China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries
China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries
There may be no more important question for the West’s competitive position in advanced industries than whether China is becoming a rival innovator.Robert D. Atkinson (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation | ITIF)
Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again
Facebook on Instagram: "It’s time to start poking again 👉"
1,707 likes, 144 comments - facebook on September 4, 2025: "It’s time to start poking again 👉".Instagram
Night owls drive highest online shopping revenue despite minimal browsing share
- Night owls spend the most: Just 9% of shoppers browse late at night (10pm–3:59am) — but they spend more per year than any other group, averaging $3,684 annually.
- Gen Z acts on impulse 25% more often than older generations.
- Saturdays see the most browsing, but Sundays drive the highest spending.
- New Yorkers spend nearly 9% of their income online each month, more than any other state.
- Millennials spend more online per month than any other age group ($282/month), while boomers spend $216.
- Apple users spend 87% more time shopping online than Android users.
- PC users spend 23% more time shopping than Mac users.
- Early birds are 31% more likely to impulse buy than wind-down shoppers.
- Nearly 1 in 10 shoppers make purchases on payday.
- Night owls are the most likely to respond to urgent, limited-time offers and to shop right after being paid.
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Threats against MP Benjamin Doyle referred to police - Greens
Threats against MP Benjamin Doyle referred to police - Greens
The Greens say Benjamin Doyle is feeling "scared and worried about their whānau".Anneke Smith (RNZ)
Green MP Benjamin Doyle resigns from Parliament
Green MP Benjamin Doyle resigns from Parliament
They said they had been on a "journey of healing" which could not be done while in Parliament.Craig Mcculloch (RNZ)
AI not affecting job market much so far
- Hacker News.
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Are Businesses Scaling Back Hiring Due to AI? - Liberty Street Economics
A look at the present and future effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on employment, according to the authors’ regional business surveys.Liberty Street Economics
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La Tua Infiammazione: Amica o Nemica? La Verità Che Non Ti Aspetti!
Quando è eccessiva, interveniamo con FANS o corticosteroidi, ma non senza effetti collaterali. E se ti dicessi che esiste un "ingegnere" naturale, la** curcumina,** che agisce in modo mirato? Scopri nel nostro articolo completo come funziona l'infiammazione e come gestirla al meglio, senza ignorare i suoi preziosi segnali!
Infiammazione: Ciao, sono la tua Infiammazione! E non sono sempre cattiva...
Ciao a tutti, s ono io, l'Infiammazione. Sì, lo so, basta che alziate lo sguardo su e vedrete bene che non ho un aspetto del tutto r...Giuliano (Blogger)
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WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed
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WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed
WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed - News
Engineers prove their technique is effective even with the lowest-cost WiFi devicesEmily Cerf (News)
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[Article] Bathroom doomscrolling may increase your risk of hemorrhoids
‘If it’s taking longer, ask yourself why.’
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Warner Bros. Discovery Sues AI Giant Midjourney for Copyright Infringement In Major Legal Battle
The lawsuit was filed as a growing contingent of Hollywood steps into the fight over generative artificial intelligence.
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Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg
Mark S. Zuckerberg, an attorney, says that he's losing business because his Facebook business profile keeps getting disabled.
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[Article] First brain-wide map of decision-making charted in mice
Mice turning tiny steering wheels to move shapes on a screen have helped scientists produce the first brain-wide map of decision-making at single-cell resolution in a mammal. In two Nature papers published Sept. 3, an international team of 22 groups, co-led by three Princeton University neuroscience labs, charted the activity of more than 600,000 neurons as mice performed a decision-making task. The resulting dataset offers an unprecedented view of how distributed neural networks work together across the brain to guide behavior.
Israel | Netanyahu removes West Bank annexation plan from meeting agenda after UAE warned it would cross “red lines”
The move came one day after Smotrich revealed that the plan stipulates imposing Israel’s sovereignty over 82% of the occupied West Bank, and replacing the Palestinian Authority with “regional alternatives”.
