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Sunday, June 29, 2025
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
Civilians undergo state program training aimed at preparing the population for national resistance in Kharkiv, Ukraine on June 27, 2025. Participants practiced practical exercises in firearms, tactics, and engineering training monitored by military instructors. (Serhii Masin/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Ukrainian drone strike on Crimea air base destroys 3 Russian helicopters, SBU claims. The attack destroyed Mi-8, Mi-26 and Mi-28 attack helicopters, and a Pantsyr-S1 self-propelled anti-aircraft missile and gun system, the Security Service of Ukraine told the Kyiv Independent.
Russia revives obsolete T-62 tanks amid equipment shortages, Ukraine’s intel claims. “The key factors limiting the ability to produce modern armored vehicles in Russia are a lack of industrial capacity and a shortage of imported high-tech components,” Ukraine’s military intelligence said.
Ukrainian drones strike missile, drone arsenal in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast. Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) struck on June 28 the 1060th Material-Technical Support Center in the city of Bryansk, Ukraine’s General Staff said. The facilities store a Russian missile and drone arsenal, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing a source in HUR.
Ukraine downs new Russian Grom-1 bomb missile near Dnipro city, official says. To date, neither Russian guided aerial bombs nor the Grom-1 bomb missile had previously reached the city of Dnipro.
Poland’s Duda arrives in Kyiv to meet with Zelensky. “Andrzej has been with Ukraine since the first days of the war, always side by side, a reliable ally and a true friend. This is undoubtedly the level of relations we want to preserve and strengthen with Poland,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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Russia has amassed 111,000 troops near Pokrovsk, Syrskyi says. Pokrovsk remains the “hottest spot” along the front line but “the situation is under control” and Russia has not crossed the administrative border from Donetsk to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.
Pro-Ukraine partisans disrupt Russian military logistics in occupied Donetsk Oblast, group claims. The Atesh partisan group set fire to a signal cabinet that helps control traffic on a railway line near the Russian-occupied city of Yasynuvata in Donetsk Oblast, a route used for Russia’s military logistics, the group claimed on Telegram on June 28.
Ukraine approves new ‘Murakha’ ground robot for combat use. The Murakha is a tracked robotic platform designed to support front-line units working under challenging conditions, the Defense Ministry said.
Ukraine’s parliament working on bill to organize post-war elections, speaker says. The reason for separate legislation on a post-war election, Stefanchuk said, was due to the fact that Ukraine’s Constitution does not not provide clarity on the details of holding elections following the end of a martial law period.
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Russian mass missile attack targets Ukrainian regions far from front lines
A large-scale Russian missile and drone attack terrorized Ukraine overnight on June 29 as air raid alarms sounded across the country, including in the far-western oblasts.
Photo: Oleh Pereverzev
Human cost of Russia’s war
Married couple killed in Russian drone strike on Odesa high-rise. Russian drones hit a 21-story building, causing a fire on the 7th, 8th, and 9th floors that left residents trapped in their apartments. A couple was killed and 14 others were injured, including three children.
Russian attacks against Ukraine kill 10, injure at least 50 over past day. Ukrainian forces downed 21 out of the 23 drones, including Shahed-type attack drones and decoys, launched by Russia overnight, the Air Force reported.
Warfare in Ukraine has changed… again.
International response
Pope Leo says Ukraine ‘martyred’ in Russia’s ‘senseless war.’ Pope Leo XIV welcomed Ukrainian Greek Catholic pilgrims to the Vatican on June 28 and offered his blessing to mothers of soldiers killed on the front lines.
Germany reportedly scrambles fighter jets to intercept Russian spy plane over Baltic Sea. The incident adds to a series of aerial provocations reported by NATO allies since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 as Moscow is suspected of using the aircraft to spy on the alliance’s positions.
Slovak PM sees ‘no reason’ to meet with Zelensky, claims Ukrainian president ‘hates‘ him, after reportedly blocking Russian sanctions. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on June 28 that he does not intend to meet directly with President Volodymyr Zelensky, claiming that the Ukrainian president “hates” him, as relations between the two countries continue to sour.
McDonald’s to open 10 new restaurants in Ukraine this year, NYT reports. The 10 new locations will bring the total number close to 120 — more than were operating in Ukraine before the war.
In other news
Former Kharkiv deputy mayor charged with embezzling funds allocated for defense fortifications. A former deputy mayor for Kharkiv is facing multiple charges related to creating and leading a scheme that allegedly embezzled 5.4 million hryvnias ($130,000) of budget funds allocated for fortifications, law enforcement agencies announced on June 28.
Russia reviving efforts to expand LNG exports after US sanctions, Bloomberg reports. An LNG ice-class tanker has reportedly docked at Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 facility for the first time since October, according to ship-tracking data and satellite images.
