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As the Israeli regime continued to violate the ceasefire and carried out multiple airstrikes on Rafah in southern Gaza, extremist Israeli ministers openly called for a full resumption of the war against the enclave.
Here's another Halloween-inspired mix, which is the VAMPIRE MIX, all about vampires.
Add any not on here that you know about. Three that didn't fit on here were by... Christian Death, Sting, and Diamond Head. Blue Oyster Cult also have another vampire ditty.
AWS outage affecting Fortnite, Roblox, Reddit, and many others is close to fixed, with Amazon saying services are showing 'significant signs of recovery'
Once we rid ourselves of the nazis, we MUST have REAL candidates who will work to serve people and planet by ending ICE, prosecuting wrongdoers. Such justice must turn its attention toward the abject corruption of people like Alito, Kav and Thomas. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oโฆ
Speaking about taxation innovations, Yuri Seliverstov identified several important blocks. The first one is rates specified in Belarusian rubles. It is necessary to bring them up to date, to index them taking into account inflation.
Apparently, G'MIC is now available on the Snap Store! I'm not a big fan of Snap, but if it helps users install G'MIC more easily, thatโs definitely great news! ๐
I hope the author of this one will test the package properly and maintain it.
Features like internet-update (update filter definitions) require often very specific package container pass-through rules and storage rules and are often victim of common bugs introduced by this type of "containerized packaging" when it's done by someone not knowing the existence of this type of feature.
Iโd like to introduce you to @casey who joined the fediverse a few days ago.
Casey has been holding video calls with people from Gaza independently of us to verify them and protect them from scammers. And sheโs been helping to carry their voices online with her videos starting on Instagram, then Bluesky, and now here on Mastodon.
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Thank you so much for the warm introduction โบ๏ธ itโs very nice to be here and to have connected with you. I look forward to learning more about the fediverse and continuing our work alongside each other to support our dear friends in Gaza โฅ๏ธ
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The U.S. Federal Reserve will host a Payments Innovation Conference tomorrow to discuss crypto, stablecoins, and tokenized assets with top industry leaders.
Keir Starmerโs rush to unleash Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans on the streets of Birmingham shows an astonishing obsession with normalising Israeli apartheid โ and must be opposed. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/starmโฆ
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The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) demolished two structures in the Wadi Qaddum neighborhood of Silwan district in Jerusalem, while settlers attacked two Palestinian areas in the east of the holy city and in the south of Bethlehem.
Beneath the rubble in Gaza is a hidden crisis.Public services were suspended during the war and waste piled up.Municipal officials say piles of filthy rubbis...
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I really do not understand "The Line" living in NYC, one of the more dense cities in the world, every day I appreciate the way we've solved the problems created by having so many people in one place.
And every day I see dozens of ways we could do it better.
But each new idea in urban planning has many interdependent impacts. Even ideas that sound wonderful can have perverse consequences. Urban Density is a body of knowledge developed over thousands of years of human history. 1/
It's critical that "solutions" to problems like housing, transportation, urban ecology, etc have been tested not just in a computer simulation but by people who have lived with all of these ideas in real cities and who know what really happens.
Designing a city like a giant appliance is madness. This was the insight of Jane Jacobs: catastrophic development always risks catastrophic failure.
To make futuristic densities the city must evolve in conversation with human activity. 2/
This isn't to say you can't ever think big. In fact, it's important to strive to implement big plans, but the process where they are transformed and adapted to fit the living mess that is any city is kind of the whole point?
I want to see the city of one billion people. Nobody knows how to build it yet. It must grow.
I mean that I don't think that "The Line" was to be a car-free utopia. Yes, it is car-free, which is great. But overall a lot of the entire concept of that city feels really dystopian.
Is it not just a way to get rid of a lot of money? In Saudi Arabia there is soooo much money and everything that's being built there is totally oversized and uneconomic.
A friend just travelled through Saudi Arabia and everything is just weird. For The Line and similar projects they first had to build completely new ordinary cities just to house all the workers.
It's not meant to be practical, but to show wealth.
I'd never think of living there because of the regime in control of it. The general concept of keeping human activity as far away from the natural environment as possible is a laudable one.
It's just another very stupid idea pitched to or originating from a ruthless autocrat that'll eventually end up buried in sand dunes.. By the time Muhammad bin Salman meets his maker, the Saudi desert will be dotted with super-size artifacts fit to close a dozen Planet of the Apes sequels.
They lost me at "autonomous services by 'leveraging' 'AI'."
I heard "designed by world leading architects"โmy dad would have died in paroxysms of laughter. He worked in construction for most of his adult life, & had nothing good to say about architects. "It may be pretty af, but you can't โขbuildโข it.
