"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

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Tall ship brings ESA ocean science training to Nice


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ESA’s ocean training expedition arrives in Nice

After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course. Braving everything from wild storms to calm near-freezing seas, students aboard mastered techniques for collecting ocean measurements and harnessed satellite data to unlock insights into our blue planet.

Led by experts, this real-world expedition offered more than education – it sparked curiosity and a deeper commitment to understanding and protecting our oceans.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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#geopolitics #war #annihilation

Ukraine could attack Russian bombers like sitting ducks because the New START treaty. That's why US nuclear bombers (B-1Bs, B-2s, B-52s) are also parked visibly at Diego Garcia and elsewhere; China, who didn't sign the treaty, hides its bombers away in underground concrete shelters.

So of course the US must feign ignorance, else it would obviously constitute unilateral break of a treaty, that could call for thermonuclear retaliation. That's how close we come to global annihilation but, hey, "the good guys scored a point". Morons.

Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdown


I'm a happy lemm.ee user and a mod of a small community hosted there. I'm also subscribed to a bunch of communities on lemm.ee. Sadly, they have just announced that they will be shutting it down. I understand that I can open an account on another instance and subscribe to the same communities. For my own community, I can probably re-create it on my new instance and DM every subscriber. But how do I find all the communities from lemm.ee in their new places? I'd like some practical advice.
in reply to Tad Lispy

The following communities have already an alternative on instances that I run:

  • !television@lemm.ee -> !television@metacritics.zone
  • !movies@lemm.ee -> !movies@metacritics.zone
  • !artporn@lemm.ee -> !artporn@sfw.community
  • !football@lemm.ee -> !football@soccer.forum
  • !keitrucks@lemm.ee -> !keitrucks@gearhead.town

All these instances have been running for close to two years and are part of the "topic-specific" network of servers that I set up to help during the migration.

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in reply to rglullis

!Television@lemm.ee, !movies@lemm.ee and !Football@lemm.ee have pinned post where the community members can vote where they want to go.

At the moment, for !television and !movies, sopuli.xyz is the proposition with the most votes.

Edit: !artporn@lemm.ee also has a meta discussion post.

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"Nucléaire : la relance de l’atome rejetée en commission à l’Assemblée à la suite d’un imbroglio


Mais un amendement de la députée (Isère, Parti socialiste, PS) Marie-Noëlle Battistel @BattistelMarie
a déposé, semble-t-il d’abord par erreur, un amendement supprimant la construction de six nouveaux EPR2 d’ici à 2026 et de huit autres ainsi qu’un petit réacteur modulaire d’ici à 2030. Elle a finalement maintenu cet amendement, qui a été adopté.
Le rapporteur du texte, le député (Haute-Savoie, Renaissance) et ancien ministre Antoine Armand @antoine_armand
, lui a alors signifié son erreur, l’invitant à retirer son amendement, mais celle-ci a finalement décidé de le maintenir. Il a donc été adopté, supprimant les objectifs de relance pour les cinq prochaines années."

#politique #cirque #énergie #souveraineté
xcancel.com/Thinker_View/statu…

Israel no longer hides its genocidal aims in Gaza. Will the world keep looking away? #Palestine 972mag.com/israel-no-longer-hi…

Liberalism flourished after WW2 due to the US's unparalleled economic advantage, which was built on the massive expansion of its industrial base during the war while the rest of the world burned.

The economic supremacy that legitimized western system has now faded and liberal democracies face a crisis of confidence while China's model is emerging as a successful alternative.

dialecticaldispatches.substack…

#geopolitics #china #usa #socialism

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in reply to Arindam

@Arindam I'm not saying USSR economy was inferior in nature, merely that the US had a massive head start. The US leveraged this advantageous position during the Cold War to pull of the world economy into its orbit which further shifted the balance of power in its favor.

The problem USSR had was that it was stuck in an ideological struggle with the US where countries were forced to pick bloc allegiance. China managed to avoid falling into that trap.

in reply to Yogthos

The advantageous position of the United States in 1945 was whittled away in the subsequent decades.. and furthermore, it didn't prevent the following:

The USA lost the first half of the Cold War

youtu.be/cK7CUy8PxRQ

(Not just Vietnam, but also the defeat of Pakistan by India in 1971 were indicative of declining American power).

