Nell’alberata vastità dell’oblast di Irkutsk, situato a nord-ovest del bacino idrico del lago Baikal, molte sono le notevoli località capaci di passare inosservate.
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It is not only about closing branches, or sacking workers, or making efficiency improvements through the use of clever algorithms, such as artificial intelligence. This is about one of the pillars of the community, our banks – which provide jobs and safeguard our savings, and help small businesses start and succeed – abandoning their traditional role of serving the community to become profit machines.
I'm posting this mainly to remind everyone member owned banks exist - P&N/BCU - VicBank - Great Southern Bank - Police Bank - Bank Australia - People First Bank and quite a few others
I have nothing but praise for the customer service of P&N. Services and rates are comparable if not better than the big banks.
Corporate banks have boars elected by investors and are motivated to skim as much of your money as possible. Member elected boards are elected by you and are motivated to provide a good service.
Sudan Gurung and team propose cabinet changes, focus on youth involvement
Protests against corruption lead to 51 deaths, over 1,300 injured
KATHMANDU, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A former DJ and his obscure Nepalese non-profit used a social media app popular with video gamers to drive massive protests and become the unlikely power brokers in installing the country's new interim leadership.
Sudan Gurung, the 36-year-old founder of Hami Nepal (We are Nepal), used the Discord messaging app and Instagram to mobilise massive demonstrations that forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to resign, in the deadliest political crisis to hit the Himalayan nation in decades, a dozen people involved in the demonstrations said.
Australia’s school funding system is unfair and inefficient, entrenching inequality. The article calls for a new model where all schools are publicly funded without fees.
Australia now has one of the most socially segregated school systems. More than 80% of students from disadvantaged families attend public schools, compared with just 12% in Catholic schools and 8% in independent schools.
Thirty years later, the negative consequences of this model are clear. It is seriously undermining our public school system, dividing communities and costing far more than it needs to. It entrenches inequality, yet survives because every reform attempt meets fierce resistance.
Yet there was little difference in educational outcomes such as VCE results and NAPLAN scores. Admittedly, these are not the only desirable outcomes — Carey may offer more extra-curricular activities — but questions arise about the relative efficiency of the two schools, as well as whether parents are truly getting value for money.
Countries that perform better on international tests — such as Canada, the UK, Ireland and New Zealand — offer choice within a publicly funded system. Schools may have distinct features, but they cannot charge fees. This keeps performance gaps smaller and prevents segregation by class.
Australia could adopt a similar model. Both levels of government would develop a common formula, based on a revised SRS[Schooling Resource Standard], to fully fund all schools – government and non-government. Schools could retain their ethos but would not be allowed to charge fees. Most private schools already receive close to or above 80% of the SRS, so the additional cost would be less than many assume.
Such reform would not abolish choice; it would simply make choice affordable and equitable. As in the UK and Canada, only a small minority of schools would remain outside the system.
Hochul endorsed Mamdani in a New York Times opinion essay published Sunday evening.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayor's election.
Hochul, a Democrat, backed Mamdani in a New York Times opinion essay published Sunday evening.
"In the past few months, I've had frank conversations with him," Hochul said in the essay. "We've had our disagreements. But in our conversations, I heard a leader who shares my commitment to a New York where children can grow up safe in their neighborhoods and where opportunity is within reach for every family."
In 2021, an audience member asked Kirk at what point conservatives had the green light to use guns on their political opponents, and while Kirk took care to at first “denounce” the question, he went into a longer answer that suggested he didn’t really disagree that much with its premise. Kirk’s sole objection to the idea, he explained, was that it was strategically foolish because it would create a pretext for a Democratic crackdown on the Right. He went on to suggest that the line for when it would be okay to take up arms and hurt people would be “when we exhaust every single one of our state[’s] ability to push back against what’s happening” — in other words, if his movement didn’t succeed through the normal political process. Two years later, he reiterated this, warning listeners that “you have a government that hates you, you have a traitor as the president,” so they should “buy weapons” and carry them around all the time in public in case they have to fight back.
The murder of Charlie Kirk was a moral travesty. We can recognize that without ignoring that he repeatedly fanned the flames of political violence himself.
Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
My mullvad sub is about to expire, so I'm deciding whether to just pre-pay for another year or switch to something else. I typically just use it for blanket protection when using my computer or phone, but have been thinking I might like to set up a torrent box proxied through a VPN, too. (I have kids, so I may not have time for this for a while, tbh.)
My general understanding is that people like mullvad and also like ProtonVPN. Any general suggestions/thoughts?
A group of websites selling small dolls with overtly childlike features have published more than 1,300 adverts on the platform. The dolls are notably realistic in appearance and many of the adverts use photos of them in sexualised poses, some holding balloons or teddy bears.
a #ChatControl update (shared on the ISOC GE mailing list):
"The good news is that the blocking minority held. Members states raised concerns about privacy and cybersecurity as reasons for their opposition. Even countries that are officially in support of the proposal asked questions along these lines for the first time – showing that they are facing increased pressure back home.
The bad news is that #Denmark is moving forward even though they did not receive full support. They are keeping their plan to take this proposal to the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on October 14th.
After discussing with partners, we understand this as a strategy from Denmark. They are not making progress at the working level (the meeting today) and therefore will try directly at the political level (justice and home affairs). During these coming four weeks they will try to convince some of the blocking member states to reconsider their position.
What this means for us is that we need to keep up the pressure. We should be thanking the blocking countries for their position and encouraging the undecided or supportive countries to reconsider. We should keep up pressure in the media at the same time."
"Will the minister elaborate on the minister's statement to TV2 on the 21st?"
August 2024, where the minister says: "We have to break with the totally mistaken notion that it is every man's freedom to communicate on encrypted messaging services
(…)”?”
Answer:
We know that social media and encrypted services are unfortunately largely is used to facilitate many forms of crime. There are examples on how criminal gangs recruit completely through encrypted platforms young people to commit, among other things, serious crimes against persons. It is an expression of a cynicism that is almost completely incomprehensible.
We therefore need to look at how we can overcome this problem. Both in terms of what the services themselves do, but also what we from the authorities can do. It must not be the case that the criminals can hide behind encrypted services that authorities cannot access access to.
Therefore, we, as a government, will also strengthen the police's capabilities in the area of decryption, of course under appropriate legal guarantees, as is also the case today. In addition, the Ministry of Justice has The Criminal Justice Committee has just started working on a terms of reference that will look at the challenges that technological developments present to the police investigation, including the use of encrypted messaging services.
I also note that steps have been taken within the EU towards a strengthened regulation of, among other things, digital information services and social media platforms.
