"‘Several countries ready to supply nuclear warheads to Iran’: Top Putin aide"
How to prevent a country acquiring nuclear weapons. Bear in mind that Iran already has impressively advanced missiles.

Dumb move, Donald.
indianexpress.com/article/worl…

#USpol
#Trump
#Iran
#NuclearWeapons

New article in @nature covering RoRI's recent study of 100,000+ grant applicants across 14 funding programmes, shedding new light on the Matthew effect in science: how early funding success can compound over a researcher's career - nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

"I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need."

On chatbots as a bad design paradigm

(Original title: “ChatBot” is bad design)

tante.cc/2025/06/19/chatbot-is…

As branch chief of the Hypervelocity Impact and Orbital Debris Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Dr. Heather Cowardin leads a team tasked with a critical mission: characterizing and mitigating orbital debris—space junk that poses a growing risk to satellites, spacecraft, and human spaceflight. Long before Cowardin was a scientist safeguarding NASA’s mission, […]

Communication show the #US attack #Iran's nukes intact... now it will build atomic weapons
When the real target is not uranium, but public opinion.
This aggression is already driving Iran to the decision to finally acquire nuclear weapons.
"Trump stated that "the Islamic Republic's key nuclear infrastructure was destroyed".
But the reality behind the carefully staged communications storm is quite different"
in reply to Spartacus

#US opened the gates to hell.
#Iran on the road to a nuclear bomb.
#Tehran's greatest asset is its stockpile of enriched uranium, which it already has and no one in the West knows where it is.
Iran is now very likely to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty #NPT and seek to build a nuclear arsenal argues a report from the
International Institute for Strategic Studies #IISS

#CraigMurray | You Cannot Negotiate with the Zionist West

"I see much futile discussion as to whether Israel is controlling the US or the US controlling Israel. Plainly the answer is both; there is a deep symbiotic relationship of the political classes in both places. The key point is that the Israel settler colony carries an insupportable weight in the policy decisions of Western politicians. Like all colonialism – and as outlined by Lenin and Hobson – this is because colonialism benefits the personal interests of the wealthy and military classes but is a burden on working people."

craigmurray.org.uk/archives/20…

#Zionism #Gaza #Genocide #Palestine #Iran

Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more


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Bolivian forest and landscape from Biomass

Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission – marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle. But these inaugural glimpses go beyond forests. Remarkably, the satellite is already showing potential to unlock new insights into some of Earth’s most extreme environments.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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France arrested people for being private and using Linux

laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/af…

Windows 11 is losing users

techradar.com/news/windows-11-…

System76 announces big updates to their FOSS firmware

blog.system76.com/post/major-u…

Debian 12 is now out

BlendOS 3 offers a new spin on immutable distros

blendos.co/blend-os-v3/

Other news: Thunderbird beta, extensions support donations, Ubuntu adds quarter tiling, and staged releases for snaps

ubuntu.com//blog/release-manag…

omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/06/ubuntu…

linuxiac.com/gnome-extensions-…

thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderb…

Gaming News: Apple uses Wine and VKD3D, & Proton updates

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Els reis espanyols, forçats a entrar d’amagat a Montserrat per les protestes independentistes
vilaweb.cat/noticies/reis-espa…

Empezamos las ventanillas informativas de vamonos juntas este 8 de julio a las 18:30 hora de Barcelona.
En estas sesiones intentaremos resolver tus dudas si eres nueva en el fediverso.

Escríbenos tu duda o déjanos tu correo para avisarte cuándo será la siguiente ventanilla informativa. usem.liberaforms.org/ventanill…
Te enviaremos el link con la invitación al evento un día antes de cada sesión si te apuntas en el formulario

¡Las esperamos!

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In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt

TRUMP DISSES MASSIE

( Trump Doesn't Like Dissenting Voices )

====Bullhorn Barry📢 (Opinion / News)

In my opinion, this is NOT a good look for Trump. It comes off as if Trump wants everyone to agree with him on every decision he makes and that is not a good look. I think it's CRUCIAL we have dissenting voices at this time or we get runaway Presidents like we had with Biden. Of course Biden wasn't running anything but he was definitely the front man.

I'm a staunch Trump Supporter, but I could care less if Trump likes my opinions about his decisions or not. I will praise Trump when I think he's doing right and criticize him when I think it's necessary. Btw, I think a lot of MAGA Supporters are grateful for what Massie has been saying. And that doesn't even mean they all agree with him. It simply means they appreciate him speaking his point of view and dissenting.

The support for Massie is certainly not non-existent among MAGA. Probably more people are behind Trump than Massie, but Massie's support is not insignificant. And maybe Trump sees that as a threat, but the MAGA Movement is NOT about Trump—It's about We The People.

As a veteran of the US Navy (got out 35+ years ago), I am begging you to talk your kids out of joining the United States Military if they decide they want to join. Trump will do his best to get them killed. And plus, there are a million other reasons not to join the military. I grew up poor and had no other options. Don't make the same mistake that I made.
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Oprah runs a large feminist cult in the United States and they violently attack women who don't submit to them with witchcraft and electronic weapons. Oprah is a violent psychopath and she murders children. Oprah is an extremely racist child murderer that is obsessed with cannibalizing white children's private parts. Oprah runs a cult of feminist women which are mostly white women and if white women don't submit to her she violently attacks them and tries to murder their children as sacrifices. Oprah works with Scientologists which have electronic weapons and they also use chemical warfare. Oprah specializes in causing asthma attacks on white children which she then cannibalizes. Oprah also physically murders trafficked children. Oprah molests children and then strangles them to death or sits on them until they suffocate. She responds to getting exposed as a child murderer by smiling and threatening to murder more children. Oprah is one of the most evil females on the planet. Oprah has murdered and cannibalized hundreds of children. Oprah is disgusting beast that needs to be executed immediately.

