Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday rejected a bid by right-wing factions to hold a minute of silence for slain U.S. conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,” according to an email chain with dozens of MEPs that was seen by POLITICO.
I went ahead and did the calculation; I think I'm getting about 4 weeks (extrapolating from the last year, 20k dead kids -> 2 weeks of silence. Doubled for the two years.).
Lower than I expected. I'm guessing I haven't internalized that gaza is still a fairly small area, thus with a small population? Or was the first year substantially more deadly than the last (which really would surprise me)?
Yes, but imagine a solemn minute for each named individual that lasts 5 weeks non-stop. \ Not counting mutilated, orphaned, and (basically all of them, so 700k-ish) homeless. And with zero prospect of it ever getting better until they are alive.
I went with this figure, but same diff:
In August 2025, UNICEF estimated that more than 50,000 children had been killed or injured in Gaza.
The reason for the high number of children deaths even assuming indiscriminate killing (ie not targeting specifically children, which at least proven for snipers, isn't the case): Gaza/Palestinians are being severely oppressed for decades (since 48, or 67 more directly), they have artificially limited water access, electricity, medicine, etc so they die young & in Gaza like 40% of the population are children.
Gaza Strip has a ×2.6 higher density of population than New York City (5,967.5/km2 vs 2,309.2/km2), but less than a quarter of population. \ Bcs oppression.
The Gaza Strip is 41 kilometres (25 miles) long, from 6 to 12 km (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide, and has a total area of 365 km2 (141 sq mi). As of 2010, the Strip's population mostly comprised Palestinians and refugees. It has a high proportion of youth, with 43.5% being children 14 or younger and 50% under age of 18. Sunni Islam is almost ubiquitous, with a Palestinian Christian minority. Gaza has an annual population growth rate of 1.99% (2023 est.), the 39th-highest in the world. Gaza's unemployment rate is among the highest in the world, with an overall unemployment rate of 46% and a youth unemployment rate of 70%. Despite this, the area's 97% literacy rate is higher than that of nearby Egypt, while youth literacy is 88%. Gaza has throughout the years been seen as a source of Palestinian nationalism and resistance.
Til - despite all the hardship they have higher literacy than USA with 86% (normal countries are ofc 98+).
Trump039s India envoy pick Sergio Gor said the US wanted India to open its market to exports of American oil and petroleum products It suggests that Trump means business and only business
India will never buy American oil because American producers cannot meet the costs of Russian oil. It costs too much to lift oil here and too much to ship that far, and Russian crude is still at a discount overall due to sanctions.
Russian crude is effectively free for India as only a few countries really want to deal with US sanctions over it and Russia has to keep the oil flowing or their derricks in the permafrost will freeze over.
US has to meet effectively free, which probably isn't happening - even Ukraine's whittling down of Russia's refining capability doesn't stop the trade to India as they're fine with crude.
Panama’s seasonal upwelling collapsed in 2025, linked to reduced winds. The event signals risks for fisheries and climate-sensitive ocean processes.
The annual phenomenon of upwelling in the Gulf of Panama failed to occur in 2025 for the first time on record. A team of scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) linked the disruption to weakened trade winds.
The finding underscores how changes in climate can directly affect essential ocean processes and the coastal populations that depend on them.
Damn, making it suck even worse to be a fish. even if you're not dredged up from a fishing net or choke on plastic you now can die from starving because the nutrients that have been coming up from the deep for millenia aren't any more.
Against the background of relations between Russia and the West and the expiration of the START III (February 2026), issues of strategic stability are becoming more urgent. Although France and the United Kingdom are not parties to the treaty, they are actively modernizing their nuclear arsenals.
In July 2024, Paris and London agreed to establish a joint nuclear management group, strengthening coordination. Russia has stated that it will take into account the potential of these countries when assessing threats and negotiating strategic stability. The Russian Federation insists on the inclusion of London and Paris in the negotiation process.