For example, the European Commission has proposed a new Regulation on rules for preventing and combating sexual abuse of children. The proposed regulation contains rules on obligations for certain online services to minimize the risk of their services being misused for online child sexual abuse, and the services can, if necessary, be required to track down, report, remove and block access to material showing sexual abuse of children. :::
Recent news revealed that Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has been investing heavily in military tech companies, which adds another ethical layer to a platform already criticized for how little it pays musicians !
Spotify only pays artists about $3–5 per 1,000 streams, using a pro-rata model that directs most money toward major stars... By contrast, Qobuz (≈$18–20 per 1,000 streams) and Tidal (≈$12–13) pay far more fairly!
However Tidal is far from ethical. Most of its revenue is controlled by private investors and founders and small artists still earn very little...
More fair-minded platforms like Bandcamp, Resonate, Ampled, or SoundCloud’s fan-powered royalties prioritize musicians over investors.
With these more ethical alternatives available, why do we keep using Spotify?
Stasera scopro un’altra storia incredibile, grazie alla solita piattaforma attraverso la quale Google esercita il proprio monopolio sul settore dei video online, e ancora una volta non capisco come mai non ne fossi al corrente prima! Spoiler, ma il tutto si condensa in… una bambina di 11 anni che, nella sempre ridente e senza problemi […]
Nevada-tan; o, propriamente, Natsumi Tsuji. Oh, il Giappone è pazzo, a parte gli scherzi, ma questo è troppo pure per loro… e infatti all’epoca, nel 2004, questo omicidio pare sia diventato subito un caso mediatico (mondiale, dicono, e quindi a maggior ragione non capisco perché lo scopro solo 21 anni dopo), oltre che un meme sullo stesso Internet che in parte ha portato al verificarsi del fenomeno, perché… Chi ha curiosità guardi il video, anche perché è pieno di tutti quei dettagli macabri intriganti che io non ho il tempo e lo spazio di ripetere qui, ma praticamente questa dolcissima bimba ha iniziato a infognarsi con la cultura horror giapponese del suo tempo, dopo che la madre la mise in punizione (di non uscire di casa se non per andare a scuola) perché a suo dire pensava troppo allo sport e poco allo studio, e quindi lei ha scoperto Internet per svagarsi… e ops. 🧨
Appassionandosi soprattutto a film del genere — che, anche questi, non ho mai sentito — tra cui un certo The Monday Night Mystery Theater, dove la gente che muore lì dentro viene uccisa con dei taglierini (e ancora non ho idea di che cazzo abbiano i giapponesi per i taglierini, onestamente… cioè, io condivido, ma non capisco da dove nasca questa fissazione), evidentemente ne prende grande ispirazione, perché è proprio così che ha deciso di ammazzare la compagna… L’ha portata in un’aula isolata, fingendo di avere un regalo per scusarsi, l’ha fatta bendare, e le ha tagliato la gola e i polsi!!! 💉
Una cosa bella è che nei momenti migliori del video ho riso… e oddio, non è poi troppo assurda per i miei standard, considerato che rido pure quando sono io a fare gli omicidi con il taglierino o il cacciavite giocando a Yandere Simulator, ma in effetti questa qui è molto me-coded, e mi rendo conto che io alla sua età non diventai un caso di cronaca solo perché, pur incazzandomi tale e quale a lei se non pure peggio sul momento, le cose mi passavano relativamente subito, e non avevo modo di accumulare abbastanza rancore per pianificare omicidi (ma le tendenze omicide le avevo, pur senza guardare horror o girare in parti di Internet strambe…) 😀
Però, oh, una nota di merito le deve essere data, e dovrebbe tecnicamente essere di conseguenza data anche a me della sua età, perché una delle cose che faceva sull’Internet fu di tenere un sito, a 11 anni… sul quale in realtà non si riesce a capire molto, perché il video dice che era un blog, ma cercando pare fosse un sito più generico, che in sé però non si trova più, probabilmente perché fu stato rimosso ai tempi del caso dalla piattaforma di hosting. Lì scriveva un po’ delle sue passioni, e un po’ della sua vita più in generale tra cui la scuola… un po’ come me, ma io inizialmente avevo solo le passioni, con me il postaggio totalizzante è arrivato più tardi. 👌
E ora, questa del sito sarebbe certamente una questione secondaria interessante da esplorare… Però, brava brava, anche perché immagino che creare i bloghetti nel 2004 non fosse facile quanto lo è stato per me nel 2015… anche se, pare che lei fosse particolarmente intelligente, seppur con (…o grazie a?) dei disturbi mentali, quindi vabbè, le sarà venuto relativamente naturale e richiedente poco impegno lo smanettare sul computer. (E menomale che io alla sua età facevo solo i siti, e non i piani… ma forse fu anche perché si sapeva che io avevo dei problemi, a differenza di lei, quindi la minaccia genitoriale del riformatorio era spesso dietro l’angolo.) ✨
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, shortly after he arrived in Israel to discuss diplomacy in the region and the war in Gaza.
Netanyahu touted the enduring alliance between their two countries, even as Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar this past week prompted concern among some in the Trump administration.
Farmiga is a farming simulator for the Commodore Amiga. Yes, you read that right. Somebody made Stardew Valley for your A500.
It started out in AMOS, which made for a clunky, memory-hungry, not exactly smooth experience. Then the dev—Paweł “tukinem” Tukatsch—rewrote the whole thing so it would actually run on real hardware without crying for 1.5 MB of RAM. Now it works on OCS, ECS, or AGA with Kickstart 1.2. Around 500k plus a bit of extra RAM gets you farming. A full MB if you want music.
The alpha is on itch.io as a bootable ADF. You can plant veggies, harvest crops, slap down fences, pay taxes, and wander into a shop. If that’s too boring, you can just make moonshine.
There are mini-games. The “cow” one shows up again here, though right now you have to trigger them yourself with F1–F3. Event triggers are still cooking.
It runs entirely on mouse. Menus, credits, save slots—it’s all point-and-click. Feels more polished than you’d expect from something still branded “tech demo.”
Polish was the first language, but English and German are already built in. The music comes from Marcin “Eightbm” Białobrzewski, who handles sound on a lot of Tukinem’s projects.
Older builds were rough. This one feels like if Maxis had secretly made SimFarm for the Amiga in the early ’90s. And yeah, wild-boar shooting and milk delivery were in earlier previews, so expect them to return.
It’s weird and charming. It’s farming on a machine never meant to farm. Boot the ADF—less than a megabyte—and watch crops grow on your A500.
Farmiga. Farm + Amiga. Simple and dumb. Which is exactly why it works.
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Siamo abituati a pensarla con la classica buccia d'arancia a levare il sonno alle donne, ma di contro, la riteniamo,per il gentil sesso sopratutto, innocua. Ma siamo così sicuri che la cellulite sia innocua e sia solo un disagio estetico? Leggete l'articolo e ne scoprirete delle belle!
