UN chief highlights role of UN peace operations
UN chief highlights role of UN peace operations-english.news.cn
UN chief highlights role of UN peace operations-english.news.cn
AMAZING: President Trump Receives an Absolutely EPIC Welcome to Qatar and Proceeds to Strike Two Huge Economic Deals – Jealous Democrats Plan a Pathetic Response (VIDEO)
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President Trump is absolutely delivering for Americans during his overseas trip to Qatar, a small country that is a critical partner in the Middle East, which appreciates his presence.Cullen Linebarger (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
⚠️ Change your Steam Password ⚠️
89,000,000 usernames, passwords, and 2-step verification codes have been leaked.
After changing your password, you may wish to reset your 2-step code too.
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#Steam #SteamPowered #Game #Gaming
Daniel De Leon: Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Changes since congestion pricing started in New York
Link: nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…
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Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.Emily Badger (The New York Times)
"Wikipedia has no consistent editorial voice or political platform — it is reality as captured by others and summarized by volunteers. As such, efforts to censor it reveal a specific form of insecurity about education and information."
via @ethanz
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Ryan McGrady writes that you can learn a lot about a state's view on free expression by how it treats Wikipedia.Ryan McGrady (Tech Policy Press)
EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide.
It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people.
It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban!
We need seven countries past their thresholds AND at least 1,000,000 total votes. Countries lacking enough votes:
- #austria (30.97%)
- #denmark (50.36%)
- #estonia (23.83%)\
- #germany (62.37%)
- #greece (14.76%)
- #italy (41.19%)
- #poland (19.14%)
- #portugal (29.27%)
- #romania (32.54%)
- #Slovenia (96.44%)
- #sweden (58.7%)
We're at 566,000 / 1,000,000 for total votes — 56.6%
We need one more country past the threshold (we're at 6/7) and another 434,000 votes.
So keep signing & voting!
Spyware developer NSO Group was ordered to pay WhatsApp nearly $168 million in damages over targeting approximately 1,400 users with spyware, including journalists.
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The lawsuit also reveals more about how NSO Group executed its attacks on WhatsApp users, including journalists.Freedom of the Press
A very fun toy:
Go to a UK location. A delightful spidermap of the nine closest branches of Greggs is generated. Move around and the visualisation smoothly adjusts too.
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This is a timesink.
I'm facilitating an Open Space at #PyConUS:
Beautiful Soup: Ask Me Anything
Sun. May 18th; 2-3pm
An open questions session with @leonardr, the maintainer of screen-scraping library #BeautifulSoup. If you've ever used or tried to use it, share your questions, confusions, stuff you've made, concerns, ideas, offers of help, etc. with Leonard in person. If we don't have a ton of questions, we might do some impromptu usability testing to check whether the new type hints help you use the library.
Vladimir Putin offers peace talks, Zelensky and his western backers want a truce. And Trump appears to want to wash his hands of the Ukraine project. Ukraine was offered a very generous deal back in 2...Odysee
Connecting the Pacific Ocean with the land, the California Coastal National Monument provides unique coastal habitat for marine-dependent wildlife and vegetation on more than 20,000 rocks, islands, exposed reefs and pinnacles along the California coa…Bureau of Land Management
Trump Triumphs in Doha: US Secures Largest Aerospace and Defense Investment in History
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The critics said he was a showman.open.substack.com
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) — A combined tactical drill of special operations sub-units for surpassing the standards for an all-mission battalion and a match and joint fire strike drill demonstration of tankmen’s sub-units were held on May 13 as a demon…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Journaliste paresseux ou incompétent ? Journaliste voulant me nuire indiscutablement, sous couvert d'anonymat ou pas (n'est-ce pas Frédéric Haziza), vous auriez pu "enquêter" et vous auriez découvert que deux manifestations différentes, à des heures différentes, ont eu lieu le 8 mai.
#politique #merdias #désinformation #propagande
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Attaché : 1 image 1/7 Sophia Chikirou écrit dur X : Je demande au Canard Enchaine de rectifier immédiatement ses publications m'accusant d'avoir pris part à une manif "pro-poutine".Piaille
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Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges
Link: github.com/git-bug/git-bug
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git - git-bug/git-bugGitHub
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book summary
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"fraudulent and usurious"
usury, huh? like the shit jesus fought against and died for? remind me..who killed jesus?