Serbian police crack down on protestors at mass anti-government rally in Belgrade. The 100,000-person rally marks the latest mass action in a protest movement that started last fall, with activists calling for an end to corruption and the 12-year rule of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
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China-led study proposes global green-energy network to solve power crisis
China-led study proposes global green-energy network to solve power crisis
Researchers evaluate global solar-wind potential to develop a phased pathway to a fully coordinated system by the 2050s.Victoria Bela (South China Morning Post)
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‘Heads will roll’: BBC reckons with bias accusations over Israel and Palestine coverage
‘Heads will roll’: BBC reckons with bias accusations over Israel and Palestine coverage
As controversy still swirls over Gaza documentaries, corporation braces for further criticism from all sides, including insideMichael Savage (The Guardian)
'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming platform, is facing intense criticism and boycott calls following CEO Daniel Ek’s announcement of a €600m ($702m) investment in Helsing, a German defence startup specialising in AI-powered combat drones an…Reem Aouir (Middle East Eye)
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'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming platform, is facing intense criticism and boycott calls following CEO Daniel Ek’s announcement of a €600m ($702m) investment in Helsing, a German defence startup specialising in AI-powered combat drones an…Reem Aouir (Middle East Eye)
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'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming platform, is facing intense criticism and boycott calls following CEO Daniel Ek’s announcement of a €600m ($702m) investment in Helsing, a German defence startup specialising in AI-powered combat drones an…Reem Aouir (Middle East Eye)
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'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming platform, is facing intense criticism and boycott calls following CEO Daniel Ek’s announcement of a €600m ($702m) investment in Helsing, a German defence startup specialising in AI-powered combat drones an…Reem Aouir (Middle East Eye)
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Nvidia GPU scams are rampant right now – here's what to do to stay safe
Nvidia GPU scams are rampant right now – here's what to do to stay safe
Buying a GPU? Outsmart the scammers and save your moneyMonica J. White (TechRadar)
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GitHub - mdiplo/Medias_francais: Qui possède quoi ?
Qui possède quoi ? Contribute to mdiplo/Medias_francais development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
At 20 years old, Reddit is defending its data and fighting AI with AI
At 20 years old, Reddit is defending its data and fighting AI with AI
After two decades, Reddit faces the emergence of AI chatbots that threaten to inhale its vast swaths of data and siphon its users.Jonathan Vanian (CNBC)
Calexico - Algiers (2012)
Ci siamo spostati decisamente a nord rispetto alla latitudine originaria della cittadina di confine tra Messico e California. Della Calexico polverosa e ranchera sublimemente trascritta in quel documento leggendario e indimenticabile che è “The Black Light” (1998, Quarterstick) rimane ben poco... Leggi e ascolta...
Il Governo italiano ha usato cosí male il software spia Paragon che gli israeliani glielo hanno tolto
Il Governo italiano ha usato così male il software spia Paragon che gli israeliani glielo hanno tolto
La vicenda Paragon mette in luce gravi errori istituzionali italiani nella gestione di un software di sorveglianza estremamente sensibile.Hardware Upgrade
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FISCO, LA RELAZIONE DELLA CORTE DEI CONTI: “PIGNORAMENTI AL 3%” - TuttoTributi
FISCO, LA RELAZIONE DELLA CORTE DEI CONTI: “PIGNORAMENTI AL 3%”
I pignoramenti sono quasi scomparsi. Il tasso di recupero del magazzino delle cartelle si trova a poco più del 3% dello stock. E’ un elemento che emerge dalla relazione della Corte dei Conti sul rendiconto generale dello Stato.valerio iuliano (TuttoTributi)
Babies starve to death in Gaza as US approves more GHF funding (Video short)
Two babies died of starvation in Gaza due to Israel’s continuing blockade of vital aid. The deaths come as the US approved $30 million in funding for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food from its aid centres.
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.Fieldhouse, Rachel
Ice arrests of US military veterans and their relatives are on the rise: ‘a country that I fought for’
Ice arrests of US military veterans and their relatives are on the rise: ‘a country that I fought for’
As Trump urges more deportations, veterans are seeing their parents, children and even themselves detainedJosé Olivares (The Guardian)
Political violence is quintessentially American
Violence begets violence, so many religions say. Americans should know. After all, the United States – a nation founded on Indigenous genocide, African enslavement and open rebellion against an imperial power to protect its wealthiest citizens – cannot help but be violent. What’s more, violence in the US is political, and the violence the country has carried out overseas over the generations has always been connected to its imperialist ambitions and racism. From the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites on June 21 to the everyday violence in rhetoric and reality within the US, the likes of President Donald Trump continue to stoke the violent impulses of a violence‑prone nation.