The question raised by the Target boycott is: Can Black people expect corporate America to ever do the right thing? by Erin Aubry KaplanSeptember 12, 2025 This article was produced by the nonprofit publication Capital & Main.
The falling cost of renewable energy, though, means that many countries, particularly poorer ones, have a strong incentive to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.
According to Ember’s report, the falling costs of energy produced by Chinese-made wind and solar installations have allowed countries like Mexico, Bangladesh and Malaysia to race past the United States in recent years in terms of using renewably produced electricity (rather than fossil fuels) in everyday activities like heating and cooling buildings or powering vehicles.
Across Africa, solar panel imports from China rose 60 percent in the last 12 months, and 20 African countries imported a record amount over that period, Ember said in a separate study recently.
American companies, who do not make solar panels or wind turbines at anywhere near the scale of Chinese ones, are at a major disadvantage. Chinese companies now supply 80 percent of solar panels and 60 percent of wind turbines worldwide, Ember said.
China has pushed for dominance in renewable energy partly for economic reasons and also to protect its national security by limiting its reliance on oil imports. But the implications for the planet’s health could scarcely be greater. Scientific consensus has long been that a sharp decline in fossil fuel use is the surest way to lessen the pace of climate change.
Da piccoli la prima cosa che facciamo per muoverci è gattonare e poi correre, perchè? Non ne ho idea, ma è una attività che i muscoli sanno fare fin da subito, perchè lo sanno fare. E la cosa interessante è che se non viene stimolata si va a perdere. Quindi se verso i 30 anni si vuole ricominciare a corre bisogna reimparare a correre. Attività semplice ma bisogna anche saper correre bene. Non dico forte ma solo bene per evitare infortuni e star bene con se stessi! Buone corse ci sentiamo a fine mese!
The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade. That new amount, created with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act this summer, adds to $30.8 billion a year in preexisting subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. The report finds that the amount of public money the U.S. will now spend on domestic fossil fuels stands at at least $34.8 billion a year.
The increase amounts to “the largest single-year increase in subsidies we’ve seen in many years — at least since 2017,” says Collin Rees, the U.S. program manager for Oil Change International, an anti-fossil fuels advocacy organization and author of the report.
The U.S. has been subsidizing fossil fuel production for more than a century. Many of the tax subsidies logged in the report — including a tax break passed in 1913 that allows companies to write off large amounts of expenses related to drilling new oil wells — have been on the books for decades.
Fossil fuel subsidies have proven notoriously difficult to undo, even with a determined administration. After campaigning on ending tax breaks for Big Oil, President Joe Biden’s 2021 budget pledged to raise $35 billion over 19 years by eliminating certain fossil fuel subsidies; one of his first executive orders tasked agencies with getting rid of those subsidies. (“I don’t think the federal government should give handouts to Big Oil,” he at a press conference announcing the order.)
But the phaseouts of these subsidies were nixed during climate legislation negotiations with then-senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who was the key swing vote in the Senate at the time and a recipient of fossil fuel money with lengthy ties to the coal industry. Meanwhile, the Inflation Reduction Act — the resulting compromise between Manchin and Democratic leadership, which was passed in August of 2022 — gave additional boosts to the fossil fuel industry in the form of subsidies for oil-and-gas-friendly technologies, like carbon capture and storage and certain types of hydrogen made with natural gas.
“What happens is you have these policies in place, and then you have a constituency that strongly advocates and lobbies for them, it becomes harder and harder to unwind them, which I think is the situation that we’re in today,” says Matthew Kotchen, a professor of economics at Yale University, who was not involved in the new analysis.
That cycle is continuing in the new administration. Fossil fuel companies spent millions of dollars getting Trump elected last year; one report from the advocacy group Climate Power puts the total number at $445 million. Those companies are seeing benefits as the administration pursues an aggressive deregulatory agenda, hobbles renewable energy projects, and downplays the importance of climate change. The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the president has taken to calling oil CEOs following their appearances on TV.
“It’s no secret that Trump and the Republicans are on the side of the fossil fuel industry and very much vice versa,” says Rees. “The fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars getting Republicans and Trump elected. They then presented their wish lists. Nearly everything on those wish lists was fulfilled, and in fact, they got a bunch of additional goodies that weren’t even in those wish lists.”
The new research builds on past work from Oil Change International, which last did the math on national fossil fuel subsidies in 2017, finding then that $20 billion was going out the door to the industry each year. To compile the new report, Rees and his colleagues combed through a variety of federal governmental sources on the amount of money going to the oil, gas, and coal industries each year.
The question of what, exactly, constitutes a federal subsidy is the topic of some debate. Environmental groups tend to have a broader scope in tallying up public money spent on fossil fuels, including federal money not distributed directly to oil companies. Conservative groups, meanwhile, take a much narrower approach. (For its report, Oil Change International used the definitions of subsidies set by the World Trade Organization in calculating domestic funding to fossil fuels.)
Due to a lack of transparency across the federal government, the calculations in this report are “likely to be an undercount,” Rees says. “There’s probably some things that we missed — some corners of the budget that are funding fossil fuels in different ways.”
The $4 billion in new yearly subsidies comes largely in the form of allocations contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed this summer. One of the biggest new subsidies — an expansion of the tax credit for carbon capture and storage — is, ironically, related to provisions from the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Trump campaigned on reversing. (The One Big Beautiful Bill Act did, however, crack down harshly on tax credits for wind and solar, carrying out part of Trump’s campaign promise.)
Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing CO2 emissions and injecting them deep underground. The oil and gas industry has for decades injected CO2 underground to help recover difficult reserves that don’t respond well to traditional drilling methods. Environmentalists have long argued that the logic of replicating an oil and gas technique as a climate solution is seriously flawed — especially considering that a company could reap a climate tax credit from injecting CO2 that will then be used to create more fossil fuels.
In the original Inflation Reduction Act, which significantly expanded the existing carbon capture tax credit, there was a price differential baked into the tax credits: Producers got more money per ton of CO2 they sequestered underground without any oil production involved, and less for CO2 used specifically to produce more oil and gas. But the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated this differential, allowing producers to collect on the full credit even if they are using CO2 to produce more fossil fuels. The total expansion of tax credits for carbon capture in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the analysis found, could send out more than $1.4 billion of public money to oil and gas companies each year.
The types of federal subsidies addressed in this report are just one kind of boost the government gives dirty industries. The analysis does not address state and local tax breaks for fossil fuel companies, nor does it add up international financing from publicly funded U.S. entities to overseas fossil fuel companies and projects. (Just before he left office, President Biden backed a limit on funding for dirty investments made by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a part of the executive branch that facilitates the export of U.S. goods and services. President Trump promptly encouraged the Bank in April to resume funding for coal projects abroad.)
