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With a militant spirit and the outstanding participation of young workers, USB-Italy organized two successful presentations of George Mavrikos’s book “Critical Notes on the History of the World Trade Union Movement – Issues of Tactics and Strategy.
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.
NZ is a corrurpt backwards state with zero freedom of speech, but at least they require all bills to be read before Parliament before they can be voted on. If a bill is amended, the entire bill has to be re-read. If we had this in America, it would literally be impossible for Congress to pass anything, even if they hired the Micromachines guy to read bills .. and the country would be better off.
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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.
@LaylaAlexandrovna @djsumdogTrump seems to care more about keeping the tax cuts than anything else. The bill had that in it, so he’s happy with it. Individual Republican representatives added things based on their own constituents and companies in their districts. There is spending that is obligatory. They agreed (mostly) on rather large cuts to Medicaid over the next few years, which is actually a big ask for them to pass and they will probably pay for it next year in elections since republican districts tend to have more people on Medicaid. They always add tons to the department of defense, which imo needs a fucking audit instead since we’re talking about waste/fraud/abuse. And then apparently no one read the bill.
Besides which, Congress was never going to go along with all of the spending cuts that Trump and Doge came up with and Congress is the one who controls the budget per Constitution. The President has no control over the budget himself, but he can ask and work with Congress to implement what he wanted. Doge’s ‘cuts’ were mostly a show for the media I think.
Additionally, the Senate is already refusing to vote for the bill as is and they’re rewriting it. It’ll probably take a good portion of the summer before anything gets passed. The senate generally moves slower than the house.
The shenanigans over passing it were for the media, which has been criticizing Mike Johnson for over a year now for not passing a budget since he became the Speaker if I remember correctly.
Written by Conor Hayes, Graduate Student at York University Earth planning date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 We are continuing to look for a suitable location to collect a drilled sample in this area. As you may recall from Monday’s plan, we performed a short “bump” of just under 4 meters (about 13 feet) hoping to […]
A team of researchers with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and other entities have developed thick sheets of transparent paper using cellulose, a material made from plant biomass.
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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.
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
i have tried everything i could possibly think of, but Linux will not connect to the internet until i restart it. it doesn't matter what distro i use, it won't connect. on windows, it connects immediately, but only with fast start enabled. i have reset the router, the BIOS is up to date, and I've tried pretty much every solution i could find online. at this point i think it's a hardware issue, but I'd like to know if there's anything i can try before giving up on Linux until i get a new PC. any help is greatly appreciated!
Try finding out if it received an IP address, if the driver is loaded or if there are any error messages in dmesg. You might also want to give more information. Which ethernet card? ~~Which version of Linux are you running?~~ And there seem to be some similar reports on Reddit and in some Linux forums. I couldn't find a solution, though.
I saw earlier you mentioned it's an Optiplex, so I'm assuming this is an onboard NIC.
I've never had an onboard NIC not work out-of-the-box in Linux. Wifi, sure, but usually just certain chipsets with proprietary/closed firmware. Dell usually uses Intel NICs and they're usually pretty solid and well supported.
Check to make sure that the NIC is enabled in BIOS.
If you have/had Windows on this PC, did it work there?
Does the NIC show in lspci or ip a ?
Try an external USB NIC. Or an internal PCIe one if you're comfortable with that.
I recently had this problem while dualbooting mint and windows: windows was shutting down the LAN hardware somehow.
Had to disable fast startup (in windows, but I recall some Motherboards have also "fast boot" in BIOS as well?) and also in windows' LAN adapter settings a power saving option.
"See.. sovereign cloud running on near monopolist surveillance capitalist advertisement moloch walled garden" isn't just #SovereigntyWashing, it is plain misleading.
« 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.
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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.
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
Kwik Sew has already disappeared from the NZ market.
I work in a print shop and the number of patterns we print has been steadily increasing but we put them on 80gsm, not tissue paper. I wonder how many old school sewists will simply retire from their hobby once tissue patterns are impossible to find.
sure be nice if these patterns were donated to someone (smithsonian, etc). be even better if they were sent to someone who could digitize them and make them publicly available. maybe the @internetarchive could do the digitization?
there's a lot of fashion history in all those patterns.
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!
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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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.
