Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
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Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to CubaBy Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekend
More than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their
largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives
to capitalism.There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine,
Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from
Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by
Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by
union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor,
research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.
Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33606118
Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to CubaBy Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekend
More than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their
largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives
to capitalism.There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine,
Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from
Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by
Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by
union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor,
research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.
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Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33606118
Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to CubaBy Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekend
More than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their
largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives
to capitalism.There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine,
Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from
Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by
Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by
union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor,
research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.
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Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to Cuba
By Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekend
More than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their
largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives
to capitalism.There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine,
Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from
Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by
Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by
union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor,
research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.
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Brazil joins list of plaintiffs against Israel at ICJ
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Thursday, July 24th 2025 - 09:32 UTC
Brazilian authorities announced Wednesday the South American country's formal decision to join South Africa's lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people.Itamaraty said in a statement that the government was outraged by “recurring episodes of violence against the civilian population in the State of Palestine,” extending beyond the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.
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Law is ready for AI, but is AI ready for law?
Law is ready for AI, but is AI ready for law?
Legal AI is full of talk about 'explainability', but most of it is smoke and mirrors. If these systems are to be useful in law, they need more than plausible stories; they need legally sound reasoning and real-world rigour.policyreview.info
The US FDA's AI tool Elsa has fabricated nonexistent studies, misrepresented research, and cannot access relevant documents to assist with review work.
To hear health officials in the Trump administration talk, artificial intelligence has arrived in Washington to fast-track new life-saving drugs to market, streamline work at the vast, multibillion-dollar health agencies, and be a key assistant in the quest to slash wasteful government spending without jeopardizing their work.“The AI revolution has arrived,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has declared at congressional hearings in the past few months.
“We are using this technology already at HHS to manage health care data, perfectly securely, and to increase the speed of drug approvals,” he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee in June. The enthusiasm — among some, at least — was palpable.
Weeks earlier, the US Food and Drug Administration, the division of HHS that oversees vast portions of the American pharmaceutical and food system, had unveiled Elsa, an artificial intelligence tool intended to dramatically speed up drug and medical device approvals.
Yet behind the scenes, the agency’s slick AI project has been greeted with a shrug — or outright alarm.
Six current and former FDA officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal work told CNN that Elsa can be useful for generating meeting notes and summaries, or email and communique templates.
But it has also made up nonexistent studies, known as AI “hallucinating,” or misrepresented research, according to three current FDA employees and documents seen by CNN. This makes it unreliable for their most critical work, the employees said.
“Anything that you don’t have time to double-check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently,” said one employee — a far cry from what has been publicly promised.
“AI is supposed to save our time, but I guarantee you that I waste a lot of extra time just due to the heightened vigilance that I have to have” to check for fake or misrepresented studies, a second FDA employee said.
Currently, Elsa cannot help with review work , the lengthy assessment agency scientists undertake to determine whether drugs and devices are safe and effective, two FDA staffers said. That’s because it cannot access many relevant documents, like industry submissions, to answer basic questions such as how many times a company may have filed for FDA approval, their related products on the market or other company-specific information.
All this raises serious questions about the integrity of a tool that FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary has boasted will transform the system for approving drugs and medical devices in the US, at a time when there is almost no federal oversight for assessing the use of AI in medicine.
“The agency is already using Elsa to accelerate clinical protocol reviews, shorten the time needed for scientific evaluations, and identify high-priority inspection targets,” the FDA said in a statement on its launch in June.
But speaking to CNN at the FDA’s White Oak headquarters this week, Makary says that right now, most of the agency’s scientists are using Elsa for its “organization abilities” like finding studies and summarizing meetings.
The FDA’s head of AI, Jeremy Walsh, admitted that Elsa can hallucinate nonexistent studies.
“Elsa is no different from lots of [large language models] and generative AI,” he told CNN. “They could potentially hallucinate.”
Walsh also said Elsa’s shortcomings with responding to questions about industry information should change soon, as the FDA updates the program in the coming weeks to let users upload documents to their own libraries.
Asked about mistakes Elsa is making , Makary noted that staff are not required to use the AI.
“I have not heard those specific concerns, but it’s optional,” he said. “They don’t have to use Elsa if they don’t find it to have value.”
Challenged on how this makes the efficiency gains he has publicly touted when staff inside FDA have told CNN they must double-check its work, he said: “You have to determine what is reliable information that [you] can make major decisions based on, and I think we do a great job of that.”