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"has allowed a small group of money-lenders[..]to accumulate immense power."
thomas warned us..
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"manipulated governments, instigated wars[..]control over banking."
yes, buy bitcoin, because everything else is slavery
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Mao Zedong: Our dictatorship is the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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I truly hope that the Trump administration corrects the Biden administration’s mistakes, abandons the lawyer-dependent framework, and quickly gets these brave veterans the compensation they deeply deserve.Newt Gingrich (Gingrich 360)
Pars Today –Iran’s Minister of Oil, Mohsen Paknejad, in a meeting with Iraq’s Minister of Electricity, Ziyad Ali Fadel, emphasized strengthening strategic...Pars Today
I created a simple Bash script that will always disable the default/internal monitor on your laptop when using AR glasses (or any other external monitor). I find this useful for when using AR glasses such as the XReal One which allows you to change the mode from regular mode to ultra-wide mode and when doing this, it will act as your unplugging the XReal ones and plugging in XReal one again in a new mode, causing the interal laptop display to become enabled.
To keep the laptop display always off, weather the laptop lid is either closed or open, this simple bash script will always disable the laptop screen every X seconds (You can change it by changing the wait
variable)
Simply copy this script and create a new bash script such as disable-display.sh
, make the script file executable and add it to your startup applications and it will run in the background. You will need to run xrandr
command with all of your displays enabled to get the names of the displays and change the variable names in the script accordingly.
NOTE: This script may not work with a full Wayland setup and may only work on X11.
Enjoy
\#!/bin/bash
\#RUN xrandr TO GET THE NAMES OF THE DISPLAYS AND SET THE VARIABLES TO THESE NAMES
readonly default_display="eDP"
readonly external_display="USB-C-0"
readonly wait=5
while true; do
#Check if there is an external display connected
if xrandr | grep -q "$external_display connected"; then
#Disable the internal display
xrandr --output $default_display --off
fi
sleep $wait
done
What company do you work for in XR?
I got the XReal One as a portable ergonomic monitor and I may use them as my main monitor going forward. I have a sit/stand desk with monitor arms which I can adjust the height and position for an ergonomic design to always look straight at the monitor and not looking down.
From my research currently the XReal Ones are the best AR/XR glasses on the market due to the chip built into them, not needing any other devices or software to run, just plug in play. The XReal One Pros which I think are coming out soon have some better specs but to me, not worth the extra money.
I been using them for regular desktop/laptop task and coding and I prefer to use the anchor mode when doing this. I sometimes also use the ultra-wide mode to simulate 2 monitors. I also been using them for gaming and I will either have it in follow or anchor mode but never use ultra-wide mode for gaming.
Mine, we're one in it, me ;)
Interesting, thanks for sharing the use cases and clarifying your choices.
I do also have a standing desk with a relatively large screen on a monitor arm. I also have a walking pad under the standing desk. The goal being to ergonomically have as much freedom as possible while still being efficient.
I did try the XReal months ago but I don't think I tried the Pro.
Otherwise I worked with pretty much everything (Google Glass, Vision Pro, Quest (all models), Monocle/Frames, my own DIY ones, etc) but my main focus is WebXR and 6DoF, so not really replacing a screen. I do understand it is useful, and sometimes as I travel I use the Quest 3 or Vision Pro to work in there but that's typically a temporary measure. My professional perspective is that 6DoF with hand tracking and accessories (6DoF pens, BT keyboard, etc) is the most novel way to interact with information hence why I build open-source WebXR prototypes on that topic.
"Was alle Unterzeichner der JDA gemeinsam haben: Es handelt sich um hoch angesehene, größtent. jüdische Wissenschaftler mit relevanter Expertise in den Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaften sowie der Rechtswissenschaft.
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Die JDA entstand aus der Erkenntnis, dass die frühere IHRA-Definition von 2016 Verwirrung stiftet, während sie Stimmen von Palästinensern & anderen – auch Juden –, die #Israel & Zionismus scharf kritisieren, delegitimiert."