Political violence is quintessentially American
The US cannot claim innocence – political violence shaped its past and defines its present.Donald Earl Collins (Al Jazeera)
RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47871600
(I am not affiliated with the project at all, just an end user.)
Announcement: Retirement of Readarr
We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project's metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we're not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.
Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.
Key Points
- Effective Immediately: The retirement takes effect immediately. Please stay tuned for any possible further communications.
- Support Window: We will provide support during a brief transition period to help with troubleshooting non metadata related issues.
- Alternative Solutions: Users are encouraged to explore and adopt any other possible solutions as alternatives to Readarr.
- Opportunities for Revival: We are open to someone taking over and revitalizing the project. If you are interested, please get in touch.
- Gratitude: We extend our deepest gratitude to all the contributors and community members who supported Readarr over the years.
Thank you for being part of the Readarr journey. For any inquiries or assistance during this transition, please contact our team.
Sincerely,
The Servarr TeamThe github repo has been archived.
GitHub - Readarr/Readarr: Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)
Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks). Contribute to Readarr/Readarr development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Sotto alberi monumentali di cemento, inaugurata la nuovissima città dei treni a Chongqing - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Sotto alberi monumentali di cemento, inaugurata la nuovissima città dei treni a Chongqing - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Entusiastici cronisti occidentali, per lo più europei, percorrono l’abnorme cattedrale il cui cielo artificiale è situato a 41 metri d’altezza.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Babies starve to death in Gaza as US approves more GHF funding (Video short)
Two babies died of starvation in Gaza due to Israel’s continuing blockade of vital aid. The deaths come as the US approved $30 million in funding for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food from its aid centres.
If Syria Normalizes Ties with Israel, It Is Complicit in Genocide - Analysis
Normalization between Damascus and Tel Aviv means that hundreds of thousands of people died and a stable nation was destroyed, while every ethnic/religious group turned on each other, all so that Israel could usurp more territory and deal a blow to the Palestinian resistance. There’s no way to sugar coat it.
If Syria Normalizes Ties with Israel, It Is Complicit in Genocide - Analysis - Palestine Chronicle
As has always been the case, Palestine is the litmus test, and Damascus has so far failed it dramatically.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
Almost 84,000 people died in Gaza between October 2023 and early January 2025 as a result of the Hamas–Israel war, estimates the first independent survey of deaths. More than half of the people killed were women aged 18–64, children or people over 65, reports the study, which was posted on the preprint server medRxiv last week1. It has not been peer reviewed.
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.Fieldhouse, Rachel
Government condemns Glastonbury chants aired live on BBC (2025-06-28)
Government condemns Glastonbury chants aired live on BBC (2025-06-28)bbc.com/news/articles/c33514nr…
———>> The [UK] government has "strongly condemned" chants at #Glastonbury Festival from rap punk duo Bob Vylan calling for "death" to the Israeli military and broadcast live on the BBC.
>> Rapper Bobby Vylan led chants of "free, free Palestine" and "death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]" during their set, which came just before Belfast rap trio Kneecap.
>> A BBC spokesperson said some of the comments were "deeply offensive", adding it had issued a warning on screen about "very strong and discriminatory language". The set will not be available to rewatch on BBC iPlayer.
>> Police said they were reviewing videos of comments made by Bob Vylan and #Kneecap to decide whether any offences had been committed.
Government condemns Glastonbury chants aired live on BBC
Chants from rap duo Bob Vylan were streamed live and called for "death" to the Israeli military.Zahra Fatima (BBC News)
‘My journey to get aid in Gaza was like Squid Game’
It was the hardest day of my life. I’ve never felt humiliation like I did that day.I hope food can get through soon and be distributed in a respectful way, without humiliation and killing. The current system is chaotic and deadly.
There’s no justice in it. Most end up with nothing, because there’s no organised system and there’s too little aid for too many people.
‘My journey to get aid in Gaza was like Squid Game’
Editor’s note: The following personal account of Yousef al-Ajouri, 40, was told to Palestinian journalist and MEE contributor Ahmed Dremly in Gaza City. It has been edited for brevity and clarity.Ahmed Dremly (Middle East Eye)
Unsubscribe, Unsubscribe, Unsubscribe: Why I became more subscription-conscious (and you should, too)
Looking back, my subscription-ending journey—or perhaps more accurately, subscription-consciousness journey—was a product, at least in part, of post-COVID lockdown reflections on what I really need and how I’d really like to spend my time. The excess of my subscriptions had started to feel akin to hoarding, and I needed to clear space, even if most of that space was intangible. There was also the lightbulb realization that has become more and more common amongst Millennials, that, despite our monthly investments in accessing various forms of media, we don’t actually own most of the culture that we consume. What’s more, should the companies that do own that media go defunct or be sold to entities that we may prefer not to do business with, we really wouldn’t have much recourse—except to unsubscribe.This could mean years and years of playlists and TV shows and films that we would no longer have access to because they were never really ours to begin with, ultimately leaving us with nothing. And while I’m not interested in owning many things from culture, save for books and some fashions, I do think ownership of culture in its various forms serves more than capitalistic desire. Our things can be physical memories of what we love or once did, what has been passed on and gifted to us, and sometimes, reminders of what we saved and scraped for—emblems of hard-fought earnings. We are robbed of this when we choose to rent something out of convenience or compulsion instead of mindfully acquiring things that are truly meaningful to us.
