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A Signal Flare for Strengthening the Navy of the DPRK-from Voice of Korea #DPRK kfauk.com/a-signal-flare-for-s…

A Signal Flare for Strengthening the Navy of the DPRK-from Voice of Korea - KFAUK.com

        From Voice of Korea.   http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee250507002/57/en The hostile forces have formed an aggressive military bloc and been conducting military exercises of different code names around the Korean peninsula, stra…
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New from 404 Media: the IRS tax filing software Turbotax tried to kill just got opened source. Available on Github, people are forking it

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The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."
Jason Koebler (404 Media)

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I appreciate this piece, but I want to correct the record on one point. I don't talk about LLMs as making "collages" but rather as making papier-mâché, and the difference matters!

theguardian.com/technology/202…

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Screencap from linked article, with text: "Emily M Bender, professor of linguistics at the University of Washington and co-author of a new book, The AI Con, has many reasons why she doesn’t want to use large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. “But maybe the first one is that I’m not interested in reading something that nobody wrote,” she says. “I read because I want to understand how somebody sees something, and there’s no ‘somebody’ inside the synthetic text-extruding machines.” It’s just a collage made from lots of different people’s words, she says. Does she feel she is being “left behind”, as AI enthusiasts would say? “No, not at all. My reaction to that is, ‘Where’s everybody going?’” She laughs as if to say: nowhere good."

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home

Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it
Emine Saner (The Guardian)
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

When an artist uses materials with text on them to create a collage, it's natural to assume that they chose the materials in part for the meaning of the text they include. Papier-mâché, on the other hand, uses paper (usually newsprint) simply for its physical properties. The text is incidental.

I use this metaphor to highlight, yet again, that LLMs don't work with the meaning of the text they process & extrude -- just the form.

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"As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initially planned to sail from Malta last month, but the group’s ship was damaged in a drone attack. The new mission includes the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who speaks with Democracy Now! live from the Madleen."

democracynow.org/2025/6/4/gret…

#Gaza #Israel #GretaThunberg


Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: It’s My Moral Obligation

Democracy Now!

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The Fed Gov Demands Data from #SNAP —But Says Nothing About Protecting It

part of a larger effort by #Trump admin to gain “unfettered access to comprehensive data from all state programs that receive federal funding,” thru #EO14243. While the order says this data sharing is intended to cut down on fraud, it is written so broadly that it could auth almost any data sharing…flies in the face of well-established data #privacy practices & places people at considerable risk.

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/fede…


The Federal Government Demands Data from SNAP—But Says Nothing About Protecting It

Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a troubling order to all state agency directors of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs (SNAP): hand over your data.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Another PSA about Amazon:

They only pay authors 30% in royalties (even if they price above 2.99) when someone buys a book through Amazon COM while not actually living in the US.

That's right. Amazon "steals" 40% of my royalties because the customer is in a different location that the USA.

Why?

Because they can. Because we authors let them get away with that. No other store does this.

Buy direct. Or at least not through Amazon.

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#Reading
#WritingCommunity


Hannah Steenbock

Hannah Steenbock is a German writer of fantasy and science fiction. She uses both her native German and English as languages for her tales, as she loves English and tends to think in that language when plotting Fantasy.
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Hey NYC-area folks!

Tonight (June 4), my friend Kevin Smokler is going to be at Greenlight Books in Brooklyn ...

... to do an event for his new book "Break the Frame", a collection of his interviews with pioneering female directors

Tonight he'll be in conversation with Debra Granik, director of -- among other fabulous movies -- "Winter's Bone"

Event details here: greenlightbookstore.com/event/…

super worth attending if you can!


Kevin Smokler with Debra Granik

Brooklyn independent bookstore
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"Die Bundesregierung hat bisher KEINE israelischen Kriegsverbrechen in #Gaza abschließend festgestellt. Dabei prüft das Auswärtige Amt die endlosen Beispiele angeblich seit vielen Monaten."

