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Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package – is set for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 August 2025 at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time).
ESA’s Hera mission has captured images of asteroids (1126) Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft operations that could prove useful for planetary defence.
Hera is currently travelling through space on its way to a binary asteroid system. In 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft impacted the asteroid Dimorphos, changing its orbit around the larger asteroid Didymos. Now, Hera is returning to the system to help turn asteroid deflection into a reliable technique for planetary defence.
In a detailed social media post on Tuesday, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned that "Israel’s" standing in the United States “has never been so bad” and that it is increasingly viewed as a “leper state.”
He noted that “the Democratic party hasn’t been with us for some time” and added, “we’re also losing the Republican party, whose support for Israel could once be counted on,” while crediting US President Donald Trump with maintaining support for "Israel" during his term.
“Even those who have been our friends are having a hard time defending the State of Israel,” Bennett wrote, adding that “Israel is being seen more and more as a liability and burden on the USA and Americans.”
Bennett attributed the worsening situation to the current Israeli government, which he has long criticized. He accused it of pursuing a chaotic and self-defeating foreign policy and claimed it is causing “terrible damage” while still failing to grasp “the magnitude of the disaster.”
@GossiTheDog the biggest cooperations take bad decisions, with perhaps IBM in WWII as a similar example...
In the platform economy, it's hard to stay clean from others running software for purposes you would not agree with. But, taking on as a client the army of a country that is suspected of war crimes and has been summoned to stand trial at international court, that would be easy to avoid.
By choosing to take on these huge contracts, M$ has become a player in modern arms industry.
Let's not forget they killed the supposed "shooter" too over that. Someone died that day. Someone that was probably approached by someone in the Trump campaign and offered money if he'd go up onto a roof and aim an air rifile at Trump and pull the trigger. Someone who was probably told don't worry you'll be fine. That he'll be okay. Ignore the fact that he was a stupid son-of-a-bitch. But he still died that day. And Trump didn't. Because there was no bullet. It was all special effects. ---
Microsoft AI employee has interrupted Microsoft’s big 50th anniversary event to accuse Microsoft of using AI for war crimes by arming Israel. Powerful email included too.
Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebration was interrupted for a second time by an employee who protested the company’s dealings with the Israeli government.
Another Microsoft employee has interrupted the CEO to protest against Microsoft's involvement in supplying AI technology targeting Palestinians theverge.com/news/669362/micro…
A Microsoft employee has disrupted Satya Nadella’s Build keynote. Joe Lopez interrupted Nadella to protest Microsoft’s contracts with the Israeli government.
Another Microsoft employee has interrupted Microsoft’s Build conference to protest against Microsoft’s involvement in targeting Palestinians theverge.com/news/670812/micro…
Another protest at Microsoft Build about their involvement in targeting Palestinians caused the head of AI security to accidentally share customer Teams chats theverge.com/news/671373/micro…
Microsoft employees are reporting that emails that mention Palestine are being blocked. Microsoft has confirmed it has made some changes to its email systems.
“Words like ‘Israel’ or ‘P4lestine’ do not trigger such a block,”
Either someone's heart isn't in it or this is...not the most impressive...demonstration of Purview compliance solutions. Single character substitutions to get past the filter is so middle school I can feel the nostalgia.
Weird and not Microsoft like. They usually don't touch politics, just like refusing to include flag emojis on Windows to side-step possible geopolitical implications.
LinkedIn is such garbage. If someone asks for one I'm like "I don't have one" The gasps I look. Well? It's marketer bullshit, and we all know how I love that. *sharpens ice pick and goes to the liquor store for a chianti and fava beans*
After giving Elon Musk a platform at Build 2025, Microsoft has already adopted more of Mr. DOGE's playbook by censoring internal emails.
Yes, I know the corporation is not a democracy.
A Microsoft employee has bypassed the filtering of the words Palestine, Gaza or genocide to email thousands of employees theverge.com/microsoft/673568/…
First of all... WTF is M$ doing filtering user content? I'm so glad I don't use any of their products anymore. American tech oligarchs can fuck right off. I so hate this timeline. Stop the universe and let me off. This reminds me of my first time on a carnival roller-coaster (I think I was 7 or 8...) and feeling terrified and trapped, and screaming my lungs out.
this, this so much. Its either an admission that their own tools and recommendations dont work, tools they are selling to customers and customers rely on to keep their infrastructure and employees safe & secure, or its a lazy lie, trying to supress dissent & demonstrate control, not just prevent disruption. Either way doesnt look good...
FWIW, I see no indication that the Teams chats accidentally exposed at the Build event would’ve been labeled as containing customer confidential information.