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my friend malaika is an incredibly talented and prolific crossword constructor—AND she keeps great records of her publications. I made her a very cool website that shows everything she's made malaikahanda.com
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 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 …
Being a Trekkie and a lover of Bluegrass music, I thought it would be really cool to combine the two. The result is my bluegrass arrangement of Jerry Goldsmi...
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.
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.
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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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.
I solemnly vow to boost this photo of a triangular "Toblerone" train every time it shows up in my timeline! Now can someone pleez tell me where this photo was taken?
@waspfactory 100% photoshop and fake since 8 years? NO. This train does not exist. YES. Its a funny picture from the person who did the photoshop session.
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.
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
trying not to judge every single person i see in the store is tough. i just don't understand how EVERYONE has gotten so damn fat. do people not have any self control at all?
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.
@Kusojiji it's shocking how much of our culture is centered around consuming things that we shouldn't be consuming and aren't necessary, and how poor people's impulse control is
Aides to US President Donald Trump convened a series of meetings to address the controversy sparked by Elon Musk’s recent tweets amid his expanding spat with the president, Reuters reported, citing a source.
On Thursday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that the recent hike in internet service rates by the state-run telecommunications company ETECSA is
Written by Henry Manelski, Ph.D. student at Purdue University This week Perseverance continued its gradual descent into the relatively flat terrain outside of Jezero Crater. In this area, the science team expects to find rocks that could be among the oldest ever observed by the Perseverance rover — and perhaps any rover to have explored […]
On June 3, 2025, Venezuela’s National Assembly held a historic session in which it overwhelmingly approved a law that allows the country to formally join the International Organization for Mediation (IOMed) by ratifying the existing convention that c…
On Thursday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accused Israel of committing premeditated genocide in the Palestinian territory of Gaza during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
When an ominous cosmic event swallows the icy home of a small space critter, he must find refuge among a group of luminous creatures watched over by a mysterious celestial being.
Israel arms ISIS-jihadists to fight against Hamas just like they armed Hamas to fight against the PFLP.
You may ask yourself “when will they ever learn?” but that's assuming the Israeli government's goal is to live in peace. Why should they need to learn, when arming terrorist groups that destabilize and escalate this conflict isn't a mistake?
Considering how much genocide, ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism and hence the expansion of their borders they have been able to justify due to hamas; considering their main argument behind stopping the entry of humanitarian aid was because they were sometimes raided by terrorist militias, which as it now turns out they funded, it was a worthy investment.
never forget that benny n. said explicitly how much he/israel had benefited from 9/11. terrorist there, terrorst here... benny n gets to win no matter what.
@unknownpseudoartist we both put out music with cats. you and i understand the internet 😛 i also like that you have your own site! im at work but got a tab open for you. ill be checking out your tunes when i get home!
also, you should check out indieart.support and shout out with your artist details @hello to get on the directory!
so im inclined to scold you for all your self-deprecation but then i would be a hypocrite. but i do like this part:
"Basically this is that kind of music you'd expect to find in a random MySpace or Soundclick profile in the 2000s. That kind of thing you'd get 128k MP3 downloads in a static HTML site. That kind of stuff that would normally be done by some passionate young person who just discovered they can do cool stuff to share online in a cyberworld full of people willing to discover and listen more random, creepy stuff like this. "
and i think you'll find plenty of company around here. especially as a #caturday-er.
anyways, you do a really good job with bass sounds. the overall tonal quality and just getting bass synth sounds. often times better than actual bass guitar but let's not awaken the bassists, right? i aint tryna die right before the weekend. favorite track on the placeholder of something... i think gotta be absurd. ill check out the other album after this last listen.
hey thanks a lot for listening! this means a lot to me ❤️ (even if I don't agree with my fake bass sounding any better than real bass haha)
Regarding the self-deprecant comments... well, it's complicated, but let's say I was in a bad time and dealing with a bad situation in certain communities regarding harsh criticism and I was tired of that, and just felt the need to break with that and go more my way without any pressure. Feeling a lot better about that already, so no worries 😀
thats good to hear. theres a lot of pressure from our economic and societal systems to make the creation of art something that turns a profit, or needing to be a certain amount of prolific. all nonsense. the point of making art is the part where you are making it. that journey, that mindset. the best therapy, imho (or at least thats what i keep telling myself bc hell no i;m not paying for therapy lol).
