G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says
Analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Republicans’ new version of the legislation would make far deeper cuts and lead to more people becoming uninsured than previous proposals.
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Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base
Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base
Our mobile-first world is slowly killing the ubiquitous operating system.Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)
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‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered
After years of promising investors that millions of Tesla robotaxis would soon fill the streets, Elon Musk debuted his driverless car service in a limited public rollout in Austin, Texas. It did not go smoothly.The 22 June launch initially appeared successful enough, with a flood of videos from pro-Tesla social media influencers praising the service and sharing footage of their rides. Musk celebrated it as a triumph, and the following day, Tesla’s stock rose nearly 10%.
What quickly became apparent, however, was that the same influencer videos Musk promoted also depicted the self-driving cars appearing to break traffic laws or struggle to properly function. By Tuesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) had opened an investigation into the service and requested information from Tesla on the incidents.
Let me tell you how thrilled we all are to have a new hazard added to Austin streets.
‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered
The company’s rollout of its new driverless cars has gotten off to a wobbly start – and rival Waymo remains well aheadNick Robins-Early (The Guardian)
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US hurricane satellite data to be abruptly cut off
US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data
: No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent'Richard Speed (The Register)
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Nvidia's latest DLSS revision reduces VRAM usage by 20% for upscaling — optimizations reduce overhead of more powerful transformer model
Nvidia's latest DLSS revision reduces VRAM usage by 20% for upscaling — optimizations reduce overhead of more powerful transformer model
VRAM optimizations apply strictly to Nvidia's transformer model, not frame generation.Aaron Klotz (Tom's Hardware)
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A Public Lands Sell-Off Is Struck From the G.O.P. Policy Bill | Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, said he would withdraw his proposal after it faced intense intraparty opposition.
In short, having huge numbers of Americans complain to Congress, as with this piece of legislation, can influence laws at the margin.
The rest of the bill is still awful; it imposes new and large taxes on wind and solar while eliminating subsidies for them, funds a the deportation of millions, cuts medicaid sharply (in large part through imposing onerous paperwork on people) and cuts taxes for billionaires while raising them on the poor.
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“Apro la finestra così circola un po’ d’aria”
È da incontabili giorni che non ripubblico memi, ma questo spiega così spaventosamente bene la situazione attuale che non potevo ignorarlo… C’è un drago tipo ad infinite teste (che suppongo sia conservato tutto sotto terra, perché altrimenti lo si vedrebbe in giro), ovviamente piazzato sulla terra (e nello specifico la penisola italica) dalla solita organizzazione […]
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“Apro la finestra così circola un po’ d’aria”
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È da incontabili giorni che non ripubblico memi, ma questo spiega così spaventosamente bene la situazione attuale che non potevo ignorarlo… C’è un drago tipo ad infinite teste (che suppongo sia conservato tutto sotto terra, perché altrimenti lo si vedrebbe in giro), ovviamente piazzato sulla terra (e nello specifico la penisola italica) dalla solita organizzazione malvagia che rovina sempre tutto nelle nostre vite, che sputa fuoco nelle nostre case, quando le finestre sono aperte… altrimenti tutto sparato nelle nostre vie. 🥵A parte gli scherzi, tra ieri e oggi (e ho paura che sarà così per svariati altri giorni…) aprire le finestre “così circola un po’ d’aria“ è assolutamente il peggior errore che si possa mai fare nella vita. Non ironicamente, al momento sto meglio in camera mia sigillata, rispetto a come starei sempre all’ombra ma con l’aria che passa (incluso al mare stamane)… quantomeno la letterale camera d’aria mi protegge dal dragone. Hic Sunt Dracones 💔
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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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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)
Idée de bot: donner automatiquement le nom du groupe + personnalité propriétaire d'un média lorsqu'un lien est posté
Pour les gens qui s'ennuient, voici ce que j'aimerais bcp voir comme bot sur jlai.lu mais que je n'aurais pas le temps de coder moi-même (bouh !)
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Le média [nom_du_media] appartient au groupe [nom_du_groupe], détenu par [nom_du_propriétaire].
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Qui possède quoi ? Contribute to mdiplo/Medias_francais development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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...
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. Ed in questi casi è veramente difficile riuscire a capire e spiegare le motivazioni e la bontà di intenti di una svolta tanto radicale...distorsioni.net/canali/dischi/…
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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)
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
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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#socialism #communism #leninism
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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
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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.
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- 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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in reply to miss phant • • •In these third places in Europe, can I film there? Would it be rude or possibly illegal to film there?
Y'all are wildly reading into something that’s pointless. You’re trying to beat someone down in your own class and finding ways to allow a divide in to separate you. These people reviewing food in their car aren’t your enemy. City planners, department of transportation, landlords, and CEOs are your enemy. They’re the ones that make the system the way it is that necessitates people having cars.
A third place isn’t going to solve this. No third place is going to be set for filming. Is going to be socially comfortable for filming. Just let these people exist and move the fuck on.
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