I wish Microsoft with their ’security first’ mindset and infinite resources could develop and take into use technological means to label sensitive content and protect them.
Instead they use .. checks notes .. yes, Purview DLP to prevent people from expressing their displeasure at a genocide.
The most depressing thing about the TikTok videos of Microsoft employees protesting about the company’s involvement in supporting genocide is their colleagues, sat around them, laugh and tut at the colleagues protesting.
I don’t say this out of spite: we learned about this, in German war history: people prefer to look away. I understand, but I can’t - and that’s that. We’ll just have to see if we have a chance of turning things around.
they are a reflection of Microsoft’s leadership: total aimless psychopaths. There is a huge difference between being a passive coward and laughing at a humanitarian protest.
I never worked for MS but this was my general experience working in tech, too. World events would happen and the attitude was that it sucked, but was someone else’s problem and thus it’s not worth worrying about. I never worked with or for anyone who would directly participate in genocide (as far as I could tell at the time) either, mostly small businesses.
I hope they're picked up by a company with a conscience, if such a thing exists. That took guts. We need people who will call out their bosses on their bs.
Cowards. "I hear your protest", would have been to at the very least step in after the outburst and, respectfully, allowed for further discussion and debate at a later time, even if the employee still intended on leaving.
This just highlights that Microsoft suffers no ideologies other than "maximize shareholder value, regardless of the cost or consequences."
They are all the same. Hypocrite, greedy with almost no moral, but what to expect from a society that celebrates these values. Me first, I don’t care for others, never! Empathy is weakness. Isn’t this all what MAGA tells us?
So, any other outcome would have been a surprise. Brad Smith and Satja Nadella should stop their Sunday preaches and come to the clear facts. All we want is money! No questions asked, no morals, no friends.
what fucking asshole, hearing that, started BOOING
You want what’s wrong with tech, there it is. Faced with someone who is putting their medical care and access to food and housing on the line to protest war profiteering, someone starts booing because she interrupted a celebration to bring attention to it.
Wow, the flaky AI that Israel is using for picking targets is made by Microsoft? Why am I not surprised? I mean, I'm surprised neither that Microsoft would sell an AI that would result in murdering civilians, nor that it would suck so much at precise targeting...
Surprising it took this long for a Microsoft employee to realize they're a war profiteer, given the stories of Windows installs on Navy assets causing issues at-sea.
I guess the difference is "But these wars we don't like."
ETA: Oh, I see her specific comments now. Yes, this war she does not like (and for very good reasons!). But, I hate to tell her, her company has been war profiteering for decades before she joined it and was still the day she joined.
Maybe they should put that on the orientation copy.
It's sad to see people disrespecting the *employee* for doing something that took a lot of courage. She's going to be fired but she stood on principle. That takes courage that so many lack, to stand up, not knowing how that act will affect your future going forward, respect that.
Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebration was interrupted for a second time by an employee who protested the company’s dealings with the Israeli government.
I have never thought much of microsoft since learning about linux, but each year I learn microsoft is worse than I could have ever thought. Then again, this is a big tech issue for sure.
Let them continue to assume that the vitriol they are experiencing back home is nothing more than a "Democratic op". Shit, Democracts couldn't organize a PTA fundraiser for their child's school right now.
But sure, let them continue to be delusional that their base isn't pissed-off with them right now. #USpol
Με απόφαση του Υπουργού Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης και Τροφίμων, Κώστα Τσιάρα, συγκροτείται Ομάδα Συντονισμού (Task Force) για τον τομέα της βιολογικής παραγωγής, υπό την προεδρία του Γενικού Γραμματέα Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης και Τροφίμων Σπύρου Πρωτοψάλτη.
Η νέα Task Force αποτελεί επιτελικό όργανο στρατηγικής σημασίας, με κύρια αποστολή τον συντονισμό, την εποπτεία και την επιτάχυνση όλων των απαιτούμενων ενεργειών για την ενίσχυση της αξιοπιστίας, της διαφάνειας και της αποτελεσματικότητας του συστήματος ελέγχου και πιστοποίησης των βιολογικών προϊόντων, στο πλαίσιο του Κανονισμού (ΕΕ) 2018/848.
This is just sensationally bad: Microsoft struck a deal with the Israeli secret intelligence arm Unit 8200 that allowed it to build a powerful new mass surveillance tool that collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…
«Δυστυχώς, με τα σημερινά μισθώματα υπάρχει κόπωση στους ενοικιαστές. Πολλά διαμερίσματα μένουν ξενοίκιαστα, γι’ αυτό και καλούμε τους ιδιοκτήτες να ρίξουν τις τιμές, ώστε να νοικιαστούν και να έχουν απόδοση.
