Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Microsoft Corp. began job cuts that will impact about 9,000 workers, its second major wave of layoffs this year as it seeks to control costs while ramping up on artificial intelligence spending.Brody Ford (Bloomberg)
Whopping $82.3 billion cost? Donald Trump’s tariffs may hit US employers in a big way, says JPMorganChase Institute analysis
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/whopping-82-3-billion-cost-donald-trumps-tariffs-may-hit-us-employers-in-a-big-way-says-jpmorganchase-institute-analysis/articleshow/122205626.cms?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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International Business News: A recent report indicates that US employers could face an $82.3 billion bill due to President Trump's tariffs, potentially leading to price increasesTOI Business Desk (The Times Of India)
Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting away the planet’s wispy atmosphere, causing it to shrink every year.
This is the first-ever evidence for a ‘planet with a death wish’. Though it was theorised to be possible since the nineties, the flares seen in this research are around 100 times more energetic than expected.
#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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The Yemeni Armed Forces target "Israel's" Ben Gurion Airport and key Israeli targets with missiles and drones, pledging continued operations in support of Gaza.Al Mayadeen English (YAF targets Ben Gurion airport, key IOF sites with missiles, UAVs)
It’s time for barbecue season – Lowell Sun
Oh say can you see — 150 million hotdogs getting barbecued across this great nation of ours on the Fourth of July. We love our hot dogs — not just on the holiday. And the city which loves its hot dogs the most? Not Boston with our Fenway Franks, or New York with Nathan’s Fam…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #RecipeTopics #advice #Columnists' #opinion #Recipes #RecipesTopics
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The move to impeach the MK, with the full backing of opposition lawmakers, sends a message to Palestinian citizens that voting is futile.Amos Brison (+972 Magazine)
More than 1,000 #mines per day – this is the result of the use of the Uran-6 robotic complex in the Bolshesoldatsky District of Kursk region. While retreating, #Ukrainian militants planted anti-personnel mines PMN-4 on an arable field in an attempt to stop the advance of Russian troops. Now, this ‘harvest’ is being collected by sappers.
Engineers of the Sever Group of Forces actively use robotic mine clearance systems. The Uran-6 complex is their main assistant.
#Russian Defence Ministry
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Hallo Internet, geehrte Denkende!
Ich bin ein extremer Befürworter der #GenferKonvention, sie muss aber auch endlich und konsequent umgesetzt werden.
Überall bzw. weltweit sehe ich gerade circa 120 kriegerische bzw. völkerrechtswidrige Kriege, alle verstoßen gegen die Genfer Konventionen.
Kriege sind nur durch Gespräche zu lösen, also nicht durch immer mehr und neuere Waffen.
Dass das nur durch gute Politiker gelöst werden kann, ist eh klar.
Sollten diese jetzigen "Politiker" uns als Bevölkerung nicht durch Verhandlungen schützen können oder wollen, so sollte man sich wirklich die Frage stellen, ob man diese Versager noch in ihren Ämtern belässt.
Einen freiwilligen Rücktritt kann man wohl heutzutage leider kaum mehr erwarten, wenn "man" gleichzeitig in einer der Aufsichtsräte der Waffenindustrie sitzt und mitkassiert.
Die Demokratie braucht ein Fundament, was die kapitalistische Gesellschaft gar nicht bauen kann, weil der Krieg zum Kapitalismus gehört wie das Amen zur Kirche.
Was machste mit einem machtgeilen Verrückten, der einfach seinen Nachbarn überfällt und Zivilisten bombardiert? Und jedem mit der Atombombe droht, der ihn hindern will?
Mit so jemanden ist nicht zu reden, jedenfalls nicht über die Genfer Konventionen. Der versteht und respektiert nur eine Sprache: Stärke und Konsequenz.
