Energy Department tries to stifle workers’ use of climate-related words
Employees are told to avoid terms like “decarbonization,” “sustainable,” “emissions,” and “green.”
Israel only allows 10% of required aid into Gaza as it starves Palestine
Israel lets in 1824 trucks - but approximately 18,000 are needed to address the siege the Zionists have unleashed on Gaza
Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
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US Energy Dept. Cancels Hundreds of Clean-Energy Projects, Mostly in Blue States
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/28307152
US Energy Dept. Cancels Hundreds of Clean-Energy Projects, Mostly in Blue States
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The Sumud Flotilla Has Succeeded in Making Israel a Pariah
The Global Sumud Flotilla seemingly breached Israel’s blockade of Gaza while provoking an Israeli response that triggered anger and reprisals from various governments. It’s one of the most successful acts of civil disobedience in recent history.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/jacobin.com/…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
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Private Equity Is Set to Profit From New School Vouchers
The school voucher provision in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is expected to transfer billions of dollars to private schools and companies that contract with public school districts. That includes companies owned by private equity firms.
Defend Our Juries just told the Met police where to go over postponing this Saturday’s protest
On Thursday 2 October, Defend Our Juries laid out to Met police in no uncertain terms that it would not cancel its long-planned protest this upcoming weekend.
Defend Our Juries defies Met Police hypocrisy
The letter was in response to a communication from assistant commissioner Ade Adelekan to the group earlier this afternoon, asking it to consider postponing the demonstration in the light of the Manchester attacks. However, Defend Our Juries, while condemning the atrocious attack, have stood firm in their determination to oppose Israel’s genocide and the unjust proscription of Palestine Action.
The letter from Adelekan highlighted something egregiously hypocritical about the repressive policing of peaceful protesters more broadly.
In his letter the Assistant Commissioner said:
as you know your previous large-scale protests and other concurrent protests, place a significant pressure on policing and draw officers away from communities they serve to be in central London. This means less neighbourhood and response officers in their communities and less officers focussing on police crimes.Your last three events in central London have required over 2500 to police including dedicated Counter Terrorism officers as a result of the Terrorism offences observed at your previous events.
Police failing to prevent real terrorism as they target peaceful protester
In reply, the group wrote:
First let us say that we utterly condemn the attack on the Jewish community in Manchester today.This is what genuine terrorism looks like and we join with others in condemning it unreservedly.
As we have pointed out in our, sadly unacknowledged and unanswered, letters to Met Commissioner Mark Rowley, it has always been the choice of the Metropolitan Police whether or not to make arrests at our protests. Amnesty International has advised Mark Rowley that these arrests fall foul of international law and our fundamental rights.
As you know we are making two demands of the government: that it reverse the ban on a domestic protest group that poses no risk to the public; and secondly that the government take action in line with its obligations to prevent genocide.
It is unfortunate that the Home Office has not decided to rescind the ban in the wake of the ever-growing defiance and has chosen instead to put an increasing and unnecessary strain on police resources.
It is unfortunate that the Home Office has not decided to rescind the ban in the wake of the ever-growing defiance and has chosen instead to put an increasing and unnecessary strain on police resources. According to your letter, it appears the political oversight in proscribing Palestine Action, which aimed to save lives in Palestine, is taking away from the police protecting the community from those who seek to take lives.
As I’m sure you will understand, the protection of our democracy and the prevention of countless deaths are critical issues. Therefore, our protest will go ahead as planned for this Saturday.
We urge you therefore to choose to prioritise protecting the community, rather than arresting those peacefully holding signs in opposition to the absurd and draconian ban of a domestic direct action group.
We hope you make the right choice to not arrest those taking part, and correctly deploy counter-terrorism resources this weekend.
Please understand that some 1,500 people have given deep consideration to committing to this nonviolent action which, as the Met has repeatedly pointed out, comes with serious risks. We hope you respect our fundamental right to peaceful protest and freedom of expression.
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With New U.S. Proposal to End Gaza War, a Rare Moment of Triumph for Netanyahu
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36992025
archive.ph/nun8LIn President Trump’s plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got almost everything he hoped for in the end, despite mounting international isolation.
By David M. Halbfinger and Aaron Boxerman
Sept. 30, 2025
Ultimately, Mr. Netanyahu got almost everything he could have hoped from Mr. Trump’s proposal — a demand that Hamas release the hostages immediately and lay down its weapons, without which Israel would have carte blanche to keep pummeling Gaza.As for Israeli troops, they would get to remain in Gaza’s perimeter for the foreseeable future. There was such a stinting nod to the aspiration of statehood for Palestinians that the proposal all but suggested they just keep dreaming. And the Palestinian Authority would be left playing no role in Gaza anytime soon.
It was a rare moment of triumph that showed Mr. Netanyahu could still get much — if not all — of what he wanted despite Israel’s mounting international isolation. Just last week, several European countries recognized a Palestinian state over Israeli objections, while a diplomatic walkout left Mr. Netanyahu addressing a mostly empty room at the United Nations.
With New U.S. Proposal to End Gaza War, a Rare Moment of Triumph for Netanyahu
In President Trump’s plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got almost everything he hoped for in the end, despite mounting international isolation.
By David M. Halbfinger and Aaron Boxerman
Sept. 30, 2025Ultimately, Mr. Netanyahu got almost everything he could have hoped from Mr. Trump’s proposal — a demand that Hamas release the hostages immediately and lay down its weapons, without which Israel would have carte blanche to keep pummeling Gaza.As for Israeli troops, they would get to remain in Gaza’s perimeter for the foreseeable future. There was such a stinting nod to the aspiration of statehood for Palestinians that the proposal all but suggested they just keep dreaming. And the Palestinian Authority would be left playing no role in Gaza anytime soon.
