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Ubuntu plans an immutable desktop distro

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Red Hat drops LibreOffice RPMs for Flatpak

phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Less…

ypsidanger.com/the-distributio…

GNOME will get a flatpak syncing tool and a revamped System panel

blog.timfb.dev/posts/2023/05/3…

gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/…

medium.com/@gautamy672/gsoc-20…

GNOME could get a full light theme, and official fractional scaling support

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GNOME fractional scaling support

omglinux.com/gnome-fractional-…

Linux Mint 21.2 will bring touchpad gestures

9to5linux.com/linux-mint-21-2-…

Portals will now work better with all DEs or tiling WMs

bassi.io/articles/2023/05/29/c…

Gaming News: Nvidia Wayland support, Wine...

gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/nvid…

winehq.org/announce/8.9

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Police Quest IV: Open Season - A Fair & Balanced Retrospective


The most infamous and unpopular entry in the Police Quest series is up on the chopping block. Ostensibly "designed" by former LAPD police chief Daryl F. Gates (but not really), this game is notorious all the wrong reasons.

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"Chief Gates Comes to Oakhurst: A Cop Drama"
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Repression: Erfolg für Abu Sitta https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/504100.repression-erfolg-für-abu-sitta.html

"A bunch of heads are rolling over #Tesla’s declining sales. All except the main one that has had a clear negative impact on sales: #ElonMusk." electrek.co/2025/07/15/tesls-l…

'Very busy schedule': Trump's special envoy arrives in Kyiv for weeklong stay en.topwar.ru/267980-ochen-napr…

It tracks. Rutte is also an enthusiastic genocide supporter. todon.eu/@b9AcE/11485838569129…


War hawk NATO chief Rutte "says Brazil, China and India could be hit hard by sanctions".
reuters.com/world/china/nato-s…
Rutte is Secretary General of NATO, the military bloc, not king of the Atlantic. You have literally no say in matters of foreign trade. None. Zero. Regardless of whether one agrees with your statement or not.
But your escalating rhetoric does increase the risk for everyone and in particular every resident of the war bloc.
STFU.

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War hawk NATO chief Rutte "says Brazil, China and India could be hit hard by sanctions".
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Rutte is Secretary General of NATO, the military bloc, not king of the Atlantic. You have literally no say in matters of foreign trade. None. Zero. Regardless of whether one agrees with your statement or not.
But your escalating rhetoric does increase the risk for everyone and in particular every resident of the war bloc.
STFU.

Trump’s “Consistent” Views on Federal Reserve Head Jerome Powell and the Wealth of the Wealthiest
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"The head of the Federal Reserve Board has been viewed as the second most powerful person in the government. In theory, this person heads the body that oversees the country’s monetary policy with the power to set interest rates, which shapes the economy by

Framework 16" laptop, Nextcloud's HUGE AI update, Twitter goes Open Source: Linux & FOSS News


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Framework announces a 16 inch laptop with upgradeable GPUs

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Nextcloud Hub 4 is a giant update

nextcloud.com/blog/hub-4-pione…

Twitter will open source its algorithm at the end of march

bgr.com/tech/elon-musk-says-tw…

Screen sharing on Wayland is fixed

blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog…

GNOME 44 released, with a lot of user focus

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blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2023/03/2…

The aCROPalypse is a big screenshot cropping vulnerability

androidcentral.com/phones/pixe…

xda-developers.com/windows-11-…

Gaming News: FSR3, AMD driver updates, Wine 8.4

phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux…

winehq.org/announce/8.4

gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/amd-…

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Mi suegra tiene un problema muy grave - además de ser muy facha-: cuando no conoce la respuesta a una pregunta es incapaz de responderte "no lo sé". Se lo inventa descabelladamente. En este artículo, la IA es mi suegra y los millonarios son mi cría de ocho años preguntándole a la abuela. Al menos mi hija nos tiene a nosotros para decirle qué es mentira.

Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

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Mit einer neuen Verordnung zur Umsetzung des Selbstbestimmungsgesetzes will das Bundesinnenministerium frühere Geschlechtseinträge und Vornamen dauerhaft speichern und an andere Behörden übermitteln. Die Begründung bleibt vage – die Kritik von Verbänden ist dafür umso deutlicher.

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Donald Trump’s Greatest “Triumph”
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"Yes, he’s done quite a job so far and, in a way, it couldn’t be simpler to describe. Somehow, he’s managed to take the greatest looming threat to humanity and put it (excuse the all-too-appropriate image) on the back burner. I’m thinking, of course, about climate change. My guess is that you haven’t read much More
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Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

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“Move fast and break things.”