The fossil fuel industry also benefits financially from not having to address the negative side effects of their products: Coal companies don’t have to deal with the health impacts from people breathing polluted air, for example, while oil and gas companies don’t need to think about damages from extreme weather juiced up by climate change caused by their product. Kotchen, the Yale economist, calculated in a 2021 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that a small handful of U.S. oil, gas, coal, and diesel giants, by not having to pay for the damage they cause, get $62 billion in what he calls “implicit subsidies” per year.
I asked him if, given the major environmental rollbacks overseen by the Trump administration, he’d expect that figure to increase if he redid his analysis in 2025. “The environmental externalities are higher, and production has gone up,” he says. “I think [the number] would be a lot higher.”
US President Donald Trump has urged the Export-Import Bank of the United States to slash red tape and boost financing for the country’s coal industry, signalling a dramatic departure in White House energy policy.
Proton, l'azienda che gestisce il servizio di posta elettronica Proton Mail, si descrive come un "rifugio neutrale e sicuro per i tuoi dati personali, impegnato a difendere la tua libertà".
Ma il mese scorso, Proton ha disattivato gli account di posta elettronica di giornalisti che denunciavano violazioni della sicurezza di vari sistemi informatici del governo sudcoreano, a seguito di una denuncia da parte di un'agenzia di sicurezza informatica non meglio specificata. Dopo una protesta pubblica e diverse settimane, gli account dei giornalisti sono stati finalmente ripristinati, ma i giornalisti e i redattori coinvolti vogliono ancora sapere come e perché Proton abbia deciso di chiudere gli account.
Proton, l'azienda che gestisce il servizio di posta elettronica Proton Mail, si descrive come un "rifugio neutrale e sicuro per i tuoi dati personali, impegnato a difendere la tua libertà".
Ma il mese scorso, Proton ha disattivato gli account di posta elettronica di giornalisti che denunciavano violazioni della sicurezza di vari sistemi informatici del governo sudcoreano, a seguito di una denuncia da parte di un'agenzia di sicurezza informatica non meglio specificata. Dopo una protesta pubblica e diverse settimane, gli account dei giornalisti sono stati finalmente ripristinati, ma i giornalisti e i redattori coinvolti vogliono ancora sapere come e perché Proton abbia deciso di chiudere gli account.
Storia, come sempre, complessa e non di facile comprensione soprattutto senza sapere esattamente come stanno le cose. Certo è che Proton dovrebbe essere più trasparente su cose come questa:
> Proton did not publicly specify which CERT had alerted them, and didn’t answer The Intercept’s request for the name of the specific CERT which had sent the alert. KrCERT also did not reply to The Intercept’s question about whether they were the CERT that had sent the alert to Proton.
Artists, designers, futurists, environmentalists, and dreamers are invited to make submissions for a Digital Art Exhibition for the forthcoming ‘Southeast Asian Solarpunk Art Project’ on 4 October 2025.
The call is organised by EnergyLab Asia, a non-profit driving Cambodia’s energy transition, in collaboration with Micro Galleries (a global art collective), Sambor Village hotel in Kampong Thom and Seapunk Studios (a network of creatives around Southeast Asia).
The open call invites artists, designers, and creatives from across Southeast Asia to submit digital artwork for an exhibition to be held at F3 – Friends Futures Factory in Phnom Penh on 4 October as part of Clean Energy Week.
The project seeks to inspire a hopeful, sustainable future through art, countering climate pessimism and empowering local communities.
The proposals should be for digital artworks that envision a sustainable, hopeful future rooted in local culture and community resilience. Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement, close to the hopepunk movement, that envisions and works toward actualising a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The ‘solar’ represents renewable energy and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the ‘punk’ refers to do-it-yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating such a future.
Artists retain full copyright, and printing costs for the exhibition will be covered by the organisers. Works may be toured or shown online in the future, powered by Microgalleries. Eligibility
Artists of any medium and career level, primarily from Southeast Asia can apply.
Their resources may be limited but that's good they offer accommodation. I assume you're referring to the residency. This is just an open call for artists to submit art.
I found a way where you can encode words using English words, in binary, without using any computer programs. (Its very rudimentary)
Bit One: If first letter is between a-m = 0; n-z =1 Bit Two: If the length of the word is even its 0, if odd 1 Bit Three: If the word ends with a-m =0; n-z =1
Exclude all article words like "the" "or" "and", etc...
the extra (s) for plural is counted for the odd and even, but doesn't count as the final letter of the word (otherwise it would trend towards the (1) bit as every 3 bits apart)
Example of a sentence of hidden info:
::: spoiler Wall of Text Warning. Its a full worksheet and calculations of how to form the steganograph/ciphertext. The kitten explores the icecream shop, many undetermined flavor of tasteful extra-ordinary strawberrys
characters in [] are excluded
[the] kitten explore [s]k = 0 even = 0 n = 1 e = 0 even = 0 (remember, "s" counts for parity (even/odd) but not as the final letter of the word) e = 0 Result = 001000
[the] icecream shop i = 0 even = 0 m = 0 s = 1 even = 0 p = 1 Result = 000101
many undetermined m = 0 even = 0 y = 1 u = 1 even = 0 d = 0 Result: 001100
flavor [of] tasteful f = 0 even = 0 r = 1 t = 1 even = 0 l = 0 Result = 001100
extra[-]ordinary strawberry [s]e = 0 even = 0 (the hypen counts as a letter) y = 1 s = 1 odd = 1 y = 1 Result= 001111
(I hope I encoded this correctly, I always fuck up with ciphers)
Also, you can use other ciphers on top of this steganograph to scramble it even more, like FourSquare Cipher. Or OneTimePad if its less "piracy" and more "revolutionary" (I mean don't use a caesar cipher if you are doing a rebellion lmao)
And write it as a free-verse poem to hide the awkward language.
What's the government gonna do? Ban Literature? (Inb4 Fahrenheit 451 lol) :::
The article is interesting, but they really went hard with the title just to only talk about it for like two sentences. I was hoping for more since it seems like a pretty fun topic.
Recent news revealed that Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has been investing heavily in military tech companies, which adds another ethical layer to a platform already criticized for how little it pays musicians !
Spotify only pays artists about $3–5 per 1,000 streams, using a pro-rata model that directs most money toward major stars... By contrast, Qobuz (≈$18–20 per 1,000 streams) and Tidal (≈$12–13) pay far more fairly!
However Tidal is far from ethical. Most of its revenue is controlled by private investors and founders and small artists still earn very little...
More fair-minded platforms like Bandcamp, Resonate, Ampled, or SoundCloud’s fan-powered royalties prioritize musicians over investors.
With these more ethical alternatives available, why do we keep using Spotify?
I have reformatted it for markdown with hyperlinks from law.cornell.edu to laws that the amendment referenced. So that it is easier to read and cross-reference. Let me know if I made any formatting mistakes.
