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Why We Are Alone in the Universe thephilosophicalsalon.com/why-…

Why We Are Alone in the Universe - The Philosophical Salon

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence simultaneously inscribes itself within the domains of science, art, and the paranormal. Yet, whether we are dealing with astrobiology, science fiction, or superstition, each of ... Read More
Elad Magomedov (The Philosophical Salon)
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Ac: Mad Scientist/Angrier Warrior/Amused Sorcerer

I spent a lot of time on "MyFace", and was dogpiled by a half-dozen art-fags that refused to think, but simply raged at some strawman image of me. I said, "Let's Talk", and they said, "I just know you won't listen, so fuck-off, Fascist".
So much for the party of Acceptance.
(Acceptance must mean something retarded in their dictionary.)
I'm sick of Lefty Shit.

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The strenghts and weaknesses of atproto and activitypub.

There is a lot bluesky gets right, and a lot it gets wrong, the same is true with Activitypub.

(Some) strengths of Atproto


Atproto is content-addressed, and portable. This means that posts can exist independantly of their original server.
Instead of giving posts a https uri, which will stop working if a user moves servers or their server disappears, they give them at uris.
For example, this post on bsky.app: bsky.app/profile/ponder.ooo/po…
Has the at:// link is: at://did:plc:i4bfh2tyxihe2ksplmtcoopk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk4yrmyugc2f.
The post does exist over https at https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.getRecord?repo=did:plc:i4bfh2tyxihe2ksplmtcoopk&collection=app.bsky.feed.post&rkey=3lk4yrmyugc2f.

Atproto is very easy to build apps on. For example, tangled.sh, frontpage.fyi and flushes.app are all apps built on atproto.
Atproto allows more flexibility in what an app can do, as opposed to lemmy or mastodon's api.

Atproto is better documented. The ActivityPub spec leaves a lot up to the reader.

Atproto has some really good moderation tools for users. People can make public blocklists of users, and people can subscribe to labellers, people or services which give users/posts a label.

Weaknesses of Atproto


almost everyone is on bluesky's PDSes. I thought mastodon.social and lemmy.world were bad, but the people on alternate PDSes altogether adds up to only a few thousand.

Its decentralised identifiers are actually completely centralised!
DID:PLC, their DID method, originally stood for placeholder, but they renamed it to Public Ledger of Credentials.
To use it, you have to use plc.directory.
You can use a DID:WEB DID, but if your website linked to it goes down you lose your identity.
(I find it extremely funny that its not actually a requirement for a decentralised identifier to be decentralised. )

Everything on the network has to be public to work.
since relays have to be able to collect all the information on the network for Appviews to be able to make use of that information, anyone can find out who's blocking someone, or who is on a list, or who's following who, with no way of hiding that information.
Private accounts and posts are impossible to do on atproto.

Since everything is public, DMs (for now) are centralised. They do seem like they want to change that though.

Strengths of ActivityPub


AP (ActivityPub) is better distributed. While it has large servers (like mastodon.social or lemmy.world (and threads, but we don't talk about threads)) the majority of users are not on those servers. There is no single point of failure. If bluesky disappeared tomorrow, atproto would still exist, it would just have a negligable amount of users.

One node in the network lets you do everything, as opposed to bluesky which has three parts (You can do stuff without a relay though). This means you can trust a lot less of the network.

ActivityPub scales better than ATProto. Atproto scales quadratically, meaning that having a lot of nodes in the network harms performance.
AP scales horizontally, meaning it works better with a lot of small servers.

ActivityPub can keep stuff private, like blocks and posts.
Though, a lot of implementations can leak posts.

Weaknesses of ActivityPub


The spec leaves so much out. They didn't propose a way to make sure requests between servers are validated, so mastodon chose HTTP signatures.
They didn't add any way of looking up handles, so mastodon chose webfinger.

A posts's id is its https uri, this means thatif a server goes down, stuff can't be fetched. A user can't move their followers if their server goes down (you can on ATproto). There is a standard to fix this, FEP-ef61, but it breaks compatibility with a lot of implementations.

Missing information is a problem. Its not really a problem on lemmy, but on mastodon likes and replies from other servers may not make it to your server at all (you can fetch replies in newer versions of mastodon though).

All this aside, I do think the two can coexist. I don't see anything like lemmy working on atproto. ActivityPub seems closer to social networking, as opposed to social media.
Something like facebook would be impossible to make on atproto, because not everything is made to be public.

I am hoping for a bridge, but good (bridgy is opt-in, making it useless).