FDA Launches Agency-Wide AI Tool to Optimize Performance for the American People
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today launched Elsa, a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool designed to help employees—from scientific reviewers to investigators—work more efficiently.Office of the Commissioner (FDA)
FUCK THIS IS THE WORST
MY DEVICE IS SET TO SPANISH. THERE IS NO WORLD WHERE I WANT TO LISTEN TO A SPANISH LANGUAGE VIDEO IN ENGLISH WITH A SHITTY AI VOICE
Like I'm cool with the option. I'm even cool with it turning on by default according to your account settings.
BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF FUCK CAN IT NOT BE TURNED OFF????
The first time it happened I assumed I could just go to the audio track settings because some creators put in multiple tracks with different languages. BUT IT'S NOT THERE.
I could disabled it easily.
My beef is with the caption always turned on videos when I watch on my phone (Android). Every time I have to disable it manually.
Cosa succede tra Thailandia e Cambogia?
Cosa cambia con il DDL Conti Correnti?
Femi Kuti - No Place For My Dream (2013)
Figlio del famoso musicista nigeriano Fela Kuti, in venticinque anni di produzione discografica Femi non ha mai tradito la rivoluzione afrobeat, un'identità culturale che resta viva nonostante la realtà sottostante abbia perso quei connotati di urgenza e rabbia che infiammò la stagione d’oro della musica africana... Leggi e ascolta...
Storia e disinformazione. I miti fondativi
Quella che oggi definiamo disinformazione è stata presente fin dai tempi antichi, talvolta celata dietro il velo della mitologia e della leggenda.
Gli albori delle civiltà, spesso, affondano le proprie radici in racconti di fantasia, dichiaratamente falsi o privi di solide basi storiche. E se consideriamo che le società attuali conservano caratteristiche di quelle civiltà che sono sopravvissute ai millenni (si pensi a cosa rappresenta il diritto romano per il diritto moderno, ad esempio) si può dire che a livello culturale la narrazione sull’origine delle nostre stesse società e di molti loro tratti essenziali potrebbe derivare da millenarie e mirabili menzogne.
Roma ha segnato a fondo il diritto europeo
Quando si pensa all’eredità romana in Svizzera e nel resto dell’Europa occidentale, la mente va spesso ai grandi monumenti, agli anfiteatri o agli acquedotti. Nei paesi di lingua neolatina, la stessa lingua ricorda l’influsso romano.Swissinfo API (SWI swissinfo.ch)
A ticketing board
GitHub - mattermost-community/focalboard: Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. - mattermost-community/focalboardGitHub
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Ah, you mean for fediverse to work as an LDAP?
My point is
Let's imagine we have a board on some instance. You use your account on another instance to ask the owner of the board to give you access to the board.
The contents of the board are, IMO in most cases of such boards, "members only". So any changes happening inside should not be sent out to federating instances. Otherwise, privacy of such boards would be at the mercy of privacy of other instances. If restricted changes were sent out, technically speaking, any server it federates to can choose to show that content to everyone.
Which means you won't be able to access the contents via any other instance. Apart from the logging in part, you will still need to go to the instance hosting the board.
Unless it would be for publicly accessible boards only, like codeberg issues. That use-case could work
GitHub - jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono: a classy font for programming
a classy font for programming. Contribute to jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Free Fonts & Typefaces › Fontesk
Discover the best free fonts in our curated typography collection. Download high quality fonts for free and enhance your design aesthetics.Fontesk
Free online tool hub – from text utilities to SEO tools, no sign-up, no ads, works instantly ⚡
Just stumbled upon this clean and super lightweight website offering a bunch of handy tools —
from text utilities to emoji generators, love calculators, email extractors, SEO helpers, and more.
✅ No login
✅ No pop-ups
✅ No tracking
✅ Everything works instantly in-browser
Honestly feels like a throwback to when websites were simple and fast.
Check it out 👉 shatoolshub.com/
Shatoolshub
Discover free and powerful online tools on Shatoolshub including email extractor, text repeater, password generator, and more. Make your daily tasks easier!shatoolshub.com
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You stumbled across this site? Wow, what an odd coincidence! It seems exactly like this other site that you said you made here:
And I do mean exactly.
🤔 🤔 🤔 😒
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Why lie? There's absolutely no reason to lie here.
Nevermind. Vibe coded cyberjunk.
