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Erich Christoph-Borger on Instagram: "#mma #fitness #ufc #muaythai #kickboxing #boxing #dog #dogs #love #boxergram #bjj #knockout #fit #boxer #boxingnews #boxinghype #floydmayweather #fitnessmotivation #ko #miketyson #tysonfury #boxingday #mixedmartialart

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The #EU #DMA compliance workshops exist to regulate gatekeepers powers, yet both #Apple and #Google treat them like "product launches" where non-engineers show slides and can never answer questions.

The Android play-field, instead of taking steps to respect the DMA, Google shrinks what Android even is. If Apple can own its closed iOS, Google figured they can privatize Android?

Maybe it being #FOSS for 17 years was just a glitch and now Android is out of the famous Google betas?

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F-Droid

"Hey Google, what is Android?"

* "Android is... quarterly source-code over the wall called AOSP"
* "Android is... not GMS or Play Integrity"
* "Android is... not the device trees or driver binaries of Pixel phones"
* "Android is... not part of the monthly security reports"

And today, we discover, "Android is... not `system-images;android-36;default`" per issuetracker.google.com/issues…

The F in #FDroid stands for "freedom", but there's no "F" in Android... nor any promises.

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Google Issue Tracker

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Nazo

I think they definitely have begun to realize that they sort of painted themselves into a corner by giving us something so open. They want to be like Apple and make money hand over fist locking people into a platform -- and honestly, some of what Gapps is doing these days and how they're doing stuff exclusive to the most recent Pixels only is really starting to get there. I'm convinced Google will legitimately lock Android down soon and I don't think third parties are ready for this.

I really wish people would put their collective foot down on Google's current practices now, before it's too late, but we all know it will only happen after it's way too late.

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"It's cheaper to buy the default search box everywhere in the world than it is to make a product that is so good that even if we tried another search engine, we'd still prefer Google.
This is enshittification."

From: @pluralistic
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Cory Doctorow

2025-07-15 19:44:38

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It's been more than a year since I gave up on Google Search (I switched to Kagi.com and never looked back). I don't miss it. It had gotten terrible. It's gotten worse since, thanks to AI (of course):

pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/tea…

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inh…

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A smoggy cityscape. In the foreground is a partially open can of Spam, whose label has been pixelated. The glistening spam atop the can has been overlaid with the original Google homepage. In the background looms the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Radek Kołakowski (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warszawski_smog_(22798350941).jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Erdogan proposes revamped idea of ‘Islamic consolidation’ journal-neo.su/2025/07/15/erdo…

Erdogan proposes revamped idea of ‘Islamic consolidation’

Religion unites believers, but spiritual likeness does not always equal shared political interests of representatives of a certain religion or their
Александр Сваранц (New Eastern Outlook)

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givehim15.com/post/july-16-202…
GH15 prayer for July 16, 2025
The Greatest Move of God
Dutch Sheets with word from Dr. Bill Hammon

youtu.be/QjYal75sAqo

The Greatest Move of God | Give Him 15: Daily Prayer with Dutch | July 16, 2025

The set is now complete. Order your copies today! https://dutchsheets.mybigcommerce.com/Learn more about Give Him Fifteen here:Website: https://www.givehim15...
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the militarism of the declining Western hegemony and the rise of BRICS to accommodate multipolar realities.

youtu.be/VusbFzvhsf4

#geopolitics #brics


Jeffrey Sachs: End of the Western-Centric World & Rise of BRICS

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, an advisor to political leaders around the world, a bestselling author, and a global leader in s...
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New features & improvements were added to Lichess last month!

See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog.

👉 lichess.org/changelog

#lichess #chess #community #freesoftware #opensource

Lichess July 2025 Changelog part 1 at lichess.org/changelog
Lichess July 2025 Changelog part 2 at lichess.org/changelog

Changelog • lichess.org

Free online chess server. Play chess in a clean interface. No registration, no ads, no plugin required. Play chess with the computer, friends or random opponents.
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When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops: pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inh…

A very good article on awful Google AI search results and how Google have ruined their own reputation by wrecking their workforce, by @pluralistic. A quote:

'Publishers and advertisers have more concentrated money than readers, but the dominant theory of antitrust since the Reagan administration is something called "consumer welfare," which holds that monopolistic conduct is only to be condemned if it makes consumers worse off. If a company screws its workers or suppliers in order to deliver better products and/or better prices, then "consumer welfare" holds that the government should celebrate and protect the monopolist for improving "efficiency."

