A federal judge sided with Meta in a lawsuit that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on copyrighted works.

Case file: storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books | TechCrunch

^{Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)}

Previously, a yield strength of 5,000 pounds per square inch (psi) was enough for concrete to be rated as “high strength,” with the best going up to 10,000 psi. The new UHPC can withstand 40,000 psi or more.

The greater strength is achieved by turning concrete into a composite material with the addition of steel or other fibers. These fibers hold the concrete together and prevent cracks from spreading throughout it, negating the brittleness. “Instead of getting a few large cracks in a concrete panel, you get lots of smaller cracks,” says Barnett. “The fibers give it more fracture energy.”

In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say

The U.S. made history with the first use of its largest bunker-buster bomb. Experts are waiting to see if Iran’s bunkers survived the unprecedented strikes.

^{David Hambling (Popular Mechanics)}

Il 5 luglio presso l'Hotel Miramare di Cesentatico (FC), l'artista e scrittore Klaus Zambiasi sarà insignito del trofeo internazionale "Artista dell'anno 2025" per le arti visive. Si tratta di un riconoscimento assegnato da Artexpò Gallery, con il patrocinio della Città di Cesenatico. Le opere di Zambiasi e degli altri artisti premiati saranno esposte nelle sale dell'Hotel e pubblicate in un catalogo dedicato. Il prestigioso riconoscimento per l'artista altoatesino giunge in occasione dei suoi trent'anni di attività nel campo della pittura e al culmine di una stagione ricca di mostre e successi internazionali.
Lo scorso marzo, il dipinto che fa da copertina al suo primo romanzo "Il sorriso della luna" (nella foto) è stato esposto sotto forma di poster gigante nella stazione della Metropolitana di Madrid Nuevos Ministerios nell'ambito della seconda edizione di "Madrid Station Exhibition". La stessa opera esposta a luglio nella stazione ferroviaria Shibuya di Tokio, la seconda più frequentata al mondo con 3.6 milioni di persone al giorno. A giugno, tre opere sono state esposte nella stazione ferroviaria di Basilea durante la fiera Art Basel e un'opera è stata esposta nel Museo della Fotografia e Arte di Pechino. Dall'inizio del 2025 e fino alla primavera 2026, inoltre, altre sue opere saranno esposte in diverse gallerie ad Atene, Berlino, Dubai, New York, Palma De Maiorca, Parigi, Venezia, Zugo (Svizzera).

L'artista, inoltre, sarà inserito con una pagina dedicata, nell'Atlante dell'Arte Contemporanea edito dalla Giunti e presentato al "MoMa" di New York, che sarà distribuito alla Biennale di Venezia, alla Fiera del libro di Francoforte e all'Art Basel di Miami, consacrandolo tra i nomi di riferimento dell'arte contemporanea.

Klaus Zambiasi originario di Castiglione delle Stiviere (Mantova), vive e lavora tra la provincia di Bolzano e Bratislava (Slovacchia). Nel 2022 ha esordito sulla scena letteraria con il romanzo autobiografico "Il sorriso della luna", seguito da "3 Il Bacio Rubato" (2023) e "L'appuntamento al calar della sera (2024)". I primi due libri sono stati tradotti anche in tedesco.

The revived No JS Club celebrates websites that don't use Javascript, the powerful but sometimes overused code that's been bloating the web and crashing tabs since 1995. The No CSS Club goes a step further and forbids even a scrap of styling beyond the browser defaults. And there is even the No HTML Club, where you're not even allowed to use HTML. Plain text websites!

The modern web is the pure incarnation of evil. When Satan has a 1v1 with his manager, he confers with the modern web. If Satan is Sauron, then the modern web is Melkor [1]. Every horror that you can imagine is because of the modern web. Modern web is not an existential risk (X-risk), but is an astronomic suffering risk (S-risk) [2]. It is the duty of each and every man, woman, and child to revolt against it. If you're not working on returning civilization to ooga-booga, you're a bad person.

A compromise with the clubs is called for. A hypertext brutalism that uses the raw materials of the web to functional, honest ends while allowing web technologies to support clarity, legibility and accessibility. Compare this notion to the web brutalism of recent times, which started off in similar vein but soon became a self-subverting aesthetic: sites using 2.4MB frameworks to add text-shadow: 40px 40px 0px hotpink to 400kb Helvetica webfonts that were already on your computer.