The things:

- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy

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US gov’t is very afraid of BRICS and dedollarization, Trump insiders reveal. That’s why he’s attacking Brazil geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/0…

@burnoutqueen@todon.nl > What actually changed my mind was watching documentaries and reading books and interacting with people online in good faith to have discussions. How many people were needlessly dying on a daily basis while you were having those "*discussions*"? How many more people have to die while others are afforded their own opportunities for discussion? You do see why the situation today might be a little different than the situation you went through, no?


When people attacked me in my labor Zionist phase, it just made me dig into my heels and get defensive about my views.

What actually changed my mind was watching documentaries and reading books and interacting with people online in good faith to have discussions.


Learning the Right Lessons From Britain’s Response to 7/7
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"On July 7, 2005, four young men carried out coordinated suicide bombings on London’s public transport system, killing 52 people and injuring over 700. The attackers weren’t foreign operatives; they were British citizens. The shock was profound. The country mourned, then mobilized. The government promised security measures. Laws were

Little spotted kiwi found on New Zealand's mainland for first time in 50 years | RNZ News:

"Conservationists are delighted after a unique kiwi was rediscovered in Aotearoa for the first time in 50 years.

The little spotted kiwi, or kiwi pukupuku, was first spotted in the remote Adams Wilderness Area in the West Coast …

Despite years of searching, the last known sighting of a kiwi pukupuku on the mainland was in 1978. "

Bullitt (1968 film with Steve McQueen as Lt. Frank Bullitt of the San Fran Police Dept.)

The car chase scene with Lt. Bullitt in a 1968 Ford Mustang chasing 2 hit men in a 1968 Dodge Charger showed the improved handling of a lighter weight vehicle in city driving. But it seemed ridiculous the way it caught back up to the Charger on the open road after the bad guys had caused the Mustang to slide out and stop.

youtu.be/tRx8N7mJU9g

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#1968
After a storm there must be a calm
They catch me in the farm
You sound your alarm
Desmond Dekker [Dacres], Jamaican reggae pioneer (The Aces) would be 83
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Should We Garden Our Forests?
counterpunch.org/2025/07/16/sh…

"A new study published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management “Significant mortality of old trees across a dry forest landscape, Oregon,” found that older larch and ponderosa pine are suffering increased death rates. Old growth ponderosa pine like this are dying due to climate change and increased competition for resources like water. Photo by George Wuerthner The More
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Israeli airstrikes hit southern Syria amid ceasefire efforts in Suwayda en.abna24.com/news/1708250/Isr…

SpaceX Grows Israel's Spy Network & Trump's USAID Admin Gives $30M To "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" thelastamericanvagabond.com/sp… #TheDailyWrapUp #EpsteinCoverup #Israel #USAID #SpaceX

Trump Confuses Telling Blatant Lies With a Straight Face With Competence
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"We all know and expect that a president’s top appointees are picked in large part because of their willingness to carry out a president’s agenda. But usually these are people with some experience in the areas that they are overseeing. Insofar as this is not the case, they can generally rely on the

L’État, la révolution et l’autogestion. La question autogestionnaire et la gauche en France depuis 1968
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"Le texte ci-dessous est la retranscription, légèrement reprise, d’une communication faite lors de la conférence internationale Historical materialism Paris, « Conjurer la catastrophe », qui s’est tenue du 26 au 28 juin […]
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Israel's Relentless Attacks on Gaza and Prospects for a Ceasefire dropsitenews.com/p/latest-deve…

‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts
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Amazon will die Welt beherrschen
Wir lieben unsere Kunden.
Amazon nur Ihre Daten!
Buchhändler arbeiten mit ~ 25% Spanne,
Amazon will 60% von den Verlagen.
Wir bezahlen in unserer Stadt Abgaben und Steuern, Amazon nicht.
Wir haben faire Arbeitsbedingungen, Amazon nicht. Wieso kauft man Bücher über Amazon? Wir haben in Deutschland Preisbindung d.h. ob in München, Buxtehude oder bei Amazon - Neubücher kosten das Gleiche!

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bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckglpk… "We focus on these incidents, but of course these weren't the only children killed in Gaza [on Sunday]," Rose said.

"Every single day, since the start of the war, an average of classroom full of children have been killed."

LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza, Syria amid alarm over rise in starving children | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
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- UN says 10 children per day lose their legs in Gaza
- WATCH: Thousands in northern Gaza flee as Israel issues evacuation threats
- Israeli forces kill 11 Palestinians in overnight attacks

#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Israel
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#ReligionIsPoison #SocialistGunClub #2A

It is ironic that gun purchases by the typical conservative types has drastically gone down as purchases by liberals has gone drastically UP since November. Shit like this is why, and I'm not going to shed any tears if bullies get shot. If you think gun culture is all MAGA, check into the
Socialist Rifle Association. If you want any gun education or any gun question answered by a LGBTQ+ safe, mixed POC, progressive democratic socialist, DM me.