The ideological struggle wasn't the problem - especially since the existence of the Non-Aligned Movement demonstrates that countries didn't have to pick sides. The problem was that the Soviets made a few critical mistakes (the Sino-Soviet split, the war in Afghanistan, the failure to push forward in IT, etc...) - and were subverted. The latter is of utmost importance.. and a key source on it is:

Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System

amazon.co.uk/Revolution-Above-…

Learning from the Soviet example, Beijing has avoided the mistakes - and has taken extraordinary care to avoid subversion.

Jeremy Scahill on what he learned from Hamas officials about the release of Edan Alexander #Palestine

For those on FA denying the fact that there were concentration camps during WWII.

WWII Veteran Recalls The Horrific Moment Of Discovering A Nazi Concentration Camp | Remember WWII

youtube.com/watch?v=LGWHf8Pe32…

This is the story of Bill Kongable who served in the 89th Infantry Div as a member of the anti-tank company. He went to war at 18 years of age & saw things that no one should ever see. His unit made an assault river crossing across the Rhine River...

in reply to HunDriverWidow

Check comments below the video:

My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only talked about what he had done a few weeks before he passed away aged 80 years old. RIP. My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only

تعاون استراتيجي مصري إيراني؟ نهاية عباس ودفن أوسلو؟ هل يشن ماكرون حملة صليبية ضد إسرائيل فعلا؟ thealtworld.substack.com/p/c0d

Voyager changed the default instance to lemmy.zip


cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/3785704…

chore: set default instance to lemmy.zip, remove lemm.ee

Thank you for all your work!

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lemmy - Link to source

Quicky

It’s not actually complying with UK law, it’s removing it from the equation so it doesn’t have to. I don’t begrudge the decision though, it will have been a difficult choice to make. That said, it’s a sledgehammer approach to self-censorship, as a response to an inability to comply.

Like I say, I don’t have an issue with Lemmy.zip being unavailable in the UK. But I do think it is potentially damaging for Fediverse uptake to promote a default instance that is unavailable to such a large number of users.

For comparison purposes, the UK easily has the second highest number of Reddit users by country. It is a remarkable decision to exclude that potential market by default.

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Dr. jur. Beate Sibylle Pfeil weist auf eine politische #Kunstperformance am 5. Juli 2025 in Karlsruhe hin.


Der Verein Pädagogen für #Menschenrechte e.V. möchte damit an die Übergriffe der #Corona -Maßnahmen auf #Kinder und #Jugendliche im deutschen #Bildungssystem erinnern.
pfm-ev.de/aktuelles/

#GesundheitsDiktatur #Covid #Betrug

In der "aktuellen Stunde zur Lage der transatlantischen Beziehungen" erklärte E. Demuth (CDU) gerade, man befinde sich mit den USA in einer "Wertegemeinschaft", auch wenn "einzelne Kritikpunkte" bestünden.

Es bleibt etwas offen, ob diese Union die Summe aus Trumpschem Rechtspopulismus, Gerichts- & Demokratieverachtung, illegalen Deportationen & Umverteilung von arm zu reich als kleine Einzelheiten betrachtet,
oder die Truppe um Merz, Frei, Spahn & Dobrindt darin die gemeinsamen Werte verortet.

L'institut allemand de sondage d'opinion Forsa déclare :
75 % des Allemands sont favorables à l’arrêt des livraisons d’armes à Israël en raison de sa guerre contre Gaza.
En Europe, on s’intéresse aux sondages d’opinion et on en tient compte.
L’arrêt de la fourniture d’armes européennes à Israël transforme l’armée israélienne en un tigre édenté.

