In mid-June, a federal judge issued a stinging rebuke to the Trump administration, declaring that its decision to cancel the funding for many grants issued by the National Institutes of Health was illegal, and suggesting that the policy was likely animated by racism. But the detailed reasoning behind his decision wasn't released at the time. The written portion of the decision was finally issued on Wednesday, and it has a number of notable features.
For starters, it's more limited in scope due to a pair of Supreme Court decisions that were issued in the intervening weeks. As a consequence, far fewer grants will see their funding restored. Regardless, the court continues to find that the government's actions were arbitrary and capricious, in part because the government never bothered to define the problems that would get a grant canceled. As a result, officials within the NIH simply canceled lists of grants they received from DOGE without bothering to examine their scientific merit, and then struggled to retroactively describe a policy that justified the actions afterward—a process that led several of them to resign.
Dozens of people who help coordinate travel for complex inspections of foreign drug-making factories have been let go, and though some have since been rehired, inspectors said the ongoing strain of policing an industry spread across more than 90 countries has exhausted staff and could compromise the safety of medications used by millions of people.
For years, inspectors have uncovered dirty equipment, contaminated supplies and fraudulent testing records in some overseas factories — serious safety and quality breaches that can sicken or kill consumers. Last month, ProPublica reported that a generic immunosuppression drug for transplant patients could dissolve too quickly when ingested, increasing the risk of kidney failure. The drug was made at an Indian factory with a history of quality violations that was banned from the U.S. market. The company previously told ProPublica it believes the medication is safe.
Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked with rooting out dangerous manufacturing practices.
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
For someone who says she is fighting AI bot scrapers just in her free time, Xe Iaso seems to be putting up an impressive fight. Since she launched it in January, Anubis, a “program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies,” has been downloaded nearly 200,000 times, and is being used by notable organizations including GNOME, the popular open-source desktop environment for Linux, FFmpeg, the open-source software project for handling video and other media, and UNESCO, the United Nations organization for educations, science, and culture.
Iaso decided to develop Anubis after discovering that her own Git server was struggling with AI scrapers, bots that crawl the web hoovering up anything that can be used for the training data that power AI models. Like many libraries, archives, and other small organizations, Iaso discovered her Git server was getting slammed only when it stopped working.
“I wasn't able to load it in my browser. I thought, huh, that's strange,” Iaso told me on a call. “So I looked at the logs and I figured out that it's restarted about 500 times in the last two days. So I looked in the access logs and I saw that [an] Amazon [bot] was clicking on every single link.”
Iaso knew it was an Amazon bot because it self identified as such. She said she considered withdrawing the Git server from the open web but that because she wants to keep some of the source code hosted there open to the public, she tried to stop the Amazon bot instead.
“I tried some things that I can’t admit in a recorded environment. None of them worked. So I had a bad idea,” she said. “I implemented some code. I put it up on GitHub in an experimental project dumping ground, and then the GNOME desktop environment started using it as a Hail Mary. And that's about when I knew that I had something on my hands.”
There are several ways people and organizations are trying to stop bots at the moment. Historically, robots.txt, a file sites could use to tell automated tools not to scrape, was a respected and sufficient norm for this purpose, but since the generative AI boom, major AI companies as well as less established companies and even individuals, often ignored it. CAPTCHAs, the little tests users take to prove they’re not a robot, aren’t great, Iaso said, because some AI bot scrapers have CAPTCHA solvers built in. Some developers have created “infinite mazes” that send AI bot scrapers from useless link to useless link, diverting them from the actual sites humans use and wasting their time. Cloudflare, the ubiquitous internet infrastructure company, has created a similar “AI labyrinth” feature to trap bots.
Iaso, who said she deals with some generative AI at her day job, told me that “from what I have learned, poisoning datasets doesn't work. It makes you feel good, but it ends up using more compute than you end up saving. I don't know the polite way to say this, but if you piss in an ocean, the ocean does not turn into piss.”
In other words, Iaso thinks that it might be fun to mess with the AI bots that are trying to mess with the internet, but in many cases it’s not practical to send them on these wild goose chases because it requires resources Cloudflare might have, but small organizations and individuals don’t.