It was a rare moment of triumph that showed Mr. Netanyahu could still get much — if not all — of what he wanted despite Israel’s mounting international isolation. Just last week, several European countries recognized a Palestinian state over Israeli objections, while a diplomatic walkout left Mr. Netanyahu addressing a mostly empty room at the United Nations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/world/middleeast/trump-netanyahu-israel-gaza-war.html
Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio for Fealty to Israel, Hacked Emails Reveal
Everything is coming together for Larry Ellison. The billionaire co-founder of tech giant Oracle, on-and-off-again the richest man in the world and a staunch supporter of Israel, is set to take a lead role in reshaping TikTok in the United States. His son, David Ellison, is moving to take over large swaths of the media, including CBS News, CNN, Warner Brothers, and Paramount, reportedly bringing in the Free Press’s Bari Weiss to shape editorial direction.
As the nation’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also played a role in the TikTok talks that steered the company toward Ellison, after playing a lead role as a senator in demonizing the app; he was also closely involved in the rollout of Trump’s plan for Gaza’s future, which hands the enclave to Blair. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner tasked the Blair Institute in the spring with coming up with a post-war plan for Gaza, which was recently completed, the Times of Israel reported.
That Rubio finds himself in such a central position is in part thanks to Ellison, who has been a major patron of the Cuban-American former senator from Florida. Ellison first vetted Rubio for his fealty toward Israel back in early 2015, according to previously unreported email correspondence reviewed by Drop Site.
Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio for Fealty to Israel, Hacked Emails Reveal
The billionaire Oracle founder is on track to take control of the American media.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
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Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio for Fealty to Israel, Hacked Emails Reveal
Everything is coming together for Larry Ellison. The billionaire co-founder of tech giant Oracle, on-and-off-again the richest man in the world and a staunch supporter of Israel, is set to take a lead role in reshaping TikTok in the United States. His son, David Ellison, is moving to take over large swaths of the media, including CBS News, CNN, Warner Brothers, and Paramount, reportedly bringing in the Free Press’s Bari Weiss to shape editorial direction.
As the nation’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also played a role in the TikTok talks that steered the company toward Ellison, after playing a lead role as a senator in demonizing the app; he was also closely involved in the rollout of Trump’s plan for Gaza’s future, which hands the enclave to Blair. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner tasked the Blair Institute in the spring with coming up with a post-war plan for Gaza, which was recently completed, the Times of Israel reported.
That Rubio finds himself in such a central position is in part thanks to Ellison, who has been a major patron of the Cuban-American former senator from Florida. Ellison first vetted Rubio for his fealty toward Israel back in early 2015, according to previously unreported email correspondence reviewed by Drop Site.
Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio for Fealty to Israel, Hacked Emails Reveal
The billionaire Oracle founder is on track to take control of the American media.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
90 degrees in October: Dozens of heat records could be broken in the Midwest
Midwest could break heat records in spate of summery weather
Temperatures across the Midwest could be up to 30 degrees higher than normal on Friday and Saturday. Records could be set in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and the Dakotas.Denise Chow (NBC News)
Armed Queers group has communist ties to China, Cuba #communism #Cuba #fbi #socialism #china
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Can’t update from OpenSuse Leap 15.6 to 16 [noob]
I don’t have much of a clue of what I’m doing, but I wanted to update to the new version of OpenSuse. It seems to not be possible, however, due to ‘invalid’ repositories. They are apparently ‘orphaned’, and when I attempt to open them I get web-pages with errors.
I’ve added an image of the console showing information that may be useful... Sorry for it being in Dutch, I tried to set the language to English, but it seems to only change the UI texts.
The error message after ‘dist-upgrade’ reads ‘Because of the treatment of orphaned packages, the dist-upgrade depends on the correct setup of repositories [I think] more than any other command. It shouldn’t continue if the enabled repositories don’t want to refresh. This could seriously damage the system. If a non-refreshed repository isn’t really necessary, it should be disabled. See “man zypper” for more information on this command.’
... Hmm. How do I determine if a non-functioning repository (which I suppose the items in orange are) is ‘really necessary’?
You should have a look at the official document about updating en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upg…
Edit: The recommended way is the opensuse-migration-tool.
- get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0/#do…
- click release notes
- release notes HTML
- 2.2 migration from leap 15.6
Most Americans want the Epstein files released, poll finds
About three-quarters of Americans support the release of all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll finds.
Another 13% want some of the Epstein files released, while only 9% don’t want any documents released.
Once newly elected Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., is sworn in, she is expected to sign on to a House effort to make the files public. Grijalva, the daughter of late Rep. Raúl Grijalva, would provide the critical 218th signature to force a vote over the majority threshold. But House Speaker Mike Johnson has delayed swearing in the new lawmaker, saying it would not happen until regular session resumes next week, a move that Grijalva sees as intentional in order to push off the Epstein petition.
How liberalism has given rise to fascist states.
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54678688
Liberalism arises historically with the bourgeoisie, promising universal rights, free markets, and political representation.Its core contradiction: it proclaims universal freedom but maintains private property, class hierarchies, and colonial domination.
Its “progressive” content (rights etc) is always mediated by its “reactionary” content (capital accumulation, imperialism).
