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UK's Energy & Net Zero secretary, says that the "British way of life is under threat" because of climate change.
“Whether it is extreme heat, droughts, flooding, we can see it with our own eyes, that it’s already happening, and we need to act.”
Describing the results as a “stark warning”, he added: “Unless we act on the cause of what is happening, the cause of what is changing our climate, then we will be betraying future generations.”
Whether Joe Biden’s Floating Humanitarian Pier of Death or Trump’s Notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the US is up to its neck in charity as a tool of genocide.
Adaptarse a la IA generativa implica perder derechos fundamentales, agravar la desigualdad y la precariedad, y contribuir al deterioro del medioambiente.
Cito y edito a Krishnamurti: «No es signo de buena salud estar bien adaptado a una [tecnología] profundamente enferma».
People in part of Texas have suffered a disaster that they partly brought on themselves. That includes the flood itself - many years of voting for climate denialists have permitted more global heating and that enabled the flood. And it
[2/4] includes the wrecker's efforts to weaken and abolish FEMA. How should we express our disgust for those political policies in relation to the resulting non-natural disasters? A doctor in Texas wished for Republican voters in the flood region to suffer the bad consequences of their votes. That is not the right ethical position. Many Kerr County voters are getting the consequences most of them voted for - but we should be sad for that, not wish for that. Their votes were foolish because
[3/4] of their bad consequences; we should regret both those foolish votes and their bad consequences. People get the government their behavior deserves, but people always deserve good government. We can say that people brought disaster themselves without wishing for disaster to harm them. We can wish that they learn to make wise decisions without wishing for a disaster so "to teach them" that lesson. Moreover, disasters don't always get people to be compassionate towards each other.
@dougroudouvari Θέλει και γραβιέρα Κρήτης ο ομόσπονδος ουρανίσκος σας... Τα πρόβατα της Κρήτης δεν είναι για τέτοιες ασχολίες, είναι πρέσβειρες και πρέσβεις του πολιτισμού μας, άσε που τα πανηγύρια πάνε γραμμή για μνημεία πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς της Ουνέσκο.
@Pardalo_Katsiki όπως είπαμε και πριν παρδαλό μου,είναι άλλο τι θέλει ο ουρανίσκος και άλλο τι θα μασαμπουκωσει στο τέλος. Έχουμε ξεμείνει από νεφρά βλέπεις....😜 @dougroudouvari
Went out to dinner yesterday with friends. The 2 of us that got the same thing spent a chunk of the night blowing it back out. It was a good time. Now I go to work and participate in an all day meeting. Fortunately I don't have any other symptoms. Life is truly grand sometimes
@relentless_eduardo maybe, but I've had salmonella and campylobacter and they were both way worse than whatever this was, it seems to be one and done. no fever or any other symptoms other than projectile vomiting. Now I feel fine and am very hungry.
"Ghislaine Maxwell is willing to speak in front of Congress about The Epstein Files, sources tell Daily Mail...
'No-one from the government has ever asked her to share what she knows. She remains the only person to be jailed in connection to Epstein and she would welcome the chance to tell the American public the truth.'"
Knowing how fatal is it to go public about one's willingness to talk about this, I hope she makes it.
'Despite the rumors, Ghislaine was never offered any kind of plea deal. She would be more than happy to sit before Congress and tell her story,' sources tell the Daily Mail.
@relentless_eduardo nope. Probably will fall/slip in the shower and smack her head against the concrete floor. (Since another suicide might be a hard sale)
Force 6 headwinds delayed our departure from Cartagena, this morning, but now I’m laid up with a fever, muscle ache, nausea, and utter disinterest in anything beyond the confines of my bunk.
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled a possible withdrawal from ceasefire negotiations in a video message delivered in Hebrew on Sunday. He accused Hamas of rej
The villagers of Taybeh have lived in harmony with the nearby Bedouins for generations. Israeli colonization and the shrinking land available to these communities are now straining social relations, as Israeli settler violence threatens both.
Activists who staged nationwide protests in solidarity with direct action group Palestine Action over the weekend have said that widely differing police responses “exposed a stark divide” and are “indicative of the chaos” unleashed by the British gov…
That seems to not be the case. I grant you, it is not now what it was in its glory, but a company isn't an individual person, it can die and come back in a new form.