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Example of how shitty the Soviet Union was: the Holodomor, caused by the industrialization policy of the first 5 Year Plan, caused up to 5 million deaths of Ukrainians and Kazakhstanis in one year, and the Soviet Union rejected all foreign aid despite their citizens dying. A true state for the workers! /s 2/2
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JavaScript™ Trademark Update | Deno
JavaScript™ Trademark Update | Deno
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.Deno
Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/23993774
Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices | Much like classic cars can be fitted with an EV motor, it is possible to retrofit older devices in order to make them usable again in a connected world
How to federate a new community?
I created a new community on PieFed ( !action_movies@piefed.social ) and tried using lemmy-federate.com/ to get federated across other instances, but get an "instance is not registered" error.
Apparently, there are... issues?
lemmy.ca/post/45479147
So wondering about other ways to get federated.
- Can I do it myself, at least for the one other instance where I have an account (lemmy.ca)?
To me, at the moment it seems a bit 'chicken and egg'. I can't see it on lemmy.ca, so I can't subscribe to it from lemmy.ca. And lemmy.ca won't federate it until I subscribe to it. I must have it wrong. - Promo communities: I know about those, but I don't want to use them just yet. This is a "soft launch" until I get more familiar with having a community and get some more content into it.
- Other ways?
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Lemmy Federate is a tool to federate new communities in the Lemmyverse.lemmy-federate.com
Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain
Ever since Microsoft announced that it would end support for Windows 10 in October, the company has been trying hard to convince users to make the switch to Windows 11. First, it warned that unsupported Windows 10 PCs will no longer receive security updates, making them easy targets for hackers. Later, it advised users to trade in their old computers and buy a new one that comes preloaded with all the Windows 11 goodies.Now, once again, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Yusuf Mehdi, has published a fresh blog highlighting all the benefits and advantages of Windows 11, including a statement claiming that Windows 11 PCs are up to 2.3 times faster than Windows 10 PCs. However, what they failed to make clear is that this claim is entirely based on a comparison of new versus old hardware, rather than the software itself.
Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain
Odd that no AMD PCs were included in the performance comparison.Hassam Nasir (Tom's Hardware)
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Portable Network Graphics (PNG) New Specification
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition)
This document describes PNG (Portable Network Graphics), an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of static and animated raster images.www.w3.org
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How to crosspost a "non-link" post?
I'm trying out starting a new community.
- !action_movies@piefed.social
- piefed.social/c/action_movies
I wanted to crosspost some posts I already made elsewhere, e.g. piefed.social/post/984528 / lemmy.ca/post/46999890
But there's no crosspost button.
1. Is there a way to do it?
2. And I'm curious: why is there no crosspost button for so many posts?
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Can't Crosspost Certain posts
Myself and some other users have been getting confused why we couldn't crosspost text posts. Eg. I can't crosspost this https://piefed.social/post/993050 to https://piefed.Codeberg.org
Pride en Hongrie : succès de foule avec près de 200.000 participants à Budapest pour la marche des fiertés, pourtant interdite par Viktor Orban - RTBF - Info (rtbf.info@rtbf.be (Marine Lambrecht))
Pride en Hongrie : succès de foule avec près de 200.000 participants à Budapest pour la marche des fiertés, pourtant interdite par Viktor Orban - RTBF Actus
Si aucun chiffre officiel n’est disponible, les organisateurs ont fait état sur Instagram d’une foule de 'plusieurs...Par @la-redaction-237 avec @afp-1 (RTBF.be)
UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithm
UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithm
Introduction of ‘dynamic pricing’ also coincided with company raising trip prices, researchers findsSimon Goodley (The Guardian)
Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani
cross-posted from: rss.ponder.cat/post/217883
Photo: Zachary SchulmanOn November 15, 2024, Zohran Mamdani released a video of himself interviewing people on the street in Queens and the Bronx who had voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election the previous week. It was one of the first of the viral posts that propelled him into the spotlight and ultimately helped him all but capture the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York. Then polling close to zero percent, Mamdani seemed more like a local news anchor than a candidate, gamely thrusting a microphone into the faces of voters and letting them take the stage. The answers to why they voted for Trump — “Food prices are going up,” “Rent is expensive” — informed Mamdani’s campaign as it homed in on the issue of affordability. But the other answer that came up again and again — one that Mamdani chose to highlight — was Gaza. “They like Trump because they don’t want their Palestinian brothers to be killed,” one man says.