In the late 20th century, liberal politics shifted focus from material redistribution to recognition and representation of identities (race, gender, sexuality).
This has real emancipatory elements (civil rights, anti-discrimination), but within a liberal framework it tends to:
Fragment the working class into competing identity groups.
Leave capitalist property relations untouched.
Turn politics into a symbolic arena of inclusion/exclusion rather than redistribution.
This becomes what some call “neoliberal multiculturalism”.
The Alienation of the Proletariat:
Workers whose economic position deteriorates under neoliberal globalization see elites championing diversity while offshoring jobs and cutting welfare.
They perceive “liberal elites” as hypocritical or hostile — not because they oppose equality per se, but because the equality on offer seems to bypass their economic suffering.
This creates fertile ground for reactionary movements that reframe their economic grievances as cultural ones.
The Dialectic: Liberalism to Fascism
If we think dialectically:
Thesis (Liberalism): Universal rights, formal equality, market freedom.
Antithesis (Proletarian Alienation): Mass discontent over the gap between formal equality and real inequality.
Synthesis (Fascism): A counter-movement that rejects universalism but mobilizes identity (national, racial, religious) to restore a sense of collective belonging and purpose.
Fascism thus does not arise ex nihilo; it is the reaction to liberal contradictions:
Liberalism’s fragmentation of solidarity enables fascism’s call for a unified, “authentic” national identity.
Liberal elites’ cosmopolitanism enables fascism’s anti-globalist populism.
Liberal tolerance of corporate power enables fascism’s authoritarian alliance with capital.
Fascism is hence the “Degenerate Offspring” of Liberalism
You can theorize fascism here as:
Not simply a negation but a mutation of liberal politics: it retains mass politics, identity focus, and even some welfare-state promises — but only for the “in-group.”
A perverse form of “recognition politics” where instead of expanding recognition, it contracts it violently.
The endpoint of liberalism’s failure to resolve class contradiction: when equality cannot be achieved materially, it is abandoned and replaced with exclusionary hierarchy.
This would mirror Marx’s notion that each stage of history contains the seeds of its own negation.
This theory does not mean liberal politics intends fascism. Just that its contradictions enable fascism.
Overcoming fascism requires not just defending liberal norms, since the radical aspects of it which have been valuable are being attacked, but transcending liberalism’s economic foundations — i.e., re-centering class and material redistribution.
Now I’m no Hegelian, my understanding of Hegel and Marx is fairly limited. But this is the best I could do put forth the reasoning for fascism and where to move forward.
This is also not US centric, I am not american and am seeing fascism and surveillance states rise around the world. While fascism used to be a fear of ‘the other’ as an outsider, we’re seeing a world where fascism uses citizens as ‘the other’ now.
I would love to go more in depth here. I would like to incorporate naom Chomsky’s idea of manufacturing consent to show how the alienation is created.
In a genuinely Hegelian sense, capitalism contains the seeds of its own transcendence. But contrary to Marx, this transcendence is not socialist.
Through ideological domination the working class is stripped of its revolutionary potential. The only remaining agent capable of resolving capitalism’s crises is the capitalist class itself.
This class resolves contradictions not by abolishing capital but by restructuring the state around authoritarian and nationalist principles.
Thus the dialectic moves from capitalism to fascism, not because of proletarian liberation, but because of capital’s own drive for self-preservation.
The Internet We Didn’t Get
Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden in mist, or deep in the jungle. From Atlantis, Avalon, El Dorado, and Shangri-La, we have not stopped imagining these secret, fantastical places. One of these, Xanadu, is actually a real place but has been embellished over the years into a place of legend and myth, and thus became the namesake of an Internet we never got to see like all of those other mystical, hidden places.
The Xanadu project got its start in the 1960s at around the same time the mouse and what we might recognize as a modern computer user interface were created. At its core was hypertext with the ability to link not just other pages but references and files together into one network. It also had version control, rights management, bi-directional links, and a number of additional features that would be revolutionary even today. Another core feature was transclusion, a method for making sure that original authors were compensated when their work was linked. However, Xanadu was hampered by a number of issues including lack of funding, infighting among the project’s contributors, and the development of an almost cult-like devotion to the vision, not unlike some of today’s hype around generative AI. Surprisingly, despite these faults, the project received significant funding from Autodesk, but even with this support the project ultimately failed.
Instead of this robust, bi-directional web imagined as early as the 1960s, the Internet we know of today is the much simpler World Wide Web which has many features of Xanadu we recognize. Not only is it less complex to implement, it famously received institutional backing from CERN immediately rather than stagnating for decades. The article linked above contains a tremendous amount of detail around this story that’s worth checking out. For all its faults and lack of success, though, Xanadu is a interesting image of what the future of the past could have been like if just a few things had shaken out differently, and it will instead remain a mythical place like so many others.
Your Review: Project Xanadu - The Internet That Might Have Been
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Flotilla turca e navi civili siciliane insieme per sfidare il blocco navale su Gaza: parte da Arsuz una nuova missione
Dopo l’abbordaggio della Global Sumud Flotilla, la mobilitazione dal mare riparte. Una flotilla turca salpa da Arsuz (provincia di Hatay) con 45 imbarcazioni civili dirette verso la Striscia di Gaza e si coordina idealmente con le imbarcazioni siciliane impegnate a sostenere l’invio di aiuti e a contestare il blocco navale imposto da Israele. L’iniziativa, promossa da realtà della società civile turca, rilancia l’appello alla solidarietà internazionale e al rispetto del diritto umanitario.
TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Flotilla turca e navi civili siciliane insieme per sfidare il blocco navale su Gaza: parte da Arsuz una nuova missione
Flotilla turca e navi civili siciliane verso Gaza: 45 navi da Arsuz per sfidare il blocco
Da Arsuz (Hatay) salpa una flotilla di 45 imbarcazioni civili verso Gaza. Iniziative con le barche siciliane, appelli della società civile e rilancio della Freedom Flotilla dopo l’abbordaggio.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
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Steam Hardware & Software Survey (Linux, September 2025)
All fields expanded, very long screenshot: imgur.com/a/steam-hardware-sof…
Note, the source will change every month. That's why I made a screenshot, so the discussion in this thread makes sense in the future. Source: store.steampowered.com/hwsurve…
Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit got +3.34% from previously 0%, while Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit lost -2.71%. So the rest of the 0.65% are either new users or upgraders from even older Linux Mint versions. Whatever the reason is, these two entries should have been a single one as Linux Mint 22 with 8.84%.
Also what is the category "Other"? It's almost 20% big, so this is not something to wave over. Bazzite got a good start, hopefully it will grow further. I'm surprised that CachyOS is this popular, much more than Ubuntu and Bazzite.
Steam Hardware & Software Survey (Linux, September 2025)
All fields expanded, very long screenshot: imgur.com/a/steam-hardware-sof…
Note, the source will change every month. That's why I made a screenshot, so the discussion in this thread makes sense in the future. Source: store.steampowered.com/hwsurve…
Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit got +3.34% from previously 0%, while Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit lost -2.71%. So the rest of the 0.65% are either new users or upgraders from even older Linux Mint versions. Whatever the reason is, these two entries should have been a single one as Linux Mint 22 with 8.84%.
Also what is the category "Other"? It's almost 20% big, so this is not something to wave over. Bazzite got a good start, hopefully it will grow further. I'm surprised that CachyOS is this popular, much more than Ubuntu and Bazzite.
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I'll probably try to transfer my Windows license (not install) to my old horrible laptop, since dual-booting seems like it'd cause more trouble than it's worth. Just gotta clear the nvram in case there are any BIOS rootkits lying in wait that I imagine I have by now. I'm already on Linux for the laptop I'm writing this on.
EDIT: I'm not gonna flush my NVRAM. Seems that if I've seen no signs of malware then I regressing to the factory version of the BIOS would put me in more risk than otherwise.
As soon as that changes windows will be gone
That's weird, because it's "just" streaming after all (with input off course). How can Nvidia mess this up? I couldn't believe this and searched the web, found following: github.com/AstralVixen/GeForce…
This started as an alternative, for the lack of support on Linux. And it supports 1440p & 120 FPS. They explicitly warn not to use native GeForce Now app. I can't say how trustful this project is. Now I have no experience with this, so leave it there.
GitHub - AstralVixen/GeForce-Infinity: GeForce Infinity is a next-gen application designed to enhance the GeForce NOW experience. Originally created to address the lack of native GeForce NOW support on Linux, this app also provides functionality for macOS
GeForce Infinity is a next-gen application designed to enhance the GeForce NOW experience. Originally created to address the lack of native GeForce NOW support on Linux, this app also provides func...GitHub
Lutris - Open Gaming Platform
Play all your games on Linux. Lutris is an Open Source gaming platform for Linux. It installs and launches games so you can start playing without the hassle of setting up your game. Get your games from GOG, Steam, Battle.lutris.net
The official itch.io launcher also works just fine on Linux:
flathub.org/en/apps/io.itch.it…
DayZ runs out of the box on Steam as well.
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I just don't want to manually set up Lutris. I'll keep Itch around for native Linux games (which I forgot about). Actually, I think I just don't want to bother reinstalling any of the games I have. Though my 10 day deadline is close.
As for DayZ, I don't want to risk playing any competitive games on Linux and getting myself a spurious VAC ban, so after DayZ I'm planning on giving up on competitive multiplayer (which I never really like anyway because kernel-level anti-cheat doesn't work and I can't trust anyone not to be cheating).
You don't need Lutris, the itch.io launcher takes care of everything.
As for DayZ, I don't want to risk playing any competitive games on Linux and getting myself a spurious VAC ban
You only get game bans in DayZ. For what it's worth, I have been playing DayZ on Linux on and off for years and never got banned.
I distro-hopped from Bazzite to CachyOS recently, and frankly - I'm not surprised it's up there in terms of popularity. While Bazzite was much less obtrusive with updates (hell, I had to check whether I was getting amy 😆), CachyOS makes due with a lot less resources (Bazzite's 6 vs Cachy's 3.5GBs of RAM on stand-by, don't remember the installation size, tbh) than Bazzite.
It also has a relatively sensible default when it comes to updates, as it automatically performs BTRFS snapshots through snapper, Tumbleweed-style.
Time will tell if it's as stable as Bazzite was (though frankly, I distro-hopped because 3 or 4 straight updates were not booting for me 😅).
Tl;dr: Arch base + sensible defaults make for good selling points on gaming rigs.
Chicago Cop Who Falsely Blamed an Ex-Girlfriend for Dozens of Traffic Tickets Pleads Guilty but Avoids Prison
A former Chicago police officer facing trial for perjury and forgery has admitted he lied under oath dozens of times when he used an audacious alibi to get out of numerous speeding tickets and other traffic violations. Over more than a decade, he repeatedly blamed an ex-girlfriend for stealing his car and racking up the tickets — and each time, the story was bogus.