Νομίζω ότι έχουμε φτάσει στο “πικ” των ενοικίων. Δεν αντέχουν οι φοιτητές και οι οικογένειες άλλες αυξήσεις. Ελπίζουμε σε σταδιακή αποκλιμάκωση των τιμών από εδώ και πέρα»
Κάθε πέρσι και καλύτερα, κάθε φέτος κι ακριβότερα.. Έτσι διαμορφώνεται η εικόνα στην ενοικίαση κατοικίας στα Ιωάννινα, είτε πρόκειται για φοιτητική, είτε για
σε κάποιες (πολλές) περιοχές, δυστυχώς, δεν υπάρχουν ούτε σπίτια, λόγω μετατροπής των περισσοτέρων σε airbnb. Ότι απομένει, ακόμη και κοτέτσι, η τιμή του εκτοξεύεται. Αν δεν αλλάξει κάτι, θα πεθάνουμε δουλεύοντας για να πληρώνουμε το ενοίκιο.
@giok ισχύει, εδώ πάντως είναι πολλά τα ξενοίκιαστα. Είναι περίεργη κατάσταση γιατί εμπλέκονται ιδιοκτήτες με δεκάδες ακίνητα που σκόπιμα δεν ρίχνουν τις τιμές. Προτιμούν να νοικιάζουν τα μισά σε ψηλές τιμές, παρά όλα σε χαμηλότερες. Χειραγωγούν την αγορά
Merci au médecin qui a posé les mots "agression" et "violences policières" quand il a osculté Ado2 qui venait de se faire "agresser" "violenté" par la police.
Alors Ado2 a raconté, le médecin a écouté et a condamné. Ado2 en avait besoin.
Le médecin lui a fait une prise de sang car à moi, sa mère qui a demandé des explications à la police au téléphone, l'agent a dit qu'il était saoul, ce qui était faux.
Quand je demande à l'agent pourquoi ces violences? Est-ce que cela se justifiait parce qu'Ado2 avait été lui-même violent, la réponse est non. Quand je demande si Ado2 avait insulté, parce que lui l'avait été, la réponse est non.
Quand je demande quelle infraction avait été commise? Pourquoi il a été gardé 2 heures en cellule? La réponse est aucune, il a été "virulent".
Virulent après avoir été jeté dans un bus avec son pote parce qu'ils avaient passé la ligne vers la plage privée du lac, parce qu'alors qu'ils changent de bus - ce n'est pas le bus qui va à Lyon - la police revient à la charge. Virulent parce qu'il a été balayé par derrière et giflé, maintenu au sol avec un genou sur le thorax.
Ado2 a passé des radios du coude, du dos et des côtes. Il a des ecchymoses et des griffures, sur le haut du corps et le visage. Une ITT de 5 j
Je ne demande pas de conseils, ni de commentaires, je ne demande pas de compassion, je demande seulement que les témoins de ces violences interviennent (personne n'est intervenu pour Ado2 et ça l'a encore plus bouleversé),
je demande aussi que ce pouet soit partagé largement parce que quand on ne le vit pas dans sa chair, qu'on ne le voit pas avec ses yeux, qu'on ne l'entend pas avec ses oreilles, on ne peut pas se douter une seconde, et ce malgré la conscience qu'on peut avoir des choses, de la violence, de l'indignité et de l'impunité de l'institution policière.
Je pense à mes fils autistes parfaitement naïfs, dont l'un est à peine verbal, qui peuvent subir ce genre d'agressions à tous moments. J'espère qu'Ado2 va réussir à dépasser ce trauma ! Courage à vous !
🤬 💙💙 Soutien, pour toi et Ado2 Lorsque l'état et ses représentants sont à craindre parce que leur statut les autorise à toute forme de violence, de discrimination, d'autoritarisme, le devenir de la société humaine est tellement angoissant.
Qu’ils doivent s’impliquer dans les luttes, surtout s’ils sont en France. Le processus de fascisation est en cours. Ce n’est pas une petite affaire. Il s’insinue partout y compris dans les lois. Si la jeunesse refuse d’aller voter, c’est parce qu’elle est dégoûtée de ces dirigeants politiques. Si la jeunesse, les prolétaires, les masses populaires, les déclassés, les précaires ne s’organisent pas, la fascisation va devenir la norme. -George Ibrahim Abdallah lherminerouge.fr/je-suis-reste…
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Eugh, it's Attack Teenagers time again... This time over the fact that they spend a lot of time alone in their room so cannot socialise. To tackle this, the government wants to ban or limit social media and invest a pitiful amount into Youth clubs...