Klar kann man den Konflikt durch Verhandlungen "befrieden" - indem das Opfer aufgibt. Aber Appeasement funktioniert nun mal bekanntlich nicht. Nachdem es außerdem mehr als einen verrückten Potentaten gibt, die Erde aber eine Kugel und ihre Oberfläche daher endlich ist, stößt diese Strategie unausweichlich an Grenzen. In einer Welt, wie sie am Ende dieser "Befriedungen" wäre, will niemand leben. Wer das aber verhindern will, für den ist Kampf alternativlos.
Durch die Art und Weise, wie man ihn führt, definiert man hingegen nachhaltig, wer und was man ist. Den Kampf mit den Unmenschen aufzunehmen und dabei die eigene Menschlichkeit zu bewahren - das ist die Kunst.
I'm dialing back my LLM usage
Link: zed.dev/blog/dialing-back-my-l…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
From the Zed Blog: Alberto Fortin shares his honest reflection on the reality of using LLMs in production code and why he's taking a more measured approach.zed.dev
Washington (Quds News Network)- The US has accused UN expert Francesca Albanese of waging “warfare against” its economy after she released a report detailing over 60 companies involving in “the transfEditing Team (Quds News Network)
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US Dollar Faces Historic Decline in 2025
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The US dollar is enduring its worst half-year performance since 1973, when the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, an OPEC oil embargo, and the Watergate scandal triggered significant devaluation.Robert Semonsen (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price
In one of several observations about Israel that led to him being relieved of his position leading the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Levant and Egypt branch in June, Army Colonel Nathan McCormack summed up the relationship this way:
“[Israel is] our worst ‘ally.’ We get literally nothing out of the ‘partnership’ other than the enmity of millions of people in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.”
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When asked about the cost of their government’s support of the State of Israel, some Americans will say it’s $3.The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
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20K likes, 3,505 comments - metrodetroitnews on June 30, 2025: "🚨: A chaotic scene broke out Monday morning on Detroit’s west side as federal agents attempted to arrest an individual.Instagram
New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant children, fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release.
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#human rights
GOP lawmakers often claim they want to protect children, but their policy decisions tell a different story.Trudy Taylor Smith (The Texas Observer)
MASS ARRESTS HAVE BEGUN‼️
One leads to another … to another.
The DOJ has criminally charged 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorneys General's Offices across the United States, for their alleged participation in various health care fraud schemes involving over $14.6B in intended loss. minds.com/newsfeed/17871708770…
...her. The DOJ has criminally charged 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorn...Minds
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European Energy Prices Increase up to 500%
The UK’s lowest income households are among the most disproportionately affected by the cost of living crisis
Using data from the International Monetary Fund, we had compared the rise in the cost of living, based on projected figures taken in January 2021 and May 2022, across these select countries and the UK.
Here’s what it revealed about the UK compared to the rest of Europe:
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See how energy prices and cost of living have changed in Europe compared to pre-crisis levels.GreenMatch.co.uk
WOAH 🚨 RFK Jr exposes “NONE of the vaccines that are administered to children during the first six months of life have ever been studied for autism.”
People need to go to prison
RFK Jr tells Tucker Carlson “There's a lot of people out there who say you, you know, this is part of the consensus. You'll see this on every mainstream, Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, all of these guys again and again that the link between autism vaccines has been debunked. Right. It's been studied. Those studies that I was talking about earlier, the epidemiological studies, they only looked at one vaccine, the MMR, and one ingredient, thimerosal. NONE OF THE VACCINES THAT ARE ADMINISTERED TO CHILDREN DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF LIFE HAVE EVER BEEN STUDIED FOR AUTISM.” minds.com/newsfeed/17871707564…
...inistered to children during the first six months of life have ever been studied for autism.” People need to go to prison RFK Jr tells Tucker Carlson “There's a lot of people out there who say...Minds
_If there were no government, wouldn’t psychopaths or supervillains acquire nuclear weapons and either deploy them or use them for blackmail?_
Christopher Cook's answer:
Nuclear bombs are incredibly expensive. Fissile materials have to be mined and then enriched. Delivery technology must be invented, improved, built, and maintained. States can do this because they can steal your money through taxation or print it (and enrich themselves and their cronies in the process due to the Cantillon Effect).