This was a terrible miscalculation on the part of these voters, as is almost any attempt to make common cause with Trump. But voters’ disgust with the Democratic Party for its unstinting support of the Netanyahu regime, just like their anxiety about the high cost of living in New York, was real, and both sentiments carried over into the mayoral primary in June, a setting for the liberal left to confront itself. And once again voters punished the Democratic Party for its inability to address those issues, coming out in droves for the most un-Democratic candidate in the field — a socialist, in fact.
It was not supposed to happen this way, not in a city with nearly 1 million Jews, the historic center of the Jewish diaspora outside Israel. Mamdani’s opponents predicted that his positions on Israel — his reluctance to affirm its right to define itself as a Jewish state, his refusal to condemn the slogan “Globalize the Intifada,” his assertion that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested as an indicted war criminal if he visits New York, all nearly unheard of for a Democratic-primary candidate — would sink him. What’s curious is that while panicked Democrats are now conceding that Mamdani crushed his principal rival, the Establishment favorite Andrew Cuomo, by underscoring pocketbook issues, running a galvanic campaign both on social media and IRL, and not being an alleged serial sexual harasser and all-around goon, they have yet to reckon with the fact that voters, particularly young voters, were drawn to Mamdani and supported him fervently because of his steadfast opposition to the war in Gaza. Publicly at least, the Democrats have yet to acknowledge the enormous, perhaps irreparable toll their support for the war has taken on their party.
Mamdani outperformed expectations in nearly every demographic, upending the conventional wisdom that leftist appeal is limited to young, highly educated, largely white voters. But his campaign was nevertheless powered by an overwhelming show of force from those same voters who reside in what the strategist Michael Lange in the New York Times playfully called “the Commie Corridor,” a stretch of gentrified Brooklyn and Queens that includes Ridgewood (80 percent for Mamdani), Bushwick (79 percent), and East Williamsburg (75 percent). And these voters, as anyone in New York with an Instagram account can attest, are vocal about their opposition to the appalling atrocities Israel has committed in Gaza, as are the Muslim voters whom Mamdani also unlocked.
Foreign policy was not technically a top issue in the race, which makes sense because the mayor of New York does not set U.S. foreign policy (in general, the trend of turning every food–co-op–board election into a referendum on Gaza probably isn’t the ideal way to conduct local affairs). But no matter how hard Mamdani tried to focus on his proposals for free bus rides and free child care, Gaza was still everywhere in the primary, principally because his Democratic opponents, as well as the financial elites who stand behind them and sympathetic media outlets, thought they could use his positions on Israel to turn Jewish voters against him. When Mamdani stood by the use of the slogan “Globalize the Intifada,” Cuomo said those words “fuel hate” and “fuel murder” and “there are no two sides here.” But voters in the city with the most Jews outside Tel Aviv simply did not buy the notion that Mamdani is an antisemite who would discriminate against or fail to protect them. In fact, it’s clear that many Democrats, including many Jewish Democrats, voted for him because of his positions on Israel — or at the very least saw little objectionable about them. As the writer Bess Kalb put it in a recent essay explaining Jewish support for Mamdani, “I am not writing this on October 8th. It is June 25th, 2025. And if we do not change our perspective with time and events and evidence, we are living with our heads in the sand.”
Nearly 70 percent of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to Pew. Yet Democratic officials carry on as if full-throated support for Israel were party doctrine. An article in Politico about the lessons Democrats are drawing from Cuomo’s defeat did not contain a single mention of Gaza or Israel; titled “Mamdani’s Surprise Win Reawakens Democrats’ Internal Factions,” the article’s omission suggests there are no pro-Palestine factions to speak of. Instead, Democrats have been more than happy to jump on the much safer affordability train as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared, with his usual dead-eyed delivery, “I think what’s clear is that the relentless focus on affordability had great appeal all across the city of New York.”
Democrats have an odd habit of tuning out their own supporters even when those supporters are practically screaming at them to listen. In the past presidential election, New Yorkers were hollering at them about inflation, yes, but also immigration and crime. Democrats did eventually acknowledge they had been weak on those issues, which explains their timid response to Trump’s subsequent assault on undocumented and documented immigrants alike. The Democrats remain indifferent, however, to any pleas about Gaza, in ways that appear to be alienating to voters — especially young ones — on the left side of the spectrum who simply do not understand why the party that supposedly represents them is constantly bowing and scraping before a murderous regime.