Jeffrey Kriv, one of Chicago’s most prolific drunk-driving enforcers during his more than 25 years as a cop, was sentenced to 18 months’ probation and ordered to pay $4,515 in restitution after pleading guilty last week to a lesser charge of felony theft. A plea agreement with prosecutors in Cook County, where Chicago is located, allowed Kriv to avoid jail time and ended the criminal case against him, but the implications of his actions go far beyond his own case.
Chicago Cop Who Blamed an Ex-Girlfriend for Traffic Tickets Pleads Guilty
Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key witness because of credibility issues.ProPublica
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Trump’s Deportation Machine Has Diverted Some 42,000 Crime Fighters From Other Tasks
President Donald Trump’s deportation army is growing by the day, and a shocking number of its foot soldiers don’t even work for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The vast majority, in fact, come from other law enforcement agencies.
In January, the Trump administration started deputizing Justice Department officers to work for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, which focuses on mass deportations. (A second ICE division, Homeland Security Investigations, investigates child exploitation and weapons trafficking, among other transnational crimes.) ERO recruits from other sources, too, including HSI and local police departments. According to ICE’s website, ERO has more than 6,100 deportation officers. But as of August, per the Cato Institute, it was receiving support from about 42,000 non-ERO personnel, including roughly 28,000 federal officials and more than 13,000 state and local ones.
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Il Tuo Cane Fissa la TV? Non È un Passatempo Banale: Ecco Cosa Svela la Scienza!
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Karoline Leavitt Says It’s OK to Target Americans Repped by Democrats
Karoline Leavitt Says It’s OK to Target Americans Repped by Democrats
The White House press secretary sees no problem with targeting Americans in the government shutdown.The New Republic
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Fediverso libero e decentralizzato
✨ Quanto è bello un social libero dal pattume! ✨
Quelli che ti costringono a vivere col telefono incollato alla mano, lo schermo sempre acceso, la mente sempre distratta… beh, lasciamoli agli altri!
Nel Fediverso il ritmo è diverso: lento, umano, sereno.
Ti crei la tua TL Home con cura, scegli chi seguire, interagisci quando vuoi tu, senza pubblicità assillanti, senza immagini “imbarazzanti” da nascondere al vicino, senza il teatrino dei vari “Vota Antonio” alla Totò. 🎭
E intanto… hai pure tempo per studiare 📚, per respirare, per osservare con calma le piattaforme che gestisci nel nostro universo decentralizzato.
Sì, ricordiamolo sempre a gran voce: DECENTRALIZZATO! 🔥
Pochi soldini, poche regole (chiare, uguali per tutti) e niente “rami secchi” solo per gonfiare i numeri.
E ora, trovato anche il tempo per scrivere queste righe, torno ai miei studi… e poi agli amici della vita reale.
🌍 Buon Fediverso decentralizzato a tutti! 🚀
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Cross-origin Link headers
evan@cosocial.ca question for you — is there any guidance in the spec about whether id and url for a given AP object needs to be same-origin?
js@podcastindex.social and I were recently discussing this in a related context (Link headers specifically, for HTTP discovery) and I wasn't entirely sure whether this was a valid use-case.
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The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California
The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California
By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.Aaron Cantú (Capital & Main)
Quickly & smoothly changing monitor brightness?
brightnessctl is useful, can do percentage-wise. With some shell math you can also make buttons to increase and decrease it
It does? I use it on KDE Wayland
Extra checked the name of the thing
I use it to change brightness via KDE Connect.
Huh. I should check again
It doesn't work for me on SwayWM, maybe KDE does something else under the hood?
Edit: lol Sorry, I mistook xrandr for brightnessctl. (I had aliased xrandr brightness change commands to "brightness" in my shell)
Ddc/ci brightness changes are very often animated by the display firmware, so doing it fast is rarely possible.
You can however disable ddc/ci in the display settings if you'd rather have software brightness.
Chevron Director Pumps $1 Million Into Pro-Cuomo Super PAC
Chevron Director Pumps $1 Million Into Pro-Cuomo Super PAC - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Oil industry heir John Hess, the longtime former CEO of Hess Corporation and current director at Chevron, is tied for the second largest donor to Fix the City, a super PAC backing former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for mayor of New York…Matthew Cunningham-Cook (EXPOSEDbyCMD)
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Opinion: This Is What Autocrats Dread
This playbook has worked in places like Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Viktor Orban’s Hungary and Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela. But in other countries, the democratic opposition has overcome authoritarian rule and prevailed at the ballot box. These cases, while they have distinct national contexts, can also help provide a road map for democratic movements today.
Oct. 2, 2025
By David Shimer
Dr. Shimer, who served on the National Security Council in the Biden administration, is an expert on electoral interference.
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Cheap Linux tablet?
Does anyone know of a cheap tablet that can run a Linux distro?
It doesn't need to be high spec - it's just for displaying photos.
Thanks!
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If it's just for displaying photos, why Linux? Digital picture frames are way cheap or scroungeable.
For a substitute tablet I've been interested in trying a Lenovo Yoga. It's really a laptop with a 360 degree screen hinge so you can get the keyboard out of the way. My use case of interest is reading arxiv.org pdf's in portrait mode.
I've seen digital picture frames without battery more expensive than a a basic tablet where I live 😛
(Doesn't make sense, but happens)
I recently picked up a Microsoft Surface Go 2 and installed Linux on it. Ebay is flooded with them in the USA, and I paid $90 for the tablet with the keyboard cover. The irony of Linux on a Microsoft branded tablet amuses me.