Britain plans to spend 15 billion pounds on modernization. However, the Russian side points to the real risks of radiation incidents at the Clyde base in Scotland.
The world is entering a new nuclear race: all nuclear powers are modernizing their arsenals. The United States and Russia are discussing new arrangements, including the involvement of China. Experts note that although Britain and France are modernizing, they do not have a large-scale build-up.
In recent years, the arms control system has seriously weakened — the INF Treaty and the DON Treaty have been severed, which makes dialogue in an expanded format especially important to prevent escalation.
That man just found out that your secure communication channel is as secure as the weakest node.
That's also why, if you want to deGoogle your life, you've already lost if any of the people you email has a Gmail account: however careful you are not to provide Google any data yourself, the data is leaked to Google by the other party.
Well, Whatsapp and Facebook are their own honeypots. There's heaps to say about why nobody should use them for any reasons.
But in this case, the man was found out because his accomplice had compromising messages on his cellphone. Be they Whatsapp message, SMS messages, emails... doesn't matter here. It's not a story of how communication channels operated by Big Data are not really secure and only designed to lure you in for your data, but a story of how one person's carelessness did another person in.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum: Bring Them Home Now wrote on social media that Israel's strike on Qatar last week shows "every time a deal approaches, Netanyahu sabotages it".
The group's comments come after Israel carried out a strike on senior Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital of Doha, which Hamas said killed five of it members and a Qatari security official.
On Saturday, Netanyahu said getting rid of Hamas leaders in Qatar "would rid the main obstacle" to releasing the hostages and ending the war.
He also accused Hamas of blocking all ceasefire attempts in order to drag out the war in Gaza.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio travelled to Israel on Saturday and is due to meet with Netanyahu as Israel faces global condemnation for the attack.
However, families of the hostages described the Israeli PM's response as "the latest excuse for failing to bring home" their loved ones.
"The targeted operation in Qatar proved beyond any doubt that there is one obstacle to returning the 48 hostages and ending the war: Prime Minister Netanyahu," they said.
"The time has come to end the excuses designed to buy time so he can cling to power."
The group added that Netanyahu's "stalling" had cost "the lives of 42 hostages and threatens the lives of additional hostages who are barely surviving".
Before his departure, Rubio said US President Donald Trump was not happy with the strike on Qatar, but stressed that the US-Israeli relationship was "very strong"
The country now has more than 1,000 waste-incinerating power stations, representing more than half the world’s waste power capacity, according to the Global Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council.
That’s a good question, but, would the waste then be properly disposed of? It may not be incredibly efficient right now, but less trash is less trash, right?
The ships sending us Chinese goods have to return to China anyway. That’s why everyone was sending China their plastic to be “recycled”. Might as well just incinerate it.
What great news, the trash is just gone once you burn it and nobody has to think about that statement any further. One thing real quick: we don't need clean air for anything, do we?
It is possible to burn waste and manage the pollution in at least somewhat safe manner. Finland and Sweden do it reasonably well with high temperature furnaces and filtering the exhaust gases either with mechanical filter or trough water. That also (at least as far as I know) requires that you sort out the waste and don't burn stuff like electronics, metals and some other crap which can be effectively recycled and manage whatever remains properly.
So, it's possible, but I have absolutely no idea if China does that properly.
There are live pollution maps of the world if you need an idea if China does that properly but I‘ll have to warn you that you‘ll most likely be disappointed and somewhat terrified.
I meant that I don't know if these trash incinerators are managed properly. I'm well aware that in general there's a crapload of unmanaged pollution and a ton of other problems around, but like every other country China is slowly improving their stuff so it's not impossible that new plants would be up to modern standards.
Leaders of Europe's top carmakers gathered in Brussels seeking eased emission standards on new cars. Germany's auto industry lobby has said rigid emissions regulation "jeopardizes competitiveness."