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Die Linke hat sich gegen die in Deutschland übliche Definition von Antisemitismus gestellt und damit viel Kritik auf sich gezogen. Tatsächlich zeigt die Partei, dass sie jüdischen Pluralismus respektiert. Andere sollten ihrem Beispiel folgen.Itamar Mann (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
"Die #Linke verdient Anerkennung dafür, dass sie klarstellt: Der Kampf gegen #Antisemitismus darf nicht auf Kosten der intellektuellen und politischen Freiheit geführt werden – und nicht auf Kosten einer Reduktion jüdischer Identität auf eine einzelne, regierungskonforme Stimme.
Wer sich mit jüdischer Geschichte auskennt, weiß, dass Zionismus, Nicht-Zionismus und sogar Antizionismus seit Langem Strömungen innerhalb jüdischen Denkens und politischen Lebens sind."
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Die Linke hat sich gegen die in Deutschland übliche Definition von Antisemitismus gestellt und damit viel Kritik auf sich gezogen. Tatsächlich zeigt die Partei, dass sie jüdischen Pluralismus respektiert. Andere sollten ihrem Beispiel folgen.Itamar Mann (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
This answer had to get serious because the question was serious. WATCH NEXT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY3bLzm6Q4A&list=PLxinf-OoR9oXer8mU6Yv1g2_u6muM6...YouTube
Brian Berletic- Division of Labor + Contempt for Democracy: Germany Vows to Take Ukraine Military Support Out of Public Eyethealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
BREAKING: 🚨 URSULA VON DER LEYEN IN SERIOUS TROUBLE — EU COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF PFIZER TEXTS 🚨
🔴 After 4 years of cover-ups, lawsuits, and “investigations” — the European Court of Justice has ruled:
🗣️ The EU Commission MUST release Ursula von der Leyen’s private texts with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.
🔴 These messages contain the secret "negotiations" for a €35 BILLION vaccine deal — paid for by you, the taxpayer.
🔥 IT GETS WORSE 🔥
💰 Investigate Europe reports the price per dose was 15x the cost of production — meaning billions may have been overpaid.
👀 Bourla skipped his EU Parliament testimony in 2022.
💉 Von der Leyen’s husband? Medical Director of Orgenesis — a biotech firm funded by the EU, partnered with... Pfizer.
📢 WHAT THIS MEANS:
⚠️ Potential corruption at the highest levels of the EU.
⚠️ Conflicts of interest that directly benefited von der Leyen’s own family.
⚠️ Billions in public money — possibly funneled through backdoor deals.
💥 This isn’t negligence.
💥 This isn’t incompetence.
💥 This smells like fraud — on a continental scale.
🚨 SHE’S BEEN CAUGHT — AND EUROPE IS WATCHING. RELEASE THE TEXTS. 🚨
In Kiev Region, a school director in one of the schools has been dismissed for using the Russian language in conversations with schoolchildren, parents and at public events.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
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Alahednews - Fastnews - Saree: We call on all the nations to stand up in honor, rejecting the genocide against their brothers as well as starvation and siege.english.alahednews.news
EPA Chief Lee Zeldin this week announced his agency is getting rid of the ‘start/stop’ technology where your car dies at every red light.
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EPA Chief Lee Zeldin this week announced his agency is getting rid of the ‘start/stop’ technology where your car dies at every red light.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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I wonder what authors feel like when life begins to imitate the art that they create or the stories they write.
Take @pluralistic's work, for example. Today I found out that some activists dumped paint and butyric acid on the building that Microsoft inhabits in Berlin, which was one of the things that was mentioned in Doctorow's latest work, Picks & Shovels (although in a different context).
And of course, there was the whole Luigi thing with the UHC CEO from Radicalized, although that story was written several years prior.
Or heck, pretty much anything written by those early dystopian authors who theorized a dark world that has, by and large, come to pass. I don't mean to pick on Cory Doctorow, by any means; he just happens to be the most recent author in my sphere of consciousness who has had several ideas from his books "brought to life" in recent memory.