Whether that form is good or not is a judgment call, I suppose.
@millihertz There is certainly such a case to be made -- for most of its later history, Commodore was synonymous with mismanagement. Fractic may well be just as bad, but it's a bit early to say. So far, they've made sane, reasonable decisions.
@millihertz Certainly, this new Commodore is not the same exact company as the one from my youth -- but I think a reasonable case can be made for it to be the de facto inheritor of the legacy, and should be permitted time and space to prove whether or not it is worthy of the name.
@mos_8502 it already appears to be doing better at that than any company that's owned the rights since, tbh... true, that's a low bar, but i don't think anyone can reasonably question that the people involved are dedicated to properly reviving Commodore, rather than buying the rights as an underpants-gnome profiteering scheme
@millihertz They've pre-sold almost 3,000 units of the new C64 Ultimate so far. Very not bad. If they can keep the thing in production (a fair sized "if") and it keeps selling (an even bigger "if") then we might see a bit of resurgence in gamedev for the platform, as the majority of users will be on the Ultimate or an equivalent, and that's a lot more power for games to play with.
@millihertz These trends are... encouraging, I would say is the word. Not mind blowing, not disappointing. Steady sales with very little advertising outside our circles.
@mos_8502 The fact that it's steady increase and not just like a single jump when the announcement video was released or some blog posted about it is the most encouraging part I'd say
Tucker Carlson belives people will no longer trust Dan Bongino. He says it will be “pretty hard for Bongino to go back to his podcast audience and be like, ‘I’m telling you the truth’ when they all think he is covering up for Epstein.”
Just two days after we sat down with Francesca Albanese, the Trump Administration placed her under sanctions.They accuse the UN Special Rapporteur of waging ...
The German city of Hamburg witnessed on Sunday a demonstration in solidarity with Gaza, with the participation of the Yemeni and Palestinian communities.
Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:
ΑΑΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΧΑΧΑΑΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΧΧΧ ΡΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕΕ ΔΕΝ ΥΠΑΡΧΟΥΝ ΑΥΤΟΙ ΛΕΜΕ
5 νέα κρούσματα ευλογιάς σε μια ημέρα, τι λέει το ΥπΑΑΤ για ζωοτροφές Η ευλογιά των αιγοπροβάτων φούντωσε ξανά στις Περιφερειακές Ενότητες Λάρισας και Μαγνησίας στην Θεσσαλία, ενώ νέα κρούσματα έχουμε στην Φωκίδα και στην Ξάνθη.
Κι ευλογιά να μην ήταν, θα κατέβαιναν λύκοι, αρκούδες, μαχαιρόδοντα, πάνθηρες και φυσικά Μαινάδες που ως γνωστόν τρώνε τον περίδρομο σε αθώα επιδοτούμενα αιγοπρόβατα. @divak
New from 404 Media: the media's pivot to AI is not real and not going to work.
Media companies are laying off workers and saying they will instead use more AI. This won't work. We have gained a single subscriber from ChatGPT. Yes, one (1). It's not a business model
Russia warns NATO plans to turn Moldova into military foothold
Russia’s intelligence agency has accused NATO of plotting to militarize Moldova as a frontline base against Moscow, warning it risks dragging the country into a broader conflict.
Today in 1789, 236 years ago: Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Revolution. Bastille Day is still celebrated annually in France.
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🚨 URGENT: The state is not just charging anti-ICE activists with terrorism — now they’re straight-up torturing them inside Johnson County Jail.
The Prairieland Defendants — aka the DFW 10 — are being denied basic rights: no public defenders, no medicine, no calls or visits from loved ones, no vegan/vegetarian meals, no gender-appropriate placement. Some are in solitary. Some are in medical cells. All are being punished for standing up against ICE and showing solidarity with migrants.
This is cruel and calculated. They’re trying to break these comrades mentally, physically, and spiritually — before they even see trial.
This Monday, July 14th, we’re raising hell. PHONE ZAP these fuckers. Call or email Judge Boedeker and let them know the world is watching this abuse.
📞 (817) 556-6360 📧 judgeboedeker@johnsoncountytx.org 🗣 Script in image 2
And don’t stop there. Share the fundraiser, send what you can, and spread the word like your life depends on it — because for some of our people, it literally fucking does.