"The prime minister said there was a “worrying trend” of young people finding themselves “isolated at home and disconnected from their communities”."
Why are Teenagers in their bedrooms on their phones? We don't ask that...
Could it be because we chase them out of public spaces? Or because we've privatised all the public spaces? So where can Teens go and just exist? Nowhere...
And parents are more and more scared of letting children out of their sight.
Or they can join a youth club with the people they go to school with - yeah, great for those being bullied or wanting to be themselves amidst a smaller group... or just not interested in the "organised fun" on offer
Lisa Nandy has also said - "A significant number of them say that they have no adult in the world who they would trust to help and support them. That is really, really concerning." (on the Today programme)
Why is this? Is it because intergenerational friendships are frowned upon? Because no adult wants to risk being anywhere near a child not their own unless it's carefully regulated and supervised? And children/young people have been made scared of any adult?
But, sure, a smattering of extra cash for some extra-curricula activities and browbeating the Teenagers for things outside their control... that'll help.
(£88m over 3 years - around £23m is new money for extra curricular activities in a handful of school and the rest for facility upgrades)
(I can't find it but I really want to attach that picture - a map showing where a child was allowed to wander now, for their parents and for their grandparents)
UK society was chasing teens out of public places when I was a teen, and that was 35+ years ago!
Successive governments have also clamped down hard on things like partydrugs and the rave scene, so it's hardly surprising today's youth are spending more time online, it's all they have left..
@vfrmedia Yeah... "Hoodies" were "the problem" when I was growing up (I think... things is the past are a bit... in the past) and that was a whole lot more racialised and, while the racial differences will still be there, I think the problems have ramped up for everyone
@vfrmedia moral panic and resulting persecution around teens has been a thing since teens. youth centres have always been an easy cut.
but for the party of ofsted, school league tables, asbos, mosquito alarms, and possibly other ageist acts to now be shedding crocodile tears about youth isolation. i am disgust. they did this, more than anyone.
In the U.S. it’s because youth are often criminalized and there aren’t really places outside the home for them to hang out/just exist without paying money. I imagine it’s the same in the UK.
The Tikvah Fund donated the money to translate into Hebrew and publish 'Bibi: My Story,' but the sum was wasn't reported as a political donation even though the book's release was moved up to the eve of the 2022 vote
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…
Please consider avoiding big US tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Twitter/X and Facebook/Meta if you care about Palestinian lives. All of them are complicit in the genocide. There are alternatives like Linux and the Fediverse.
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You could also just write a bash script, so anyone who starts working on the project can just run that script, and get setup automatically.
For web development, using Linux is also a no brainer. The vast majority of servers you website or webapp will run on in production is using a Linux distro.
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Israeli cleric Rabbi Ronen Shaulov called for the complete starvation of Gaza’s population, including children.“All of Gaza, and every child in Gaza should s...
When Texas Democrats fled to Illinois a few days ago in an effort to stop the state legislature from moving forward with redistricting efforts, they traveled there by private plane.
There are many people who totally lack introspection or perception. Case in point is the following Facebook post from a school "counselor" with SJW leanings.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ defense team has reached out to President Donald Trump seeking a pardon after his conviction on prostitution-related offenses, a source close to the legal team told NBC News on Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
I'm sure the mRNA bullshit that's been shoveled into people's heads over the last 5 years has nothing to do with genetics in the zeitgeist. It's clearly white supremacy.
Judicial Watch claimed the new pages, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, detailed Hale's "violent thoughts, the targeting and planning of the shooting attack on The Covenant School, and transgender-related obsessions."
“The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated…as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog.”
— U.S. President Harry S. Truman, diary entry for July 21, 1947
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going to be interesting what happens with the people who based their whole personality on climate-change-"i fucking love science"-queer-vegan-"right side of history"-supremacist instead of solid ethical foundations. what happens after the tide inevitably turns? what happens to the late 30s people who always dress like they are going to a festival but have a look on their face that isn't youthful happy, but old and sad?
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What the fuck
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in reply to Fou • • •“Even those who have been our friends are having a hard time defending the State of Israel,” Bennett wrote, adding that “Israel is being seen more and more as a liability and burden on the USA and Americans.”
Bennett attributed the worsening situation to the current Israeli government, which he has long criticized. He accused it of pursuing a chaotic and self-defeating foreign policy and claimed it is causing “terrible damage” while still failing to grasp “the magnitude of the disaster.”