They are already wildly uncompetitive on account of having flubbed the EV transition, China already beat them solidly on all accounts. Why should they be given anything they ask for?
I never met him myself, but I know a few people who have done way back. Site crew in Bristol mostly. Rip useless Paul who had one of his rats on the side of his trailer.
Our current government is the labour party, the one of the big two that is supposed to be more left leaning. They haven't been left leaning in twenty years, they crept to centrist and now the creep to the right continues. They're not dissimilar from the democrats in America. Internationally, there seems to be a general move towards the right and we are certainly following it. Demonstrations and activism don't seem to help. Shit is fucked, basically.
The UK government as effectively ignored all protests since the poll tax riots. The choice seems either start acting like the French or just sit down and shut up.
Yeah, and I've been on some actions that have kicked off, back in the day, fighting the lines of riot police. It was fun but achieved fuck all. Yeah we need many more people involved in aggressive protests. I don't know if that will help either, but at least we need to mobilise a broader section of the population.
If anybody is wondering, Tracer.ai is legit and operating at the instruction of Microsoft.
They’re an AI brand protection service which has been systematically harming Microsoft’s brand for a while. An example - getting YouTube videos about Minecraft removed, which has hindered Minecraft’s visibility online (which is a huge part of Xbox revenue). reddit.com/r/PhoenixSC/comment…
I do not understand why they want to remove minecraft videos.
Minecraft videos have been a huge part of it's growth... and it's impossible to imagine a scenario where these videos are harming MS or their brand. They already make money off of viewers buying the game... this is stupid
I do not understand why they want to remove minecraft videos.
For the same reason they went after the admin of the wrong instance asking them to delete the fake microsoft account - it's a dumb algorithm doing a shit job. That this is a separate company that is being paid while doing such a shitty job says a lot about microsoft
Taiwan is projected to lose a working-age population of about 6.67 million people in two waves of retirement in the coming years, as the nation confronts accelerating demographic decline and a shortage of younger workers to take their place, the Ministry of the Interior said.
I get the sense they are sticking it more to entitled guys and potential mothers-in-law than the government! Just going off one friend's opinions there, though.
OK, I am not surprised, but that's not well known and kind of a taboo subject so not official, they were 'guidelines' and the policies were 'encouragement'. Canada did similar nasty abusive sterilization in its colonial enterprise until the '70s, but hardly anyone knows.
[from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the Belly Of The Beast news/video collective]
From basketball to table tennis to girls' softball, Cuban teams have been blocked from competing in international tournaments on U.S. soil.
This week, journalists Dariel Pradas and Reed Lindsay take a look at the de facto travel ban on Cuban athletes that could include the World Baseball Classic and even the Olympics.
Also: * Former Trump officials make millions lobbying administration * Expedia dodges lawsuit over Cuba bookings * Trump keeps WWI law against Cuba in place * DoJ busts Florida smuggling ring
[from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the Belly Of The Beast news/video collective]
From basketball to table tennis to girls' softball, Cuban teams have been blocked from competing in international tournaments on U.S. soil.
This week, journalists Dariel Pradas and Reed Lindsay take a look at the de facto travel ban on Cuban athletes that could include the World Baseball Classic and even the Olympics.
Also: * Former Trump officials make millions lobbying administration * Expedia dodges lawsuit over Cuba bookings * Trump keeps WWI law against Cuba in place * DoJ busts Florida smuggling ring
The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has risen to a record high of nearly 100,000, its government has announced.
Setting a new record for the 55th year in a row, the number of centenarians in Japan was 99,763 as of September, the health ministry said on Friday. Of that total, women accounted for an overwhelming 88%.
Yes. Universal healthcare is highly correlated with life expectancy even when controlling for a shitload of other variables. This is like the host studied thing on the planet and the science is not controversial.
According to the new preprint, clerical errors, pension fraud, and a lack of birth certificates explain blue zones and their above-average numbers of centenarians.