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Sunyata ☸ 👨🏻‍💻 ☮

2025-06-22 12:35:44

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A Quiet Roar - Simpler Times


***aquietroar.bandcamp.com/track/…

Simpler times with a simpler mind
Unburdened shoulders, lighter, quicker and bolder

It was better years with fewer fears
Innocence reigning, with less aching and straining

Just as joyful as can be, when it made sense to me
Fleeting through time, frictions and burns now to be alive
Oh, take me back to when hope had no end

Looking back I see the cracks
That formed and widened as I somehow grew silent

But before the fall I do recall
A happier version, almost a different person

Just as joyful as can be, when it made sense to me
Fleeting through time, frictions and burns now to be alive
Oh, take me back to then, when hope had no end


#AQuietRoar #aqr #music


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Iran Urges UN to Hold U.S. Accountable for “Criminal” Strike on Nuclear Sites telesurenglish.net/iran-urges-…

Iran Urges UN to Hold U.S. Accountable for “Criminal” Strike on Nuclear Sites - teleSUR English

Iran has requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting and accused the United States of committing a “criminal and illegal” airstrike on its nuclear facilities.
teleSURenglish

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Something refreshing on a hot day…

Well, it's not far down to paradise
At least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away
And find tranquility
Oh, the canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me

#sailing #waterandwaves

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For all those people who welcomed Threads to the fediverse, Meta is now literally the US military. Not just subcontractors.

youtube.com/watch?v=KiQu2bhXKg…


Palantir, Meta, Open AI, Sworn Sworn In As Military Officers

Big tech executives have been sworn in as high ranking officers in the US Army. Normally it takes around 2 decades of sacrifice to achieve such a high rank. ...
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JO Paris 2024: On connaît désormais combien d’argent public a été dépensé pour l’événement (et c’est énorme)


#politique #gabegie

20minutes.fr/economie/4159919-…


JO Paris 2024: On connaît désormais combien d’argent public a été dépensé pour l’événement (et c’est énorme)

La Cour des comptes vient d’annoncer ce lundi, dans « une première estimation », le coût pour l’argent public des JO de Paris 2024
Gilles Varela (20 Minutes)

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Sanaa government condemns barbaric US aggression against Iran en.ypagency.net/360428

Sanaa government condemns barbaric US aggression against Iran

SANAA, June 22 (YPA) - The Sanaa-based government strongly condemned on Sunday the blatant and barbaric US aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.In a statement, the government considered the US strikes a blatant declaration of war against t
احسن (Yemen Press Agency)

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Henry Farrell

"In a world where the U.S. does not value commitment, few others will truly bargain with it, although they may go through the motions of pretending to. What is the point of making deals with a country that may renege unexpectedly on the president’s momentary whim" #auspol

open.substack.com/pub/programm…


Flexibility, slag heaps and bombs

Foreign policy minefields in the era of Trump
Henry Farrell (Programmable Mutter)

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Murdering the Refugees

A US government agency has publicly announced an evil plan to murder nearly 500,000 refugees:


U.S. wildlife officials plan to kill nearly half a million “invasive” American owls over three decades, new documents confirm. Experts say the #cull is #needed to help protect two #native owl #species, which have been put under #threat from the #invaders. However, animal rights activists have condemned the plan as #cruel and unnecessary.

Barred owls (Strix varia) are large owls native to eastern #NorthAmerica. In the early 20th century, these owls started moving west of the Mississippi River following “human-induced changes” to the Great Plains and northern boreal forest, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). As a result, the owls have gained a stronghold in #Washington, #Oregon and #California, where they are considered an invasive species.

The arrival of barred owls in the Northwest has adversely affected two native owl species — northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) and California spotted owls (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) — which are both much smaller than the #invaders and are being outcompeted for food and territory. Both native species have also been impacted by extreme logging activity over the last few decades, which has majorly reduced their range, according to California’s Santa Clara University.

Barred owls have also started mating with the spotted owls, creating hybrids that have the potential to reduce the gene pool of the spotted owl species.

The northern spotted owl population has declined severely over the past few decades, and the species is now outnumbered by barred owls across most of its range.


This, of course, is truly reprehensible. The barred owls aren’t even #foreigners! They’re just as #American as the northern spotted owl or the California spotted owl, and all they’re doing is chasing the American dream to make a better life for their children!

This Great Owl Replacement theory is just racism and spotted owl #supremacism. Any decent owl would reject it; no owl-refugee is “illegal” or “invasive”. And if the spotted owls are mating with the barred owls, obviously they are welcoming the #refugees.