But all that is true only if Google AI Overviews are good. And they are very, very bad.'

Don't use Google for search.

#google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #CoryDoctorow #search #slop

Pluralistic: When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops (15 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Cavyherd

Reading this article now. "Housefresh released its latest report on Google's enshittification, this time with an emphasis on the "AI Overviews" that now surmount every search results page."

It also strikes me that that AI overview is also likely an attempt to supplant Wikipedia's place in the digital landscape, since that's the actually-somewhat-reliable thing that would come up in that position otherwise.

Which I'm sure Google would be •just fine• with....

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Finished reading Tress of the Emerald Sea, and was good, even if not what I was expecting. How much is a Cosmere book? I don't know; if it wasn't written as a fairy tale, may be it would have landed better. 3/5 for me.

My 7th book of 2025, but no way I'll read 24 like previous years.

Next one in the queue: Attack Surface by @pluralistic -- looking forward to it, loved Little Brother and Homeland.

#BooksofMastodon

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SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop !
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"SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! SYRIE / ROJAVA – Après avoir massacré délibérément les Alaouites sur la côte syrienne, les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas ont massacré des centaines de civils druzes à Soueïda ces derniers jours. Comme sur la côte syrienne, un bain de sang vient d’être commis par des […]
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SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! – Kurdistan au féminin

SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop !   SYRIE / ROJAVA – Après avoir massacré délibérément les Alaouites sur la côte syrienne, les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas ont massacré des centaines de civils druzes à Soueïda ces derniers jours.
Kaf1 (Kurdistan au féminin)

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"This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons…

Quotation by Winston Churchill

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Bar. Bebidas alcoólicas. Comida.

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J'ai honte d'être Français. J'ai honte d'être européen

« Côté français, l’impunité d’Israël s’est aussi traduite par celle de son premier ministre Benyamin #Nétanyahou, qui a survolé l’Hexagone pour se rendre à Washington le 7 juillet, malgré le mandat d’arrêt de la Cour pénale internationale contre lui.»
Face aux crimes israéliens, l’UE choisit l’inaction et le déshonneur
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#IsraelTerroristState #gaza #freepalestine


Face aux crimes israéliens, l’UE choisit l’inaction et le déshonneur

Le conseil européen des affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne n’a finalement rien statué sur son accord d’association avec Israël, pourtant bafoué. Les 27 se contentent d’un accord sans garantie sur l’aide humanitaire à Gaza.
Clothilde Mraffko (Mediapart)

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Trump’s ICE directive is a repudiation of the very principles invoked in the Declaration of Independence, reinstating the royal prerogative of arbitrary imprisonment.

Trump administration bans bond hearings, paving way for mass indefinite detention of immigrants - World Socialist Web Site

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Trump administration bans bond hearings, paving way for mass indefinite detention of immigrants

Millions of workers and their family members face imprisonment for months or years as part of the fascistic assault on democratic rights.
World Socialist Web Site

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"A single Google search requires half a millilitre of water, while ChatGPT consumes 500 millilitres for every five to 50 prompts. Multiply these figures by billions of daily interactions, add streaming services and cloud storage, and the result is staggering: data centre water consumption has reached crisis levels, with some facilities using more water annually than entire cities."

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Data centre water consumption: Why the digital world has a thirst problem

Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
Dashveenjit Kaur (Cloud Computing News)
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Gerry McGovern

"According to industry data, a 1-megawatt data centre can consume up to 25.5 million litres of water annually just for cooling – equivalent to the daily water consumption of approximately 300,000 people. To put this in perspective, a medium-sized 15-megawatt data centre consumes as much water annually as either three average-sized hospitals or more than two 18-hole golf courses."

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Data centre water consumption: Why the digital world has a thirst problem

Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
Dashveenjit Kaur (Cloud Computing News)
in reply to Gerry McGovern

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Gerry McGovern

"Hyperscale facilities operated by companies like Google demonstrate the true scale of the challenge. Google’s data centres average 550,000 gallons (2.1 million litres) daily, totalling approximately 200 million gallons (760 million litres) annually per facility. Microsoft’s global operations consumed nearly 6.4 million cubic metres of water (approximately 1.69 billion gallons) in their most recent reporting year – a 34% increase from the previous year."