I also like the idea of implementing "hypotext" as an inversion of hypertext. This would somehow avoid the failure modes of extending the structure of text by failing in other ways that are more fun. But I'm in two minds about whether that would be just a toy (e.g. references banished to metadata, i.e. footnotes are the hypertext) or something more conceptual that uses references to collapse the structure of text rather than extend it (e.g. links are includes and going near them spaghettifies your brain). The term is already in use in a structuralist sense, which is to say there are 2 million words of French I have to read first if I want to get away with any of this.

Republished Under Creative Commons Terms.
Boing Boing Original Article.

The revived No JS Club celebrates websites that don't use Javascript, the powerful but sometimes overused code that's been bloating the web and crashing tabs since 1995. The No CSS Club goes a step further and forbids even a scrap of styling beyond the browser defaults. And there is even the No HTML Club, where you're not even allowed to use HTML. Plain text websites!

The modern web is the pure incarnation of evil. When Satan has a 1v1 with his manager, he confers with the modern web. If Satan is Sauron, then the modern web is Melkor [1]. Every horror that you can imagine is because of the modern web. Modern web is not an existential risk (X-risk), but is an astronomic suffering risk (S-risk) [2]. It is the duty of each and every man, woman, and child to revolt against it. If you're not working on returning civilization to ooga-booga, you're a bad person.

A compromise with the clubs is called for. A hypertext brutalism that uses the raw materials of the web to functional, honest ends while allowing web technologies to support clarity, legibility and accessibility. Compare this notion to the web brutalism of recent times, which started off in similar vein but soon became a self-subverting aesthetic: sites using 2.4MB frameworks to add text-shadow: 40px 40px 0px hotpink to 400kb Helvetica webfonts that were already on your computer.

I also like the idea of implementing "hypotext" as an inversion of hypertext. This would somehow avoid the failure modes of extending the structure of text by failing in other ways that are more fun. But I'm in two minds about whether that would be just a toy (e.g. references banished to metadata, i.e. footnotes are the hypertext) or something more conceptual that uses references to collapse the structure of text rather than extend it (e.g. links are includes and going near them spaghettifies your brain). The term is already in use in a structuralist sense, which is to say there are 2 million words of French I have to read first if I want to get away with any of this.

Republished Under Creative Commons Terms.
Boing Boing Original Article.

Research.

Analyses of over 40,000 documents, computer vision papers and downstream patents spanning four decades indicates the extent of this surveillance and the rise of obfuscating language that helps to normalise such approaches.

Pervasive surveillance of people is being used to access, monetise, coerce, and control

^www.tcd.ie

Research.

Analyses of over 40,000 documents, computer vision papers and downstream patents spanning four decades indicates the extent of this surveillance and the rise of obfuscating language that helps to normalise such approaches.

Pervasive surveillance of people is being used to access, monetise, coerce, and control

^www.tcd.ie

Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente:
"This is absolutely unacceptable and intolerable."
وزير المواصلات الاسباني "اوسكار بوينيتي": "هذا أمر غير مقبول ولا يطاق
على الإطلاق"
Did any Arab ministers write anything before?

#Starvation #foodasweapon #genocide #gaza #isrsel #eupol

@palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.

Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old given unprecedented access to some of the most private information on Americans, has reportedly quit his role at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency according to Wired. If you don’t remember the name Coristine, you probably remember his nickname, the thing he reportedly told people to call him while he plundered the nation’s data. He went by Big Balls.

Officially, Coristine was an employee of GSA but was working across multiple government agencies, according to Wired. Big Balls was reportedly rooting around in government systems for USAID, the Department of Education, and the Small Business Administration, among others. It’s not clear how much data to which Coristine ultimately got access. Nor do we know what he, or anyone else affiliated with DOGE, has done with it.

Coristine made an infamous appearance on Fox News where he tried to strengthen Musk’s case that the federal government was riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse. But he wound up accidentally revealing that he simply had no idea how anything works. Coristine and Musk seemed to believe that because they didn’t know how various things in the government worked, some kind of nefarious activity had been exposed. But it did nothing of the sort.