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L'Oro Giallo della Salute: La Curcuma Tra Tradizione e Scienza
La curcuma non è solo una spezia millenaria, ma un potente alleato per il benessere, grazie al suo principio attivo: la curcumina. **Riscoperta dalla scienza moderna, si è rivelata un eccellente **antinfiammatorio e antiossidante **naturale. Studi scientifici hanno dimostrato che la sua efficacia, in particolare contro l'infiammazione, può essere paragonabile a quella di farmaci comuni come **l'ibuprofene, ma con un profilo di sicurezza superiore.
Tuttavia, il suo assorbimento da parte del corpo è spesso limitato. Per questo, la ricerca ha sviluppato strategie innovative come la combinazione con la piperina o formulazioni avanzate, che ne potenziano l'efficacia.
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La Curcuma e la Curcumina: L'Antinfiammatorio Naturale Millenario Riscoperto e Potenziato dalla Scienza Moderna
La curcuma , questa radice dallo sgargiante colore giallo-arancione, è emersa come una delle protagoniste indiscusse nel dibattito sulla sal...Giuliano (Blogger)
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Trump rebrands Department of Defense as 'Department of War'
Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump is changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, the White House announced Thursday, insisting the rebrand will project a more powerful image.While the department's official name is set in law, Trump in an executive order is authorizing use of the new label as a "secondary title" by his administration, a White House document said.
Defense officials are permitted to use to use "secondary titles such as 'Secretary of War,'...in official correspondence, public communications, ceremonial contexts, and non-statutory documents within the executive branch," according to the document.
It was not immediately clear when Trump planned to sign the order, but his public schedule for Friday said he would be signing executive orders in the afternoon as well as making an announcement in the Oval Office.
The president, a marketing-savvy real estate developer, has repeatedly said in recent weeks that he was mulling such a change.
Late last month, the 79-year-old Republican claimed the Defense Department's title was too "defensive."
The Department of War "was the name when we won World War I, we won World War II, we won everything," he told reporters on August 25.
According to the White House document, the name change "conveys a stronger message of readiness and resolve."
Established in the early days of US independence, the Department of War historically oversaw American land forces.
A government reorganization after World War II brought it along with the US Navy and Air Force under the unified National Military Establishment, which in 1949 was retitled to the Department of Defense.
"Restoring the name 'Department of War' will sharpen the focus of this Department on our national interest and signal to adversaries America's readiness to wage war to secure its interests," the White House document said.
The move is the latest overhaul at the Pentagon since Trump took office in January and appointed former Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the sprawling department.
Hegseth, a combat veteran, has repeatedly touted the push to restore a "warrior ethos" in the department, and has lambasted prior administrations for policies he and Trump have derided as "woke."
Hegseth notably has sought to expel transgender troops from the military and change the names of bases that honored Confederate troops back to their original titles, after they were renamed under former president Joe Biden.
While Trump's order could potentially be rescinded by a future president, it "instructs the Secretary of War to recommend actions, to include legislative and executive actions, required to permanently rename" the department, the White House document said.
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6 Settembre: Luca Blindo esce con “Slow Down”, in anteprima al Premio Lucio Dalla
Scritto e interpretato da Luca Blindo, con la produzione di Lord Bart, sempre sull’etichetta casertana Hopeland, “Slow Down” è un viaggio introspettivo che affronta il tema della resilienza e della necessità di fermarsi per ritrovare equilibrio e senso. Il testo alterna dialetto napoletano e italiano, creando una narrazione emotiva che si intreccia con sonorità urban e influenze cantautorali, per un’identità musicale originale e personale.
L’anteprima live al Premio Lucio Dalla rappresenta il contesto ideale per il debutto del brano, che racconta una sensibilità contemporanea senza rinunciare alla forza della tradizione musicale italiana.
“Slow Down” accompagnato da un lyrics visual su YouTube, sarà disponibile dal 6 settembre su tutte le piattaforme digitali e in rotazione radiofonica.
Spoti-fire, Stop-ify edo Spoti-fair
Guztiok entzun nahi dugu musika: asko, merke, euskaraz eta gaizki sentitu gabe. Baina Spotify utziko badugu Israelen konplize izateagatik, agian beste enpresa eta tresnen inguruan ere hausnartu beharko dugu. Edo gure morala kontratatzen ditugun zerbitzuen arabera neurtzen hasiko gara? Non geratzen da artista? Eta kultura? Zer balio eraman nahi ditugu beste plataforma batera? Zertarako prest gaude? Galdera asko eta erantzun gutxi.