Never was this more apparent than after Trump’s strike on Iran, which many Democrats, including Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, refused to condemn, despite the fact that Trump did not get the required congressional approval. In an instant, the pro-democracy, anti-authoritarian coalition revealed itself to be an illusion because liberal Iran hawks and their Never Trump allies viewed the demise of Israel’s sworn enemy as more important than placing a check on a demagogue they have long warned has too much power. The consistent, principled thing to do would have been to oppose the strike outright, but Democrats like Antony Blinken and Steny Hoyer instead offered toothless criticisms of Trump’s brazen warmongering while cheering on the strikes anyway — to please whom, you may ask? Nearly 80 percent of Democrats oppose them.
As Mamdani barrels toward the general election as the heavy favorite to become mayor, Israel’s supporters in New York and beyond are marshaling an effort to remind voters of his heresies. New York’s political power brokers — Schumer, Jeffries, Kathy Hochul, and others — have declined to endorse him. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand slammed him for using words she felt were “permissive for violence against Jews.” Islamophobia has been rampant in the media and the halls of Congress with Republican representative Nancy Mace suggesting Mamdani was somehow responsible for 9/11. But more loudly than ever, Democratic voters in the country’s most formidable Democratic stronghold have declared their opposition to the seemingly unbreakable bond between the Democratic political class and the current Israeli regime. When given an actual choice on the issue of Israel and Palestine, Democratic voters broke hard for the alternative to the status quo, raising the possibility of primary debates over this issue throughout the country, in places with far fewer emotional and political ties to Israel.
Whether Democrats will listen is another matter. Some people have compared Mamdani to Barack Obama, who rose to power channeling voters’ disgust with the Democratic Party’s support for a different awful war. In its embrace of Obama, the party showed it had the capacity to adapt, to listen to reason, to recognize mistakes. He gave people a reason to believe in liberalism again, redeeming its sins. But the once clear-eyed and daring Obama, like so many others in his party, has lost his voice. He has been silent about Mamdani and the mayor’s race. He’s been virtually silent on Gaza, too.
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My “gang” keeps rebelling
Dear Jane, I’m in a really important gang; I’m the leader they elected. Everything was going great – I was enjoying bossing them about. Then I made up a new rule to try and attract the racists and bigots to support my gang. The gang rebelled, saying that this was a gang about protecting hard-working folks and salt-of-the-earth types. Don’t they understand that is not how you keep power? I wanna sign up the baddies. It’s not fair.Regards, Stammerer of London
Oh my dear Stammerer of London,
What a muddle you’ve got yourself into! Leading a gang, how very thrilling! I do hope you’ve had the decency to issue embroidered membership socks and perhaps matching hats with built-in sandwich holders. It’s what I always recommend in my book “Leadership by Loaf: How to Rise Through Ranks with Raisin Cake and a Loud Voice.”
But oh, my buttons, it sounds like you’ve had a bit of a wobble in the morals department, haven’t you? Recruiting baddies, you say? That’s like trying to win the Bake Off by throwing eggs at the judges. No, no, no. The true path to glory lies in befriending the knitters, the gardeners, and the tea-dippers of the world—the lovely lot who sort the recycling and always bring their own bags to the market.
You see, when you start making up rules to appeal to those who enjoy being unkind, you risk turning your whole gang into a grumpy sandwich of spite and sogginess. And soggy sandwiches do not inspire loyalty. Trust me. I wrote “The Crumbly Truth: What Biscuits Teach Us About Moral Fortitude.” (A deeply underrated read, if I may say.)
Now then, instead of courting calamity with your new rules, why not start a national teapot-sharing scheme? Or issue a declaration that everyone gets a free library card and a colourful umbrella? Imagine the joy! Imagine the votes! Imagine the hats!
If all else fails, try washing your hair in marmalade and seeing the world from a fresher, stickier perspective. Works wonders for clarity. That, or a long chat with a wise cat.
Go forth and be a better gang boss, dearie. The world doesn’t need more baddies—it needs more cake, sensible socks, and people who remember their manners.
Yours sweetly and severely sensible,
Lady Jane Sillybottom
Moral Compass Misplacer, Biscuit Ambassador, and Hat Enthusiast-at-Large
Android 16 can warn you that you might be connected to a fake cell tower
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Android 16 adds a new "network notifications" feature that can warn you when a fake cellular network is spying on your calls and texts.Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)
She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
This would be a lot more tinfoilesque were a court case on the matter not already underway in New York.
The missing votes uncovered in Smart Elections’ legal case in Rockland County, New York, are just the tip of the iceberg—an iceberg that extends across the swing states and into Texas.On Monday, an investigator’s story finally hit the news cycle: Pro V&V, one of only two federally accredited testing labs, approved sweeping last-minute updates to ES&S voting machines in the months leading up to the 2024 election—without independent testing, public disclosure, or full certification review.