🎯 A free collection of 40+ web tools – from dev utilities to productivity boosters
I've been working on a small project called Shatoolshub –
it's a hub of online tools like:
Meta tag generator
Password generator
Text repeater
Emoji tools
Email extractors
GST and Stock calculators
And lots more
No login needed, free to use, ad-free. Built mostly in JavaScript/HTML.
It’s meant to be lightweight, mobile-friendly, and fast.
Open to feedback and suggestions if anyone has ideas on improving it!
Shatoolshub
Discover free and powerful online tools on Shatoolshub including email extractor, text repeater, password generator, and more. Make your daily tasks easier!shatoolshub.com
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You made this site, you say? What an odd coincidence! Were you inspired by the site you say you "stumbled upon" here?
Because it sure seems like the exact same site. 🤔😑🙄
Luxury Fashion Brands Event Organiser
When top-tier luxury and lifestyle brands seek to captivate their audience with elegance and exclusivity, they trust Hire4Event to bring their vision to life. From high-fashion showcases and luxury product launches to premium influencer gatherings and elite client experiences, we specialize in creating unforgettable moments tailored for upscale brands. Our team blends style with precision, ensuring every detail reflects your brand's essence and prestige.
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Gaming Studios Event Organiser
Gaming is more than play—it's a culture, and Hire4Event knows how to level it up. We design and manage immersive events tailored for gaming studios, including game launches, e-sports tournaments, developer meetups, fan conventions, and brand activations. With state-of-the-art AV setups, interactive zones, and a team that speaks the language of gamers, we help studios create unforgettable experiences that resonate with the community.
Power up your next gaming event with us!
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📩 Email: sales@hire4event.com
AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today
AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today
Google is making video AI models harder to ignore.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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Getting Started with Go - Trevors-Tutorials.com #2
- 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
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This video complements the text tutorial at trevors-tutorials.com/0002-get…
Trevors-Tutorials.com is where you can find free programming tutorials. The focus is on Go and Ebitengine game development. Watch the for more info.
The Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.go.dev
Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US
The proposed update to Switzerland’s Ordinance on the Surveillance of Postal and Telecommunications Traffic (VÜPF: Verordnung über die Überwachung des Post- und Fernmeldeverkehrs) represents a significant expansion of state surveillance powers, worse than the surveillance powers of the USA. If enacted, it would have serious consequences for encrypted services such as Threema, an encrypted WhatsApp alternative and Proton Mail as well as VPN providers based in Switzerland.
Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US | Tuta
Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.Tuta
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Switzerland never had solid privacy laws - and is known for intelligence service overreach for decades.
They had a Stasi like system of "who to imprison" when "the time comes".
They listen to all IP traffic in and out the country - which is concerning in times of traffic pattern analysis.
And they are known for their close cooperation with US intelligence services.
Protons (and Threemas) claim of "soo good swiss privacy laws" is nothing more than swiss-washing. And they know it.
Proton has already given away data of its customers (climate activists) to the swiss authorities. And only talked about it when the press got onto it.
The Promised LAN
Saw this posted over on HackerNews, and loved it. I'm big on self-hosting, and this is an incredibly exciting idea to me.
The Promised LAN is a closed, membership only network of friends that operate a 24/7 always-on LAN party, running since 2021. The vast majority of documentation is maintained on the LAN, but this website serves to give interested folks, prospective members or friends an idea of what the Promised LAN is, and how it works.
Their manifesto is also worth reading. My personal favorite part:
We do not wish to, nor will we, rebuild the internet. We do not wish to, nor will we, scale this. We will never be friends with enough people, as hard as we may try. Participation hinges on us all having fun. As a result, membership will never be open, and we will never have enough connected LANs to deal with the technical and social problems that start to happen with scale. This is a feature, not a bug.This is a call for you to do the same. Build your own LAN. Connect it with friends’ homes. Remember what is missing from your life, and fill it in. Use software you know how to operate and get it running. Build slowly. Build your community. Do it with joy. Remember how we got here. Rebuild a community space that doesn’t need to be mediated by faceless corporations and ad revenue. Build something sustainable that brings you joy. Rebuild something you use daily.
Bring back what we’re missing.
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Should i install a discontinued custom recovery ? And how to keep root after update on LineageOS!
Am using my redmi note 8 with lineageos built in custom recovery. And my device was rooted. Recently i installed a OTA update and i loose my root access. As i don't own a laptop (i used my friend laptop to flash custom rom and magisk) it's cery inconvenient to lose root on every OTA update.