Now, I certainly wouldn't hold authors or artists responsible for the actions performed by the people that internalize their work on a visceral level into extreme actions (unless that art specifically says in no uncertain terms, "I want you to do this") but as most art has a point or an idea that the artist wishes to communicate, I wonder what kind of inner turmoil the creator might feel when the more extreme actions are acted out in the real world based on those ideas that the artist proffered.
Seems to me like it could go either way: either feeling the crushing weight of the responsibility for the art they create and how someone might interpret it or the "hey, I'm just sayin' what we're all thinkin'" kind of abdication of that responsibility which, in many cases, is not an invalid point to make. How does one balance that out, I wonder?
Rosa Luxemburg: Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
The Cryptography Behind Passkeys
Link: blog.trailofbits.com/2025/05/1…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
This post will examine the cryptography behind passkeys, the guarantees they do or do not give, and interesting cryptographic things you can do with them, such as generating cryptographic keys and storing certificates.The Trail of Bits Blog
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) is deeply grieved at the demise of Comrade Nepaldeb Bhattacharya, senior trade union leader, President of All India Road Transport Workers Federation and All India Working Committee member of CITU.Centre of Indian Trade Unions
This Hubble image peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located more than 50 million light-years from Earth.NASA Hubble Mission Team (NASA Science)
Dedicated to Greasy NewSCUM
Der Fuehrer's Face
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From the 1942 Disney production of the same name.Words and music by Oliver Wallace.Lyrics1. Ven Der Fuehrer says, "Ve iss der Master Race"Ve Heil, Heil right...YouTube
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has bucked the Democratic Party on key issues since assuming office in 2022.Deirdre Heavey (Fox News)
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that the death toll from Israel’s military offensive has risen to 52,908 since October 2023, with 119,721teleSURenglish
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
Smartphones are listening to you, here is how to stop them « Euro Weekly News
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Have you ever just had a family dinner conversation over a group holiday or spoken with friends about going to Ibiza to party, and minutes later…Olivier Acuña Barba (Euro Weekly News)
United Nations relief chief Tom Fletcher said that an aid alternative proposed by Israel and backed by the United States is a ‘cynical sideshow’ aimed at turning starvation in the Gaza Strip into a bargaining chip.IRNA English
‼️Language from the 2024 nonprofit killer bill was approved in House budget-reconciliation this morning 👎
We name some of the risks of this "terribly thought-out" legislation to vulnerable communities:
What is clear is that, based on his previous threats, Trump will use this law to revoke the tax-exempt status for groups he views as political foes.
#nonprofitkillerbill #resistTrump #nonprofits #freespeech #resistfascism
Keep making as much noise about this as possible! ✊
Pastor to remain behind bars after alleged bail violation for brief stop at church service
Pastor Derek Reimer will remain behind bars until May 22 after he stopped to attend a church service being held at the courthouse by his supporters, an act police allege was a breach of his bail conditions.
_RFK Jr. Says Trump Just Did What No Democrat Ever Had the Guts to Do_
FTA: It was a moment you’ll remember for decades. Standing before reporters and his healthcare team, President Trump announced the most aggressive move on drug pricing America has ever seen. The plan? To cut prescription drug costs by up to 90%—a direct strike against the industry that’s drained American families dry for years.
“Starting today, the United States will no longer subsidize the health care of foreign countries, which is what we were doing,” Trump said. “We were subsidizing others’ health care, countries where they paid a small fraction of what for the same drug that what we pay many, many times more for.”
This wasn’t just about reining in corporate greed. Trump laid it out clearly: this was a global scam, and America was the one footing the bill.
“And [we] will no longer tolerate profiteering and price gouging from Big Pharma,” he added. “But again, it was really the countries that forced Big Pharma to do things that frankly, I’m not sure they really felt comfortable doing, but they’ve gotten away with it, these countries, European Union has been brutal, brutal.”
Trump promised that would change. “So for the first time in many years, we’ll slash the cost of prescription drugs and we will bring fairness to America.”
How much cheaper? “If you think of a drug that is sometimes ten times more expensive, it’s much more than the 59%… but between 59 and 80, and I guess even 90%.”
"Then came the reveal that changed everything. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood beside the president and exposed one of Washington’s best-kept secrets. It wasn’t just corruption—it was betrayal.