“Anubis is an uncaptcha,” Iaso explains on her site. “It uses features of your browser to automate a lot of the work that a CAPTCHA would, and right now the main implementation is by having it run a bunch of cryptographic math with JavaScript to prove that you can run JavaScript in a way that can be validated on the server.”
Essentially, Anubis verifies that any visitor to a site is a human using a browser as opposed to a bot. One of the ways it does this is by making the browser do a type of cryptographic math with JavaScript or other subtle checks that browsers do by default but bots have to be explicitly programmed to do. This check is invisible to the user, and most browsers since 2022 are able to complete this test. In theory, bot scrapers could pretend to be users with browsers as well, but the additional computational cost of doing so on the scale of scraping the entire internet would be huge. This way, Anubis creates a computational cost that is prohibitively expensive for AI scrapers that are hitting millions and millions of sites, but marginal for an individual user who is just using the internet like a human.
Anubis is free, open source, lightweight, can be self-hosted, and can be implemented almost anywhere. It also appears to be a pretty good solution for what we’ve repeatedly reported is a widespread problem across the internet, which helps explain its popularity. But Iaso is still putting a lot of work into improving it and adding features. She told me she’s working on a non cryptographic challenge so it taxes users’ CPUs less, and also thinking about a version that doesn’t require JavaScript, which some privacy-minded disable in their browsers.
The biggest challenge in developing Anubis, Iaso said, is finding the balance.
“The balance between figuring out how to block things without people being blocked, without affecting too many people with false positives,” she said. “And also making sure that the people running the bots can't figure out what pattern they're hitting, while also letting people that are caught in the web be able to figure out what pattern they're hitting, so that they can contact the organization and get help. So that's like, you know, the standard, impossible scenario.”
Iaso has a Patreon and is also supported by sponsors on Github who use Anubis, but she said she still doesn’t have enough financial support to develop it full time. She said that if she had the funding, she’d also hire one of the main contributors to the project. Ultimately, Anubis will always need more work because it is a never ending cat and mouse game between AI bot scrapers and the people trying to stop them.
Iaso said she thinks AI companies follow her work, and that if they really want to stop her and Anubis they just need to distract her.
“If you are working at an AI company, here's how you can sabotage Anubis development as easily and quickly as possible,” she wrote on her site. “So first is quit your job, second is work for Square Enix, and third is make absolute banger stuff for Final Fantasy XIV. That’s how you can sabotage this the best.”
"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."
"The Israeli delegation that arrived in Doha Sunday has not been empowered to make any decisions. Netanyahu’s lead negotiator, Ron Dermer, is not in Qatar, and instead the team is headed by the deputy head of the Shin Bet intelligence service. The Israeli side, according to the Hamas official, appears to have come to Doha with a limited mission of reiterating Israel’s demand that Hamas accept Tel Aviv’s terms for a temporary truce."
“Zero” Progress in Ceasefire Talks, Hamas Official Says
Jeremy Scahill July 7, 2025
"The Israeli delegation that arrived in Doha Sunday has not been empowered to make any decisions. Netanyahu’s lead negotiator, Ron Dermer, is not in Qatar, and instead the team is headed by the deputy head of the Shin Bet intelligence service. The Israeli side, according to the Hamas official, appears to have come to Doha with a limited mission of reiterating Israel’s demand that Hamas accept Tel Aviv’s terms for a temporary truce."
"The Israeli delegation that arrived in Doha Sunday has not been empowered to make any decisions. Netanyahu’s lead negotiator, Ron Dermer, is not in Qatar, and instead the team is headed by the deputy head of the Shin Bet intelligence service. The Israeli side, according to the Hamas official, appears to have come to Doha with a limited mission of reiterating Israel’s demand that Hamas accept Tel Aviv’s terms for a temporary truce."
Quando abbiamo deciso di lanciare [url=http://citiverse.it]citiverse.it[/url] abbiamo pensato che sarebbe stato bello creare una categoria Forum dedicata alle discussioni e alle informazioni sul Fediverso Italiano, soprattutto per quegli utenti che non so
Quando abbiamo deciso di lanciare citiverse.it abbiamo pensato che sarebbe stato bello creare una categoria Forum dedicata alle discussioni e alle informazioni sul Fediverso Italiano, soprattutto per quegli utenti che non sono parte del Fediverso.
