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US outspends everyone on war (74% of global military budget) while Global South rises. China now leads 57/64 key technologies—US only 7.
BRICS+ and South-South trade surge as nations ditch dollar dominance. From Burkina Faso’s anti-French coups to Latin America’s left wave, nations are shaking off western dominance.
In July 2015, social and political movements gathered for the Second Dilemmas of Humanity Conference and set in motion what would become Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
The The Stratospheric Projectile Entry Experiment on Dynamics (SPEED), a two-stage stratospheric drop test architecture, is currently under development to bridge the state-of-the-art gap that many NASA flagship missions require to reduce system risk and enable more optimized designs via margin reduction. To do this, a two-stage vehicle will drop from a high-altitude balloon and […]
For Dr. Sullivan, the damage was much worse. He says his lung capacity was slashed by HALF after taking the COVID shots the government recommended.
After a period of being unsure if the damage was in his head or not, Dr. Sullivan was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, a dangerous condition that elevates blood pressure and forces the heart to work much harder to pump blood to the lungs.
Leinenpflicht wegen Brut- und Setzzeit ist vorbei. Seit heute. Erster Typ, der seinen Hund neben/hinter dem Auto herlaufen lässt, noch dazu auf Feldwegen, auf denen Autos nicht fahren dürfen, UND im Naturschutzgebiet – heute.
Has anyone else noticed that in #gimp3, the lasso tool keeps defaulting to "subtract" mode rather than "add"? Anyone know a way to stop this? I keep drawing careful selections only to hit enter and realize that I've subtracted it from my existing selection and need to start over.
@bodhipaksa Yes, but that doesn't help if you've already got a complex selection you've just accidentally subtracted from, while intending to add to it.
right, not using GIMP 3 (because Debian), but in my version the "Free select tool" has a mode in its properties that you can change. Then that dialog has a button at the bottom that says "Save tool preset".
I wonder if it is related and pressing enter is changing the behaviour, because saving a preset should definitely set the default (unless there's another bug there).
Was fixed in 3.0.2; depending on your version this may be red herring.
Hi! Hmm - is it reseting to subtract mode each time you restart GIMP or when you switch tools? I haven't been able to replicate so far, but I'll look into it.
By chance, if you hold Shift while in Subtract mode, does it switch you back to Add mode?
@CmykStudent Not sure - just know that I have *never* consciously switched the lasso mode to "subtract" but I *constantly* have to switch it back to "add."
It may be that this setting is being restored every time I relaunch Gimp (which is pretty often, as Gimp 3 crashes a *lot*).
Holding shift in subtract mode allows for temporary adding (and vice versa). But since my default assumption is that I'm in "add" mode, I don't hold the shift key, because that would subtract from current selection.
It may be that if you change the setting to Add but GIMP crashes, the setting isn't being saved on exit. If you open GIMP, switch the setting, close and reopen, is Add retained?
As for crashes, please feel free to report the stacktrace on our bug tracker if you haven't already: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/ac… We're trying to fix them all, but some are difficult to reproduce without more info (like, some bugs only affect Flatpak, others only on macOS, etc).
Interesting. It doesn't do that for me (with Debian packages gimp-3.0.4-3). Now that I've clicked the "Add" mode button, my lasso tool is now set to add by default, even when changing tools, even in different images' windows, even after restarting GIMP.
(That said, I have trained myself to use those keyboard shortcuts, except when I accidentally confuse Shift (add) and Control (subtract), at which point I get the opposite of what I wanted.)
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. Omer Bartov NYT JUL 15, 2025
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A little reminder that DuckDuckGo is venture capital (VC) funded.
The way VC works:
1. You get VC 2. You grow as fast as you can (or fail fast) 3. You sell (either to a larger corporation or to the public in an IPO; this is called the “exit”)
(In case any of you are surprised by recent/future developments.)
- News (MSN) - AI - <insert future enshittification to sweeten the exit here>
(I’m sure there are some I’ve missed; I’m currently paying for Kagi and don’t use it day to day. Not saying Kagi is perfect in any way either; this is not an endorsement.)
This is the Silicon Valley “startup” model. Startups are not long-term sustainable businesses or small businesses. A startup is a temporary business designed to either grow exponentially and exit (sell) or to fail fast.
this. The business is a speculative asset, not generating cashflow from customers but designed to be sold to a greater fool(s) for an inflated valuation.
@aral@ar.al I use DDG (switched to the noai version recently) but I fully expect to have to bail at some point. Loyalty to any corporate owned internet service is a mugs game these days eh.