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Komplette BPK:
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#Westbank #Palästina #Israel #Genozid #Rassismus #Rechtsextremismus #Propaganda


4. Juni 2025 - Regierungspressekonferenz | BPK

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Sui

@bifouba Die Aussagen von der Bundesregierung sind wirklich nur noch Gaslighting.

Ich freue mich aber, dass innerhalb der Linkspartei langsam der Wind dreht. Dass sie jetzt die JDA statt die IHRA nehmen und dass nun eben Menschen wie Köktürk im Bundestag sitzen, ist eine gute Entwicklung.

Meinem Eindruck nach liegt das vor allem auch an den jungen Leuten, die neu in der Partei sind und inzwischen so große Mehrheiten bilden, dass sie die Antdeutschen (und die Reformer) überstimmen können.

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daniel

And here's peace activist and CND campaigner Pat Arrowsmith's jacket. It was her father's Civil Defence warden's jacket which Pat wore in the 50's and 60's, and has attached a peace badge to it.

Pat, ineligible to inherit her father's money unless she was married to a man (she was a lesbian), married an anarchist poet for one day to qualify for the inheritance, then had the marriage annulled and donated the money to Sappho and Gay Pride Week 1979.

#pride #peace

A photograph of a dishevelled, dark blue jacket. It has a "CD [Civil [Defence] Torbay", with insignia sewn on it. On the other side is an early CND badge attached it, with the classic peace symbol There's also an ARP [Air Raid Precautions] badge attached to the lapel.

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Update – US Approved Moderna’s CARCINOGENIC Next-Gen COVID sa-mRNA Vaccine. FDA & CDC Shady Moves vs RFK Jr.

American cardiologist Peter McCullough and epidemiologist Nicholas Hulsher, who published many study on Covid vaccines, confirmed that are the dangerous new sa-mRNA technology

vtforeignpolicy.com/2025/06/fd…

#usa #covid #mrna #vaccines

Update – US Approved Moderna’s CARCINOGENIC Next-Gen COVID sa-mRNA Vaccine. FDA & CDC Shady Moves vs RFK Jr. - VT Foreign Policy

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio VERSIONE IN ITALIANO The latest articles published by the most authoritative American medical bloggers are destined to stir up a huge hornet's nest all over the world for various reasons: FDA (Food and Drug Administrat…
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#Palestine / Israeli [defense] exports surge 13% to $14.8 billion despite Gaza genocide impact

Israel's defense exports jumped over 13% in 2024 to $14.8 billion, even as overall Israeli exports contracted 5.6%. The defense sector now represents nearly 25% of Israel's goods exports and approaching 10% of total exports.

Europe became the dominant market, accounting for 54% of defense exports (up from 35% in 2023) as countries increased military spending amid the Ukraine war. Air defense systems, missiles and rockets comprised 48% of exports, with Israeli technology proving effective against drone and missile threats.

However, industry sources report that images from #Gaza are complicating deal closures. #Spain recently froze a nearly $300 million Spike missile deal due to the situation in Gaza. Defense companies face parliamentary opposition in European countries and competitors using the Gaza war to discourage purchases of Israeli systems.

Sales to Abraham Accords countries reached $1.8 billion (12% of total exports), while Asian exports dropped from $6.3 billion to $3.4 billion due to major 2023 deals with India and Azerbaijan not repeating.

Hebrew themarker.com/allnews/2025-06-… or archive.ph/B0bED

See also

12 countries condemn forced displacement of Palestinian village in occupied West Bank kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1146…

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide


האירופים רודפים אחרי התוצרת הביטחונית הישראלית — עם עדיפות להגנה בלבד

היצוא הביטחוני נהפך לדומיננטי במיוחד במשק, נוכח זינוק של 13% בו ב-2024, ל-52 מיליארד שקל ■ העוסקים בתחום מדווחים כי התמונות מעזה מקשות על סגירת עסקות, אך יש המאמינים ש-2025 תהיה אפילו טובה יותר
חגי עמית (TheMarker)

oatmeal

2025-06-04 08:45:10

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#Palestine / 12 countries condemn forced displacement of Palestinian village in occupied West Bank

Diplomatic missions from #UK, #Germany, #France and 9 other nations issued joint statement expressing solidarity with residents of Mughayir a-Deir who were forced to abandon homes due to settler violence and Israeli authorities' failure to provide protection.