Everything but the cameras just worked. There's a kernel patch for the cameras, but I haven't been motivated to patch and recompile.
Anyone shopping for the same should keep in mind that the 8100Y CPU is twice as fast as the Pentium, and the 64gb storage option is slow eMMC while 128gb and 256gb are faster NVME.
Ontario's fossil fuel growth puts climate goals out of reach, auditor general finds
Ontario's fossil fuel growth puts climate goals out of reach, auditor general finds
The Ford government's embrace of fossil fuels and car-friendly policies is driving Ontario away from its 2030 climate target, the province's auditor general warns.Canada's National Observer
Petro expels Israeli diplomats, ends free trade amid Israeli piracy
Petro expels Israeli diplomats, ends free trade amid Israeli piracy
Colombian President Gustavo Petro expels the Israeli diplomatic delegation after two Colombian nationals were detained aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla.Al Mayadeen English (Petro expels Israeli diplomats, ends free trade amid Israeli piracy)
October 2025 ForumWG Meeting
October 2025 ForumWG Meeting
Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held (today) on 2 October 2025.
Meeting link: meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg
Discussions will continue re:
- FEP 7888/f228 adoption
- ongoing FEP drafts
- Context (topic/thread) deletion and moving between audiences (communities/categories)
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The fossil fuel subsidy denier-in-chief | Fossil fuel companies are getting propped up with billions in tax dollars, but the U.S. energy secretary claims otherwise.
The fossil fuel subsidy denier-in-chief
Fossil fuel companies are getting propped up with billions in tax dollars, but the U.S. energy secretary claims otherwise.Emily Sanders (ExxonKnews)
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
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The recent testimony, coming from a SpaceX insider during a court case, marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the privately held company has been disclosed. While there is no prohibition on Chinese ownership in U.S. military contractors, such investment is heavily regulated and the issue is treated by the U.S. government as a significant national security concern.
“They obviously have Chinese investors to be honest,” Iqbaljit Kahlon, a major SpaceX investor, said in a deposition last year, adding that some are “directly on the cap table.” “Cap table” refers to the company’s capitalization table, which lists its shareholders.
Kahlon’s testimony does not reveal the scope of Chinese investment in SpaceX or the identities of the investors. Kahlon has long been close with the company’s leadership and runs his own firm that acts as a middleman for wealthy investors looking to buy shares of SpaceX.
SpaceX keeps its full ownership structure secret. It was previously reported that some Chinese investors had bought indirect stakes in SpaceX, investing in middleman funds that in turn owned shares in the rocket company. The new testimony describes direct investments that suggest a closer relationship with SpaceX.
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National security law experts said federal officials would likely be deeply interested in understanding the direct Chinese investment in SpaceX. Whether there was cause for concern would depend on the details, they said, but the U.S. government has asserted that China has a systematic strategy of using investments in sensitive industries to conduct espionage.
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Buying shares in SpaceX is much more difficult than buying a piece of a publicly traded company like Tesla or Microsoft. SpaceX has control over who can buy stakes in it, and the company’s investors fall into different categories. The most rarefied group is the direct investors, who actually own SpaceX shares. This group includes funds led by Kahlon, Peter Thiel and a handful of other venture capitalists with personal ties to Musk. Then there are the indirect investors, who effectively buy stakes in SpaceX through a middleman like Kahlon. (The indirect investors are actually buying into a fund run by the middleman, typically paying a hefty fee.) All previously known Chinese investors in SpaceX fell into the latter category.
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Kahlon has turned his access to SpaceX stock into a lucrative business. His investor list reads like an atlas of the world. The investors’ names are redacted in the recently unsealed document, but their addresses span from Chile to Malaysia. One is in Russia. At least two are in mainland China. One is in Qatar. (In one email to SpaceX’s chief financial officer, Kahlon said a Los Angeles-based fund had money from the Qatari royal family and was already invested in SpaceX.)
“You made a big fortune,” a China-based financier wrote to Kahlon four years ago. “Lol something like that. SpaceX has been the gift that keeps on giving,” Kahlon responded. “All thanks to you.”
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SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors: Company Insider
The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most important military contractors.ProPublica
Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History
Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History
Did you receive a scary letter claiming to be from T-Mobile about your recent browsing activity? Don't worry, it's not real.Jman100 (The Mobile Report)
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Sounds like someone purchased, or otherwise gained access to, T-Mobile's targeted customer advertising and marketing profile data.
Or, the kind of information that data harvesting applications gather, and then sell to data brokers.
I wonder if they have a grudge against T-Mobile, this is an early stage of a larger plan, or if it's just for the lulz?
🙄it’s not from T-Mobile, it’s a forgery. And, unless the letters are actually cake, we can infer that “fake” in this case means just that.
Please spare us the reddit pedantry. There are much more intelligent discussions to be had around this topic without avoiding it entirely to inject some grammar nitpicking.
Maybe pedantry is not your cup of tea, but I listen to technology connections.
And the best type of correct is technically correct.
The whole reason to be precise about language is because it is confusing when you read something and go "that does not make sense" and then think about it for a minute and then realize what it means.
We don't call them "fake emails" for a reason. It's confusing. Spam email, spurious email, fake sender address, phishing, etc., are less confusing. Same with physical mail. Don't be mad just because I want to read stuff nice.
It's not imprecise at all and it's only confusing if you deliberately misinterpret it to be pedantic.