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From a French Revolution museum exhibit in Paris… they wore jewelry with guillotines… ahahaha This is a pair of guillotine earrings with the heads of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI.
After its defeat, Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich was coaxed back to life by the very forces that once conspired to defeat it.
Germany today has dangerously embarked on a rearmament campaign to prepare for a supposed Russian threat.
The #EU #DMA compliance workshops exist to regulate gatekeepers powers, yet both #Apple and #Google treat them like "product launches" where non-engineers show slides and can never answer questions.
The Android play-field, instead of taking steps to respect the DMA, Google shrinks what Android even is. If Apple can own its closed iOS, Google figured they can privatize Android?
Maybe it being #FOSS for 17 years was just a glitch and now Android is out of the famous Google betas?
* "Android is... quarterly source-code over the wall called AOSP" * "Android is... not GMS or Play Integrity" * "Android is... not the device trees or driver binaries of Pixel phones" * "Android is... not part of the monthly security reports"
I think they definitely have begun to realize that they sort of painted themselves into a corner by giving us something so open. They want to be like Apple and make money hand over fist locking people into a platform -- and honestly, some of what Gapps is doing these days and how they're doing stuff exclusive to the most recent Pixels only is really starting to get there. I'm convinced Google will legitimately lock Android down soon and I don't think third parties are ready for this.
I really wish people would put their collective foot down on Google's current practices now, before it's too late, but we all know it will only happen after it's way too late.
Baltimore has started treated violent crime like a public health issue. The city is literally "sending social workers," as the law-and-order right derisively puts it. And it's working. popular.info/p/the-secret...
"It's cheaper to buy the default search box everywhere in the world than it is to make a product that is so good that even if we tried another search engine, we'd still prefer Google. This is enshittification."
It's been more than a year since I gave up on Google Search (I switched to Kagi.com and never looked back). I don't miss it. It had gotten terrible. It's gotten worse since, thanks to AI (of course):
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Day to of watching the neighborhood trash sitting at the curb and rotting quickly in the heat. For some reason our trash company failed to pickup yesterday.
I went to the mailbox yesterday, the wind shifted direction and I almost puked from the smell.
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⚠️ Cavete: A view of the #damascus skyline following Israeli air strikes that hit the Syrian defence ministry, amid growing regional escalation involving #syria, iran, and (of course) Israel
Damascus, Syria – A view of the Damascus skyline following Israeli air strikes that hit the Syrian defence ministry, amid growing regional escalation involvi...
⚠️ Cavete #Sweida / #suweyda is under #siege: sniper fire, drone strikes, and shelling continue as #civilians remain trapped without power, internet, or access to medical aid
Sweida is under siege: sniper fire, drone strikes, and shelling continue as civilians remain trapped without power, internet, or access to medical aid.
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Bertolt Brecht. Das wurde alles so oft gesagt, dass es schon in Stein gemeißelt wurde. Entweder zusammen oder gar nicht. "Gar nicht" hat gerade Konjunktur .. mit Geschrei! #unity
Last year, when the Dems were in the majority of the Senate, they did not allow him to hold an official hearing, with an official report that will be forever available. Now he can.
A very good article on awful Google AI search results and how Google have ruined their own reputation by wrecking their workforce, by @pluralistic. A quote:
'Publishers and advertisers have more concentrated money than readers, but the dominant theory of antitrust since the Reagan administration is something called "consumer welfare," which holds that monopolistic conduct is only to be condemned if it makes consumers worse off. If a company screws its workers or suppliers in order to deliver better products and/or better prices, then "consumer welfare" holds that the government should celebrate and protect the monopolist for improving "efficiency."
But all that is true only if Google AI Overviews are good. And they are very, very bad.'
This part of the article is very enlightening from a worker perspective, especially when Google upper management have relatively recently fired around 10,000 workers:
'Once Google stops growing, it becomes a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price. This would be very bad news for Googlers (whose personal wealth is disproportionately tied up in Google stock) and for Google itself (because many of its key personnel will depart when the shares they've banked for retirement collapse, and new hires will expect to be paid in scarce dollars, not abundant stock). For a company like Google, "maturity" is unlikely to be a steady state – rather, it's likely to be a prelude to collapse.
Which is why Google is so desperately sweaty to maintain the narrative about its growth.'
Reading this article now. "Housefresh released its latest report on Google's enshittification, this time with an emphasis on the "AI Overviews" that now surmount every search results page."
It also strikes me that that AI overview is also likely an attempt to supplant Wikipedia's place in the digital landscape, since that's the actually-somewhat-reliable thing that would come up in that position otherwise.