As has been common practice for years, Israeli settlers established an outpost meters from a Palestinian village. The community was forced to flee after escalating violence and threats. Seven neighboring communities have already been displaced following the same pattern. Tens of thousands in Area C face "high or imminent risk" of forcible transfer.

These countries demand Israel dismantle the outpost and allow safe return. They call this a violation of international law and demand Israel respect the prohibition on forcible transfer.

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**JOINT PRESS STATEMENT**
**WEST BANK, JUNE 2025**

**DIPLOMATIC STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION IN MUGHAYIR A-DEIR**

The undersigned diplomatic missions express their strong solidarity with the Palestinian community of Mughayir a-Deir. The community's long-standing residents were recently forced to abandon their homes and belongings due to escalating settler violence and a prevailing climate of impunity.

Israeli settlers have established an outpost just metres from the community, which is a clear violation of international law. Mughayir a-Deir was one of the last remaining Palestinian communities in the area. Seven neighbouring communities have already been displaced amid a broader and deeply troubling pattern of violent settler attacks and a lack of protection by the Israeli authorities.

We therefore urge the Israeli authorities to dismantle the outpost immediately and to take urgent and effective measures to enable the safe return of the displaced residents. It is imperative that the community is protected from further violence and intimidation.

Mughayir a-Deir is not an isolated case—it reflects a broader pattern of displacement in Area C of the West Bank, where a coercive environment marked by repeated settler violence, movement restrictions, land confiscation, demolitions and inadequate access to essential services is making life unbearable and pushing communities to leave. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Area C face a high or imminent risk of forcible transfer. This alarming trend gravely undermines prospects for a just and lasting peace.

We call on Israel to respect its obligations under international law, including the prohibition of forcible transfer. We also reaffirm our clear and consistent opposition to settlements, which are illegal under international law. We emphasise Israel's responsibility to protect all Palestinian communities in Area C.

*The Consulates General of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the Representative Offices of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, as well as the Office of the European Union Representative to the West Bank and Gaza*

@palestine
@israel
#SettlerViolence #IsraelWarCrimes #Palestine #EthnicCleansing #GazaGenoicide

**JOINT PRESS STATEMENT** **WEST BANK, JUNE 2025** **DIPLOMATIC STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION IN MUGHAYIR A-DEIR**

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[followup]

Houthi attacks are forcing major operational changes:

[...] He [Colonel (Res.) Yair Kulas, head of SIBAT - the Defense Export and Defense Cooperation Directorate at Israel's Ministry of Defense] also referred to supply chain challenges: 'The supply chain is challenging due to shipping routes that have been changed under the Houthi threat, Ben Gurion Airport which has been blocked at times due to missile launches. So if we need to be more flexible, we are being flexible. And if there is a demand from the purchasing country for local production on its territory, we establish manufacturing activity there.'"

Hebrew ynet.co.il/economy/article/syi…

While Israeli defense companies acknowledge supply chain challenges from Houthi attacks on shipping routes Operation Prosperity Guardian , European naval missions provided free security for Israeli exports. Rather than diverting resources to Red Sea security, Israel can maintain focus on high-value defense production for the European market surge. While European militaries absorb the costs and risks of confronting Houthis and Israeli arms companies profit from the resulting demand.

This pie chart shows the breakdown of Israeli defense exports by sector in 2024: The chart visually confirms that nearly half of Israel's $14.8 billion in defense exports comes from air defense technologies - the systems that proved so effective against Iranian attacks and are now in high demand due to conflicts in Ukraine and regional tensions. This concentration in air defense explains why European countries, concerned about drone and missile threats, became Israel's largest market in 2024.
This pie chart shows Israeli defense exports by geographic region in 2024: The massive 54% share confirms Europe's transformation into Israel's primary arms market.

