NewsX World (India): Russia Stalls Istanbul Peace Summit, Will Istanbul Talks Fail? gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p…

In the backstory bible for the world in which most of my stories take place, I have a thing called "The Blight". It is an agent of Oblivion and serves to bring all of reality back to absolute zero, no heat, no light, no movement, no time. It undoes creation.
But I'm left unable to name its opposite. What do you call everywhere, everywhen, every thought, every color, infinitely bright and hot, teeming with immortal life?
What's the opposite of a naked singularity?
Ubiquity?
Omnilarity?
What do you call the thing that starts The Big Bang?
What is the first tick of forward in time called?

I don't even know what hashtags to put on this but it's appreciate any suggestions for terms to use.
I know you must pass through The Gleam to find it but The Gleam is not of it. The Gleam is the shining world while what lies beyond is blazing.

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Flash Floods Kill at Least 115 in Central Nigeria tn.ai/3324756

1,7 Millionen Kinder aus der #Armut geholt: #UNICEF-Vertreter lobt #Milei - #Regierung


Laut einem UNICEF-Vertreter konnten 2024 1,7 Millionen argentinische Kinder aus der Armut befreit werden. Dabei lobt er die Milei-Regierung: Bestimmte Maßnahmen hätten die Kinderarmut zurückgedrängt.

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Federal officials to vet social media accounts of visa applicants headed to Harvard haaretz.com/us-news/2025-05-31…

Israeli strikes kill one civilian, injure three others in western Syria presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/31/7…

Climate inaction is causing glacier collapse. In this case the entire village of Blatten was wiped off the map. Huge implications for fresh water supplies too and life on the planet more generally.

" If global warming does not stay within the 1.5C rise agreed in the Paris climate accord, glaciologists believe most of Switzerland’s glaciers will be gone by the end of this century."

#Climate #ClimateDiary #switzerland #GlobalWarming

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'mRNA COVID vaccines caused 74% deaths…': Dr McCullough's chilling revelation at Senate hearing

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Started streaming on May 26, 2025 #economictimes #latestnews #ET
On May 21, the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a crucial hearing titled "The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated with the COVID-19 Vaccines." Top medical experts and legal ...

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voices testified, including Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Jordan Vaughn, Dr. James Thorp, Dr. Joel Wallskog, Attorney Aaron Siri and Hawaii Governor Josh Green. Dr. McCullough presented findings from a large autopsy series, stating that in 73.9% of examined post-vaccine deaths, mRNA COVID vaccines were considered the likely cause—a claim that has sparked intense debate in the medical community.

Unmasking Syria’s War—Truth, Propaganda & Power Games thewallwillfall.org/2025/05/30…

Hey Mastodon,

I need a big favor. My friend @Aseelsehwel lives in Gaza, & she & her brother are currently trying to raise money to feed their family, care for their father who is suffering from kidney complications, & eventually leave Gaza for Egypt. They are a family of 6 & it looks like their estimated costs to cover everything would be $50,000.00. So far they are at $30,360.00, can we try to get them over the finish line? Here is a link to their GoFundMe:

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@mutualaid

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So, to begin with, Debian 12 moves away from its pure "FOSS" roots. Debian 12 now enables the non-free firmware repo by default IF Debian detects you'll need it on your computer. Just know it's possible to disable this during the boot process.

Debian 12 actually splits non free software into 2 different repos: non-free, which is for packages and apps that don't conform to Debian's guidelines on free and open source software, and non free firmware, which is the same thing, but specifically for drivers and firmware.

Debian isn't generally known for shipping the very latest and greatest desktop environments, but Debian 12 isn't far off. For Plasma users, you get the very latest, KDE 5.27, with all its bug fixes and updates, which means you're not missing out on anything.

If you were using Debian 11, you were using KDE 5.20, so you're jumping a full 7 versions ahead, which means your experience will be drastically better, whatever your use case.

If you're a GNOME user, you'll get GNOME 43, which isn't the latest, but GNOME 44 wasn't a huge update by any means. If you were using Debian 11, you were on GNOME 3.38, which means you'll get a whole 4 new versions worth of features, support, performance improvements.

Of course, Debian 12 also updates virtually every single package and app they ship. You get the LTS kernel version 6.1, and you get the Mesa drivers 22.3, and the nvidia drivers 525.

All in all, 67% of packages were updated from Debian 11, and the repos now include 11000 new packages as well, for a total of more than 64 000.

Of course, Debian 12 isn't a desktop for everyone. If your use case is "I like using the very latest thing", then obviously, it's not for you. If you want the most beginner friendly distro, while Debian isn't a bad choice; it's also not the easiest. If you want to game on Linux, Debian will also not be your first choice.

In the past, I would never have recommended Debian Stable as a desktop for most users. It was too old, too outdated, the older applications in its repos were just not a great experience, and Flatpak wasn't super well supported. Older desktop environments were also lackluster, as each new release brought some crucial improvements that you really couldn't do without.

With the maturity of formats like Flatpak, snaps or AppImages, you don't have to care about what versions of apps are in your repos. If you need something newer, you can get it, without adding a third party repo that might mess up your system's dependencies and shared libraries.

And desktop environments on Linux are now very mature, which means using a 6 month to 2 year old desktop isn't a dealbreaker anymore.

And of course, Debian stable won't be for everyone. Tinkerers, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and people who like to game won't find what they want in Debian 12. But for anyone who just wants a computer that works reliably, day after day, without failed updates or stuff that randomly breaks, Debian 12 is an obvious choice. In terms of combining stability, software availability, and now, hardware support, nothing comes close.

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Qassam, Saraya al-Quds strike collaborationist forces in Southern Gaza english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

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