What do you call a fake ID then?
Are you telling me that my confusion was on purpose?
I'm telling you I was confused.
Don't believe me if you're so smart. Not going to argue.
Either it was on purpose or you're not nearly smart enough to be arguing about grammar and definitions on the internet.
Also you didn't answer my question.
Fake ID claims to be valid proof of id but is not.
From the headline I couldn't tell if the letter was purporting to be from tmobile or just somebody razzing people. I did not read the article. My brain fried on what a "fake letter" was.
People are not just smart on one dimension only. You can be smart and still get confused processing language. Asshole.
My brain fried on what a “fake letter” was.
Fake : adjective Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.
exposing a fan to linux without a fan header
I'm making a small cluster where I want one SBC in charge of the fan. the fan will pull across 2 chambers to cool everything. I want to be able to use standard linux tools to read and control fan speed but the orange pi I'm planning to put in charge of this function doesn't have a typical PC fan header. I have USB ports and GPIO pins I can break out into a microcontroller or some other adaptor or board but I wanted this to be visible to linux with standard tools.
I saw there are various pi PWM boards out there, but they all seem to cover the top of the boards and blow directly down with their own fan. I'm building a case with a single large fan and ducting that pulls air past passive heatsinks so that wont work.
I could just hardwire the fan and let it run full speed all the time, but thats louder and pulling in more dust than it needs to and wont warn me if the fan dies. Surely someone has already solved this problem but I haven't been able to figure out how.
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I've recently done almost exactly this, although I used an ESP8266 running esphome. That powers two 120mm fans that have various speed settings (including 0 rpm via PWM) depending on both the power state of various devices in the cupboard where it's housed, as well as temperature. All speeds and controls are exposed to linux via the Home Assitant API, and of course that has its own alerts and dashboards. I wanted to run this fully independently of the machines its cooling.
Not worth pursuing if you don't already have an HA install, but if you do then perhaps worth a thought of a different approach.
Switching the gf to Linux
Tonight I am installing Kubuntu on the gfs machine. Once she is comfortable with that, and the support ends for our version prolly going with Debian. Going to remove her windows drive (256 or 512GB) as there is only 1 m.2 port on the board, and replace it with a 1tb.
Her needs are simple, make Logitec G13 work (works and tested on my machine for months), Make ESO and addons work (Lutris has its own installer for ESO YAY! Minion has a linux version.), and minecraft java (found in app manager).
Now, she has some knock off razor mouse with buttons under the thumb, maybe the razorx software or whatever it's called will work on her mouse?, this may be a slight pain point. I am hoping this will work out and she will be happy with her (new) pc, we are preserving her windows as a fall back if she hates it. I have a short video lined up to teach her the linux file system. She won't be doing anything command line, for now, except to start the G13. Gonna leave her with the dolphin file manager as it is difficult to get elevated privileges compared to nautalis(sp?) where it is a simple checkbox click. Anything else to suggest here?
I can mostly teach her what she needs to know as we go, she is a smart cookie and has picked up everything I taught her for windows and networking so far so should not be an issue for her, but if you guys have any suggestions on tutorial vids for non power users or other things I can do to make this even more seamless it would be appreciated.
Edit: Thank you all for your input, very much appreciated. I will keep monitoring for new posts
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My gf recently built a PC for herself and just did moved her from Windows to Kubuntu stable as well. I was kinda surprised, she was the one who came to me and told me that she doesn't want Windows 11 so she's open to try out Linux. I changed to Linux (Debian) myself for a year and a half and she probably noticed that I still play my games and use it the very same way I did with Windows. I told her that most of the apps has alternatives, running games isn't a big a deal anymore and if she really really need to run Windows software, there's a great chance she can. (But this didn't occured).
My only concern was full Huion Kamvas support and crativity apps, 2D drawing and all that... but she's open to use and learn Krita, it seems she likes it. But if that won't work out, my small research told me that ClipStudio Paint (the one she used on Windows) works well with Wine. The Huion tablet just worked out of the box, with pressure sensitivity and all that jazz. (Buttons don't work though, but Huion has official Linux drivers which supposed to make them work, so that's awesome.)
U.S. to Share Intelligence With Ukraine for Strikes on Russian Energy Sites as Washington Asks NATO Allies to Provide Kyiv with Similar Support
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ArchivedU.S. President Donald Trump has authorized American intelligence agencies to provide Ukraine with targeting data for strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, including oil refineries, pipelines and power plants, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous American officials.
The order, which directs the Pentagon and intelligence services to supply the information, came shortly before Trump said that he believed Ukraine could win the war and reclaim all of its territory from Russia, the report said.
Trump has voiced increasing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin as his efforts to mediate an end to the war have flatlined, and the intelligence-sharing is the latest signal that he is now deepening his support for Kyiv.
Washington has also asked NATO allies to provide Kyiv with similar support, according to the sources.
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Apparently the Liberux nexx crowdfunding campaign has closed
Liberux NEXX
THE LINUX PHONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. | Check out 'Liberux NEXX' on Indiegogo.Indiegogo
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Honestly they would have made it a lot farther if they had just shown a fully functional device that could make calls and receive them from deep sleep. All drivers and basic functionality "just working."
They are fighting an uphill battle against the frustration that was the PinePhone. Nobody wants to buy a flagship-priced brick thats a neat trick for a hobby project.