In a condition of market anarchism, a private person must acquire this wealth through providing goods and services. He would have to be a successful businessman—offering things that people want, things that people feel would make their lives better—BEFORE he can get the wealth necessary to build even a small number of missiles/bombs.
So does our nuclear-mad psychopath intentionally seek success in business just so he can acquire the wealth needed to develop even a small arsenal? Maybe.
But then we must ask—what are his incentives to do so? Bloodlust? Lunacy? Again, maybe, but certainly not a common scenario.
Meanwhile, we know the perverse incentives of the state. We know that “War is the heath of the state.” War makes the state more powerful. War allows centralizers to centralize. War allows some to become fabulously wealthy making weapons. “Democracy” allows all of these costs to be passed on to the people. And the nationalism of the modern state allows authorities to convince people in their own lands that people in far-off lands are their bitter enemies. To sacrifice their wealth and treasure, to sacrifice themselves and their children to fight this far-off enemy. And if you are unwilling to fight, they can draft you and kill you if you refuse.
The private psychopath in a condition of market anarchism has none of these incentives and none of these abilities. The state, by contrast, has all of them. The state has a record of using nuclear weapons. The state can build and maintain a world-destroying number of them. The Japanese were suing for peace when “we” dropped Fat Man and Little Boy, just to show the USSR we meant business.
I am not saying that psychos will not exist in a condition of market anarchism, or that such a condition will be perfect. But when we compare that possibility to the current reality, how can we possibly prefer the current reality?
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Answering reader questions on market anarchismChristopher Cook (The Freedom Scale)
Today in Labor History July 2, 1929: Augusto Sandino left for México to seek aid for his Nicaraguan rebels, fighting the U.S. occupation of his country. The rebellion lasted from 1927-1933. In 1934, he was assassinated by General Anastasio Somoza, who seized power in a 1936 coup d’etat, and who, along with his sons, ran the country as dictators until the Sandinista Revolution of 1979 ended their reign of terror. While in México, during early 1920s, Sandino participated in strikes led by the IWW. Inspired by the Wobblies, he returned to foment revolution in Nicaragua, adopting the IWW's black and red syndicalist colors in their Revolutionary Flag.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #sandino #Sandinista #Revolution #rebellion #occupation #imperialism #IWW #Nicaragua #mexico #dictator #anarchism
🇦🇿🇺🇸| Yesterday Freemasons of the world gathered in #Baku
They held the Grand Lodge of the #Freemasons of the world in the “friendly and brotherly” country of Azerbaijan.
The content of the meeting is undisclosed. But it is certain that topics such as the expansion of NATO into the South Caucasus and Central Asia with the aim of weakening Iran and Russia, Israel’s recent attacks on Iran, and the creation of the fake Zangezur corridor alongside Baku’s recent provocations against Russia were discussed.
https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1940315612095386039
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#Azerbaijan: The West’s New Proxy in the Caucasus?
Aliev’s covert alliance with Israel and Ukraine are transforming Azerbaijan into a pivotal anti-Russian/Iranian hub for NATO.
🧵This is how Azerbaijan is destabilizing the region:👇
https://x.com/NewRulesGeo/status/1940393527147708539
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I want everyone to know that @Cosmic is smarter than his posts make him look.
He pretty much has to be.
@Max_Imum
My evidence:
He’s managed to find his way here.
His computer and or phone appear to work.
He’s probably not in a retirement home with dementia or institutionalized for cognitive impairment because there’s no way those places would let their charges loose on the underbelly of the internet.
So yeah, he’s smarter than his posts make him out to be.
But the bar is low.
Although the Information War that Moscow has advanced against the NATO decision to raise military budgets of Member States to 5% of GDP was indeed one of the topics in today’s chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano, we did not go into any depth because ot…Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)
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Soutenez Blast, nouveau média indépendant : blast-info.fr/soutenir
Peut-on encore parler de fascisme ? Dans les médias dominants, employer ce terme pour décrire la montée des mouvements d'extrême-droite est tourné en dérision. Trop radical, trop polémique : le mot "fascisme" serait anachronique, inopérant.