I want to hear everyone's thought on this.
Right now, the bill is still in committe which means that it will either be cancelled (tabled), amended further, or approved (reported). If approved, the bill will be voted on by the House and then the Senate.
Could something like this reclassify dissidents as terrorists? Maybe allow for any and all naturalized citizens to be sent to a concentration camp? Could anyone who sent political aid to the Democrats be considered a terrorist? Like what could the reprecussions be and how far might they go?
SEC. 226. NO PASSPORTS FOR TERRORISTS AND TRAFFICKERS.
The Act entitled "An Act to regulate the issue and validity of passports, and for other purposes’’, approved July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 211a et seq.), commonly known as the "Passport Act of 1926’’, is amended by adding at the end the following:
"SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO DENY OR REVOKE PASSPORT TO INDIVIDUALS PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM.
"(a) INELIGIBILITY.—
"(1) ISSUANCE.—Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary of State shall refuse to issue a passport to any individual who—
"(A) has been charged with or convicted of a violation of section 2339A or 2339B of title 18, United States Code; or
"(B) the Secretary determines has knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to an organization the Secretary has designated as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189).
"(2) REVOCATION.—The Secretary of State shall, except as provided in paragraph (3)(A), revoke a passport previously issued to any individual described in paragraph (1).
"(3) EXCEPTIONS.—
"(A) RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES.— In order to facilitate the return of an individual described in paragraph (1) to the United States, the Secretary of State may limit a previously issued passport or passport card only for return travel to the United States, or may issue a limited passport or passport card that only permits return travel to the United States, prior to revocation under paragraph (2).
"(B) HUMANITARIAN AND EMERGENCY WAIVER.—The Secretary of State may issue a passport to an individual otherwise ineligible for such passport or subject to revocation of such passport under this subsection if the Secretary determines that emergency circumstances or humanitarian needs apply.
"(b) RIGHT OF REVIEW.—Any individual who, in accordance with this section, is denied issuance of a passport by the Secretary of State, or whose passport is revoked by the Secretary, may request a hearing to appeal such denial or revocation not later than 60 days after receiving notice of such denial or revocation.
"(c) RIGHT OF RESTORATION.—In the event that an individual described in paragraph (1) demonstrates during a hearing described in subsection (b) that the individual has been acquitted of an act described in that paragraph, or the Secretary otherwise changes a determination described in subparagraph (B) of such paragraph, the Secretary may reissue a passport to such individual.
"(d) REPORT.—
"(1) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary of State refuses to issue or revokes a passport pursuant to subsection (a), or if, subsequent to a hearing pursuant to subsection (b), the Secretary issues or cancels a revocation of a passport that was the subject of such a hearing, the Secretary shall, not later than 30 days after such refusal or revocation, or such issuance or cancellation, submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report on such refusal, revocation, issuance, or cancellation, as the case may be.
"(2) FORM.—The report submitted under paragraph (1) may be submitted in classified or unclassified form.
"(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section—
"(1) the term ‘passport’ includes a passport card; and
"(2) the term ‘material support’ means the provision of any property, tangible or intangible, or service—
"(A) including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel (one or more individuals who may be or include oneself), and transportation; and
"(B) excluding medicine or religious materials.
"(f) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section may be construed—
"(1) or applied so as to abridge the exercise of rights guaranteed under the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States; or
"(2) to limit the Secretary’s ability to revoke a passport.
"(g) SEVERABILITY.—If any provision of this section or the application of such provision is held by a Federal court to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this section and the application of such provisions to any other person or circumstance shall not be affected.’’.
By MEE staff Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST
Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.
The war between the ice-cream giants comes as Ben & Jerry’s became part of the Magnum Ice Cream company on Tuesday and Unilever prepares to spin off Magnum into a separate public company, which includes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Walls and Cornetto, in mid-November.
Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.
By MEE staff Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST
Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.
The war between the ice-cream giants comes as Ben & Jerry’s became part of the Magnum Ice Cream company on Tuesday and Unilever prepares to spin off Magnum into a separate public company, which includes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Walls and Cornetto, in mid-November.
'Set us free': Ben & Jerry's enlists support of fans to separate from parent company
By MEE staff Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST
Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.
The war between the ice-cream giants comes as Ben & Jerry’s became part of the Magnum Ice Cream company on Tuesday and Unilever prepares to spin off Magnum into a separate public company, which includes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Walls and Cornetto, in mid-November.
Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.
By Syma Mohammed Published date: 12 September 2025 19:49 BST
Van Hollen of Maryland and Merkley of Oregon produced the report after a week-long visit to Israel, the occupied West Bank, the Rafah border with Gaza, Jordan and Egypt at the end of August. The damning 21-page report is titled, "The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It."
The report observed that overwhelming evidence shows “Israel is…implementing a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and dealing a death blow to the vision of a future Palestinian state”.
US Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley released a report on Thursday saying that the US is complicit in Israel’s "ethnic cleansing" of Palestine.
Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer garnered backlash after attacking Charlie Kirk critics despite her ridiculing the right-wing activist months earlier.
“It’s time for the Trump administration to shut down, defund & prosecute every single leftist organization,” Loomer wrote on X after Kirk was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. “We must shut these lunatic leftists down. Once and for all. The left is a national security threat.”
However, responses to her request that the president target US leftists in Kirk's honor were flooded with screenshots of a long post from July 13 in which she denounced the deceased 31-year-old as a "charlatan" and "political opportunist" who "stabs Trump in the back" and engaged in "mental gymnastics."
Kirk had previously opposed Trump's planned military strikes against Iran, which TPUSA had mobilized young voters to support.
Kirk has also been outspoken in his desire for the complete disclosure of documents related to the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, the former Trump associate who entered a guilty plea to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 and died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.
In those days, Loomer also expressed her displeasure that Kirk had hosted comedian Dave Smith at a conference after the latter called for the Republican president to be impeached and for his supporters to "abandon" him, just a year after Trump had escaped an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
“I don’t ever want to hear [Kirk] claim he is pro-Trump ever again,” Loomer’s post said, adding that TPUSA had only thrived “thanks to the generosity” of the president. “The honorable thing to do is to have a position and actually defend it to the death instead of flip flopping.
“It really is shameful. And I am honestly just disgusted by the nonstop flip flopping on the right.” Using screenshots of a passage from the July article, Loomer's responses to Kirk's murder included the following: "Maybe sit this out," "I think you need to shut up," and "You're nothing but a sociopathic hypocrite." Others were on Loomer's side.
Loomer once voiced her displeasure that Kirk had hosted comedian Dave Smith at a conference after the latter called for the Republican president to be impeached and for his supporters to "abandon" him
Hey! I am looking for an easier way to stream live TV, specifically sports. Currently we access streams via freemediaheckyeah on an Intel NUC which has Linux, Firefox and a keyboard and mouse, HDMI to TV.