Testuingurua
Duela aste batzuk Whatsappeko mezu bat jaso nuen ekimen batera atxikitzeko gonbidapenarekin. “Musikariak Palestinarekin” egitasmoak Spotifyetik gure musika kendu eta boikota egitera animatu gaitu euskal artistoi. Daniel Ek Spotifyeko sortzaileak Israelek Palestina erasotzeko erabiltzen dituen droneak ekoizten dituen enpresa batean inbertsioak egin ostean sorturiko ekimena da. Oso hasieran dago kanpaina, eta oraindik lanean ari dira talde gehiago batu eta komunikazio kanal ofizial bat izateko.
Mezua entzuleari ere iritsi zaio, eta sareetan jendea galdezka antzematen da. “Non gehiago dago euskal musika?”, edo “Nola erraztu aldaketa nirekin plan familiarra partekatzen duen jendeari?”.
Gure musika kontsumo ohiturak, eta zehatzago, gure kultura kontsumitzeko eta sustatzeko ohiturak aldatuko baditugu, zein balio eramango ditugu beste plataforma batera? Zeren baitan aukeratuko dugu plataforma hori? Non jarriko dugu eskubideen neurgailua? Nahikoa zaigu plan familiarra izatea? Gure morala eta lasaitasun mentala kontratatzen ditugun zerbitzuetan neurtuko dugu? Edo euskal musikaren ekosistemari buruz hausnartzeko eta artistak babesteko baliatuko dugu? Spoti-fire emango diogu edo Stop-ify egingo dugu?
Kanpaina
Spotifyetik musika ateratzeko eta boikoteatzeko kanpainarekin bat egiten dugu, eta bertatik gure musika kentzeko lanean ari gara. Baina pertsonalki, baditut beste ezinegon eta zalantza batzuk.
Artistak erantzukizun guztia dauka bere musikarekiko, eta ahal duen neurrian non dagoen kontrolatu beharko luke. Agian, entzuleek ez dakite gaur egun distribuzio digital bidez automatikoki plataforma guztietara igotzen dela musika, baita euskal musika ere. Beraz, alternatiba bilatzea oso erraza da, edozein plataforma “mainstreamean” aurkitzen baita euskal musika.
Hala ere, ezin dugu guztia artistaren esku utzi. Plataformak mugitzen duen dirua erabiltzailearena eta iragarkiena da. Artistok katalogoa kentzen badugu ere, jendeak bertan jarraituko badu, ez dugu ezer lortuko. Aldaketa entzulean izatea behar dugu bereziki.
Artistaren papera
Ez dut eztabaida arazo ekonomikoetara eraman nahi, ez du zentzu askorik artistaren ikuspegitik, horrelako plataformek ez dutelako (normalean behintzat) diru sarrera handirik suposatzen. Baina sareetan eman diren eztabaidetan, jendeak artistaren irabazietan ere oinarritu du plataformaren aldaketa. Eta uste dut honi buruz hitz egiteak ikuspegia zabaldu dezakeela.
Artistak egitura juridiko bat behar du diru sarrerak jaso ahal izateko (edo diru laguntza bat eskatu ahal izateko). Musika konposatzea, letrak idaztea, kanta borobiltzea, estudioa kontratatzea, grabatzea, ekoiztea, nahastea, masterizatzea, euskarriak diseinatzea, bideoklipa egitea, diskoa euskarri fisikoan kaleratzea eta plataforma digitaletan jartzea. Prozesu horretan artista baten irabaziak 0€ dira, eta gastuak, berriz, 3000€ eta 10000€ artekoak gutxi gorabehera.
Momentu horretan, kantu edo disko bat kaleratzean, hasi daiteke dirua “irabazten”. Normalean kontzertuetan altak eta bajak ematen dira, eta egun horiek dira kotizatzen direnak. Beraz, diru irabazi (edo galera ezak) izateko aurretik hilabete askotako lana egin behar du, eta diru kopuru handia inbertitu.