Face au 14 juillet belliciste, antisocial et fascisant de Macron, notre 14 juillet 2025 sera pacifique, patriotique et antifasciste !


Déclaration du Pôle de Renaissance communiste en France

Le 14 juillet 1935, le grand défilé parisien du Front populaire impulsé par le PCF et par la CGTU sous les plis mêlés des drapeaux rouges et tricolores se concluait au stade Buffalo aux accents de la Marseillaise et de l’Internationale tour à tour entonnées par Jacques Duclos. Allait suivre la victoire du Front populaire aux élections de 36 avec à la clef, la dissolution des ligues fascistes, les grèves accompagnées des occupations d’usine, de grandes avancées sociales et surtout…. la classe ouvrière devenant pour la première fois l’avant-garde reconnue de la Nation à l’initiative du Parti communiste français.

Le 14 juillet 1945, une immense manifestation parisienne célébrait la victoire des peuples sur le nazisme à l’issue. Le rôle déterminant de l’Armée rouge dans la victoire remportée sur Hitler était alors universellement reconnu et, en France même, nul ne se fût risqué à minimiser l’importance de la Résistance communiste intérieure dans la libération de notre pays. Du reste, le « Parti des Fusillés » obtenait alors près de 30% des suffrages tandis que la CGT réunifiée présidée par Frachon comptait cinq millions d’adhérents… Aile marchante du gouvernement d’unité patriotique issu du CNR, les ministres communistes Thorez, Croizat, Billoux, Marcel Paul, Casanova (Duclos étant alors président de l’Assemblée nationale) allaient promptement mettre en place la Sécurité sociale, les retraites par répartition, la généralisation des conventions collectives, le Code du travail, les statuts du fonctionnaire, du mineur et de l’électricien-gazier. Ce volet social était d’ailleurs adossé aux nationalisations de Renault, de l’Énergie, de l’Aéronautique (SNECMA), des Charbonnages et des principales banques. Tout cela fut accompli en deux ans car dès 1947, les ministres communistes furent exclus du gouvernement sur l’ordre des États-Unis désireux d’engager mondialement la croisade antisoviétique qu’on allait bientôt surnommer « guerre froide ».

Eh bien, le 14 juillet 2025 dessiné par Macron se situera aux antipodes de ces deux 14 juillet dignes du grandiose 14 juillet 1789. Sous l’impulsion du pouvoir actuel, la France officielle est en effet devenue le fer de lance de la marche à la guerre continentale que projette l’UE-OTAN arrimée aux dirigeants maladivement anti-russes de Londres. En témoigne le très agressif pacte militaire conclu ce 10 juillet, sans la moindre consultation préalable des deux Parlements nationaux concernés, par MM. Macron et Starmer en vue de la coordination des forces nucléaires anglaise et française. Cette marche de plus en plus précipitée des forces euro-atlantiques vers le « conflit global de haute intensité » tourné contre la Russie, mais aussi contre la Chine populaire (ouvertement ciblée par la cheffe de la « diplomatie » européenne Kaja Kallas), vise à maintenir l’hégémonie planétaire chancelante de l’Axe euro-atlantique (flanqué du régime pronazi de Kiev et des dirigeants génocidaires d’Israël !) sur la « majorité mondiale » que représente notamment le mouvement planétaire des BRICS. Y compris si cette hégémonie devait être préservée au prix d’une troisième guerre mondiale possiblement exterminatrice pour notre pays, si ce n’est pour toute l’humanité, voire pour l’ensemble du vivant ?

Ajoutons que le prétendu « isolationnisme » de Donald Trump et son soi-disant « abandon » de Kiev relèvent en réalité d’une nouvelle division du travail entre les forces euro-atlantiques, Trump préparant avant tout une guerre d’agression contre la Chine sur fond de mainmise israélo-américaine sur le Proche-Orient alors que l’UE, à nouveau dominée par l’impérialisme allemand en plein réarmement, est chargée par Trump de mener la charge contre la Fédération de Russie.

En outre, la marche à la guerre impérialiste s’accompagne comme toujours d’une régression sociale massive que le gouvernement Bayrou-Retailleau est chargé de mener contre ce qui subsiste des conquêtes de la Libération et du produire en France industriel, halieutique et agricole.

Enfin, les processus de fascisation de l’UE, mais aussi de la Ve « République » en voie de dissolution dans l’État fédéral européen en gestation, s’accélèrent sur fond de montée des extrêmes droites et d’euro-criminalisation des mouvements de soutien à Gaza. Du reste, l’euro-banalisation des néonazis kiéviens s’accompagne de persécutions anticommunistes caractérisées (Tchéquie, Ukraine, Pologne…), tout cela dans l’absolu silence de la fausse gauche atlantiste.
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