"התמונות מעזה משפיעות": חשש בישראל מחרם עולמי על הייצוא הביטחוני

במשרד הביטחון אמנם פרסמו כי 2024 הייתה השנה הרביעית ברציפות בה הייצוא הביטחוני שבר שיאים, עם חוזים בשווי של כ-15 מיליארד דולר.
נווית זומר (ynet)

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#Nestlé-Lobbyistin Klöckner, #CDU, eine Partei, die #Israel für deren #Genozid und Kriegsverbrechen in #Gaza und #Westbank Waffen liefert, die Haftbefehle des #IStGH gegen #Netanyahu und #Galant untergräbt - ein Merkmal rechtsextremer, verfassungsfeindlicher Politik - wirft Casin #Köktürk, #Linke aus dem Bundestag, weil sie einen Pullover mit der Aufschrift "#Palästina" trägt.

Die CDU / #CSU ist rechtsextrem und demokratiefeindlich.

nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191683.…

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#Rechtsextremismus #Rassismus


Linken-Abgeordnete Köktürk fliegt aus dem Bundestag

Cansin Köktürk hat im Bundestag eine T-Shirt mit der Aufschrift »Palestine« getragen. Das war für die Parlamentspräsidentin zu viel: Sie schmiss die Linken-Abgeordnete aus dem Plenum.
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Sui

"Wadephul im Plenarsaal: #Deutschland wird weiterhin an #Israel Waffen liefern. Kein Wort zu über 50.000 Toten und verletzten Kindern. Ich werde von Frau #Klöckner aufgefordert den Plenarsaal zu verlassen, weil auf meinem Shirt „Palestine“ steht. Ihr habt alle dermaßen versagt." #Linke

x.com/cansinkoek/status/193022…

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#CDU #CSU #Rechtsextremismus #Rassismus #Israel #Palästina #Gaza #Westbank

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The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State

Link: eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/righ…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State

Thanks in part to your support, the right to repair is now law in Washington.Gov. Bob Ferguson signed two bills guaranteeing Washingtonians' right to access tools, parts, and information so they can fix personal electronics, appliances, and wheelchai…
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Schülerinnen aus Münster spenden ihre langen Haare für den guten Zweck


Haare spenden für Krebskranke: Schülerinnen aus Münster haben ihre Haare hergegeben. Aus den Spenden sollen jetzt Perücken werden.#Regio-Beitrag03062025 #StudioMünster #Münsterland #Haarspende #Schulen #Krebs #Mädchen
Schülerinnen aus Münster spenden ihre langen Haare für den guten Zweck

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🥳 #PeerTube v7.2 is out! 🥳

New design for video management and publication pages, rework of the display and filter system for sensitive content... this new version is ready for the summer! ☀️

Check out what's new in the release announcement: joinpeertube.org/news/release-…


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Just to be clear, when I say that Fedora is the new Ubuntu, I mean that Fedora now occupies the place that Ubuntu used to have in terms of Linux distributions. It's a GOOD thing.

One of the things I really enjoy about using Fedora, is that they push the Linux desktop towards the future. Some call it bleeding edge, but it's not. It's cutting edge: you don't get the absolute latest, but you get the best that's also stable.

Fedora was among the first to adopt Wayland, the first to adopt Pipewire, to push Flatpak, portals, the first mainstream distro to push immutable filesystems in Fedora Silverblue.

This drive towards modern tech was what Ubuntu was doing back in the day: they were implementing the latest versions of GNOME, adopted newly developed programs at the time, like Banshee, or F-Spot, they pushed to have better driver integration, and more software available.

Using Fedora, I got that same excitement I used to get when I was using Ubuntu: every 6 months, there's a new drop of amazing updates. You get more modern technologies, you get improved security, you get new features right as they're being released, and you get that sense of really taking advantage of all that new stuff the Linux community talks about.