Baina ez dut gehiegi dramatizatu nahi. Talde edo bakarlari bakoitzaren egoera oso ezberdina izan daiteke, eta gure kasuan hau dena oso prozesu interesgarria izan da beti.
Egoera ekonomikotik haratago, musikariei edo pertsona esanguratsuei beti eskatu zaie publikoki posizionatzea. Beraien botere mediatikoa hitzez edo ekintzez erabiltzea aldarri bat edo beste babesteko. Maila ezberdinetan, baina ikusi dugu zer gertatu den KKRren udako jaialdi guztiekin. Inoiz baino gehiago, artista baten ekintzak bozgorailu politiko bilakatu dira.
Artista batek jaialdi batean ez jotzeak jaialdia kaltetzen du, bai. Baina artista batek plataforma batetik katalogoa kentzeak ez du apenas eragiten. Aldiz, erabiltzaile askok aldi berean eta koordinatuta plataforma bat utziko balute, enpresek sumatuko lukete diru sarrera horien falta. Oraingoan, artistek baino entzuleek eman beharko lukete pausoa benetan kalte eta boikot bat egiteko. Hala ere, uste dut artistek utzi egin behar dutela Spotify, entzuleek ere utzi dezaten.
Palestinan Israelek egiten duen genozidioa babesten duten enpresak boikoteatuko ditugu ahal dugun heinean. Baina, baliatu dezakegu boikota euskal musikaren osasunaren aldeko jarrera egokiak hartzeko? Entzuleak kontsumo egokira bideratu ditzakegu? Eta musika edo kulturaren kontsumotik haratago zer? Zerbait gehiago aldatuko dugu, edo Spotify uztea modan dagoen trend bat da?
Enpresei boikota
Horrelako kanpainen deialdiak Whatsappez jaso ohi dira, Instagrameko kontu batera bideratuta eta Gmail bat jarriz kontakturako helbide zuzen bezala. Jendeak ahal duena egiten du eskura dituen tresnekin —noski baietz eta eskerrak!— eta ez dugu zertan jakin behar guztiaren atzean zer dagoen. Baina enpresa batzuekin era batera jokatzeak edo ez, agerian uzten du teknologiaren munduan zein galduta gauden.
Googleen eta Amazonen azpiegitura teknologikoa erabili ohi du sistematikoki Israelek Palestina jazartzeko. El Salto hedabideak hau argitaratu zuen aurreko urtean. Eta 2023an METAren zentsurari buruz (Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, Threads…), hurrengo hau idatzi zuen Human Rights Watch GKEak, normalean “proyankia” izanik.
Beraz, Palestinak jasaten duen genozidioan kolaboratzen duten enpresen tresnak erabiltzen ditugu, Palestinaren genozidioa sustatzen duen beste enpresa bat kaltetzeko.
Eta koherenteagoak izan nahiko bagenu?
Gure kanpainaren komunikazioa sare libre eta kontrolatuetan egin dezakegu, eta euskaraz:
- Fedibertsoa.eus-en aurkitu ditzakegun Mastodon, Lemmy, Peertube edo Pixelfed sareak sortu eta horietan ere edukiak zabalduz.
- Liberaforms bidez atxikimenduak eskatuz edo iritzien horrela jasoz.
- Domeinu propioa erosiz eta webgune sinple bat eraikiz (WordPress edo bestelako CMS libreen bidez).
- Domeinu propioko eposta erabiliz.
Gero, Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, X, BlueSky eta gure datuekin jolastu nahi duten eta Israelen konplize diren sare guztietan zabaldu, erabiltzaileak gure komunikazio libre eta kontrolatuetara bideratuz. Ez ordaindu publizitatea eta ez sustatu sare hauen erabilera.
Baina gauza gehiago ere egin ditzakegu eguneroko teknologiekin:
- DuckDuckGo, SearXNG edo beste bilatzaile libre bat erabili nabigatzailean.
- Firefox, Brave, Chromium edo bestelako nabigatzaile libre bat erabili.