Who cares about the gene pool of the spotted owl species? That’s just #eugenics and #Nazi #pseudoscience, right? All owls are the same under their feathers, and obviously there is no place for “pure gene pools” or Spotted Owl #supremacy in Owl #Democracy!

A Spotted Owl #supremacist seen protesting “the Great Owl Replacement.”


Nearly half a million 'invasive' owls, including their hybrid offspring, to be killed by US

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a final proposal to kill around 450,000 invasive barred owls in the Northwest, in an attempt to save two native species.
Harry Baker (Live Science)

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#TheArgyleSweater by #ScottHilburn on GoComics


gocomics.com/theargylesweater/…

#Humour #Cartoon

The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for June 23, 2025 | GoComics

Read The Argyle Sweater—a comic strip by creator Scott Hilburn—for today, June 23, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
www.gocomics.com

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Share a script/alias you use a lot
A while ago I made a tiny function in my ~/.zshrc to download a video from the link in my clipboard. I use this nearly every day to share videos with people without forcing them to watch it on whatever site I found it. What's a script/alias that you use a lot?
# Download clipboard to tmp with yt-dlp
tmpv() {
  cd /tmp/ && yt-dlp "$(wl-paste)"
}
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thingsiplay

With how many new Linux users we get recently, I don't like this joke at all without a disclaimer. Yes yes, its your own fault if you execute commands without knowing what it does. But that should not punish someone by deleting every important personal file on the system.

In case any reader don't know, rm is a command to delete files and with the option rm -r everything recursively will be searched and deleted on the filesystem. Option -f (here bundled together as -rf) will never prompt for any non existing file. The / here means start from the root directory of you system, which in combination with the recursive option will search down everything, home folder included, and find every file. Normally this is protected todo, but the extra option --no-preserve-root makes sure this command is run with the root / path.

Haha I know its funny. Until someone loses data. Jokes like these are harmful in my opinion.

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questionAsker 

\#Create predefined session with multiple tabs/panes (rss, bluetooth, docker...)
tmux-start 

\#Create predefined tmux session with ncmpcpp and ueberzug cover
music 

\#Comfort
ls = "ls --color=auto"
please = "sudo !!"

\#Quick weather check
weatherH='curl -s "wttr.in/HomeCity?2QF"' 

\#Download Youtube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in playlist -> lectures, etc
ytPlaylist='yt-dlp -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"'

\#Download whole album  -> podcasts primarily 
ytAlbum='yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --split-chapters --embed-thumbnail -o "chapter:%(section_title)s.%(ext)s"'

# download video -> extract audio -> show notification
ytm()
{
    tsp yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --no-playlist -P "~/Music/downloaded" $1 \
        --exec "dunstify -i folder-download -t 3000 -r 2598 -u normal  %(filepath)q"

}

# Provide list of optional packages which can be manually selected
pacmanOpts()
{
typeset -a os
for o in `expac -S '%o\n' $1`
do
  read -p "Install ${o}? " r
  [[ ${r,,} =~ ^y(|e|es)$ ]] && os+=( $o )
done

sudo pacman -S $1 ${os[@]}
}

# fkill - kill process
fkill() {
  pid=$(ps -ef | sed 1d | fzf -m --ansi --color fg:-1,bg:-1,hl:46,fg+:40,bg+:233,hl+:46 --color prompt:166,border:46 --height 40%  --border=sharp --prompt="➤  " --pointer="➤ " --marker="➤ " | awk '{print $2}')

  if [ "x$pid" != "x" ]
  then
    kill -${1:-9} $pid
  fi
}

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Mass evacuation plans: War in the Baltic region and the ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ strategic-culture.su/news/2025…

Mass evacuation plans: War in the Baltic region and the ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’

The Baltic region has convinced itself that it will be the first target if a war breaks out on Europe’s eastern flank. Join us on…
Strategic Culture Foundation

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"This default position is so naked in its hypocrisy, so ignorant and parochial in its worldview, so clear in its disregard for human life, that it represents a colossal erosion of sophistication in political discourse, and a new low in contempt for the public. Support for Israel can only be defended by facile, logic-defying references to its right to defend itself even when it is the aggressor, and Iran’s “threat to the free world”."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…


Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause

The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
Nesrine Malik (The Guardian)

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‘Israel’ Kiills 202 Palestinians in Gaza in 48 Hours orinocotribune.com/israel-kiil…

'Israel' Kills 202 Palestinians in Gaza in 48 Hours

At least 202 Palestinians were killed and 1,037 others were injured in the Gaza Strip over the last 48 hours as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocide in the region, according to medical sources.
Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