Which I'm sure Google would be •just fine• with....
Russia invades a sister country and the World goes bombastic! Isreal bombs every country around it and the Western World looks the other way, especially the US.
Finished reading Tress of the Emerald Sea, and was good, even if not what I was expecting. How much is a Cosmere book? I don't know; if it wasn't written as a fairy tale, may be it would have landed better. 3/5 for me.
My 7th book of 2025, but no way I'll read 24 like previous years.
Next one in the queue: Attack Surface by @pluralistic -- looking forward to it, loved Little Brother and Homeland.
@doragasu not an expert on @pluralistic but so far Little Brother and Homeland are two books I can recommend with perhaps the caveat that are very real in current Trump's USA.
They are positive and optimistic, but I would say it may not be for everybody.
"SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! SYRIE / ROJAVA – Après avoir massacré délibérément les Alaouites sur la côte syrienne, les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas ont massacré des centaines de civils druzes à Soueïda ces derniers jours. Comme sur la côte syrienne, un bain de sang vient d’être commis par des […] L’article SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! est
SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! SYRIE / ROJAVA – Après avoir massacré délibérément les Alaouites sur la côte syrienne, les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas ont massacré des centaines de civils druzes à Soueïda ces derniers jours.
τα καλά τα κάρβουνα ανάβουν δύσκολα. αν ανάβει εύκολα έχει παραφίνη και ποιος ξέρει τι άλλο και κάνει για θυμίαμα όχι για λουλά. αν έχεις γκαζάκι βάλτο εκεί πάνω μέχρι να ανάψει.
Just 15 minutes of fully clothed infrared sunlight exposure triggered systemic effects and measurable improvements in vision — even with eyes completely covered.
"This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons…
Com uma das mais antigas e suntuosas estufas do estado de Minas Gerais, o Bola Bar oferece mais de 40 opções de petiscos, disponíveis do amanhecer até o encerramento da cozinha.
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« Côté français, l’impunité d’Israël s’est aussi traduite par celle de son premier ministre Benyamin #Nétanyahou, qui a survolé l’Hexagone pour se rendre à Washington le 7 juillet, malgré le mandat d’arrêt de la Cour pénale internationale contre lui.» Face aux crimes israéliens, l’UE choisit l’inaction et le déshonneur mediapart.fr/journal/internati…
Le conseil européen des affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne n’a finalement rien statué sur son accord d’association avec Israël, pourtant bafoué. Les 27 se contentent d’un accord sans garantie sur l’aide humanitaire à Gaza.
Seite an Seite mit rechtsextremen Hetzern eine Kampagne gegen eine angesehen Juristin lostreten, die daraufhin massiv bedroht wird, und wenn sie sich wehrt „Resilienz“ und „Kritikfähigkeit“ einfordern, ist dreiste Täter-Opfer-Umkehr, politisches Gaslighting und menschlich einfach unter aller Sau.
📢 The Israeli Central Court issued a ruling rejecting the appeal submitted by the Jerusalemite Al-Basha family, which sought to overturn the decision to evict them from their historic home in the Old City of #jerusalem
🔹 The home, built before 1930, consists of three floors and directly overlooks 🕌 #AlAqsa Mosque. It occupies a strategic location connecting key streets in the Old City
Trump’s ICE directive is a repudiation of the very principles invoked in the Declaration of Independence, reinstating the royal prerogative of arbitrary imprisonment.
Trump administration bans bond hearings, paving way for mass indefinite detention of immigrants - World Socialist Web Site
"A single Google search requires half a millilitre of water, while ChatGPT consumes 500 millilitres for every five to 50 prompts. Multiply these figures by billions of daily interactions, add streaming services and cloud storage, and the result is staggering: data centre water consumption has reached crisis levels, with some facilities using more water annually than entire cities."
Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
"According to industry data, a 1-megawatt data centre can consume up to 25.5 million litres of water annually just for cooling – equivalent to the daily water consumption of approximately 300,000 people. To put this in perspective, a medium-sized 15-megawatt data centre consumes as much water annually as either three average-sized hospitals or more than two 18-hole golf courses."
Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
"Hyperscale facilities operated by companies like Google demonstrate the true scale of the challenge. Google’s data centres average 550,000 gallons (2.1 million litres) daily, totalling approximately 200 million gallons (760 million litres) annually per facility. Microsoft’s global operations consumed nearly 6.4 million cubic metres of water (approximately 1.69 billion gallons) in their most recent reporting year – a 34% increase from the previous year."
Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
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