Pourtant, depuis 1945, jamais les discours autoritaires, racistes et identitaires n'ont autant imprégné le débat public dans les démocraties occidentales. L'ascension de Trump et le salut nazi d'Elon Musk incarnent une extrême droite décomplexée, désormais au pouvoir.
Malgré les discours populistes et antisystème de ces mouvements, leurs alliés s'affichent maintenant au grand jour : les milliardaires et leurs multinationales, de Zuckerberg à Arnault, et une partie grandissante de la bourgeoisie, prête à tout pour conserver son pouvoir. Le vent a définitivement tourné.
Alors, l'histoire se répète-t-elle ? Assistons-nous à l'émergence d'un nouveau fascisme ? Mais d'abord, qu'est-ce que le fascisme ?
Dans ce climat de grande confusion où il devient urgent de nommer clairement l'ennemi pour mieux le combattre, Blast vous propose de revenir aux sources : comprendre les origines, l'histoire et les mutations du fascisme d'hier pour éclairer les dangers d'aujourd'hui.
Bibliographie :
Ajari Norman, "Dark Gothic MAGA : « Elon Musk, la néoréaction et l’esthétique du cyberfascisme", LundiMatin, 2025
Ajari Norman, Manifeste afro-décolonial, Seuil, 2024
Gramsci Antonio, Combattre le fascisme, La Variation, 2025
Jackson George, Devant mes yeux la mort, Gallimard, 1972
Laurent Sylvie, Capital et race, Seuil, 2024
Laurent Sylvie, La contre-révolution californienne, Seuil, 2025
Matard-Bonucci Marie-Anne, Totalitarisme fasciste, CNRS Éditions, 2018
Guérin Daniel, Fascisme et grand capital (1936), Libertalia, 2025
Rigouste Mathieu, La guerre globale contre les peuples, La Fabrique, 2025
Toscano Alberto, Fascisme tardif, La Tempête, 2025
Traverso Enzo, La violence nazie, La Fabrique, 2002
Traverso Enzo, Les nouveaux visages du fascisme, Textuel, 2017
Vuillard Éric, L’ordre du jour, Actes Sud, 2017
00:00 : Intro
02:36 : I - Définir le fascisme
13:08 : II - Aux origines du fascisme
22:54 : III - La matrice fasciste
35:11 : IV - Les nouveaux visage du fascisme
50:54 : V - Combattre le fascisme du XXIe siècle
57:03 : Conclusion
Journalistes : Marin Ben, Félix Cumer
Montage : Thibault Lauras
Son : Baptiste Veilhan, Théo Duchesne
Graphisme : Morgane Sabouret, Margaux Simon
Production : Hicham Tragha
Directeur du développement des collaborations extérieures : Mathias Enthoven
Co-directrice de la rédaction : Soumaya Benaïssa
Directeur de la publication : Denis Robert
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The IDF does this to children every 🇮🇱day
🇬🇧British media pretends not to know
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#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten
#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon
#palestina #StopAIPAC #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism
They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers
Link: reuters.com/business/they-trie…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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It remains to be seen whether Serbia will keep its word and no longer indirectly arm Ukraine.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
Israel Hayom: Over 12 days, countries including #SaudiArabia, #Jordan, #US, #France, and #Britain participated in "unprecedented cooperation" to counter Iranian drones.
Everyone went to protect the genocidal regime of #Israel, but no one does anything to end the #genocide.
#IranUnderAttack #StopIsrael #Shame #Military
Linus Torvalds orders Kees Cook to be blocked after detecting suspicious alterations
A few days ago, an unusual incident shook the Linux kernel community. Linus Torvalds ordered the immediate ban of Kees Cook's account on kernel.org after detecting the existence of manipulated commits in the developer's Git repository.
Un grave incidente sacude la comunidad del kernel de Linux: Linus Torvalds bloquea a Kees Cook por commits manipulados.Darkcrizt (Desde Linux)
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Linus Torvalds order to block the Kees Cook's account after the detection of syuspicioiuus alterations
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A few days ago, an unusual incident occurred, which shook the Linux kernel community, and Linus Torvalds ordered the immediate blocking of Kees Cook's account at kernel.org, after detecting the existence of manipulated commits in this developer's Git repository.