“This is an extraordinary day,” Kennedy began. “This is an issue that, you know, I grew up in the Democratic Party, and every major Democratic leader for 20 years has been making this promise to the American people.”
He pointed straight to Bernie Sanders, who made drug pricing the core of his presidential campaigns. “This was the fulcrum of Bernie Sanders runs for presidency, that he was going to eliminate this discrepancy between Europe and the United States.”
But none of them actually meant to fix it."
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This might be the biggest shake-up in American healthcare history.The Vigilant Fox
London (Quds News Network)- UK government lawyers have claimed that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza or deliberately targeting women and children, as a high court case opened into the handlinEditing Team (Quds News Network)
BREAKING: Goldman Sachs, $GS, will pay a $1.45 million civil fine to settle a inaccurate reporting for billions of stock trades.
FINRA said that coding errors at Goldman led to inaccurate reporting of 36.6 billion trades to the CAT Central Repository, which helps the regulator
One must marvel at how successfully neoliberalism convinced people that most bad things are just complicated good things.
Pollution? Complicated business.
Robber barons? Complicated prosperity.
Market manipulation? Complicated inflation.
Genocide? Complicated self-defense.
Corruption? Complicated entrepreneurship.
Eugenics? Complicated brunch.
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Linux Is Best
in reply to Linux Is Best • • •If you do not use a password manager, now is a good time to consider using one. Here are two (2) that are outside Us Jurisdiction.
Heylogin, located in Germany, Europe heylogin.com
Note: This password manager is tied to your hardware.
pCloud, located in Switzerland / Bulgaria, Europe pcloud.com/pass.html
Note: Use a VPN when first signing up to ensure your data is saved on their Europe Servers. You can see a copy of the documentation here: docs.pcloud.com
heylogin
www.heylogin.comThibaultmol 🌈 🔜@WHY2025
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in reply to Linux Is Best • • •Luna Sylveon
in reply to Linux Is Best • • •#1 iptables hater
in reply to Linux Is Best • • •the article makes no mention of usernames or passwords being leaked. and while a leak of phone numbers is obviously a problem, historical sms 2fa codes are, well, historical and aren't an active risk to account security
steam's authentication process never even sends a plaintext password to the backend if i remember right, so they definitely know how to do account security and not to store plaintext passwords
no need for unnecessary fear mongering
cthos 🐱
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in reply to Linux Is Best • • •my steam account and bank account share a password
muxelplexer
in reply to Linux Is Best • • •tbf - this is not as big of a panic moment as it may seem. This is only historic OTP data. Steam Guard seems to be as funxtional as when Gaben fave out his password/mail combo couple years ago to prove the point of otp codes.
Id expect more targetted phishing with the phone numbers though
Bizcochito
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in reply to Linux Is Best • • •Valve denies it, and said they don't use twilio (the service that was said to have been involved in the leak).
Moreover, the guy who put out the news has considerably downplayed it in the last few hours. It is possible that there was never any leak.
scrottie (he/him/they)
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in reply to Linux Is Best • • •@davewoodx
Please stop.
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Dan Goodin (@dangoodin@infosec.exchange)
Infosec ExchangeEemon
in reply to Linux Is Best • • •Nazo
in reply to Linux Is Best • • •Looks like it's probably just 2FA info -- specifically SMS 2FA numbers -- that got leaked probably. If anyone is using SMS 2FA, they definitely should do something about it.
I won't disagree that changing passwords just to be on the safe side is a good idea though. I disagree with those who so adamantly insist that even though there is evidence of a breach of some kind we should just ignore it just because it's not immediately showing signs of including passwords.
Kanon
in reply to Linux Is Best • • •It seems there is an update.
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…
Ikani
in reply to Linux Is Best • • •Anyway, that's a long-winded way of saying I think you should update the post, but fully support pushing people to update passwords. ^^
Significant Otter
in reply to Linux Is Best • • •Thanks for the heads up!
Changing my password was made extremely difficult by the way. I use steamguard-cli and ente Auth for 2FA but steam insisted on sending me a code to the app. I had to jump through many hoops to end up at email verification again.
The 2FA had to be fully removed before I could change my pw 😅