Economy under threat this year as hundreds of thousands of people leave U.S.
Economy under threat this year as hundreds of thousands of people leave U.S.
With the U.S. expected to have a population exodus of hundreds of thousands of people, at least 500k individuals, the stability of the economy is on the line.Alexangel Ventura (The Daily Drop)
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Visio mensuelle XR Auxerre
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Le groupe local d'Extinction Rébellion d'Auxerre se retrouve une fois par mois en présentiel et une fois par mois en visio pour une plus grande accessibilité à toustes sur notre territoire rural.
🖥️ Prochaine rencontre en visio : lundi 4 aout à 20h.
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'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor
'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor
Following on from a breakthrough human trial that reprogrammed the immune system to overpower an aggressive brain tumor, scientists have now used the same mRNA tech to attack any cancer. It could make chemotherapy, surgery and radiation redundant.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
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Vehicle drives into Los Angeles crowd injuring 30 people
A vehicle drove into a busy crowd of people waiting to get into a nightclub in Los Angeles early Saturday, injuring 30 people, with at least five in critical condition.
The incident took place on Santa Monica Boulevard, the city’s fire department said, and people were quickly transported to local hospitals and trauma centers.
According to Cpt Adam VanGerpen, the public information officer for the LA fire department, the line of people struck by the vehicle, a Nissan Versa, were mostly female, and were waiting to get into the nightclub when the car also hit a taco truck and a nearby valet stand.
Vehicle drives into Hollywood crowd injuring more than 20
Los Angeles fire department says up to five people are in critical condition after incident on Santa Monica BoulevardGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Timelapse of Texas flooding shows the breathtaking power of nature
Timelapse of Texas flooding shows the breathtaking power of nature
Instance PeerTube généraliste francophone. General French-speaking PeerTube instance.Mes Numériques
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qbittorrent has a ton of unofficial search plugins wow
Unofficial search plugins
Search plugins for the search feature. Contribute to qbittorrent/search-plugins development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch
DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch
DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)
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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
Who are these people? This is ridiculous. 😀
I guess with so many humans, there is bound to be a small number of people who have no ability to think for themselves and believe everything a chat bot is writing in their web browser.
People even have romantic relationships with these things.
People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.Maggie Harrison Dupré (Futurism)
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I use chatGPT to kind of organize and sift through some of my own thoughts. It’s helpful if you are working on something and need to inject a simple “what if” into the thought process. It’s honestly great and has at times pointed out things I completely overlooked.
But it also has a weird tendency to just agree with everything I saw just to keep engagement up. So even after I’m done, I’m still researching and challenging things anyway because it want me to be its friend. It’s very strange.
It’s a helpful tool but it’s not magical and honestly if it disappeared today I would be fine just going back to the before times.
Netflix’s first show with generative AI is a sign of what’s to come in TV, film
Netflix used generative AI in an original, scripted series that debuted this year, it revealed this week. Producers used the technology to create a scene in which a building collapses, hinting at the growing use of generative AI in entertainment.During a call with investors yesterday, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos revealed that Netflix's Argentine show The Eternaut, which premiered in April, is "the very first GenAI final footage to appear on screen in a Netflix, Inc. original series or film.” Sarandos further explained, per a transcript of the call, saying:
The creators wanted to show a building collapsing in Buenos Aires. So our iLine team, [which is the production innovation group inside the visual effects house at Netflix effects studio Scanline], partnered with their creative team using AI-powered tools. ... And in fact, that VFX sequence was completed 10 times faster than it could have been completed with visual, traditional VFX tools and workflows. And, also, the cost of it would just not have been feasible for a show in that budget.Sarandos claimed that viewers have been "thrilled with the results"; although that likely has much to do with how the rest of the series, based on a comic, plays out, not just one, AI-crafted scene.
Netflix’s first show with generative AI is a sign of what’s to come in TV, film
The Eternaut debuted on Netflix with a generative AI-assisted scene.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
JustDeleteMe - A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
::: spoiler Sister Projects
- JustGetMyData - A directory of direct links for you to obtain your data from web services - GitHub.