- Ez erosi Amazonen, ez erabili Instagram, ez erabili Whatsapp, ez erabili Gmail edo Google Appak; gure datuekin irabazten dute dirua.
- Baina batez ere, ez sustatu teknologia hauek hezkuntza zentroetan.
Koherentzia absolutua izatea oso zaila da. Janzten dugunak, jaten dugunak edo erabiltzen dugunak Israelekin zerikusirik ez duela jakitea ez da batere erraza.
Honela eztabaida handiagoa da, zailagoa, eta agian Spotify uzteko ekintza sinpletik haratago doanez, aldaketarako duen indarra lausotu egiten da. Baina probestu dezakegu Spotifyetik ateratzea beste tresna, enpresa edo ohitura batzuk aldatu eta boikoteatzeko ere. DeSpotify egitetik DeGoogle egitera.
Gure auzoko kanpainak beste era batera eta beste tresna batzuekin antolatzera. Agian zigilu bat asma dezakegu hori komunikatzeko: “Kanpaina honetan ez da genozidioa bultzatu duen enpresaren teknologiarik erabili”. Zer dakit… Hemen garrantzitsuena fokua non jarri erabakitzea da. Musikak zerbait gehiagorako balio badigu, probestu dezagun. Bestela, toki berean bukatuko dugu hasitako bidea.
Plataforma
Irakurri dut sareetan Tidal dela artistari hobekien ordaintzen dion plataforma, baina ez da horrela. Gainera, handia da beste plataforma batera migrazioa egin eta berriro toki berean bukatzeko arriskua. Ongi aukeratu, eta kontuan izan beharko genuke enpresa horrek zein inbertsio eta hornitzaile dituen.
Soluzio bateratu bat, hilabeteko harpidetza eta musika katalogo handia kontsumitzeko aukera eta merkea edo plan familiarrarekin gastuak partekatzeko plataforma bat bilatzen ari bazarete, ez dago artista babestuko duen aukera egokirik. Enpresa guztiek 0.002€ eta 0.02€ artean ordaintzen diote artistari erreprodukzio bakoitzeko. Eta irabazi horiek gero disketxe eta distribuzio digital lanak egiten dituzten enpresekin partekatu behar dira (%100 autoekoizpena denean). Normalean artistak %80 eta besteek %20 jasotzen badute ere, oso ohikoa da 50/50 formula.
Ez da nire intentzioa enpresa baten zerbitzuak edo bestearenak gomendatzea. Eta gainera, oso ondo azaltzen du dena hemen Zonafrankako Frankiek: Spootifyen kakaztea, SLOP musikala eta alternatiba posibleak kontsumitzailearen interesen arabera. Taula ederra sortu du:
Soinu ingeniaria den lagun batekin hitz egin nuen honi buruz. Berak aipatu zidan nola duela 15 urte jada pentsatu zuen zer izan zitekeen Spoti-fair bat, edo justuagoa den plataforma bat. Bere klaseetan antzeko eztabaidak izaten zituzten. Garai hartan ere enpresek musika behar zuten, musikarekin zerikusirik ez zuen helburu bat lortzeko. Beraz, artistari xoxik ez. Ez da asko aldatu.
Aipatuko nukeen plataformetako bat da Bandcamp. Denda baten azpiegitura teknologikoa ematen dio artistari, eta orrialde propio bat diseinatzeko aukera irabazien %20/25aren truke. Pare bat aldiz saldu dute plataforma, eta horrekin ere arazoak izan ditzakegu etorkizunean. Ez baitakigu nork erosi dezakeen.
Nik imajinatzen dut tresna publiko bat izango dugula noizbait kultura sostengatzen laguntzeko. Orain Europako diru-laguntzekin sortutako bideo eta podcast plataforma publikoez betetzen ari gara internet. Momenturen batean iritsiko zaigu musikara ere. Baina ez bada iristen?
Jabetza kolektiboan edo pribatu federatuan bilatuko nuke irtenbidea. Adibide ederra dugu Funkwhale instantzia euskaldunarekin: BaleaFunk. Proiektua fedibertsoan dago eta zure musika igo dezakezu.