Fedora is a "current" distro, which means that you get the latest release of all the interesting stuff, like the desktop environments, the linux kernel, the graphics drivers, or wayland. And they do this without sacrificing stability.

Fedora, in my experience with it, has been rock solid. In general, I didn't have many problems with any Linux distro that I daily drove, but all of them tended to exhibit small issues after a while.

My experience with Fedora has been fantastic thanks to this: Flatpak is wonderfully integrated in the GNOME Software app, it's all a one click install, all updates are handled there, I just never think about my system anymore, I just use it. That peace of mind is something I never truly achieved with any other Linux distro

Another thing I really like is that Fedora has the DEFAULT experience. They ship the desktop as is, without any meaningful extensions, themes, configurations, or tweaks.

It's just productivity central. GNOME, for me, doesn't need anything else than the default experience. It is extremely efficient once you wrap your head around how it works, and providing me with a crutch, like an always visible dock, or desktop icons, would just compromise that productivity.

Moving to Fedora also had me learn a few things, especially how to use dnf. I didn't need to use it, but I wanted to; and since I was a lot more familiar with APT, I had no idea what I was doing.

Turns out, Fedora has a huge community as well, something Ubuntu has had since it began, so it's another checkmark next to my "Fedora is the next Ubuntu" checklist

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« #JeanLucMélenchon est intervenu sur Al Jazeera pour un échange avec #RimaHassan qui est à bord de la #FreedomFlotilla, aux côtés de #GretaThunberg, l’équipage de la Flottille et de militants pour la #Palestine, en direction de #Gaza, le 3 juin 2025. »

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En direct avec Rima Hassan - Ne quittons pas des yeux Freedom Flotilla !

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Une évaluation des mois passés par Trump à la Maison Blanche par un éminent commentateur de CNN.

Stephen Collinson a déclaré :

Au cours de ses quatre mois à la Maison Blanche, Trump s’est livré à des menaces de droits de douane, à des déclarations sur son désir d’annexer le Canada et le Groenland et à la destruction de programmes humanitaires dans le monde entier.

Le résultat, selon lui, est :

« À l'heure actuelle, les dirigeants chinois, russes, israéliens, européens et canadiens ont constaté que Trump n'est plus aussi puissant qu'ils le pensent. Ils en concluent donc qu'il est possible de lui désobéir sans conséquences. » (E)

Seuls les Arabes prennent au sérieux ses bêtises quotidiennes, achètent ses faveurs et lui offrent des concessions, tout en soulignant nécessairement leur rejet de son plan de déplacement de Gaza, mais sans prendre de positions qui contrecarreraient son potentiel ultérieur.

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Were the covid gene therapy injections selectively targeted at people of a non-Indian heritage? If you look at Mark Crispin Millers posts I don't recall seeing many Indians there. Could be wrong but majority by far of fatalities were people of European or African descent.

Have additionally been trying to understand for quite some time why I was being nagged via text messages during covidhoax to update my 'ethnicity' with my local general practitioners office. I got about six messages telling me to do so all of which I ignored. It was a high priority item for them for reasons I still don't quite understand.

There was also the paper that came out of India indicating that the novelty flu pathogen selectively biased certain 'ethnicities' toward poorer outcomes. Europeans and Africans came off worst I believe. RFKjr mentioned this paper which was reported on widely and immediately became controversial - so it was obviously meant to be seen by as many as possible.

Novelty pathogen with ethnicity bias coupled with novelty injections with an ethnicity bias. Would be so easy to conflate the two and thereby validate the conclusion of that paper from India.

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son of sam harris

And while all this was happening Africans and Europeans across the west were supposed be engaged in a terrible 'race war' thanks to Pierre Kory thereby depleting their ranks, assets and resources etc. Indians were fully exempt from this supposed whacky racer war aside from helping to stir it all up.

The timing of it all matches perfectly with the progression of the corona hoax. I actually think this very plausibly was the original plan which didn't meet expectations by quite some wide margin. Left everyone puzzled and confused more than anything else which was then followed by an awkward pause like it was now fully off-script so no one was really sure what to do next.