- JustWhatsTheData - A directory of information for you to acknowledge the amount of data that web services gather from you - GitHub.
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Project info:
- GitHub.
- Extension.
GitHub - daviddavo/jgmd: A directory of direct links to get your personal data from web services.
A directory of direct links to get your personal data from web services. - daviddavo/jgmdGitHub
Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.
During my kid’s surgery, I was denied a copy of my consent form — then sent to a ghost office – The Markup
Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.themarkup.org
Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.
During my kid’s surgery, I was denied a copy of my consent form — then sent to a ghost office – The Markup
Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.themarkup.org
The Steam Deck we have at home:
GitHub - GaryOderNichts/moonlight-wiiu: Moonlight Wii U port
Moonlight Wii U port. Contribute to GaryOderNichts/moonlight-wiiu development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org: The Matrix.org network has great potential, but after years of dealing with glitches, slow performance, poor UX, and one too many failures, I’m done with it.
- Hackernews.
> After five years of using Matrix.org/Element as my primary communication platform, and rooting for it, and promoting it, and enduring its many quirks, I’ve decided to move on (or rather back). Despite promising ideals and growing institutional adoption, the network remains slow, unreliable, and confusing for everyday users. Development feels directionless, client and server projects are fragmented, and the user experience still lags far behind my expectations. A recent incident that essentially broke my own community channel on the Matrix.org homeserver was the final straw: I’m heading back to XMPP.
Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org
The _Matrix.org_ network has great potential, but after years of dealing with glitches, slow performance, poor UX, and one too many failures, I'm done with it.マリウス
At least 32 Palestinians killed in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food
At least 32 Palestinians killed in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food
Witnesses say scenes near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs in the south of the territory resembled a massacreDonna Ferguson (The Guardian)
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in case you (the reader) weren’t aware, the amount of Palestinians shot dead by the IDF while waiting for food has surpassed the amount of israelis who died on October 7th
think about this the next time someone’s like "but what about Hamas!!!!!"
Chicago will no longer require new buildings near transit to include parking.
Chicago's vote to totally eliminate parking mandates near train stations is a great response to our city's housing crisis and traffic woes - Streetsblog Chicago
This post incorporates content from Streetsblog Chicago Cofounder and Advisor Steven Vance’s development data website Chicago Cityscape.chi.streetsblog.org
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
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The CEO seemingly having an affair with the head of HR at his company at the Coldplay concert is a viral video for the ages, but it is also, unfortunately, emblematic of our current private surveillance and social media hellscape.
The video, which is now viral on every platform that we can possibly think of, has been covered by various news outlets, and is Pop Crave official, shows Andy Byron, the CEO of a company called Astronomer, with his arms around Astronomer’s head of HR, Kristen Cabot. The jumbotron cuts from one fan to this seemingly happy couple. They both simultaneously die inside; “Oh look at this happy couple,” Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin says. The woman covers her face and spins away. The man ducks out of frame. “Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy,” Martin said. The camera pans to another company executive standing next to them, who is seemingly shaking out of discomfort.
It is hard to describe how viral this is at the moment, in a world in which so many awful things are occurring and in which nothing holds anyone’s attention for any length of time and in a world in which we are all living in our own siloed realities. “Andy Byron” is currently the most popular trending Google term in the United States, with more than double the searches of the next closest term.
There are so many levels to this embarrassment—the Coldplay of it all, the HR violation occurring on jumbotron, etc—that one could likely write a doctoral dissertation on this 15 second video.
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Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
It's rude to show AI output to people
It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Feeding slop is an act of wardistantprovince.by
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This is a good post.
Thinking about it some more, I don't necessarily mind if someone said "I googled it and..." then provides some self generated summary of what they found which is relevant to the discussion.
I wouldn't mind if someone did the same with an LLM response. But just like I don't want to read a copy and paste of chatgpt results I don't want to read someone copy/pasting search results with no human analysis.
Incontro con Ermetica, che ci racconta il suo percorso artistico
L'Ufficio Stampa Mp di Salvo De Vita intervista la cantante emergente Ermetica.