Gli amministratori di istanza che volessero chiederci di creare una categoria dedicata alla loro istanza potranno farlo attraverso la pagina dei contatti o contattandoci direttamente presso tutti quei canali che loro conoscono :blush:
Citiverse, la città dei social liberi, è l'alternativa aperta e italiana ai gruppi di Facebook dove è possibile parlare con persone della tua città o della tua tua organizzazione.
As Paris’s deputy mayor, Ian Brossat massively expanded the French capital’s public housing stock. He spoke to Jacobin about the left-wing city hall’s record and what lessons it might have for Zohran Mamdani in New York.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
On June 4, in response to the unfolding genocide in Gaza, France’s CGT dockworkers refused to load arms components bound for Israel at the country’s largest port in Fos-Marseille. Their action forced the ship to leave port without its deadly cargo.
Nine thousand blue-collar workers who make Philadelphia run went on strike July 1. After sacrificing through the pandemic and years of bruising inflation, they say they’re on strike so they can afford to live in the city they serve.
[h2]Perché [url=http://citiverse.it]citiverse.it[/url]?[/h2]
In Italia, i gruppi Facebook sono diventati uno dei principali luoghi virtuali di aggregazione, scalzando i vecchi forum che tra la fine e l’inizio del millennio avevano raccolto l’eredità delle
Perché citiverse.it?
In Italia, i gruppi Facebook sono diventati uno dei principali luoghi virtuali di aggregazione, scalzando i vecchi forum che tra la fine e l’inizio del millennio avevano raccolto l’eredità delle mailing list. Il motivo? Su Facebook ci sono tantissime persone! Creare un gruppo Facebook significa avere a disposizione un bacino di milioni di italiani già presenti sulla piattaforma con un unico account.
Abbiamo quindi bisogno di creare un’alternativa ai gruppi Facebook per gli utenti italiani, con particolare attenzione ai gruppi locali di singoli paesi e città. Allo stesso tempo però, pur sapendo di non poter competere con un conglomerato industriale dalle risorse infinite come Meta, dobbiamo fare in modo che gli utenti del forum non siano da soli.
Per fare questo abbiamo quindi interconnesso il nostro spazio, rendendolo “federato” attraverso la nota piattaforma forum NodeBB: l’utente di citiverse.it potrà infatti connettersi con tutte le decine di migliaia di utenti italiani che hanno già deciso di frequentare i social del Fediverso, un sistema composto da centinaia di server social basato su software libero (Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, Pleroma, Misskey), blog (come WordPress o Writefreely), servizi di streaming (come Peertube e Owncast) e podcast (come Castopod e Funkwhale) oltre che di piccoli forum già esistenti e connessi attraverso piattaforme reddit-like come Lemmy, Piefed o Mbin.
Con l’occasione, abbiamo anche deciso di creare uno spazio di riflessione dedicato per gli utenti più attivi del Fediverso e per gli amministratori di istanza, in cui sia possibile confrontarsi in campo neutro.
Differenze tra citiverse.it e feddit.it (e i gruppi di poliverso.org)
Al momento dobbiamo valutare i carichi di lavoro e abbiamo definito più fasi. In ognuna di esse, l’iscrizione e la federazione verranno attivate di volta in volta. Ecco le diverse fasi:
1) Iscrizione al forum aperta solo su invito con gli inviti che possono essere inviati da tutti gli utenti iscritti; accesso come moderatori agli amministratori di istanza italiani che ne facciano richiesta federazione per TUTTI
2) Creazione dei primi moderatori di categoria
Il forum funziona per categorie disposte su più livelli. Le discussioni di ogni categoria saranno pubbliche, ma ogni gruppo che ottenga un buon riscontro di pubblico, potrà dotarsi di un gruppo chiuso gestito dal moderatore del gruppo aperto.