I researched about it and find magisk don't root android in a deeper level but in a surface level, thats why an OTA update wipes root access.
So recently i was looking at custom recovery like orangefox and twrp fir fixing this issue. For my device orangefox dropped development and rwrp have updates only one a year and last one was yeras ago...
What should i do ? How can i really keep root on an OTA update without a PC or Second device with OTG cable ?
Is there any other root manager that don't allow to lose root after OTA updates ? And is this issue caused by updating the recovery along with the OTA update ? Just so confusing!
Or should i avoid rooting at all ?
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GitHub - programminghoch10/Lygisk: Your Lie in Android
Your Lie in Android. Contribute to programminghoch10/Lygisk development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Zelenskyy pledges new bill on anti-corruption agencies’ independence as protests continue
Pressure builds on Zelenskyy over corruption agency changes as protests continue
European leaders urge Ukraine to uphold EU standards after president backs legislation weakening anti-graft watchdogsLuke Harding (The Guardian)
OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services | TechCrunch
OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services | TechCrunch
OpenAI was the customer that signed the huge deal that Oracle disclosed last month.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
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Also the only service they found to sell is literally a chatbot wich no company will find interesting if it cost too much
( Very Related to Libre Software ) How AI, ICE and Elon Musk Manipulate People Into Supporting Evil?
I did a very deep dive into the history of Libre Software and stuff, and how "Open Source" became a term. And speculated out of it a whole theory about AI, ICE and US Politics in general.
Probably the best article I've ever written.
This Retro PC Case Gives Your Gaming Rig Big Windows 95 Energy
Maingear's new case even comes with an optional optical DVD drive.
Instagram changes its algorithm after being accused of steering predators to children
It will now “avoid” doing that on more accounts.
Instagram changes its algorithm after being accused of steering predators to children
Instagram accounts that primarily feature images of children, but are run by adult users, will no longer be recommended to “potentially suspicious adults.”Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
GeForce RTX 3050 refuses to die as Nvidia plans fifth iteration of its 2022 budget GPU — new Ada Lovelace-powered part suggests the name could even outlive Ampere silicon
GeForce RTX 3050 A jumps from Ampere to Ada Lovelace
AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today
Google is making video AI models harder to ignore.
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Tesla’s earnings hit a new low, with largest revenue drop in years
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Hey good folks, i.e. Rimu & PugJesus@piefed.social / piefed.social/u/PugJesus (pardon, not yet sure how to correctly tag here),
I happened to have this same issue last week, and am pleased to see today that the bugfix seems to have worked! Ah, and one other useful thing I discovered was that one can go back and correct a post if one happened to have botched the scheduled time, previously:
I couldn't find a way to go back to that post directly, but sure enough, I pulled up browser history, went back to the post link, made the edits, and it successfully posted at the corrected, specified time! 😃
I've read from some separate comradely sources that China has now effectively kneecapped Amerikkka's nuclear weapons. China prevented nuclear war without firing a shot.
China-Backed Hackers Breach Key American Nuclear Agency
Chinese state-sponsored hackers have exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft software to breach sensitive systems around the world, including those of theDaily Caller News Foundation (IJR)
Wikipedia may have to impose quota on number of UK users to comply with Online Safety Act
Wikipedia threatens to limit UK access to website
Digital encyclopaedia may impose quota on number of users to comply with Online Safety ActMatthew Field (The Telegraph)
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If Wikipedia can't fully comply and has to resort to blocking, how a small one-man platform is supposed to do it?
Yeah, exactly, block all the UK and move on.
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in reply to Alphane Moon • • •This is hilarious! Microsoft branding has always been borderline random. "Games for Windows Live" What kind of a brand name is that?
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in reply to Alphane Moon • • •This kind of random shit with Microsoft just blows my mind.
Google is just as bad. Look at their messaging apps. Is it Duo? No that name died and was merged into Google Meet. However, old Google Meet is....uh....Google Meet Classic? I think? And then there is/was Google Voice, Allo, Google Talk.......
And people wonder why I just use and donate to apps like Signal.
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in reply to chronicledmonocle • • •Google and messaging app is whole story on its own.
Although MS isn't that great with messaging either. There was MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, various Skype services and finally MS Teams.
And feels like all of them were bloated and badly made.
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in reply to Alphane Moon • • •