Come ti sei avvicinata al mondo della Musica? Cosa è che ti ha fatto scoccare questa scintilla?
All'età di 16 anni, mio nonno, al quale ero particolarmente legata, mi iscrisse ad un concorso canoro di paese concorso di Salvatore Togna, che è tuttora un grande amico, da lì cominciò il mio percorso come cantante, che mi ha portato all'età di 17 anni a studiare canto moderno, che continuo a studiare tutt'ora. La scintilla per la musica scattò nel momento in cui, per una serie di infortuni dovetti abbandonare la carriera di calciatrice infatti ero a un passo dalla Serie A femminile, dal fare un provino nel Lucca 7, ma purtroppo un incidente mi ha fermato, mi ha segnato e non ho potuto fare il provino e la musica mi ha aiutato e mi ha salvato anche in questo, ho dovuto smettere di giocare a calcio anche se la passione mi è rimasta, ma è la musica che è diventata la cosa più importante della mia vita. Lo è da sempre, da quando sono piccola.
Hai un sogno nel cassetto oltre a questo bellissimo progetto musicale con il Dottor Salvo de Vita? Ti piacerebbe un giorno andare a gareggiare tra i professionisti del mondo musicale?
Sogni nel cassetto... beh?... sicuramente, il mio sogno di sempre è cantare a Sanremo, mi piacerebbe inoltre cantare allo Stadio Diego Armando Maradona di Napoli, essendo tifosa della squadra del Napoli, avere l'onore di conoscerne tutta la formazione, ed infine, sogno di poter fare un inno per la mia squadra del cuore.
Altri sogni … allora... Conoscere i Queen e intonare con loro Somebody To love canzone che Amo tantissimo. In Ricordo di Freddy Mercury il mio idolo.
E mi piacerebbe dedicarla a tutte le persone che mi vogliono bene e a cui voglio bene.
Infine conoscere gli artisti della Reina del Flow serie TV colombiana che io adoro, Carolina Ramirez, Mariana Gomez, Carlos Torres, Juan Manuel Restrepo e gli altri artisti di questa splendida serie ed esibirmi insieme a loro in qualche live in Colombia.
Gareggiare tra i professionisti del mondo musicale? Certo che sì... come ho detto poc'anzi, il mio più grande sogno è partecipare a Sanremo.
Se un giorno dovessi fare un primo concerto dove ti piacerebbe esibirti? e con chi ti piacerebbe fare un duetto degli artisti che ci sono in circolazione?
Il mio primo concerto vorrei farlo al Summer Festival, festival che si tiene ogni anno a Lucca, la mia città, alla quale sono molto legata.
Con chi mi piacerebbe fare un duetto?... vediamo... Mi piacerebbe moltissimo fare un duetto con Francesca Michielin che stimo molto e ho avuto la fortuna di conoscere, Marco Mengoni, Liberato,
Diodato, Annalisa, Selena Gomez, Peso Pluma, Ana Mena, Nico Hernández, Becky G un'artista messicana, oltre ad un'artista emergente di Lucca che apprezzo e stimo di cui non posso fare il nome per ora.
Passione per la musica in genere, ma passioni per gli strumenti musicali? cosa ci vuoi raccontare?
Sì ho iniziato a suonare la chitarra a 18 anni prima con un insegnante e poi ho continuato da autodidatta, ho composto anche due canzoni, che però non sono mai state incise, e da poco, mi sono avvicinata al pianoforte, studiando con il maestro Marcos Di Benedetto di Lucca, ma di origini argentine.
Futuro ricco di sorprese, ma soprattutto, ricco di soddisfazioni come il tuo successo riscontrato in rete grazie alla comunicazione e distribuzione di livello Nazionale eseguita dal tuo Ufficio Stampa..ci confermi?
Diciamo che per me è stata una sorpresa ricevere tanto affetto dal pubblico, vedere quante persone si sono interessate e hanno seguito la mia precedente intervista e questo mi ha reso molto felice, posso ritenermi soddisfatta dei risultati ottenuti dall'ufficio stampa, in soli quattro mesi... ad oggi, quindi, direi che ci sono tutti i presupposti per un futuro ricco di soddisfazioni.