NB: citiverse.it è attivo solo da una settimana! Qualcosa potrebbe non funzionare (per esempio abbiamo avuto alcuni problemi con l’e email di’attivazione degli inviti). Se vuoi fare dei test puoi utilizzare l’apposita categoria "TEST" e se vuoi utilizzarla dal Fediverso, puoi usarla menzionando l’utente (senza spazi) @ test @ citiverse . it A questo punto, potete iniziare a iscrivervi contattandoci ai seguenti riferimenti:
Malgrado le tensioni politiche e l'ascesa del Fediverso, Facebook rimane un social ancora dominante. I numeri attuali non supportano un esodo significativo, con Friendica e altre piattaforme che non riescono a replicare l'ecosistema di Facebook
Interessante nodeBB. Non ho capito come si installa in selfhosting. Comunque un problema di tutti i social, compreso Facebook, nonché il Fediverso, è il trattamento e la gestione dei morti e degli account abbandonati. Che farne? Cancellarli, archiviarli? Tenendo presente che il mondo dei morti è molto più numeroso di quello dei vivi, la questione andrebbe affrontata seriamente, soprattutto per i posteri e i discendenti.
su poliverso.org e poliversity.it ho gli strumenti per eliminare gli account morti e quindi ho inserito le policies per farlo. Su feddit.it ho meno strumenti, mentre citiverse.it dobbiamo ancora studiarcelo 😅
Se alla fine resta poco o niente, secondo me, i social diventano irrilevanti, tanto più il fediverso, perché la memoria storica è un valore che non va sottovalutato.
Memoria storica? Su fb? Dove se cerchi un post appena passato in timeline non hai chances perché è sommerso dai risultati pubblicitari? Non che gli altri siano diversi, intendiamoci…
I social sono la piazza del paese: è chi ci guadagna sopra che li spaccia per altro.
La memoria storica si fa come si è sempre fatta: biblioteche e archivi. I ricordi, invece,li conservi a casa, non in piazza.
Il problema è che gli account abbandonati o facenti capo a persone decedute vengono cancellati dopo un po'. In questo modo si possono perdere preziose informazioni che potrebbero interessare i posteri. Risorse come archive.org aiutano a rintracciare qualcosa, ma spesso non bastano. Alcune piattaforme prevedono una apposita procedura nei casi di account abbandonato che il titolare dell'account può configurare quando ancora in vita.
stai cercando di assegnare ai social commerciali, gestiti da aziende a fini di lucro, un ruolo che loro non hanno interesse ad avere.
I dati di un utente morto hanno un valore inferiore rispetto a uno vivo; a naso, se mai dovranno scegliere, cancelleranno la roba vecchia senza pensarci due volte.
I ricordi si tengono a casa, non in piazza. E le ricerche si fanno in archivi e biblioteche.
A me non interessa quello che decidono i social commerciali. Mi interessano le decisioni che prendono gli sviluppatori delle piattaforme del fediverso. Se ci saranno opzioni di configurazione a tutela degli account e della loro memoria storica, bene, altrimenti per me perdono di ogni interesse. Non per niente tengo l'istanza in selfhosting. Ma non è ancora sufficiente. Se ci arriva facebook ... tech.everyeye.it/articoli/spec…
अल्पसंख्यक अधिकार: रिजिजू भारतीय गणराज्य के मंत्री हैं, कोई राजा नहीं; जानें क्यों भड़के ओवैसी
Delhi News: केंद्रीय मंत्री किरेन रिजिजू और AIMIM प्रमुख असदुद्दीन ओवैसी के बीच अल्पसंख्यक अधिकारों पर सोशल मीडिया पर तीखी बहस छिड़ गई। रिजिजू ने दावा किया कि भारत में अल्पसंख्यकों को बहुसंख्यकों से ज्यादा लाभ मिलते हैं। इस पर ओवैसी ने कड़ा जवाब देते हुए कहा कि अल्पसंख्यक अधिकार मौलिक हैं, दान नहीं। यह बहस अल्पसंख्यकों की स्थिति और सरकारी नीतियों पर सवाल उठाती है।