I'm not seeing experts in โขanyโข other field quoted as having input into the design of this thing. >
What if we could start again? THE LINE rethinks everything we know about how people live, work and play. A 170 km-long vertical city, designed around people,...
The geometry of โThe Lineโ seems nonsensical in terms of transport connections and accessibility, whether by car, train or on foot.
"If we randomly pick two people from the city, they will be, on average, 57โkm apart. ... if we pick two random people in Johannesburg, they are only 33โkm apart... The Line needs at least 86 train stations to guarantee that everyone is within walking distance of a station..."
Saudi Arabia plans to construct a new city, home to 9 million people. The most relevant aspect is its form, a line with a surprising length of 170โkm.
You might be interested in Geoffrey West "Scale: the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies." In his research he observes that citties don't perform as well in scaling as biological organisms. There is no clear conclusion as of why that is but well everybody who lived in a city has some ideas I figure.
My guess is the long term population of the earth will be around 1 Billion. In the next hundred years or so 7/8 of the population will disappear so designing 1B person cities is not a goal we should have. This will happen due to reduced birthrate, famine, and conflict induced by the inevitable decline of fossil fuel availability, and climate change. The Limits To Growth gave us the blueprint for the range of possibilities, all of them involve overshoot and collapse.
What make a city infastructure feel alive to me is that it is an amalgam of different choices layered over hundreds of years. Thousands of tiny choices: how thick to make a window frame, how tall above street level is the main floor. Buildings built by individuals then repurposed, styles changing over time. Untold layers built up over decades.
A single mind, or even a team of minds, is not able to replicate decades of choices, to capture that humanity. Sterility reigns because it's easier to use standardized forms. Function becomes less important than ease of decision making.
Planned cimmunities like this is always about control. One mind making the choices, either to earn money off the venture or control people. Everything else is window dressing, a sales job.
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exactly. Cities are complex, chaotic systems relying on a collective network of individuals that emerge and flow within a space. The Line is a physical manifestation of rigid, dominating order with no interconnection. Antithetical in theory and morphology to what makes a city work.
Agree completely. The Line, to me, is the ultimate failure to appreciate the complexity of even mediocre urban planning, or the idea that a city is (and must be) in constant flux, and a product of its residents.
There are apparently people for whom a "city" is supposed to be a line item in their CV, representing some sort of abstract art to be appreciated from above. These people need to find a different vocation.
Let's say they build the line. The temptation to just... stick a shop just outside of it in the empty desert but close to so many people (let's assume people go live in it for some reason too) will be intolerable.
The enforcement needed to keep secret shops hidden in the rocks just outside the line from cropping up will be immense.
And why commute when you could pitch a tent right by your work in a little hole just outside the widow of your job location?
Go to https://ziprecruiter.com/pb to try ZipRecruiter for free today!Saudi Arabia's Neom megaprojects are running into major financial problems according to ...
I feel that Jane Jacobs had a lot to say about the choice between these two things, and while I'm sad that we lost her, I'm sort of relieved that she didn't live to see the Line.
If it's not a moving train how do you keep people from using the space to the left and right of the line?
The pressure to develop will be immense. I don't even think the desert and an authoritarian government could stop it.
It will be surrounded by shanty towns. Also it will need to be since they have not thought about where all of the poor people who will do all the work to keep it clean and pretty will live.
Why do rich people like to live in big cities? Let's think about it.
Labor. If you want luxury you need labor. People you can hire to come do things for you! It amazes me that the people who do this the most don't seem to really understand it.
@afeinman @cstross Well, fuck, you're right. Here was I, a rube, thinking "why tf would you try to build it in a desert, and not in a place where humans can actually, you know, survive"?
But you're absolutely right. The reason to go to a literal desert is that you get to have a Judge Dredd style Cursed Earth right outside your walls.
@jered @henryk @afeinman @cstross If you're the House of Saud and the inescapability of decarbonization looms, you desperately want the entire population somewhere contained, constrained, and controlled.
You especially want this to be a place that doesn't seem unpleasant to a superficial observer and where you can control all the comms access.
@henryk @afeinman @cstross youโveโฆ read the history of this folly, right? Executing the indigenous tribal leaders who refused to give up the land? Itโs bonesaws all the way down. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lineโฆ
One thing I've heard as the appeal to the line is that basically everyone with money will own a 4x4 car for driving out into the desert and playing in the dunes, which is a lot of fun and pretty common pastime.
The launch campaign of the next satellite to join the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is progressing on schedule for launch on Tuesday, 4 November, on board an Ariane 6 rocket.
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