When billionaire Bill Ackman suggested on Twitter that Eric Adams could “place a large [Polymarket] bet on Andrew Cuomo and then announce [his] withdrawal” from the New York City mayoral race, he described something that feels profoundly illegal. A politician profiting from non-public knowledge of their own withdrawal from an election surely crosses some line — insider trading? Market manipulation? Election interference? Illegal gambling? Ackman ended his tweet: “There is no insider trading on Polymarket” — not because it doesn’t happen, but because it won’t be charged. He’s right: the Securities and Exchange Commission’s insider trading rules don’t apply here. But that leaves the question: what rules, if any, do?
As Ackman says, prediction markets fall outside the SEC’s jurisdiction,a living in a different regulatory world than stock markets where executives get prosecuted for trading on non-public earnings or tipping off friends about upcoming mergers. Unlike crypto’s ongoing turf wars between regulators, prediction markets have a clear home: the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees futures, swaps, and other derivatives trading. A farmer worried about a poor wheat harvest can buy futures contracts that rise in value if wheat prices increase, helping to offset the money lost from selling less grain. An airline can buy oil-based futures contracts to offset the risk of jet fuel costs rising, effectively letting them budget fuel at today’s prices even if market rates climb before delivery. Some derivatives markets more closely resemble prediction markets, dealing in events rather than commodities — for instance, ski resorts can hedge against poor snowfall by trading weather-based contracts.
While farmers hedging wheat prices serves a clear economic purpose, prediction markets operate in murkier territory. When people trade on sports games or celebrity relationships, are they engaging in legitimate derivatives trading deserving the same regulatory treatment? Or are platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket essentially gambling sites operating under the veneer of financial markets? And with participants potentially losing big money to better-informed insiders, who’s ensuring these markets stay fair? What happens when prediction markets collide with other issues — from market manipulation to gambling addiction to election integrity?
Prediction markets once lived on the academic fringe. Now they’re trading billions on politics, sports, and celebrity gossip — under rules never designed for retail gamblers.
More than 200 contractors who worked on evaluating and improving Google’s AI products have been laid off without warning in at least two rounds of layoffs last month. The move comes amid an ongoing fight over pay and working conditions, according to workers who spoke to WIRED.
In the past few years, Google has outsourced its AI rating work—which includes evaluating, editing, or rewriting the Gemini chatbot’s response to make it sound more human and “intelligent”—to thousands of contractors employed by Hitachi-owned GlobalLogic and other outsourcing companies. Most raters working at GlobalLogic are based in the US and deal with English-language content. Just as content moderators help purge and classify content on social media, these workers use their expertise, skill, and judgment to teach chatbots and other AI products, including Google’s search summaries feature called AI Overviews—the right responses on a wide range of subjects. Workers allege that the latest cuts come amid attempts to quash their protests over issues including pay and job insecurity.
These workers, who often are hired because of their specialist knowledge, had to have either a master’s or a PhD to join the super rater program, and typically include writers, teachers, and people from creative fields.
Rep. Sarah McBride [D], the only openly trans member of Congress, voted in support of "Honoring the Legacy" of Charlie Kirk
"scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds" isn't some saying born out of ignorance or a failure to understand nuance, it is painfully accurate. when McBride won her election i lost a friendship after scoffing over her victory because of her Zionism and commitment to Israel. apparently, as a non-binary trans person, i should simply shut up and count her win as a trans goal reached.
today i am vindicated. didn't take long, did it? not even a full year in office and she has shown her true colors. she is incapable of protecting us from Christian authoritarianism because she is a willing participant in its takeover. Charle Kirk spent the last few years demonizing people like her and myself, dehumanizing LGBT Americans, and encouraging the spread of theocratic interpretation of our laws and allegiance to Trump. the rise in younger sycophants and MAGA loyalists can be directly attributed to Charlie Kirk's popularity and closeness to the Trump administration. Kirk was not a mere mouthpiece or figurehead; he wasn't some YouTuber or online guy popular with the kiddos. he was a massive political organizer, and the amount of lies Kirk spread about trans people was immoral, irresponsible, violent, deadly, and deserving of reaction.