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son of sam harris

Then Ukraine happened and like right out of nowhere AI became the newest current thing. It just blew up exactly as you'd expect if someone had been sitting on it waiting for exactly the right moment.

It was going to change everything then didn't except get everyone talking about it. Perhaps the controllers of the corona hoax were a little too overconfident into its potential as a labor saving gimmick. Now we find out that a big AI project being run out of India was a giant hoax. So that stymied the AI takeover.

Current scorecard looks something like this.

Novelty pathogen takeover = failed
Novelty injection takeover = failed
vaxpass/digital id takeover = failed
Whacky racer takeover = failed
AI takeover = failed

US government takeover = succeeded (for now)

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Baldur Bjarnason

"Eco-paradox USA: The relationships between economic growth and environmental concern generally, and by different income group"

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> The very economic processes that enable societies to develop environmental consciousness simultaneously intensify their physical impact on ecosystems, creating a disconnect between stated environmental values and actual environmental outcomes.

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Baldur Bjarnason

> At the individual level, a different dynamic emerges. Despite their greater environmental impact, affluent groups exhibit less environmental concern and prioritize economic growth over ecological protection. This highlights the limitations of post-materialist narratives, which assume that affluence inherently fosters environmental responsibility. In contrast, lower-income individuals within the US—despite their smaller carbon footprints—consistently exhibit stronger pro-environmental attitudes
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Baldur Bjarnason

@FediThing Might be. There's certainly some research that might support that.

The writers of the paper argue that because lower-income groups are more exposed to the impacts of environmental degradation. More volatile weather and pollution have a material impact on their lives in ways that the richer classes do not experience.

IMO, it probably a mix of both and other factors and incentives (i.e. the rich are more likely to fall for propaganda about ethical and pro-environmental consumption)

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Israel just took another huge step towards West Bank annexation, explained #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/06/israel-…

Israel just took another huge step towards West Bank annexation, explained

Israel’s decision last week to create 22 new settlements in the West Bank was reported as somewhat uneventful news in the media. The reality is, however, that it’s the latest in a series of moves to cement Israeli control of the occupied territory.
Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)

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Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

"a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes.

These native Android apps receive browsers' metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica scripts embedded on thousands of web sites. These JavaScripts load on users' mobile browsers and silently connect with native apps running on the same device through localhost sockets [WebRTC]. As native apps access programatically device identifiers like the Android Advertising ID (AAID) or handle user identities as in the case of Meta apps, this method effectively allows these organizations to link mobile browsing sessions and web cookies to user identities, hence de-anonymizing users' visiting sites embedding their scripts."

localmess.github.io/

similar to what ebay does. seems like facebook wants another maximum GDPR fine (which should be increased btw).
these attacks should be mitigated by disabling :javascript: (e.g. uBlockO), blocking tracking scripts (e.g. uBlockO), android without Android Advertising ID (GrapheneOS) and avoiding facebook and yandex sites and apps or better yet all proprietary spyware apps (f-droid.org)


F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
f-droid.org
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DarkMahesvara

re: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

GrapheneOS default browser Vanadium also blocks it partially with disabling unproxied udp by default with a upstream webrtc fix soon released too

grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

The tracking technique described at https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/ is prevented by Vanadium's default "Disabled non-proxied UDP" value.
GrapheneOS Mastodon

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FediForum starts in less than 24 hours

FediForum

FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward
FediForum

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KazuyaDarklight

Seems to be a kind of online conference. For being open source focused it's opening is very salesy/buzzword salad-ish.

"Open protocols, not closed platforms. The Fediverse, Mastodon and ActivityPub. ATmosphere, Bluesky and AtProto. Human connections, not AI bots, nor fake news nor manipulative algorithms. New funding models. New forms of governance. Better trust and safety. Direct relationships to stakeholders and customers. Interoperability across social platforms everywhere, and so much more.

After a decade of stagnation, next-generation social media is breaking out of the closed silos and connecting the world into a global, open social web. It’s a wild world full of opportunity.