The Tyranny of 'Big Balls' Has Come to an End

The 19-year-old dipshit is moving on from DOGE work.

^{Matt Novak (Gizmodo)}

Greetings Programs! I just wanted to let you know that the #announcement, #news, and #release tags on discourse.imfreedom.org are now available directly on the Fediverse!

Comments are not currently enabled between Discourse and the Fediverse, but we might consider this in the future.

You can follow them by searching for their handles on your instances

• announcements@discourse.imfreedom.org
• news@discourse.imfreedom.org
• releases@discourse.imfreedom.org

Discuss this on our forum.

Su Aphorism.it recensisco "La danza dei lebbrosi" di Leonard Cohen, un romanzo che il Poeta scrisse in età giovanile. In Italia è nel catalogo Bompiani.

aphorism.it/recensioni/la-danz…

#ladanzadeilebbrosi #leonardcohen #bompiani #giuntialpunto #recensione #recensionelibro #libro #iannozzigiuseppe #novitàinlibreria #cultura #libridaleggere

https://www.newarab.com/news/unrwa-chief-israel-backed-aid-system-gaza-abomination

1. It is epically regressive
2. The hyper-regressive tax cuts you haven’t heard enough about
3. A war on the I.R.S. could make the bill even more costly.
4. It is another “skinny” attempt to repeal Obamacare.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opinion/trump-republicans-megabill.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk8.JoRc.rqfdFFz-oHmi

https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2025/0625/1520187-israel-gaza/

Come sarebbe d’uopo dire in questi casi… ops; stasera sono esplosa. Questo non perché sono Megumin (anche se lo sono, quando non indosso le orecchie da gatto), ma perché la mia psiche è sempre più turbata oltre ogni ragionevole margine di miglioramento davvero stabile… anche se le cause della mia progressivamente sempre più dura sofferenza […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-06-25 21:13:28

momento autoesplodente più crisatico o gattifico?

Come sarebbe d’uopo dire in questi casi… ops; stasera sono esplosa. Questo non perché sono Megumin (anche se lo sono, quando non indosso le orecchie da gatto), ma perché la mia psiche è sempre più turbata oltre ogni ragionevole margine di miglioramento davvero stabile… anche se le cause della mia progressivamente sempre più dura sofferenza sono un argomento per altre occasioni (specialmente perché è in primis per me difficile capire come mai ciò sia il caso, fino in fondo). Beh, niente di nuovo sotto quel punto di vista — perché, come anche e soprattutto io ricordo, siamo nati (sono nata) per soffrire — e come sempre l’unica cosa che è concessa in tali momenti è il puro e semplice bedrotting di metà/fine giornata: mettersi sul letto a fare niente, aspettando che o il problema passi temporaneamente via da solo, o che subentri la noia così forte da far salire la voglia di fare qualcos’altro, dunque portando alla distrazione in maniera estremamente organica… 🙄

A quanto pare, però, i miei questo sembra(va?)no non averlo correttamente afferrato, perché con indebita preoccupazione proprio a tal riguardo hanno dovuto interrompere il mio girlrotting. Assolutamente in buonafede, ci tengo a precisarlo, e con l’intento di risollevare gli spiriti, ma la strada che porta all’inferno è lastricata di buone intenzioni: infatti, a furia di parlare anziché lasciarmi stare da sola per il tempo necessario a ricollegarmi con le pareti, dicendo una cosa ambigua dietro una cosa fuori luogo una dopo l’altra — facendomi quindi non altro che rimuginare nel mio stato di disperazione presente, accrescendolo — sono esplosa letteralmente, e nell’arco di 5 secondi scarsi sono riuscita a graffiarmi completamente i lati della faccia con le unghie in preda ad uno scatto immediato di dolore spirituale. Nice, well done! (7/10 shtwt approved; di persona è peggio, la fotocamera del 3DS rende malino.) ☠️