Kees Cook, renowned for his leadership in Ubuntu's security team and for maintaining more than a dozen subsystems related to the safety of the Kernel, was temporarily banned from sending changes while the facts were clarified.
Alteration of authors and signatures in Kees Cook's repository
The problem was generated by a request for incorporation of change into the branch of the kernel 6.16, in which Linus identified references to a repository containing commits manipulated with his name as author and confirmer, despite not having made them. One of the most serious examples was the existence of a duplicate commit, identical in content to the original but with a different SHA1 hash, which falsely included the firm of Linus Torvalds.
These changes could not simply be attributed to an accident error during a git rebarate operation, as they involved the massive modification of sensitive information, including more than 6,000 rewritten confirmations, 330 of which bore Linus's name as author.
Torvalds' reaction: suspicions of deliberate manipulation
Linus Torvalds did not hide his concern and described the facts as potentially malicious:
One or two rewrites could be a mistake. But thousands of them, many with my forged signature, are not," he said. In response, Kees Cook explained that he had had recent technical problems that could have triggered the incident. His SSD unit reportedly had failures during copy operations, which had caused corruption in several repositories. After those mistakes, he tried to recover the status of his repository using redoor git and various automation tools.
However, these operations were carried out on critical branches, such as for-next/hardening and for-linus/hardening, which led to an accidental modification of the history of the repository, including the change in the authorship of commits. Despite his explanation, Linus was skeptical:
I don't understand how you can do an accidental overrun, let alone with this volume of alterations.In a later message, Kees Cook identified the likely source of the error: the combined use of two tools, git-filter-repo and b4 trailers, which manipulate the history of confirmations and trailers (labels as -off-by:) in commits.
This improper use of the utilities would have caused automatic rewriting of thousands of confirmations, including the author's replacement with the default value (in this case, Linus Torvalds), without Kees warning of the error at the time. Konstantin Ryabitsev, author of the b4 tool, confirmed this theory and assured that there was no malicious intention on Cook's part. In fact, the system was already generating warnings that were ignored.
After the situation was clarified, Kees Cook's access to kernel.org was restored. As a preventive measure, it has been announced that tool b4 will include a new security check, which will henceforth prevent the modification of commits whose author does not coincide with the identity of the current user. This seeks to prevent similar errors and protect the integrity of the kernel source code.
Kees, for his part, pledged to recreate the affected branches from individual patches and analyze in depth the steps that led to the error. While the incident has strained relations within the kernel development team, it has also highlighted the importance of cautiously using history rewriting tools, especially in projects as critical as the Linux core.
Finally, it should be mentioned that this incident between Linus Torvalds and Kees Cook serves as a warning about the dangers of manipulating the commissioning record and that thanks to the rapid intervention of the kernel.org officials and the transparency of the process, the situation has been controlled.
Finally, if you are interested in being able to know more about it, you can consult the details in the following link.
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Nice. Danes are protecting themselves against the grift that is "AI"
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Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government saysMiranda Bryant (The Guardian)
.deb package: hopelessly outdated.
86MB AppImage for the app: does not exist for the current version.
Developers of the app: we don't support AppImage anymore, use Flatpak.
Flatpak: let me install ~1GB of libs you already have.
Truly, we live in best of possible worlds.
Μου έστειλαν ένα βίντεο ενός δικηγόρου ονόματι Καραγιαννακίδη, ο οποίος μιλώντας για το σκάνδαλο #ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ είπε πως για τα έτη 23-24-25 που ακόμη δεν έχουν ελεγχθεί, το πρόστιμο υπολογίζεται σε 5.5ΔΙΣ ευρώ!!
Έλεγε ακόμη πως αρκετές ευρωπαϊκές χώρες ζητούν την μείωση των ευρωπαϊκών επιδοτήσεων στην Ελλάδα κατά 50%.