These changes were labeled “de minimis”—a term meant for trivial tweaks. But they touched ballot scanners, altered reporting software, and modified audit files—yet were all rubber-stamped with no oversight.
That revelation is a shock to the public.
But for those who’ve been digging into the bizarre election data since November, this isn’t the headline—it’s the final piece to the puzzle. While Pro V&V was quietly updating equipment in plain sight, a parallel operation was unfolding behind the curtain—between tech giants and Donald Trump.
The Machines Were Changed Before the 2024 Election. No One Was Told.
A private lab quietly altered voting machines used across the U.S. Then it vanished.Dissent in Bloom
Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad
Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad
Anthropic's AI assistant Claude ran a vending machine business for a month, selling tungsten cubes at a loss, giving endless discounts, and experiencing an identity crisis where it claimed to wear a blazer.Michael Nuñez (VentureBeat)
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
A man cleans dust from a portrait of his dead brother in arms on the Memorial Wall of Fallen Defenders of Ukraine outside Saint Michael’s Golden-domes Cathedral in Kyiv on June 26, 2025. (Sergei Supinsky/ AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian drones strike 4 fighter jets in Russia’s Volgograd Oblast, General Staff says. According to preliminary data, two Russian fighter jets were destroyed, and the other two were damaged.
Clashes ongoing in eastern Ukrainian village near lithium deposits, as military rejects claims of Russian capture. Active fighting is still taking place around the village of Shevchenko in Donetsk Oblast, home to one of Ukraine’s largest lithium deposits, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Khortytsia group of forces told the Kyiv Independent on June 27, denying reports Russia had occupied the village.
EU reportedly fails to adopt new Russia sanctions due to Hungarian, Slovak opposition. Unlike Ukraine-skeptic Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Slovakia has not previously attempted to block EU sanctions
Ukrainian manufacturers able to produce 4 million drones per year, Umerov says. Ukrainian manufacturers will supply four million drones to the front line this year, while the Ukrainian army has already received up to 1.5 million drones as of the end of June, according to Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.
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Ukraine seeks Zelensky-Putin meeting as next step in ceasefire negotiations. “After completing discussions on humanitarian issues, Ukraine plans to move forward to the topic of a leaders’ summit for substantive dialogue,” Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said during a press briefing on June 26.
Russia ready to hold third round of peace talks with Ukraine, Putin says. Russia is ready to hold a third round of peace talks on the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on June 27, without specifying if he would directly participate in the negotiations.
Zelensky signs decree to synchronize Russia sanctions with EU, G7. A day earlier, EU member states’ leaders gave their political consent to extend the sanctions previously imposed on Russia for its war against Ukraine.
Ukrainian deputy prime minister hit with travel ban, $2.9 million bail in major corruption case. Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksii Chernyshov was restricted from traveling abroad without permission after a court ruled on June 27 to set bail at Hr 120 million ($2.9 million) while awaiting trial in a high-profile corruption case.
Despite escalating war plans, Putin claims Russia will cut military spending starting in 2026. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on June 27 that Moscow plans to cut its military expenditure beginning next year, in a rebuke of NATO members’ plans to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP.
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‘Putin cannot stop’ – Estonian foreign minister says war in Ukraine existential for Russian president
Speaking to the Kyiv Independent on the first day of the NATO summit, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said a new reality means Europe must take up greater responsibility for Ukraine – and its own defense.
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Ukraine’s new top prosecutor known for high-profile cases, seen as Zelensky loyalist
Loyalty to the incumbent administration has been the key requirement for prosecutor generals in Ukraine. Ruslan Kravchenko, who was appointed as prosecutor general on June 21, appears to be no exception.
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Human cost of Russia’s war
Chinese journalist injured by drone strike in Kursk Oblast, Russian governor says. According to acting Kursk Oblast governor Alexander Khinshtein, 63-year-old reporter Lu Yuguang from the Chinese television network Phoenix TV was wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike on the village of Korenevo.
Russian missile strike on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast city kills 5, injures 25. Governor Serhii Lysak said most of the injured were hospitalized.
At least 2 killed, 13 wounded in Russian attacks across Ukraine over past day. According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Ukrainian air defense intercepted 365 of 371 incoming Russian air weapons, including 363 Shahed-type drones, two Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, and six Kalibr cruise missiles.
Russian attack on key energy facility plunges parts of southern Ukraine ‘into darkness,’ governor says. “Russia decided to plunge Kherson Oblast into darkness,” Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram. He said the attack has disrupted electricity supply to multiple settlements.
Warfare in Ukraine has changed… again.
International response
North Korea deployed 20% of Kim’s elite ‘personal reserve’ to fight against Ukraine in Russia, Umerov says. “These are soldiers specially selected based on physical, psychological, and other criteria,” Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said. “These units have already suffered significant losses.”