रिजिजू का दावा, भारत में अल्पसंख्यकों को ज्यादा लाभ
किरेन रिजिजू ने एक साक्षात्कार में कहा कि भारत दुनिया का एकमात्र देश है, जहां अल्पसंख्यकों को बहुसंख्यकों से ज्यादा लाभ और सुरक्षा मिलती है। उन्होंने सोशल मीडिया पर इसे दोहराया और कहा कि अल्पसंख्यक पड़ोसी देशों में पलायन नहीं करते। रिजिजू ने पीएम मोदी की योजनाओं को सभी के लिए बताया, जिसमें अल्पसंख्यकों को अतिरिक्त लाभ मिलता है। यह बयान विवाद का कारण बन गया।
ओवैसी का तंज, आप मंत्री हैं, राजा नहीं
असदुद्दीन ओवैसी ने रिजिजू के बयान पर कड़ा जवाब दिया। उन्होंने सोशल मीडिया पर लिखा कि रिजिजू भारतीय गणराज्य के मंत्री हैं, कोई राजा नहीं। ओवैसी ने कहा कि अल्पसंख्यक अधिकार संवैधानिक हैं, दान नहीं। उन्होंने पूछा कि क्या हर दिन अपमानित होना लाभ है? क्या घरों और मस्जिदों पर बुलडोजर चलाना सुरक्षा है? यह बयान लोगों का ध्यान खींच रहा है।
वक्फ संशोधन पर ओवैसी का सवाल
ओवैसी ने वक्फ संशोधन अधिनियम पर सवाल उठाया। उन्होंने कहा कि यह अधिनियम गैर-मुसलमानों को वक्फ बोर्ड में बहुमत देता है। उन्होंने पूछा कि क्या मुसलमान हिंदू बंदोबस्ती बोर्ड के सदस्य बन सकते हैं? ओवैसी ने सरकार पर अल्पसंख्यकों को सामाजिक और आर्थिक रूप से अदृश्य बनाने का आरोप लगाया। यह मुद्दा अल्पसंख्यक समुदायों के बीच चर्चा का विषय बन गया है।
अल्पसंख्यक योजनाओं पर ओवैसी का हमला
ओवैसी ने रिजिजू के मंत्रालय की नीतियों पर निशाना साधा। उन्होंने कहा कि सरकार ने मौलाना आजाद नेशनल फेलोशिप बंद की। प्री-मैट्रिक, पोस्ट-मैट्रिक और मेरिट-कम-मीन्स छात्रवृत्तियों को सीमित किया गया। ओवैसी ने दावा किया कि ये योजनाएं मुस्लिम छात्रों को लाभ दे रही थीं। उन्होंने कहा कि सरकार की नीतियों से अल्पसंख्यक सबसे ज्यादा प्रभावित हुए हैं, खासकर शिक्षा और अर्थव्यवस्था में।
मुसलमानों की स्थिति पर चिंता
ओवैसी ने कहा कि मुसलमानों की उच्च शिक्षा में हिस्सेदारी घटी है। उनकी अनौपचारिक अर्थव्यवस्था में मौजूदगी बढ़ी है। उन्होंने सरकारी डेटा का हवाला देते हुए कहा कि मुस्लिम बच्चे अपने माता-पिता से भी बदतर स्थिति में हैं। पीढ़ीगत गतिशीलता उलट गई है। ओवैसी ने मुस्लिम-केंद्रित क्षेत्रों में बुनियादी ढांचे और सेवाओं की कमी पर भी सवाल उठाया।
रिजिजू का जवाब, योजनाएं सबके लिए
रिजिजू ने ओवैसी के आरोपों का जवाब देते हुए कहा कि पीएम मोदी की कल्याणकारी योजनाएं सभी के लिए हैं। अल्पसंख्यक मामलों के मंत्रालय की योजनाएं अल्पसंख्यकों को अतिरिक्त लाभ देती हैं। उन्होंने कहा कि सरकार सबका साथ, सबका विकास के सिद्धांत पर काम करती है। रिजिजू ने दावा किया कि अल्पसंख्यक भारत में सुरक्षित हैं और पड़ोसी देशों से लोग यहां शरण लेने आते हैं।
अल्पसंख्यकों को बंधक बताया
ओवैसी ने अपने पोस्ट में अल्पसंख्यकों की स्थिति को गंभीर बताया। उन्होंने कहा कि अल्पसंख्यक अब दूसरे दर्जे के नागरिक भी नहीं, बल्कि बंधक हैं। उन्होंने लिंचिंग, अवैध बुलडोजर कार्रवाइयों और अपमानजनक भाषा का जिक्र किया। ओवैसी ने कहा कि अल्पसंख्यक संविधान में वादा किए गए सामाजिक, आर्थिक और राजनीतिक न्याय की मांग कर रहे हैं, न कि दान की।
सोशल मीडिया पर बहस तेज
यह बहस सोशल मीडिया पर तेजी से फैली। ओवैसी और रिजिजू के बयानों ने अल्पसंख्यक अधिकारों पर नई चर्चा छेड़ दी है। जहां रिजिजू ने सरकार की नीतियों को समावेशी बताया, वहीं ओवैसी ने अल्पसंख्यकों के साथ भेदभाव का आरोप लगाया। यह विवाद लोगों के बीच संवेदनशील मुद्दों को उजागर करता है। दोनों नेताओं के बयान सोशल मीडिया पर चर्चा का केंद्र बने हुए हैं।
In 1973, a British parliamentarian named Christopher Mayhew promised a £5,000 reward to anyone able to prove that Egypt’s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, had indeed declared his intent to “drive the Jews into the sea.” Mayhew then expanded his criteria to include any documentation of genocidal statements made by a responsible Arab leader. Whatever quotations he received he deemed inauthentic. It was not long before one claimant, a 22-year-old Jewish student, sued Mayhew and their dispute went to the High Court. The case was dropped after the student’s lawyer admitted that the statement his client provided, a quote from the first secretary general of the Arab League, “was not genocidal.”