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The U.S. Rushes its “Gang Suppression Force” in Haiti Through the UN Security Council, Despite Protests and Warnings from Russia and China
The U.S. Rushes its “Gang Suppression Force” Through the UN Security Council, Despite Protests and Warnings from Russia and China - Haiti Liberte
(Français) "There's no other crisis that’s bigger in the Western Hemisphere... than this one in Haiti,” said U.S. Chargé d’Affaires to Haiti Henry Wooster in a Sep.Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
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What would be a better option for an international response?
I'm not trying to sea lion; I am genuinely interested in ways to restore order to Haiti.
This is a crazy story, flying completely under the radar. So is the US just going to invade Haiti under the pretext of fighting gangs?
Are there communists in Haiti or something? I can't imagine the US would give a dry shit otherwise. The whole story there has been so muddled it's impossible to tell up from down.
The current Haitian government is a provisory council appointed by the OAS, armed with Washington-paid Kenyan police, and some of the "gangs" are demanding new elections since the president was assassinated in 2019, and also calling for a more sovereign Haiti.
It's a mess, but also seems inline the renewal in focus on the Caribbean. Control the Sea around Venezuela, isolate Colombia and Mexico's East while retaking the Panama Canal and Ecuador.
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Introducing… Watson!
Here is the first post of many, introducing the new member of our small family: Watson! Watson is a French Bulldog, and here is small video of his first steps at home with us! Voici le premier arti…Herve Family
“Papers with Code” went offline, the knowledge doesn’t have to
Launched in 2018, Papers with Code was a community-driven platform for exploring and discovering state-of-the-art research in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Within one year, it became a crucial infrastructure for the computer science community, growing into a resource with more than 18,000 papers and over 1,500 leaderboards (1). The platform aggregated studies from multiple sources and served as a central hub for benchmarked research in the form of leaderboards (see an example of a leaderboard here). It also supported the open science movement by publishing academic papers with their source code.
In response to this rapid growth, Papers with Code announced it was joining Facebook AI in 2019. Users were reassured that “Papers with Code [would] remain a neutral, open and free resource” and there would be no changes to their services. Yet, earlier this year, the Papers with Code website suddenly went offline. Without prior notice, users were simply redirected to the Papers with Code Github repository, and the machine learning community was left to wonder about the fate of this key resource.
About one month after the platform disappeared, Hugging Face, a private company providing collaborative platforms for machine learning models, released a LinkedIn announcement that it was building a successor platform in partnership with Papers with Code and Meta (formerly Facebook). While the Hugging Face website allows the research community to follow trending papers linked to their source code, it has only recently integrated leaderboard functionality. Unlike Papers with Code, which curated paper-centric leaderboards for a wide range of tasks, Hugging Face leaderboards focus on model-centric, reproducible evaluation pipelines such as the Open LLM Leaderboard, enabling users to compare deployed models under standardized conditions. One reason Papers with Code scaled so well is that it allowed researchers to submit performance results from any model (as reported in their papers), regardless of where the model was hosted. In contrast, Hugging Face’s current leaderboard setup requires the model to be publicly hosted on the Hugging Face Hub, loadable via supported APIs. This excludes many works that report results but do not deploy models in that way, limiting visibility into progress across all research.
The role of public institutions in safeguarding research data
The Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) is an open-source and open-data project at the TIB-Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology that also enables benchmarked tracking of state-of-the-art research through comparisons (see Fig. 1). As a national library and foundation of public law under the German state of Lower Saxony, the TIB’s mission is to ensure sustainable access to information and digital data of high public value.
In 2021, the ORKG imported data from Papers with Code, capturing benchmarks that would have been lost if the Papers with Code website had gone offline (see Fig. 2). This highlights the importance of redundancy across digital infrastructures. If benchmarks are available only on commercial platforms, they remain vulnerable to corporate decisions, shifting business models, or sudden shutdowns. Public infrastructures, such as the ORKG, ensure that this knowledge remains accessible over the long term. This is a crucial example of the role public institutions play in providing continuity, safeguarding scientific knowledge, and ensuring that resources developed by and for the community do not simply disappear.
A call to the community
Continuity also requires participation. The strength of public infrastructure, such as the ORKG, depends on the level of community engagement. Keeping leaderboards populated with the latest benchmarks requires researchers to contribute their results. Here is our call to action: if you were disappointed to see Papers with Code discontinued, consider contributing your papers to the ORKG. Your contributions ensure the leaderboards tracking progress in your field remain open and accessible to everyone.
About the ORKG
The Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) is a service that aims to revolutionise the way scientific knowledge is shared and used. By creating a structured, searchable knowledge graph, the ORKG makes scientific information more accessible and usable for the global research community.
Reference
(1) medium.com/paperswithcode/pape…
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BREAKING:
BREAKING: we've partnered with Meta and Papers with Code to build a successor to Papers with Code (which was sunsetted yesterday) PWC, founded by Robert Stojnic and Ross Taylor has been an essential resource for AI scientists and engineers over the…Julien Chaumond (www.linkedin.com)
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said that Hungary could withdraw from international institutions if it is unhappy with Ukraine's membership.Source: Sybiha on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda
Details: The minister was responding to statements by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who said that Hungary does not want to "belong to the same integration format with the Ukrainians".
Quote from Sybiha: "There are many integration formats to which the Hungarians and Ukrainians already belong together.
The United Nations, Council of Europe, WTO, IMF, CEI, > EBRD, Danube Commission, OPCW, IAEA, FAO and dozens more.
Viktor Orbán, so Hungary intends to leave them all, right?"
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For those unaware Oracle have all the worse things about the tech industry under just one brand.
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