Christina Zeringue remembers being 10 years old, looking to the sky through her new telescope to view the Moon and planets on Christmas night. It opened her eyes to space and inspired her journey from the backyard to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. “I became fascinated with astronomy and learning about […]

Shlomo Sand: De la rivière à la mer, tous peuvent être libres et égaux


#politique #Israël #Palestine

Shlomo Sand nous fait aujourd'hui l'honneur de participer au podcast. Historien, professeur à l'université de Tel Aviv, ses ouvrages font polémique depuis des décennies. A travers "Comment le peuple juif fut inventé", Sand revisite l'archéologie et les faits pour remettre en cause le mythe de l'Exil, fondement du sionisme et du retour à la terre d'Israël. Plus récemment, "Deux peuples pour un État ? Relire l’histoire du sionisme", Sand remet en cause la doxa de la politique des deux états. Il propose alors d'imaginer un Etat unitaire qui réunirait juifs et arabes sur une même terre, de la rivière à la mer, égaux en droits, et libres.


yewtu.be/watch?v=PcDgVzlP_DY

De l'extrême ouest à l'extrême est... d'Ankara à Tokyo, de Marrakech à Naplouse, de Jakarta au Caire... la terre tremble à répétition et à un rythme accéléré !

La punition pour « trahison » sera-t-elle un tremblement de terre majeur ? Pour que chacun puisse goûter un peu aux horreurs de Gaza, mais sans missiles ni bombardiers venus du ciel, mais depuis les profondeurs, là où Dieu lui ordonne d'avancer, pour qu'il s'élève, furieux et punitif ?!

C'est un nouveau scandale.

La France s’apprête à livrer des équipements militaires à Netanyahou.

Un cargo israélien fera escale demain à Fos-sur-Mer, près de Marseille.

Il transportera secrètement 14 tonnes de pièces détachées pour fusils mitrailleurs fabriquées par la société française Eurolinks. Des pièces qui doivent être livrées à l’entreprise d’armement Israel Military Industries.

Le président @EmmanuelMacron doit s'expliquer. La France ne peut être complice du génocide en cours en Palestine.

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#pdfeditor #linux #pdf

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00:26 KasmVNC: the best remote desktop option on Linux
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05:14 Manual Signature of a PDF
06:47 Digitally Signing a PDF
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How to edit a PDF document:

One tool that is probably already on your Linux desktop is LibreOffice Draw. It can open PDF documents, and edit them, as long as it's not an image.

If you're familiar with vector drawing programs, then Inkscape can also edit PDF documents. For more robust solutions, you have proprietary commercial solutions, including PDF Studio, Master PDF, Foxit PDF Editor, or WPS Office, but you'll have to pay for them.

How to manually sign a PDF:

Okular can actually do that. You can use the manual drawing tool to write your signature, or you can add the ability to paste an image on top of a document, but it's convoluted. You have to go to settings, toolbars shown, enable the quick annotations toolbar, then click the "configure button", click "Add", select the type "Stamp", and click the little button next to the "stamp symbol" field, to pick your own hand drawn signature that you previously saved as an image. Afterwards, you can just add that to any document in one click from that quick annotations toolbar.

You can also open the PDF document in LibreOffice Draw or the GIMP, and add your image signature this way.

How to digitally sign a PDF:

The easiest way is to use LibreOffice. Open the LibreOffice suite, click File, then digital signatures, and then "sign existing PDF", then the "sign document" button at the top. It will list all the available existing signatures and certificates you have installed on your device, and you can pick the one you want.

By default, LibreOffice will look into Mozilla Firefox's certificates list, so you'll have to put your certificate file there. To do so, open FIrefox, then the main menu, Preferences, Privacy and Security, and then "View Certificates". Then click on "authorities" and "Import", and then the "OK" button, and you're done.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)!

A simple option is GImageReader, an open source app that will let you import a document or image, and will recognize all the text inside, in a very large variety of languages. It can take a while to do its thing, but it works reliably, and it was able to extract text from scanned PDFs and images like a PNG.

If you prefer doing these tasks from the command line, then you have Tesseract OCR, which is actually what GImageReader uses in the background.

How to annotate a PDF:

Your best option is probably Xournal++. It lets you open PDF documents, and draw all over them. You can highlight text, add hand drawn notes, shapes, type some text. It can even handle equations and graphs, and has a very customizable interface.

How to modify pages, split and merge PDF documents:

If all you need is modifying the pages in a PDF document, like reordering them, or deleting them, then you have PDF Arranger, a simple GNOME app that will run on any Linux desktop, and is available on Flathub.