Αν επαληθευτούν οι δυό παραπάνω υποθέσεις, θα είναι τεράστιες, απερίγραπτες, οι επιπτώσεις, τόσο στους αγρότες, όσο και στους καταναλωτές
#science #archaeology #history
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Archaeologists have discovered a fragment of a soldier's wrist purse at the site of a temporary Roman camp in South Moravia, Czech Republic. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology NewsMark Milligan (HeritageDaily)
“He never left the hospital one moment since the war began and urged us to stay and provide humanitarian assistance. We don’t know what he did to deserve getting killed.”
Amid fears of annexation and displacement, Tel Aviv advances its normalization talkthecradle.co
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Der Schock sitzt tief – Premier Keir Starmer schlägt Alarm: Nigel Farage überholt alle. In den neuesten Umfragen liegt seine Reform-Partei klar an der Spitze – und würde bei einer Wahl die meisten Sitze im britischen Unterhaus gewinnen.exxpress.at
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It's end of June, and #NuclearPowerPlant|s in #France already have to decrease their power output because the water in the rivers is too warm to provide proper cooling.
#NuclearPower is not a sustainable, reliable source of energy unless we manage to stop the #climatecatastrophe first (which, realistically, we won't, even though we have to).
Source: iwr.de/ticker/frankreichs-atom…
We all know where this is heading
With RFK Jr. in Charge, Insurers Aren’t Saying If They’ll Cover Vaccines for Kids If Government Stops Recommending Them wired.com/story/insurers-wont-…
In the coming days, the United Kingdom government is moving full steam ahead to proscribe Palestine Action – a movement of young people with a conscience – asBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
The craven failure to broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is just the latest example of skewed journalistic values over Israel’s war, says former BBC journalist Karishma PatelKarishma Patel (The Guardian)
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Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
Link: nytimes.com/2025/07/01/technol…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The "Bizarre" Relations Between the Nazis and the #Zionists
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In the 1930s, the Nazi regime and some Zionist organizations had limited and controversial interactions. Despite Nazi antisemitism, both parties had overlapp...YouTube
Hack IKKO "AI powered" earbuds to run DOOM, stole OpenAI API key, customer data
Link: blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
So my journey with these earbuds started after I saw them on this Mrwhosetheboss video about pointless tech. This device seems to be also popular on TikTok. My suspicions were confirmed, this runs android. So of course i went ahead and bought them.Marcel (MGD Blog)
MAJOR EXPLOSION & Fire at Fireworks Facility in Yolo County, California - YouTube
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🚨 LIVE BREAKING NEWS: A massive explosion and fire has erupted at a fireworks manufacturing facility in Yolo County, California, near Esparto. Oakdale Fire!...YouTube
What is the Webb Telescope?NASA Webb Mission Team (NASA Science)
CTI: Scattered Spider is going to be targeting insurance orgs.
Insurance orgs: immediately announce ongoing security incidents
CTI: Scattered Spider is now going to be targeting airlines.
Airlines: immediately announce ongoing security incidents
Y'all realize you're getting played, right? The whole "Scattered Spider is announcing their next targets" is just them announcing the current but not-yet-publicized engagements. I would assume it's to put pressure on negotiations but have nothing to back that up besides vibes.
The suffragettes burned down a pavilion. They burned down mansions. They killed people.
Unions gave and received a LOT of violence in the process of getting us the weekend and the 40-hr work week.
I want you to remember this the next time someone argues that African-Americans are "undermining their own cause" with violence and/or vandalism at BLM protests.
Should women give the right to vote back because they "undermined their own cause" with violence and vandalism?
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Yarr citizens of the high seas! The Stop Killing Games movement is still ongoing and we've recently had a second wind. It's within reach!
We're all lovers of media in here, and games currently have no safeguard that guarantees that they won't be locked down long after being released and abandoned. If crackers help us, they can still be played long into the future, but many times there isn't such a possibility, specially in multiplayer games.