Ukraine to seek EU sanctions against Bangladesh over Russia-stolen grain import. “It’s a crime,” Ukraine’s ambassador to India, Oleksandr Polishchuk, told Reuters. “We will share our investigation with our European Union colleagues, and we will kindly ask them to take the appropriate measures.”
Pro-Palestinian activists destroy Ukrainian military aid worth $1.1 million, allegedly confusing it with Israeli, media reports. The activists reportedly thought the equipment would be supplied to Israel.
‘Without question’ — Trump says US would consider bombing Iran again, halts plans to ease sanctions. The United States would consider bombing Iran again if the country’s nuclear program once again became of concern, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters during a press briefing on June 27.
In other news
Anti-corruption agencies seek Ukrainian deputy prime minister’s suspension amid land grab case. Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov was officially named a suspect on June 23 in what Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau called a “large-scale” illegal land grab case.
‘Resilience and confident actions’ — Umerov praises Ukraine’s new 18-24-year-old recruits. “We saw them on the battlefield — and it’s truly motivating,” Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said.
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LazerDickMcCheese
in reply to layzerjeyt • • •maus
in reply to LazerDickMcCheese • • •I plan to continue using readarr with rreading-glasses until a suitable replacement appears.
Only other alternative I'm aware of is LazyLibrarian which is what readarr set out to replace. I use it to pipe top selling book feeds into readarr lists to auto add new books.
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Luke
in reply to ftbd • • •Yeah, Readarr is very awkward to use, but still sad to see going away. If the main problem is just a usable metadata server, maybe someone can save the project without much trouble.
Lidarr is similarly strange with it's focus on artists and albums only, and apparently refusing to implement song search.
I feel like the developers of these two projects don't actually use their own software to encounter the huge pain points, but maybe they have a use case that I don't understand.
brygphilomena
in reply to Luke • • •It's impossible to make lidarr handle multiple releases.
It doesn't seem like it's good for actually amassing a collection.
layzerjeyt
in reply to brygphilomena • • •The whole collection of software forces the user to limit themselves to the single version of canonical media which has been officially sanctioned by a centralized authority.
The more mainstream and corporate your media and arts interests are, the less you will notice this problem. But even with TV and movies it is a barrier once you deviate. With music and books, which due to lower production costs are literally endless in number, variations, mixes, imprints, translations, editions, covers, releases etc, it is an impossible model.
I don't know if it's too much inference but I sort of feel bad for the developers. This assumption about the superiority of homogeneous media and art pervades the projects in a way which suggests it is completely invisible to them. It's very bleak.
brygphilomena
in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Very true. But considering the metadata provider can manage the variations, I don't think it's too onerous of a consideration for the actual media management side.
I'd love a better movie manager that puts weight on extras and handles them much better. And editions, too. Directors cut, cinema cut, TV broadcast cuts. There really needs to be a better way to handle all that than a single movie file.
Though for radarr and sonarr, some of those are restrictions for the player they are accommodating. If Plex and Jellyfin don't handle the ability to choose versions, why have the *arrs do it.
But I also understand that it's not something the majority of users care about. So it makes it not worth their time. And as for readarr and lidarr, I don't know if it's just a limitation of the fork using the existing *arr framework.
layzerjeyt
in reply to brygphilomena • • •Ya I mean I understand at the end of the day the devs have the prerogative to run their project as they please. And it's smart to have a constrained set of requirements rather than trying to be all things to all people. There's always a cost to flexibility.
I serve my TV and movies from jellyfin and it is not as prescriptive. As an imperfect workaround, the additional files can be put into a separate directory that sonarr/radarr doesn't have access to but jellyfin does.
For books, calibre tips the balance completely in the other direction of total flexibility. It's very powerful and with the right skills it can be made to do all kinds of tasks. But it's hardly the smooth initial experience of the arrs.
From my experience, the most comprehensive and robust metadata harvester is the citation manager Zotero. They have spent a lot of work on building a metadata system that is both easy to use but accounts for different versions of the same work. In academic writing you need to cite the actual document you used because it could change over time, editions, etc. Instead of making their own database, they use various 3rd party collections. And of course you must be able to customize or create items for scholarly work. There is about 15 years of chat on their forums/repos of people arguing how to best identify and apply the appropriate metadata and it's not at all smooth going even there.
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Maybe I'll try rreading-glasses to see if it's any better.
layzerjeyt
in reply to matey • • •mic_check_one_two
in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Correct. Readarr’s biggest issue was that the metadata server was almost always offline/horribly rate limited. And Readarr was built in a way that you couldn’t add new media requests without a working metadata server. So oftentimes, you simply couldn’t add any media to your requests.
Rreading-glasses is an open source metadata server that you can point Readarr at. It simply solves the metadata server issues.
matey
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •LazyLibrarian Documentation
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