Why We Are Alone in the Universe thephilosophicalsalon.com/why-…
in reply to relentless_eduardo

I spent a lot of time on "MyFace", and was dogpiled by a half-dozen art-fags that refused to think, but simply raged at some strawman image of me. I said, "Let's Talk", and they said, "I just know you won't listen, so fuck-off, Fascist".
So much for the party of Acceptance.
(Acceptance must mean something retarded in their dictionary.)
I'm sick of Lefty Shit.

The strenghts and weaknesses of atproto and activitypub.


There is a lot bluesky gets right, and a lot it gets wrong, the same is true with Activitypub.

(Some) strengths of Atproto


Atproto is content-addressed, and portable. This means that posts can exist independantly of their original server.
Instead of giving posts a https uri, which will stop working if a user moves servers or their server disappears, they give them at uris.
For example, this post on bsky.app: bsky.app/profile/ponder.ooo/po…
Has the at:// link is: at://did:plc:i4bfh2tyxihe2ksplmtcoopk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk4yrmyugc2f.
The post does exist over https at https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.getRecord?repo=did:plc:i4bfh2tyxihe2ksplmtcoopk&collection=app.bsky.feed.post&rkey=3lk4yrmyugc2f.


Atproto is very easy to build apps on. For example, tangled.sh, frontpage.fyi and flushes.app are all apps built on atproto.
Atproto allows more flexibility in what an app can do, as opposed to lemmy or mastodon's api.


Atproto is better documented. The ActivityPub spec leaves a lot up to the reader.


Atproto has some really good moderation tools for users. People can make public blocklists of users, and people can subscribe to labellers, people or services which give users/posts a label.

Weaknesses of Atproto


almost everyone is on bluesky's PDSes. I thought mastodon.social and lemmy.world were bad, but the people on alternate PDSes altogether adds up to only a few thousand.

Its decentralised identifiers are actually completely centralised!
DID:PLC, their DID method, originally stood for placeholder, but they renamed it to Public Ledger of Credentials.
To use it, you have to use plc.directory.
You can use a DID:WEB DID, but if your website linked to it goes down you lose your identity.
(I find it extremely funny that its not actually a requirement for a decentralised identifier to be decentralised. )

Everything on the network has to be public to work.
since relays have to be able to collect all the information on the network for Appviews to be able to make use of that information, anyone can find out who's blocking someone, or who is on a list, or who's following who, with no way of hiding that information.
Private accounts and posts are impossible to do on atproto.

Since everything is public, DMs (for now) are centralised. They do seem like they want to change that though.

Strengths of ActivityPub


AP (ActivityPub) is better distributed. While it has large servers (like mastodon.social or lemmy.world (and threads, but we don't talk about threads)) the majority of users are not on those servers. There is no single point of failure. If bluesky disappeared tomorrow, atproto would still exist, it would just have a negligable amount of users.

One node in the network lets you do everything, as opposed to bluesky which has three parts (You can do stuff without a relay though). This means you can trust a lot less of the network.

ActivityPub scales better than ATProto. Atproto scales quadratically, meaning that having a lot of nodes in the network harms performance.
AP scales horizontally, meaning it works better with a lot of small servers.

ActivityPub can keep stuff private, like blocks and posts.
Though, a lot of implementations can leak posts.

Weaknesses of ActivityPub


The spec leaves so much out. They didn't propose a way to make sure requests between servers are validated, so mastodon chose HTTP signatures.
They didn't add any way of looking up handles, so mastodon chose webfinger.

A posts's id is its https uri, this means thatif a server goes down, stuff can't be fetched. A user can't move their followers if their server goes down (you can on ATproto). There is a standard to fix this, FEP-ef61, but it breaks compatibility with a lot of implementations.

Missing information is a problem. Its not really a problem on lemmy, but on mastodon likes and replies from other servers may not make it to your server at all (you can fetch replies in newer versions of mastodon though).


All this aside, I do think the two can coexist. I don't see anything like lemmy working on atproto. ActivityPub seems closer to social networking, as opposed to social media.
Something like facebook would be impossible to make on atproto, because not everything is made to be public.

I am hoping for a bridge, but good (bridgy is opt-in, making it useless).

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A Quiet Roar - Simpler Times


***aquietroar.bandcamp.com/track/…

Simpler times with a simpler mind
Unburdened shoulders, lighter, quicker and bolder

It was better years with fewer fears
Innocence reigning, with less aching and straining

Just as joyful as can be, when it made sense to me
Fleeting through time, frictions and burns now to be alive
Oh, take me back to when hope had no end

Looking back I see the cracks
That formed and widened as I somehow grew silent

But before the fall I do recall
A happier version, almost a different person

Just as joyful as can be, when it made sense to me
Fleeting through time, frictions and burns now to be alive
Oh, take me back to then, when hope had no end


#AQuietRoar #aqr #music


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