Mayhew called the trope “apocryphal.” Still, apocryphal as it may be, I am often asked if I want to throw Israelis into the sea. This question has persisted for decades, leveled as an accusation against Palestinians and allies of our cause. Almost every time, anywhere I take the stage, it is an expected though unwanted guest. Whether I am singing my usual nagging refrain about Zionism or talking about the “creative process” (i.e., stimulants and sedatives), someone will spring from their seat, tripping over themself to ask that million-dollar question. More accurately, I am asked why I want to throw Israelis into the sea, not if. That I possess such genocidal intent is already assumed. It is an attempt to implicate me in the inquisitor’s worldview. A worldview where I am a savage, pathologically murderous Arab.
“Israelis” and “Jews” are usually used interchangeably by those posing the question and understood, irrefutably, as interchangeable. The responsibility to then make a pristine distinction between the two falls on me. The burden of pedagogy. But none of those words—“if,” “why,” “Israelis,” “Jews”— interest me the most. It is the word “want” that is most telling. Wanting is neither policy nor procedure, neither present nor material. Wanting is hoping, longing. Colonial logic says that if I were to have that mere desire within my heart; if I am fantasizing about cartoonish revenges, that alone negates my claim to justice. Thus, any testimony of the injustices I have witnessed and endured is unreliable. The brutality of colonialism, the very brutality that is institutionalized and legalized, can then be excused or even warranted, if I were to want such a turn of events. Such desires, according to mind-reading critics, linger deep within our psyche and should discredit the Palestinian. Our yearnings impugn our plight. The trouble here is not that our enemies employ this illicit tactic (that is what enemies do) but that we submit to it. We attempt to refute defamation instead of repudiating it. We placate this fallacious logic instead of saying: Even if—even if!—my dreams were your worst nightmares, who are you to rob me of my sleep?
To simply imagine Palestine without settlers, to simply imagine a sky without drones—that, in the Zionist imagination, is genocidal. If you stick with the “want” of the charge, the notion that Palestinians want to kill all Jews, you find that Zionism is at war with our future. It is at war with our ability to articulate, even if only through poems and protest chants, a future in which Zionism does not reign. For in the past 100 years, Zionism has situated us in a condition of constant dispossession and premature death; our Nakba remains and renews. We are besieged in an inescapable, eternal present tense.
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Abbiamo bisogno di un’alternativa ai gruppi Facebook per gli utenti italiani, in particolare i gruppi locali; ma non potendo competere con Meta, dobbiamo fare in modo che gli utenti del forum non siano da soli…
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Intel's upcoming Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' processors will feature up to 192 Panther Cove cores, 16 DDR5 memory channels, PCIe Gen 6 support, and a 500W TDP.