Socialist realism celebrates the worker as creator with muscles straining, tools in hand, actively building the world. Labor is heroic, collective, and visibly transformative. The aesthetic screams: "WE made this."
On the other hand, solar-punk envisions society after the work is done with comfortable citizens enjoying green tech built by unseen hands. The aesthetic whispers: "Look what grew while no one was laboring.
Socialist realism celebrates the struggle; solar-punk erases it.
Most of its depictions that I've seen also have hardly any people in them! It's something primitivist, or post-apocalyptic, and hardly optimistic, despite the quaint aesthetics.
@carbonara show me an example of solar-punk aesthetic where any actual building happens, it's always just people living comfortably off stuff somebody else built. It's basically the whole Nordic "socialist" model built on exploitation of the Global South where actual production happens.
Meanwhile, socialist realism already covers the aspects of community building and working together. Collective labour is literally what it celebrates.
@ZDL it's a really superficial vision that fails to paint a holistic picture of what a socialist society would look like, and how the technology underpinning it is produced
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"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Alors que des gangs djihadistes du régime syrien massacrent les Druzes de la région de Soueïda depuis hier avec la complicité de la communauté internationale, les Kurdes syriens s’inquiètent de voir leur tour arrivé. Des agressions quotidiennes ciblant les Kurdes à Damas et Alep ne font qu’augmenter la peur de la […]
A short song from one of Woody's radio broadcasts. (1940's?)Featured in this performance are:*Woody of course-guitar and voc.*the great SONNY TERRY on harmon...
GNU Guix: The Most Important Free Software Distribution You’ve Never Heard Of
In December of 2022, the GNU project announced the release of their package management application, GNU Guix 1.4 and it’s associated system distribution called the Guix System. It was started by lead developer, Ludovic Courtés and made an official GNU package in November of 2012. He has released an official road map.
Guix, a package manager and system distribution of the GNU system, emphasizes software freedom and purity by excluding proprietary software and binary blobs. Released in December 2022, GNU Guix 1.4…
Charges could be dismissed against a registered sex offender after a mental competency evaluation found him unfit to stand trial for attempted kidnapping at an Aurora school
Special Rapporteurs enjoy full diplomatic immunity under international law. Fellow experts suggest US sanctions could be the subject of proceedings before the International Court of Justice.
"TURQUIE – Hier soir, la police d’Istanbul a arrêté violement dix personnes, dont des enfants et une femme enceinte de 7 mois, pour avoir écouté de la musique kurde. La femme enceinte a perdu son bébé à cause d’un coup de pied reçu au ventre. Ce n’est pas la première fois que les Kurdes sont […] L’article TURQUIE. La kurdophobie tue ! est apparu en premier sur Kurdistan au féminin."
"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – L’écrivain kurde emprisonné, Mehmet Serhat Polatsoy a rapporté qu’il a été insulté et battu par un soldat au palais de justice d’Urfa. Mehmet Serhat Polatsoy, un détenu à la prison de type T n° 2 d’Urfa, a été battu par un soldat alors qu’il était sous surveillance au palais de […]
« Entretien · Il y a un peu plus d’un an, la #Kanaky - #NouvelleCalédonie s’embrasait et se rappelait au bon souvenir de la #France comme étant l’un de ses derniers territoires coloniaux. Auteur de #DécoloniserLaKanakyNouvelleCalédonie, l’anthropologue #BenoîtTrépied rappelle ici les responsabilités de l’État français, qu’elles soient immédiates ou historiques. »
Il y a un peu plus d’un an, la Kanaky-Nouvelle-Calédonie s’embrasait et se rappelait au bon souvenir de la France comme étant l’un de ses derniers territoires coloniaux. Auteur de Décoloniser la (…)
Despite being really careful I managed to get some Cow Parsley sap on my hand yesterday gardening. I have a blister today and it felt like a burn. I ended up reading up on it and yep the furanocoumarins in Cow Parsley cause skin to not be UV resistant so on a very sunny day you can get very serious burns. Known as phytophotodermatitis. Mine is very tiny and will heal but be warned.. searching shows some pretty awful major burns and scarring can occur!
Convinced more than ever that browsers should have auto-detected RSS feeds linked from pages and revealed "subscribe" buttons if the user configures a default RSS reader. Simple protocol, good UX opportunity for everyone, and would heal a lot of URL guessing.