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Gaza: Hospitals receive 40 martyrs, death toll climbs to 54,510 #Palestine english.palinfo.com/news/2025/…

Monsieur Retailleau,

La loi définit l'injure raciste comme « toute expression outrageante, terme de mépris ou invective adressé à une personne ou à un groupe à raison de leur origine ou de leur appartenance à une ethnie, une nation, une prétendue race ou une religion déterminée ».

Quand vous dites que « le vote musulman » est antisémite, vous rentrez exactement dans cette définition en outrangeant un groupe en raison de sa religion.

Retirez vos propos. Et partez avec.

I'm sad to see so many posts mocking the use of #ContentWarnings. They're rarely used, but somehow people act like it's a major violation of their Freedums.

Have you had real, deep, lasts-for-years trauma? If you have, you might understand why a heads-up can be a welcome relief from the onslaught of triggers streaming from the media.

Flashbacks are not something you should wish on anyone, even if you Haven't had trauma yourself. Content Warnings help prevent them, period. Don't be a jag.

@VaylLarkinPoet@disabled.social But there's real societal value in learning to cope with one's triggers. I am triggered by things every day both on the fediverse and in real life and it is a valuable life skill to learn how to cope. I can't go around to people around me and ask them to change their behavior simply because I find something they do triggering.
We have no choice over what happens to us in life sometimes.But we have the choice in how we choose to respond. I'm a firm believer in that. That being said, if I know that something I'm doing bothers somebody I'm not going to be a dick and continue to do it if I don't need to.


I'm sad to see so many posts mocking the use of #ContentWarnings. They're rarely used, but somehow people act like it's a major violation of their Freedums.

Have you had real, deep, lasts-for-years trauma? If you have, you might understand why a heads-up can be a welcome relief from the onslaught of triggers streaming from the media.

Flashbacks are not something you should wish on anyone, even if you Haven't had trauma yourself. Content Warnings help prevent them, period. Don't be a jag.


During his visit to Europe, Graham told reporters that a Russian victory in Ukraine would be worse than the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.

Lindsey is getting desperate.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/w…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is vowing to unmask every single ICE agent. Is he trying to get them killed?

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/d…

Etwa ein Viertel des Bundestags besteht aus einer rechtsextremen Partei, die die Demokratie abschaffen will und gegen einen völkischen Faschismus ersetzen möchte.
Aber sie tragen Anzug!

Was dagegen gar nicht geht?
Eine Frau die den Schriftzug mit dem Namen eines Landes auf dem TShirt trägt, dessen Volk gerade Opfer eines Genozids wird.

>>Bundestagspräsidentin Klöckner hat die Linken-Abgeordnete Köktürk wegen eines "Palestine"-Shirts aus dem Plenarsaal verwiesen.<<
tagesschau.de/inland/bundestag…

in reply to stephie

Was im Bundestag nicht geht: Den Aufdruck des Landes, dass gerade Opfer eines Genozids wird auf dem TShirt haben, weil das eine politische Botschaft sei.

Was im Bundestag geht:
Politische Botschaften als Symbol an der Kleidung tragen und
flammende Appelle dafür halten, weiter Waffen für einen Genozid zu liefern. Hochrangige Vertreter des Landes im Bundestag willkommen heißen, die gerade einen Genozid durchführen.

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in reply to stephie

>>Weil Cansin Köktürk ein "Palestine"-T-Shirt im Bundestag trug, verwies die Bundestagspräsidentin die Abgeordnete des Plenarsaals. Von der Hausordnung dürfte das gedeckt sein – doch bindet Klöckner sich mit diesen Maßstäben selbst.<<
lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/b…
in reply to stephie

Ein T-Shirt mit der Aufschrift Palestine kann ein politisches Statement sein, muss aber nicht.
Wenns denn als Statement empfunden wird, dann nur weil mit unterschiedlichen Maßstäben gemessen wird.
Wenn man sich zum Beispiel für eine Zweistaatenlösung einsetzt und zum Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Völker steht, wäre aus meiner sicht recht unproblematisch ein T-Shirt zu tragen auf dem ein Land steht, was es wie andere eben auch gibt.
in reply to stephie

Frau Klöckner hat sich aber anders entschieden - und die Hausordnung so ausgelegt, dass die Aufschrift "Palestine" nicht zulässig ist, weil politische Symbole verboten seien.