heck yeah! Couldn't agree more. In fact sometimes it's not even about economic stuff but more like some folks pretending to be Yngwie Malsteen (even when Yngwie seems to be not that arrongant anymore haha), or obsessing on production/mixing (which can be kinda elitistic, since oftentimes that's more a matter of money and expensive tools rather than simply doing stuff). Art should be more about having fun and expressing things, not about bratting or obsessing on getting better at it!
and yeah, I like the idea behind the paragraph you quoted! I can't say I was a huge fan of everything that was done in the internet in the mid-late 2000s, and it wasn't the greatest times for many people (too much of bigot bullsh*t, you know). But when it comes to art and creatives stuff, definitively missing that special charm and the prominence of more amateur-ish attitude, in the best way. I just love the underground side of music and art 😀 and it's a pity some of that got lost.
lost or at least buried by all the gloss and shine of the corporate internet. there seems to still be a decent amount out there, you jut got a dig for it a little. like the artists we have here on the fedi, and all the artists @hello
yeah, that's my suspiction. After all, you wouldn't expect a random artist with 20 views/listens to get noticed by the algorhythms, right? It's a huge relief to find a place where that couldn't matter less 😀 in fact I'm kinda overwhelmed by the lots of messages I got all of a sudden when I posted that post the other day haha
totally! I'm glad I decided to jump into this place. There's a vibe that reminds to that late 2000s internet (like forums and blogs) in cultural/entertainment terms while keeping up with the times for the more important stuff (like ethics, diversity, etc). So it's like combining the best of both old and current times without the bad of neither 😀
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The team working behind the scenes on ActivityPub at Ghost grew from 3 to 8 in 2025, and now we're ramping up our work to launch things officially in Ghost 6.0 in the next month.
Yet another site or project where you read endless paragraphs that talk abstractly about ideas and concepts instead of just showcasing what the delivered product/app actually is or looks like. Drives me up the goddamn wall sometimes. Why should I be interested, you know what I'm saying?
Edit: alright guys, every person doesn't have to reply saying what it is. I'm not actually interested anymore. My point was to whine about how it wasn't clear from their home page. 👍 When I realized it was too hard to figure out what this is, I lost interest.
At least WP is free, Ghost is as “free” until you find out its only useful with the rest of the payed platform. editorjs.io is much better in that sense.
OP linked to an entry in their newsletter. If you check out their site, they are being pretty clear that they're in the business of "Independent technology for modern publishing", stating in pretty big letters that "Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.".
Reading their newsletters would get boring fast if they started every single one of them with repeating what they are.
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Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
For me, this first paragraph from the site says clearly that they are a tool to build sites and sell content.
It needs a show case, to show me what it can do! Like, what is the output? Does it spit out a React project? Does it post directly to a hosted CMS type service? What!
There's just too much of what we in Sweden would call "word shitting". Lots and lots of words that say fuck all.
I ended up subscribing to @feed@404media.co (404 Media) after following them on Mastodon. It just feels like a more direct way of following media that fits with how I consume stuff online these days.
It’s easier to understand conservatives when you realize that they operate on a system of vertical morality while we operate on a system of horizontal morality. In a system of horizontal morality, something is right or wrong based on whether it causes harm, violates consent, etc regardless of the social status or class of an individual. In a system of vertical morality something is right or wrong based solely on whether an authority figure says so or not
This is why they say things like, “without god what’s to stop you from going around murdering and raping?” In their system of morality, those things are only bad because an authority said they were bad. And when the authority says they are okay, they’re okay. Which looks inconsistent to us, but makes perfect sense to them.
This is why they also think that abolishing the police would result in the purge for example. They can’t conceptualize morality independent from authority
So when you wonder, “How can they flip flop on liking Elon?” It’s easy: Elon is good when their authority tells them he is good and he’s bad when the authority tells them he is bad. It doesn’t matter that Trump is a rapist or a cheat or racist or anything else, because the authority said he is good. That is the only requirement. Everything is built on appeal to authority
Dr. Natasha Schatzman Receives Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Award In May 2025, Dr. Natasha Schatzman, aerospace engineer in the Aeromechanics Office at NASA Ames Research Center, received the inaugural Alex M. Stoll Award from the Vertical Flight Society (VFS). This award honors a professional in the field of vertical flight who “demonstrates an exceptional commitment […]
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