Could publicly-owned grocery stores break Canada’s grocery oligopoly?
Could publicly-owned grocery stores break Canada’s grocery oligopoly? - Ricochet
A bold proposal from New York’s Zohran Mamdani is sparking interest north of the border. Experts say a Canadian public option is not only possible — it’s long overdueJeremy Appel (Ricochet)
La notte dei biplani
Metti insieme un po' di neuralink, un po' di Firefox volpe di fuoco e un buon 5% del pil e viene fuori un bel prodottino veramente utile al genere umano.
Che poi, uomini. Mica erano uomini quelli. Ragazzi? Bambini spaventati. Con il cavo del BOT che gli spenzolava dal collo e le mani che non riuscivano a star ferme per via dei tremori.
"Non bevete l'Absynx", ci dicevano," una droga, vi fa male, vi distrugge il cervello". Ah si, certo. Perché il BOT, invece? Cosa combina al cervello? Quando siamo collegati tutti insieme, noi del carro, io sento i loro pensieri, entro nei loro corpi,e vedo. Vedo. E poi a cosa vi servono i nostri cervelli in fondo?
Volete che sopravviviamo per uccidere e farci uccidere.》
Freddo.
Ci avete mandato in battaglia. Contro il nemico? No. In Irlanda. Ma che ci avevano fatto gli irlandesi? Parlano la nostra lingua, sono proprio come noi."Non importa", dicevate, "dovete fare il vostro dovere e basta". Così l'abbiamo fatto. Ci siamo trasformati in un mostro ircocervo con cento gambe, cento braccia, dita di mitragliatrice e naso di cannone. Abbia-
mo sparato. E sapete una cosa?È stato bello. Bello, si, perché quando diventi un mostro, l'orrore è meraviglia.)
Non vedeva più niente, non sentiva niente. Era scivolato in una valle d'ombra da cui non c'era ritorno.
Poi ci avete mandato al fronte, dove c'erano i nemici veri, dove ci saremmo fatti onore. Invece ho visto solo trincee fangose, uomini pieni di pidocchi, sguardi tristi, filo spinato. E il nemico? Altre trincee, pidocchi, sguardi, filo spinato. Proprio come noi, anche quelli li. E io tremavo ormai, bevevo, avevo freddo, e Faulkner ci è morto a cena, stavamo mangiando e lui ha gridato ed è piombato a faccia in giù nella scodella del brodo, stava male già da tempo, perdeva sempre sangue dal naso."Pazienza", avete detto,"ve ne manderemo un altro".
"Domani ci sarà battaglia?", ho chiesto io."Ma certo Maddox
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
👋🏼 Bonjour à toustes,
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.
📧 Écrivez nous pour vous inscrire : auxerre@extinctionrebellion.fr
Au programme : Accueil, retour sur les actions passées et projets en cours.
Si vous voulez rejoindre XR dans l'Yonne, vous êtes les bienvenu·e·s à cette visio.
avec Amour & Rage ❤️🔥
'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)
👋🏼 Bonjour à toustes,
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.
🗣️ Prochaine rencontre en présentiel : vendredi 25 juillet à 20h00.
📧 Écrivez nous pour vous inscrire : auxerre@extinctionrebellion.fr
Au programme : Accueil, retour sur actions passées et projets en cours.
Si vous voulez rejoindre XR dans l'Yonne, vous êtes les bienvenu·e·s à cette réunion.
🍻 N'hésitez pas à venir avec quelque chose à boire, à manger, à partager...
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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
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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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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.
Photo: Marta Syrko / The Kyiv Independent
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.”
In other news
Watchdogs urge new prime minister to appoint economic bureau chief as reform is blocked. Civic watchdogs argue that Tsyvinsky’s candidacy was rejected because the President’s Office sees him as too independent.
Ferrexpo’s Ukrainian mining subsidiary executive charged with $41 million tax evasion scheme. The head of Ukraine’s Poltava Mining faces criminal charges for allegedly evading over Hr 1.7 billion ($41 million) in corporate taxes through fraudulent export pricing, the Ukraine Economic Security Bureau announced in a press release on July 18.
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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