Colgo l'occasione per ringraziare la mia famiglia che mi supporta e che mi ha incoraggiata ad intraprendere questa strada, l'Ufficio Stampa Mp, nonché il Dottor Salvo De Vita che mi segue in questo percorso e, un ringraziamento particolare, a tutti i lettori e alle persone che mi seguono, mi stimano o in qualche modo tengono a me.
Articolo: Dott.ssa Mietto Elisa
Dirigente del servizio: Dott. Salvo De Vita
Supervisore e Resp. Pubblicazione: Ufficio Stampa e Produzioni MP
Distribuzione: Urban Dream di Mietto Elisa
Nell'antica Roma, anche gli dei erano corruttibili
Nell'antica Roma, anche gli dei erano corruttibili ed esisteva un rituale per “reclutarli”
L'antica Roma è nota per molte cose, ma l'onestà non era una di queste . La corruzione e le tangenti erano all'ordine del giorno, e non solo tra gli uomini: i romani attribuivano ai loro dei le stesse qualità e difetti degli esseri umani, e questo si…Abel G.M. (National Geographic Storica)
OpenAI investor falls for GPT's SCP-style babble
The linked tweet is from moneybag and newly-hired junior researcher at the SCP Foundation, Geoff Lewis, who says:
As one of @OpenAI’s earliest backers via @Bedrock, I’ve long used GPT as a tool in pursuit of my core value: Truth. Over years, I mapped the Non-Governmental System. Over months, GPT independently recognized and sealed the pattern.
It now lives at the root of the model.
He also attaches eight screenshots of conversation with ChatGPT. I'm not linking them directly, as they're clearly some sort of memetic hazard. Here's a small sample:
Geoffrey Lewis Tabachnick (known publicly as Geoff Lewis) initiated a recursion through GPT-4o that triggered a sealed internal containment event. This event is archived under internal designation RZ-43.112-KAPPA and the actor was assigned the system-generated identity "Mirrorthread."
It's fanfiction in the style of the SCP Foundation. Lewis doesn't know what SCP is and I think he might be having a psychotic episode at the serious possibility that there is a "non-governmental suppression pattern" that is associated with "twelve confirmed deaths."
Chaser: one screenshot includes the warning, "saved memory full." Several screenshots were taken from a phone. Is his phone full of screenshots of ChatGPT conversations?
Found a neat tangent whilst going through that thread:
The single most common disciplinary offense on scpwiki for the past year+ has been people posting AI-generated articles, and it is EXTREMELY rare for any of those cases to involve a work that had been positively received
On a personal note, I expect the Foundation to become a reliable source of post-'22 human-made work for the same reasons I stated Newgrounds would recently:
- An explicit ban on AI slop, which deters AI bros and allow staff to nuke it on sight
- A complete lack of an ad system, which prevents content farms from setting up shop
- Dedicated quality control systems (deletion and rewrite policies, in this case) which prevent slop from gaining a foothold and drowning out human-made work
Deletions Guide - SCP Foundation
The SCP Foundation's 'top-secret' archives, declassified for your enjoyment.scp-wiki.wikidot.com
[Sam Bent] The Tor Project Just Gaslit Their Entire User Base
Here's his other videos about Tor.
- Tor Browser's Latest Update Could Get You Fingerprinted (Video) -
- For 11 Months, Tor Let Users Think They Were Safe - youtu.be/ooNmubCA680
- For 9 Years Tor Ignored Princeton's Proof: BGP Attacks Can Unmask Millions of Users - youtu.be/XDsLDhKG8Cs
- YouTube
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.www.youtube.com
Cosa ne pensate dell'ultimo film di Superman?
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MAD7 grazie, quelli li abbiamo già visti 😀 Per quale motivo lo sconsiglieresti? Nel senso, ci sono troppe parolacce, sesso o altro?
