world, and it's not the
first time it's happening in X: remember what Xfree86 board did to
the honorable Keith Packard, back about two decades ago - what lead to
the birth of Xorg and the death of Xfree86. Same is happening again.

History repeats itself.

And now the Redskirts placed me onto the same stage as the great
honorable Keith Packard. WOOOOW.

Just to be clear, I didn't want to fork, I tried my best to work
together with the Xorg team. But I knew for long time, this day would
come. Xorg has been captured by Redhat, in order to get rid of destroy
competition. The necessary consequence is a fork, more competition.

For those interested in bringing X forward, feel free to join the
mailing list:

freelists.org/list/xlibre

Git repo:
github.com/X11Libre/xserver.gi…

I'm expecting to be banned from whole freedesktop.org mail system, too.
Excommunication unfortunately had become a common thing in the so-called
"free software" world - GNOME is just one of many examples. So if you
don't hear anymore from me on freedesktop.org lists, you know what's
going on.

Join the xlibre mailing list to stay tuned.

Together, we'll make X great again.

have fun,
--mtx
--_
To health and anarchy_


#joborun #linux


GitHub - X11Libre/xserver

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Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that someone had paired facial recognition tech with the company's smart glasses. Now Meta is building the invasive technology itself.

🔗404media.co/well-well-well-met…


Well, Well, Well: Meta to Add Facial Recognition To Glasses After All

Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that someone had paired facial recognition tech with the company's smart glasses. Now Meta is building the invasive technology itself.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)

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« Apple's internal forecasts estimate potential annual losses of "hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars" »

Err, reduction in monopoly profits are not losses.

apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06…


Apple Faces Billions in Losses as EU Comma Interpretation Ends External Purchase Fees - Slashdot

Apple will lose the ability to collect commissions on external iOS purchases in Europe starting June 23, following a European Commission ruling that hinges on the grammatical interpretation of a single comma in the Digital Markets Act.
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Having just watched the Watergate mini-series, this is exactly what Nixon did to John Dean, told the press Dean had researched and created the internal Dean Report, exonerating the top white house officials, it was a lie. John Dean had never compiled such a report. From then on, John Dean knew he was being set-up as the fall guy.
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djsumdog

DOGE was a completely irrelevant number of cuts and executive spending grew after those cuts. The Trump admin made a big deal about the social programs growing points for things that don't amount to much. Any CIA activity basically just moved back to the State Dept, so they probably saved some overhead on having to lie about certain programs. USAID was always a conduit for CIA operatives to infiltrate foreign governments. People who defend it (and I have a friend who worked directly for a USAID program in DC and defends it) sadly are not aware of just how entrenched the CIA was in those affairs (and still is). During the Kennedy years the number of operatives on the CIA payroll in US embassies outnumbered those employed by the State Department.

Most of what we've seen is performative, including this kayfabe with Elon and Trump. It's all narrative building bullshit, meant to build division and drama, when both of them are going to get everything they want. The spending bill is just a means to continue the slow collapse of the US and world economies with ever growing irreclaimable debt.

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Ubuntu Touch on the Pinephone - is this the best Linux mobile interface?

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I already covered Phosh, the mobile port of GNOME, and Plasma Mobile, both running on the pinephone. Now it's time to take a look at the other main alternative for mobile Linux interfaces, the one that has been around for a while now: Ubuntu Touch, or Lomiri. Let's take a look at how well it runs

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This shell is based on gestures starting from the screen edges. A short swipe from left to right will bring a launcher with the default applications pinned to it, and your current open applications as well, appearing on top of the pinned shortcuts.
A longer swipe from the left edge will bring the whole list of applications.

If you swipe from the right towards the left in a short motion, you'll switch to the next open app. If you make a long swipe from the right edge, then you'll get to a multitasking view, with apps displayed in a 3D layout.

You can swipe an app's card up to close it, or tap an app to resume it.

Finally, a swipe from the top edge of the screen will bring the notifications, and the quick settings, which don't display as on most other operating systems: they're in a straight line, that you can scroll from left to right, and tap each icon to get to a quick few shortcuts, like enabling or disabling a specific feature, or dive deeper into the settings.

The Applications


Out of the box, you get a nice calculator that handles rotation beautifully to display more options, and lets you swipe from the bottom in portrait to still get access to these options. The default calendar app looks good, with an Agenda view that shows your various events in order, a day, week, month, and year view.

I won't dwell on the camera app, as support for the pinephone camera is still in its infancy, it's rare that it even displays an image.

The Clock application lets you add various clocks from all around the world, start a timer, or use a stopwatch. Swiping from the bottom in the "clock" tab lets you create alarms, although I would have preferred alarms to be a full tab in the app instead of hiding that behind a swipe.

The contacts app does what you'd expect, list your contacts and allow to set some as favorites and you can swipe from the bottom to create a new one. The file manager looks good, although it's a bit slow to start, and lets you create files, and change how the directories look.