FediForum brings together the leading thinkers and doers who build this new Open Social Web."

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Slrpnk.net outage (resolved)

Edit: unexpectatly we are back online. Will share how we found a solution later. There might be still some federation issues though.

Alt account of poVoq@slrpnk.net here.

Our instance is currently down and I can't get remote access to the servers. It appears that there might have been a hardware failure of the main firewall, which is the one thing I can't work around remotely.

I am still trying a few things, but I am not very optimistic that I can get access.

The really unfortunate part is that just now I am on one of my rare work deployments abroad, so I also can't access it physically during the next few weeks and my usual back up that could restart it is not available either.

As something like that never happened in 3 years operating the servers, I thought I can risk it, but murphy's law seems inescapable 😓

I will try to keep you posted here on any updates, but probably there will not be much I can do for a while. Really bad timing 😥

Edit: we might use this "opportunity" to migrate the instance to Piefed, which has been an idea for quite some time now. I will keep you posted on that.

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Kris

As email in profile is an optional feature on our instance about 50% of the userbase opted to not share one so we would only reach some people. But yes, getting spam filtered would be another problem of mass-mailing.

But I found a way to put up a simple html error page and will add this later to inform our members and link to this thread.

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wit

I am a slrpnk user. Oh well, shit happens. What makes me a bit sad was that a few months (?) ago something similar happened. Slrpnk.net was down for aa day or two? Don't remember the exact amount of time. What I do remember is asking if there was intention of adding a second admin and making the point that it would be good to create that sort of redundancy. I was ignored.

Mid of july is basically 1 and a half months from now. Hopefully a new solarpunk instance emerges, one that is safer from such scenarios.

Enjoy your vacation and don't stress too much! Shit happens.

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Japan births in 2024 fell below 700,000 for first time
Tokyo (AFP) – The number of births in Japan last year fell below 700,000 for the first time on record, government data showed Wednesday.

The fast-ageing nation welcomed 686,061 newborns in 2024 -- 41,227 fewer than in 2023, the data showed. It was the lowest figure since records began in 1899.

Japan has the world's second-oldest population after tiny Monaco, according to the World Bank.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called the situation a "quiet emergency", pledging family-friendly measures like more flexible working hours to try and reverse the trend.

Wednesday's health ministry data showed that Japan's total fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman is expected to have -- also fell to a record low of 1.15.

The ministry said Japan saw 1.6 million deaths in 2024, up 1.9 percent from a year earlier.

Ishiba has called for the revitalisation of rural regions, where shrinking elderly villages are becoming increasingly isolated.

In more than 20,000 communities in Japan, the majority of residents are aged 65 and above, according to the internal affairs ministry.

The country of 123 million people is also facing increasingly severe worker shortages as its population ages, not helped by relatively strict immigration rules.

In neighbouring South Korea, the fertility rate in 2024 was even lower than Japan's, at 0.75 -- remaining one of the world's lowest but marking a small rise from the previous year on the back of a rise in marriages.


Japan births in 2024 fell below 700,000 for first time

RFI

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From "How Fascism Works" by Jason Stanley:

- "Fascist politics transforms the news from a conduit of information and reasoned debate into a spectacle with the strongman as the star....News becomes sports."

- "In the name of rooting out corruption and supposed bias, fascist politicians attack and diminish the institutions that might otherwise check their power."

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

Link: sparktoro.com/blog/ai-will-rep…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


"AI will replace all the jobs!" Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing - SparkToro

Over the weekend, I went digging for evidence that AI can, will, or has replaced a large percent of jobs. It doesn't exist. Worse than that, actually,
Rand Fishkin (SparkToro)

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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.


2010 nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation

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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.

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rglullis

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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Blaze (he/him)

!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…

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

Israel now admits its genocidal aims in Gaza. Will the world keep looking away?

Since Trump's return, Israel has dropped all pretenses of self-defense. But even as it evades accountability, it has cemented its legacy as a global pariah.
Amos Brison (+972 Magazine)
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