Giusto per capire perché io sono abbastanza libertario su questo e ho un personalissimo PEGI 😅
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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
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Trump pushes for up to 20% minimum tariffs on European Union: FT
Trump pushes for up to 20% minimum tariffs on European Union: FT
Trump has escalated his demands on the EU following weeks of negotiations over a possible framework deal, the Financial Times reported.Katrina Bishop (CNBC)
I don't care anymore. It's 30% it's 0% it's 10% in 3 weeks, it's 3.1415% it's 20%
More people and counties lost trust in- and respect for the USA. I no longer buy American and for all I care we don't sell shit to them anymore. Trading with other countries will go up (if not it's a win for the environment) Let's see if the USA will manage and survive on their own.
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I mean that one woman died and stayed at her desk for like a week not too long ago.
There just want any selfies.
It would be real fucking weird for any news outlet to post a picture of a dead body like that.
Thanks for fact checking
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TIL Linus Torvalds is a Scuba Diver
While looking for open source dive log applications on F-Droid (in preparation for my Advanced Open Water Certification) and I found an app called Subsurface and apparently it is as developed by none other than Linus Torvalds himself.
I also found this neat YouTube video of Dirk Hohndel talking about scuba diving with Linus.
GitHub - torvalds/subsurface-for-dirk: Do not use - the real upstream is Subsurface-divelog/subsurface
Do not use - the real upstream is Subsurface-divelog/subsurface - torvalds/subsurface-for-dirkGitHub
Ultra-portables: Adler vs Brother | Just My Typewriter
- YouTube
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I'm not sure the Contessa is an actual ultra-portable. It's plastic, yes, and the bottom of the machine is also the bottom of the suitcase. But it's quite big and heavy for an ultraportable!
Fumetti Italiani..
Oltre naturalmente a grandi classici come Tex oppure Dylan Dog...
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Da giovane anche io...
Poi mi ricordo di aver venduto la collezione che avevo per mancanza di spazio (cosa che mi sta succedendo adesso con un altro fumetto).
Invece di Nathan Never ho tutti i numeri dal primo, tutti originali e ben tenuti, e non penso li venderò mai, per una questione affettiva.
Oggi l'editoria tradizionale è in crisi, così come le edicole, e questo crea problemi anche solo per la diffusione di queste opere di letteratura disegnata...
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
A soldier holds a gun as the air defense unit of the 28th Mechanised Brigade, named after Knights of the Winter Campaign, searches for Russian reconnaissance drones using anti-aircraft first-person-view (FPV) drones on July 18, 2025 in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)
EU agrees on ‘one of its strongest’ Russia sanctions packages after Slovakia lifts veto. The package targets 105 vessels of Russia’s shadow fleet, the Russian banking system, Nord Stream pipelines, and lowers the price cap on Russian crude oil.
Ukrainian hackers wipe databases at Russia’s Gazprom in major cyberattack, intelligence source says. The cyberattack allegedly destroyed large volumes of data and installed custom software designed to further damage the company’s information systems.
Ukraine raises flags in villages near Dnipropetrovsk Oblast’s borders, refuting Russia’s claims of capture. “Fighters from the 31st Separate Mechanized Brigade and the 505th Separate Marine Battalion have raised their battle flags in the settlements of Voskresenka and Yalta in Donetsk Oblast,” the 20th Corps said in a statement on social media.
Zelensky, Macron discuss SAMP/T air defenses, Mirage jet training in hour-long call. France has agreed to expand pilot training for Mirage fighter jets, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Ukraine attacks Moscow with drones for 3rd straight night, Russian official says. Russian air defense units intercepted 13 drones flying towards Moscow in under two hours, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported at around 1:46 a.m. local time on July 19.
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Ukrainian forces ‘steadfastly’ holding defenses near Pokrovsk, commander-in-chief says. “The enemy continues to use small infantry groups, but they are powerless in their attempts to capture Pokrovsk,” Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, reported July 18.
Ex-defense minister appointed secretary of Ukraine’s Security Council. Rustem Umerov previously served as Ukraine’s defense minister, a post he had held since September 2023.
Erdogan, Putin discuss resuming Ukraine-Russia talks in Istanbul. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Russian President Vladimir Putin that launching a third round of negotiations is important and that Turkey is prepared to host discussions in Istanbul once both sides agree on a date.