The messaging app works as you'd expect, letting you type messages and send them to your contacts. You can also swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen to start a new message.

The web browser is alright, if a bit slow to start.It lets you pick your search engine and homepage, and display web pages in desktop mode, but there are no sync capabilities for history, bookmarks, or passwords, so it's not going to be fantastic to use.

There is also a terminal app that looks really good and has quick aliases in the bottom left corner. The Notes app is also pretty competent, letting you swipe up from the bottom to create a new note, and syncs with evernote.

This leaves us with the phone dialer, letting you pick a contact, or just type the number you want to call, and the weather app, which is really black and white and pretty spartan, and it reminds me of a windows phone app.

The Settings


The settings page uses a sensible icon grid.

Ubuntu Touch is pretty barebones in that regard: in terms of customization, you can change the wallpaper, the ringtone for calls and messages, and that's about it. A few apps let you switch to a dark mode in the settings, and some offer to respect a "system preference", but that's not something I could find in the settings.

The AppStore


The OpenStore serves as the App Store for Ubuntu Touch. It's not a package manager like you could find on other Mobile Linux alternatives: no way to download a desktop program here, at least not graphically.

You'll get apps that were made specifically for ubuntu touch, and there are around 400 of these in total.
You can also get a few Matrix clients, and a nice email client called Dekko 2, among other applications.

Updates are handled in the system settings, with over the air updates for the system itself, and for the apps, grouped at the same place.

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#DigitalSovereignty is at the top of the political agenda, finally, that's good. But strange things (or not so much) are happening.

Like this one: The Luxembourg gov is moving to Google Distributed Cloud, see datacenterdynamics.com/en/news… and it is framed as "sovereign".

The Dutch minister for Digital Affairs (outgoing) is so inspired and might follow.

But wait a minute: a managed cloud service by Google, how much sovereignty does that give to you?

Seems more like a case of #SovereigntyWashing

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Wouter Tebbens

About Google Sovereign Cloud, and Distributed Cloud hosting:
"giving customers flexibility and choice",

-> yes, of course, but always dependent on Google HQ, and the Capitol.

cloud.google.com/sovereign-clo…


Sovereign Cloud from Google

Sovereign Cloud from Google offers solutions that provide sovereignty, choice, and security for customers across the world.
Google Cloud
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Wouter Tebbens

What happened to the ICC - being blocked by Microsoft at Trump's orders - can happen as much with these sovereignwashing clouds from Google, isn't it?

If you didn't read about the ICC being cut of from their email and cloud, read this: techzine.eu/news/privacy-compl…


Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost - Techzine Global

The International Criminal Court has been paralyzed by sanctions. Microsoft cooperates with the US government and therefore poses a risk.
Erik van Klinken (Techzine)

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For many years, several of my colleagues, a few ex-students, and at least one former romantic interest have fervently hoped that I would become an extinguished professor.

Their prayers were for naught. I outlasted them.

cs.purdue.edu/news/articles/20…

Spafford Named Distinguished Professor of Computer Science - Department of Computer Science - Purdue University

Professor Eugene H. Spafford was named a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in recognition of his exceptional impact on the field.
www.cs.purdue.edu

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The parent company of the Big 4 sewing pattern brands (Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue) has been sold to a liquidator
craftindustryalliance.org/pare…
#sewing

Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance

The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator.
Abby Glassenberg (Craft Industry Alliance)

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WOW! Has anyone seen this? Nancy Pelosi on the Phone talking about the Blocking of the National Guard on Jan 6.

A Lot Of These Security Videos Were Seen Right After J6 2021 But Were Blocked From Most People Seeing It!
My Personal Opinion Pelosi Setup The Whole J6 Event ! She Wanted To Finish Trump Off !

Byrd Who Was Her Personal Security Supervisor When She Was Inside The Capital I Believe Was Told By Pelosi To Shoot Someone So They Could Blame Trump For It!


Chuck Lawler on GETTR : WOW! Has anyone seen this? Nancy Pelosi on the Phone talking about the Blocking of the National Guard on Jan 6. A Lot Of T...

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HunDriverWidow

And Security Video Shows Byrd Walking The Long Corridors Texting The Whole Time From The Other End Of The Capital And Just Walked Up There To Shoot Turned Out To Be Ashli Unarmed Who Even Had 3 Capital Police On Both Sides Of Her With There Long Guns Hanging Off There Shoulders ! There Was Nothing Going On !

And Mayor Bowser Was In On It !
She Ran The DC Prison Where She Said She Would Make Those J6 Prisoners Wish They Never Came To DC !
And We Saw The Abuse ! That Was Bowser !

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We're in the process of scanning 48 bankers boxes of the MIT MULTICS archive. We'd like to get a decent high speed document scanner to make this process go easier. Can you help us with a donation? sdf.org

Once the scanning is complete all of these will be made available online for everyone.