Kirk blamed transgender Americans for everything from inflation to moral decay. while appearing on a radio show he wrapped up a comment involving queer people with the following: “someone should’ve just took care of it the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and '60s." Kirk also referred to Leviticus 18 as "God's perfect law" when attempting to point out how another Christian was cherry-picking which passages of the Bible to follow (Leviticus 18 calls for stoning gay people to death if you read it as such which Kirk does). and here, transgender Rep. McBride [D], is voting to honor this man; a man who would have her killed through violent stochastic actors operating within the MAGA cult and general conservative fascists at large.
the fear and outrage Charlie Kirk was directly responsible for has done incalculable damage nationwide. McBride is offering the genocide of her own minority group if it keeps her protected and in power. she cannot be trusted and should be shunned by all. she is cowardly and will not help you. i have to leave my state because of the validity people like her are giving transphobic bigots like Kirk.
CHESS thin-film materials nearly double refrigeration efficiency compared to traditional methods. Scalable and versatile, they promise applications from household cooling to space exploration.
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I have uploaded the photos I took during yesterday’s Norwin Band Festival to my Smugmug page. Feel free to check them out! I will be editing photos of each group and posting them to my Flickr account over time.
Mozilla has always aimed to make Firefox available to as many people as possible, including those on older Android devices. For years, we’ve supported versions of Android going all the ...
'Congresso inimigo do povo' esteve entre as hashtags mais usadas entre os dias 16 e 19. Reação negativa à proposta levou alguns deputados a pedirem desculpas nas redes após votarem a favor do texto
In Mainz müssen wirklich alle Kalender kaputt sein, oder die Programmplanung läuft noch auf einem PC unter Windows 3.11… denn das war das Betriebssystem zur Zeit der Produktion dieses Films. Wie nur, kann ein Mensch den genau auf das Ende des Sommers programmieren, wenn er doch am 2. Februar spielt? Also mitten im Winter. Was kommt als nächstes, „Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel“ zur Sommersonnenwende? (ZDFneo)
In Mainz müssen wirklich alle Kalender kaputt sein, oder die Programmplanung läuft noch auf einem PC unter Windows 3.11... denn das war das Betriebssystem zur Zeit der Produktion dieses Films.
L’Italvolley di Ferdinando De Giorgi rialza la testa e vola ai quarti di finale dei Mondiali di pallavolo 2025 nelle Filippine. Dopo la sconfitta con il Belgio che aveva fatto tremare le certezze degli azzurri, la nazionale italiana ha battuto l’Argentina con un netto 3-0. Una prestazione di carattere, trascinata dal talento di Alessandro Michieletto, dall’esperienza di Simone Giannelli e dalla concretezza di Yuri Romanò.
There’s a new iPhone. Again. Improbably, we are on the 17th iteration (give or take) of the product that single-handedly ruins our lives every day with incessant vibrations alerting us to some horrifying calamity, plus every song in the Bruce Springsteen back catalog. Coming up with new features for the never-ending information machines we all keep in our pockets isn’t easy, but this time, Apple managed to develop a big (or should I say small) one. There’s now a thinner iPhone Air, which is being marketed as the thinnest iPhone ever. These gadgets have never exactly been gargantuan, so it’s kind of like identifying the tiniest grain of sand in the desert. Still, people around the world are fascinated by the sheer lack of phone here.
Technology, design, and art are all trending toward a certain scarcity model, prepping us for a lack of bells and whistles, as though both your parents are unemployed and they want you to expect fewer trips to Disneyland. Life on Earth feels more and more like the experience of entering a Sweetgreen – beige, spartan and unobtrusive. Sure, iPhones haven’t gotten cheaper, but they have certainly gotten … lesser. The iPhone Air is so small, I feel like I’ll sit on it and it will slide seamlessly up my rectum, never to be seen again. For some, I’m sure losing your device inside your bowels might be a feature, but I think it’s a rather uncomfortable bug.