A distanza di qualche ora, adesso, da un lato sto meglio, perché il rilascio della tensione è potente, e la distruzione cutanea porta inevitabilmente al rilascio di sostanze chimiche antidolorifiche che sono anche più potenti… però, dall’altro lato, ora giustamente loro sono più preoccupati di prima, e quindi mi dispiace, e quindi spero semplicemente che un raggio cosmico mi prenda e mi fulmini, che non ce la faccio più. Per pura fortuna, lo spacc impetuoso che ho fatto senza neanche accorgermene mi ha distrutto solo i lati della faccia, quindi semmai dovessi uscire di casa e incontrare qualcuno (ahi!) penso che i capelli riescano a coprire tutto sufficientemente bene per evitare domande a cui ovviamente non posso davvero rispondere (e a cui spero di non dover girare questo post… ma, se proprio uscisse fuori la necessità, eccolo fatto). “Mi ha graffiato il gatto” purtroppo non reggerebbe e anzi, sarebbe controproducente, perché si sa che io sono una miciona. 😾

E quindi, boh, non so che dire, difficile concludere ora. L’unica cosa che mi sento sinceramente di aggiungere è che… avevano ragione i nazisti. Così, de botto… ma non senza senso: avevano ragione i nazisti ad eliminare le persone abbastanza neurodivergenti come me. Tanto, vojo dì: sono un fallimento assoluto, e nella mia vita non riesco a costruire assolutamente nulla di grosso (nello specifico, non riesco a scrivere nessun pezzo letterario grosso, ed è questo che nell’ultima settimana mi tormenta terribilmente; e qualora ci riuscissi non fregherebbe comunque a nessuno, in questa epoca storica)… se l’unica cosa in cui riesco ad essere davvero forte è far disperare le poche persone a me vicine, era seriamente meglio non nascere; e con l’epigenetica nazista le cose sarebbero presumibilmente andate a finire proprio così. Buonanotte così, allora!!! 🥰

[...]

A combined drone and missile attack on the capital Kyiv overnight on 16-17 June was one of the deadliest there in a year. At least 28 civilians were killed and more than 130 injured. Many others are still reported missing under the rubble of the 35 apartments destroyed that night.

Attacks also reportedly occurred in Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv and Kyiv provinces that same night, with two civilians reportedly killed and scores injured in Odesa.

“These levels of death and destruction risk dimming hope for an immediate ceasefire and threaten to undermine prospects for a lasting peace,” UN Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča said.

[...]

Meanwhile, the front-line city of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast is facing a looming "humanitarian catastrophe" as ongoing Russian strikes destroy critical infrastructure and leave thousands without basic services, Governor Vadym Filashkin said on June 25.

[...] The city has come under intensified attack in recent months as Moscow pushes westward beyond its gains around other nearby towns.

According to Filashkin, nearly half the city is without electricity due to shelling, and 1,900 households in the Santurynivka district have no access to gas, with restoration currently impossible. Water is supplied just once a day from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., meeting only 20–25% of the city's needs.

Drone strikes have halted all city bus operations, while the suburban route to Druzhkivka, a nearby town, is operating on a limited basis, Filashkin said.

[...]

**Sorella di Perfezione di Giuseppe Iannozzi - LFA Publisher""

Recensione di Vanessa Sulpizi

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The notification page layout has changed and there are some issues for me.

Possible factors on my end:
- Browser: Zen Browser 1.13.2b, mod of Firefox 139.0.4.
- Piefed settings: increased font size, but the Settings page doesn't show me the current size setting so I can't say what it is.

The previous "All" notification screen was clear, compact, had the same height for each notification and only took one click to open anything.

Now the notification heights are variable, some truly huge (as it includes the whole comment being replied to, even the markdown for the URLs of images), replies to comments require an additional click to access, and the "Reply details" line overlaps the notification title. (At least for me, not sure if it's like that for everyone.) EDIT: Also, the nice, immediate indicator of a red dot for an unread notification is now hidden for replies to comments, until clicking "Reply details". ANOTHER EDIT: I just spent a minute hunting down one remaining unread notification, clicking on multiple "Reply details" until I found the right one.

While some of the changes look useful (e.g. distinction between replies to comments and new posts in 'Notify me' communities), they get lost among the confusion created by these issues.

Is there a way to make things a bit tidier and easier to scan, with fewer clicks needed to get to things? (I looked in Settings but didn't notice anything that might make a difference.)