So I managed to find 80% food grade alcohol (it was harder than you might thought) and started the all season maceration.
Basically every fruit that I will get or pick I just put few pieces there and let it sit, the tasting will be at Christmas or sometime in December. First layer is red currant, I already used it for some maceration so I know it starts good.
My late-father once told me about a recipe he used when he was young, passed down to him by his old uncle.
Got a bunch of black plums (but he said any fruit could be used). Washed them, then put them whole in a big, glass jar with a screw top lid. The fruit was layered with sugar. Lots of sugar. Closed the lid and left it all out in the sun for a month. It fermented and turned into mush.
Brought it in and sifted out the solids. Left a lot of pulp. Mixed it with plain vodka and decanted it into smaller dark bottles with clip tops. Aged it for six months in the dark. After that, kept it in the freezer. 10+ years later, it still tasted amazing.
This post is inspiring me to try again. Thinking peach this time.
This is maceration not fermentation but I unintentionally did something similar with red currants and wine. I don't know how I made it but it was partly fermented with sugar wine and vodka (or some other clear distillate) to add more alcohol to be stable.
Found bottle few weeks ago and it was amazing, I forgot about it after I tasted it and don't liked it few years ago.
I don't like distillates that much, bit too strong for me, but basically fruit+bit of sugar+time+still and you have some eastern Europe pálenka/slivovice (from plums) or other "moonshine".
A friend of the family from Hungary used to bring out home-made palinka in small 7Up bottles to sneak them past customs. He said they would drink a few shots before and after every meal. Said that was how Hungarians became the highest per-capita meat-eating country in Europe.
I just remember it burning all the way down. The recipe I mentioned was more of a sweet liqueur and with lower risk of near-fatal distillation mishaps.
Will have to look into maceration. Thanks for the tip!
Israel will in “no way” halt its war on the Gaza Strip even if a deal is reached to release more hostages with Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
College graduates are hitting the job market at the worst possible time. A perfect storm of AI-generated applications and economic uncertainty has flipped traditional hiring patterns, leaving recent grads with higher unemployment than the general pop…
...all of the models evaluated "demonstrate near-zero confidentiality awareness."
Any agent that is accessible from outside the company (e.g. a customer support chatbot) is going to have to deal with malicious actors. If it has access to sensitive information, and no confidentiality awareness...seems like a problem.
My only hope is that AI like early social media and web services is supported by mountains of vc cash offering services at a loss in order to build users and familiarity, and while it'll continue to exist after it has to shift to a profitable business model, it'll essentially be relagated to corners of the economy where it makes sense and they'll stop trying to hamstring it into everything.
I think that's exactly what's gonna happen in the long run. Right now we're in the hype phase of a new technology, but one the hype dies down we'll start identifying use cases where the tech actually works well. At the same time the tech itself is going to mature, and people will figure out how to work with it effectively.
Well the article says that the AI agents were able to complete 30% of the tasks given to it like searching the web, communicating with co workers, etc. I think this is interesting
CMU researchers have developed a benchmark to evaluate how AI agents perform when given common knowledge work tasks like browsing the web, writing code, running applications, and communicating with coworkers
"We find in experiments that the best-performing model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, was able to autonomously perform 30.3 percent of the provided tests to completion, and achieve a score of 39.3 percent on our metric that provides extra credit for partially completed tasks"
Elon Musk has said an Axios report that the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had concluded there was no evidence of a Jeffrey Epstein client list was the "final straw".
The report also said the agencies had concluded there was no credible evidence the disgraced financier and pedophile blackmailed high-profile and prominent individuals, and confirmed that surveillance footage showed Epstein had killed himself in prison.
"So... umm... then what is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for?" Musk posted to his X platform, referring to Epstein's former girlfriend and associate who procured underage girls for him to abuse.
damn, how can birth rates be so in peril in a culture that hates sex, women, and children so much? truly I am stumped. we must double down on hating sex, women, and children even more if we are to salvage this situation.