Per anni, da sempre, della Vitamina E si è detto che servisse solo a contrastare la sterilità. Se ti dicessi che è una cura di supporto per malattie anche gravi come il Parkinson e non solo, ci crederesti?
Ecco come il nostro stomaco sembra essersi messo d'accordo con il titolare del ristorante. Non serve essersi riempiti come una botte, per il dessert c'è sempre posto. Vuoi sapere il perchè?
Oggi, domenica 21 settembre 2025, torna su Rai 1 Domenica In, lo storico contenitore della domenica pomeriggio che quest’anno festeggia i 50 anni. Alla guida resta Mara Venier, affiancata da Tommaso Cerno, Teo Mammucari ed Enzo Miccio, per una formula completamente rinnovata e “corale”.
In onda in diretta dagli Studi Fabrizio Frizzi di Roma, dalle 14:00 alle 17:10, il programma inaugura la nuova stagione con una puntata speciale ricca di ospiti, musica, ricordi e momenti di grande emozione.
It is with great excitement that we can now release the FLX1s. Pre-sales are open and the phone is in production which is due to complete end of October 2025. Following that we can start shipping.…
The full-scale war has reshaped priorities for Ukraine’s tech sector. Innovative military technologies and advanced defence solutions are not only essential for the country’s security ...
Il mostro Illuyanka era una creatura della mitologia Ittita con caratteristiche serpentine, la cui storia è conosciuta grazie a tavolette cuneiformi ritrovate presso il sito archeologico di Hattusa e un’incisione parietale molto successiva a Malatya.
In 1972, this must have felt like stepping into the future. TVs had only ever been passive, and suddenly the screen could respond. Families were seeing their living room sets turn into game machines, with paddles controlling little glowing squares.
Now, the overlays look wild. Plastic sheets taped to the glass to turn dots into tennis courts or haunted houses. It’s clumsy. Also brilliant—an early hack to add color and imagination to an otherwise bare signal. You had to supply the magic yourself, which makes it all the more fascinating today.
And the way Magnavox pitched it. What are you going to do when your kids are snowed in? It was sold like a family appliance. Little did they know that this would be revolutionary.
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in reply to Evil_Shrubbery • • •I went ahead and did the calculation; I think I'm getting about 4 weeks (extrapolating from the last year, 20k dead kids -> 2 weeks of silence. Doubled for the two years.).
Lower than I expected. I'm guessing I haven't internalized that gaza is still a fairly small area, thus with a small population? Or was the first year substantially more deadly than the last (which really would surprise me)?
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in reply to Artisian • • •Yes, but imagine a solemn minute for each named individual that lasts 5 weeks non-stop.
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Not counting mutilated, orphaned, and (basically all of them, so 700k-ish) homeless. And with zero prospect of it ever getting better until they are alive.
I went with this figure, but same diff:
wiki/Effect_of_the_Gaza_war_on_children_in_the_Gaza_Strip
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bbc.com/c4gmk2yj5e9o
The reason for the high number of children deaths even assuming indiscriminate killing (ie not targeting specifically children, which at least proven for snipers, isn't the case): Gaza/Palestinians are being severely oppressed for decades (since 48, or 67 more directly), they have artificially limited water access, electricity, medicine, etc so they die young & in Gaza like 40% of the population are children.
Gaza Strip has a ×2.6 higher density of population than New York City (5,967.5/km2 vs 2,309.2/km2), but less than a quarter of population.
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Bcs oppression.
General wiki info:
Til - despite all the hardship they have higher literacy than USA with 86% (normal countries are ofc 98+).
MPs call on government to bring sick and injured Gaza children to UK
Ruth Comerford (BBC News)