Badaude proiektu interesgarriak martxan, Subvert bezalakoa. Bandcamp plataformaren alternatiba kooperatibo bezala saltzen dute. Eta funtsean hori da, kooperatiba bat bazkidetza irekiak dituena eta momentuz sortze prozesuan dagoena. Bazkideentzako itxitako foroetan hartzen ari dira erabakiak, eta beraien roadmap edo aurreikusitako ibilbidea publikoa da.
Edo Resonate, erreprodukzioen arabera ordaintzen duzu, harpidetzarik gabe. Eta parte hartzen duten artista, erabiltzaile eta langileen proiektua da. Pribatutasuna bermatzen dute, eta algoritmoaren gomendioen aurkakoak dira.
Laburbilduz, plataformek ez dute artista babesten. Artista batek diru gehiago irabaziko du bere musika irratiak edo telebistak erabiltzen badu, edo SGAE edo EKKI bezalako erakunde publikoek egiten duten musika erabiltzen duten negozioen rekaudaziotik (tristea bada ere). Eta argi dagoen gauza bakarra hurrengoa da:
Artista bat babesteko era zuzenena, bere kontzertuetara joatea eta bere diskoak erostea da.
Eta gero zer?
Ekintza indibidualetik haratago, ez goaz inora ekintza edo konponbide kolektiborik gabe. Zein soluzio ikusten diogu euskal musikari internet bidez kontsumitu eta partekatzeko, ahalik eta koherentzia digital eta kultural handiena mantenduz, non artistak babestuko diren eta Palestinaren aurkako sarraskia (edo besteren bat) babesten duten enpresei boikota egingo zaien?
Eta testuinguru horretan etorkizun hurbil batean… Zein da imajinatzen dugun kultura eta horrentzako sostengu bizigarri posiblea? Behar dugu? Nahi dugu? Nola nahi dugu? Ordainduko dugu? Edo beste era batera babestuko dugu? Edo zuzenean AA bati eskatuko diogu Esanezin edo MICEren hurrengo kanta asmatzeko?
Agian azken aukera euskal musikariak nolabait batzea izango da. Eskubideak lortzeko sindikatuak edo kooperatiba kulturalak eraikiz. Edo zuzenean Palestinaren aldeko aldarri kolektibo eta kultural baten bitartez. Zeinek daki etzi etorriko dena?
Lehen pausoa behintzat argi dugu: Spotifyetik irten.
#AAEZ #Alternatibak #DeGoogle #Genozidioa #Google #Israel #Meta #Musikariak #Palestina #Spotify
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The Ideal Disinformation Weapon: AI Companion Apps are being weaponized for hybrid warfare and stochastic terrorism
The Ideal Disinformation Weapon - TDHJ.org
AI companions are not just synthetic friends—they are fast becoming ideal disinformation delivery systems.Blair Maddock-Ferrie (The Defence Horizon Journal)
The Ideal Disinformation Weapon: AI Companion Apps are being weaponized for hybrid warfare and stochastic terrorism
The Ideal Disinformation Weapon - TDHJ.org
AI companions are not just synthetic friends—they are fast becoming ideal disinformation delivery systems.Blair Maddock-Ferrie (The Defence Horizon Journal)
The Ideal Disinformation Weapon: AI Companion Apps are being weaponized for hybrid warfare and stochastic terrorism
The Ideal Disinformation Weapon - TDHJ.org
AI companions are not just synthetic friends—they are fast becoming ideal disinformation delivery systems.Blair Maddock-Ferrie (The Defence Horizon Journal)
Italian Dockworkers Threaten to ‘Shut Down All of Europe’ If Gaza Aid Flotilla Is Blocked
Italian dockworkers have threatened to “shut down all of Europe” and block all shipments to Israel if communication with the latest aid flotilla bound for Gaza is lost. The threat marks a significant escalation in dockworkers’ long history of industrial action in solidarity with Palestine.
Speaking at a procession in the port of Genoa – one of Italy’s two largest commercial ports – on behalf of the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), a syndicate of various grassroots unions in Italy and thought to be the largest of its kind, the dockworker said: “If we lose contact with our boats, with our comrades – even for just 20 minutes – we will shut down all of Europe.”