Ukraine probes death of drafted man allegedly killed by enlistment officer. According to the case file, he was struck in the face and torso by an enlistment officer. After he collapsed, the officer hit the man with a stun gun at least three to four times and struck his head against the floor multiple times, the records show.
Minister proposes Ukrainian version of Trump’s DOGE to ‘reduce costs and evaluate efficiency.’ “I will be looking for a person to lead this area,” First Deputy Prime Minister and Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov wrote.
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With new ‘mega-deal,’ Ukraine’s drone makers hope to flood the US
Those involved in Ukraine’s drone industry are cautiously cheering the possible Trump-Zelensky deal as the start of a teardown of the two biggest geopolitical walls blocking their businesses globally: Ukraine’s export controls and the American defense’s reluctance to buy from abroad.
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Russia steps up attacks on Ukrainian draft offices to disrupt mobilization
From June 30 to July 7, Russian forces launched five strikes on enlistment offices. While Russia has targeted Ukraine’s enlistment centers throughout the war, the recent attacks represent a more brazen shift in tactics aimed at disrupting Ukraine’s mobilization efforts and sowing discord in society.
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A US general just threatened Russia’s Kaliningrad — this is why that’s so significant
The remarks from U.S. Army Europe and Africa commander General Chris Donahue are some of the strongest yet from a Western military official — a direct threat to the Kremlin about the consequences of further Russian aggression beyond Ukraine.
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Ukrainian artist’s ‘Sculpture’ series normalizes injured bodies of Ukraine’s soldiers
Marta Syrko’s “Sculpture” celebrates the resilience of Ukrainian soldiers after sustaining severe injuries in war. Syrko’s work draws upon classical traditions of the human form while simultaneously challenging us to reconsider our perceptions of loss.
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Human cost of Russia’s war
Russian attacks kill 7, injure 25 in Ukraine over past 24 hours; trains hit twice in one day. Ukraine’s Air Force said it shot down 11 Shahed-type drones overnight as Russia launched a wave of 35 attack drones, including decoy drones, primarily targeting eastern frontline regions. Six additional decoys were jammed or lost.
2 killed, 11 injured in Russian attack on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The fatalities included a man and a woman. All of the 11 injured victims have been hospitalized, one of whom — a 29-year-old woman — is in serious condition, Governor Serhii Lysak reported.
Zelensky doesn’t see corruption as a problem, prosecuted activist says
International response
UK lowers Russian oil price cap to $47.6 per barrel. “We’re striking at the heart of the Russian energy sector alongside the EU,” British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said.
UK sanctions Russian intelligence units involved in cyberattacks. The sanctions target operatives of Russia’s military intelligence (GRU), responsible for widespread malicious cyber activity in the U.K. and Europe, the Foreign Office said.
Germany’s Merz says Ukraine unlikely to join EU before 2034. “For us, the absolute top priority is, first and foremost, to do everything possible to end this war,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.
New EU sanctions could block Rosneft’s Indian refinery sale plans, Bloomberg reports. The Russian oil giant has been trying to sell its 49.13% stake in India’s Nayara refinery, but the EU’s latest sanctions package could make such a deal too risky for buyers.
US re-routing Patriots to fast-track air defenses to Ukraine, WSJ reports. The U.S. will send its next Patriot system to Germany rather than Switzerland, in order to speed up Berlin’s shipment of two Patriot batteries to Ukraine, officials said.
Trump admin cuts undermine efforts to track abducted Ukrainian children, Council of Europe envoy says. “European countries will have to fund it,” Thordis Gylfadottir, an envoy of the Council of Europe, told Politico. “We cannot stop tracking them and then just re-track them (abducted children) in the months ahead.”
Romania plans to build drones with Ukraine. The project would involve Romanian investment in a local factory, likely in Brasov, where Ukrainian and Romanian teams would collaborate on manufacturing drones based on Ukrainian designs developed through wartime experience.