I have a proxmox server in another location which has Plex, jellyfin, Debian and some other stuff. We cast from our phones to the Chromecast.
I'm wondering if there's a way I can eliminate the living room NUC and stream from my proxmox server to a Chromecast. Or something similar that removes the keyboard mouse browser combo. Looking for reducing power and heat usage partly and simplicity.
Is freemediaheckyeah an IPTV service? Plex or Jellyfin can manage IPTV streams. Plex needs additional software (e.g., xTeVe) to take an m3u playlist and convert it into a tuner.
:tv: Cross-platform IPTV player application with multiple features, such as support of m3u and m3u8 playlists, favorites, TV guide, TV archive/catchup and more. - 4gray/iptvnator
Is MythTV still a thing? That's what we used to do, powered by a satellite dish. But we watched less and less TV over the years until we didn't even notice that the corner where we moved our TV to couldn't reach the antenna cable.
Come l'anno scorso, ma in una diversa zona di Torino, quest'anno a Parco Dora. Tanti stand, tanti appassionati e appassionate. Siete ancora in tempo fino a stasera alle 19:00!
Il TO Play è una celebrazione del gioco di ruolo e da tavolo. Alla sua 8^ edizione, al parco della Tesoriera della città di Torino, si terrà il 13 e 14 settembre
Dopo il presidio di ieri pomeriggio davanti alla stazione di Porta Nuova, continua la campagna di sensibilizzazione contro il genocidio in Palestina.
Non possiamo restare a guardare come se fossimo impotenti di fronte alle prepotenze.
È bello vedere una piazza piena di persone che scendono in strada non per se stesse, ma per un ideale alto di giustizia. Non siamo in piazza per ottenere oggi una fetta più grande della torta, ma perché tutti, oggi e domani, possano avere un pezzo della torta.
Tante voci diverse, che sicuramente non sono d'accordo su tutto, fanno quello che i politicanti hanno smesso di fare: fare Politica, cercare compromessi per il bene comune. Non di pochi, ma di tutti, a cominciare da chi sta peggio.
Si moltiplicano le mobilitazioni per fermare il genodicio a Gaza e liberare la Palestina dalla illegale e violenta occupazione israeliana. E a queste si uniscono le iniziative per la messa al bando delle armi atomiche.
NodeBB è la piattaforma software federata alla base di questo sito. Lo trovo interessante per le sue caratteristiche di federazione e opzioni di configurazione. Una di queste opzioni sono i Widget, dei mattoncini preconfigurati e da completare che si poss
NodeBB è la piattaforma software federata alla base di questo sito. Lo trovo interessante per le sue caratteristiche di federazione e opzioni di configurazione.
Una di queste opzioni sono i Widget, dei mattoncini preconfigurati e da completare che si possono inserire nelle pagine del sito. Il titolo e sottotitolo su sfondo blu in alto è un esempio di widget che NodeBB mette a disposizione. Anche i Messaggi recenti a destra sono un esempio di widget.
I Widget mi ricordano un'altra piattaforma software di configurazione e sviluppo di Blog: MovableType, una sorta di CMS (Content Management System) sul quale ho lavorato diversi anni.
Avendo installato NodeBB da poche settimane, non lo conosco ancora bene e lo sto testando. Anche questo post è un test. Ci sono ancora diversi aspetti che vorrei approfondire di questo software, come i plugin, i temi grafici, le classi degli stili.
In questo post intendo provare il plugin dei sondaggi di NodeBB. ActivityPub non ha uno standard nativo per definire i poll o i sondaggi. Quindi ogni istanza va un po' per conto proprio. In questo modo i post che contengono sondaggi non vengono federati b
In questo post intendo provare il plugin dei sondaggi di NodeBB. ActivityPub non ha uno standard nativo per definire i poll o i sondaggi. Quindi ogni istanza va un po' per conto proprio. In questo modo i post che contengono sondaggi non vengono federati bene tra le varie istanze.
[poll title="Sondaggio di prova 2" maxvotes="1" disallowVoteUpdate="true" allowAnonVoting="true" end="1758460800000"] - prima opzione - seconda opzione - terza opzione[/poll]
I got this 1 free month reward from NVIDIA app it already past one month but I still can use it. Can Adobe do anything against me? Like take me to court or something along those lines? I heard this was a bug that other people also got
Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications from the so-called Great Firewall were dumped online, including packaging repos and operational runbooks used to build and maintain China’s national traffic filtering system.
Full details, including technical material and download links, are available at the GFW Report. The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments.
[...]
The largest leak linked to the Great Firewall of China surfaced online, with nearly 600 GB of material allegedly containing source code, internal communications, work logs, and technical documentation from groups said to be involved in building and maintaining the system.
The data was leaked by Enlace Hacktivista, previously linked to the Cellebrite data leak. The collective claims that the documents were traced to Geedge Networks and the MESA Lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Information Engineering. Both have long been central to the Firewall’s research and development, with Geedge led by Fang Binxing, often called the “Father of the Great Firewall.”
According to the files, their reach spreads outside China’s borders, supplying censorship and surveillance technology to governments in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and others linked to the Belt and Road Initiative.
[...]
The published material is available for download through both BitTorrent and direct links. The package includes a massive mirror/repo.tar file weighing 500 GB, basically an archive of the RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) packaging server, alongside compressed document sets from Geedge and MESA. In total, the files contain tens of thousands of pages and repositories, offering a rare window into the infrastructure behind the Firewall.
[...]
Even before digging deeper into the source code, the structure of the leaked archive gives clear insight into things. For example, geedge_docs.tar.zst and mesalab_docs.tar.zst contain thousands of internal reports, project descriptions, and technical proposals. File names like CTF-AWD.docx, BRI.docx, and CPEC.docx suggest connections to Belt and Road Initiative projects and international collaborations.
Project management records, such as geedge_jira.tar.zst, highlight day-to-day coordination between researchers and engineers, while communication drafts, like chat.docx and multiple schedule documents, show the granular planning that went into censorship operations. Even routine administrative files such as 打印.docx (Print) and reimbursement-related proofs indicate how deeply routine and bureaucratic this apparatus has become
[...]
The background included in the leak provides a detailed timeline of MESA’s formation and growth. Established in 2012 at the Institute of Information Engineering, MESA grew quickly through talent programs, research grants, and government contracts. By 2016, it was handling projects worth more than 35 million yuan annually and contributing to national-level awards in cybersecurity.
When Geedge Networks was founded in 2018 in Hainan, Fang Binxing served as its chief scientist, bringing with him a cadre of MESA researchers and students. The company soon became a key private partner to Chinese authorities, supporting censorship operations not only domestically but also as an exporter of surveillance solutions abroad.
[...]