“Our young women and men must come back without a scratch, and all this cargo, which belongs to the people and is going to the people, must reach its destination, down to the very last box.”
“13,000-14,000 containers leave this region every year for Israel. Not a single nail will leave anymore,” he continued.
Italian Dockworkers Threaten to ‘Shut Down All of Europe’ If Gaza Aid Flotilla Is Blocked
A union representing dockworkers at one of the largest ports in the Mediterranean - a key stopping point for Israeli goods - has said it will ‘block everything’ if Israel stops the inbound aid flotilla. Polly Smythe reports.Novara Media
Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website
Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website
Five years ago, Google’s climate action ambitions were the gold standard for Big Tech. Then, with power demand spikes from AI data centres, in July it scrubbed its sustainability website of its 2030 net zero pledge.Canada's National Observer
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New Lloyd’s boss signals shift on insuring fossil fuels | Patrick Tiernan says market will no longer discourage underwriting of such projects
New Lloyd’s boss signals shift on insuring fossil fuels
Patrick Tiernan says market will no longer discourage underwriting of such projects, stressing ‘apolitical’ stanceJulia Kollewe (The Guardian)
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Debate Over Key Climate Change Program Continues In Sacramento [California state capital]
Debate Over Key Climate Change Program Continues In Sacramento | KQED
Lawmakers are debating how to extend the state's cap and trade program amid rising energy costs.www.kqed.org
Non è arduo sopravvalutare la lunghezza di un anaconda. A meno che provenga dai territori settentrionali - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Non è arduo sopravvalutare la lunghezza di un anaconda. A meno che provenga dai territori settentrionali - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Divulgazione ed approfondimento scientifico sono due processi che nella maggior parte dei casi procedono in parallelo.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website
Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website
Five years ago, Google’s climate action ambitions were the gold standard for Big Tech. Then, with power demand spikes from AI data centres, in July it scrubbed its sustainability website of its 2030 net zero pledge.Canada's National Observer
Trump to sign executive order renaming Pentagon the Department of War
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/department-of-war-trump-executive-order
Marking things as adult content?
I'm sure there's a lot of discussion about age-verification laws around here right now and for the sake of keeping things on topic I won't really broach the subject here, but it has gotten me thinking that there really isn't much that can be programmatically marked as adult content on the fediverse.
I haven't dived too much into researching the subject, it looks like Lemmy lets you set posts as NSFW, but most activity is centered around microblogging and that appears to have coalesced around Mastodon's approach of freeform content warnings. This seems like a disaster in the making if "don't show adult content to minors" becomes something that has to be more strictly enforced; these content warnings can be used for everything from benign spoiler warnings to very obviously signposting sexually explicit fetish content. Computers can't really understand this level of nuance unless you throw something that does natural language processing at it, and that will almost certainly come up with a lot of false positives and wasted energy in the process; I can't imagine this going over well with anyone really.
So, I've been wondering, how difficult would it be to standardize a separate mature-content warning from the content warnings currently in place? This idea has clearly been floated before (see this issue on Mastodon's GitHub and this blog post written by someone who was a minor and directly affected by this issue at the time) but I haven't actually seen any work towards anything beyond paying lip service to the subject. Maybe it could be a boolean toggle, like how the former Cohost did it (on top of content warnings) or something closer to how Bluesky does it where you have a few set moderation labels that you can apply yourself (see below).
We could also consider moving this distinction beyond posts; the Mastodon issue that I linked above also mentioned applying this to users and even entire instances.
There are a few caveats here in that people historically don't really appreciate being hidden/deboosted for posting adult works, and there is the potential for backlash if something gets marked as adult when it really isn't. I'm not entirely sure how this could be addressed beyond leaving this to implementers and maybe leaving some strong advice to be understanding and not shove people in a corner because they draw kink art for example.
I'd definitely appreciate more thoughts on the subject, please let me know what you think.
NSFW account and instance declaration and NSFW mode
As adult instances are becoming more popular and their reach through the fediverse grows, content on those instances are making their way into the lives of those who are not wanting to see it or ar...Humblr (GitHub)
Hi! We’re actually working on a specification for content labels:
github.com/swicg/activitypub-t…
essentially a Note (or other object ) can have many labels associated with it, and these labels would exist as part of well known vocabularies, such that software can give users better choice over what they see and don't see.