A growing movement is calling on Illinois to divest $100 million in Israel Bonds, and has filed an ethics complaint against Treasurer Michael Frerichs, alleging abuse of authority, corruption, improper use of state time, and misuse of public assets.
On June 14, Trump spent an estimated $40 million on an extravagant military parade in Washington, DC. What was supposed to be a show of strength for US imperialism amounted to measly crowds and squeaky tanks, dwarfed by the millions protesting ICE ra…
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert says Israelis are committing “daily atrocities” in the occupied West Bank, with full knowledge of the government, p...
Pyongyang, July 13 (KCNA) — The chief of the Policy Office of the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Sunday issued the following press statement titled “The U.S.
The contrast between the bright-green promise of this photo (kindly taken by @migguzi) and gray-bleak horror of fascism is really hitting me today—including because it’s literally pouring and thundering heavily. The storm outside my window mirrors the severe political storm that so many of us are struggling to weather, with “solidarity” as our umbrella(s).
I somehow managed to finish up the new curated zine featured here at what might be considered an “odd” moment—one that in turn, shapes some of the zine’s content. A beloved friend was arrested last week in what may likely become “Haymarket 2.0,” or at least that’s how it feels in terms of the way cops and their minions (newspapers, fash, soft snitches, etc.) are maliciously spinning it. I and many others have dropped everything to do support for them and others arrested in relation to this same situation of fascist state repression. Solidarity efforts are where anarchism shines, and the beauty of that radiates outward and keeps us (or at least me) going. Yet they also take an enormous toll on our hearts, minds, and bodies—for no one, whether friend or not, should have to face state repression, incarceration, and all other forms of state violence.
It’s been a thoroughly exhausting week, emotionally and spiritually.
Yet maybe it was precisely the right time to complete this zine: “Everyday Antifascism: 14 Ways That Solidarity Keeps Us Safer.” Because daily, millions in both the States and beyond are experiencing the myriad assaults perpetrated by christofascism—its own “special” version of past fascisms. Right now, there may never be a sunny day that doesn’t also involve some new fascistic atrocity, sometimes close to home, and sometimes further afield, but always demanding that we strive hard(er) to live up the ideals of solidarity.
This zine, like prior ones in this “series,” is a humble sampler of some of the many, many possible ways solidarity is routinely practiced. It is meant to offer a bit of sustenance by mutually supporting each other with stories of resistance. And it’s a gift to you, with love+solidarity from all who contributed to this zine.
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More than a quarter-century ago, a group of hackers decided that, as a label, "free software" was a liability, and they set out to replace it with a different label, "open source," on the basis that "open source" was easier to understand and using it instead of "free software" would speed up adoption.
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Once you’ve mined the earth and milked the service industries, what is there left to frack? Us, that’s what – with everything from admin charges and estate agent fees to blockbuster premiums and ‘cakeage’
One of the NSA's most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone’s Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse.
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
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The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
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I ran a poll on that a couple of months go. Don't know if I worded it well enough, and it's not a huge sample size, but it's there for what it's worth.
Which term do you prefer to use?
#poll #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS
[ ] Free Software
[ ] Open Source Software
[ ] Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
[ ] Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
I like the post. I just wanted to point out the similarity between your last paragraph where you write "we still lack a word to express what we're for." with this paper from Orwell orwellfoundation.com/george-or… . We know what's wrong with the current state, eg anti-this and anti-that, but defining (and Naming) the future state is hard.
There has been dozens of times in development of this program that if I didn't know how to program already, I would have been dead in the water. But the AI did the wrong thing and I would say "why don't you take the session data and convert it to json and base64 it and pass it as a query parameter to the other page" and it works
I don't think I am that smart, I am just saying that no, if you are a know-nothing "founder", AI isn't going to make you a programmer. Just a criminally irresponsible charlatan
#Baltic Nazis are testing #HIMARS for the first time a few kilometers from #StPetersburg Let's hope it's the last, unless they also seek the "Ukrainian fate"
Pentagon reports "#US soldiers are observing and advising the Estonians during the first real HIMARS fires. The independent, operational HIMARS unit is capable of providing lethal, long-range, and accurate fire in support of Estonian and #NATO forces on the battlefield." 🤣 😂 How did the HIMARS do in #Ukraine,? remind me plz
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