Experts may need months to analyse the source code, but the documents already back up what many observers have been claiming for years. The Great Firewall is not a fixed system; it is a growing network shaped by government contracts, research institutes, and private companies.
The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments. Given the sensitivity of the content, there is always the risk that malware or tracking elements could be embedded in the archives. Still, for researchers and rights groups, the trove offers an opportunity to understand how the Firewall operates and how its influence spreads.
Analysts at Net4People and GFW Report plan to share more findings as they go through the source code. For now, the leak offers an unusual look at how the system operates, and it will take time to understand the full weight of what has been exposed.
Full details, including technical material and download links, are available at the GFW Report. The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments.
[...]
The largest leak linked to the Great Firewall of China surfaced online, with nearly 600 GB of material allegedly containing source code, internal communications, work logs, and technical documentation from groups said to be involved in building and maintaining the system.
The data was leaked by Enlace Hacktivista, previously linked to the Cellebrite data leak. The collective claims that the documents were traced to Geedge Networks and the MESA Lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Information Engineering. Both have long been central to the Firewall’s research and development, with Geedge led by Fang Binxing, often called the “Father of the Great Firewall.”
According to the files, their reach spreads outside China’s borders, supplying censorship and surveillance technology to governments in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and others linked to the Belt and Road Initiative.
[...]
The published material is available for download through both BitTorrent and direct links. The package includes a massive mirror/repo.tar file weighing 500 GB, basically an archive of the RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) packaging server, alongside compressed document sets from Geedge and MESA. In total, the files contain tens of thousands of pages and repositories, offering a rare window into the infrastructure behind the Firewall.
[...]
Even before digging deeper into the source code, the structure of the leaked archive gives clear insight into things. For example, geedge_docs.tar.zst and mesalab_docs.tar.zst contain thousands of internal reports, project descriptions, and technical proposals. File names like CTF-AWD.docx, BRI.docx, and CPEC.docx suggest connections to Belt and Road Initiative projects and international collaborations.
Project management records, such as geedge_jira.tar.zst, highlight day-to-day coordination between researchers and engineers, while communication drafts, like chat.docx and multiple schedule documents, show the granular planning that went into censorship operations. Even routine administrative files such as 打印.docx (Print) and reimbursement-related proofs indicate how deeply routine and bureaucratic this apparatus has become
[...]
The background included in the leak provides a detailed timeline of MESA’s formation and growth. Established in 2012 at the Institute of Information Engineering, MESA grew quickly through talent programs, research grants, and government contracts. By 2016, it was handling projects worth more than 35 million yuan annually and contributing to national-level awards in cybersecurity.
When Geedge Networks was founded in 2018 in Hainan, Fang Binxing served as its chief scientist, bringing with him a cadre of MESA researchers and students. The company soon became a key private partner to Chinese authorities, supporting censorship operations not only domestically but also as an exporter of surveillance solutions abroad.
[...]
Experts may need months to analyse the source code, but the documents already back up what many observers have been claiming for years. The Great Firewall is not a fixed system; it is a growing network shaped by government contracts, research institutes, and private companies.
The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments. Given the sensitivity of the content, there is always the risk that malware or tracking elements could be embedded in the archives. Still, for researchers and rights groups, the trove offers an opportunity to understand how the Firewall operates and how its influence spreads.
Analysts at Net4People and GFW Report plan to share more findings as they go through the source code. For now, the leak offers an unusual look at how the system operates, and it will take time to understand the full weight of what has been exposed.
EU must not fall into Russian trap on territorial concessions, Kallas warns -- Russia's Shahed-type attack drones are bigger than you think -- Romania scrambles jets, Poland closes airport over Russian drone alerts -- Ukraine's drones strike Russian oil r
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Romania scrambles jets, Poland closes airport overRussian dronealerts. “Russian military personnel know exactly where their drones are headed and how long they can stay in the air,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said, commenting on the attacks. “The routes are always calculated. This cannot be an accident, a mistake, or the initiative of some lower-level commanders.”
Zelensky calls fortougher US sanctions, warns Russian drone strikes on Poland are ‘Putin’s war.’ Zelensky remarks come days after Russian drones violated Polish airspace and were shot down in what marked the first known instance of NATO forces directly engaging Russian aerial assets during the full-scale invasion.
Trump says he’llsanction Moscowif all NATO allies stop buying Russian oil. “NATO’s commitment to win has been far less than 100%, and the purchase of Russian oil, by some, has been shocking,” U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Russia attacks Ukraine with164 dronesas European officials meet in Kyiv. Ukrainian air defense downed 137 drones in the north, south, east, and center of Ukraine, according to the Air Force.
Ukraine’s drones strike Russian oil refinerydeep behind lines, 1,500 km from border. Preliminary assessments indicate that key infrastructure at a major oil refinery in Russia’s Bashkortostan region— including a vacuum column essential for primary oil processing—suffered significant damage.
Russians break into Kupiansk viagas pipeline, watchdog says. It is the third time Russian forces have used pipelines as a tactic, which they first adopted during the Battle of Avdiivka. Back in March, around 100 troops passed through a gas pipeline to reach Ukrainian positions in Sudzha, in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
Ukrainian troopsregain controlof Dnipropetrovsk Oblast village, military says. Units of Ukraine’s 425th Skelya Regiment liberated the village of Filia in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, a military spokesperson said. Russia claimed control of the settlement on Aug. 24.
Ukrainian drones attackmajor Russian oil refineryin Leningrad Oblast, governor says. The Kirishi refinery is one of the largest in Russia and has a processing capacity of over 17 million tons of oil per year. A fire broke out at the facility during a Ukrainian drone attack, Leningrad Oblast Governor Alexander Drozdenko claimed.
Ukrainian drone hitschemical plantin Russia’s Perm Krai 1,800 km from border, media reports. The Metafrax Chemicals plant in Gubakha, Perm Krai, is subject to international sanctions by the U.K. and Ukraine.
Railwayexplosionin Russia’s Oryol Oblast kills 2 National Guard officers. Explosive devices were discovered during an inspection of the tracks, Oryol Oblast Governor Andrey Klychkov said. One of the devices detonated, killing two officers and seriously injuring another.
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Russian attackskill 4, injure 9in Donetsk, Kharkiv oblasts. Russia launched a tirade of attacks killing three people in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, and killing one in Borova, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian authorities reported on Sept. 13.
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International response
NATO launchesEastern Sentrymission after Russian drones violate Polish airspace. “Eastern Sentry is not just a new initiative – it is a clear signal: NATO’s borders are inviolable, and the security of our citizens remains a priority,” Poland’s General Staff wrote on X.
US not sure Russia deliberately launcheddrones into Poland, Rubio says. “There’s no doubt about the drones were intentionally launched. The question is whether the drones were targeted to go into Poland specifically,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters.