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Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 06/23/25: Trump Suggests He Wants Iran Regime Change, Iran May Close Strait of Hormuz, and More youtube.com/watch?v=YJkoz2Nqpg…

Trump Suggests He Wants Iran Regime Change, Iran May Close Strait of Hormuz, and More

Contact the White House: https://whitehouse.gov/contact/Support the show: Antiwar.com/donatePhone bank for Defend the Guard: https://defendtheguard.us/phoneb...
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Dan Steinbock -- Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East original.antiwar.com/Dan_Stein…

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East - Antiwar.com

Ironically, Iran is a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Israel shuns. As shown by The Fall of Israel (2025), the US/Israeli path to the carnage across the Middle East was paved almost 60 years ago.
Antiwar.com

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Norman Solomon: Bombing Iran Is Part of the USA’s Compulsion for War War War original.antiwar.com/solomon/2…

Bombing Iran Is Part of the USA's Compulsion for War War War - Antiwar.com

Twenty years ago, one day in June 2005, I talked with an Iranian man who was selling underwear at the Tehran Grand Bazaar. People all over the world want peace, he said, but governments won’t let them have it.
Antiwar.com

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The thing to always remember is that this stuff doesn't even rise to the level of being scientifically wrong. There are no "different races" to start with that potentially ⋅could⋅ have systematic cognitive differences, because it's simply not possible to give a robust biological definition of human "races” to start with, and boy, have the racists tried to find one. These statements are gibberish in the narrowest sense of the word.
norden.social/@wackJackle/1147…
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scott f

And the social definitions of race are such a jumble in terms of genetic background - an Icelander and an Italian both considered "white," a Namibian and a Nigerian both considered "black" - that any actual biological correlations would be canceled out, and the results dominated instead by "nurture" effects: how society treats people based on race; i.e., you're measuring racism, not race.

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William Astore: I’ll Slug You, and If You Resist, I’ll Slug You Harder antiwar.com/blog/2025/06/22/il…

I'll Slug You, and If You Resist, I'll Slug You Harder - Antiwar.com Blog

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. U.S. messaging to Iran, courtesy of President Trump, is quite simple: We slugged you (with our bombing attacks on three nuclear sites in your country), and if you don’t like it, we’ll slug yo…
Antiwar.com Blog

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Adrian Keller -- Washington’s Strike on Iran: A Betrayal of Diplomacy, a Gift to War antiwar.com/blog/2025/06/22/wa…

Washington's Strike on Iran: A Betrayal of Diplomacy, a Gift to War - Antiwar.com Blog

While global diplomats were still exchanging draft terms to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran, the United States launched airstrikes on Iranian nuclear infrastructure.
Antiwar.com Blog

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„Ich fühle also bin ich“: Wenn #Gefühle #Biologie ersetzen


youtu.be/0L3Jkkn9qsk

#Esther #Bockwyt & #Raphael #Bonelli
RPP Institut
#Wokismus = #Religion
#Woke #Wokeness = #NAZI #NoNazi #Gender #Gendern #Linke


„Ich fühle also bin ich“: Wenn Gefühle Biologie ersetzen (Esther Bockwyt & Raphael Bonelli)

*Wokismus, Tabus und das Ende der Vernunft*In diesem Gespräch analysieren Esther Bockwyt und Raphael Bonelli die psychologischen Hintergründe des Wokismus: D...
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Slowly but surely everyone is now exposing the ridiculous lies of the orange clown's "successful mission".

How hard it is to understand that being a lying clown is far worse than being just a clown.

#WashingtonPost | In the two days before #US strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, satellite images revealed "unusual truck and vehicle activity" at #Iran's #Fordow enrichment facility, according to a senior Maxar analyst.

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Rutgers University

#Studie zeigt: #Diversitätsprogramme verursachen mehr Vorurteile und spalten Gesellschaft


Eine Studie ließ Studenten vermeintlich „antirassistische“ Aufsätze lesen – danach sahen die Probanden Rassismus, wo nach objektiven Kriterien keiner war. Die Studie soll so aufzeigen, dass Diversitätsprogramme vor allem mehr Vorurteile verursachen.

apollo-news.net/studie-zeigt-d…

#Woke #narrative #diversity #monomyth #hero #journey #hollywood #movie #storytelling #influence #imagination #hope #coping
#Wokismus = #Religion
#Woke #Wokeness = #NAZI #NoNazi #Gender #Gendern #Linke


Studie zeigt: Diversitätsprogramme verursachen mehr Vorurteile - Apollo News

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