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Data centre water consumption: Why the digital world has a thirst problem

Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
Dashveenjit Kaur (Cloud Computing News)

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China rejects new US sanctions against Cuba en.granma.cu/mundo/2025-07-16/…

China rejects new US sanctions against Cuba

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the new US sanctions against Cuba, reaffirming its opposition to the blockade and calling for the nation to be removed from the list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
en.granma.cu

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Sylvie Crowell, a materials researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has received a NASA Early Career Initiative (ECI) award for a research proposal titled “Lunar Dust Reduction through Electrostatic Adhesion Mitigation (L-DREAM).” The research focuses on developing a passive lunar dust mitigation coating for solar cells and thermal control surfaces. Operated under the […]

NASA Funds Early Career Employee Research

Sylvie Crowell has received a NASA Early Career Initiative award for lunar dust mitigation research.
Kelly M. Matter (NASA)

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Thousands of baseball fans travel across the country annually to watch teams compete in Omaha, Nebraska, during the NCAA Men’s College World Series in June. This year, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland swung for the fences to celebrate the city’s Diamond Anniversary of hosting the event and to highlight the intersections of sports and […]

NASA Glenn Experts Join Baseball Fans in Omaha

Glenn joins in the celebration of Omaha’s Diamond Anniversary hosting the NCAA Men’s College World Series.
Kelly M. Matter (NASA)

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#Politique #journalisme #Algérie #France

Nous appelons à la libération immédiate du journaliste sportif français Christophe Gleizes

Retenu sous contrôle judiciaire avec interdiction de quitter le pays depuis plus d’un an en Algérie, le journaliste français spécialiste de football Christophe Gleizes a été injustement condamné à sept ans de prison ferme pour n’avoir fait que son tr…
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Nineteen teams of students from across the nation in grades 8-12 worked for months in classrooms, labs, basements, and garages for the opportunity to test their projects at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. This spring, the teams’ hard work was put to the test in the 2.2 Second Drop Tower facility at NASA Glenn. […]

NASA Glenn Announces 2025 Drop Tower Challenge Winners

NASA Glenn technicians test student experiments during the 2.2 Second Drop Tower Challenge.
Kelly M. Matter (NASA)

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#DIY #automotive

I've been having electrical issue with my 94 Suburban. Batteries going bad (but under warranty) - 3 replacements in a year. Eventually the starter, distributor and alternator also went bad...

With each fix the "slow-start" issue remained - like the battery was low. It finally dawned on me that I must have an issue with the ground wire either to the engine block or chassis. I checked both and they were secure...

Then I called a friend who is a automotive savant - he asked if I had disconnected the ground wire to check for corrosion?

Me: duh! Why didn't I think of that?

Anyway, I pulled them apart and sure enough they were heavily corroded. I cleaned them and re-installed. Then turned the key and no slow start issue! (I'll be ordering new battery cables to replace both since they are original from 1994)

So if you have older vehicles, try cleaning the ground wire connections to avoid these issues.

I wonder how many cars are in junk yards because of this simple problem?

an once of prevention...

in reply to Otto Pureblood

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Otto Pureblood

They were also bad... Caused by the intermittent ground. If special note: the voltage regulator is inside the alternator that was allowing the alternator to put out 14.4 to 14.7 volts. The circle of life in electrical form.

Not to mention the water pump was leaking from the weep hole... And by "leaking" I mean gushing.

Also, let me add a "fuck you" to the chevy engineer who thought the voltage regulator inside the alternator was a good idea.

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Carter Braxton

@Otto Pureblood That's true. I usually opt for third party alternators myself, I usually use Leece-Neville's. There was a time when I had a setup where I had two alternators running with dual pulleys.

The original alternator would charge up the battery up front and the second one would charge up the batteries in the back, that run the other electronics such as inverters and such. I'm sort of a mad scientist or at least I once was. I'm not a scientist any longer but I may still be mad.

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Multiple Fires Hit Industrial Zones in Israeli Occupied Territories tn.ai/3355331

Multiple Fires Hit Industrial Zones in Israeli Occupied Territories

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A wave of unexplained fires and explosions has struck industrial areas across Israeli-occupied territories since the onset of the 12-day war, highlighting growing instability in the regime’s critical infrastructure.
Tasnim News Agency
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