#archiving #scanning #documentation #archive #mit

a stack of bankers boxes containing the MIT Multics archive
a stack of bankers boxes containing the MIT Multics archive
a stack of bankers boxes containing the MIT Multics archive

SDF Public Access UNIX System - Free Shell Account and Shell Access

sdf.org

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Teddy Roosevelt Jr.: Son of the Rough Rider and a Hero at Normandy

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Teddy Roosevelt Jr.: Son of the Rough Rider and a Hero at Normandy

On this day, 81 years ago, tens of thousands of young men from ordinary backgrounds hit the beaches of Normandy and faced the most intense fire any group of attackers has ever faced in the history of modern warfare.
Dylan Gwinn (Breitbart)
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Parker Higgins

I wrote up some thoughts about how this site came together and what we get out of different data visualizations. For a long time I've been resistant to building web stuff, and I think that might have finally broken parkerhiggins.net/2025/06/new-…

A new website for Malaika, tracking crossword publications

A few weeks again, my friend Malaika Handa nerd-sniped me with an interesting request. She is a very prolific crossword constructor (think: multiple publications a week) and she keeps comprehensive records of those publications in a spreadsheet that …
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NEW: An Italian parliament inquiry concluded that the Italian government used Paragon's spyware to hack activists working to rescue immigrants.

The committee, however, said it did not find any evidence that Italy's intelligence agencies (nor anyone else) spied on journalist Francesco Cancellato.

The report leaves a this, and other, key questions unanswered.

techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/ital…


Italian lawmakers say Italy used spyware to target phones of immigration activists, but not against journalist | TechCrunch

A parliamentary investigation answered some — but not all — the questions related to a spyware scandal involving the use of the Israeli company’s spyware, Graphite.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I've been away from my normal routine for a week and getting back to even some of it just feels super weird. everyone can do their part to help make everybody's weekend just a little more predictable. Have a good weekend.

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Black and white photo of a man in an old-time clown suit with a white pointed hat gesturing towards a mop he is holding as if it were a person

Duffy's Circus, 'Funny George', the Clown

Creator: H.F. Cooper Photographer, Strabane Date: c.1911 Original Format: Glass Plate Negative Description: Duffy's Circus, 'Funny George', the Clown PRONI Ref: D1422_B_17_85~ALL~A Copying and copyright: Please see www.proni.gov.
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Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers, increasingly using artificial intelligence, are getting entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org, a labor rights nonprofit based in New York.

restofworld.org/2025/employee-…


Employee surveillance software is spreading with VC funding. - Rest of World

Startups are deploying employee tracking tools in low-regulation markets with help from Silicon Valley venture capital.
Gayathri Vaidyanathan (Rest of World)

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Talking Heads release the first official video for 'Psycho Killer'

openculture.com/2025/06/talkin…

#music #TalkingHeads


Talking Heads Release the First Official Video for "Psycho Killer": Watch It Online

On social media, the Talking Heads teased a major announcement on June 5th, leading fans to wonder if a reunion—41 years after their last tour—might finally be in the offing.
OC (Openculture.com)

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We have locked in some special events for the Locus Awards! Tune in to The Plot Thickens: A Conversation with the Locus Awards Guests, a panel moderated by our reviewer @GaryKWolfe!
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2025 Locus Awards Weekend, June 18-21

Schedule  |  Buy membership  |  Buy 2025 Awards T-Shirts | Additional Info We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards to be held June 18-21, 2025 in Oakland, California! We are pleased to h…
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Every time I see estimated costs for Trump's birthday parade, and $15m of the budget is allocated for road repairs afterward, I wonder about the gullibility of both the people putting together these estimates and those reporting on it

So, a quick poll

The damaged roads in DC will be repaired:

  • before the end of the year (0%, 0 votes)
  • before the end of Trump's term (0%, 0 votes)
  • lol (100%, 62 votes)
62 voters. Poll end: 2 weeks ago

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Old bastard

They have shitty sleep because their own jowls choke them at night. So much of life is out of bounds to them because they can't move properly. They simply choose to "live" this way.

It is very strange.

I know people who are slowly drinking themselves to death. Bad teeth from sugary alcohol. They're probably on the fast track to alzheimer's. This is preferred over... life? Reality? It's almost like these people— extremely well-to-do sportsball fans and system-believers— are burdened by some vague consciousness of what we "wrongthinkers" know, but can never acknowledge.

Like they have some suspicion that the future is an ugly place, not worth showing up to. :cirnoShrug:

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You've seen "Locus Award Winner" on the covers of your favorite books, but now you can come witness the crowning of this year's best! YOU are invited to the Locus Awards in Oakland, CA!
🎪June 18-21
Tickets in bio and here: locusmag.com/2025-locus-awards…
locus award trophy with shaun tan rocket

2025 Locus Awards Weekend, June 18-21

Schedule  |  Buy membership  |  Buy 2025 Awards T-Shirts | Additional Info We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards to be held June 18-21, 2025 in Oakland, California! We are pleased to h…
Locus Online
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