US ‘behind’ Ukraine indrone technology, Trump envoy Kellogg says. “I think we in the United States are behind … I think a lot of nations are behind, and I think to the credit of the Ukrainians, they picked up on that, and they’re the world leaders in it.”
EU must not fall intoRussian trapon territorial concessions, Kallas warns. The top European diplomat described Russia’s three-step negotiation tactic: demanding what it never had, followed by ultimatums and threats, finished off by the West ready to concede to Moscow’s demands.
EU to furtherrestrict visasfor Russians, Politico reports. The new guidelines, which are still being ironed out, will include general recommendations such as harsher criteria for Russians coming to the EU.
EU weighsbond swap planto unlock frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, Politico reports. The proposal, described by one source as “legally creative,” would allow Brussels to provide critical financial support to Ukraine without technically seizing the Russian capital—an act that would be fraught with legal risk.
EU to apply ‘unique’ approach toUkraine’s accession pathas Hungary wields veto, official says. There is an agreement in place with the EU to maintain Kyiv’s progress despite Budapest’s veto, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Taras Kachka said.
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There is an agreement in place with the EU to maintain Kyiv's progress despite Budapest's veto, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Taras Kachka said.
I would like to try the new Fairphone with /e/ OS. But I am afraid that it won't work for me. In that case, is it possible to install Google's Android on the Fairphone I originally ordered with /e/ OS?
Magari sono io stramba da crucciarmi a proposito, ma, giuro capo, sono estremamente stanca… di chi ripubblica meme o simili senza includere un minimo riferimento alla fonte originale! E sarà una mia impressione, o davvero col tempo, con le varie piattaforme social (sempre colpa loro…) sempre più frammentate, il problema sta peggiorando? Basterebbe la semplice […]
la freebotanza che odio e i momenti merdasocial (odio chi ripubblica contenuti senza indicare la fonte)
Magari sono io stramba da crucciarmi a proposito, ma, giuro capo, sono estremamente stanca… di chi ripubblica meme o simili senza includere un minimo riferimento alla fonte originale! E sarà una mia impressione, o davvero col tempo, con le varie piattaforme social (sempre colpa loro…) sempre più frammentate, il problema sta peggiorando? Basterebbe la semplice regola di includere sempre un link alla propria fonte quando si ripubblica un file multimediale… cioè, copia e incolla, poche decine di caratteri di testo, che cazzo ci vuole? Eppure, se per qualche motivo si fa spessissimo quando si ripubblicano disegni o merdate di quel tipo… per i meme, o sketch comici, o robe lì non si usa! (…C’è per caso un doppio standard sui tipi di arte digitale, in questa società di pecore?) 😩
Zio carbossile, è una cosa che detesto, e che penso non abbastanza gente odi, quando chiunque dovrebbe, perché va solo a discapito degli utenti finali, comuni, che guardano la roba. Se qualcuno ripubblica senza bei crediti, poi io scrollante che vedo la roba e voglio salvarla permanentemente ho il rischio (che con le foto è una certezza, per via della ricompressione) che quella non sia la versione migliore possibile, e non ho idea di come arrivare all’originale, non essendoci né un link né un nome né niente… o, più semplicemente, non posso andare a seguire gli autori per vedere altra loro roba; o, banalmente ancora, per ringraziare loro anziché il freeboter della minchia. 🤬 Per esempio, questo è un meme arrivato ieri… condiviso da 4 diversi canali su Telegram come post originali; ma, matematicamente, un media visto come nuovo per X volte da X utenti diversi DEVE essere un repost per X-1 o (più spesso) X-0 volte, perché da 1 e 1 sola parte può aver avuto origine. Ho censurato i canali nella schermata, così da non fare immeritata pubblicità a chi rompe queste catene (i letterali collegamenti ipertestuali)… e no, non è ipocrisia, è che sono così tiltata di questo ennesimo esempio, stavolta così tanto lampante, che non ho potuto nemmeno pigniare l’immagine, perché francamente non so a chi dovrei attribuirla (cioè quale link, questo sconosciuto, far uscire nei metadati), considerato che al 99.9% nessuno di questi post è l’originale, e il vero originale non ho chance di trovarlo (o meglio, attualmente non ho voglia, se volessi rompermi abbastanza penso riuscirei a risalire), in quanto verrà forse da X o Reddit; senza considerare che queste 4 potrebbero essere tutte copie l’una dell’altra, quindi affette da un incesto JPEG già abbastanza grave (e infatti si nota che, delle 4, alcune si leggono peggio di altre). 😱
Il colmo, però, è che c’è ancora di peggio… e per quest’altro non ho un esempio così visivo, ma credetemi: sulle piattaforme dei video corti (e direi nello specifico Instagram, perché è quello di cui mi arrivano di continuo link, per mano di un omino LEGO, ma credo sia endemico a tutte e 3), c’è chi ripubblica video di altri creatori, perché boh o perché fanno profili tematici… Ma, se a volte, come andrebbe fatto, creditano esplicitamente gli autori originali (per username, visto che queste piattaforme di merda non rendono cliccabili i link nelle descrizioni… fottuto medioevo, Tim Berners-Lee non ne è per niente felice), altre volte dicono “crediti all’autore originale” senza specificare chi questo sia… e, ovviamente, fin troppe volte non dicono proprio un cazzo di niente. 🔪
Purtroppo, se Internet continuerà ad essere accessibile alle masse ignoranti, e non riservato ai meritevoli di spirito e prodezza tecnica come un tempo (ma, assolutamente, non di soldi, perché quello è antidemocratico), l’unica soluzione a questo problema credo siano i watermark forzati, su tutti i media, da parte del backend delle piattaforme normaloidi, opzionalmente disattivabili solo dai creatori per il proprio profilo o specifici contenuti (ma non da chi guarda). Le piattaforme dei video corti lo fanno, ma male, in quanto alcuni endpoint API restituiscono video senza watermark… e quindi alcuni downloader strani ci accedono, e succedono le palle. Le piattaforme come Pinterest o X non lo fanno proprio, e per quanto mi riguarda dovrebbero muovere il culo, perché è per troppi troppo facile fare CTRL+C o screenshot, e poi non copiare e incollare anche il relativo link… 😑
When he killed the Mudjokivis, Of the skin he made him mittens, Made them with the fur side inside, Made them with the skin side outside. He, to get the warm side inside, Put the inside skin side outside; He, to get the cold side outside, Put the warm side fur side inside. That’s why he put the fur side inside, Why he put the skin side outside, Why he turned them inside outside.
He killed the noble Mudjokivis. Of the skin he made him mittens, Made them with the fur side inside, Made them with the skin side outside. He, to get the warm side inside, Put the inside skin side
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in reply to fossilesque • • •> hates the sea
> hates bees
Could never be me.