Nur - so führt der Artikel der LTO aus - muss dann diese Regel für alle derartigen Symbole gelten: Genauso auch für Anstecker, mit ukrainischer Flagge, mit israelischer Flagge, oder auch die gelben Schleifen usw. usw.

Wenn man das nicht will - ja dann müsste auch ein Shirt mit der Aufschrift Palestine kein Problem sein.

in reply to stephie

>>Die Grenzen des Tragbaren.
Mitglieder des Bundestages nutzen nicht selten ihre Kleider, um Aufmerksamkeit auf ein Thema zu lenken. Doch als Cansin Kökturk sie nutzte, um Solidarität mit den Menschen in Palästina auszudrücken, ging das dem Haus wohl zu weit<<

jacobin.de/artikel/bundestag-g…

in reply to stephie

Man muss ja auch nicht jeder Provokation eine Bühne geben. Die AfD geilt sich an diesen Beanstandungen ja meistens auf.
Fände es besser, wenn sowas "im Stillen" einfach angezeigt, verfolgt, und dann auch entsprechend bestraft wird. Zumindest bei solchen dingen, die noch nicht einmal die eigenen Anhänger mitbekommen. Bin mir relativ sicher, dass maximal eine Handvoll Menschen von "Mitte bis rechts außen" das mitbekommen haben, also wenn man die Politiker selbst abzieht...
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in reply to Klaus Frank

Habe noch nicht einen Sympathisanten gesehen, der auch nur eine einzige Rede eines AfD Politikers im Bundestag vollständig und ungeschnitten aufmerksam verfolgt hat.

Maximal haben die Ausschnitte aus dem Fernsehen, Facebook, X, oder TikTok gesehen. Und wenn man sich die dann zeigen lässt, kann man teils sehr schnell sehr gut nachvollziehen wie die ein komplett anderes Bild von der Partei bekommen.

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in reply to Klaus Frank

@agowa338

Nun das Tragen von Symbolen hat ja immer die Aufgabe zu symbolisieren, etwas auszudrücken und manchmal auch zu provozieren. Rechte wissen meistens sehr gut, wie sie durch gewisse Symbole (Bildlich, Sprachlich usw.) bestimmte Dinge ausdrücken zu wollen um zu provozieren. Hinterher zu bestrafen - vor allem wenn es sich um verfassunsgfeindliche Symbole handelt - mag eine Option sein. Der Politiker der sich mit Symbol ablichten lässt, und das ungestört hilft Rechten allerdings auch.

Heidelberg Materials confirms supplying controversial projects in occupied Western Sahara #WesternSahara wsrw.org/en/news/heidelberg-ma…
in reply to Henning Deters

In my lay understanding, an AI's performance dramatically deteriorates when it is trained on its own output ("model collapse"). To the extent that the web gets flooded with AI slop, genAI is "poisoning the well". There's an eerie parallel here with Steve Bannon's hard-right maxim of "flooding the zone with shit". The point of this discursive strategy is to undermine the basis for reasonable debate, so all statements seem equally (im-)plausible and the audience becomes more responsive to cues.
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Early in-person voting began Tuesday in the New Jersey primaries to decide the state's next governor, with Republicans hoping to flip a blue-state governorship after coming up short in 2024.

justthenews.com/politics-polic…

Trump is now shocked that China, holding all the cards, isn't keen to make a deal on his terms. 😆

cnbc.com/2025/06/04/trump-says…

#usa #china #tradewar #clownworld

I'm a fan of naturally aspirated V8's but this guy is interesting. His cars are way out of my price range - not that I would buy one if I had that kind of cash...

BTW: I looked at a 1975 Buick LeSabre Coupe Convertible with a 455 yesterday... totally 70's survivor. "majestic blue paint with white vinyl seats... Still had the old 8 Track player installed. LOL. it wasn't pimped out so it was still cool... didn't buy tho. They wanted $21,000.

Lili Villarreal fell in love with space exploration from an early age when her and her family visited the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. So, it should come as no surprise that when the opportunity came for her to start working on NASA’s Artemis missions to return the next humans to the Moon, she jumped at it.

Deutschlands Gaza-Kehrtwende kommt 56.000 Tote zu spät

jacobin.de/artikel/gaza-israel…

#israel #gaza #krieg