Yes, that does mean software may provide methods of complying with age verification laws may mean certain categories of content are unavailable without some form of age verification (but that's between you, your server software, and you instance administrator as to what that is). Currently there are some tools for instance administrators, particularly of mastodon to completely filter certain content from their servers, making their servers somewhat explicitly child-friendly.
This would also allow for third-party labellers in the future if needed (through annotations), which allow for bluesky style labellers which can catch content not self-labelled.
I want to stress that the goal of content labels is not to moderate the adult content nor queerness from the fediverse, but rather to give creators and consumers of content more control over what they publish and who sees it or what they see.
It is unfortunate and terrible the way that age verification is being rolled out as a means to censorship and authoritarianism, and these laws should be fought in the courts and politically to be repealed or changed. Adults must be able to exist on the internet, not everything is for children.
Workstream: Content Warnings, Labels and Annotations
Issues currently within scope of this workstream are: #1 #4 (issue locked, but where discussion started) #84 There will be future issues for both our recommendation regarding content warnings and a...ThisIsMissEm (GitHub)
Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world
Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world
The White House is hosting tech CEOs for an event on AI education.Lauren Feiner (The Verge)
BenderNet - a demo app for using Qwen3 1.7b q4f16 with web-llm
GitHub - gajananpp/bendernet: An AI-powered data query assistant featuring Bender from Futurama - completely client-side with WebLLM
An AI-powered data query assistant featuring Bender from Futurama - completely client-side with WebLLM - gajananpp/bendernetGitHub
love2d stavolta che gira, nonostante la octo-oriented programming!
Sorprendentemente, appena qualche ora di sonno e qualche ora di scrittura magica un pochino avanti e indietro più tardi, e ho effettivamente trovato una soluzione al problema problemoso delle prestazioni imbarazzanti di Love2D caricato di una tale OOP che non gira affatto bene su una viemmina come quella di Lua… e, anche se come previsto […]
The United Nations Turns Eighty
The United Nations Turns Eighty
By Vijay Prashad on September 4, 2025 At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearl…Resumen LatinoAmericano English
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail can stay open, appeals court says
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail can stay open, appeals court says
Move puts on hold federal judge’s order last month to close Florida immigration facilityGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat
Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat
Dr Jean Innes is stepping down after the government told the charity to focus on defence research.Graham Fraser (BBC News)
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De-ACSM'ing and de-DRM'ing e-books for fun (but not profit) – Matias Kinnunen
A reminder for myself how to make library e-books pleasant to use with the help of Calibre and two Calibre plugins.mtsknn.fi
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GitHub - adrienmetais/adl: Download ebooks from acsm file
Download ebooks from acsm file. Contribute to adrienmetais/adl development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Barra's Error Message Generator
Generate your own funny Error Messages just like the good old days!barrarchiverio.cl
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Project 2025 group wants huge changes to policy to encourage more kids
The right-wing think tank behind Project 2025 is now crafting new policy suggestions, including an incentive for married couples to have more children, according to a report.Following its controversial 900-page blueprint for President Donald Trump’s second term, the Heritage Foundation is now drafting a new position paper that includes calls for a “Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family,” referring to the program to develop the first nuclear weapons, the Washington Post reported.
The forthcoming paper, titled “We Must Save the American Family,” reportedly urges the government to pour funds into individual families rather than child care programs, like Head Start, according to the Post.
The Heritage Foundation is also urging the president to issue orders that require all proposed policies to “measure their positive or negative impacts on marriage and family.” If a program scores poorly, it should be revamped, according to the Post.
“For family policy to succeed, old orthodoxies must be re-examined and innovative approaches embraced, but more than that, we need to mobilize a nation to meet this moment,” the paper reportedly reads.
Project 2025 group wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for babies – with huge changes to policy to encourage more kids
A draft of a forthcoming paper reportedly includes policies that aim to ‘restore the nuclear family’Kelly Rissman (The Independent)
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Literal kindergarten behavior.