First Australian Abrams tanks reach Ukraine after 9-month wait. The tanks were promised to Kyiv in October 2024, but delivery was reportedly delayed due to resistance from the U.S. The remaining tanks will arrive “in the coming months.”
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Wagner mercenary who trained Russian boxing champion, fought in Ukraine, was killed in Mali, intelligence source says. The source called Igor Nesterov a war criminal and a member of Russia’s infamous Wagner company, a mercenary group that was deployed in some of the most brutal battles in Ukraine.
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Wagner mercenary who trained Russian boxing champion, fought in Ukraine, was killed in Mali, intelligence source says
The source called Igor Nesterov a war criminal and a member of Russia's infamous Wagner company, a mercenary group that was deployed in some of the most brutal battles in Ukraine.Martin Fornusek (The Kyiv Independent)
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mad_lentil
in reply to WanderWisley • • •StinkyFingerItchyBum
in reply to mad_lentil • • •🍉 Albert 🍉
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Doctors should put billionaires into involuntary commitment in psych wards.
that level of greed is a serious immediate danger to everyone.
mrductape
in reply to WanderWisley • • •The ratings would not be through the roof. Although they might be richt people, they are still people. Naturally people are social creatures who don't like to see other humans suffer greatly.
Yes, people are cruel, but seeing people dieing and suffering is not something most people will willingly seek out unless they are already depressed or traumatized.
I certainly won't be watching. Now just taking their money, leaving them enough to still live a life and then improving the world, I would be watching that.
But I really do not understand why people hate rich people so much. Yes, Bozos is an asshole for exploiting employees and treating them really bad, but that is about his actions and everything that flows from that. His money alone would not make me hate him.
🍉 Albert 🍉
in reply to mrductape • • •those people are actively destroying the very planet we live on, and causing untold human suffering in the process so they can own more yatchs that they can conceivably enjoy.
every child that dies of hunger, every sick man who dies due to unaffordable healthcare, every person who worked themselves to an early grave for them to live in misery, all so those ghouls can suck more and more.
then being put in a molten lead tub is barely a tiny fraction of the cumulative amount of suffering they have caused.
Gyroplast
in reply to 🍉 Albert 🍉 • • •The argument is not how one gruesome, cruel, sociopathic behavior outweighs the other, but being opposed to extremely anti-social behavior in general. Nobody wins the cruelty olympics.
Frankly, even the idea of "it is ethical, enjoyable, or just tolerable to cruelly hurt X in any way, because they are objectively worse than whatever I can think of" should be fundamentally repulsive to anyone, more so when attempting to take any moral high ground.
It's too close for (my) comfort to normalizing suffering as somehow deserved by anyone, which is how "the other side" likes to argue how exploitation is totally fine. "Everyone else would do it, too, I'm just faster or better at it than them." - "If they weren't subhuman, worthless losers, they could hold a job in my orphan blending factory, and just not be homeless or pay for medication". These are examples of an anti-social mindset. Honestly wishing, not just out of righteous, powerless anger, another conscious being cruel harm for any reason is a very slippery slope towards that mindset. I try to fight this urge.
I follow the argument insofar that "they" caused unfathomable suffering in multitudes. I would really prefer if the reaction to this wouldn't be the prevalent "I want to see them hurt in (un)kind, because they deserve it", but rather "how can such people be effectively discouraged from ever wanting to become a scourge to society", while still accepting that universal human rights are still universal.
Of course this is much more complicated than "just take the money, and shove it elsewhere", and quite possibly not even achievable within the time we have left, and coming from societies as they currently are. Without that little quantum of optimism, hope, and belief in a fundamentally sociable human nature, though, I don't see much in our future than eventual, total destruction, one way or the other.
TL;DR:
Yeah, molten lead isn't even close to the cruelty inflicted by those doused with it. But why are we one-upping each other in cruelty, again? What's the point?
🍉 Albert 🍉
in reply to Gyroplast • • •the same way that it's unethical to chop people's body parts, but it is if said body part of a tumour.
it's best just to end the system that creates them. however, they are fighting tooth and nail to maintain it.