Okay but now I need to once again do a brief rant about the framing of that initial post.
the silicon valley technofascists are the definition of good times breed weak men
You're not wrong about these guys being both morally reprehensible and also deeply pathetic. Please don't take this as any kind of defense on their behalf.
However, the whole "good times breed weak men" meme is itself fascist propaganda about decadence breeding degeneracy originally written by a mediocre science fiction author and has never been a serious theory of History. It's rooted in the same kind of masculinity-through-violence-as-primary-virtue that leads to those dreams of conquest. I sympathize with the desire to show how pathetic these people are by their own standards but it's also critical to not reify the standards themselves in the process.
This is an op-ed by Jennifer Parker, a defence and national security expert associate at the ANU’s National Security College. She has served for more than 20 years as a warfare officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
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A major flaw in Australia’s Taiwan debate is the simplistic “will we or won’t we intervene?” framing, which assumes any conflict would be confined to Taiwan. In reality, an invasion would be far more complex. The Taiwan Strait’s geography, weather and Taiwan’s defences already make it a formidable task. That challenge is amplified by expected US and Japanese intervention from bases in Japan and the Philippines, forces China would try to neutralise pre-emptively.
Any invasion would almost certainly immediately trigger a broader regional conflict involving one of Australia’s key allies and at least two of its closest security partners. In a region-wide conflict, Australia’s national security interests would be jeopardised, and it would have little choice but to respond. Its key role would be defending Australia and its sea lines of communication.
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Staying on the sidelines would be inconsistent with our national interests. Australia’s security, including maritime trade, would be directly threatened. Not to mention Australia’s obligations under the 1951 ANZUS Treaty.
It would also seriously damage Australia’s credibility with key security partners and regional neighbours. Moreover, if China resorts to force against Taiwan, it is unlikely to stop there. Beijing is also engaged in maritime and territorial disputes with South-East Asian states and South Korea and Japan. A successful invasion would embolden further aggression.
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would not be an isolated act – it would trigger a regional conflict with direct consequences for Australia’s security. An invasion may not be imminent or inevitable, but China’s clear preparations demand serious attention. Australia must invest in its own defence – not because war is certain, but because deterrence depends on capability. And if deterrence fails, we must be ready to defend our vital interests.
In recent weeks, the US State Department implemented a policy requiring all university, technical training, or exchange program visa applicants to disclose their social media handles used over the past five years. The policy also requires these applicants to set their profiles to public.
This move is an example of governments treating a person’s digital persona as their political identity. In doing so, they risk punishing lawful expression, targeting minority voices, and redefining who gets to cross borders based on how they behave online.
Anyone seeking one of these visas will have their social media searched for “indications of hostility” towards the citizens, culture or founding principles of the United States. This enhanced vetting is supposed to ensure the US does not admit anyone who may be deemed a threat.
However, this policy changes how a person’s online presence is evaluated in visa applications and raises many ethical concerns. These include concerns around privacy, freedom of expression, and the politicisation of digital identities.
Mobile money allows people without banks to securely transfer funds via text message, and its adoption is growing rapidly.
By the end of today, you'll probably have used your bank account — maybe to buy groceries, pay rent, or send money to a friend. Even better, to receive your salary. It's something many of us take for granted.
However, for more than a billion people globally, transactions only happen with cash. That means carrying around physical notes and coins, traveling long distances just to send or receive money, and facing the constant risk of losing it or having it stolen. The absence of formal banking services adds yet another hurdle for people trying to escape poverty.
But in recent years, “mobile money” has transformed how many people access financial services. Mobile money differs from traditional bank accounts; you don’t need a physical bank branch or even an Internet connection. Instead, you use text messages for services like deposits, transfers, and payments via a mobile phone. In this sense, it’s not the same as standard Internet banking, which many of us now use for most transactions.
Many people might be unfamiliar with how mobile money works, so let me briefly explain. You dial a short code for the mobile money provider, choose “send money”, and enter the recipient’s phone number (which serves as their account number). Next, type the amount and your secure PIN. That’s it — both the sender and recipient get an SMS confirmation within seconds. If you need to add funds to your mobile money account or retrieve your PIN, you can visit a local mobile money agent, often found in small shops or kiosks, which can be easier to reach than traditional banks.
A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency communication infrastructure.
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