This initiative seeks to change that by mainly:
- Disallowing planned obsolesce in paid video games. (Ex: By disallowing phone-home based DRM after the game reaches end of life. Like in Ubisoft's The Crew)
- Ensuring that paid multiplayer games can still be reasonably played long into the future. (Ex: By releasing relevant server hosting software)
If you didn't sign yet, there is only one month left. Tell your friends too.
Disclaimer: Reminder post, sort of relevant since piracy movements have much to benefit from this initiative.
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Let's say you're company x budgeting y millions to make a game, after this passes, you may want to account for the fact that the EU may legislate the issue in the years it takes you to develop your game. Might as well work on compliance in advance.
Yeah, wishful thinking, I know.
EU has done some legislation on microtransactions, the most recent one being mandatory real-life currency price tags instead of the in-game currency ones.
It could be seen as a gambling issue rather than digital ownership, but it at least means they pay attention to video games.
Not Everyone With U.S. Citizenship Is Actually An American
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As we approach Independence Day, we should be honest about the forces that are dissolving our American nation.John Daniel Davidson (The Federalist)
Arrests Disrupted Clandestine PRC Ministry of State Security Intelligence Network Operating in the United States
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Two nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) made their initial appearances in federal court in Portland, Oregon, and Houston, Texas, yesterday to face charges issued out of the Northern District of California for acting as agents of the Gov…www.justice.gov
Recently, I've found myself walking several friends through what is essentially the same basic setup:
- Install Ubuntu server
- Install Docker
- Configure Tailscale
- Configure Dockge
- Set up automatic updates on Ubuntu/Apt and Dockge/Docker
- Self-host a few web apps, some publicly available, some on the Tailnet.
After realizing that this setup is generally pretty good for relative newcomers to self-hosting and is pretty stable (in the sense that it runs for a while and remains up-to-date without much human interference) I decided that I should write a few blog posts about how it works so that other people can set it up for themselves.
As of right now, there's:
- An introduction (with Ubuntu basics)
- Tailscale setup
- Optional Docker Explainer
- Dockge setup with watchtower for automatic updates
- MicroBin as a first self-hosted webapp
Coming soon:
- Immich
- Backups with Syncthing
- Jellyfin
- Elementary monitoring with Homepage
- Cloudflare Tunnels
Constructive feedback is always appreciated.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I am planning a backups article
Part of my series of articles about a "hands-off" self-hosting configuration, this one describes how to use Dockge to manage container stacks.prose.sh
The Belarusian leather industry reduced exports of semi-finished blue leather (tanned leather) from 45% in 2012 to 10% in 2025.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
You don't like patents and/or copyrights because you believe that property can only rightfully be owned collectively and/or that the rightfullness of ownership depends on who you are, and/or by how much you already have (or don't have,) and/or by how high or low your social status might be.
I don't like patents, nor copyrights, because ownership is ethically justified SOLELY and EXCLUSIVELY by the fact that what is claimed as "property" is subject to rivalrous consumption:
Intellectual property is illegitimate because ideas and information are non-rivalrous and non-excludable by nature. Unlike physical goods, which are scarce and rivalrous (e.g., if I take your apple, you no longer have it), ideas can be shared infinitely without diminishing their availability. Intellectual property laws artificially create scarcity by granting monopolies, which distorts markets and restricts the free flow of knowledge.
Here's a comprehensive essay on the topic => cdn.mises.org/15_2_1.pdf
Gazans define steadfastness. They have bounced back before, and they will again.
'How Gaza became a rich canvas for Palestinian art' | The Independent
#Palestine #Gaza #genocide #art #soumoud
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Art is flourishing in the carnage left behind by Israel's military onslaught last year. Donald Macintyre reports.The Independent
#Pogrom in #Lvov
A Slaughter of #Jews in #Ukraine
Ukrainian mobs went on a rampage against #Jews. They stripped and beat Jewish women and men in the streets of Lvov. #Ukrainian nazi banterites supported by Germans killed about 4,000 Jews in #Lvov during this pogrom.
#US forces discovered this 8mm footage in SS barracks in Augsberg, Germany, after the war.
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