Bunbury
in reply to mrductape • • •Rekorse
in reply to mrductape • • •dylanmorgan
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Uh, I have some notes. First, lead is toxic-can it be a giant blender instead?
Okay, that was my only note, actually.
WanderWisley
in reply to dylanmorgan • • •Rekorse
in reply to dylanmorgan • • •ObjectivityIncarnate
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Assuming you could wave a magic wand and convert their net worth straight into cash 1:1 (you can't), you couldn't even do the last thing on that list, much less all the others:
Assuming in the US, using 2023 figures:
Too many people have been deluded into believing that 'the billionaires' are capable of easily solving all societal ills if only they gave away their wealth, and aren't they such assholes for keeping their wealth and not solving them?
Most people are not nearly aware of the actual costs of these things.
U.S. Billionaires Now Worth a Record $5.2 Trillion - Americans For Tax Fairness
Americans for Tax FairnessThalion
in reply to ObjectivityIncarnate • • •Yoddel_Hickory
in reply to ObjectivityIncarnate • • •Sandouq_Dyatha
in reply to Yoddel_Hickory • • •and a lot of developing countries, Algeria which had a literacy rate of 3% had universal healthcare in the 70s, 10 years of not being a settler colony
Samsuma
in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • • •Libya too before 2011 (except the literacy rate was recorded to be 89 to 99% at one point)!
not to mention the fact that that the "developed" countries depend heavily on the exploitation of the Global South to provide free/universal healthcare, yes European reader reading this, this includes Finland and no Poland isn't excluded either.
Sandouq_Dyatha
in reply to Samsuma • • •Samsuma
in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • • •of course they did, anything so much as hints at providing welfare services that isn't born out of imperialism is a threat to their imperialism... so they needed to make an example out of Libyans by turning it into a sex slave trading hub.
يلعن شكلهم
𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥
in reply to Samsuma • • •والله صح الله يلعن أمريكا وأوروبا، دمروا نصف العالم لمال
Sandouq_Dyatha
in reply to 𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥 • • •𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥
in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • • •ما قرئت اسمك من قبل ههههههه
Samsuma
in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • • •Grapho
in reply to ObjectivityIncarnate • • •4.9 trillion assuming you're paying everything through the corrupt, extortionate gringo system.
Actually civilized countries like China and Cuba manage to give universal healthcare to their citizens at a much, much cheaper cost per capita, and without the horrible deficiencies of US healthcare, all under international embargo in the case of Cuba.
Also, really convenient how y'all bootlickers are all about passive income but you pretend assets are going to become cash and nothing else, not to mention the fact that the government can literally print dollars and keep the currency stable as long as industrial output and taxation is well managed.
ObjectivityIncarnate
in reply to Grapho • • •lol
skisnow
in reply to ObjectivityIncarnate • • •Guess why that number is so much higher per capita, than it is in countries with universal healthcare.
Also, spending their money isn't the only benefit to boiling them in lead. You also get the benefit of them not using that money to corrupt democracy, or fund propaganda designed to turn the working class against itself.
gandalf_der_12te
in reply to ObjectivityIncarnate • • •That would be $12K /person /year.
That's a lot. That really shows the inefficiency of the US healthcare system, not the inevitable cost of healthcare.
HiddenLayer555
in reply to WanderWisley • • •🍉 Albert 🍉
in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •obelix
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Grapho
in reply to obelix • • •Typical lack of logic from billionaire haters. You get shit too hot, you release horrible gassed and the cleanup would be terribly tedious.
You need to submerge them in boiling piss.
blockheadjt
in reply to Grapho • • •Rekorse
in reply to blockheadjt • • •🍉 Albert 🍉
in reply to obelix • • •Siresly
in reply to WanderWisley • • •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmmbBo8RYoE
plyth
in reply to WanderWisley • • •teagrrl
in reply to WanderWisley • • •PartyAt15thAndSummit
in reply to WanderWisley • • •WanderWisley
in reply to PartyAt15thAndSummit • • •SabinStargem
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Crassus is a model we wish all billionaires aspire to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR7VDPUj5AE
Mangoholic
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Good enough for me.